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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.

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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

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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.

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i was tagged by the wonderful maddie @leonardcohenofficial to post the posters from my favorite new-to-me watches of the year!! (in purely aesthetic order)

rope - alfred hitchcock (1948) sunset boulevard - billy wilder (1950) deep end - jerzy skolimowski (1970) i’m not there - todd haynes (2007) brewster mccloud - robert altman (1970) carol - todd haynes (2015) ladies and gentlemen, the fabulous stains - lou adler (1982) what’s up doc? - peter bogdanovich (1972) the effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds - paul newman (1972)

i'll tag @frogeye-pierce @thebuffalospringfeild @iwrotemrtambourineman and @juliebarnes!!!!

i only made it through half my goal of 100 new-to-me movies this year (life was. crazy) but the 52 i did watch will be under the cut!

edge of the city - martin ritt (1957)

the grand budapest hotel - wes anderson (2014)

licorice pizza - paul thomas anderson (2021)

dazed and confused - richard linklater (1993)

brewster mccloud - robert altman (1970)

the tragedy of macbeth - joel coen (2021)

my own private idaho - gus van sant (1991)

my beautiful laundrette - stephen frears (1985)

dead reckoning - john cromwell (1947)

keep off my grass! - shelley berman (1975)

raising arizona - joel & ethan coen (1987)

top hat - mark sandrich (1935)

the man who fell to earth - nicolas roeg (1976)

chicago - rob marshall (2002)

the blues brothers - john landis (1980)

little miss sunshine - jonathon dayton & valerie faris (2006)

sunset boulevard - billy wilder (1950)

i'm not there - todd haynes (2007)

love & mercy - bill pohlad (2014)

walk hard - jake kasdan (2007)

mysterious skin - gregg akari (2004)

whip it - drew barrymore (2009)

sophie scholl: die letzten tage - marc rothemund (2005)

when harry met sally - rob reiner (1989)

the watermelon woman - cheryl dunye (1996)

shiva baby - emma seligman (2020)

juno - jason bateman (2007)

carol - todd haynes (2015)

what's up doc? - peter bogdanovich (1972)

the philadelphia story - george cukor (1946)

die fälscher - stefan ruzowitzky (2007)

but i'm a cheerleader - jamie babbit (1999)

the twilight saga: eclipse - david slade (2010) <- THIS WAS NOT MY CHOICE but it was technically new to me. i want to emphasize my friend forced me to watch this with her

velvet goldmine - todd haynes (1998)

magical mystery tour - bernard knowles & the beatles (1967)

the shape of water - guillermo del toro (2017)

all that heaven allows - douglas sirk (1955)

i was a male war bride - howard hawks (1949)

the effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds - paul newman (1972)

ladies and gentlemen, the fabulous stains - lou adler (1982)

the breakfast club - john hughes (1985)

airplane! - jerry & david zucker & jim abrahams (1980)

maleficent - robert stromberg (2014) <- twilight friend pick lmfao

chi-raq - spike lee (2015)

a league of their own - penny marshall (1992)

rope - alfred hitchcock (1948)

pearl - ti west (2022)

get out - jordan peele (2017)

one cut of the dead - shinichiro ueda (2017)

deep end - jerzy skolimowski (1970)

the hours and times - christopher munch (1991) <- random number generator decided my gay john lennon fate with this one :/

glass onion - rian johnson (2022)

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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

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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

And more rip

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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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Deaths In 2022 (to date)

January

5: Jessie Lee Daniels a.k.a Jessie D, 57, American singer (Force MDs)

6: Peter Bogdanovich, 82, American film director (‘The Last Picture Show’/’Paper Moon’/’What’s Up Doc?’)

Sidney Poitier, 94, Bahamian actor (‘In The Heat Of The Night’/’Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?’

Calvin Simon, 79, American musician (Parliament/Funkadelic)

7: R. Dean Taylor, 82, Canadian singer/songwriter (‘Indiana Wants Me’/’There’s A Ghost In My House’)

8: Marilyn Bergman, 93, American songwriter (‘You Don’t Bring Me Flowers’/’The Way We Were’/’The Windmills Of Your Mind’)

9: James Mtume, 76, American songwriter/producer (‘The Closer I Get To You’/’Juicy Fruit’)

12: Ronnie Spector, 78, American R&B singer (The Ronettes)

13: Sonny Turner, 83, American soul singer (The Platters)

15: Jon Lind, 73, American songwriter/musician (‘Save The Best For Last’/’Crazy For You’)

Nino Cerruti, 91, Italian business man/stylist (founder of Cerruti)

18: Dick Halligan, 78, American musician (founding member of Blood, Sweat & Tears)

20: Meatloaf, 74, American singer (‘I’d Do Anything For Love’) & actor (‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’)

21: Louie Anderson, 68, American comedian/actor (‘Coming To America’)

