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BFI Announce December Events At Southbank, London

1 December 2009 11:00 AM, PST | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

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Cinema Retro has received the following press release from the British Film Institute regarding their program of events for the month of December at the Southbank theatre facility in London. For full info and tickets visit the web site by clicking here. 

Blonde Venus, one of the films screened as part of the Von Sternberg tribute.

 

Josef Von Sternberg

This month we will celebrate the career of Josef von Sternberg – one of Hollywood’s most visionary directors – with a complete retrospective of his films. He was the man Marlene Dietrich called her master, and is perhaps best known for Underworld (1927), The Blue Angel (1930) and Macao (1952)

 

  Sally Potter

Sally Potter is one of the UK’s most innovative and original filmmakers, and we look forward to launching our comprehensive study of her career with a screening of Orlando (1993) followed by a Q&A »

- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)

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The Forgotten: Gorgeous Lifelike Color By Deluxe

29 October 2009 6:58 AM, PDT | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »

 

Gus Van Sant's Psycho remake is always going to divide opinion, those who see it as a conceptual art statement being able to argue, quite reasonably, that its failure to do the things Hitchcock's original does—create a consistent story world, stylized but credible characters, a sense of doom, suspense—is exactly the proof needed of its success as a conceptual artifact, dramatically redundant yet stubbornly existent.

Would the same people say the same thing for Edward Dmytryk's The Blue Angel, a faithful yet utterly arbitrary remake of Josef Von Sternberg's Der blaue Engel. Sternberg's production, Germany's first sound film, is so iconic and so utterly of its time—it marks the beginning of the Marlene myth, as well as the end of silence—that any kind of remake seems like an exercise in redundancy, like the Coens's joke proposal to re-shoot Stanley Kramer's well-intentioned liberal »

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Thn Review Feature: Inglourious Basterds

18 August 2009 5:06 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »

I am trying to remember the first time that I saw a Quentin Tarantino movie. It was his debut Reservoir Dogs, and I first saw it at a late night screening session at my local multiplex in either 1993 or 1994. The movie had been denied a video release in the UK, so film chains like Odeon and I think Virgin Cinemas at the time, took it upon themselves to show the film late at night to a nation of filmgoers who literally couldn't get enough of this exciting new filmmaker. Then, just a couple of months later Pulp Fiction arrived on the scene, and that movie changed everything. The film won the Palme D'or, and the following year garnered a few Oscar nominations to boot. I fell in love with the film, and could not wait to get back to the cinema to see it again the following weekend.

Then came »

- Paul

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Two Ladies.

31 July 2009 8:26 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Hello, Jose from "Movies Kick Ass" here. On July 31st, 1919 the Weimar Constitution was approved in the German Empire giving path to one of the most complicated eras in European history.

Weimar was a limbo of sorts between both World Wars, time during which Germany sunk in political and economical problems, but flourished culturally; Brecht, Ufa, Expressionism and Bauhaus were a few of the things that came out from this period.

But thinking of a perfect way to sum up the entire history of Weimar only two people come to mind: Sally Bowles and Lola Lola.

They are the "heroines" from their respective films. Sally in "Cabaret" and Lola Lola in "The Blue Angel".

They are linked by their profession (cabaret performers/aspiring actresses), their exuberant sex appeal and their love of divine decadence.

But beyond the obvious comparisons (it's obvious that Lola and Ufa films inspired Christopher Isherwood who »

- Jose

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'Moon' Director Will Go 'Mute'

29 June 2009 9:10 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

Award-winning director Duncan Jones can’t stay quiet about Mute, his mystery-thriller follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Moon.

In an interview with ScreenDaily.com, the British-born helmer said the upcoming project would revolve around a woman whose disappearance creates a mystery for her partner, who is a mute bartender.

"When she disappears, he has to go up against the city’s gangsters," said Jones, who is expected to start shooting Mute early next year.

While he was mostly tight-lipped about the new film, Jones did say it would have a bigger budget than Moon, a different tone and feel, and would feature an ensemble cast, whereas Moon revolved around one character.

"It will definitely be bigger than Moon, probably something up to $25 million," said Jones, who will be re-teaming up with Moon producer Stuart Fenegan of Liberty Films for Mute. "Moon is about alienation and isolation. The next one will have a different vibe. »

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