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“I know all things begin and end in eternity.”

The Man Who Fell to Earth (1967) dir. Nicolas Roeg

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Frances (1982) Graeme Clifford

January 14th 2023

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Blu-ray review: “Frances” (1982)

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Graeme Crosby Photo: Peter Clifford [From Book] "The Art & Science Of Motorcycle Road Racing"

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Gleaming the Cube (1989) directed by Graeme Clifford and starring Christian Slater as Brian Kelly

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Jessica Lange and Kim Stanley in the tragic FRANCES (1982), directed by Graeme Clifford

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Don't Look Now will be released on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on October 3 via The Criterion Collection. Fred Davis designed the cover art for the 1973 horror drama.

Nicolas Roeg (The Witches, The Man Who Fell to Earth) directs from a script by Allan Scott (The Witches, The Queen's Gambit) and Chris Bryant (The Awakening), based on Daphne du Maurier's 1971 short story. Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland star.

Don't Look Now has been restored in 4K, supervised by director of photography Anthony Richmond, with uncompressed monaural sound. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Don't Look Now: Looking Back - 2002 featurette with director Nicolas Roeg, editor Graeme Clifford, and director of photography Anthony Richmond

Making-of featurette with actors Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, director of photography Anthony Richmond, and co-writer Allan Scott

Interview with editor Graeme Clifford by film historian Bobbie O’Steen

Interview with composer Pino Donaggio

Nicolas Roeg featurette with filmmakers Danny Boyle and Steven Soderbergh

Q&A with Nicolas Roeg from 2003 at London’s Ciné Lumière

Trailer

Essay by film critic David Thompson

Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie mesmerize as a married couple on an extended trip to Venice following a family tragedy. While in that elegantly decaying city, they have a series of inexplicable, terrifying, and increasingly dangerous experiences. A masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg, Don’t Look Now, adapted from a story by Daphne du Maurier, is a brilliantly disturbing tale of the supernatural, as renowned for its innovative editing and haunting cinematography as for its naturalistic eroticism and its unforgettable climax and denouement—one of the great endings in horror history.

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David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicolas Roeg, 1976)

Cast: David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark, Buck Henry, Bernie Casey, Jackson D. Kane. Screenplay: Paul Mayerberg, based on a novel by Walter Tevis. Cinematography: Anthony B. Richmond. Production design: Brian Eatwell. Film editing: Graeme Clifford. Music: John Phillips, Stomu Yamashta. 

The Man Who Fell to Earth exhibits some of the carelessness (some of it fueled by too-easy access to drugs) that afflicted the film industry in the mid-1970s, when people with a lot of money were looking for the Next Big Hit aimed at the youth market. And what could be better than a sci-fi film featuring a major rock star, lots of sex, and an irreverent attitude toward American corporations? It’s a frequently brilliant but also often frequently incoherent movie, held together by David Bowie's charisma as the alien Thomas Jerome Newton, even though Bowie later said that he was so high on cocaine during the filming that he didn't know what he was doing. In the film, he gets hooked on gin and television, so his drug indulgence may have helped in his performance. None of the other cast members stands out as prominently as Bowie. Rip Torn doesn't put together a coherent character as Nathan Bryce, the lecherous college professor who gets hired on by the mega-corporation created by Newton so he can bring water to his dying home planet. Candy Clark, who plays Mary-Lou, the hotel maid who becomes Newton's lover, has some affecting moments, but it's never clear whether she is extraordinarily naïve or under a kind of mind control induced by Newton. Nicolas Roeg somehow pulled through a difficult shoot in New Mexico, and while the movie never quite succeeds as either science fiction or satire, it became a cult hit. There's an intelligence (or at least an attitude) in the film that makes many more coherent and better polished films about alien visitors look tame and conventional.

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JUNE SCREENING LOG

64. Election (Alexander Payne, 1999)- 7.7

65. Victor / Victoria (Blake Edwards, 1982)- 8.2

66. 9 to 5 (Collin Higgins, 1980)- 8.5

67. Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1956)- 8.6

68. The Bad Seed (Mervyn LeRoy, 1956)- 9.4

69. Single White Female (Barbet Schroeder, 1992)- 8.7

70. The Last King of Scotland (Kevin McDonald, 2006)- 7.7

71. Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck, 2006)- 8.5

72. Junebug (Phil Morrison, 2005)- 9.0

73. I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell, 2004)- 8.1

74. The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg, 1985)- 8.2

75. Training Day (Antoine Fuqua, 2001)- 7.9

76. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, 2023)- 8.4

77. The Opposite of Sex (Dan Roos, 1998)- 8.3

78. Frances (Graeme Clifford, 1982)- 8.0

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1975)

Cast: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Nell Campbell, Jonathan Adams, Peter Hinwood, Meat Loaf, Charles Gray. Screenplay: Jim Sharman, Richard O'Brien, based on a musical play by O'Brien. Cinematography: Peter Suschitzky. Production design: Brian Thomson. Film editing: Graeme Clifford. 

