Gerald Castillo, the veteran character actor who portrayed the father of Mario Lopez’s A.C. Slater on the NBC sitcom Saved by the Bell, has died. He was 90.
Castillo died May 4 in his home in Houston, his wife of 36 years, Dayna Quinn-Castillo, announced.
Castillo also played Det. Michael Benedict on NBC’s Hill Street Blues in 1987, Dr. Herrara on CBS’ Knots Landing in 1990 and Judge Davis Wagner on the ABC daytime soap General Hospital in 1992-94.
He showed up on many other shows throughout his career, from All in the Family, Barnaby Jones, M*A*S*H and Dynasty to Night Court, Dallas, Hunter and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
On the big screen, Castillo worked in Through Naked Eyes (1983), Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987), Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989), Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection (1990), State of Emergency (1994) and Above Suspicion (1995). He often portrayed a tough guy.
Fans of Saved by the Bell know...
Castillo died May 4 in his home in Houston, his wife of 36 years, Dayna Quinn-Castillo, announced.
Castillo also played Det. Michael Benedict on NBC’s Hill Street Blues in 1987, Dr. Herrara on CBS’ Knots Landing in 1990 and Judge Davis Wagner on the ABC daytime soap General Hospital in 1992-94.
He showed up on many other shows throughout his career, from All in the Family, Barnaby Jones, M*A*S*H and Dynasty to Night Court, Dallas, Hunter and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
On the big screen, Castillo worked in Through Naked Eyes (1983), Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987), Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989), Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection (1990), State of Emergency (1994) and Above Suspicion (1995). He often portrayed a tough guy.
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- 5/24/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Writer-director Elio Petri scores big in his first feature, the story of a heel suspected of murder. Is he a killer, or just an average guy trying to get ahead, who uses women to his advantage? Marcello Mastroianni impresses as well in a serious role, with Salvo Randone shining as the police inspector trying to pry a confession from him. Beautifully restored in HD; the show is from a time when Italian film was at its zenith.
The Assassin
Blu-ray + DVD
Arrow Video USA
1961 / B&W / 1:85 widescreen / 97 min. / Street Date April 18, 2017 / L’Assassino / Available from Arrow Video
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle, Cristina Gaioni, Salvo Randone, Andrea Checchi, Francesco Grandjacquet, Marco Mariani, Franco Ressel.
Cinematography: Carlo Di Palma
Film Editor: Ruggero Mastroianni
Original Music: Piero Piccione
Written by Tonino (Antonio) Guerra, Elio Petri, Pasquale Fest Campanile, Massimo Franciosa
Produced by Franco Cristaldi
Directed by Elio Petri
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The Assassin
Blu-ray + DVD
Arrow Video USA
1961 / B&W / 1:85 widescreen / 97 min. / Street Date April 18, 2017 / L’Assassino / Available from Arrow Video
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle, Cristina Gaioni, Salvo Randone, Andrea Checchi, Francesco Grandjacquet, Marco Mariani, Franco Ressel.
Cinematography: Carlo Di Palma
Film Editor: Ruggero Mastroianni
Original Music: Piero Piccione
Written by Tonino (Antonio) Guerra, Elio Petri, Pasquale Fest Campanile, Massimo Franciosa
Produced by Franco Cristaldi
Directed by Elio Petri
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- 5/8/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Can radical theater make a good movie? Elio Petri continues his string of biting social comment movies with a black comedy about rich people, thieves, and the notion of ownership — it’s a caustic position paper but also a funny satire, with quirky yet believable characters. Ugo Tognazzi is terrific as scheming capitalist, as much a prisoner of his wealth as a poor clerk is of his poverty.
Property is No Longer a Theft
Blu-ray + DVD
Arrow Video USA
1973 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 126 min. / Street Date March 28, 2017 / La proprietà non è più un furto / Available from Arrow Video / 39.95
Starring: Ugo Tognazzi, Flavio Bucci, Daria Nicolodi, Mario Scaccia, Orazio Orlando, Julien Guiomar, Cecilia Polizzi, Jacques Herlin, Ada Pometti, Salvo Randone.
Cinematography: Luigi Kuveiller
Film Editor: Ruggero Mastroianni
Original Music: Ennio Morricone
Production design / Costume design: Gianni Polidori
Written by Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro
Produced by Claudio Mancini
Directed by Elio Petri
Essere o Avere?...
Property is No Longer a Theft
Blu-ray + DVD
Arrow Video USA
1973 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 126 min. / Street Date March 28, 2017 / La proprietà non è più un furto / Available from Arrow Video / 39.95
Starring: Ugo Tognazzi, Flavio Bucci, Daria Nicolodi, Mario Scaccia, Orazio Orlando, Julien Guiomar, Cecilia Polizzi, Jacques Herlin, Ada Pometti, Salvo Randone.
Cinematography: Luigi Kuveiller
Film Editor: Ruggero Mastroianni
Original Music: Ennio Morricone
Production design / Costume design: Gianni Polidori
Written by Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro
Produced by Claudio Mancini
Directed by Elio Petri
Essere o Avere?...
- 4/8/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Elio Petri's Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) is showing February 21 - March 23, 2017 in the United Kingdom in the Oscar Series.Petri’s cinema involved neither a utopian vision nor victorious narratives of class struggle. Rather, his central effort was to make the toxic condition appear as ugly, pervasive, and totally absurd as it actually was.—Evan Calder Williams“Drink up, Mr. Innocent. Everybody here is innocent. Only one person here is guilty. And that’s me.”—Chief Inspector, Investigation of a Citizen Above SuspicionIn her Rome apartment—an entrapment of curtains, doorways, plants, ceramics, a cluttered sea of earthen shades offset by a colorful stained-glass window—Augusta Terzi (Florinda Bolkan) welcomes her lover (Gian Maria Volonté). He is a brutish man, with slicked-back hair and dark brown eyes. She asks him: “How are you going to kill me this time?...
- 2/27/2017
- MUBI
‘Toni Erdmann’ (Courtesy: Tiff)
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
It’s not too often that foreign-language films get recognized for anything at the Oscars beyond the best foreign-language film category — but it does happen. And, believe it or not, it happens more for best original screenplay and best adapted screenplay than many other categories. A prime example of that is Toni Erdmann, Germany’s submission this year that is proving to be a cross-category threat, which could score a nomination — or a win — for its writing.
The story of Toni Erdmann — which has a solid Rotten Tomatoes score of 91% — follows a father who is trying to reconnect with his adult daughter after the death of his dog. It sounds simple enough but, of course, the two couldn’t be more unalike. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016 and where it won the Fipresci Prize. Since then, it...
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
It’s not too often that foreign-language films get recognized for anything at the Oscars beyond the best foreign-language film category — but it does happen. And, believe it or not, it happens more for best original screenplay and best adapted screenplay than many other categories. A prime example of that is Toni Erdmann, Germany’s submission this year that is proving to be a cross-category threat, which could score a nomination — or a win — for its writing.
The story of Toni Erdmann — which has a solid Rotten Tomatoes score of 91% — follows a father who is trying to reconnect with his adult daughter after the death of his dog. It sounds simple enough but, of course, the two couldn’t be more unalike. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016 and where it won the Fipresci Prize. Since then, it...
