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20 items from 2012
Even the Rain; The Source – review
19 May 2012 4:02 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
There's a thesis to be written about water in the cinema. Key texts would include Bad Day at Black Rock, Once Upon a Time in the West, Jean de Florette/ Manon des sources, and Chinatown. To these can be added Even the Rain and The Source, European-financed movies about impoverished citizens in respectively Bolivia and north Africa battling with the authorities over the provision of water to their communities. The better of the two is the gripping Even the Rain, scripted by Ken Loach's regular screenwriter Paul Laverty and directed by the Spanish actress Icíar Bollaín, author of a book about working with Loach. Intertwined are a real-life story of a battle to prevent the privatisation of water in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba in 2000 and the fictional production in the neighbourhood of a feature film about Christopher Columbus and his legacy. The makers of the movie-within-the-movie are themselves »
- Philip French
5 Unmade Movies From Spaghetti Western Maestro Sergio Leone
30 April 2012 9:58 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
For someone who's considered one of the greatest filmmakers in history, Sergio Leone was not especially prolific. While he worked extensively as an assistant director (with credits including "Bicycle Thieves," "Quo Vadis" and "Ben Hur"), he was only credited on seven films across his thirty-year career (with uncredited direction work on three others -- "The Last Days Of Pompeii," "My Name Is Nobody" and "A Genius, Two Partners and A Dupe").
But given that those films include some of the greatest Westerns -- the Man With No Name trilogy, and "Once Upon A Time In The West" -- and a wonderful crime epic, "Once Upon A Time In America," it's hard not to mourn that we didn't get more films from the director, who passed away 23 years ago today, on April 30th, 1989. But it wasn't for a lack of trying, as there were a number of other projects that Leone considered, »
- Oliver Lyttelton
She Monkeys director on coming of age
27 April 2012 4:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Clothing was stripped of branding, and there are no ads or billboards in uncompromising tale of teenage rivalry
On paper, She Monkeys sounds like UniLad's wet dream: nubile Swedish girls experiment with their sexuality. Sadly for any potential babe-botherers out there, the film is actually a dispassionate coming-of-age indie flick set in a washed-out town on the west coast of Sweden, where two teenage girls attempt to navigate the psychological minefield of those strange years just before womanhood.
She Monkeys centres on Emma (played by Mathilda Paradeiser), a seemingly shy 14-year-old hoping to make it in on to the local voltige (horse-vaulting) team. The world she enters is a fierce one of tacit teenage codes and continuous physical scrutiny. The dangers of the sport offer a contrast to the introspective mood of the film, as well as symbolising the fears associated with the uncharted territory of adolescence. The story begins »
- Rosie Swash
This Week in Soundtracks – April 17, 2012, includes ‘Treme, Season 2′
20 April 2012 12:12 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
A review of soundtracks and scores released the week of April 17, 2012.
Marley – Original Soundtrack by Bob Marley & the Wailers
Marley is a new documentary that chronicles the life of the man who brought Reggae to the world, Bob Marley. This two-disc soundtrack is a companion piece to the film. It is essentially a greatest hits album that includes a combination of studio and live recordings by Bob Marley and his band The Wailers. The soundtrack provides a gateway into Bob Marley’s music for the casual fan or those who are curious about his work. A fanatic won’t find much need in purchasing the album, already owning most of his music. They should however purchase the previously unreleased version of “Jammin’” found only on this soundtrack. It was recorded at the One Love Peace Concert in 1978 where Marley famously brought two Jamaican political rivals together to shake hands in an act of peace. »
- Christopher Laplante
Has Quentin Tarantino lost his Django?
28 March 2012 7:59 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb...
Germain Lussier, for /Film on 23rd March 2012, revealed a little Django Unchained information for the Tarantino fans among us:
"Here’s what Shamberg said when I asked when we may see some footage from Django Unchained: 'I’ve seen some stuff and it’s amazing. We’re still shooting and my partner Stacey [Sher] is producing with Pilar Savone who worked for Quentin and Reggie Hudlin. I’m exec-producing and we’re like, maybe, half-way through. You have no idea. It’s the most amazing film cause, as you know, it’s a spaghetti western about slavery and Quentin’s vocabulary is such that it’s just pure entertainment, Leonardo’s the bad guy, it’s gonna be awesome.'"