23: Thierry Mugler, 73, French fashion designer

February

2: Monica Vitti, 90, Italian actress (‘L’Avventura’)

6: Syl Johnson, 85, American soul and blues singer (father of Syleena)

8: Bamber Gascoigne, 87, English TV presenter (‘University Challenge’)

9: Betty Davis, 77, American soul and funk singer

Ian McDonald, 75, English musician (King Crimson/Foreigner)

12: Ivan Reitman, 75, Czechoslovak film director (‘Ghostbusters’/’Meatballs’)

16: Jack Smethurst, 89, English actor (‘Love Thy Neighbour’)

19: Gary Brooker, 76, English singer/songwriter/musician (Procol Harum)

22: Mark Lanegan, 57, American rock musician/singer (Queens Of The Stone Age)

24: Sally Kellerman, 84, American actress (‘M*A*S*H’)

27: MC Skibadee, 47, English drum & bass artist/MC

March

3: Denroy Morgan, 76, Jamaican singer/musician (father of Morgan Heritage)

4: Rod Marsh, 74, Australian cricket player

Shane Warne, 52, Australian cricket player

Lynda Baron, 82, English actress (‘Open All Hours’)

11: Timmy Thomas, 77, American soul singer (‘Why Can’t We Live Together?’)

12: Traci Braxton, 50, American soul singer (The Braxtons) (sister of Toni)

13: William Hurt, 71, American actor (‘Altered States’, ‘Broadcast News’)

25: Taylor Hawkins, 50, American drummer (Foo Fighters)

Bobby Hendricks, 84, American soul singer (The Drifters)

29: Donald Shaw a.k.a. Tabby Diamond, 66, Jamaican singer (The Mighty Diamonds)

April

1: Fitzroy Simpson a.k.a. Bunny Diamond, 70, Jamaican singer (The Mighty Diamonds)

C. W. McCall, 93, American country singer (‘Convoy’)

3: June Brown, 95, English actress (‘Eastenders’)

12: Gilbert Gottfried, 67, American comedian/actor (‘Saturday Night Live’/‘Aladdin’)

24: Andrew Woolfolk, 71, American saxophonist (Earth, Wind & Fire)

26: Klaus Schulze, German composer/musician (Tangerine Dream)

30: Naomi Judd, 76, American singer/songwriter (The Judds)

May

6: Jewell, 53, American R&B singer (First Lady Of Death Row Records)

8: Dennis Waterman, 74, English actor/singer (‘Minder’/’The Sweeney’)

15: Kay Mellor, 71, writer/actress (‘Families’/’Fat Friends’)

17: Vangelis, 79, Greek musician (Jon & Vangelis/’Chariots Of Fire’)

19: Bernard Wright, 58, American jazz and soul musician/singer

26: Ray Liotta, 67, American actor (‘Goodfellas’/’Field Of Dreams’)

Andy Fletcher, 60, English keyboardist (Depeche Mode)

29: Lester Piggott, 86, English jockey

June

5: Dom Phillips, 57, British music journalist (editor, Mixmag)

6: Jim Seals, 79, American singer/songwriter/musician (‘Summer Breeze’)

9: Julee Cruise, 65, American singer (‘Falling’)/actress (‘Twin Peaks’)

17: Ken Williams, 83, American songwriter (‘Everybody Plays The Fool’)

22: Patrick Adams, 72, writer/musician/producer (Musique/Universal Robot Band/Inner Life/Black Ivory)

July

4: Mona Hammond, 91, Jamaican actress (‘Desmonds’/’Eastenders’)

5: Manny Charlton, 80, Scottish rock guitarist (Nazareth)

6: James Caan, 82, American actor (‘The Godfather’/’Rollerball’)

8: Tony Sirico, 79, American actor (‘Goodfellas’/’The Sopranos’)

11: Monty Norman, 94, English composer (‘James Bond Theme’)

14: William Hart, 77, American soul singer (The Delfonics)

15: Paul Ryder, 58, English bass player (Happy Mondays)

21: Taurean Blacque, 82, American actor (‘Hill Street Blues’)

23: Bob Rafelson, 89, American film director (‘Five Easy Pieces’/’The Postman Always Rings Twice’)

24: David Warner, 80, English actor (‘Tron’/’Titanic’/’The Omen’)

25: Sandy Roberton, 80, Scottish record producer (Steeleye Span)

Paul Sorvino, 83, American actor (‘Goodfellas’/’Law & Order’)

27: Bernard Cribbins, 93, English actor/singer (‘The Railway Children’/’Doctor Who’)

Tom Springfield, 88, English musician/songwriter (The Springfields) (older brother of Dusty)

30: Nichelle Nichols, 89, American actress (‘Star Trek’)

August

5: Issey Miyake, 84, Japanese fashion designer

7: Roger E. Mosley, 83, American actor (‘Magnum, P.I.’)

