The Criterion Collection has announced its May offerings, including “Dheepan,” “Ghost World” and a Blu-ray update of “Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.” Also joining the Collection are Orson Welles’ “Othello,” a new World Cinema Project collector’s set and Yasujirō Ozu’s “Good Morning.” More information below.
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“Ghost World”
“Terry Zwigoff’s first fiction film, adapted from a cult-classic comic by Daniel Clowes, is an idiosyncratic portrait of adolescent alienation that’s at once bleakly comic and wholly endearing. Set during the malaise-filled months following high-school graduation, ‘Ghost World’ follows the proud misfit Enid (Thora Birch), who confronts an uncertain future amid the cultural wasteland of consumerist suburbia. As her cynicism becomes too much to bear even for her best friend, Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson), Enid finds herself drawn to an unlikely kindred...
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“Ghost World”
“Terry Zwigoff’s first fiction film, adapted from a cult-classic comic by Daniel Clowes, is an idiosyncratic portrait of adolescent alienation that’s at once bleakly comic and wholly endearing. Set during the malaise-filled months following high-school graduation, ‘Ghost World’ follows the proud misfit Enid (Thora Birch), who confronts an uncertain future amid the cultural wasteland of consumerist suburbia. As her cynicism becomes too much to bear even for her best friend, Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson), Enid finds herself drawn to an unlikely kindred...
- 2/15/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
My guest for this month is West Anthony, and he’s joined me to discuss the film he chose for me, the 1976 comedy-drama film The Front. You can follow the show on Twitter @cinemagadfly.
Show notes:
Not sure what happened to the audio in the introduction, apologies! The Hollywood blacklist is a term for the treatment of people in the entertainment industry who refused to name names to the House Un-American Activities Committee from 1947 to 1960 For a more in depth take on the blacklist, check out the latest season of the phenomenal You Must Remember This podcast WonderCon is a comic book convention that was held annually in Sf until it was cruelly moved to the La area in 2012. Yes I’m still bitter about it. West also recommends the Gabrielle de Cuir directed Thirty Years of Treason by Eric Bentley Among the people famously blacklisted were Lillian Hellman, Lionel Stander,...
Show notes:
Not sure what happened to the audio in the introduction, apologies! The Hollywood blacklist is a term for the treatment of people in the entertainment industry who refused to name names to the House Un-American Activities Committee from 1947 to 1960 For a more in depth take on the blacklist, check out the latest season of the phenomenal You Must Remember This podcast WonderCon is a comic book convention that was held annually in Sf until it was cruelly moved to the La area in 2012. Yes I’m still bitter about it. West also recommends the Gabrielle de Cuir directed Thirty Years of Treason by Eric Bentley Among the people famously blacklisted were Lillian Hellman, Lionel Stander,...
- 6/2/2016
- by Arik Devens
- CriterionCast
The legend of Orson Welles looms so large it overtakes the man, a legend partly engineered by Welles himself from his beginnings in the theater. Welles was the enfant terrible of Broadway, the Depression-era hope of American Theater, the radical genius of radio. He came to Hollywood in grand style and on his own terms, a display of egotism so great that the Hollywood establishment turned up its nose and waited for his comeuppance. And he got it three times filled and running over, as far as they are concerned. Welles completed only fourteen features in his lifetime, five of them Hollywood productions (it’s hard to consider the Republic-backed Macbeth, 1948, a studio film) and only one of those, Citizen Kane (1941), completed to Welles' satisfaction and released in its intended form.>> - Sean Axmaker...
- 5/6/2016
- Keyframe
The legend of Orson Welles looms so large it overtakes the man, a legend partly engineered by Welles himself from his beginnings in the theater. Welles was the enfant terrible of Broadway, the Depression-era hope of American Theater, the radical genius of radio. He came to Hollywood in grand style and on his own terms, a display of egotism so great that the Hollywood establishment turned up its nose and waited for his comeuppance. And he got it three times filled and running over, as far as they are concerned. Welles completed only fourteen features in his lifetime, five of them Hollywood productions (it’s hard to consider the Republic-backed Macbeth, 1948, a studio film) and only one of those, Citizen Kane (1941), completed to Welles' satisfaction and released in its intended form.>> - Sean Axmaker...
- 5/6/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
The icon-establishing performances Marilyn Monroe gave in Howard Hawks’ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and in Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot (1959) are ones for the ages, touchstone works that endure because of the undeniable comic energy and desperation that sparked them from within even as the ravenous public became ever more enraptured by the surface of Monroe’s seductive image of beauty and glamour. Several generations now probably know her only from these films, or perhaps 1955’s The Seven-Year Itch, a more famous probably for the skirt-swirling pose it generated than anything in the movie itself, one of director Wilder’s sourest pictures, or her final completed film, The Misfits (1961), directed by John Huston, written by Arthur Miller and costarring Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift.
But in Don’t Bother to Knock (1952) she delivers a powerful dramatic performance as Nell, a psychologically devastated, delusional, perhaps psychotic young woman apparently on...
But in Don’t Bother to Knock (1952) she delivers a powerful dramatic performance as Nell, a psychologically devastated, delusional, perhaps psychotic young woman apparently on...
- 4/11/2016
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
Not so very long ago I had a co-worker who described himself as a movie geek, film fan, cinema addict, what have you. He talked about film as if he knew all about it. I asked him one day what he thought of Orson Welles. His reply?
“I don’t think about Orson Welles, he was old and fat, now he’s dead, what am I supposed to think about him?”
Needless to say I never really talked to this person again, who shall remain nameless. Of course the fact that he was an egocentric, arrogant, narcissistic weasel didn’t help matters. (He claimed to have a small part in Tombstone, I have seen that movie several times, never spotted him, by the way…)
I simply cannot fathom the arrogance of someone dismissing, so casually one of the greatest film makers who ever lived. I have been fascinated, obsessed even,...
“I don’t think about Orson Welles, he was old and fat, now he’s dead, what am I supposed to think about him?”
Needless to say I never really talked to this person again, who shall remain nameless. Of course the fact that he was an egocentric, arrogant, narcissistic weasel didn’t help matters. (He claimed to have a small part in Tombstone, I have seen that movie several times, never spotted him, by the way…)
I simply cannot fathom the arrogance of someone dismissing, so casually one of the greatest film makers who ever lived. I have been fascinated, obsessed even,...