Don't get me wrong, I love Quentin Tarantino as much as the next 20-something male film obsessive, but there comes a time when »
- flickeringmyth
Films To Watch Before You Die #69 - Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
22 March 2012 12:22 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die...
Once Upon a Time in the West (Italian: C'era una volta il West), 1968.
Directed by Sergio Leone.
Starring Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Charles Bronson and Claudia Cardinale.
Sergio Leone’s epic Spaghetti Western is widely regarded as a masterpiece. The film follows the story of a battle for ownership of a piece of land in the Old West named Sweetwater. Being the only water source in the region, it is believed to be along the route planned for the new railroad and will bring people, work and money to the land and therefore be very profitable for the owner.
Brett McBain (Frank Wolff) bought the land after he foresaw the huge profits the railroad would bring, but railroad tycoon Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti) decides he wants the land and all the spoils it brings, »
- flickeringmyth
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
15 March 2012 5:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
A long night spent looking for a body in the desert sets this Turkish crime drama apart as an exhilarating masterpiece
Few films are about simply waiting and talking, but this is one; a film in which, for most of the time, nothing appears to be happening – but, in fact, everything is. Nuri Bilge Ceylan's new film is long and difficult, and perhaps not for everyone, but I can only say it is a kind of masterpiece: audacious, uncompromising and possessed of a mysterious grandeur in its wintry pessimism. Nothing in it reminds me of Sergio Leone, incidentally – unless it is that long, long wait at the beginning of Once Upon a Time in the West, with the keening wind-wheel and sighing desert. Actually, this has something of Antonioni, or Chekhov or even the later stories of Tolstoy.
The action extends over a single, rainy, sleepless night and into »
- Peter Bradshaw
Watch a Cool Supercut of Movie Characters Confronting Each Other
6 March 2012 4:30 PM, PST | Movies.com | See recent Movies.com news »
Hopefully you walk away from this with a few ideas of movies to watch, and not with a renewed determination to start a fight with your next door neighbor. Confrontation Mash-up from Patrick Peris on Vimeo. Films Featured: A clockwork orange Dirty Harry Kill Bill Vol.1 The Dark Knight Once upon a time in the West Fight Club The Karate Kid Game of Death Smokin' Aces Seven Pulp Fiction Reservoir Dogs Watchmen 300 Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Kick-Ass Domino The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Desperado Goodfellas Animatrix Terminator 2 True Romance Robocop Matrix Sucker Punch 2001 A Space Odyssey The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Million Dollar Baby Limitless Snatch Sherlock Holmes Matrix Revolutions Enter the...
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- Erik Davis
'Clone Wars': Chat live with Boba Fett (a.k.a. Daniel Logan) tonight starting at 7:40 p.m. Et
2 March 2012 2:19 PM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Tonight starting at 7:40 p.m. Et/4:40 p.m. Pt, actor Daniel Logan will be joining EW.com for a live chat. The actor otherwise known as Boba Fett will be adding his commentary to tonight’s epic Clone Wars installment, “Bounty,” and taking your questions. He has been advised that no disintegrations will be tolerated.
Logan has basically grown up with Boba Fett. The 24-year-old New Zealand native first played Han Solo’s future nemesis onscreen as a 13-year-old in Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones, when it was revealed that Boba was actually a clone »
- Christian Blauvelt
Friday Noir: Director de Toth balances the gritty with the stylistic in ‘Crime Wave’
24 February 2012 6:38 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Directed and Andre de Toth
Screenplay by Crane Wilbur
U.S.A., 1954
Sometimes the merits of a film noir come down to how superbly directed and acted it is, simple as that. Truth be told, there are only so many variations of the same story which can be told within the genre for it to be considered as legitimately part of the club. In some ways, those are precisely the sources from which these films derive most of their strengths and memorable qualities. Noir is very much about style, which can be robustly dictated by smart direction and specific acting styles rather than by a script. That is not to say that a script is incapable of guiding the mood and shape of a story, but within noir, it is the former two ingredients which shine brightest more often than not. Director Andre de Toth, fondly remembered as »
- Edgar Chaput
Top Ten Casting Gambles Which Paid Off
23 February 2012 5:59 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Written by Joe Pearce.
One of the most important skills a director can possess is the ability to bring out the best in his actors. Casting someone out of leftfield is seriously risky yet when it is done right, the plaudits and audience interest for such a decision is even higher.
