Charlie Rose with Michael Douglas, Frances McDormand, Tobey Maguire & Curtis Hanson; Edgar Bronfman & Richard Chesnoff (February 23, 2000)
Daemon's Movies (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
[Press Release - Released by TCM] TCM to Celebrate 75th Anniversary of the New York Film Critics Circle With Marathon of Five Honored Classics Jan. 5 Collection of Top Choices Includes The Informer (1935), In Which We Serve (1942), Darling (1965), L.A. Confidential (1997) and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is set to [...]
andrewwilcox.net (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
I was unfortunate to be watching the awful film with Jack Black “Year One” the other day – thank God the London Film Critics’ Circle have just published their list of best films from the last 30 years.. 1. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1980) 2. Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg, 1994) 3. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2007) 4. Unforgiven...
The Empire Chronicles (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam war film “Apocalypse Now” topped a poll marking 30 years of the London Film Critics’ Circle Awards, where it won best film in 1980, the Daily Telegraph reports. The critics did not think there has been a better film since and placed it ahead of Steven Spielberg’s Holocaust epic “Schindler’s List” and the critics’ circle’s...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) If Samuel Fuller was an "authentic American primitive," as Andrew Sarris wrote, that may explain why he caught the eye of the French New Wave directors. Fuller was certainly not given to airs, onscreen or off - he had worked as a...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Though I will confess I swiped the idea of picking the best movies of the last decade from somewhere in my morning Web reading, I promise you these choices are all my own (and since, I believe, only...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
He is the unbearable lightness of being a director, producer, actor, mentor. He is the most effervescent of gentlemen, one who has that gene for making it all look easy.
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Kevin Williamson announces plans to remake 1987 movie The Bedroom Window.
Amy's Robot (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Roger Corman, one of the most prolific movie makers ever, got his honorary Oscar yesterday. He's an award winner that seems unconventional for the Academy, but Corman's connections to mainstream Hollywood go deeper than I realized. You might already...
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
We're in the current of a raging river of Kevin Williamson at the moment, with Scream 4 news popping up almost every day and his new TV series The Vampire Diaries - which I've yet to see any of, being in the UK - proving to be a fairly strong performer. It's just like 1998 all over again when Scream 2 was giving way to hype for Scream 3 and Dawson's Creek was clogging up the pages of TV Guide. I'm...
Hongkie Town (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
This trip was ten days but seemed like forever. So it feels extra nice to get home. The flight back was relatively painless, or as painless as a 16 hour flight can be for a heavy smoker with a short attention span. I didn't get tagged with any excess baggage charges and the food on board was slightly better than the food ten days ago on my HK/LA flight. On the flight, aside from my Kindle, my MacBook...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Oscar News: Indie legend's proteges have nabbed many Oscars -- The first job I had in the movie business paid $400 for four weeks' work on location in 1974 in some of the top chicken-fighting spots in Georgia for a movie called "Cockfighter."
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Between launching hit shows like “The Vampire Diaries” and writing three (!) eagerly anticipated scripts for the upcoming “Scream” sequels, you’d think Kevin Williamson would be a pretty busy dude. You’d think he wouldn’t have time to focus his abundance of creative energy anywhere else. Well, think again. “The other thing that’s exciting that’s...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
'The Social Network' shoots scenes at Johns Hopkins University David Fincher has made the kind of growth leaps from "The Panic Room" to "Zodiac" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" that Curtis Hanson made from "The River Wild" to "L.A. Confidential" and "Wonder Boys." When directors come of age, they don't just take on genres or literary...
Ramblin' with Roger (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
I have been fascinated by the Academy Awards, a/k/a the Oscars , for a very long time. As a kid, I'd watch the stars that I'd heard about for years, even though I had not seen much of, or ANY of their work. It was a great thrill. But the person in those days I was most fascinated with in the 1960s was Edith Head , the costume designer, who won eight awards. I liked her name and I especially loved the...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
The writer-director's vivid, hard-hitting style is fully captured in a new seven-disc set featuring commentaries by Martin Scorsese, Curtis Hanson and Tim Robbins. Samuel Fuller was a director with a signature style: blunt verging on brutal, partial to shock cuts and mega close-ups. As a screenwriter, this former crime reporter was no less distinctive, favoring hot-button issues and hard-boiled repartee....
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