- 1/7/2016
- by Sam Moffitt
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Sweet Creature of Bombast: Welles’ Restored Homage to Shakespeare’s Ultimate Clown
Before the world finally gets a chance to see Orson Welles’ last uncompleted film The Other Side of the Wind, which had been intended to be the troubled auteur’s return to American filmmaking following a decade in Europe, audiences can feast on a restored version of his final narrative masterpiece, Chimes at Midnight. For decades, the 1965 title has been unavailable and now arrives restored on behalf of Janus Films. Playing in competition at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival, Welles homage to one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comic characters, Sir John Falstaff, initially received a chilly reception and stilted marketing campaign upon hitting Us theaters. Despite a throng of critics attempting to recuperate its reputation since then, it has remained an obscure classic.
Taking place from the years 1400 to 1408 in England, a narrator explains King Henry IV (John Gielgud...
Before the world finally gets a chance to see Orson Welles’ last uncompleted film The Other Side of the Wind, which had been intended to be the troubled auteur’s return to American filmmaking following a decade in Europe, audiences can feast on a restored version of his final narrative masterpiece, Chimes at Midnight. For decades, the 1965 title has been unavailable and now arrives restored on behalf of Janus Films. Playing in competition at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival, Welles homage to one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comic characters, Sir John Falstaff, initially received a chilly reception and stilted marketing campaign upon hitting Us theaters. Despite a throng of critics attempting to recuperate its reputation since then, it has remained an obscure classic.
Taking place from the years 1400 to 1408 in England, a narrator explains King Henry IV (John Gielgud...
- 12/31/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Did you know that Orson Welles wrote a screenplay for Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in 1939?
Welles not only wanted to to direct, but wanted to star as both Marlow and Kurtz. The screenplay was that bit too much for Rko Studios who shelved the project.
The story of course was used as the basis of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, which shifted the action to the Vietnam War and starred Martin Sheen as Marlow (renamed Willard) and Marlon Brando as Kurtz.
Welles's screenplay has been adapted into a radio play, with the action returning to the original 1890s setting.
It stars James McAvoy as Marlow, who reunites with his Macbeth theatre director Jamie Lloyd on the project.
Unmade Movies: Orson Welles' Heart of Darkness gets its first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on October 24.
The screenplay has been written by Lloyd with producer Laurence Bowen, with music by Ben and Max Ringham.
Welles not only wanted to to direct, but wanted to star as both Marlow and Kurtz. The screenplay was that bit too much for Rko Studios who shelved the project.
The story of course was used as the basis of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, which shifted the action to the Vietnam War and starred Martin Sheen as Marlow (renamed Willard) and Marlon Brando as Kurtz.
Welles's screenplay has been adapted into a radio play, with the action returning to the original 1890s setting.
It stars James McAvoy as Marlow, who reunites with his Macbeth theatre director Jamie Lloyd on the project.
Unmade Movies: Orson Welles' Heart of Darkness gets its first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on October 24.
The screenplay has been written by Lloyd with producer Laurence Bowen, with music by Ben and Max Ringham.
- 10/22/2015
- Digital Spy
From big blockbusters to small independent films, here are the movies I.m dying to see this Fall. (Official synopsis provided by studios)
September 18 (Friday)
About Ray When a young woman (Elle Fanning) decides to transition from female to male, her announcement is met with both opposition and support from her mother (Naomi Watts) and her lesbian grandmother (Susan Sarandon).
Black Mass In 1970s South Boston, FBI Agent John Connolly (Joel Edgerton) persuades Irish mobster James "Whitey" Bulger (Johnny Depp) to collaborate with the FBI and eliminate a common enemy: the Italian mob. The drama tells the story of this unholy alliance, which spiraled out of control, allowing Whitey to evade law enforcement, consolidate power, and become one of the most ruthless and powerful gangsters in Boston history. -- (C) Warner Bros
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials In this next chapter of the epic "Maze Runner" saga, Thomas (Dylan O'Brien...
September 18 (Friday)
About Ray When a young woman (Elle Fanning) decides to transition from female to male, her announcement is met with both opposition and support from her mother (Naomi Watts) and her lesbian grandmother (Susan Sarandon).
Black Mass In 1970s South Boston, FBI Agent John Connolly (Joel Edgerton) persuades Irish mobster James "Whitey" Bulger (Johnny Depp) to collaborate with the FBI and eliminate a common enemy: the Italian mob. The drama tells the story of this unholy alliance, which spiraled out of control, allowing Whitey to evade law enforcement, consolidate power, and become one of the most ruthless and powerful gangsters in Boston history. -- (C) Warner Bros
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials In this next chapter of the epic "Maze Runner" saga, Thomas (Dylan O'Brien...
- 9/4/2015
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Justin Kurzel’s crunching adaptation of Macbeth kicks off with a big battle in the mist and just gets more brutal and unsparing from there. The Bard’s great story of ambition, superstition and moorland crones dispensing bad advice has had the big-screen treatment before – even the great Orson Welles turned his camera to it – but visually, this one has a scale hitherto unseen. The desolate Scottish landscape, as this still from the opening clash of clans hints, is a haunting backdrop to all the political shenanigans behind the throne.This first new still from the film (above) sees Michael Fassbender's Thane of Glamis - still two 'promotions' from assuming the throne - leaning into the battle on behalf of David Thewlis' King Duncan as the royalists and rebels do battle.Above, suitably troubled, is Paddy Considine as Banquo, Macbeth's loyal but increasingly dubious ally. Banquo witnesses...
- 8/25/2015
- EmpireOnline
With the world’s most prestigious film festival just around the corner, cineastes have been lasciviously salivating about what’s going to show up at Cannes, with wish lists appearing almost immediately after Berlin (a fest that had one of their most impressive line-ups ever) announced their awards. The remainder of the 2015 fest circuit looks to be a plentiful, diverse porridge, with many of the world’s most renowned auteurs’ sporting brand new titles. While many prognosticators will be sharing the same lists, more or less, hopes are incredibly high for a handful of sure bets, and a gaggle of hopefuls. The main competition always seems easier to postulate, though Thierry Fremaux always throws a few curves, (After the Battle in 2012, The Hunt in 2013 or last year’s Timbuktu, which won the Cesar for Best Picture recently, are a couple ready examples of under-the-radar titles).
