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The anti-Christmas schedule
23 December 2009 11:00 PM, PST
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If the festive season is the last thing you want to think about this festive season, these are the shows it's still safe to watch
Without question, my worst ever festive memory came in 2004 when I woke up on Christmas morning, alone and hungover and thousands of miles away from everybody I've ever loved, and switched on my TV to be confronted by the sight of a military brass band playing a selection of almost spitefully slowed-down carols, apparently with the sole intention of making me feel miserable. It was heartbreaking. If you're not in the mood for it, being reminded about Christmas on Christmas day can be rubbish.
And it's not like you can stay in and hide away from the festivities with telly, either. For the next few days, the box is going to do nothing but ram Christmas down all of our throats. Christmas films, Christmas specials,
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- Stuart Heritage
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Jennifer Jones obituary
20 December 2009 9:33 AM, PST
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Hollywood star who won an Oscar for her role as a saintly peasant girl in the 1943 film The Song of Bernardette
On the day of her 25th birthday, 2 March 1944, a fresh-faced, hitherto unknown performer stepped on to the stage of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, in Los Angeles, to receive her best actress Oscar for her performance in the title role of The Song of Bernadette. It was officially the debut of Jennifer Jones, who has died aged 90. She had appeared four years earlier under her real name of Phyllis Isley, but only in a Dick Tracy serial and a B-western. (Actually, she had been born Phylis, but had added an "l".)
Ingrid Bergman, nominated for her performance in For Whom the Bell Tolls, said of The Song of Bernadette: "I cried all the way through, because Jennifer was so moving and because I realised I had lost the award." Jones,
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Jennifer Jones Dies At Age 90; Had Five Oscar Nominations
18 December 2009 5:17 AM, PST
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Acclaimed actress Jennifer Jones has died at age 90. The five-time Oscar nominee sprang to fame in The Song of Bernadette in 1943. She worked sparingly over the years, but several of her films, such as Love is a Many-Splendored Thing and Duel in the Sun were major financial successes. She had at one time been married to the legendary David O. Selznick. After Selznick's death in 1965, she remarried and moved to India where she concentrated on collecting art. She also spent a great deal of time in the struggle to help those afflicted with mental health illness. Jones' last film was the 1974 blockbuster The Towering Inferno. For more click here
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Actress Jennifer Jones Dies at 90
17 December 2009 10:42 AM, PST
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Actress Jennifer Jones, who won an Academy Award for her performance in The Song of Bernadette, died Thursday at her home in Malibu; she was 90. The recipient of four other Oscar nominations, Jones was known as Phylis Walker early in her career, when she was married to actor Robert Walker, whom she met in acting school. However, it was producer David O. Selznick who "discovered" her, changed her name, groomed her for a big-screen career -- and later married her after she divorced Walker. Under Selznick's guidance, she made her first big film, The Song of Bernadette, the story of a French peasant girl who sees visions of the Virgin Mary near the village of Lourdes. The movie catapulted her to fame and an Oscar, and roles in 40s hits such as Since You Went Away, Love Letters, Portrait of Jennie, and the notorious-for-its-time Duel in the Sun followed. In the 50s she appeared in the cult hit Beat the Devil, the hit drama Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, and the massive flop A Farewell to Arms, produced by her husband. After Selznick's death in 1965, she mostly retired from acting, making her last screen appearance in the disaster movie The Towering Inferno. Jones is survived by her son, Robert Walker Jr.
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Christmas TV movies have lost their special glitter | Jason Solomons
5 December 2009 4:09 PM, PST
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A festive treat has become tired repeats or cartoons. Jason Solomons suggests it should now be a season for Fellini or Renoir
Forget about Christmas movies with snow and tinsel and grumpy fathers learning lessons. Those have their place, and no doubt we'll have our fill of them, good and bad, over the coming month, from Elf to Scrooged, from The Muppet Christmas Carol to Miracle on 34th Street.
What worries me is the lack of new classics. Growing up, my favourite Christmas movies were never the ones actually about Christmas. Rather, it was the season of Billy Wilder and Fred Astaire, a time for The Great Escape and The Towering Inferno, for The Poseidon Adventure and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. In short, Christmas was when you learned about film, its rich history and capacity to thrill and unite.