8: Lamont Dozier, 81, American singer/songwriter/producer (‘Going Back To My Roots’)

Olivia Newton-John, 73, English singer/actress (‘Grease’)

9: Raymond Briggs, 88, English children’s writer (‘The Snowman’)

11: Anne Heche, 53, American actress (‘Psycho’/’Donnie Brasco’)

16: Duggie Brown, 82, English comedian/actor

18: Josephine Tewson, 91, English actress (‘Keeping Up Appearances’/’Last Of The Summer Wine’)

22: Creed Taylor, 93, American jazz trumpeter/founder of CTI Records

25, Inez Foxx, 84, American R&B singer (‘Mockingbird’)

September

2: Angus Gaye a.k.a. Drummie Zeb, 62, English reggae drummer (Aswad)

8: Mavis Nicholson, 91, Welsh writer/broadcaster

12: Ramsey Lewis, 87, American jazz pianist/composer

13: Jean-Luc Godard, 91, French film director (‘Breathless’)

Jesse Powell, 51, R&B singer (‘All I Need’)

16: Marva Hicks, 66, American R&B singer/actress

22: Stu Allan, 60, Welsh dance music artist (Clock)/radio broadcaster

John Hartman, 72, American drummer (The Doobie Brothers)

23: Louise Fletcher, 88, American actress (‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’)

24: Pharoah Sanders, 81, American jazz saxophonist

28: Coolio, 59, American rapper (‘Gangsta’s Paradise’)/actor

October

4: Loretta Lynn, 90, American country singer/songwriter

6: Ivy Joe Hunter, 82, American songwriter (‘Dancing In The Street’)

11: Angela Lansbury, 96, English actress (‘Murder She Wrote’)

13: Joyce Sims, 63, American R&B singer/songwriter (‘Come Into My Life’)

14: Robbie Coltrane, 72, Scottish actor/comedian (‘Cracker’/’Harry Potter’)

20: Bettye Crutcher, 83, American songwriter (‘Who’s Making Love?’)

Josephine Melville, 61, English actress (‘Eastenders’/’The Bill’)

24: Leslie Jordan, 67, American actor (‘Desperate Housewives’/’Will & Grace’/’Ally McBeal’)

27: Geraldine Hunt, 77, American R&B singer (‘Can’t Fake The Feeling’)

28: Jerry Lee Lewis, 87, American singer/musician (‘Great Balls Of Fire’)

November

1: Takeoff, 28, American rapper (Migos)

3: Noel McKoy, 62, English soul singer

5: Aaron Carter, 34, American singer

Tyrone Downie, 66, Jamaican keyboardist (Bob Marley & The Wailers)

7: Leslie Phillips, 98, English actor (‘Doctor In The House’/’Carry On’ films)

8: Dan McCafferty, 76, Scottish rock singer (Nazareth)

9: Gal Costa, 77, Brazilian singer

11: Keith Levene, 65, English guitarist (The Clash/Public Image Ltd.)

Rab Noakes, 75, Scottish musician (Stealers Wheel)

21: Wilko Johnson, 75, English guitarist (Dr. Feelgood)/actor (‘Game Of Thrones’)

25: Irene Cara, 63, American singer (‘Flashdance’)/actress (‘Fame’)

30: Christine McVie, 79, English singer/songwriter/musician (Fleetwood Mac)

December

5: Kirstie Alley, 71, American actress (‘Cheers’)

Jim Stewart, 92, record producer/co-founder of Stax Records

6: Jet Black, 84, English drummer (The Stranglers)

9: Ruth Madoc, 79, English actress (‘Hi-De-Hi’)

10: J. J. Barnes, 79, American R&B singer

11: Angelo Badalamenti, 85, American film and TV composer (‘Blue Velver/’Twin Peaks’

13: Sol Amarfio, 84, Ghanaian drummer (Osibisa)

16: Rick Anderson, 75, American bass player (The Tubes)

17: Mike Hodges, 90, English screenwriter/director (‘Get Carter’/’Pulp’/’Flash Gordon’)

18: Terry Hall, 63, English singer (The Specials/Fun Boy Three)/songwriter (‘Our Lips Are Sealed’)

Martin Duffy, 55, English keyboard player (Felt/Primal Scream)

19: Sonya Eddy, 55, American actress (‘Barbershop’/’Daddy Day Care’/’Coach Carter’/’Seinfeld’)

20: Iain Templeton, English drummer (The La’s/Shack)

21: Harvey Jett, 73, American guitarist (Black Oak Arkansas)

22: Thom Bell, 79, Jamaican-born American artist/songwriter/arranger/producer (‘Betcha By Golly Wow’/’I’ll Be Around’/’You Are Everything’/’The Rubberband Man’/’La-La (Means I Love You’))

23: George Cohen, 83, English footballer (member of 1966 World Cup-winning side)