Italy seems primed for saturation at the fest.
Italy seems primed for saturation at the fest.
- 3/9/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
A wonderful trailer has been released for a documentary called Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles. Welles is a legendary filmmaker who is best known for his film Citizen Kane and his famous War of the Worlds radio broadcast. He was an incredible artist and visionary, and the doc focuses on his Hollywood career as a star and troubled director. According to IndieWire,
Magician digs into Welles' oeuvre on the eve of his centenary. Workman covers the midwestern childhood demons that fueled Citizen Kane, young Welles' prodigious theatrical accomplishments, love of Shakespeare, and move toward radio and cinema with "Citizen Kane," which was demolished by the film's fictionalized subject, William Randolph Hearst, as well as how Welles was his own worst enemy in terms of protecting his work. There is rarely seen footage of such masterpieces as Chimes at Midnight (he plays Falstaff) and Macbeth, The Trial and Mr. Arkadin.
Magician digs into Welles' oeuvre on the eve of his centenary. Workman covers the midwestern childhood demons that fueled Citizen Kane, young Welles' prodigious theatrical accomplishments, love of Shakespeare, and move toward radio and cinema with "Citizen Kane," which was demolished by the film's fictionalized subject, William Randolph Hearst, as well as how Welles was his own worst enemy in terms of protecting his work. There is rarely seen footage of such masterpieces as Chimes at Midnight (he plays Falstaff) and Macbeth, The Trial and Mr. Arkadin.
- 10/26/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
French powerhouse’s slate includes Zac Efron, Ralph Fiennes and Tom Hardy projects.
StudioCanal’s Toronto line-up is headlined by coming-of-age drama We Are Your Friends, starring Zac Efron, Emily Ratajkowski and Wes Bentley.
Writer-director Max Joseph’s drama, produced by Working Title and fully financed by StudioCanal, follows an aspiring 23 year-old DJ trying to make it in the La electro scene when he falls in love with his friend and mentor’s much younger girlfriend.
Luca Guadagnino’s untiltled Pantelleria project with Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton and Matthias Schoenaerts, and Kray Twins drama Legend with Tom Hardy are also likely to be in-demand on the slate of the French powerhouse.
Fifty Shades of Grey star Dakota Johnson is the latest talent attachment to the former.
James Watkins’ action-thriller Bastille Day, starring Idris Elba and Adele Exarchopoulos is currently in pre-production, as is Tobias Lindholm drama A War.
Titles in post-production include much-buzzed about Macbeth and Stephen Frears...
StudioCanal’s Toronto line-up is headlined by coming-of-age drama We Are Your Friends, starring Zac Efron, Emily Ratajkowski and Wes Bentley.
Writer-director Max Joseph’s drama, produced by Working Title and fully financed by StudioCanal, follows an aspiring 23 year-old DJ trying to make it in the La electro scene when he falls in love with his friend and mentor’s much younger girlfriend.
Luca Guadagnino’s untiltled Pantelleria project with Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton and Matthias Schoenaerts, and Kray Twins drama Legend with Tom Hardy are also likely to be in-demand on the slate of the French powerhouse.
Fifty Shades of Grey star Dakota Johnson is the latest talent attachment to the former.
James Watkins’ action-thriller Bastille Day, starring Idris Elba and Adele Exarchopoulos is currently in pre-production, as is Tobias Lindholm drama A War.
Titles in post-production include much-buzzed about Macbeth and Stephen Frears...
- 8/21/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
French powerhouse’s slate also includes Ralph Fiennes and Tom Hardy projects.
StudioCanal’s Toronto lineup is headlined by coming-of-age drama We Are Your Friends, starring Zac Efron, Emily Ratajkowski and Wes Bentley.
Writer-director Max Joseph’s drama, produced by Working Title and fully financed by StudioCanal, follows an aspiring 23 year-old DJ trying to make it in the La electro scene when he falls in love with his friend and mentor’s much younger girlfriend.
Luca Guadagnino’s Pantelleria project with Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton and Matthias Schoenaerts and Kray Twins drama Legend with Tom Hardy are also likely to be in-demand on the slate of the French powerhouse.
Fifty Shades of Grey star Dakota Johnson is the latest talent attachment to the former.
James Watkins’ action-thriller Bastille Day, starring Idris Elba and Adele Exarchopoulos is currently in pre-production, as is Tobias Lindholm drama A War.
Titles in post-production include much-buzzed about Macbeth and Stephen Frears’ as yet...
StudioCanal’s Toronto lineup is headlined by coming-of-age drama We Are Your Friends, starring Zac Efron, Emily Ratajkowski and Wes Bentley.
Writer-director Max Joseph’s drama, produced by Working Title and fully financed by StudioCanal, follows an aspiring 23 year-old DJ trying to make it in the La electro scene when he falls in love with his friend and mentor’s much younger girlfriend.
Luca Guadagnino’s Pantelleria project with Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton and Matthias Schoenaerts and Kray Twins drama Legend with Tom Hardy are also likely to be in-demand on the slate of the French powerhouse.
Fifty Shades of Grey star Dakota Johnson is the latest talent attachment to the former.
James Watkins’ action-thriller Bastille Day, starring Idris Elba and Adele Exarchopoulos is currently in pre-production, as is Tobias Lindholm drama A War.
Titles in post-production include much-buzzed about Macbeth and Stephen Frears’ as yet...
- 8/21/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
StudioCanal drops A-List titles on market; slate includes Bastille Day, starring Idris Elba [pictured].
At a busy buyers screening this afternoon in Cannes, StudioCanal announced their involvement on a couple of hot new market titles.
The French giant confirmed that it has boarded Luca Guadagnino’s untitled thriller inspired by French classic La Piscine, which will star Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton, Margot Robbie and Matthias Schoenaerts, with shoot due in Italy later this year.
Previously announced ‘big budget action film’ Bastille Day has been cast with Idris Elba and Adele Exarchopoulos and will shoot in Paris this summer from director James Watkins.
Watkins and Legend writer-director Brian Helgeland will be in Cannes later this week to talk to select buyers.
Working Title-Tom Hardy thriller Legend about the Kray twins, previously announced by Screen, is due to shoot this summer with Universal on board for a wide Us release.
Also recently announced on the slate is Tobias Lindholm title...
At a busy buyers screening this afternoon in Cannes, StudioCanal announced their involvement on a couple of hot new market titles.