It was when I watched films with my dad
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- Jason Solomons
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Son of Birthday Suits
24 November 2009 4:27 AM, PST
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Celebrating the cinematic personalities born on 11/24. Even if you're not cinematic, you're probably a personality. Wish yourself a happy one in the comments. There's no way there's been no Scorpios (or now) Saggitarians reading. Speak up when it's your big day!
Garret, Shirley and 'Izzy'
1913 Geraldine Fitzgerald actress (Wuthering Heights, The Mango Tree, Rachel Rachel)
1942 Billy Connolly, comedian, actor, 'Mr. Brown' (he who was beloved by Judi Dench) and 'Barry' (he who was poisoned by Michelle Pfeiffer)
1949 Manuel De Sica composer (The Garden of the Fitzi Continis), Son of Vittorio
1954 Emir Kusturica two-time Cannes winning Serbian filmmaker behind Underground & When Father Was Away on Business (Oscar nominee)
1964 Garret Dillahunt, terrific actor who has lately specialized in the skin-crawlingly creepy (The Road, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) and the endearingly pathetic (No Country For Old Men and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) but a
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- NATHANIEL R
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‘De Dana Dan’ climax inspired by Hollywood classic ‘The Towering Inferno’
23 November 2009 9:19 PM, PST
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Even though, Priyadarshan’s ‘De Dana Dan’ is touted as laugh-a-minute affair, its climax is inspired by ‘The Towering Inferno’ (1974), which had set new standards for disaster genre.
The plot of this Hollywood classic required extinguishing flames by exploding the million gallon water tanks at the top of the building. Similarly, in ‘De Dana Dan’ too an entire hotel is flooded with water when a tank at the top of the building opens up. However, while in ‘The Towering Inferno’ it was intentional, in ‘De Dana Dan’ it is by accident that leads to a riotous laugh fest.
Confirms Priyadarshan who agrees that this has been his most difficult shoot in a career that has.
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De Dana Dan climax inspired by Hollywood classic The Towering Inferno - News
23 November 2009 3:05 AM, PST
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Even though, Priyadarshan's De Dana Dan is touted as laugh-a-minute affair, its climax is inspired by The Towering Inferno (1974), which had set new standards for disaster genre. The plot of this Hollywood classic required extinguishing flames by exploding the million gallon water tanks at the top of the building. Similarly, in De Dana Dan too an entire hotel is flooded with water when a tank at the top of the building opens up. However, while in The Towering Inferno it was int
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Join Cinema Retro At The Players Club Gala Tribute To Robert Vaughn, November 22 In New York City
18 November 2009 6:54 AM, PST
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On Sunday, November 22, The Players, the legendary New York City private club for the performing arts, will honor member Robert Vaughn with a gala dinner. Cinema Retro Editor in Chief Lee Pfeiffer will interview Vaughn on-stage for a discussion of his remarkable career and his recent autobiography A Fortunate Life. There will be screenings of relevant clips from Vaughn's work including The Magnficent Seven, Bullitt, The Towering Inferno,S.O.B, his current hit British series Hustle, Washington:Behind Closed Doors (for which he won the Emmy), Superman 3 and, of course, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. There will also be rarely seen early career footage of Vaughn's TV appearances. Ben Gazzara, Vaughn's co-star from The Bridge at Remagen, is scheduled to speak, as is actor Joseph Sirola, who guest-starred in several episodes of U.N.C.L.E. The date has special significance for Vaughn: it is his birthday and it is
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Movies I Saw as a Kid (That I Shouldn't Have)
17 November 2009 2:00 AM, PST
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C'mon, tell the truth ... have you ever taken your kids to an inappropriate movie?
Paul Starke: I was flipping through the channels this weekend, pretending to listen to my wife, when I stumbled upon the movie "Kramer vs. Kramer" -- the 1979 film that chronicles the bitter custody battle between Kramer (Dustin Hoffman) and ... Kramer (Meryl Streep). I happened upon the scene in the movie where Dustin Hoffman's son falls off a jungle gym and is rushed to a hospital ... Pretty dramatic, depressing material. And then, as if suddenly recalling a repressed dream, I remembered: My parents took me to see this movie when I Was 6 Years Old!
Times were different back then -- parents would go see whatever movie they wanted, whether it would interest the kids or not. I don't think my parents thought I'd enjoy it, per se -- they probably just thought I'd get bored and fall asleep.
