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Tribute to Roger Corman
Roger Corman passed away recently, at 98. He was a powerhouse of cinema. His own movies, of which he directed more than 50, were all cheap B-movies. The films he produced (nearly 400) were much of the same. Yet, he used his position to give new players a chance to get some experience. Martin Scorsese, Jack Nicholson, Peter Bogdanovich, Sylvester Stallone, Robert DeNiro, David Carradine, Peter Fonda, Sandra Bullock, Tommy Lee Jones, Dennis Hopper, Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Joe Dante, James Cameron and dozens upon dozens of more people got their start with Corman. He also handled distribution for a lot of foreign films that other companies passed on, including work by Kurosawa, Truffeau, Fellini and Ingmar Bergman. It's not a stretch at all to say that the face of cinema would be completely different without him; the last 50 years of movies owes a huge debt to Roger Corman.
If you are going to watch one of his films I'd suggest:
Masque of the Red Death
The Little Shop of Horrors
X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes
A Bucket of Blood
These are all low budget films but they've got fun ideas and are easy to watch. Just a lot of fun.
RIP to a real one.
#movie#cinema#film#roger corman#b movie#martin scorsese#jack nicholson#peter bogdanovich#sylvester stallone#robert deniro#david carradine#peter fonda#sandra bullock#tommy lee jones#dennis hopper#francis ford coppola#ron howard#joe dante#james cameron#kurosawa#truffeau#federico fellini#ingmar bergman#masque of the red death#the little shop of horrors#x: the man with x-ray eyes#a bucket of blood
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On November 14th, the @criterioncollection is releasing a standalone 4K blu-ray of The Last Picture Show by Peter Bogdanovich!
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
4K digital restoration of the director’s cut, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film and special features
Texasville (1990), the sequel to The Last Picture Show, presented in both the original theatrical version and a black-and-white version of Peter Bogdanovich’s director’s cut, produced in collaboration with cinematographer Nicholas von Sternberg
Two audio commentaries, featuring Bogdanovich and actors Cybill Shepherd, Randy Quaid, Cloris Leachman, and Frank Marshall
Three documentaries about the making of the film
Q&A with Bogdanovich from 2009
Screen tests and location footage
Introduction to Texasville featuring Bogdanovich, Shepherd, and actor Jeff Bridges
Excerpts from a 1972 television interview with filmmaker François Truffaut about the New Hollywood
Trailers
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by film critic Graham Fuller and excerpts from an interview with Bogdanovich about Texasville, with a new introduction by Bogdanovich biographer Peter Tonguette
Cover by F. Ron Miller
#Peter Bogdanovich#The Last Picture Show#The Criterion Collection#Texasville#4K blu-ray#4K HDR#Jeff Bridges#Cybill Shepherd
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'Targets' – Peter Bogdanovich begins on Criterion Channel and free on Hoopla
Old-school horror meets the new face of the real American terror in Targets (1968). The debut feature from director Peter Bogdanovich fictionalizes the true story of Charles Whitman, the sniper who killed 17 people on a shooting rampage in in Texas in 1966, and winds it through the story of an aging horror actor (Boris Karloff playing “Byron Orlok”) who wants to retire because his brand of…
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Targets will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on May 16 via The Criterion Collection. Sister Hyde designed the cover art for the 1968 crime thriller.
Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon) writes and directs. Boris Karloff, Tim O'Kelly, Nancy Hsueh, James Brown, and Sandy Baron star. Roger Corman produces.
Targets has been newly restored in 2K, supervised by Bogdanovich, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. Special features are listed below.
Special features:
Audio commentary by writer-director Peter Bogdanovich (2003)
Introduction by writer-director Peter Bogdanovich (2003)
Interview with filmmaker Richard Linklater (new)
Excerpts from an interview with production designer Polly Platt (1983)
Booklet with an essay by critic Adam Nayman and excerpts from an interview with Peter Bogdanovich from Eric Sherman and Martin Rubin’s 1969 book The Director’s Event
Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. Produced by Roger Corman, this chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror-movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man (Tim O’Kelly) on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with provocative ideas about the relationship between mass media and mass violence, Targets is a model of maximally effective filmmaking on a minimal budget and a potent first statement from one of the defining voices of the American New Wave.