The French giant confirmed that it has boarded Luca Guadagnino’s untitled thriller inspired by French classic La Piscine, which will star Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton, Margot Robbie and Matthias Schoenaerts, with shoot due in Italy later this year.
Previously announced ‘big budget action film’ Bastille Day has been cast with Idris Elba and Adele Exarchopoulos and will shoot in Paris this summer from director James Watkins.
Watkins and Legend writer-director Brian Helgeland will be in Cannes later this week to talk to select buyers.
Working Title-Tom Hardy thriller Legend about the Kray twins, previously announced by Screen, is due to shoot this summer with Universal on board for a wide Us release.
Also recently announced on the slate is Tobias Lindholm title...
- 5/13/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Ten years after collaborating on Of Mice and Men (1939), a critical hit and now a classic, but a commercial disappointment at the time, Lewis Milestone once more adapted John Steinbeck's material to the screen. The studio was Republic, a B-movie output that occasionally tackled artsier material as a way of attracting big talent (Ford's The Informer, Welles's Macbeth, Borzage's Moonrise). The combination of writer and director drew stars Robert Mitchum and Myrna Loy in this case, to a story about a boy and his pony in which the pair of them are really supporting players, and in which they have no romance together.
The Red Pony may have been intended as some kind of "children's western." It has been decorated with animated inserts and fantasy sequences to add a sense of childish make-believe to the quite gritty tale of life on a Californian ranch. Confusingly, the animation has also...
The Red Pony may have been intended as some kind of "children's western." It has been decorated with animated inserts and fantasy sequences to add a sense of childish make-believe to the quite gritty tale of life on a Californian ranch. Confusingly, the animation has also...
- 1/23/2014
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
Prolific comedy actor who worked with Peter Sellers, Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan and Hattie Jacques
The stony-faced, beaky comedy actor Graham Stark, who has died aged 91, is best remembered for his appearances alongside Peter Sellers, notably in the Pink Panther movies. His familiar face and voice, on television and radio, were part of the essential furniture in the sitting room of our popular culture for more than half a century. A stalwart in the national postwar comedy boom led by Sellers, Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Dick Emery, Eric Sykes and Benny Hill, he worked with them all in a sort of unofficial supporting repertory company that also included Hattie Jacques, Deryck Guyler, Patricia Hayes and Arthur Mullard. He was also a man of surprising and various parts: child actor, trained dancer, film-maker, occasional writer, and dedicated and critically acclaimed photographer.
Like Gypsy Rose Lee, he had a resourceful and determined...
The stony-faced, beaky comedy actor Graham Stark, who has died aged 91, is best remembered for his appearances alongside Peter Sellers, notably in the Pink Panther movies. His familiar face and voice, on television and radio, were part of the essential furniture in the sitting room of our popular culture for more than half a century. A stalwart in the national postwar comedy boom led by Sellers, Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Dick Emery, Eric Sykes and Benny Hill, he worked with them all in a sort of unofficial supporting repertory company that also included Hattie Jacques, Deryck Guyler, Patricia Hayes and Arthur Mullard. He was also a man of surprising and various parts: child actor, trained dancer, film-maker, occasional writer, and dedicated and critically acclaimed photographer.
Like Gypsy Rose Lee, he had a resourceful and determined...
- 11/1/2013
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
Interview Ryan Lambie 5 Aug 2013 - 07:06
In our latest on-set roundtable interview, production designer Russell De Rozario talks about Kick-Ass 2, and borrowed Ferraris...
Nb: This interview contains quite a lot of spicy language
During our visit to the set of Kick-Ass 2 last autumn, we were lucky enough to meet some particularly famous faces, including Mark Millar, John Romita, Jr, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Chloe Grace-Moretz (the movie must surely win the record for the most double-barrelled names in one cast). But one of the most engaging and funny people we spoke to was undoubtedly production designer Russell De Rozario, whose anecdotes about making Kick-Ass 2 were often priceless.
The highlight? Easily De Rozario's story about the acquisition of a very expensive sports car for the villains' lair. "It's not as dodgy as it sounds," he said, as we guffawed incredulously. But, really, the whole interview's a lively...
In our latest on-set roundtable interview, production designer Russell De Rozario talks about Kick-Ass 2, and borrowed Ferraris...
Nb: This interview contains quite a lot of spicy language
During our visit to the set of Kick-Ass 2 last autumn, we were lucky enough to meet some particularly famous faces, including Mark Millar, John Romita, Jr, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Chloe Grace-Moretz (the movie must surely win the record for the most double-barrelled names in one cast). But one of the most engaging and funny people we spoke to was undoubtedly production designer Russell De Rozario, whose anecdotes about making Kick-Ass 2 were often priceless.
The highlight? Easily De Rozario's story about the acquisition of a very expensive sports car for the villains' lair. "It's not as dodgy as it sounds," he said, as we guffawed incredulously. But, really, the whole interview's a lively...
- 8/2/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Sooner or later, it seems that every young actor is drawn to Macbeth. James McAvoy performed the role on stage recentlty and a castle-load of people have embodied the character on screen, including Orson Welles and Sam Worthington. Now Michael Fassbender seems set to join the ranks of the crown-coveting fraternity.Snowtown director Justin Kurzel is set to wield the megaphone for this one, based on an adaptation of the Shakespeare play by Todd Louiso and Jacob Koskoff. According to Screen Daily, the script has been a hot property and the new film – particularly with Fassbender in the central role – should attract plenty of buyers once the Cannes Film Festival market kicks off next month.Kurzel is planning to start directing this one later in the year, with the story of the ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord who seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and three witches...
- 4/30/2013
- EmpireOnline
Everyone from Sam Worthington (really) to Orson Welles has taken on "Macbeth," and the Shakespeare play that dare not say its name has been adapted countless time for the stage, television and multiplex. Well, when it comes to the cinema, (quality) movie versions have been a bit fewer and farther between, so the news that Michael Fassbender might take the lead in "the Scottish play" certainly has our attention. The actor is attached to a new version of Shakespeare's work that will be directed by the fast rising "Snowtown" director, Justin Kurzel. Penned by Todd Louiso (the director behind "Love Liza" and "Hello I Must Be Going") and Jacob Koskoff (who co-penned "The Marc Pease Experience" with Louiso), the story will be the same, set in the 11th century, and will be presented in the original dialogue. However, this version will be more "visceral" and contain "significant battle scenes." And...