- 1/4/2017
- by Carson Blackwelder
- Scott Feinberg
The latest casting piece has slotted into the political thriller from School Pictures and American Film Productions set to start production this month in Norfolk, Virginia.
13 Films handles international sales on Public Affairs and introduced the project to buyers in Cannes last month.
Birch will join previously announced Adrian Grenier and Mimi Rogers
Eric Bross directs Public Affairs from a screenplay by Tom Cudworth about a campaign aide who must fight for his life after he sleeps with the wife of a presidential candidate.
School Pictures’ Stephen Israel and George Voskericyan of American Film Productions serve as producers.
Birch took a break from acting after she broke out in American Beauty and earned a Golden Globe nomination for Ghost World.
She is shooting Above Suspicion and recently wrapped The Etruscan Smile.
13 Films handles international sales on Public Affairs and introduced the project to buyers in Cannes last month.
Birch will join previously announced Adrian Grenier and Mimi Rogers
Eric Bross directs Public Affairs from a screenplay by Tom Cudworth about a campaign aide who must fight for his life after he sleeps with the wife of a presidential candidate.
School Pictures’ Stephen Israel and George Voskericyan of American Film Productions serve as producers.
Birch took a break from acting after she broke out in American Beauty and earned a Golden Globe nomination for Ghost World.
She is shooting Above Suspicion and recently wrapped The Etruscan Smile.
- 6/1/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Phillip Noyce is perhaps best known for the thrillers he directed in the '80s and '90s, like Dead Calm, Clear and Present Danger, Patriot Games, and The Bone Collector. After taking a detour into Ya territory with The Giver in 2014, it sounds like Noyce is getting back to his bread and butter with Above Suspicion, a new thriller that has Jack Huston (Ben-Hur, Boardwalk Empire) and Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones, Terminator Genisys) on board to star.
Based on the 1993 book by author Joe Sharkey, the movie will tell the true story of a newly married FBI poster-boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local woman who becomes his star informant. She sees in him her means of escape; instead, it’s a ticket to disaster for both of them. This scandal shook the foundations...
Based on the 1993 book by author Joe Sharkey, the movie will tell the true story of a newly married FBI poster-boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local woman who becomes his star informant. She sees in him her means of escape; instead, it’s a ticket to disaster for both of them. This scandal shook the foundations...
- 5/3/2016
- by Ben Pearson
- GeekTyrant
Nick Meyer and Marc Schaberg have added another prestige title to their Cannes slate, boarding international rights to the Phillip Noyce thriller to star Jack Huston and Emilia Clarke.
Chris Gerolmo adapted Above Suspicion from the book of the same name by New York Times columnist Joe Sharkey about an FBI agent who embarks on a disastrous affair with an Appalachian mountain town informant.
Huston will star later this year in Ben-Hur, while Clarke is one of the leads in the TV smash Game Of Thrones.
Colleen Camp of Colleen Camp Productions produces with Dubai-based businessman Mohamed Airafi and Tim Degraye, who are also financing the project. Angela Amato-Velez and Amy Adelson also produce.
The project is being fast-tracked and principal photography is scheduled to begin on May 23.
Jay Cohen at The Gersh Agency will represent Us rights to the film.
Sierra / Affinity’s Cannes sales slate includes the Andrew Niccol sci-fi Anon, to star Clive Owen...
Chris Gerolmo adapted Above Suspicion from the book of the same name by New York Times columnist Joe Sharkey about an FBI agent who embarks on a disastrous affair with an Appalachian mountain town informant.
Huston will star later this year in Ben-Hur, while Clarke is one of the leads in the TV smash Game Of Thrones.
Colleen Camp of Colleen Camp Productions produces with Dubai-based businessman Mohamed Airafi and Tim Degraye, who are also financing the project. Angela Amato-Velez and Amy Adelson also produce.
The project is being fast-tracked and principal photography is scheduled to begin on May 23.
Jay Cohen at The Gersh Agency will represent Us rights to the film.
Sierra / Affinity’s Cannes sales slate includes the Andrew Niccol sci-fi Anon, to star Clive Owen...
- 5/3/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Way, way, way back in 2008, director Phillip Noyce started developing the script for the true story thriller “Above Suspicion,” but the always busy director didn’t quite manage to get it mounted. Yet it looks like it’s finally going to happen. Read More: ‘The Giver’ Starring Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Brenton Thwaites, Taylor Swift & […]
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- 5/3/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Jack Huston and Emilia Clarke have been set to star in Phillip Noyce's Above Suspicion, a thriller that has been adapted from the book by New York Times columnist Joe Sharkey. Mississippi Burning scribe Chris Gerolmo is penning the script of the thriller, which is now heading for a production start date this month. Sierra/Affinity will launch international sales the upcoming Cannes market, while Gersh will rep U.S. rights. The book tells the true story of a newly married…...
- 5/3/2016
- Deadline
“Game of Thrones” star Emilia Clarke and “Boardwalk Empire” alum Jack Huston are set to star in Phillip Noyce‘s thriller “Above Suspicion,” it was announced Tuesday. Noyce (“The Bone Collector”) will direct from a script by Chris Gerolmo (“Mississippi Burning”), who adapted the book of the same name by New York Times columnist Joe Sharkey. “Above Suspicion” explores the true story of a newly married FBI poster-boy (Huston) assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky, where he’s drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local woman who becomes his star informant. She sees in him her...
- 5/3/2016
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Emilia Clarke ("Game of Thrones") and Jack Huston ("Ben-Hur") are set to star in Phillip Noyce's thriller "Above Suspicion".
The true story tale follows a newly married FBI poster boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local woman who becomes his star informant - in the process it becomes a disaster for both of them and lead to the first ever conviction of an FBI agent for murder.
Chris Gerolmo will adapt the script from New York Times columnist Joe Sharkey's novel. Colleen Camp, Mohamed Al Rafi, Angela Amato-Velez, Amy Adelson and Tim Degraye will produce with filming to begin later this month.
Source: Deadline...
The true story tale follows a newly married FBI poster boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local woman who becomes his star informant - in the process it becomes a disaster for both of them and lead to the first ever conviction of an FBI agent for murder.
Chris Gerolmo will adapt the script from New York Times columnist Joe Sharkey's novel. Colleen Camp, Mohamed Al Rafi, Angela Amato-Velez, Amy Adelson and Tim Degraye will produce with filming to begin later this month.
Source: Deadline...
- 5/3/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
By Howard Hughes
New to DVD in the UK is ‘Arabella’, an Italian period comedy set in that hotbed of hilarity, pre-wwii fascist Italy. Virna Lisi stars in the title role – known variously in the film as Arabella Danesi and Arabella Angeli – who determines to save her grandmother from destitution by finding ingenious ways to pay off her elderly relative’s crippling tax bill.
The film is structured rather like those 1960s Italian portmanteau comedy-dramas, such as ‘Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow’, ‘The Witches’ or ‘Woman Times Seven’. Such films were intended as vehicles for one female star, be they Sophia, Silvana or Shirley, to demonstrate their versatility in a variety of roles. But instead of separate stories, with different characters, ‘Arabella’ has one continuous story arc, with Lisi’s sexy heroine adopting various costumes, personas and wigs to seduce and blackmail her way through a string of lovers, who are then...
