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'Keeping Up With the Kardashians' trailer: Kanye Kardashian?
17 May 2012 9:20 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
I’m excited that Kanye West is dating Kim Kardashian. I don’t have any clue what “dating” means when one person is a decadent self-loathing egotist and the other person is a beautiful big-butted mirror for our cultural desires. But I’m excited for Kanye to record his inevitable concept album about Kim-Kim, fusing europop and trip-hop and other genres you don’t care about, while tracking the tale of an attractive alien girl-robot who falls into an arranged marriage with a basketball player named Frankenstein. Eventually, the girl-robot leaves her husband for a dashing young shoemaker named Kanye. »
- Darren Franich
Special Feature: BFI present 'The Genius of Hitchcock'
10 May 2012 6:33 AM, PDT | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »
Most of you reading this will have probably (either on Blu-ray, DVD or television) seen such Alfred Hitchcock classics as Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963) and Vertigo (1953). Some of you may even have seen Rope (1948), Marnie (1964) and Frenzy (1972), but what about such silent delights as Blackmail (1929), The Lodger (1927) or The Ring (1927)? With a big-budget Alfred Hitchcock biopic currently in production, BFI retrospective The Genius of Hitchcock (June to October 2012) celebrates the lesser-known work of Britain's master of suspense.
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- CineVue
5 Things You Might Not Know About Alfred Hitchcock's Masterpiece 'Vertigo'
9 May 2012 6:56 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Voting is currently underway on the Sight & Sound poll for the greatest film ever made, which takes place every ten years, and is generally seen as one of the most definitive of such polls. And one film that's near-certain to place in the top ten, given that it's been there in every poll since 1982 (and placed second in 2002) is Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo." The film was relatively poorly received on release, and indeed, remained unseen for twenty years, one of the five films to which Hitchcock bought back the rights to leave to his daughter (the so-called Five Lost Hitchcocks, which also include "The Man Who Knew Too Much," "Rear Window," "Rope" and "The Trouble With Harry"). But since its re-release in 1984, the film has grown into the great director's most acclaimed masterpiece, and is now one of the most examined, deconstructed and written about films in the history of the medium. »
- Oliver Lyttelton
100 Facts on Universal Pictures' 100th Birthday
30 April 2012 11:28 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Today marks the 100th birthday of Universal Pictures and to celebrate the studio has released a list of 100 facts based on its first 100 years in existence. I have placed in bold some of the ones I found interesting as well as offered a selection of photo and video accompaniments here and there. 1. Universal Film Manufacturing Company was officially incorporated in New York on April 30, 1912. Company legend says Carl Laemmle was inspired to name his company Universal after seeing "Universal Pipe Fittings" written on a passing delivery wagon. 2. The only physical damage made during the filming of National Lampoon's Animal House was when John Belushi made a hole in the wall with a guitar. The actual Sigma Nu fraternity house (which subbed for the fictitious Delta House) never repaired it, and instead framed the hole in honor of the film. 3. The working title for Et: The Extra Terrestrial was "A Boy's Life. »
- Brad Brevet
10 Of Saul Bass' Greatest Title Sequences
25 April 2012 9:22 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
The art of movie titles is becoming an increasingly lost one: aside from a few films (the Bond movies) and directors (Steven Spielberg, David Fincher and Jason Reitman always pay particular attention to their credit sequences), it feels like relatively little care is taken over such things, with many movies dumping them altogether. And it's hard not to put that down to the fact that we don't have guys like Saul Bass around anymore.
Bass was a graphic designer from the Bronx who went out West in the 1940s and started working on film ads. After being noticed by Otto Preminger, who would become his collaborator for the next twenty years starting with "Carmen Jones" in 1954, Bass went on to design some of cinema's most iconic title sequences and posters for world-class filmmakers like Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese, often in an instantly recognizable style that remains influential »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Film News: Sci-Fi Spectacular 6 to Invade Chicago’s Portage Theater on April 28, 2012
24 April 2012 10:18 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Sci-fi film buffs in the Windy City are invited to attend an April marathon bursting with cinematic gems. “Sci-Fi Spectacular 6” kicks off at noon Saturday, April 28, at the Portage Theater, 4050 N. Milwaukee Ave. It showcases over 14 hours of beloved features, shorts and rare trailers as they were originally intended to be experienced—on the big screen.