- 4/29/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
During Alan Cumming’s Tony-winning turn as the Emcee in Cabaret on Broadway, Liza Minnelli (who, obviously, won an Oscar for playing Sally Bowles in Bob Fosse’s 1972 film) went to see him backstage. She was so in awe of his brilliant performance that she said, “Alan, I want to be your friend forever.” In an era of celebrity air kisses that make no physical or emotional contact, that could have been the equivalent to, “Nice to meet you.” But if one thing was clear during last night’s wonderfully fun (and, sure, flawed… not that anyone cared) Liza & Alan...
- 3/14/2013
- by Jessica Shaw
- EW.com - PopWatch
The new horror anthology "The ABCs of Death" wants to give gorehounds what they want in alphabetical order by representing each of their 26 segments with a letter. That's fine with us, since we always have plenty of death scenes organized with the Dewey Decimal System, and here are 15 of the most memorable, bloody, and enjoyable ones in the bunch.
Oh yeah, um, spoilers.
Taketoki Washizu in 'Throne of Blood' (1957)
'A' is for 'Arrows'
In one of Akira Kurosawa's many samurai epics with star/badass supreme Toshiro Mifune, the two of them created the kind of arrow-related death that "Lord of the Rings" elf Legolas must dream about at night. By the time this Macbeth stand-in is done for he's got more wood in him than Jenna Jameson and resembles a stoned porcupine. Sayonara, sucker!
High Treason
Throne of Blood at Movieclips.com Jaws in 'Jaws'...
Oh yeah, um, spoilers.
Taketoki Washizu in 'Throne of Blood' (1957)
'A' is for 'Arrows'
In one of Akira Kurosawa's many samurai epics with star/badass supreme Toshiro Mifune, the two of them created the kind of arrow-related death that "Lord of the Rings" elf Legolas must dream about at night. By the time this Macbeth stand-in is done for he's got more wood in him than Jenna Jameson and resembles a stoned porcupine. Sayonara, sucker!
High Treason
Throne of Blood at Movieclips.com Jaws in 'Jaws'...
- 3/6/2013
- by Max Evry
- NextMovie
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Nov. 20, 2012
Price: DVD $19.95
Studio: Hen’s Tooth
Orson Welles is Cagliostro in 1949's Black Magic.
Based on a novel by Alexander Dumas, the 1949 mystery-drama film Black Magic stars Orson Welles (Macbeth) as the 18th century master hypnotist and charismatic charlatan, Cagliostro.
After his mother is executed for supposedly practicing “witchcraft,” young Joseph Balsamo is raised by gypsies. Under their tutelage, he perfects his skills performing magic tricks and selling snake oil in the gypsy’s travelling caravan show. Eventually Balsamo meets Franz Mesmer, the famous hypnotist, who convinces Joseph he has even greater gifts which could heal the sick. But Joseph chooses a very different path assuming the name Cagliostro and embarking on a vendetta for power over the man who ordered his mother’s death.
Directed by Gregory Ratoff, the rarely-screened film also stars Nancy Guild, Akim Tamiroff, Margot Graham and Raymond Burr.
Buy or...
Price: DVD $19.95
Studio: Hen’s Tooth
Orson Welles is Cagliostro in 1949's Black Magic.
Based on a novel by Alexander Dumas, the 1949 mystery-drama film Black Magic stars Orson Welles (Macbeth) as the 18th century master hypnotist and charismatic charlatan, Cagliostro.
After his mother is executed for supposedly practicing “witchcraft,” young Joseph Balsamo is raised by gypsies. Under their tutelage, he perfects his skills performing magic tricks and selling snake oil in the gypsy’s travelling caravan show. Eventually Balsamo meets Franz Mesmer, the famous hypnotist, who convinces Joseph he has even greater gifts which could heal the sick. But Joseph chooses a very different path assuming the name Cagliostro and embarking on a vendetta for power over the man who ordered his mother’s death.
Directed by Gregory Ratoff, the rarely-screened film also stars Nancy Guild, Akim Tamiroff, Margot Graham and Raymond Burr.
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- 10/22/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
This is not to say that traditional Shakespeare isn't cool - it's just that it's often seen as the outpost of theatre and/or English majors, and pretentious ones at that. Shakespeare was a writer for the people - the dirty, beer-swilling masses of his day. And one of the beautiful things about Shakespeare is the ability of the stories to transcend time and place. So let's celebrate those films that make Shakespeare cool, bringing him back to the dirty, beer-swilling masses of today. In honor of Joss Whedon's production of Much Ado About Nothing, which is sure to top the list next time, here are the coolest Shakespeare adaptations on film.
10. Hamlet (2000)
How to update the story of the most angst-ridden character in literature (pre-Daria?) Put Ethan Hawke in the title role; he's been the poster boy for angst since 1994's Reality Bites. Turn Denmark into the Denmark Corporation,...
10. Hamlet (2000)
How to update the story of the most angst-ridden character in literature (pre-Daria?) Put Ethan Hawke in the title role; he's been the poster boy for angst since 1994's Reality Bites. Turn Denmark into the Denmark Corporation,...
- 9/24/2012
- Shadowlocked
Moviefone's New Release Pick of the Week "The Cabin in the Woods" What's It About? Joss Whedon does for slasher movies what he did for vampires with "Buffy." If we told you anything more, we'd ruin the experience. See It Because: If you're a horror movie fan you're used to being served the dumbest, most illogical garbage and just accepting it. "Cabin" is actually one of the most clever, unique and entertaining horror movies in years (years!) with a funny cast, totally off-the-wall premise and secret twists that we can't tell you anything about. Zombie Lovers: Watch a Special Behind-the-Scenes Look at "Cabin in the Woods" - (Also Available on Redbox DVD & Blu-ray | Amazon Instant Video | Netflix) Moviefone's Blu-ray Release Pick of the Week "Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures" What's It About? The complete "Indy" series is brought to Blu-ray for the first time with hi-def restorations and a museum's worth of behind-the-scenes special features.
- 9/17/2012
- by Eric Larnick
- Moviefone
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Sept. 18, 2012
Price: DVD $24.95, Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Olive Films
Orson Welles brushed up on his Shakespeare when he directed and starred in a 1948 film adaptation of The Bard’s immortal drama Macbeth.