New to DVD in the UK is ‘Arabella’, an Italian period comedy set in that hotbed of hilarity, pre-wwii fascist Italy. Virna Lisi stars in the title role – known variously in the film as Arabella Danesi and Arabella Angeli – who determines to save her grandmother from destitution by finding ingenious ways to pay off her elderly relative’s crippling tax bill.
The film is structured rather like those 1960s Italian portmanteau comedy-dramas, such as ‘Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow’, ‘The Witches’ or ‘Woman Times Seven’. Such films were intended as vehicles for one female star, be they Sophia, Silvana or Shirley, to demonstrate their versatility in a variety of roles. But instead of separate stories, with different characters, ‘Arabella’ has one continuous story arc, with Lisi’s sexy heroine adopting various costumes, personas and wigs to seduce and blackmail her way through a string of lovers, who are then...
- 4/4/2016
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Today marks the release of Mondo Macabro's wonderful Blu-ray for Lucio Fulci's A Lizard in a Woman's Skin. Earlier today we posted a review, but the crux of it is that you want this disc if you're a horror or giallo fan.We don't often get giveaways for Mondo Macabro, but we got lucky this time and ended up with an extra copy of the disc that we'd love to share with you! But before I give you instructions on how you can enter, here's what Mm has to say about the film and presentation:Carol Hammond (Florinda Bolkan, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion) is a sophisticated politician's daughter who experiences a series of vivid, psychedelic nightmares drenched in depraved sex orgies and LSD. The dreams...
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- 2/9/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Gian Maria Volonté has a big part in this prime quality Italo crime thriller blessed with a great score by Ennio Morricone. But the movie belongs to Robert Hoffman as the real-life public enemy who earned the alias 'The Machine Gun Soloist.' Director Carlo Lizzani's realistic treatment glamorizes nothing and implicates the police in shady policies as well. Award-winning co-star Lisa Gastoni is the woman who loves Hoffman, and is tempted to betray him. Wake Up and Kill Blu-ray + DVD Arrow Video (UK) 1966 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 124 98 min / Svegliati e uccidi; Lutring; Wake Up and Die / Street Date November 24, 2015 / 29.95 Starring Robert Hoffmann, Lisa Gastoni, Gian Maria Volonté, Claudio Camaso, Renato Niccolai, Ottavio Fanfani, Pupo De Luca, Corrado Olmi. Cinematography Armando Nannuzzi Film Editing Franco Fraticelli Original Music Ennio Morricone Written by Ugo Pirro, Carlo Lizzani Produced by Jacques Bar, Joseph Fryd, Carlo Lizzani Directed by Carlo Lizzani
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- 12/12/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Kino Lorber brings the 1967 spaghetti Western Face to Face to Blu-ray this month, one of director Sergio Sollima’s most notable titles, previously released on DVD as a box-set with the two other titles in Sollima’s trilogy The Big Gundown (1966) and Run, Man, Run (1968). Noted for imbuing his work with a bit of actual social and historical context, there’s a bit more substance than usual for a film relegated to the periphery of a movement dominated by a mere handful of notable names. Though it’s ultimately not at the same level as iconic works by Sergio Leone and hasn’t reached the same level of reappraisal as several other retroactively recuperated directors, it features more nuanced characterizations in its complex narrative structure than is usually evident in other titles of the era.
Boston professor Brad Fletcher (Gian Maria Volonte) is suffering from poor health, and is forced...
Boston professor Brad Fletcher (Gian Maria Volonte) is suffering from poor health, and is forced...
- 8/18/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The late Francesco Rosi's answer to The Godfather is an authentic, didactic and pugnacious odyssey through post-war Italian and American politics and gangsterism. It avoids any sense of an epic family saga and instead evinces the filmmaker's life-long interest in social systems, in this case the way organized crime and government walk hand in hand. While Coppola's saga focused on family dynamics, leaving the critique of capitalism to be inferred by the viewer, in Lucky Luciano (1973) the sights are set squarely on the mechanisms of power in the western world.
Gian Maria Volonte is very impressive indeed in this, suggesting the creep of old age with little more than some grey hair and a stooping posture, and being utterly convincing at every stage. He seems without vanity and with no need to be loved by the audience, so he embraces the vileness of the character (as in the masterful...
Gian Maria Volonte is very impressive indeed in this, suggesting the creep of old age with little more than some grey hair and a stooping posture, and being utterly convincing at every stage. He seems without vanity and with no need to be loved by the audience, so he embraces the vileness of the character (as in the masterful...
- 1/29/2015
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
Christopher Reeve: 'Superman' and his movies (photo: Christopher Reeve in 'Superman' 1978) Christopher Reeve, Superman in four movies from 1978 to 1987, died ten years ago today. In 1995, while taking part in a cross-country horse race in Culpeper, Virginia, Reeve was thrown off his horse, hitting his head on the top rail of a jump; the near-fatal accident left him paralyzed from the neck down. He ultimately succumbed to heart failure at age 52 on October 10, 2004. Long before he was cast as Superman aka Clark Kent, the Manhattan-born (as Christopher D'Olier Reeve on September 25, 1952), Cornell University and Juillard School for Drama alumnus was an ambitious young actor whose theatrical apprenticeship included, while still a teenager, some time as an observer at London's Old Vic and Paris' Comédie Française. At age 23, he landed his first Broadway role in a production of Enid Bagnold's A Matter of Gravity, starring Katharine Hepburn.
- 10/11/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
To mark the release of L’Assassino on 21st July, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on Blu-ray and DVD combo.
Released within months of Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and Antonioni’s La Notte, Elio Petri’s dazzling first feature L’Assassino also stars Marcello Mastroianni, this time as dandyish thirty-something antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli, arrested on suspicion of murdering his older, far wealthier lover Adalgisa (Micheline Presle). But as the increasingly Kafkaesque police investigation proceeds, it becomes less and less important whether Martelli actually committed the crime as his entire lifestyle is effectively put on trial.
Best known for Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and The Tenth Victim, Petri was one of the finest and yet most underrated Italian directors of the 1960s and 70s. Highly acclaimed on its original UK release but unjustly neglected since, L’Assassino is a remarkably assured debut from one...
Released within months of Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and Antonioni’s La Notte, Elio Petri’s dazzling first feature L’Assassino also stars Marcello Mastroianni, this time as dandyish thirty-something antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli, arrested on suspicion of murdering his older, far wealthier lover Adalgisa (Micheline Presle). But as the increasingly Kafkaesque police investigation proceeds, it becomes less and less important whether Martelli actually committed the crime as his entire lifestyle is effectively put on trial.
Best known for Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and The Tenth Victim, Petri was one of the finest and yet most underrated Italian directors of the 1960s and 70s. Highly acclaimed on its original UK release but unjustly neglected since, L’Assassino is a remarkably assured debut from one...
- 7/22/2014
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Taormina, Sicily -- Friday turned out to be soccer themed at the Taormina Film Fest, with a late afternoon screening of Italy's World Cup soccer match against Costa Rica drawing the day's biggest crowds, ahead of the Teatro Antico Italian premiere of Diego Luna's Cesar Chavez. The fest handed out several awards ahead of the Cesar Chavez screening, including one to former Italian soccer star Antonio Cabrini. Among the other honorees: Italian producer Marina Cicogna, whose 1970 crime drama Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra ogni sospetto) won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language
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- 6/21/2014
- by Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A “neglected” Italian legend, a key figure in contemporary Indian cinema, and the complete work of a renowned British visual artist and filmmaker are to feature at the next Karlovy Vary film festival.