Pre-order Targets.
#targets#peter bogdanovich#roger corman#boris karloff#criterion#the criterion collection#criterion collection#dvd#gift#60s movies#1960s movies#60s horror#1960s horror#horror
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The Best Picture Oscar My Way (1951-1979)
Here is Part 3 of my “Best Picture My Way” series. The last two are found here. My stipulations can be found in Part 1.
For convenience sake, I’ll relay this message. For Best Picture, I’m only gonna list the nominated producer for newly added films (here’s the Wikipedia page for the rest). I will mostly go with the ones credited as “produced by” or “p.g.a.” (if the latter is shown) on IMDB as the nominees. Limit is five.
Also, if you’re wondering why there are more years listed here than the other two, that’ll be answered in the next part.
1951
Rashomon - Minoru Jingo
Ace in the Hole - Billy Wilder
A Place in the Sun
Strangers on a Train - Alfred Hitchcock
A Street Called Desire
1952
High Noon
Forbidden Games - Robert Dorfmann
Singing in the Rain - Arthur Freed
Moulin Rogue
The Quiet Man
1953
Roman Holiday
From Here to Eternity
Shane
The Big Heat - Robert Arthur
The Stalag 17 - Billy Wilder
1954
On the Waterfront (still)
Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock
The Caine Mutiny
Dial M for Murder - Alfred Hitchcock
Johnny Guitar - Nicholas Ray
1955
Marty (still)
The Night of the Hunter - Paul Gregory
Rebel Without a Cause - David Weisbart
The Long Grey Line - Robert Arthur
Mister Roberts
1956
Tea and Sympathy - Pandro S. Berman
The Ten Commandments
Giant
The Killing - James B. Harris
The Searchers - Patrick Ford
1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai (still)
12 Angry Men
Nights of Cabiria - Dino De Laurentiis
Witness for the Persecution
The Seventh Seal - Allan Ekelund
1958
Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock
Mon Oncle - Jacques Tati
Touch of Evil - Albert Zugsmith
Auntie Mame
The Defiant Ones
1959
Ben-Hur (still)
Anatomy of a Murder
North by Northwest - Alfred Hitchcock
Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder
The Diary of Anne Frank
1960
The Apartment (still)
Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock
Elmer Gantry
The Magnificent Seven - John Sturges
The Alamo
1961
West Side Story (still)
Through a Glass Darkly - Allan Ekelund
The Hustler
Judgment at Nuremberg
Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Martin; Jurow; Richard Shepherd
1962
Lawrence of Arabia (still)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - Willis Goldbeck
The Longest Day
1963
8 1/2 - Angelo Rizzoli
The Great Escape - John Sturges
Lillies of the Field
America, America
Cleopatra
1964
Mary Poppins
Dr. Strangelove
My Fair Lady
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - Mag Bodard
Woman in the Dunes - Kiichi Ichikawa; Tadashi Ono
1965
The Sound of Music (still)
Doctor Zhivago
A Patch of Blue - Pandro S. Berman; Guy Green
Darling
Ship of Fools
1966
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woof?
A Man for All Seasons
The Professionals - Richard Brooks
The Sand Pebbles
A Man and A Woman - Claude Lelouch
1967
Persona - Ingmar Bergman
The Graduate
The Jungle Book - Walt Disney
In The Heat of the Night
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
1968
2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick
Oliver!
