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Harry Brown Review
30 November 2009 2:05 PM, PST
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After a long and distinguished career, Michael Caine has announced his retirement from lead film roles aiming to instead focus on supporting parts. Having burst on to the film scene with the likes of Get Carter and Zulu, the erstwhile Mr Micklewhite has been an enduring screen personality in fare ranging from Jaws: The Revenge through to Hannah And Her Sisters. His final bow comes in the shape of debut helmer Daniel Barber’s Harry Brown. The weight of playing host to a true legend like Caine’s last lead role could have overshadowed most films, a feat which Barber attempts to sidestep with his bold, if flawed, entry into the revenge film canon.
Caine stars, in a role pitched somewhere between Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino and his own Get Carter, as the titular Harry Brown, a man very deeply at odds with modern Britain. He is a lonesome
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Caine Refuses To Watch His Movies
12 November 2009 4:11 AM, PST
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Veteran actor Sir Michael Caine refuses to watch any of his old movies because he would hate to see himself "crumbling" with age.
The Get Carter star has appeared in more than 100 films after rising to fame in the 1960s with lead roles in pictures including 1964's Zulu.
But the Oscar-winner, currently starring as a vigilante in revenge movie Harry Brown, hopes he'll never be honoured with a lifetime achievement award, because he doesn't want scores of people to see how he has aged.
He says, "I never look at (my movies). I never look at them, because you know what happens is sometimes they give you a lifetime achievement award, you know, and you sit there and they play all your films. And what it is, you're sitting there watching and you're actually watching you start on Zulu and wind up as Harry Brown, you watch this guy sort of crumble and turn into this old man.
"But they're very kind now, they change it. They do bits from here, there and everywhere, you know. So you don't get that sort of crumbling effect."
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Zakes Mokae obituary
10 November 2009 10:45 AM, PST
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South African actor who helped break the taboos of apartheid
On a steamy evening in a rundown Johannesburg club in September 1961, two actors premiered The Blood Knot, a play about brothers with different fathers, both men black but one light enough to enter white society. For each of them, the black actor Zakes Mokae, who has died aged 75, and the white playwright Athol Fugard, the night launched their careers. Fugard's play toured South Africa for six months, and although he travelled first-class on the train while Mokae travelled third, the two had broken a taboo by being the first black and white actors to appear on a public stage in apartheid South Africa. The success of The Blood Knot brought Fugard to international attention and kickstarted Mokae's long and varied career in theatre, film and television.
Mokae was born and grew up in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, the son of a policeman and a housemaid.
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Michael Caine: 'I miss sexy roles'
15 September 2009 5:26 AM, PDT
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Michael Caine has admitted that he misses being the romantic lead in his more recent films. The Zulu star told Metro that it is true that he is no longer cast in sexual roles against female stars. Caine said: "I suppose I am missing the roles where I'm dishing out the sex. "I've just made - in my seventies - films with Jennifer Lopez, Beyoncé Knowles, Charlize Theron and Scarlett Johansson, but I'm just the old duffer in the corner." (more)
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Keyeye: Robin Webb an Interview
3 June 2009 9:32 PM, PDT
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Local Vancouver Island resident Robin Webb is a film careerist in the stunt coordination business. Taking part in dozens of films including "From Russia with Love," and "Goldfinger," Webb has transitioned into the director's chair. Some of Webb's latest features include "Seaking Fear," "Keyeye," and his latest "House for Sale." About to screen his film "Keyeye," in Italy, Robin Webb takes a moment to talk about his history in filmmaking and the status of some of his most recent productions. Have a look at the full interview inside...
(Michael Allen) What are some of your earliest memories of filmmaking?
(Robin Webb) "The first movie I did was a movie called 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner,' made in 1960. In 1960 I was in England. I was fifteen years old when I went to the show."
(Michael Allen) What inspired you to get into filmmaking?
(Robin Webb) "I was a boxer and they needed somebody.
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Caine: 'My parents thought I was gay'
20 April 2009 7:24 AM, PDT
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Michael Caine has said that his parents thought he was gay when he told them that he wanted to become an actor. The Zulu star told The Times that many people from his background assumed that all those involved in the profession were homosexuals. Caine said: "That's what we thought actors were, all p**fs. And sometimes we were right." (more)
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Caine Faced Gay Jibes After Admitting Acting Ambitions
20 April 2009 12:15 AM, PDT
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Sir Michael Caine faced a family backlash when he told them he wanted to be an actor - because his relatives presumed he was gay.
The Zulu legend was worried about telling his traditional family he had dreams of becoming a film star, but didn't expect his sexuality to come into question.
He remembers, "That's what we thought actors were - all poofs (gay). And sometimes we were right."
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'The Last Hard Men" Score- The Final Word
1 March 2009 8:56 PM, PST
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We keep getting letters from readers around the world that add interesting insights into the fact that Fox reused portions of Jerry Goldsmith's previous scores for the 1976 western The Last Hard Men. Now comes this informative letter:
My name is Gergely Hubai. I'm a Hungarian film music
author.
I feel that I must clarify this particular story. This is what happened:
Jerry Goldsmith never worked on The Last Hard Men
(he was working on The Omen at that time). What happened was that Andrew.
McLaglen requested an avantgarde score from composer Leonard Rosenman, which was
eventually thrown out because it turned out it wasn't what he was looking for.
Apparently he wanted to reflect the early 20th century setting by having
contemporary avantgarde music playing in the picture or something to that
effect. Eventually the studio pulled out a number of cues from previous
Goldsmith Westerns, including 100 Rifles and Stagecoach.
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Did Composer Jerry Goldsmith Recycle His Score?
1 March 2009 4:27 AM, PST
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Issue #4 covers the filming of 100 Rifles in our tribute Jim Brown: The First Black Action Hero. Here, big Jim gets up close and personal with Raquel Welch in their groundbreaking love scene.
Following our recent reference to the 1976 western The Last Hard Men, Graham Rye wrote to tell us that Jerry Goldsmith's score for the film was primarily lifted from his earlier work on 100 Rifles.
See if you agree with Graham's observations:
"It was more or less the same score, slightly differently arranged, but the main them was the same. I remember from when I originally saw The Last Hard Men in the cinema. As I sat watching it, I thought, "Blimey, he's used the same score from 100 Rifles (a score I particularly enjoyed in 1969) - crafty bugger!" I had a LeRoy Holmes LP that covered a number of western themes, one of which was 100 Rifles. I think
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Cinema Retro To Host 70Mm "Where Eagles Dare" Screening At Widescreen Weekend, Bradford, England On March 20
17 February 2009 8:28 AM, PST
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The National Media Museum in Bradford, England is holding their annual Widescreen Weekend as part of the Bradford Film Festival. The weekend draws hundreds of movie fans from around the world to relish big screen showings of classic films. One of the highlights of the four day event, which begins on Thursday March 19, is a rare 70mm showing of the 1969 WWII epic Where Eagles Dare starring Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton. The print being shown is the original roadshow version, complete with intermission. This screening is being sponsored by Cinema Retro and publishers Dave Worrall and Lee Pfeiffer will be on hand introduce the film. The Where Eagles Dare celebration will include filmed interviews with artists who worked on the movie as well as a stage appearance and interview with actor Derren Nesbitt, who played the German S.S. officer Capt. Von Hapen in the film. There will also be
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