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is to pay tribute to three diverse filmmakers - Ben Rivers, Anurag Kashyap and Elio Petri - at it 49th edition, which runs July 4-12.
A year after introducing its Imagina sidebar, which focuses on movies veering from common narrative and stylistic patterns, the new festival section will offer a complete profile of British director and artist Ben Rivers, who will attend Kviff.
Rivers, whose work straddles documentary and parable, shoots in 16mm and often centres on social outsiders. Although the director focuses mainly on short films, his most well-received feature to date is A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013), on which Rivers cooperated with director Ben Russell and musician Robert A. A. Lowe (known...
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is to pay tribute to three diverse filmmakers - Ben Rivers, Anurag Kashyap and Elio Petri - at it 49th edition, which runs July 4-12.
A year after introducing its Imagina sidebar, which focuses on movies veering from common narrative and stylistic patterns, the new festival section will offer a complete profile of British director and artist Ben Rivers, who will attend Kviff.
Rivers, whose work straddles documentary and parable, shoots in 16mm and often centres on social outsiders. Although the director focuses mainly on short films, his most well-received feature to date is A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013), on which Rivers cooperated with director Ben Russell and musician Robert A. A. Lowe (known...
- 3/19/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Raro Video resurrects an excitingly obscure title this month with Liliana Cavani’s 1967 film, The Year of the Cannibals, a counter culture art house film modernizing Sophocles’ play Antigone to explore modern political unrest, here in the streets of Milan. Cavani, perhaps best known for her notorious 1974 film The Night Porter, posing star Charlotte Rampling in one of her most iconic roles, has crafted a stunningly photographed and arresting film in this early work that’s ripe for rediscovery. Shown in art houses and retrospectives after receiving favorable reaction upon domestic release and major film festival play (Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes), the title never secured distribution in the Us, though this is mostly due to Cavani’s refusal to change the bleak finale when a major studio approached her to buy the film.
Set in a dystopic Milan, corpses litter the bustling streets after the government has squashed a vicious rebellion.
Set in a dystopic Milan, corpses litter the bustling streets after the government has squashed a vicious rebellion.
- 1/28/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Elio Petri’s “Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion,” winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and Grand Prize at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival, has been inducted into the Criterion Collection, the most important series of Blu-ray releases on the market. This is such a unique, bizarre film, one that I wasn’t familiar with until this release, which continues to prove that Criterion isn’t just a great company for known classics like Robert Altman’s “Nashville” but some films that may have fallen through the cracks of cinema history as well.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
While it is essentially a police procedural, Petri’s film is, to this viewer, primarily a satire of power gone awry. In it, a detective murders his mistress and then plants the evidence needed to convict him. We watch as the power structure that should put this guy away makes mistake after mistake and...
Rating: 4.0/5.0
While it is essentially a police procedural, Petri’s film is, to this viewer, primarily a satire of power gone awry. In it, a detective murders his mistress and then plants the evidence needed to convict him. We watch as the power structure that should put this guy away makes mistake after mistake and...
- 12/21/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
There is Nothing, and I mean Nothing I love more present-wise than catching up on the Criterion Collection releases I may have missed throughout the year. Here are some I want to especially recommend for the holidays and gift giving. Behold the wonder of Chaplin and Cassavettes. The Martin Scorsese World Cinema Project and the massive Zatoichi The Blind Swordsman box set. Grand upgrades from DVD to blu-ray include Autumn Sonata and Eyes Without A Face. First timers to blu-ray include Robert Altman's landmark seventies film Nashville, Elio Petri's magnificent Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion and the whimsically weird and witty I Married A Witch. There is literally something for everyone in the Criterion Collection catalogue. ...
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- 12/19/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Murder and Narcissism
By Raymond Benson
Available this month from the Criterion Collection is Elio Petri’s 1970 international hit, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, which won the Oscar that year for Best Foreign Language Film. It stars Gian Maria Volonté, whom most Americans will recognize as the heavy in two spaghetti westerns, A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More, but this time clean-shaven and wearing a tailored suit. He is sharp, handsome, and volatile—the perfect personality to portray a high-ranking detective in Italy’s (then) corrupt police force.
Highly politicized, Investigation uses sly dark humor to make its point—that corruption has become so bad that an official can commit murder but can still be above the law. Here, Volonté, who enjoys rather kinky sex with his mistress, decides to kill her to prove he can get away with it under the very noses of his fellow officers.
By Raymond Benson
Available this month from the Criterion Collection is Elio Petri’s 1970 international hit, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, which won the Oscar that year for Best Foreign Language Film. It stars Gian Maria Volonté, whom most Americans will recognize as the heavy in two spaghetti westerns, A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More, but this time clean-shaven and wearing a tailored suit. He is sharp, handsome, and volatile—the perfect personality to portray a high-ranking detective in Italy’s (then) corrupt police force.
Highly politicized, Investigation uses sly dark humor to make its point—that corruption has become so bad that an official can commit murder but can still be above the law. Here, Volonté, who enjoys rather kinky sex with his mistress, decides to kill her to prove he can get away with it under the very noses of his fellow officers.
- 12/11/2013
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
New DVD Blu-ray: 'The Wolverine,' 'The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones,' 'Argo: Extended Edition''
Moviefone's Top DVD of the Week
"The Wolverine"
What's It About? Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is more human than X-Man in this stand-alone film that takes place in Japan. Not only has he lost his powers, but his memories of Jean Grey are driving him cuckoo. Which is too bad, because he's still got to fight off loads of gangsters, ninjas, and other slick villains -- including one green-eyed baddie from the past.
Why We're In: Director James Mangold ("Walk the Line," "3:10 to Yuma") balances fantastic action with a more serious sensibility that recalls samurai films of yore. Plus, you don't need to be an X-pert X-Men fan to enjoy this movie.
Watch: Hugh Jackman takes you behind the scenes on "The Wolverine" (Video)
Moviefone's Top Blu-ray of the Week
"Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" -- The Rich Mahogany Edition
What's It About? If you haven't heard of San...
"The Wolverine"
What's It About? Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is more human than X-Man in this stand-alone film that takes place in Japan. Not only has he lost his powers, but his memories of Jean Grey are driving him cuckoo. Which is too bad, because he's still got to fight off loads of gangsters, ninjas, and other slick villains -- including one green-eyed baddie from the past.
Why We're In: Director James Mangold ("Walk the Line," "3:10 to Yuma") balances fantastic action with a more serious sensibility that recalls samurai films of yore. Plus, you don't need to be an X-pert X-Men fan to enjoy this movie.
Watch: Hugh Jackman takes you behind the scenes on "The Wolverine" (Video)
Moviefone's Top Blu-ray of the Week
"Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" -- The Rich Mahogany Edition
What's It About? If you haven't heard of San...