We take a look at ten of the most inspired, and risky choices.
Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West
In his heyday Henry Fonda was the most called upon actor should a script call for a sturdy heroic and most importantly likeable character. Credit must be given to Sergio Leone then for seeing the potential in him to portray Once Upon a Time in the West’s Frank. One also cannot ignore just how daring a career move it was for Fonda to go completely against type after securing his niche; it turned out to »
- Guest
How Many Can You Name? The Animated ABCs of Cinema
16 February 2012 10:19 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
This is certain to go viral as Evan Seitz has put together a 58-second short featuring the animated ABCs of Cinema with a separate animation and audio snippet for 26 different films to represent each letter of the alphabet. The snippets happen very quickly and while watching I'm not ashamed to say several stumped me, though I was particularly impressed with the film he started with as well as his choices for M, N, U, V, Y and Z. Three I wish I could change are for letters E as I believe he could have done the obvious E.T. reference or something cool with The Exorcist or Eyes Wide Shut. I totally expected one of the Harry Potter films for H and I wish he hadn't gone with an unreleased film in that place as maybe Halloween would have been a more interesting choice and Q is a tough one »
- Brad Brevet
Denzel Washington: smooth operator
12 February 2012 8:05 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
He's one of Hollywood's heaviest hitters, who's played everything from cult figures to cold killers. On the eve of his latest film, the Oscar-winner talks about transcending race, his 'empty nest' and why he goes boxing five mornings a week
Nearly four decades ago, Henry Fonda appeared on Michael Parkinson's TV chat show and gave his audience an insight into the power of casting. Reminiscing about his role in the violent epic Once Upon A Time in the West, Twelve Angry Men's quintessential good guy recalled the film's opening, in which a farming family is massacred; it worked so brilliantly, he said, because the director knew that the minute the camera pulled away from the victims' corpses to reveal the perpetrators, cinema-goers would gasp: "Jesus Christ! It's Henry Fonda!"
A similar frisson of disbelief comes into play when you see Denzel Washington efficiently breaking an assailant's neck at »
- Alex Clark
Special Features - The Ten Best Movie Stares
6 February 2012 11:14 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Jake Wardle selects his ten favourite movie stares...
Stares, glares, gazes... whatever you want to call them, the movies are full of them, and as far as I can tell nobody’s ever compiled a list of the best. Shocking, I’m sure you’ll agree, but true. For some, even the mention of ‘film’ will bring to mind a good stare, so it’s only fitting that those films which place similar value on the humble gawk are duly recognized...
10. Lyn Cassady – The Men Who Stare at Goats
Not, perhaps, a great film, but a damn good stare. A stare so good it gets the uncommon honour of being ‘the titular stare’. It is, as the title would suggest, a stare between a man (George Clooney) and a goat (a goat), ultimately resulting in said goat’s death. Nobody wins when a stare goes that far. But a classic stare regardless. »
- flickeringmyth
Over/Under: ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ vs. ‘Once Upon a Time in the West’
31 January 2012 4:00 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Once upon a time, Hollywood was king of the Western and the idea of anybody over in Europe making a movie about the American Southwest as successful as something like High Noon was laughable. Italian-produced films about the west, or Spaghetti Westerns, were largely low budget knock-offs where fading Hollywood stars went to die after their careers had peaked. But the work of Sergio Leone changed that viewpoint. His “The Man With No Name” trilogy wasn’t just a worldwide financial success upon release, the films have gone on to be seen as some of the greatest Westerns produced anywhere, throughout the history of film. And the final installment of that series, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, has especially become an important part of the fabric of pop culture. More than any other Western I can think of, it’s stood the test of time and achieved a level of awareness that rivals any other »
- Nathan Adams
Top Ten Tuesday: The Best Of Clint Eastwood (The Actor)
31 January 2012 6:51 AM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
When J. Edgar was released last Fall, We Are Movie Geeks published our Top Ten Tuesday article on Clint Eastwood’s best films as director. With word that Eastwood has come out of acting retirement, it’s time for another Top Ten list, this time of movies that Clint has starred in. Trouble With The Curve is currently filming and stars Clint as an ailing baseball scout in his twilight years who takes his daughter (played by Amy Adams) on the road for one last recruiting trip. This will be Clint’s first acting role since Gran Torino in 2008.