Two major highlights at this year’s event are key masterpieces in the career of Terry Gilliam. 1985’s “Brazil” creates an unforgettable portrait of a dystopian future both amusingly absurdist and unsettlingly provocative. Jonathan Pryce stars alongside Kim Greist, Ian Holm and Robert De Niro, while cinematographer Roger Pratt and production designer Norman Garwood provide unforgettable imagery. Equally mesmerizing is Gilliam’s 1995 thriller “12 Monkeys,” in which a grizzled convict (Bruce Willis) travels back in time to prevent a man-made virus from destroying the future. Brad Pitt’s Oscar-nominated turn as a crazed virus »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Five things Alfred Hitchcock's films taught me | Anne Billson
23 April 2012 3:10 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Hitchcock has been proposed for the national curriculum. Here are a few life lessons children might learn from watching his films
Never mind that cinema is the most popular storytelling medium of our time, and that if Bill Shakespeare were alive today, he would be writing screenplays, not stage plays; some people still think that, as an artform, it's automatically inferior to literature or theatre. So Heather Stewart, creative director of the BFI, caused a stir last week when she said: "The idea of popular cinema somehow being capable of great art at the same time as being entertaining is still a problem for some people. Shakespeare is on the national curriculum, Hitchcock is not."
One should never underestimate the educational value of films – and not just the worthy literary adaptations or bracing social documents our nannies imagine would be good for us. Adolescent exposure to The Charge of the Light Brigade, »
- Anne Billson
'Vertigo' Star Kim Novak Honored with Hollywood Handprint Ceremony
20 April 2012 3:00 PM, PDT | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
Though nary a drop of blood is spilled in it, Alfred Hitchcok's 1958 masterpiece Vertigo is routinely voted by critics as the greatest thriller of all time. It's also the title I usually give when people ask me to name my favorite movie, since I consider it the ultimate cinematic meditation on the relationship between the two most integral parts of the human condition: love and death. And from the first time I saw it, back when I was twelve years old, I've considered its star Kim Novak the epitome of the Hitchcock blonde -- that cool, tightly coiffed, ephemeral creature, beyond mere dream girl, beyond femme fatale -- that exists only in the Master's work. So I considered »
Park Chan-wook to Remake The Ax and Discusses Stoker
19 April 2012 9:30 AM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
Oldboy director Park Chan-wook is currently in the process of directing his first American feature film called Stoker. The film was scripted by Prison Break's Wentworth Miller, and has a great cast of actors that includes Nicole Kidman, Dermot Mulroney, Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, Lucas Till, Jacki Weaver, Alden Ehrenreich and Phyllis Somerville.
Now it looks like the director has his next project lined up. In a recent interview the director revealed that the next film he takes on will be a remake of Costa-Gavras‘ 2005 film Le Couperet, also known as The Ax. This was actually the movie he was going to make before Stoker came along. The original movie followed “a chemist, who loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.” Here's what Chan-wook had to say when he was asked what his next project would be, »
- Venkman
The BFI celebrates the films of Alfred Hitchcock
18 April 2012 12:26 PM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
The British Film Institute is hosting a celebration of filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock this summer. "The Genius of Hitchcock: Celebrating Cinema's Master of Suspense" will include screenings of nine of his newly restored silent movies - the culmination of a three-year project. The BFI's creative director said that they wanted to get out the “big guns” during Olympic year.
The films, with new scores by composers including Nitin Sawhney, Neil Brand, Daniel Patrick Cohen and Soweto Kinch, will be shown during the London 2012 Festival. Hitchcock’s first film The Pleasure Garden will be shown at Wilton's Music Hall, an open-air screening of Blackmail will be staged outside the British Museum, and boxing drama The Ring will be shown at the Hackney Empire.
The three-month long season will see a retrospective of his 58 films, with Psycho, North by Northwest, Vertigo, Rear Window and The Birds all being screened. Actors Tippi Hedren (The Birds »
- flickeringmyth
Original Karate Kid Ralph Macchio Joins Alfred Hitchock & The Making of Psycho
18 April 2012 5:11 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
The original ‘Karate Kid’ Ralph Macchio has joined ‘Alfred Hitchcock And The Making of Psycho’, the upcoming biopic of one of the world’s most beloved filmmakers. Deadline says production begins next month.
