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Farber in the Forties
23 November 2009 10:46 AM, PST
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I was going to begin by saying that it would be hard to find two consecutive sentences in the film writings of Manny Farber that do not immediately signal his unmistakable presence. But on trying the experiment, I have to amend that: it’s impossible to find even one sentence that could have been written by anyone else. One way to evoke him would be simply to string together a succession of such phrases, like comparing Orson Welles in The Third Man to “a nearly satiated baby at the breast” or describing the protagonist of Rossellini’sOpen City as “so strained, shrunken and starved he reminds you of a wet string” or writing of the home front drama The Eve of St. Mark: “the father and mother and the sweetheart...go around with a pleased-as-Punch look, as though they were eating each other and finding they were all made of delicious candy.
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Cinematical Seven: Directorial Double Whammies
13 October 2009 8:15 PM, PDT
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Reading about movies, you hear stories of some films shot in five days and other films shot over three years. Some of the poverty-row directors and B-movie makers cranked out as many movies as they could during a calendar year, while filmmakers like Charlie Chaplin and Stanley Kubrick waited years between projects (making each release a new "event"). Most filmmakers, I think, given the chance would probably release one film per year, keeping their toes in without burning out. But sometimes, whether it's a trick of the calendar, or some peculiar rhythms of timing, some of the greatest directors manage to release two films per year. And even less often, both of these films turn out great. The following is my not-exactly-extensive, but enthusiastic celebration of the one-two punch or the director's double-whammy.
1. Jacques Tourneur: I Walked with a Zombie and The Leopard Man (1943)
The world has frankly been
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- Jeffrey M. Anderson
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Old Ass Movies: Know the Horror of ‘I Walked with a Zombie’
30 August 2009 11:18 AM, PDT
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Every week, Film School Rejects presents a movie that was made before you were born and tells you why you should like it. This week, Old Ass Movies presents:
I Walked With a Zombie (1943)
I realize it's been a few weeks since Oam has been in hiding, waiting around the corner to pounce on its latest victim, so I figured it was a great idea to come back from the break by taking a look at a fantastic example of 40s era suspense while Halloween 2: The Second 2 and The Final Destination are in theaters.
If anything, it should give you a solid alternative.
In 1942, the team of producer Val Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur released the horror film Cat People - one of the most famous horror films to date. The next year they would deliver I Walked with a Zombie, a gripping tale told in the similar trademark suspenseful style which used light and
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Repulsion (DVD Review)
29 July 2009 12:02 AM, PDT
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Roman Polanski’s second feature film, Repulsion (1965), is considered a classic of the slow-burn, first-person psychological-study genre. Just out on a special-edition DVD and Blu-ray from Criterion, it messily observes and records the unraveling of the sanity of an unbalanced young woman (played by an especially delicate Catherine Deneuve) when she’s left home alone for the weekend by her older sister.
That’s really it for plot, folks; this is more of a non-narrative character study than a densely plotted thriller. But if you hook up with the film’s wavelength, settle in with it and allow the flow of images to lead you along, you’ll find yourself taking an interesting and disturbing journey.
The movie is expertly photographed by Gil Taylor (who would reunite with Polanski a year later on Cul-de-sac), who imbues the first half of the movie with a rather natural look. But once the long,
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Behold the Horror of Scorsese's 'Shutter Island' Trailer
11 June 2009 11:15 AM, PDT
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The trailer for Martin Scorsese's next film, Shutter Island, has just hit the web, and it looks terrific. Really terrific. So-good-that-even-if-it-wasn't-a-horror-film-we'd-still-be-excited terrific. But it is a horror film -- or at least a "tale of terror" -- and one that looks to showcase the filmmaker's passion for the works of legendary horror-auteur producer Val Lewton (evident in documentaries Scorsese has directed or produced, like A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies and Val Lewton: A Life in the Shadows). In fact, the trailer alone shows the influence of Lewton's Bedlam, Ghost Ship and Cat People. But filtered through the sensationalism of '70s
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R.I.P. Jane Randolph (1915 - 2009)
2 June 2009 11:42 AM, PDT
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Jane Randolph, the gorgeous star of the original Val Lewton horror film Cat People (1942), died May 4 2009 at the age of 93 at a hospital in Gstaad, Switzerland, where she lived. Jane also starred in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).
Jane Randolph, was born on Oct 30th 1915 as Jane Roemer in Youngstown, Ohio. She arrived in Hollywood in 1939 became a cheescake pinup girl until she landed a role in Cat People, which launched her to stardom...
Miss Randolph left acting in 1948 after she married rich businessman Jaime del Amo, whose family owned one of the largest Spanish land grants in Southern California. They later settled in Spain and Switzerland. She is survived by a daughter, Cristina del Amo.
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Actress Randolph Dies At 93
28 May 2009 1:00 AM, PDT
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Silver screen actress Jane Randolph has died after undergoing surgery on a broken hip. She was 93.
The veteran star passed away on 4 May in Gstaad, Switzerland.
Randolph, born Jane Roemer in Ohio, landed roles in 20 Hollywood films between 1941 and 1948, and found her big break in the 1942 film noir horror Cat People.
After filming a lead part in the 1948 comedy Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Randolph married businessman Jaime del Amo and retired from acting.
She is survived by her daughter, Cristina del Amo.
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Last Horror director prepping 3-D zombies and more
25 March 2009 6:26 AM, PDT
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Julian Richards, Wales’ prime movie export, has been stomping in the horror genre with bloody gusto for the last several years. Since completing The Last Horror Movie, a violent vérité serial-killer flick starring Kevin Howarth released Stateside as a Fango Video title, Richards has been busy dividing his time between his production company Prolific Films and sales outfit Jinga Films.
Summer Scars, a coming-of-age tale with a sinister, dark edge (also starring Howarth, pictured), won two Welsh BAFTA awards, received U.S. release last year and has a UK theatrical run scheduled for this coming June/July. Through Jinga, Richards has sold the Scottish lycanthropicture Wild Country to Lionsgate, the torture shocker Gnaw to Mpi (see item here) and the seriously creepy, well-crafted and very groovy supernatural slow-burner The Disappeared (see review here) to IFC. Richards has also directed Charles Dickens’S England, a feature-length documentary starring Sir Derek Jacobi,
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Director Andy Fickman on Rko Remakes
6 March 2009 12:01 PM, PST
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As you may recall, Rko announced a deal with Twisted Pictures earlier last year, and as a result there has been a lot of chatter amongst the two companies about horror remakes. ComingSoon published an interview with director Andy Fickman (Race to Witch Mountain), who will be producing I Walked with a Zombie for Rko and Twisted Pictures, about some of them.
From the interview:
"I loved I Walked with a Zombie," he told the site. "I remember catching it on a big screen at some revival house. I thought it was one of the most beautiful horror films in terms of the looks with shadows. Of all of them, Body Snatcher will probably be the one that I’ll direct and I thought that it was great in terms of the medical community today, and there was a lot of stories that were in the press.
“Bedlam was also
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Beware The Full Moon
10 January 2009 10:44 PM, PST
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Curtis Harrington's "Night Tide" (made in 1960 but not released until 1963) features Den nis Hopper in his first leading role.
In the days before he was typecast as a weirdo, Hopper plays an innocent, baby-faced sailor who ventures into the Blue Grotto, a basement jazz club in Venice, Calif., and meets a dark-haired woman in a fetching white dress. For him, it's love at first sight.
She's Mona (Linda Lawson), who lives in a funky apartment above a merry-go-round (with a view to die for) and earns
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