- 12/3/2013
- by Jenni Miller
- Moviefone
Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film in 1970, as well as the Grand Jury and Fipresci Prize Winner at the Cannes Film Festival, Italian auteur Elio Petri’s Investigation Of a Citizen Above Suspicion gets a splendorous digital transfer from Criterion this month, a notable title that remains one of the director’s finest works, as absurdly surreal as it is bafflingly realistic in its depiction of Italy’s actual political situation during the time period. And, perhaps due to this depiction, but also in part due to Petri’s own left wing siding, its protagonist’s paranoia towards liberalism seems to unmask the evils allowed by a democracy as merely a pretty euphemism for fascism. But whatever Petri’s own political agenda may or may not be with this darkly comedic tale of a grotesque abuse of power, it certainly would be apt to describe the film as Kafkaesque...
- 12/3/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Nashville (Criterion Collection) I still need to dig through the special features on Criterion's new release of Robert Altman's Nashville, but I have already watched the film and this new 2K restoration looks great, just as you would expect it to. Included is a 2000 audio commentary featuring Altman and most notably a newly produced, 71-minute making of documentary featuring interviews with the likes of Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine, Michael Murphy, Allan Nicholls, Lily Tomlin, screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury, assistant director Alan Rudolph and Altman's widow, Kathryn Reed Altman. Of course, that's not all, but suffice to say it's a release that has fans of the film taken care of.
The Wolverine I've seen a lot of people on Twitter talking about how the extended edition of The Wolverine is incredibly bloody. What I haven't seen anyone saying is that actually makes it any better, because this was not a good movie.
The Wolverine I've seen a lot of people on Twitter talking about how the extended edition of The Wolverine is incredibly bloody. What I haven't seen anyone saying is that actually makes it any better, because this was not a good movie.
- 12/3/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Moviefone's Top DVD of the Week
"The Wolverine"
What's It About? Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is more human than X-Man in this stand-alone film that takes place in Japan. Not only has he lost his powers, but his memories of Jean Grey are driving him cuckoo. Which is too bad, because he's still got to fight off loads of gangsters, ninjas, and other slick villains -- including one green-eyed baddie from the past.
Why We're In: Director James Mangold ("Walk the Line," "3:10 to Yuma") balances fantastic action with a more serious sensibility that recalls samurai films of yore. Plus, you don't need to be an X-pert X-Men fan to enjoy this movie.
Moviefone's Top Blu-ray of the Week
"Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" -- The Rich Mahogany Edition
What's It About? If you haven't heard of San Diego's finest anchorman with the best mustache, coolest car, and most impressive...
"The Wolverine"
What's It About? Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is more human than X-Man in this stand-alone film that takes place in Japan. Not only has he lost his powers, but his memories of Jean Grey are driving him cuckoo. Which is too bad, because he's still got to fight off loads of gangsters, ninjas, and other slick villains -- including one green-eyed baddie from the past.
Why We're In: Director James Mangold ("Walk the Line," "3:10 to Yuma") balances fantastic action with a more serious sensibility that recalls samurai films of yore. Plus, you don't need to be an X-pert X-Men fan to enjoy this movie.
Moviefone's Top Blu-ray of the Week
"Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" -- The Rich Mahogany Edition
What's It About? If you haven't heard of San Diego's finest anchorman with the best mustache, coolest car, and most impressive...
- 12/3/2013
- by Jenni Miller
- Moviefone
Time Table
Written by Eben Kandel
Directed by Mark Stevens
USA, 1956
The longevity of television’s Dexter speaks to audience interest in and creative potential of the premise in which an authoritative figure, a Bloodstain Pattern Analyst in the case of the Showtime drama, commits the very crimes he or she is specialized in thwarting. The morally ambiguous nature of said character, the possible venues to create tension, the commentary on institutions dedicated to crime investigation, and more are ripe for commentary. Films have also concerned themselves with the subject, such as the Italian psychological drama Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and the film under review this week, 1956’s Time Table, directed by and starring Mark Stevens.
On a train heading toward Phoenix, Arizona in the wee hours of the morning, Dr. Paul Brucker (Wesley Addy) is called into duty when someone is announced gravely ill in one of the nearby cabins.
Written by Eben Kandel
Directed by Mark Stevens
USA, 1956
The longevity of television’s Dexter speaks to audience interest in and creative potential of the premise in which an authoritative figure, a Bloodstain Pattern Analyst in the case of the Showtime drama, commits the very crimes he or she is specialized in thwarting. The morally ambiguous nature of said character, the possible venues to create tension, the commentary on institutions dedicated to crime investigation, and more are ripe for commentary. Films have also concerned themselves with the subject, such as the Italian psychological drama Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and the film under review this week, 1956’s Time Table, directed by and starring Mark Stevens.
On a train heading toward Phoenix, Arizona in the wee hours of the morning, Dr. Paul Brucker (Wesley Addy) is called into duty when someone is announced gravely ill in one of the nearby cabins.
- 11/1/2013
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Dec. 3, 2013
Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Gian Maria Volonté goes on the record in Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion.
The Oscar-winning 1970 thriller Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion is the provocative Italian filmmaker Elio Petri’s most internationally acclaimed work.
A striking and visceral film, Petri maintains a tricky balance between absurdity and realism in telling the Kafkaesque tale of a Roman police inspector (A Fistful of Dollars’s Gian Maria Volonté, in a commanding performance) investigating a heinous crime—which he committed himself.
Both a penetrating character study and a disturbing commentary on the draconian crackdowns by the Italian government in the late 1960s and early ’70s, Petri’s portrait of surreal bureaucracy is a perversely pleasurable rendering of controlled chaos.
Criterion’s Blu-ray/DVD Combo release of the film is presented in Italian with English subtitles and contains the following features:
• New...
Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Gian Maria Volonté goes on the record in Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion.
The Oscar-winning 1970 thriller Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion is the provocative Italian filmmaker Elio Petri’s most internationally acclaimed work.
A striking and visceral film, Petri maintains a tricky balance between absurdity and realism in telling the Kafkaesque tale of a Roman police inspector (A Fistful of Dollars’s Gian Maria Volonté, in a commanding performance) investigating a heinous crime—which he committed himself.
Both a penetrating character study and a disturbing commentary on the draconian crackdowns by the Italian government in the late 1960s and early ’70s, Petri’s portrait of surreal bureaucracy is a perversely pleasurable rendering of controlled chaos.
Criterion’s Blu-ray/DVD Combo release of the film is presented in Italian with English subtitles and contains the following features:
• New...
- 9/25/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
The Criterion Collection has announced that its December releases are set to include Martin Scorsese's "World Cinema Project," a box set containing six handpicked films from around the world that the famed director considers "precious to me"; Robert Altman's "Nashville"; Italian filmmaker Elio Petri's "Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion"; and a Blu-ray edition of the classic documentary "Grey Gardens." Scorsese's "World Cinema Project" set includes the digitally restored films "Touki Bouki" (Senegal), "Redes" (Mexico), "A River Called Titas" (Bangladesh/India), "Dry Summer" (Turkey), "Trances" (Morocco) and "The Housemaid" (South Korea). A landmark 1970s American tragic comedy and musical about the interconnected lives of 24 characters, Criterion's "Nashville" release will, in addition to dual Blu-ray and DVD formats, include a new documentary about the making of the film and archival interviews and audio commentary from Altman. From filmmaking provocateur Petri,...