Welles’ dark and moody screen version of the classic tragedy about a presumptuous Scottish prince’s quest for power through patricide keeps with both the play’s spirit and Welles’ vision. As with his other films (Citizen Kane, The Stranger), Welles effectively mixes the use of shadow and oblique camera angles to achieve—in this case—an ominous feeling of a land in peril.
Also starring Jeanette Nolan (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance) and Roddy McDowall, Welles’ Macbeth was originally cut to 89 minutes for its theatrical release following poor test screenings and complaints about Welles’ decision to have his cast speak in Scottish burrs. The Olive Films edition has been restored to its full 107-minute running time.
Price: DVD $24.95, Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Olive Films
Orson Welles brushed up on his Shakespeare when he directed and starred in a 1948 film adaptation of The Bard’s immortal drama Macbeth.
Welles’ dark and moody screen version of the classic tragedy about a presumptuous Scottish prince’s quest for power through patricide keeps with both the play’s spirit and Welles’ vision. As with his other films (Citizen Kane, The Stranger), Welles effectively mixes the use of shadow and oblique camera angles to achieve—in this case—an ominous feeling of a land in peril.
Also starring Jeanette Nolan (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance) and Roddy McDowall, Welles’ Macbeth was originally cut to 89 minutes for its theatrical release following poor test screenings and complaints about Welles’ decision to have his cast speak in Scottish burrs. The Olive Films edition has been restored to its full 107-minute running time.
- 6/28/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Sporting plaid pants and a snug long-sleeved shirt, Alan Cumming serenaded a sea of stars Wednesday night for the Lunchbox Fund's cocktail-attire (looking at you, Cumming!) auction benefiting hungry South African students. Salman Rushdie, Philip Glass and a fresh-faced Courtney Love looked on as Cumming seamlessly weaved together three of 2011's biggest pop hits -- Adele's "Someone Like You," Lady Gaga's "The Edge of Glory" and Katy Perry's "Firework" -- a skill that will come in handy when he's playing every character in "Macbeth."
Cumming -- whose accent happily does not disappear when he sings -- has sang for musicals before, for Lgbt rights, and now, for hungry children in South Africa.
Watch, but mostly listen:
Cumming followed up with a feisty, theatrical rendition of "Mein Herr," a song off "Cabaret," which he starred in during its 1993 London revival:
The performance was the talk of the evening,...
Cumming -- whose accent happily does not disappear when he sings -- has sang for musicals before, for Lgbt rights, and now, for hungry children in South Africa.
Watch, but mostly listen:
Cumming followed up with a feisty, theatrical rendition of "Mein Herr," a song off "Cabaret," which he starred in during its 1993 London revival:
The performance was the talk of the evening,...
- 3/22/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
"Smash" has found its Marilyn Monroe in Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty), and Karen Cartwright (Katharine McPhee) is well on her way to taking the stage as part of her first Broadway ensemble. So, what's next on "Smash"? Drama, guest stars and lots of songs.
On the docket: "Shake It Out," a Florence and the Machine cover McPhee said she enjoyed doing, "Rose's Turn," "Our Day Will Come" and in episode five, "Let's Be Bad," an original song that Hilty described as "epic."
"It can be kind of confusing because I'm Megan playing Ivy Lynn who is playing Marilyn who is playing Sugar in 'Some Like It Hot' and she's wasted so she's messing up the whole number," Hilty told HuffPost TV from the set. "But she's still kind of fantastic in some moments."
The "Some Like It Hot" number, which has been seen in some commercials, is a focal point of the episode.
On the docket: "Shake It Out," a Florence and the Machine cover McPhee said she enjoyed doing, "Rose's Turn," "Our Day Will Come" and in episode five, "Let's Be Bad," an original song that Hilty described as "epic."
"It can be kind of confusing because I'm Megan playing Ivy Lynn who is playing Marilyn who is playing Sugar in 'Some Like It Hot' and she's wasted so she's messing up the whole number," Hilty told HuffPost TV from the set. "But she's still kind of fantastic in some moments."
The "Some Like It Hot" number, which has been seen in some commercials, is a focal point of the episode.
- 2/28/2012
- by Chris Harnick
- Huffington Post
"Smash" has found its Marilyn Monroe in Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty), and Karen Cartwright (Katharine McPhee) is well on her way to taking the stage as part of her first Broadway ensemble. So, what's next on "Smash"? Drama, guest stars and lots of songs.
On the docket: "Shake It Out," a Florence and the Machine cover McPhee said she enjoyed doing, "Rose's Turn," "Our Day Will Come" and in episode five, "Let's Be Bad," an original song that Hilty described as "epic."
"It can be kind of confusing because I'm Megan playing Ivy Lynn who is playing Marilyn who is playing Sugar in 'Some Like It Hot' and she's wasted so she's messing up the whole number," Hilty told HuffPost TV from the set. "But she's still kind of fantastic in some moments."
The "Some Like It Hot" number, which has been seen in some commercials, is a focal point of the episode.
On the docket: "Shake It Out," a Florence and the Machine cover McPhee said she enjoyed doing, "Rose's Turn," "Our Day Will Come" and in episode five, "Let's Be Bad," an original song that Hilty described as "epic."
"It can be kind of confusing because I'm Megan playing Ivy Lynn who is playing Marilyn who is playing Sugar in 'Some Like It Hot' and she's wasted so she's messing up the whole number," Hilty told HuffPost TV from the set. "But she's still kind of fantastic in some moments."
The "Some Like It Hot" number, which has been seen in some commercials, is a focal point of the episode.
- 2/28/2012
- by Chris Harnick
- Aol TV.
"Roland Emmerich's Anonymous is a well-polished cowpat that will confuse and bore those who know nothing about Shakespeare and incense those who know almost anything," declares David Edelstein in New York. The film begins with Derek Jacobi announcing on a contemporary Broadway stage that the plays we attribute to Shakespeare are, in fact, the work of "Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford, who could not, by virtue of his rank, have anything to do with the theater and so handed over his masterworks — many of which were not performed until well after his death — to a boobish actor named Will Shakespeare, who incidentally was the one who stabbed Christopher Marlowe in the eye. Less improbably, De Vere screwed Queen Elizabeth, as well as (accidentally) his own mum…. Apart from its ineptitude, Anonymous is peculiarly beside the point. Shakespeare's succession of masterpieces, near masterpieces, and thrilling misses is a...
