Today's stars! Well not literally today 's but November 18th . Get a little history. Celebrate one of these cinematic entities today in whatever way occurs to you. Senors Gilbert, Hemmings and Infante 1836 W.S. Gilbert of 'Gilbert & Sullivan' legend. If you've never seen Mike Leigh's exceptional biopic of this creative giant, Topsy-Turvy , drop everything right now and do so. 1908 Imogene Coca...
Harry Brown sees Caine back on his old stomping ground. Will Connery and co follow his lead? The Old Crowd is showing its age these days. When you see Michael Caine ridding his working-class estate of nasty little asbo 'orrors in Harry Brown , shuffling around in his granddad shoes and his woolly pully, always short of puff after delivering a dose of Bronsonian vengeance to some lairy teenage git,...
Until recently, if you wanted to watch a movie, a trip to a video store like blockbuster was your only option. These days you can stay at home and get movies from a movie download site. Below is a sample of some of the movies you can find using movie download sites.
Stanley Kubrick's planned movie (.PDF file) on the life of Napoleon Bonaparte is one of those chefs-d'œuvres manqués of which history has cheated us, like Verdi's dream of an opera on King Lear. A new collector's set of ten volumes, recently published by Taschen, reproduces images of the entire archive of materials Kubrick compiled while working on the project, which was planned for production...
It wasn't that long ago that a trip to the corner video shop was the most convenient way to get a movie. Now, with internet usage exploding, movie downloads are becoming very popular. You will find just about any movie you want with a good movie download site. Below is a small sample.
Italian Horror Blog-a-Thon Deep Red (Profondo Rosso, 1975) Director/Co-Screenwriter: Dario Argento By Roderick Heath This entry is part of the Italian Horror Blog-a-Thon hosted by Kevin J. Olson of Hugo Stiglitz Makes Movies. If there’s a problem with Suspiria, often...
It used to be that you had to go to the video store to get a movie. You can now save a trip to the video store and download movies right off the internet. Following is a list of a few movies that you can get using a movie download site.
Influence or coincidence? Painter John Forsythe creates an image of an undiscovered corpse, but only realises that’s what it is AFTERWARDS. Wouldn’t it be nice if THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY’s artistic detection were an influence upon Antonioni’s BLOW UP, where photographer David Hemmings snaps an image in a park and later, enlarging it, discovers what appears to [...]
I like to take snapshots of doorways , interesting geometric patterns and textures, and my girlses footwear. Signs, however, are my favorite subjects. Signs announce commerce, civic commands, information, and geography. The best of them are finely crafted art. Most often signs are, um, signs of the times indicating trends in fashion and the changing face of advertising. Signs are also, as Proust would...
It wasn't that long ago that a trip to the corner video shop was the most convenient way to get a movie. Instead of buying or renting the dvd, people now can choose a movie download instead. Here are some examples of movies you can acquire through a movie download site.
Repeatedly listening to Genocide Nippon 's official bootleg album The Rites and its very clever use of Profondo Rosso by Goblin as the intro music inevitably pushed me into dusting down the film itself (one of only 3 Dario Argento retained in the movie vaults of Victory Mansions; the others in case you'll ask are Suspiria and Tenebrae ). It has been about 4 years since I last viewed Profondo Rosso...
By Jaime Vincent In the past you had to go to a store if you wanted to rent or buy a movie. As technologies have advanced, downloading dvds from movie download sites is becoming very common. Below, is a sample of some of the movies you can find using movie download sites. American Beauty: Lester Burnham has just about had it with his life. His family has become dysfunctional, and he hates his job....
More death painting ecstasy from Dario Argento . Less visually luscious than Suspiria , more of a plot; all kinds of subtexts and social undercurrents. As chilling, in parts, and well-crafted. These two are (purportedly) his masterpieces, both in what Italians called the giallo genre. It would seem to be no accident that David Hemmings , who starred in Blow Up , should portray the protagonist here....
Tessa Dahl: 'I'm so glad Sophie's marrying Jamie Cullum... At least it will stop my old boyfriends asking her out'By Last updated at 2:31 AM on 03rd September 2009Tessa Dahl - who captivated London society with her knuckleduster cheekbones, luminous skin and dirty laugh - shares the ground floor of her new home with five dogs. One, a black hairless Chinese Crested, has been named Chewy Barka in mischievous...
Summary: Disgraced ex-England leade (Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan) is thrown in jail for assaulting two guard officers. Whilst in jail, he doesn't recieve any favours by reason of of his lio rank in the outer field. He is impossible fixed and abundant prisoners interminably volley assault him with insults for letting blue his motherland in a pivotal World Cup game. He keeps his nut blue and has the...
Plot: Renowned daredevil Allan Quatermain (Connery) leads a bunch of fantastic figures with apocryphal powers to figh the technological awe of a madman common in the way tha 'The Fantom.' This 'League' comprises seafarer/inventor Captain Nemo (Shah), vampiress Mina Harker (Wilson), an inappreciable bein christened Rodney Skinner (Curran), American covered supply representative Tom Sawyer (West), the...