- 9/19/2013
- by Ramzi De Coster
- Indiewire
We first told you back in July about Syfy giving the green light to the pilot Dominion, based on characters in the 2010 film Legion. Back then we had little to go on besides a sketchy paragraph about it being set 25 years in the future after an epic war between an army of angels and humankind.
Now we have more, including not only the casting of three major characters (at least two of whom are likely familiar to you) but a lot more in the way of plot and character detail.
Although I’m completely enthusiastic and encouraging about this pilot, the fact that one of the actors, Christopher Egan, was also cast in the pilot Gothica as Dorian Gray proves that casting a pilot by no means guarantees its pickup to series.
You have been warned; get excited about this, but don’t fall in love just yet:
Syfy Casts Christopher Egan,...
Now we have more, including not only the casting of three major characters (at least two of whom are likely familiar to you) but a lot more in the way of plot and character detail.
Although I’m completely enthusiastic and encouraging about this pilot, the fact that one of the actors, Christopher Egan, was also cast in the pilot Gothica as Dorian Gray proves that casting a pilot by no means guarantees its pickup to series.
You have been warned; get excited about this, but don’t fall in love just yet:
Syfy Casts Christopher Egan,...
- 9/6/2013
- by Erin Willard
- ScifiMafia
Classic ITV drama series are to be made available online via Clubcard TV.
Clubcard TV is a free ad-supported movie and TV service launched by Tesco in March 2013.
Cracker, A Touch of Frost, Above Suspicion, Inspector Morse, Lewis, Miss Marple and Prime Suspect will all be available to watch on the new ad-supported service.
Selected episodes of Cold Feet, The Darling Buds of May and a number of cooking shows including Hell's Kitchen USA will also be accessible.
"It's great news for fans of quality drama that some of ITV's best loved shows are coming to Clubcard TV," said Scott Deutrom, MD of Clubcard TV.
"This is a significant new deal for us as many of the shows added will appeal to our heartland audience."
Clubcard TV is available to all Tesco clubcard holders and has deals with producers including Aardman, Endemol and Warner Bros....
Clubcard TV is a free ad-supported movie and TV service launched by Tesco in March 2013.
Cracker, A Touch of Frost, Above Suspicion, Inspector Morse, Lewis, Miss Marple and Prime Suspect will all be available to watch on the new ad-supported service.
Selected episodes of Cold Feet, The Darling Buds of May and a number of cooking shows including Hell's Kitchen USA will also be accessible.
"It's great news for fans of quality drama that some of ITV's best loved shows are coming to Clubcard TV," said Scott Deutrom, MD of Clubcard TV.
"This is a significant new deal for us as many of the shows added will appeal to our heartland audience."
Clubcard TV is available to all Tesco clubcard holders and has deals with producers including Aardman, Endemol and Warner Bros....
- 5/28/2013
- Digital Spy
1998 Best Actress Academy Award nominee stages a political protest -- a 'lesbian kiss' -- at an awards ceremony in Rio de Janeiro Forget Madonna and Britney Spears, Sandra Bullock and Meryl Streep, Bullock and Scarlett Johansson, and Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. Veteran Brazilian actress Fernanda Montenegro, best known around the world for her performance as a bitter old hag in Walter Salles' 1998 drama Central Station, which earned her a Best Actress Oscar nod, kissed fellow veteran performer Camila Amado in the mouth at Rio de Janeiro's Theater Producers Association Awards ceremony, which took place in that Brazilian city this past Monday, March 25. (Pictured above: Montenegro kissing Amado.) The mouth-to-mouth kiss between the 83-year-old Montenegro and the 77-year-old Amado, followed a previous "gay kiss" also staged at the awards show -- that one between performers Ricardo Blat and Tonico Pereira. All that kissing wasn't intended to merely liven up...
- 3/31/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Keeping up with his career plan of paying homage to every film genre going, Quentin Tarantino has moved onto the spaghetti western with Django Unchained (2012). It’s not a remake of the pasta classic Django (1966), or indeed a spaghetti western, but it has clearly taken its inspiration from those violent Italian productions that swamped the late sixties.
Hollywood may have dominated the field since the beginning of motion pictures but European westerns are not exactly new; the earliest known one was filmed in 1910. Sixties German cinema made good use of Kay May’s western heroes Shatterhand and Winnetou, and the British produced The Savage Guns (1961), Hannie Caulder (1971), A Town Called Bastard (1971), Catlow (1971), Chato’s Land (1972) and Eagle’s Wing (1979). When the genre showed signs of flagging in the mid-sixties, a clever Italian director named Sergio Leone took it upon himself to reinvent the western – spaghetti style!
What made the spaghettis...
Hollywood may have dominated the field since the beginning of motion pictures but European westerns are not exactly new; the earliest known one was filmed in 1910. Sixties German cinema made good use of Kay May’s western heroes Shatterhand and Winnetou, and the British produced The Savage Guns (1961), Hannie Caulder (1971), A Town Called Bastard (1971), Catlow (1971), Chato’s Land (1972) and Eagle’s Wing (1979). When the genre showed signs of flagging in the mid-sixties, a clever Italian director named Sergio Leone took it upon himself to reinvent the western – spaghetti style!
What made the spaghettis...
- 1/21/2013
- Shadowlocked
Luis Buñuel’s 1970 masterpiece Tristana (which closed the 8th New York Film Festival) is being re-released in New York today, at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, with little fanfare. But it gives me an excuse not only to show the many varied international posters for the film, but to also to display two fascinating pieces of ephemera.
The first is this photograph, below, which blew my mind when I saw it in the Telegraph magazine in the UK this summer. A slightly different version appears in Buñuel’s autobiography My Last Sigh, where he tells the story behind it (his longtime collaborator Jean-Claude Carrière—“I am the only one from this picture still alive”—gave his own account in the Telegraph). Two years after Tristana, the 72-year-old director was in Los Angeles to present his next film, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, at the L.A. Film Festival, and George Cukor,...
The first is this photograph, below, which blew my mind when I saw it in the Telegraph magazine in the UK this summer. A slightly different version appears in Buñuel’s autobiography My Last Sigh, where he tells the story behind it (his longtime collaborator Jean-Claude Carrière—“I am the only one from this picture still alive”—gave his own account in the Telegraph). Two years after Tristana, the 72-year-old director was in Los Angeles to present his next film, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, at the L.A. Film Festival, and George Cukor,...
- 10/12/2012
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
BBC One is moving ahead with The Ladies’ Paradise, an eight-episode series loosely based on Emile Zola’s novel Au Bonheur Des Dames. Set in England’s first department store, the series tells the rags-to-riches story of Denise Lovett (Joanna Vanderham, Above Suspicion), a young girl who works in the store and gets caught up in the charms of the modern world. Denise is a 19th-century Working Girl – big-hearted, smarter than she’s taken to be and more ambitious than those pretty eyes suggest. BBC One put the series on the fast track a year ago with the hire of Bill Gallagher (Lark Rise) to write it. Marc Jobst is set to direct. Vanderham is with Wme.