- 10/27/2011
- MUBI
The Brontës are often dismissed as up-market Mills & Boon. But with the release of two films this autumn, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, they look set to rival even Jane Austen in the public's affections
Ours is supposed to be the age of instantaneity, where books can be downloaded in a few seconds and reputations created overnight. But the Victorians could be speedy, too, and there's no more striking example of instant celebrity than Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë posted the manuscript to Messrs Smith and Elder on 24 August 1847, two weeks after the publisher had expressed an interest in seeing her new novel while turning down her first. Within a fortnight, a deal had been struck (Charlotte was paid £100) and proofs were being worked on. In the 21st century a first novel can wait two years between acceptance and publication. Jane Eyre was out in eight weeks, on 17 October, with Thackeray...
Ours is supposed to be the age of instantaneity, where books can be downloaded in a few seconds and reputations created overnight. But the Victorians could be speedy, too, and there's no more striking example of instant celebrity than Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë posted the manuscript to Messrs Smith and Elder on 24 August 1847, two weeks after the publisher had expressed an interest in seeing her new novel while turning down her first. Within a fortnight, a deal had been struck (Charlotte was paid £100) and proofs were being worked on. In the 21st century a first novel can wait two years between acceptance and publication. Jane Eyre was out in eight weeks, on 17 October, with Thackeray...
- 9/9/2011
- by Blake Morrison
- The Guardian - Film News
[1] Fake Criterion covers have become a pretty popular form of fan art as of late. Design-inclined cinephiles have fake-Criterioned everything from Orson Welles' Macbeth [2] to a French version of Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle [3] to Kickpuncher [4] (which is itself a fake movie), and it's no wonder why. Criterion DVDs often get the kind of cool, artsy covers you would never find on 'normal' DVDs, which usually opt for something more tame and immediately recognizable. The latest property to get the fake-Criterion treatment is the Harry Potter film series, which concludes this weekend with the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. Cooper Union graduate Patrick Sullivan created this stunning collection for his student portfolio, and it saddens me to know they'll never actually be used. Flip through his cover collection after the jump. [gallery="107599" order="Desc" columns="2" exclude="107599"] [Harry Potter Criterion Collection [5] via Vulture [6]] Each cover is gorgeous on its own, but the icing...
- 7/13/2011
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
Hopefully there won't be a chorus of voices proclaiming that I've discovered a new room in the house of 'wrong'. The same personal history that attracts us to certain faces (or quirks - or even defects) applies to how we respond to any particular human voice, so a list of 'best voices' is going to be pretty far from any kind of actuarial table on the matter. That said, there seems to be a pretty broad consensus of 'voice appeal' in a lot of my choices.
I note that I only came up with five female voices out of twenty. I don't know if that's some kind of unconscious sexism, or if it in any way ratifies the (itself probably pretty sexist) opinion I once heard that female voices have less scope than male ones. In any case that bias, if such it is, is in pretty broad opposition to...
I note that I only came up with five female voices out of twenty. I don't know if that's some kind of unconscious sexism, or if it in any way ratifies the (itself probably pretty sexist) opinion I once heard that female voices have less scope than male ones. In any case that bias, if such it is, is in pretty broad opposition to...
- 3/30/2011
- Shadowlocked
The memoirs of Orson Welles's daughter expose his multiple complexities, says Simon Callow
Orson Welles was, to put it mildly, multifaceted; to the degree, indeed, that his personality almost fails to cohere. The result is that there are many Orsons; everyone who came across him adds another, and each insists that theirs is the real one. To the swelling genre of what might be called "My Orson" books, In My Father's Shadow, by Welles's daughter from his first marriage, is a new and uncommonly valuable addition. When I interviewed her in 1989, only four years after her father's death, Welles Feder spoke to me almost apologetically about the fact that he was more of an absence than a presence in her life. Her book makes it clear that she was then just beginning to come to terms with the degree to which he had in fact dominated her life.
Her...
Orson Welles was, to put it mildly, multifaceted; to the degree, indeed, that his personality almost fails to cohere. The result is that there are many Orsons; everyone who came across him adds another, and each insists that theirs is the real one. To the swelling genre of what might be called "My Orson" books, In My Father's Shadow, by Welles's daughter from his first marriage, is a new and uncommonly valuable addition. When I interviewed her in 1989, only four years after her father's death, Welles Feder spoke to me almost apologetically about the fact that he was more of an absence than a presence in her life. Her book makes it clear that she was then just beginning to come to terms with the degree to which he had in fact dominated her life.
Her...
- 3/13/2010
- by Simon Callow
- The Guardian - Film News
Got quite a few today – more than yesterday…
Rapper Tone Loc (aka Anthony Terrell Smith) is 44 today. Did you know that the music video to Wild Thang, the track that launched him into super-stardom in the late 80s, reportedly only cost $340 to make? It looked like it . Loc has been busy in recent years acting in bit parts here and there for TV shows mostly. He’s also seen some of his most popular tracks used in a few movie soundtracks – most recently, Armored, Obsessed, You Me And Dupree, Charlies Angels: Full Throttle and others. I certainly hope he’s collecting royalty checks!
Actor Robert Gossett (cousin of Louis Gossett Jr) is 56 today; The man’s done a lot of TV work, with likely his most recognizable role as Commander Taylor on TNT’s The Closer. He’s also done the soap opera dance, with parts in The Young & The Restless and Passions.
Rapper Tone Loc (aka Anthony Terrell Smith) is 44 today. Did you know that the music video to Wild Thang, the track that launched him into super-stardom in the late 80s, reportedly only cost $340 to make? It looked like it . Loc has been busy in recent years acting in bit parts here and there for TV shows mostly. He’s also seen some of his most popular tracks used in a few movie soundtracks – most recently, Armored, Obsessed, You Me And Dupree, Charlies Angels: Full Throttle and others. I certainly hope he’s collecting royalty checks!
Actor Robert Gossett (cousin of Louis Gossett Jr) is 56 today; The man’s done a lot of TV work, with likely his most recognizable role as Commander Taylor on TNT’s The Closer. He’s also done the soap opera dance, with parts in The Young & The Restless and Passions.