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW — (1975) dir. Jim Sharman

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THIS IS GRAEME PARK: LONG LIVE HOUSE RADIO SHOW 31MAY24

THIS IS GRAEME PARK: LONG LIVE HOUSE RADIO SHOW 31MAY24

In this week’s Long Live House Radio Show:

Marshall Jefferson presents Ragtyme

Sam Redmore feat. Dele Sosim

Ralph Session feat. Juliet Mendoza

Róisín Murphy

Girls Of The Internet feat. Shiv

Jon Mancini

Riva Starr x Todd Terry

Meli'sa Morgan

Soul Central & Kathy Brown

Ralphi Rosario with Linda Clifford

Africanism & Liquid

Micky More & Andy Tee & Cevin Fisher and more.

LONG LIVE HOUSE RADIO SHOW 31MAY24

Title (Mix), Artist

Raindance (Joey Negro & Marshall Jefferson Mix), Marshall Jefferson presents Ragtyme

Screen Off, Session Victim with Ras Stimulant

Home, Sam Redmore feat. Dele Sosim

Bukom Mashie (JKriv 7" Mash), Oscar Sulley & The Uhuru Dance Band

Freak, Ralph Session feat. Juliet Mendoza

The House (System Olympia Remix), Róisín Murphy

Never Ever Ever (Henrik Schwarz Remix), Girls Of The Internet feat. Shiv

Higher, Lance DeSardi feat. Jesse Rennix

Fine Day, Jon Mancini

Context Is Broken, Infinity Plus One feat. JaronX

Elevation, 2fox feat. Laville

This Is The Sound, Riva Starr x Todd Terry

Still In Love With You (Masters At Work Meli'sa In The House Mix, Meli'sa Morgan

House Nation, Soul Central & Kathy Brown

Wanna Give It Up (Légo’s Dub), Ralphi Rosario with Linda Clifford

Big Fun (Full Intention '88 Mix), Inner City

Do What You Feel (Birdee Remix), Joey Montenegro

Let The Music (Use You), The Night Writers

Love Is The Answer, Africanism & Liquid

All About The Culture, Micky More & Andy Tee & Cevin Fisher

Magic Love (Ashley Beedle's Black Magic Vocal Mix), Bent

Let's Go (Don't U Want Some More?) (Original 12" Club Mix), "Fast" Eddie

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Gleaming the Cube (1989) è un film americano diretto da Graeme Clifford e interpretato da Christian Slater nei panni di Brian Kelly. Il consulente tecnico di pattinaggio per il film era l'originale Z-Boy Stacy Peralta. Tra gli skateboarder che appaiono nel film come stuntman ci sono Mike McGill , Mark "Gator" Rogowski , Rodney Mullen , Rich Dunlop, Eric Dressen, Lance Mountain , Mike Vallely , Chris Black, Ted Ehr, Natas Kaupas , Chris Borst e Steve. Saiz. Tony Hawk (Buddy) e Tommy Guerrero (Sam), Christian Jacobs, allora membri della Bones Brigade.