- 5/16/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Italian Film Festival In Scotland
The cream of Italy's recent output is served here, including a host of festival winners. Oscar entry Terraferma contrasts the stunning Sicilian landscape with issues of seaside poverty and immigration, while the latter topic also crops up in the realist drama Our Life, for which Elio Germano won a Cannes best actor award in 2010. The big winner at the national Donatello awards, We Believed, is a three-hour account exploring Italy's reunification, and for perspective there are classics such as Elio Petri's Oscar-winning 1970 thriller Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion.
Dca, Dundee; Edinburgh Filmhouse; Gft, Glasgow; Eden Court, Inverness, Fri to 26 Apr
Terracotta Far East Film Festival, London
If names such as Sion Sono, Kim Ki-duk and, um, Kevin Spacey, or a summary like, "fish grow legs and attack Okinawa" mean something to you, then this is your kind of festival. It's mostly fresh Japanese and South Korean movies,...
The cream of Italy's recent output is served here, including a host of festival winners. Oscar entry Terraferma contrasts the stunning Sicilian landscape with issues of seaside poverty and immigration, while the latter topic also crops up in the realist drama Our Life, for which Elio Germano won a Cannes best actor award in 2010. The big winner at the national Donatello awards, We Believed, is a three-hour account exploring Italy's reunification, and for perspective there are classics such as Elio Petri's Oscar-winning 1970 thriller Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion.
Dca, Dundee; Edinburgh Filmhouse; Gft, Glasgow; Eden Court, Inverness, Fri to 26 Apr
Terracotta Far East Film Festival, London
If names such as Sion Sono, Kim Ki-duk and, um, Kevin Spacey, or a summary like, "fish grow legs and attack Okinawa" mean something to you, then this is your kind of festival. It's mostly fresh Japanese and South Korean movies,...
- 4/6/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Screenwriter and poet who co-scripted films with Fellini, Antonioni and Tarkovsky
The Italian poet, novelist and screenwriter Tonino Guerra, who has died aged 92, brought something of his own poetic world to the outstanding films he co-scripted with, among others, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Francesco Rosi, but also many non-Italian directors including Theo Angelopoulos and Andrei Tarkovsky. Perhaps his most creative contribution was to Fellini's colourful account of life in a small coastal town in the 1930s, Amarcord (1973), of which he was truly co-author, because the film reflected their common experiences growing up in Romagna.
The two were born in the region a couple of months apart – Fellini in Rimini and Guerra in Santarcangelo, in the hills above the Adriatic resort, the son of a street vendor father.
Guerra's own "amarcord" ("I remember" in dialect) is scattered over many books of poetry and short stories. He first started writing...
The Italian poet, novelist and screenwriter Tonino Guerra, who has died aged 92, brought something of his own poetic world to the outstanding films he co-scripted with, among others, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Francesco Rosi, but also many non-Italian directors including Theo Angelopoulos and Andrei Tarkovsky. Perhaps his most creative contribution was to Fellini's colourful account of life in a small coastal town in the 1930s, Amarcord (1973), of which he was truly co-author, because the film reflected their common experiences growing up in Romagna.
The two were born in the region a couple of months apart – Fellini in Rimini and Guerra in Santarcangelo, in the hills above the Adriatic resort, the son of a street vendor father.
Guerra's own "amarcord" ("I remember" in dialect) is scattered over many books of poetry and short stories. He first started writing...
- 3/22/2012
- by John Francis Lane
- The Guardian - Film News
Woody Harrelson became famous 30 years ago when, still in his early 20s, he joined the cast of the TV comedy series Cheers as the goofy, grinning bartender Woody Boyd from Hanover, Indiana. He seemed to be a simple, friendly small-town boy, somewhat out of his depth in the big city. During the 1990s his public and private personae rapidly changed. He became known as a reckless hard drinker and an outspoken political activist, whose father was a contract killer serving a life sentence for murdering a federal judge. On screen he played increasingly complex and darker roles, some of them bizarre variations on the Woody character (basketball hustler in White Men Can't Jump; psychotic criminal in Natural Born Killers), others reaching out in quite different directions (the pornographer with a civil rights mission in The People vs Larry Flynt; the gay Washington gigolo in The Walker). Ingratiation with popular audiences...
- 2/26/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
The sixth series of Skins began with nearly 460k on E4 last night, according to overnight data. Titled 'Everyone', the episode attracted 459k (2.6%) from 10pm, down from last year's audience of 823k (4.6%). However, it did premiere on 4oD one week earlier. Elsewhere, Celebrity Big Brother averaged 2.43m (9.5%) in its 9pm timeslot - beating Wonderland's 1.24m (4.8%) on BBC Two and Coppers' 2.18m (8.5%) on Channel 4 (+1: 390/2.1%). Channel 5 also aired World's Toughest Trucker (342k/1.5%) from 7pm, Police Interceptors (1.11m/4.3%) from 8pm and Celebrity Wedding Planner (787k/4.3%) in the 10pm hour. On ITV1, 8pm's Cornwall with Caroline Quentin took 4.24m (16.6%) and 189k (0.8%) on +1. Above Suspicion claimed 5.73m (22.4%) from 9pm with a further 217k (1.2%) on timeshift. BBC One's Inside (more)...
- 1/24/2012
- by By Ben Lee
- Digital Spy
Above Suspicion eased ITV1 to primetime victory last night, overnight audience figures indicate. The 9pm drama notched up 5.69m (21.9%) with a further 208k (1.1%) on +1 to beat BBC One's lineup of The Royal Bodyguard and Mrs Brown's Boys in the same timeslot. 8pm's Cornwall with Caroline Quentin was watched by 3.85m (14.7%) with 165k (0.6%) on timeshift. The Royal Bodyguard continued to struggle as it amused just 2.61m (10%). The David Jason series started with 7.1m back on Boxing Day. Mrs Brown's Boys took 4.73m (18.2%), with The One Griff Rhys Jones getting 2.19m (8.3%) from 8.30pm. Quiz show A Question of Sport entertained 2.32m (15.7%) from 10.35pm. BBC Two opened primetime with a lineup of Baking Made Easy (1.27m/5.6%), A Question of Taste (1.23m/5.1%) and University Challenge (more)...
- 1/17/2012
- by By Ben Lee
- Digital Spy
Above Suspicion eased ITV1 to primetime victory last night, overnight audience figures indicate. The 9pm drama notched up 5.69m (21.9%) with a further 208k (1.1%) on +1 to beat BBC One's lineup of The Royal Bodyguard and Mrs Brown's Boys in the same timeslot. 8pm's Cornwall with Caroline Quentin was watched by 3.85m (14.7%) with 165k (0.6%) on timeshift. The Royal Bodyguard continued to struggle as it amused just 2.61m (10%). The David Jason series started with 7.1m back on Boxing Day. Mrs Brown's Boys took 4.73m (18.2%), with The One Griff Rhys Jones getting 2.19m (8.3%) from 8.30pm. Quiz show A Question of Sport entertained 2.32m (15.7%) from 10.35pm. BBC Two opened primetime with a lineup of Baking Made Easy (1.27m/5.6%), A Question of Taste (1.23m/5.1%) and University Challenge (more)...