Funny Girl
The Lion in Winter
Rosemary’s Baby - William Castle
1969
Midnight Cowboy (still)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Z
The Wild Bunch - Phil Feldman
Easy Rider - Peter Fonda
1970
Patton (still)
M*A*S*H
Five Easy Pieces
Love Story
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion - Marina Cicogna; Daniele Senatore
1971
The French Connection (still)
The Last Picture Show
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - Mitchell Brower; David Foster
A Clockwork Orange
Fiddler on the Roof
1972
The Godfather (still)
The Emigrants
Cabaret
The Heartbreak Kid - Edgar J. Scherick
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - Serge Silberman
1973
Cries and Whispers
The Sting
The Exorcist
American Graffiti
Paper Moon - Peter Bogdanovich
1974
The Godfather Part II (still)
A Woman Under the Influence - Sam Shaw
Chinatown
The Conversation
Blazing Saddles - Michael Hertzberg
1975 (kept the same)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (still)
Barry Lyndon
Dog Dag Afternoon
Jaws
Nashville
1976
Rocky (still)
Taxi Driver
Network
Mikey and Nicky - Michael Hausman
All the President’s Men
1977
Annie Hall (still)
Star Wars
The Goodbye Girl
Eraserhead - David Lynch
3 Women - Robert Altman
1978
The Deer Hunter (still)
Heaven Can Wait
Midnight Express
Days of Heaven - Bart Schneider; Harold Schneider
Dawn of the Dead - Richard P. Rubinstein
1979
Apocalypse Now
All That Jazz
Manhattan - Charles H. Joffe
Alien - Gordon Carroll; David Giler; Walter Hill
Kramer vs. Kramer
#cinema#movies#film#academy award#oscars#alfred hitchcock#francis ford coppola#ingmar bergman#alternative#david lean#stanley kubrick#mary poppins#the godfather#2001: a space odyssey#billy wilder
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Remembering the honor of the ones that passed in 2022 Sonya eddy Barbara walters
Pope Benedict XVI Pele
Kirstie alley Stephen ' twitch' boss
Georgia holt grant Wahl
Queen Elizabeth II takeoff
Bob Saget Angela Lansbury
Sidney Poitier Olivia Newton - John
Robbie Coltrane Thierry Mugler
Andre` Leon Talley ray Liotta
Aaron Carter Leslie Jordan
Anne Heche Fred ward
Coolio Mike hodges
Jamie Lopez Dan reeves
Jay weaver grichka and Igor bogdanoff
Joan Copeland Kim mi-soo
Michael Lang Peter bogdanovich
Calvin Simon Marilyn Bergman
Ross browner Dwayne Hickman
James mtnme or mtwme. Maria Ewing
Chris Dickerson Melanie ham
Fred parris Deon lendore
Meat loaf. Steve schapiro
Charles Mcgee Yvette mimieux
Lusia Harris Gaspard Ulliel
Hardy Kruger Louie Anderson
Elza soares Clark gillies
Don Wilson Kathryn Kates
Thich nhat hanh bobbe long 'beegie ' Adair
Jean ramirez Ronnie spector
Dallas Frazier wavy navy pooh
Jon Lind adalia rose Williams
Clint arlis Jordan cashmyer
Rosa Lee Hawkins Breck Denny Jr.
Morgan Stevens Diego verdaguer
Peter Robbins rachik vachik mangassarian
Paul Carter Harrison dick Halligan
Betty Davis Emilio Delgado
Lee MacMillan Sam Bruce
Loretta Lynn Naomi Judd
Andy fletcher Bob Lanier
Kevin Samuels kailia posey
Niece waidhofer jaylon Ferguson
Gleycy correia James Caan
Tony Dow Ryan fellows
Luke Bell. Robert lupone
Don Anthony st. Claire Jesse Powell
Gavin Escobar PnB Rock
Robert Cormier Mikaben
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Tim Holt in The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Richard Bennett, Orson Welles (voice). Screenplay: Orson Welles. Cinematography: Stanley Cortez. Production design: Albert S. D’Agostino. Film editing: Robert Wise. Music: Bernard Herrmann.