- 3/3/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
What's most impressive about Christopher Welles Feder's memoir of her unconventional childhood in the shadow of the Hollywood titan is how gracefully she appears to have emerged from it
In summer 1947, Orson Welles took his 10-year-old daughter to lunch at the Brown Derby in Hollywood. She asked for a hamburger and a vanilla milkshake. "Again?" sighed Welles as he mulled the gazpacho and the lobster bisque. "Why don't you be more adventurous today? How about some oysters?" Dismissing the girl's objections, he ordered a dozen and coached her through the protocol required to knock a couple down the hatch before allowing her to proceed to her burger and shake, lesson learned. "You have to try things in life, Christopher."
Conventionality was hardly an option for Christopher Welles Feder. Even if she hadn't been given a male name – hard not to think of A Boy Named Sue – her father's monstrous fame...
In summer 1947, Orson Welles took his 10-year-old daughter to lunch at the Brown Derby in Hollywood. She asked for a hamburger and a vanilla milkshake. "Again?" sighed Welles as he mulled the gazpacho and the lobster bisque. "Why don't you be more adventurous today? How about some oysters?" Dismissing the girl's objections, he ordered a dozen and coached her through the protocol required to knock a couple down the hatch before allowing her to proceed to her burger and shake, lesson learned. "You have to try things in life, Christopher."
Conventionality was hardly an option for Christopher Welles Feder. Even if she hadn't been given a male name – hard not to think of A Boy Named Sue – her father's monstrous fame...
- 1/29/2010
- by Ben Walters
- The Guardian - Film News
Orson Welles wasn't just thwarted on the silver screen. His plans to shake up television with innovations that anticipated the YouTube era were foiled, too
When we think of Orson Welles and television, the impulse is often to smirk. The innumerable talk-show appearances, though reliably entertaining, couldn't help but seem sad in comparison to his earlier triumphs. And those ads for the likes of Findus frozen foods and Paul Masson wine were hard to take seriously even before viral video made us familiar with Welles's absurd on-set relationship with hack copy, which ranged from perfectionist quibbling to ostensibly drunken slurring.
Fair enough. Such undertakings could hardly be counted among the highlights of any career, let alone one that included Citizen Kane and Chimes at Midnight. But it's worth bearing two things in mind in between chuckles. First, the proceeds from these appearances were invariably funnelled toward one or other of...
When we think of Orson Welles and television, the impulse is often to smirk. The innumerable talk-show appearances, though reliably entertaining, couldn't help but seem sad in comparison to his earlier triumphs. And those ads for the likes of Findus frozen foods and Paul Masson wine were hard to take seriously even before viral video made us familiar with Welles's absurd on-set relationship with hack copy, which ranged from perfectionist quibbling to ostensibly drunken slurring.
Fair enough. Such undertakings could hardly be counted among the highlights of any career, let alone one that included Citizen Kane and Chimes at Midnight. But it's worth bearing two things in mind in between chuckles. First, the proceeds from these appearances were invariably funnelled toward one or other of...
- 12/18/2009
- by Ben Walters
- The Guardian - Film News
Me and Orson Welles
Starring Zac Efron, Christian McKay, and Claire Danes
Directed by Richard Linklater
Rated PG-13
Orson Welles was 25 when he directed Citizen Kane. It’s hard to fathom how anyone could make a film with such bravura at 25, to say nothing of doing it the first time he walked behind a camera or without acknowledging that this little feat - creating a cinema landmark still cited by many as the best film ever - was undertaken in 1941.
Prior to Kane, Welles worked in radio and theater, shocking the country with War of the Worlds while only 23, and staging legendary adaptations of Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Julius Caesar when he was even younger.
Me and Orson Welles presents The Man Who Would Be Kane during rehearsals for his Mercury Theatre’s Caesar, which he updated as an allegory for Mussolini’s Italy. By this time (1937), Welles was already a well-paid radio personality,...
Starring Zac Efron, Christian McKay, and Claire Danes
Directed by Richard Linklater
Rated PG-13
Orson Welles was 25 when he directed Citizen Kane. It’s hard to fathom how anyone could make a film with such bravura at 25, to say nothing of doing it the first time he walked behind a camera or without acknowledging that this little feat - creating a cinema landmark still cited by many as the best film ever - was undertaken in 1941.
Prior to Kane, Welles worked in radio and theater, shocking the country with War of the Worlds while only 23, and staging legendary adaptations of Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Julius Caesar when he was even younger.
Me and Orson Welles presents The Man Who Would Be Kane during rehearsals for his Mercury Theatre’s Caesar, which he updated as an allegory for Mussolini’s Italy. By this time (1937), Welles was already a well-paid radio personality,...
- 12/18/2009
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Related: Remembering Mr. Heston
Corrected 10:31 a.m. Pt April 6, 2008
Updated 6:34 p.m. Pt April 6, 2008
Charlton Heston, whose chiseled-granite looks and commanding manner allowed him to portray some of history's most extraordinary men from Moses and Michelangelo to John the Baptist and El Cid, has died. He was 84.
The actor, who won an Oscar for the title role in 1959's "Ben-Hur," died Saturday night at his home in Beverly Hills with his wife Lydia at his side, said family spokesman Bill Powers, who declined to comment on the cause of death.
In 2002, Heston revealed in a videotaped statement that he had symptoms consistent with Alzheimer's disease. Saying, "I must reconcile courage and surrender in equal measure," he began to exit the public stage, where he was known for his work with SAG and the American Film Institute as well as for political activism that saw him take up causes...
Corrected 10:31 a.m. Pt April 6, 2008
Updated 6:34 p.m. Pt April 6, 2008
Charlton Heston, whose chiseled-granite looks and commanding manner allowed him to portray some of history's most extraordinary men from Moses and Michelangelo to John the Baptist and El Cid, has died. He was 84.
The actor, who won an Oscar for the title role in 1959's "Ben-Hur," died Saturday night at his home in Beverly Hills with his wife Lydia at his side, said family spokesman Bill Powers, who declined to comment on the cause of death.
In 2002, Heston revealed in a videotaped statement that he had symptoms consistent with Alzheimer's disease. Saying, "I must reconcile courage and surrender in equal measure," he began to exit the public stage, where he was known for his work with SAG and the American Film Institute as well as for political activism that saw him take up causes...
- 4/5/2008
- by By Gregg Kilday and Duane Byrge
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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