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16 items from 2012
New Year’s Eve Blu-Ray Review And Giveaway
7 May 2012 8:05 AM, PDT | AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news »
New Year’s Eve is the next installment in the converging story holiday-themed line-up, and despite serving as passable entertainment in a niche that scoffs at being taken too seriously, there isn’t a lot of life left in the shtick. The story, and the inclusion of at least two of the tangential arcs, feels forced, put together because we have a few more big names willing to join in, and need something for them to do.
This time around, we find ourselves following the New Year’s Eve festivities in New York City, and what better way could there be than sitting on the shoulder of the person responsible for the making sure the ball drops? Claire (Hilary Swank) is the new VP of whatever organization runs Times Square, and she’s running the show. Naturally, a hiccup leaves the ball stuck on its way up, and she has to scramble. »
- Marc Eastman
Wings, The First Film Awarded The Oscar For Best Picture, Back In Select Cinemark Theaters May 2 And May 16
3 May 2012 8:00 AM, PDT | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Movie trivia: Did you know that “Wings,” a silent film made in 1927 starring Clara Bow, Charles “Buddy” Rogers and Richard Arlen, won the first ever Academy Award for Best Picture (technically, the film won the award for Best Production, an award that was later discontinued and replaced with our Best Picture award). And now, “Wings” is coming back to the theaters for a limited time! Very limited, in fact–May 2 and May 16. “Wings” is bring brought back to the screen thanks to Cinemark, who has also brought the remastered versions of “The Godfather” and “The Godfather: Part II” back to theaters for limited engagements. Check out the list [ Read More ] »
- monique
Director James McTeigue Talks The Raven, Message From The King, Ness/Capone and The Gringo
22 April 2012 4:57 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Opening next weekend is director James McTeigue‘s (V for Vendetta, Ninja Assassin) The Raven. If you’re not familiar with the film, the story takes place in 1840s Baltimore where a series of grisly murders appear to have been inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe (played by John Cusack). Poe and a detective (Luke Evans) must team up to find the killer before he takes out the woman Poe loves (Alice Eve). The film also stars Oliver Jackson-Cohen, and Brendan Gleeson. For more on the film, here’s the trailer and 40 images. During my wide ranging interview with McTeigue, we talked about making The Raven, the mixture of fact and fiction, film versus digital, his favorite director, actor and movie, the necessity of an R rating, future projects like Message from the King, The Gringo, and Ness/Capone (a retelling of the Eliot Ness/Al Capone myth »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Films To Watch Before You Die #68 - The Godfather: Part II (1974)
21 March 2012 12:30 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die...
The Godfather: Part II, 1974.
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
Starring Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Talia Shire, John Cazale, Michael V. Gazzo and Lee Strasberg.
After watching The Godfather you simply must grab The Godfather: Part II and continue the story. The film consists of two parallel narratives running side by side as we follow Michael (Pacino) and his leadership of the crime family following on from the first film, but also the prequel to the first film and follows the young Vito Corleone (De Niro) as he arrives in America as an immigrant and builds his empire.
Following on from where the first film finished Michael moved the family out to Nevada and began work in the gambling industry of Las Vegas in order to make the family legitimate, »
- flickeringmyth
Nicholson's Mental Patient Tops Best Movie Role Poll
20 March 2012 9:06 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Jack Nicholson's Oscar-winning turn in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest has been voted the greatest movie performance of all time.
The Hollywood veteran's role as R.P. McMurphy, a criminal faking insanity to serve his jail sentence in a mental hospital, came top in a poll by Total Film magazine.
Robert De Niro's acclaimed role as boxer Jake La Motta in 1980's Raging Bull was runner-up, and Daniel Day-Lewis' Oscar-winning portrayal of a turn-of-the-century oil baron in There Will Be Blood came third.