Super-8 Clint Eastwood Movie Madness will be a great way to celebrate the life and films of this legendary American actor. It takes place February 7th at the Way Out Club in St. Louis (2525 Jefferson in South City). Condensed versions of these memorable Clint Eastwood films will be shown on a »
- Movie Geeks
Movies This Week: Beneath the Spy Inside
6 January 2012 12:00 PM, PST | Slackerwood | See recent Slackerwood news »
Welcome to 2012. After last week's lack of new theatrical releases, this week is still a slow week this week for new movies, but there are some special screenings. Tonight over at Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, you can get drunk with Tom Cruise... or rather watch him at his cockiest while you knock back a few specially crafted beverages at Cocktails with Cocktail. And on Saturday you can go back to the Ritz for a special screening of The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret with creator and star David Cross. At Alamo on South Lamar, Graham Reynolds will be accompanying screenings of A Trip to the Moon paired with Hugo in 3D on Saturday and Sunday afternoon.
On Tuesday, you can see Once Upon a Time in the West for free at Austin Public Library's Milwood Branch as part of the Weeknight Cinema Series. Also on Tuesday, the new Essential Cinema »
- Jenn Brown
The Top 20 Films That Weren't Released In 2011, But Which I Had Never Seen Before
6 January 2012 9:17 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Oli Davis presents an alternative to the usual year end Top 10 with 'The Top 20 – Yeah That’S Right, A Whole Twenty - of Films That Weren’t Released In 2011, But Which I Had Never Seen Before'...
I’m in a bit of a difficult position. I wrote my last review, of Raging Bull, at 4pm, Saturday 31st December. I’d seen it back in November, but backlogs have a habit of creeping up on you. It was my final review of 2011, having set myself the challenge to watch 100 films I’d never seen before, and write an article on each one.
However, there was a different backlog creeping up on that backlog. A sizable chunk of reviews still fester in the editor of Flickering Myth’s inbox – not because he’s negligent, far from it, but because my planning was poor. I’d been writing reviews at a leisurely pace from January to October, »
- flickeringmyth
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia"
5 January 2012 1:36 PM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Following its premiere in Cannes, where it won the Grand Prix (shared with Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's The Kid with a Bike), Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia has been touring the festival circuit — we posted a roundup of reviews from the New York Film Festival — and showing up on more than a few best-of-2011 lists. Today, it opens at New York's Film Forum, where it'll be playing through January 17.
"Turkey's leading filmmaker has several accomplished festival-friendly evocations of urban isolation to his credit," writes the Voice's J Hoberman, "notably the city mouse-country mouse character study Distant (2002) and the pensive breakup not-quite-comedy Climates (2006). In themes and style, both films are evocative of early Antonioni; a 157-minute police procedural at once sensuous and cerebral, profane and metaphysical, 'empty' and abundant, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is closer to the Antonioni of L'Avventura, and it elevates »
The Best Blu-ray Discs of 2011
2 January 2012 6:07 PM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Best Contemporary Titles
Winner: "The Tree of Life"
Runner-up: "Black Swan"
Love it or hate it, Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life" is visually the most luscious film of the year and Blu-ray transfer recreates this in perfect detail. No digital artifacts or enhancements are done here, there is a bit of grain but that's expected with the photography on offer, while the IMAX 65mm sequences are true visual wonders.
Coming in second is my favourite film of last year, Darren Aronofsky's psychological thriller "Black Swan". Here is a challenge of a different sort, a film shot on both 16mm film and off the shelf Dslr video cameras. The result is a deliberately soft and grainy handheld-style image which lends a realistic documentary feel to proceedings and could look terrible if the Blu-ray transfer was handled poorly. Full kudos to Fox for a high quality presentation lacking in »
- Garth Franklin
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