So much has been written about the mishandling and mutilation of Orson Welles's second feature film that it's hard to see The Magnificent Ambersons that we have without pining for the one we lost. What we have is a fine family melodrama with a truncated and sentimental happy ending and an undeveloped and poorly integrated commentary on the effects of industrialization on turn-of-the-20th-century America. We also have some of the best examples of Welles's genius at integrating performances, production design, and cinematography -- all of which Welles supervised to the point of micromanagement. The interior of the Amberson mansion is one of the great sets in Hollywood film. Welles used the set as a grand stage, exploiting the three levels of the central staircase memorably with the help of Stanley Cortez's deep-focus camerawork. Welles later told Peter Bogdanovich that Frank Lloyd Wright, who was Anne Baxter's grandfather, visited the set and hated it: It was precisely the kind of domestic architecture that he had spent his career trying to eliminate, which, as Welles said, was "the whole point" of the design. As for the performances, Agnes Moorehead is superb as the spinster aunt, Fanny Minafer, especially in the "kitchen scene," a single long take in which her nephew, George (Tim Holt), scarfs down strawberry shortcake as she worms out of him the information that Eugene Morgan (Joseph Cotten) has renewed his courting of George's widowed mother, Isabel (Dolores Costello). The news is especially painful for Fanny, who had hopes of attracting Eugene herself. Holt, an underrated actor, holds his own here and elsewhere -- he is, after all, the central character, the spoiled child whose selfishness ruins the chances for happiness of so many of the film's characters. We can mourn the loss of Welles's cinematic flourishes that were apparently cut from the film, but to my mind the chief loss is the effective integration of the theme initiated when Eugene, who has made his fortune developing the automobile, admits that the industrial progress it represents "may be a step backward in civilization" and that automobiles are "going to alter war and they're going to alter peace." Welles was speaking from his own life, as Patrick McGilligan observes in his book Young Orson. Welles's father, Dick Welles, had been involved in developing automobile headlights -- the very thing in which Fanny invests and loses her inheritance -- and was the proud driver of the first automobile on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, Welles's home town. The Magnificent Ambersons would have been much richer if Welles had been able to make the statement about the automobile that he later told Bogdanovich was central to his concept of the film.
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Bogdanovich also had lovely words about Karloff being very generous and helpful to a young director, offering advice from time to time about how a scene should be done, but in a gentle way. At one point Bogdanovich was worried about having to change something in the script, and Karloff reminded him that this was a case where he didn’t have to worry about annoying the writer because he was both. Also, that if a change needed to be made to make the picture better, it was part of his job as director to do so. The Criterion Collection released a blu-ray of Targets last year with commentary by Bogdanovich where he talks about the process of being handed Karloff, getting the extra two days, and the gravitas Karloff lent the production, which was his final American movie (though not the last released).
The “Appointment in Samarra” story in the clip above was a contribution by Karloff. They needed him to tell a story or offer some kind of memory, and Karloff suggested Samarra, which is an old tale, (Christie also uses it in her Appointment with Death). Since they were doing it off the cuff, Bogdanovich asked if Karloff needed them to make some cue cards since he wouldn’t have had time to memorize the piece. Karloff declined, and the story was filmed in a single take.
Bringing this back to Corman, unlike many of his films, Targets was not released by American International Pictures. Bogdanovich convinced Corman to let him shop it around, and Robert Evans, then of Paramount, thought well enough of the movie to pay $150,000 for the distribution rights, giving Corman an instant $20,000 profit on the film’s $130,000 budget. The film grossed $45 million, but did help launch Bogdanovich’s career.