The top five was rounded out by Al Pacino's performance as Mafia boss Michael Corleone in gangster sequel The Godfather: Part II and Emily Watson, for her role as Bess McNeill in 1996 drama Breaking the Waves. »
Cinemark And Paramount Announce Exclusive Release Of The Godfather, Part II To Cinemark Xd Theaters April 19
1 March 2012 5:54 PM, PST | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Cinemark Holdings, Inc. has announced that it has partnered through Paramount Pictures to release a restored and remastered version of “The Godfather: Part II” to theaters April 19. The first part of “The Godfather” series was released March 1 to 55 Cinemark Xd auditoriums across the U.S. “There is no greater iconic film than “The Godfather,” said James Meredith, VP of Marketing and Communication at Cinemark. “It has set the standard for story-telling, launched a generation of great actors, and provided movie-goers an unparalleled experience. Cinemark is excited to give fans of this movie the opportunity to now see it like never before in our extremely popular Xd auditoriums, which »
- monique
'Mad Men' stars promote 'The Godfather' on AMC
29 February 2012 7:48 PM, PST | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Spinning off of Roth's piece this morning about the "Godfather" re-release, I just flipped it over to AMC and see that the film is airing there now. It'll show again at midnight. According to Entertainment Weekly, "The Godfather: Part II" will air on Tuesday and Thursday at 8 pm and 12:30 am. "The trilogy will then be aired in its entirety on Friday, March 2, from 9:30 am through 10 pm. The celebration culminates on Saturday with AMC’s premiere of the digitally-restored version of 'The Godfather Saga' beginning at 10 am." You can learn more about the latter here. It's awesome. Anyway, in »
- Kristopher Tapley
Mad Men – An Offer You Can’t Refuse
29 February 2012 7:51 AM, PST | Boomtron | See recent Boomtron news »
AMC and a few of the actors from Mad Men have an offer you can’t refuse. In celebration of The Godfather’s 40th anniversary, AMC will be airing back-to-back viewings of the original, along with The Godfather: Part II. In honor of the milestone, AMC brought in Jon Hamm, Vincent Katheiser, and Jared Harris to film some of their thoughts on the film and cut it into a short commercial promoting the events that are to come.
You can check out the promo containing the Mad Men stars at EW.com. This week will see The Godfather being aired on Monday and Wednesday at 8 p.m. and midnight, with The Godfather: Part II airing Tuesday and Thursday at 8 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. Then on Friday the entire trilogy will play from 9:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. It’ll be a busy day for anybody interested in »
- Brody Gibson
The Godfather Returns to Cinemark Theaters on March 1; The Godfather: Part II Follows on April 19
28 February 2012 9:24 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Cinemark is the coolest theater chain in the nation this week. The Godfather will play in 55 Cinemark Xd auditoriums for one night only on Thursday, March 1 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1972 release. The press release touts that the film print is "meticulously restored using 5.1 digital surround sound and re-mastered using state-of-the-art technology." I am very jealous of those of you located near a Cinemark Xd chain. However, The Godfather: Part II---my favorite in the series---will get the same treatment on April 19. That's enough time to plan for the 2-hour drive out to Hadley, Massachusetts. You can check locations and showtimes at the Cinemark site. Read the press release after the jump. Cinemark Presents Exclusive Release of Academy Award-Winning® “The Godfather” Cinemark and Paramount Pictures Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of “The Godfather” with Exclusive Cinemark Xd Events at Theatres Across the Us Plano, TX, February 23, 2012 Cinemark Holdings, Inc. »
- Brendan Bettinger
'Mad Men' actors celebrate the 40th anniversary of 'The Godfather' -- Exclusive Video
27 February 2012 10:58 AM, PST | EW - Inside TV | See recent EW.com - Inside TV news »
With the Oscars fresh in everyone’s minds, AMC will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of an Academy classic — The Godfather — with back-to-back airings of the original Oscar-winning film and The Godfather: Part II all week long, beginning tonight.
AMC will air The Godfather on Monday and Wednesday at 8 p.m. and midnight (schedule accordingly, central-time zoners!), and The Godfather: Part II on Tuesday and Thursday at 8 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. The trilogy will then be aired in its entirety on Friday, March 2, from 9:30 a.m. through 10 p.m. The celebration culminates on Saturday with AMC’s »
- Marc Snetiker
Movie Review - A Dangerous Method (2011)
22 February 2012 3:01 PM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
A Dangerous Method, 2011.
Directed by David Cronenberg.
Starring Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender, Viggo Mortensen and Vincent Cassel.
Synopsis:
In the early twentieth century, Dr Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) attempts to cure an unbalanced young woman (Keira Knightley) using the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), only for both men to fall under her spell.