Set in 1960, the movie finds Hitchcock at a troubling crossroads in his career having lost some of his audience with “Vertigo” (amazing to think that now) and the struggle he had to convince a studio to finance and distribute his low-rent horror/thriller, for which nobody believed audiences would turn up for such a violent, psychological tale. Paramount had so little faith in the project that they gave Hitch a paltry budget and just let him get on with it without supervision but this would prove to be the best thing that could have happened to cinema. Under pressure, Hitchcock crafted an absolute masterpiece using the limited resources he had at his disposable to the hilt, finding »
- Matt Holmes
Alfred Hitchcock's complete films to be shown in London retrospective
17 April 2012 5:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Newly restored silent movies included in BFI's biggest ever project, part of London 2012 Festival
Alfred Hitchcock is to be celebrated like never before this summer, with a retrospective of all his surviving films and the premieres of his newly restored silent films – including Blackmail, which will be shown outside the British Museum.
The BFI on Tuesday announced details of its biggest ever project: celebrating the genius of a man who, it said, was as important to modern cinema as Picasso to modern art or Le Corbusier to modern architecture. Heather Stewart, the BFI's creative director, said: "The idea of popular cinema somehow being capable of being great art at the same time as being entertaining is still a problem for some people. Shakespeare is on the national curriculum, Hitchcock is not."
One of the highlights of the season will be the culmination of a three-year project to fully restore nine of the director's silent films. »
- Mark Brown
Wamg At The 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival
16 April 2012 2:08 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
There’s truly no place quite like Hollywood. For the third straight year, the TCM Classic Film Festival was staged in the historic center of the world’s film industry. The event once again united a great community of film fans. The 2012 event celebrated style in the movies, from fashion to architecture and everything in between and lined up great films, terrific guests and many special events.
There were so many classic films to choose from over the 4-day festival, it was nearly impossible to decide what to see! Here are a few of my favorites from the weekend.
Auntie Mame (1958) .
Fantastically restored, and screened at the legendary Egyptian Theater, this Rosalind Russell classic was easily a fan fave at the festival. Even at 9am on a Saturday morning, the house was packed. The screening was hosted by two-time Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Scholar Cari Beauchamp, »
- Melissa Thompson
'Vertigo' star Kim Novak reveals bipolar disorder
15 April 2012 5:22 PM, PDT | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Kim Novak has revealed that she has bipolar disorder. According to the Los Angeles Times, the Vertigo star confessed that she struggled with depression for years while attending the Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival on Friday (April 15). "I'm bipolar," Novak said. "But there's medicine you can take for this now. I was not diagnosed until much later. I go through more of the depression (more) »
- By Tara Fowler
Novak Has Bipolar Disorder
15 April 2012 4:11 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Veteran actress Kim Novak has revealed she suffers from bipolar disorder.
The Vertigo star confessed to having the manic-depressive mood disorder as she gave a speech at the Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival in Hollywood on Friday, according to the Los Angeles Times.
She told the crowd, "I'm bipolar... but there's medicine you can take for this now. I was not diagnosed until much later. I go through more of the depression than the mania part."
The 79 year old also opened up about her bittersweet decision to give up her career in her 1960s heyday, admitting she still has regrets about bowing out of the industry to take up painting.
She added, "I don't think I was ever cut out to have a Hollywood life. Did I do the right thing, leaving? Did I walk out when I shouldn't have? That's when I get sad."
The actress plans to hold an exhibition of her artwork for the first time next year and donate a portion of the proceeds to mental heath organisations.
Novak was in town to cement her hand and footprints at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Saturday. Actresses Debbie Reynolds and Connie Stevens attended the ceremony to show their support. »
Penelope Andrew: TCM Fest 2012:Liza Minnelli, Kim Novak, Robert Wagner, Debbie Reynolds Walk Red Carpet
12 April 2012 1:15 PM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
The Fountainhead with Patricia Neal and Gary Cooper Photo: Courtesy of TCM
Liza Minnelli, Kim Novak, Robert Wagner, Tippi Hedren and Debbie Reynolds in person. Black Narcissus, Vertigo, Cabaret, and The Fountainhead projected on gigantic screens at Grauman's Chinese and Egyptian Theatres. Could any classic film fan wish for more? You could. And, at this year's annual TCM Classic Film Festival, which takes place from April 12th through the 15th, you'd get more: Kirk Douglas, Stanley Donen, Angie Dickenson, Norman Lloyd, Rhonda Fleming, and Norman Jewison appearing at special events and screenings of Two for the Road, Chinatown, Casablanca, The Longest Day, and The Thomas Crown Affair. But before going on about this year's festival, a look back is essential.