- 1/17/2012
- by By Ben Lee
- Digital Spy
LoveFilm has fired another salvo in its battle with rivals by agreeing new streaming deals with ITV and BBC Worldwide, bringing shows such as Doctor Who, Cold Feet and Spooks to its subscribers. The Amazon-owned subscription content firm has sealed new subscription video on-demand (Svod) agreements with the UK broadcasters, giving its subscribers instant streaming access to a range of content on PC, connected TV, PS3, iPad and Xbox 360. The deal with ITV includes access to dramas such as Marchlands and Above Suspicion, as well as classic crime series Prime Suspect and Inspector Morse, and popular shows such as Cold Feet and Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Under the deal with BBC Worldwide, the BBC's commercial arm, LoveFilm subscribers will get access to some of the greatest British programming of all time, including Doctor (more)...
- 1/6/2012
- by By Andrew Laughlin
- Digital Spy
Here’s yet another amazing step for LOVEFiLM as today we’ve have news that the UK’s biggest movie rental service has partnered with ITV and BBC worldwide to announce that you’ll be able to stream archived footage from the TV’s archives as well as more recent content.
The web really is brining all this together and so often LOVEFiLM seem to be at the forefront of it all. They recently announced their DVD rental service being made available on Xbox and after being purchased by Amazon earlier in the year, really are going from strength to strength. The full press release is below:
Amazon’S LOVEFiLM Partners With ITV In Major TV Streaming Deal
LOVEFiLM, an Amazon company, has partnered with ITV to enable its members to instantly watch TV titles from the UK’s largest commercial broadcaster.
The subscription video on-demand (Svod) agreement will give...
The web really is brining all this together and so often LOVEFiLM seem to be at the forefront of it all. They recently announced their DVD rental service being made available on Xbox and after being purchased by Amazon earlier in the year, really are going from strength to strength. The full press release is below:
Amazon’S LOVEFiLM Partners With ITV In Major TV Streaming Deal
LOVEFiLM, an Amazon company, has partnered with ITV to enable its members to instantly watch TV titles from the UK’s largest commercial broadcaster.
The subscription video on-demand (Svod) agreement will give...
- 1/6/2012
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Call The Midwife
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BBC One’s new Call the Midwife centers around a group of Anglican nuns who are tasked with delivering babies and caring for pregnant women in the East End of London during the 1950s. The show is based on a novel by the late Jennifer Worth who was actively involved in the adaptation of her work up until her death early last year. Heidi Thomas (Cranford) wrote the scripts for the show and the producer is Hugh Warren (Above Suspicion).
Newcomer, Jessica Raine plays 22 year old Jenny Lee – a young nurse who signs on to work at Nonnatus House without realizing that it is actually a convent. Jenny is ill-prepared to face the kind of poverty that the nuns encounter on a daily basis but she quickly adapts to...
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BBC One’s new Call the Midwife centers around a group of Anglican nuns who are tasked with delivering babies and caring for pregnant women in the East End of London during the 1950s. The show is based on a novel by the late Jennifer Worth who was actively involved in the adaptation of her work up until her death early last year. Heidi Thomas (Cranford) wrote the scripts for the show and the producer is Hugh Warren (Above Suspicion).
Newcomer, Jessica Raine plays 22 year old Jenny Lee – a young nurse who signs on to work at Nonnatus House without realizing that it is actually a convent. Jenny is ill-prepared to face the kind of poverty that the nuns encounter on a daily basis but she quickly adapts to...
- 1/4/2012
- by admin
Wild at Heart. ITV
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ITV’s popular drama Wild at Heart will return to the network for a seventh season that will premiere on 8 January at 8.30 p.m. Stephen Tompkinson, Dawn Steele and Hayley Mills resume their roles and joining them in the cast will be Downton Abbey star Robert Bathurst. He takes on the role of Ed Lynch who is billed as a business savvy vet with five years experience working in South Africa. Ed is Danny’s (Stephen Tompkinson) new boss and his business acumen does not mesh well with Danny’s ideology and it does not take long for the duo to fall out with one another.
Wild at Heart was created by Ashley Pharoah (Life on Mars) and 2012 will be a big year for him as Eternal Law...
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ITV’s popular drama Wild at Heart will return to the network for a seventh season that will premiere on 8 January at 8.30 p.m. Stephen Tompkinson, Dawn Steele and Hayley Mills resume their roles and joining them in the cast will be Downton Abbey star Robert Bathurst. He takes on the role of Ed Lynch who is billed as a business savvy vet with five years experience working in South Africa. Ed is Danny’s (Stephen Tompkinson) new boss and his business acumen does not mesh well with Danny’s ideology and it does not take long for the duo to fall out with one another.
Wild at Heart was created by Ashley Pharoah (Life on Mars) and 2012 will be a big year for him as Eternal Law...
- 12/21/2011
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Anna Friel in Without You
Kieran Kinsella
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Anna Friel and Marc Warren are two of the best British actors of my generation and I guess we should thank TV producer Phil Redmond for introducing us to their talents since both of them got their first big breaks in Redmond produced shows. Friel in Brookside and Warren in Grange Hill. Episode one of ITV’s Without You was all about Friel though as she took on the role of a grieving widow whose husband was seemingly killed while conducting an extra-marital affair.
Much of the first episode consisted of slow moving but necessary scenes of Friel mourning her husband and interrogating his friends, colleagues and relatives about his alleged infidelity. We saw a few...
Kieran Kinsella
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Click here to read the review of Without You episode two.
Anna Friel and Marc Warren are two of the best British actors of my generation and I guess we should thank TV producer Phil Redmond for introducing us to their talents since both of them got their first big breaks in Redmond produced shows. Friel in Brookside and Warren in Grange Hill. Episode one of ITV’s Without You was all about Friel though as she took on the role of a grieving widow whose husband was seemingly killed while conducting an extra-marital affair.
Much of the first episode consisted of slow moving but necessary scenes of Friel mourning her husband and interrogating his friends, colleagues and relatives about his alleged infidelity. We saw a few...
- 12/16/2011
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Polly Walker
B Van Heusen
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Polly Walker (State of Play) returns to BBC One in Prisoner’s Wives which is due to air early in 2012. The drama centers around four women who are struggling to manage while their husbands are incarcerated. Along with Walker, the cast includes Emma Rigby, Pippa Haywood, Natalie Gavin and Iain Glen. The Sheffield based drama is being executive produced by Tiger Aspect film.
Walker plays the role of Francesca who is married to a notorious career criminal. She enjoys the high life that her husband funds with his ill-gotten gains but things change once his money dries up. Emma Rigby (Hollyoaks) plays a young surburban woman whose husband is charged with murder while Natalie Gavin (The Arbour) plays a woman whose boyfriend takes the rap for her son’s...
B Van Heusen
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Polly Walker (State of Play) returns to BBC One in Prisoner’s Wives which is due to air early in 2012. The drama centers around four women who are struggling to manage while their husbands are incarcerated. Along with Walker, the cast includes Emma Rigby, Pippa Haywood, Natalie Gavin and Iain Glen. The Sheffield based drama is being executive produced by Tiger Aspect film.
Walker plays the role of Francesca who is married to a notorious career criminal. She enjoys the high life that her husband funds with his ill-gotten gains but things change once his money dries up. Emma Rigby (Hollyoaks) plays a young surburban woman whose husband is charged with murder while Natalie Gavin (The Arbour) plays a woman whose boyfriend takes the rap for her son’s...
- 12/12/2011
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