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Il grande attore, sceneggiatore, regista e scrittore americano, interprete di film quali I giorni del cielo di Terrence Malick, Baby Boom di Charles Shyer, Fiori d’acciaio di Herbert Ross, Il rapporto Pelican di Alan J. Pakula, La promessa di Sean Penn e molti altri, avrebbe ottant’anni. Nato a Fort Sheridan - Illinois - nel 1943 (è morto a Midway - nel Kentucky - nel luglio 2017 a settantatré anni), Sam Rogers Shepard - meglio noto come Sam Shepard -, è stato un attore, commediografo, scrittore, sceneggiatore e regista. Alla fine degli anni Sessanta è batterista del gruppo rock Holy Modal Rounders. Nel 1979 ha vinto il premio Pulitzer per la commedia Il bambino sepolto. Aveva esordito come sceneggiatore alle fine degli anni Sessanta ottenendo ben presto importanti collaborazioni. Dopo aver lavorato con Robert Frank ed Allen Ginsberg per Me and My Brother (1969), collabora alle sceneggiature di Zabriskie Point (1970) di Michelangelo Antonioni, Renaldo e Clara (1978) di Bob Dylan, Paris, Texas (1984) di Wim Wenders, Follia d’amore (1985) di Robert Altman, Inganni pericolosi (1998) di Matthew Warchus, See You in My Dreams (2004) di Graeme Clifford, Non bussare alla mia porta (2005) di W. Wenders, ed altri film. Continuando a scrivere anche per il teatro, dopo aver interpretato da attore il drammatico I giorni del cielo (1978) di Terrence Malick - con un giovane Richard Gere ad inizio carriera e Brooke Adams - intraprende una lunga carriera cinematografica, alternando ruoli da protagonista e da comprimario. Fra i film da lui interpretati ricordiamo Frances (1982) di Graeme Clifford, con Jessica Lange, Uomini veri (1983) di Philip Kaufman, - con cui ottiene una nomination all’Oscar come Attore non Protagonista -, con Ed Harris e Dennis Quaid, Country (1984) di Richard Pearce, Crimini del cuore (1986) di Bruce Beresford, con Diane Keaton, J. Lange e Sissy Spacek e la commedia Baby Boom (1987) di Charles Shyer, ancora con D. Keaton, Fiori d’acciaio (1989) di Herbert Ross, con Shirley MacLaine, una giovane Julia Roberts, Olympia Dukakis, Cuore di tuono (1992) di Michael Apted, Il rapporto Pelican (1993), tratto dall’omonimo libro di John Grisham e con J. Roberts e Denzel Washington, La neve cade sui cedri (1998) di Scott Hicks, Passione ribelle (2000) di Billy Bob Thornton, La promessa (2001) di Sean Penn, con Jack Nicholson e Robin Wright, Black Hawk Down (2001) di Ridley Scott, Le pagine della nostra vita (2004) di Nick Cassavetes, tratto dal romanzo omonimo di Nicholas Sparks, L’assassinio di Jesse James per mano del codardo Robert Ford (2007) di Andrew Dominik, con Brad Pitt, Brothers (2009) di Jim Sheridan, Darling Companion di Lawrence Kasdan, con D. Keaton e Kevin Kline, Ithaca (2015) di Meg Ryan, In Dubious Battle - Il coraggio degli ultimi (2016) James Franco, Never Here (2017) di Camille Thorman. Ha scritto e diretto Far North- Estremo Nord (1988), con Jessica Lange e Silent Tongue (1993), con Richard Harris e Alan Bates. Come scrittore ha pubblicato vari libri, fra cui ricordiamo Hawk moon (1983) - La luna del falco, Feltrinelli, 1987-, Motel Cronicles (1983) - Feltrinelli, 1985 -, Attraverso il paradiso (Cruising Paradise, 1996) - Feltrinelli 1998 -, Il grande sogno (Great Dream of Heaven, 2003) - Feltrinelli, 2005 -, Diario del rolling thunder. Dylan e la tournée del 1975 (Rolling Thunder Logbook, 2004) - Cooper,2005 -, Diario di lavorazione (Day out of Days: Stories, 2004) - Playground, 2016 -, Quello di dentro (The One Inside, 2017), con prefazione di Patti Smith - La nave di Teseo, 2018 -. Spiare la prima persona (Spy of the First Person, 2017) - La nave di Teseo, 2020. Nel 2016 il Saggiatore (Milano) ha pubblicato il suo Motel Chronicles e, l’anno seguente, Il grande sogno, (2017), nella collana “La Cultura”.

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Cast: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Nell Campbell, Jonathan Adams, Peter Hinwood, Meat Loaf, Charles Gray. Screenplay: Jim Sharman, Richard O'Brien, based on a musical play by O'Brien. Cinematography: Peter Suschitzky. Production design: Brian Thomson. Film editing: Graeme Clifford. 

The ultimate cult movie, one that survived critical hostility and initial poor box office to become one of the longest-running movies in film history and to take its place in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. It has raked in more than $113 million dollars worldwide since its release, thanks to audiences that made it a midnight movie phenomenon involving audience participation that included sing-alongs and lipsynching of its songs and dialogue by fans wearing the movie’s costumes. Pretty good for a film that celebrates queerness and thumbs its nose at the straight world. It’s too bad that it really isn’t very good, with amateurish performances by most of its cast, notably excepting Tim Curry as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a name that pretty much sums up the level of wit in the script. It also flubs its ostensible purpose: to parody the sci-fi movies of the 1950s that it namechecks in the lyrics to “Science Fiction/Double Feature.” But none of this really matters in a movie that thrives on its own raw energy and an audience’s willingness to be swept up by it.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)