Director David Cronenberg’s career has taken a different path over the last decade or so. Gone are the low budget bodyshock horrors of Rabid, The Brood and Scanners of the 1980s and with 1996’s Crash, he made one of the most controversial films of all time, but with it brought a new audience – myself being one of them. Cronenberg continued to explore the darker side of the human psyche with Spider in 2002, but his first mainstream success came with the surprise hit A History of Violence in 2005, which explored two of »
- flickeringmyth
Why Bertolucci's The Conformist deserves a place in cinema history
22 February 2012 4:34 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Italian director's 1970 expressionist masterpiece offered a blueprint for a new kind of Hollywood film, which is why Coppola, Spielberg, Scorsese and co owe him a huge debt
Bernardo Bertolucci's expressionist masterpiece of 1970, The Conformist, is the movie that plugs postwar Italian cinema firmly and directly into the emerging 1970s renaissance in Hollywood film-making. Its account of the neuroses and self-loathing of a sexually confused would-be fascist (Jean-Louis Trintignant) aching to fit in in 1938 Rome, who is despatched to Paris to murder his former, anti-fascist college professor, was deemed an instant classic on release.
It was, and is, a highly self-conscious and stylistically venturesome pinnacle of late modernism, drawing from the full range of recent Italian movie history: a little neo-neorealism, a lot of stark and blinding Antonioni-style mise-en-scène, some moments redolent of Fellini. And it was all framed within an evocation of the frivolous fascist-era film-making style derided »
- John Patterson
Was the 1970s the best decade for the Best Picture Oscar?
21 February 2012 3:58 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
With the Oscars nearly here, Glen looks back to the 70s, and argues that it was the decade when the Academy got its Best Picture decisions consistently right...
It’s widely acknowledged that the 1970s was one of the best periods in American cinema. It’s little surprise, then, that the Academy Awards gave the Best Picture award to some of the best films during its 84 years. But as is often the case with the Oscars, the 70s wasn’t without its controversies, as a number of great films missed out on the award or even failed to be nominated. Even so, the run of Best Picture winners from 1970 to 1979 was incredibly strong.
The decade started with Midnight Cowboy scooping the Best Picture award at the 42nd Academy Awards on 7th April 1970, but as the film was released in May 1969 it doesn’t really count as an example of the »
Special Features - The Five Most Disappointing Films of All Time
10 February 2012 4:25 PM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Anghus Houvouras selects his five most disappointing films of all time...
With this week's 3D re-release of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, it feels like a good time to look back at some of the biggest disappointments ever to hit cinemas. The films that we waited years for, and the ones that failed to deliver on such lofty expectations. Are they the worst movies ever released? That's debatable. They are however the most crushing disappointments in the history of cinema...
5. Watchmen
The most critically revered graphic novel ever released was transformed into one of the most reviled adaptations of the 21st century. Director Zack Snyder’s soulless imagining of Alan Moore’s seminal work was plagued by questionable casting (Malin Akerman, Matthew Goode) and cartoonish production design that had the look of dimly lit soundstages.
After nearly two decades in development, the property passed through the hands »
- flickeringmyth
A Rare De Niro 'Godfather' Audition Tape You Can't Refuse
31 January 2012 9:22 AM, PST | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
It's one of Hollywood's biggest what ifs: What if Robert De Niro had played the part of Sonny in the original "Godfather" movie? At the time, De Niro was a total unknown, which helps explain why the studio forced director Francis Ford Coppola to pick James Caan for the role of Vito Corleone's hotheaded number one son. But what would "The Godfather" have been like if De Niro had played the part instead? Nobody knows.
Until now, that is. The folks over at Movies.com have unearthed a YouTube clip of Robert De Niro's original "Godfather" audition -- and now you can see for yourself one of the pivotal lost moments in cinematic history. Pretty badass.
Not that De Niro's career really suffered as a result of Caan getting the gig; as a result of being passed over, De Niro was free to star in Martin Scorsese's breakout film "Mean Streets, »
- Scott Harris
Contest: Win Killer Elite Blu-ray
6 January 2012 4:48 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Universal Studios Home Entertainment will release Killer Elite on Blu-ray Combo Pack with UltraViolet Download, DVD, On Demand and Digital Download January 10. We are celebrating this home video release with a new contest where we're giving away copies of the Blu-ray to our readers. These high-def discs will surely go fast, so enter this contest today.
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Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite is a gritty battle between guns-for-hire that has been hailed as "one of the best action thrillers of the year!" by Richard Roeper, ReelzChannel. Pitting two of the world's most elite operatives against the cunning leader of a secret military society, »
- MovieWeb
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