My husband’s long been a fan of this film, and it is very much worth a look. Karloff is compelling as a man nearing the end of his life, whose career has not been all that he hoped. It’s a subtle performance, mixing regret, resignation, as well as anger and frustration at how things have turned out
Watching the reactions to Roger Corman's death and it seems hard to explain who he was to people who don't know him. "So he was a producer of shitty b-movies?" Yes! And he's responsible for the careers of dozens of directors, actors, and other filmmakers and is pretty inarguably one of the single most important people in modern film. By making shitty b-movies
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films watched in february 2024
39. "kolobok" (1956, davydov) / 1st viewing / file 40. when tomorrow comes (1939, stahl) / 1st viewing / file 41. "rendezvous" (1976, lelouch) / 1st viewing / museum of home video stream 42. "my name is oona" (1971, nelson) / 1st viewing / museum of home video stream 43. "back to the future predicts 9/11" (2015, alexander) / 1st viewing / museum of home video stream 44. "mondo elvis" (1984, corboy) / 2nd viewing / museum of home video stream 45. "the attitude factor" (1981, parker) / 2nd viewing / museum of home video stream 46. "the ugly little boy" (1977, morse / thompson) / 1st viewing / museum of home video stream 47. "invasion of the aluminum people" (1980, boone) / 1st viewing / museum of home video stream 48. passage à l'acte (1993, arnold) / 1st viewing / museum of home video stream 49. only angels have wings (1939, hawks) / 2nd viewing / dcp, brattle theatre 50. the talk of the town (1942, stevens) / 1st viewing / dcp, brattle theatre 51. the last picture show (1971, bogdanovich) / 3rd viewing / columbia classics 4k 52. the train (1965, frankenheimer) / 2nd viewing / kino lorber 4k 53. the lego batman movie (2017, mackay) / 1st viewing / blu-ray 54. no sex last night (1996, calle and shepard) / 1st viewing / le cinema club 55. barry lyndon (1975, kubrick) / 2nd viewing / 35mm, brattle theatre 56. ladies of leisure (1930, capra) / 2nd viewing / file 57. the raid (2011, evans) / 2nd viewing / 4K 58. misery (1990, reiner) / no idea what viewing / scream factory blu-ray 59. the whisperers (1967, forbes) / 1st viewing / file 60. thinner (1996, holland) / 2nd viewing / blu-ray 61. the song of the scarlet flower (1938, tulio) / 1st viewing / file 62. the curse (2024, fielder & safdie) / 1st viewing / paramount w/ showtime 63. red lips (1995, farmer) / 1st viewing / agfa blu-ray 64. video diary of a lost girl (2012, denniberg) / 1st viewing / agfa blu-ray 65. drugstore cowboy (1989, van sant) / 2nd viewing / criterion channel 66. "beanstalk bunny" (1955, jones) / 35mm, brattle theatre 67. "kit for kat" (1948, freleng) / 35mm, brattle theatre 68. "the bee-deviled bruin" (1949, jones) / 35mm, brattle theatre 69. "robin hood daffy" (1958, jones) / 35mm, brattle theatre 70. "daffy duck hunt" (1949, mckimson) / 35mm, brattle theatre 71. "piker's peak" (1957, freleng) / 35mm, brattle theatre 72. "wet hare" (1962, mckimson) / 35mm, brattle theatre 73. "now, hare this" (1958, mckimson) / 35mm, brattle theatre 74. "water, water every hare" (1952, jones) / 35mm, brattle theatre 75. "bill of hare" (1962, mckimson) / 35mm, brattle theatre 76. "knighty knight bugs" (1958, freleng) / 35mm, brattle theatre 77. muppets from space (1998, hill) / 2nd viewing / blu-ray 78. josie and the pussycats (2001, kaplan & elfont) / no idea what viewing / criterion channel 79. the big house (1930, hill) / 4th viewing / file 80. liar liar (1997, shadyac) / 2nd viewing / shout factory blu-ray 81. no country for old men (2007, coen brothers) / 2nd viewing / paramount plus 82. "the big snooze" (1946, clampett) / looney tunes golden collection vol. 2