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Disaster movies: Why we love them (especially in hard times)
16 November 2009 4:33 PM, PST
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At the local megaplex Saturday night, my wife and I were 25 minutes early walking into a theater to see 2012, but the place was already jammed, with scarcely a seat in sight. That's not your average sold-out show – that's anticipation. There's nothing quite like the end of the world to get an audience united and juiced, all worked up. We were able to snag two seats in the fourth row, ordinarily too close for my taste, but in this case the super-close-up vantage worked smashingly well. Gawking up at the screen to watch all that corporate steel and glass buckle and collapse,
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- Owen Gleiberman
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The nervous, noncommittal noughties can't end soon enough | John Harris
16 November 2009 1:00 PM, PST
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In a decade defined by fatalism and impotence, film-makers and writers have been quick to tap into our sense of impending doom
Just to make sure filmgoers leave the present decade on a high, this month brings two suitably upbeat blockbusters. The first is 2012, which topped box office takings in the Us and Britain at the weekend, and is directed by Roland Emmerich – who also brought us the aliens-blitz-Earth delight Independence Day and the eco-disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow. This time humanity's demise seems to be traceable to the horrors foretold in an ancient Mayan prophecy, though the standard plotline quickly materialises: John Cusack and on-screen family attempting to escape tsunamis, landslides and those obligatory aesthetic disasters whereby iconic global landmarks are ground into dust.
For those who want something that bit more cerebral, there is also the film version of Cormac McCarthy's The Road, out in the Us later this month.
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- John Harris
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TV ratings - 15 November: Doctor Who and I'm A Celebrity make splash in high-rating 'Super Sunday'
16 November 2009 5:22 AM, PST
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Doctor Who draws 9.1 million viewers and I'm A Celebrity 9.8 million, while The X Factor draws second best ever audience
More than 9 million viewers saw the return of Doctor Who on BBC1, while nearly 10 million people saw the beginning of the ninth series of I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! on ITV1 last night, Sunday 15 November.
The latest one-off Doctor Who special, the first of David Tennant's final three episodes in the role, averaged 9.1 million viewers and a 34% share between 7pm and 8pm, according to unofficial overnight figures.
I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! returned with 9.8 million viewers and a 36% share between 9pm and 10.30pm on ITV1.
This was the reality show's highest-rating launch show since series three in 2004, which began with 10.1 million viewers, a 41% share. That series, won by Kerry Katona, went on to be the best-rating run of I'm a Celebrity.
The ITV1 series,
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- John Plunkett
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2012 – The SFX Rock, But Better To Buy Me A Beer!
16 November 2009 4:17 AM, PST
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I admit it. I’ve been a closet fan of disaster movies dating as far back as The Towering Inferno and Earthquake -with Senssuround! Yet at some point after Independence Day (I base chronology on disaster movies rather than the calendar), my enthusiasm began to wane. I was becoming anesthetized just when CGI was heating up. Finally I was finished with my love of the disaster movie. Could it have been from literally having watched as one of the two Trade Center Towers imploded in front of my eyes that fateful September morning? I remember so clearly working in television and having to pull off every formerly programmed disaster movie from that point forward so not to disrespect such an unthinkable tragedy. Yes, in the TV world, by the end of 2001 and in the many years that followed, it was downright disrespectful to expose an audience of Americans or humanity
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This Weeks DVD/Blu-Ray/Cinema Releases
15 November 2009 9:59 PM, PST
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Here’s a brief look at this week’s big DVD, Blu-Ray and Cinema releases, on both sides of the pond. All information is correct to the best of my knowledge (and research skills). It looks like a good week for Star Trek fans…
UK Releases
DVD (November 16th)
Star Trek XI 1 Disc version
Star Trek XI 2 Disc version
Star Trek Next Generation Movie Collection
Star Trek Movie Collection I-x
Moon
Starwars The Clone Wars Complete Season 1
Four Christmases
Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2
Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 1+2 Set
Inalienable
Sunshine Cleaning
Blu-Ray (November 16th)
Star Trek XI 1 Disc
Star Trek XI 3 Disc
Star Trek Tos Season 2
Star Trek The Next Generation Movie Collection
Star Trek Movie Collection I-x
Moon
Sunshine Cleaning
Four Christmases
Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2
Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 1+2 Set
Starwars The Clone Wars Complete Season 1
North By Northwest
Gone With The Wind
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'2012': The Greatest Irwin Allen Movie Never Made
14 November 2009 9:03 PM, PST
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Imagine taking every big disaster film ever made, from The Towering Inferno and Earthquake, to The Poseidon Adventure, and squishing them all together into one film. You'd essentially have Roland Emmerich's 2012, a movie so shapeless of plot and devoid of meaning, that it's actually half way entertaining. If — and here comes the caveat — you remember to check your brain at the concession stand, the film's ridiculously simple premise and mind-numbingly overwrought effects are actually kind of fun.