Chinatown's Faye Dunaway and Jack NicholsonPhoto: Courtesy of TCM
TCM 2010 & 2011
TCM's 2010 festival featured an opening night restoration of George Cukor's A Star Is Born (1954) starring Judy Garland and »
- Penelope Andrew
First Look: 'Django Unchained' Teaser Poster
12 April 2012 9:40 AM, PDT | Entertainment Tonight | See recent Entertainment Tonight news »
The minimalist teaser poster for Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino's new movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx, has just been released.
Why Leo Missed the 'Titanic' 3D premiere
Showing a broken chain over the silhouette of two gun-toting men – one who sports broken chains – and simply stating "The New Film by Quentin Tarantino – Christmas," the poster channels the style of the late great Saul Bass (whose memorable black-on-red movie poster imagery elevated such titles as Vertigo, West Side Story and Spartacus).
Tarantino's follow-up to Inglourious Basterds follows a former slave-turned-bounty hunter who sets out to rescue his wife from a ruthless plantation owner with the help of his mentor.
Samuel L. Jackson Channels 'Pulp Fiction' for NBA
Christoph Waltz, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Sacha Baron Cohen, Don Johnson and Kurt Russell also star in the period Western, which Tarantino is calling a "Southern."
Django Unchained arrives in theaters December 25, 2012. »
6 Filmmaking Tips From Alfred Hitchcock
11 April 2012 11:00 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Alfred Hitchcock was born in the 19th century but gave birth in the 20th century to the age of modern filmmaking. Famous for his wit, inventive appreciation of the macabre, and a firm belief that suspense involves bringing a victim out from the shadows into the light he crafted the kinds of movies that made you care about characters even while reaching for your cholesterol medication. He also has a lot to teach. To fellow filmmakers and fans alike. Which is why we’ve chosen him as the first teacher in a new series of weekly articles where master movie-makers share their insights. Throughout his life, Hitchcock was candid about his methods and philosophies (amongst other things he flung around freely). Here’s a bit of free film school from a true visionary. Make Your Audience Suffer… Perhaps one of his most famous quotations, Hitchcock also seemed to delight in that suffering. His »
- Cole Abaius
'CSI' Star Wallace Langham To Play Legendary Designer Saul Bass In 'Alfred Hitchcock And The Making of Psycho'
9 April 2012 2:14 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
This is one of the few times we'll ever be excited about the role of a graphic designer getting cast in a movie, but when it comes to Saul Bass, there are are exceptions to every rule...
"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" star Wallace Langham has landed the role of the legendary Saul Bass in Sacha Gervasi's star-studded "Alfred Hitchcock And The Making of Psycho." Bass rubbed shoulders with some titans of filmmaking including Stanley Kubrick, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder and more, creating title sequences and poster art that to this day, remains hugely influential (indeed, Google Saul Bass and you'll get countless homages to his work). However, some of his most iconic efforts were done for Hitchcock, who he worked with on "Vertigo," "North By Northwest" and "Psycho" -- but their creative clashes would mark this film as the last time they would collaborate.
Bass handled the storyboards and title sequence for the film, »
- Kevin Jagernauth
The best damned film list of them all
5 April 2012 6:00 PM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
Long-suffering readers will have read many times about my dislike of lists, especially lists of the best or worst movies in this or that category. For years they had value only in the minds of feature editors fretting that their movie critics had too much free time. ("For Thursday's food section, can you list the 10 funniest movies about pumpkin pie?") Now their value has shot way up with the use of slide shows, a diabolical time-waster designed to boost a web site's page visits.
In a field with much competition, Number One on my list of Most Shameless Lists has got to be Time mag's recent list of the "Best 140 Tweeters." How did the magazine present this? That's right, on 140 pages of a slideshow. Considering that the list had no meaning at all except as some hapless intern's grindwork, I'd say that was a bold masterstroke. I say so even though I was on it. »
- Roger Ebert
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