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È morto all’età di ottantadue anni il grande attore americano, interprete di film quali Love Story di Arthur Hiller, Uomini selvaggi di Blake Edwards, Paper Moon - Luna di carta e Vecchia America di Peter Bogdanovich, Barry Lyndon di Stanley Kubrick, Driver, l’imprendibile di Walter Hill, Quell’ultimo ponte di Richard Attenborough e molti altri. Nato a Los Angeles nell’aprile 1941, Charles Patrick Ryan O’Neal - meglio noto come Ryan O’ Neal -, figlio di un’attrice americana di origini irlandesi e per metà ebraiche ashkenazite e di uno scrittore e sceneggiatore di origini irlandesi ed inglesi, dopo alcune apparizioni - all’inizio degli anni Sessanta - in serie tv come Gli intoccabili, Il virginiano, Carovane verso il West, Perry Mason e La parola alla difesa, si fa conoscere dal grande pubblico recitando nella soap opera Peyton Place (1964-68) insieme ad una giovane Mia Farrow (la quale, di lì a breve, si sarebbe affermata con il celebre Rosemary’s Baby di Roman Polanski). La notorietà arriva con l’interpretazione di Oliver Barrett IV in Love Story (1970), con Ali MacGraw e Ray Milland, e con cui ottiene una Nomination all’Oscar come Miglior Attore Protagonista, una nomination al Golden Globe, e il David di Donatello come Miglior Attore Straniero. Tale ruolo, visto anche l’enorme successo del film, è uno fra quelli per cui O Neal è maggiormente noto presso il cosiddetto “grande pubblico”. Tuttavia, i suoi film più interessanti arriveranno negli otto/nove anni successivi: lo ricordiamo nel ruolo del giovane cowboy nel western Uomini selvaggi (1971) di Blake Edwards, con William Holden, in coppia con un’indiavolata Barbra Streisand nelle commedie Ma papà ti manda sola? (1972) di Peter Bogdanovich e Ma che sei tutta matta? (1979) di Howard Zieff, in Paper Moon – Luna di Carta (1973) di P. Bogdanovich, in cui recita con sua figlia – all’epoca bambina – Tatum O Neal, in Il ladro che venne a pranzo (1973) di Bud Yorkin, in Vecchia America (1976) di P. Bogdanovich, Quell’ultimo ponte (1977) di Richard Attenborough, Oliver’s Story (1978) di John Korty, e soprattutto in quelle che vengono considerate le due migliori performances della sua carriera: quella del cinico arrivista irlandese protagonista del celebre Barry Lyndon (1975) di Stanley Kubrick, tratto dal libro omonimo di William Makepeace Thackeray, e quella dell’abilissimo pilota automobilistico che viene ingaggiato dalle gang criminali per guidare le loro macchine e sfuggire agli inseguimenti della polizia in Driver, l’imprendibile (1978) di Walter Hill, con Isabelle Adjani e Bruce Dern. Negli anni Settanta viene anche preso in considerazione per il ruolo - poi andato al giovane Al Pacino - di Michael Corleone in Il Padrino (1972) di Francis Ford Coppola e per quello - poi affidato a Sylvester Stallone - di Rocky Balboa in Rocky (1976) di John G. Avildsen. Alla fine del decennio conosce Farrah Fawcett (1947-2009), all’epoca star del telefilm Charlie’s Angels (1975-79), che diventerà la sua compagna e con la quale lavorerà in vari film - fra cui Sacrificio d’amore (1989) di David Greene - e nella serie televisiva Good Sports (1991-92). A partire dagli anni Ottanta la sua carriera comincia un lungo declino e non tornerà più ai livelli precedenti. Fra gli altri film ricordiamo Il ranch della violenza (1962) di Arthur Hiller, con Charles Bronson e Richard Egan, I formidabili (1969) di Michael Winner, con Michael Crawford, Charles Aznavour e Stanley Baker, Jeans dagli occhi rosa (1981) di Andrew Bergman, con Mariangela Melato e Jack Warden, Vertenza inconciliabile (1984) di Charles Shyer, con Drew Barrymore, Sam Wanamaker ed una giovane Sharon Stone, Febbre di gioco (1985) di Richard Brooks, con Catherine Hicks, Giancarlo Giannini, Chad Everett e John Saxon, I duri non ballano (1987) di Norman Mailer, con Isabella Rossellini e Lawrence Tierney, Uno strano caso (1989) di Emile Ardolino, con Robert Downey Jr e Cybill Shepherd, Infedeli per sempre (1996) di Paul Mazursky,
Hollywood brucia (1997) di Alan Smithee, Zero Effect (1998) di Jake Kasdan, con Bill Pullman, The List (2000) di Sylvain Guy, con Ben Gazzara, People I Know (2002) di Daniel Argrant, con Al Pacino, Kim Basinger e Bill Nunn, Waste Land (2007) di Rebecca Chaney. In epoche più recenti è apparso in Knight of Cups (2015) di Terrence Malick. Attivo anche in televisione, fra il 2006 e il 2017 è apparso in oltre venti episodi della serie Bones (2005-2017), in cui interpreta il padre della protagonista, l’anatomo-patologa Temperance Brennan (interpretata da Emily Dechanel).