The story begins with the usual scientists-discovering-an-imminent-cataclysmic-event scenario, which coincidentally ties to the Mayan civilization's "prediction" that the world will end on December 21, 2012. (The Mayans actually never made such a prediction—but that's a whole other topic. And even if they had, they apparently didn't have the foresight to predict that the Spanish would conquer them...so, so much for "predictions.")
Of course, the "science" in the film is scientific gobbledygook—something
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Ooops — strike '2012' off your Oscars best-picture list
13 November 2009 3:06 PM, PST
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Since part of an Oscar pundit's job is to jump off cliffs, bravely and spectacularly, we salute New York Post film critic Lou Lumenick for daring to forecast a best-picture nomination for "2012," the upcoming apocalypse thriller from Roland Emmerich, director of "The Day After Tomorrow," "Godzilla" and "Independence Day." One of the chief reasons the academy expanded its best-picture list to 10 nominees from five was to include big popcorn pix that used to get nommed in the good ole days ("The Towering Inferno," "Jaws") but now are slighted. Unfortunately, alas, it looks like poor Lou will go splat against the Oscar rocks, according to Variety's gloomy review of "2012."
The trade paper predicts the doomsday thriller will strike lots of ticket gold: "This simultaneously spectacular and risible concoction looks likely to trigger a worldwide B.O. tsunami for Sony." But don't expect much academy gold: "On any level other than as sheer visual sensation,
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Movie Review: 2012
12 November 2009 9:16 PM, PST
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Nov 13, 2009
If you judge a film based on how well it delivers what an audience should expect of it, I find it hard to believe that 2012 could possibly disappoint (other than possibly ruining dinner plans with its extreme length). This is the culmination of Roland Emmerich's career, an everything-and-the-kitchen-sink film that never hides its intention to be nothing more than a ridiculous, over-the-top, jaw-dropping rollercoaster of an experience. Is it good? It depends on what you mean by “good.” Was The Poseidon Adventure good? The Towering Inferno? 2012 is a ...Read more at MovieRetriever.com
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Review: '2012'
12 November 2009 4:07 PM, PST
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"Torture porn" is a phrase that (unfortunately) was coined to describe explicitly gory horror films, ones that (allegedly) invite you to leer, linger and drool over the worst sort of atrocities imaginable. It only seems fair, then, that I semi-coin the phrase "disaster porn" to describe Roland Emmerich's latest cinematic gargantuan: 2012. I feel it's worth mentioning that A) I don't believe that Roland Emmerich has ever made a good film, but B) I grew up with a deep and passionate love for the best of Irwin Allen's films. (Mostly just The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, really, but I've seen 'em all.) So if I can get behind the mega-bombastic, ultra-plastic, ensemble cast body-count
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2012: Day 2 – The Clips
10 November 2009 7:38 AM, PST
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Day 2 of Wamg’s series on 2012 will take a look at some of the clips from the film as well as a few other disaster films. The money shots like the one up above are what gets our butts into the seats. It really is a guilty pleasure… disaster pornography, if you will. We return time and time again for the thrill of the ride to see how the filmmaker will kill off the species, whether it be through invading aliens, massive tidal waves, shattering earthquakes or engulfing tornadoes, and Emmerich has become ”King-of-All-He-Surveys” over it.
He loves taking out our national landmarks too. I think its become a summer thing with him. Only with 2012, every country’s landmarks are up for grabs. He decimates Rio de Janeiro, Rome, and Tibet. I will say this for Emmerich, he sure knows how to blow stuff up, with the main characters always
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