The western always seems to be on the verge of a comeback every few years, usually spurred on by a director who was shaped by the genre in their youth. Most recently this was on the verge of happening...
The French connection From cult to mainstream, rich offerings at this year's fest Posted: November 18, 2009 By James Walling This year's French Film Festival brings a wide selection of contemporary French films to Prague, featuring everything from festival circuit favorites that will be entirely new to audiences in this country to mainstream fare scheduled to enter wider distribution after the festival...
A friend wrote about enjoying a production of “Pirates of Penzance” at Oregon State. I looked for YouTube versions . . . Oh, my! (Better: Rent one of the movies, either of D’Oyly Carte, or the Linda Ronstadt/Rex Smith/Kevin Kline version.) Posted in Art, Movies, Music Tagged: copyright, General Grievous, Gilbert and Sullivan, Mashups, [...]
The St. Louis International Film Festival has kept me busy, so I'm just now getting around to posting the February Criterion additions, which were announced on Friday. Through IFC, Steve McQueen's Hunger will make its way to DVD and Blu-ray; Max Ophüls' Lola Montès will be upgraded from the old (lousy) Fox Lorber disc on DVD and Blu-ray; Janus Films' first-run release of Götz Spielmann's...
Key parties! Suburban sadness! A young, sexually carnivorous Christina Ricci! Kelly Stitzel reaches into the Ang Lee archives for this week's Soundtrack Saturday!
I spoke to my elderly aunt last evening—well, I left a couple messages and she asked a friend to call because it was too much effort for her—and I got to thinking about the people in my life, and all the people in every one of your lives too. Truth. Ever since her stroke, my aunt has been reluctant to talk on the phone, and there are really only two family members in touch with her and...
Entertainment Weekly asks if readers have ever felt "betrayed" by an actor (and their choice of role). I don't think I have. Because even the most brilliant actor can only go where the story takes them; they're usually not in control of that (and usually shouldn't be). For example, that movie with Kevin Kline as Cole Porter sucked, but that wasn't his fault. I may sometimes have felt saddened...
Se7en ... I'll never forget the first time I watched it, nestled with friends into the old seats at Gettysburg's Majestic Theater, all of us enamored, shocked, chilled, and buzzed on the thrill of the film IMDb ranks as #27 out of the Top 250 Films. It's one of those movies that elicits glazed eyes of fandom at its mention. But could the magic be brought to life again? The Hollywood Reporter's Heat...
The final day of PASS offered insights into configuration management, how it helps with Disaster Recovery and Consolidation, and a glimpse in the direction that Microsoft is heading with SQL Server 10.5.
Fourth day was awesome. I had scheduled nearly 8 meetings with different groups of people today. It was really really fun. Let us see the keypoints for the same. PASS President Wayne Snyder honor and thank Kevin Kline for his 10 YEARS of service. Kevin then gets a well-deserved standing ovation from the entire audience. Next year’s [...]
TK first brought Robert Redford's Lincoln Assassination picture, The Conspirator, to our attention last August. As he wrote then, the film itself is expected to be much more about the plot to assassinate Lincoln than it is about the president...
Our friends over at First Showing got an interesting little scoop this afternoon, picking up some casting news from Robert Redford's upcoming Lincoln assassination film The Conspirator.
Last night, a friend of mine at a Hollywood party ran into Toby Kebbell, the very talented British actor who some of you may remember seeing in RocknRolla as Johnny Quid or in Control as Rob Gretton. His career has taken off recently, as Disney has given him two key roles in two of their big movies - Prince of Persia and The Sorcerer's Apprentice. My friend said that Kebbell told him he was in town...
As most of you know by know by now, in a citizen initiative yesterday, Maine -- my state of residence -- narrowly repealed a law making same-sex marriage legal in the state, 53 to 47 percent. If you'd live here...
Queen to Play, a French film (with English subtitles) where chess is portrayed as a means to personal fulfillment, is set to be released November 24th on DVD. When it premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, it was described by Genna Teranova as follows: An inquisitive French Riviera hotel maid (Sandrine Bonnaire) becomes entranced by a vacationing couple (Jennifer Beals, Dominic Gould) as...
John Douglas Thompson, the Obie and Lucille Lortel Award-winning actor for last season's acclaimed revival of Theater for a New Audience's Othello, will return to Off-Broadway in the Irish Repertory Theatre's 2009-10 season opener, The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neill. Previews begin Oct. 7, prior to its official opening Oct. 18 at The Irish Rep's home at 132 West 22nd Street. Ciaran O'Reilly, whose...
Plot: Kate (Meg Ryan) and Charlie (Timothy Hutton) hold a sheer viability planned not on previousl them: buying a abode, nuptial rites, kids, the in one piece output. Kate's awe of rushe keeps her in Canada while Charlie goes to Paris for a medical council. While there Charlie is beset near the amiable Juliette (Susan Anbeh). He calls disappointing the nuptial rite with Kate and she nervously boards...