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'Paper Moon' – Conning their way through the Depression on HBO Max
Peter Bogdanovich was Hollywood’s golden boy in the early 1970s. His somber, black-and-white, small town drama The Last Picture Show (1971) earned eight Oscar nominations and took home two acting awards and What’s Up, Doc? (1972), his contemporary update of the screwball comedy, was a crowd-pleasing hit. For his next film, he paid tribute to the rural 1930s films of his hero, John Ford. Paper…
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On June 6th, the @criterioncollection is releasing a 4K uhd-blu-ray upgrade of the all time classic Rules of the Game - with an first time new cover (see above):
The Rules of the Game
Considered one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners in which a weekend at a marquis’s country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances. The film has had a tumultuous history: it was subjected to cuts after the violent response of the audience at its 1939 premiere, and the original negative was destroyed during World War II; it wasn’t reconstructed until 1959. That version, which has stunned viewers for decades, is presented here.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 4K restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray of the film with special features
Introduction to the film by director Jean Renoir
Audio commentary written by film scholar Alexander Sesonske and read by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
Comparison of the film’s two endings
Selected-scene analysis by Renoir historian Chris Faulkner
Excerpts from a 1966 French television program by filmmaker Jacques Rivette
Part one of Jean Renoir, a two-part 1993 documentary by film critic David Thompson
Video essay about the film’s production, release, and 1959 reconstruction
Interview with film critic Olivier Curchod
Interview from a 1965 episode of the French television series Les écrans de la ville with Jean Gaborit and Jacques Durand
Interviews with set designer Max Douy; Renoir’s son, Alain; and actor Mila Parély
PLUS: An essay by Sesonske; writings by Jean Renoir, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bertrand Tavernier, and François Truffaut; and tributes to the film by J. Hoberman, Kent Jones, Paul Schrader, Wim Wenders, Robert Altman, and others
New cover by Raphael Geroni
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fave first watches from july 2023! yes one is a miniseries but i'm counting it 🖤
joan of arc (1900) dir george's méliès, the green ray (1986) dir éric rohmer, the phantom of the opera (1925) dir rupert julian, pride and prejudice (1995) dir simon langton, sebastiane (1976) for derek jarman & paul humfress, what's up doc (1972) dir peter bogdanovich, jubilee (1978) dir derek jarman, amadeus (1984) dir miloš forman, my man godfrey (1936) dir gregory la cava
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Movie number 51: The Hatton Garden Job aka One Last Heist (Ronnie Thompson, 2016). Proving that coming first doesn’t always make you a winner, The Hatton Garden Job, like last year’s King of Thieves (James Marsh, 2018), is based upon the true story of the Hatton Garden safe burglary of 2015. Arriving in cinemas a full 17 months before King of Thieves this bungled bank job of a movie is weaker than its competitor in every department.
While purportedly based on the actual crime, this version of events is largely fictionalised. The basic plot of a bunch of ageing criminals conniving to pull off one last job is the same, yet the involvement of the Hungarian Mafia and a corrupt ex-copper are entirely fabricated. This would perhaps be forgivable if the retelling had any entertainment value. How such an audacious real life story can be transformed into such a dull and insipid movie is anybody’s guess.
Matthew Goode, Larry Lamb, Phil Daniels and Joley Richardson prop up the otherwise less than stellar cast but are severely let down by stilted dialogue and lazy character development. The screenplay by Ray Bogdanovich and Dean Lines fails to draw upon the inherent humour of the situations while Ronnie Thompson’s bland direction is lacking style and imagination.
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