Mockingbird Director Robert Mulligan Dies at 83
Time (Free subscription) | 12/21/2008
Robert Mulligan made an art of eliciting great performances from young actors, especially in his masterpiece To Kill a Mockingbird
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MOVIE REVIEW: Planet of the Apes (1968)
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
REVIEW SUMMARY : An excellent science fiction film whose social commentary still stands up today. MY RATING : BRIEF SYNOPSIS : Astronauts land on a planet where humans are primitive and talking apes are the dominant species. MY REVIEW : PROS : Thought-provoking science fiction; engrossing story; excellent make-up effects. CONS : Some of the filmmaking methods seem dated. BOTTOM LINE : Planet of the...
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DVD’s I Bought This Week: November 4th
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
A wise man once said “It’s not just about seeing Star Wars two weeks before everyone else. You’ve gotta plow through crap like Marie Antoinette and Catwoman as well.” I have the fortune of being able to see all of the films that I want, and find out that they ...
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Top 10 Films of 1968: #6: Planet of the Apes
Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Rod Serling, co-writer of the screenplay, put a Twlight Zone spin on Pierre Boule’s science fiction novel about a planet in which apes are the masters and humans are the, well, monkeys. Charlton Heston stars ... (click below for the post and a larger video screen).
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Tommy Lee Jones Making Hemmingway’s Islands
Screenhead (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
It’s a wonder that classic novelist Ernest Hemmingway’s novels are not getting remade these days. His novels are robust with manly stoicism and strong visuals. Perhaps his ultra-manliness, full of gritted teeth, rampant alcoholism, and all sorts of wrestling with nature and fellow men, is too much for the modern metrosexual man. So, it comes [...]
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Planet of the Apes
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape! Need we say more about our favorite post-apocalyptic film of 1968? The late Charlton Heston stars in his second most iconic role (after Ben-Hur ), with Roddy McDowall surprisingly recognizable, and effective, under that Oscar-win...
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The Best Man.
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
A little something as we await results from Indiana and North Carolina. Back in January 05, Filmbrain caught Franklin J Schaffner's The Best Man (1964); adapting his own play, Gore Vidal's wrote the screenplay. "[I]t's hard to watch the...
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Charlton Heston: A mighty figure with a booming, virile voice
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
For more than 50 years, and with over a hundred movie credits, Charlton Heston was an integral part of the Hollywood scene
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Charlton Heston. In Memoriam
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
American Hollywood legend, Charlton Heston died yesterday. As reported in Variety : Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 84. The actor died Saturday night at his home in Beverly Hills with his wife Lydia at his side, family spokesman...
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Sunday Discussion Thread
Minor League Ball (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968) (via AdaKing ) Have a good Sunday.
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The films of 1968
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (Sergio Leone) Dario Argento and Bernardo Bertolucci, the film's co-writers, spent days discussing their favourite western tropes with Leone and somehow managed to combine them all into one immensely entertaining package.
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Top 20 Geek Movies Of All Time - but only 10 of them are really worthy
bnox (Free subscription) | 02/04/2008
Top 20 Geek Movies Of All Time - The List Universe : "1. 2001 1968, Stanley Kubrick. This film has to be number 1 - it has stunning photography, great acting, and a brilliant story line by Arthur C. Clarke. Any geek that does not like this film is not a true geek." The geek in your life probably already has his favourite movies downloaded from the torrents and got the Lord of the Rings collector's...
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DGA to honor Ryan, Roche
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 12/28/2007
TV News: Duo will be feted for lifetime achievements -- The Directors Guild of America will recognize Liz Ryan and Barbara J. Roche with lifetime achievement honors for their combined 50-plus years of commitment to the guild.
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Papillon: Solitary Confinement
MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 11/28/2007
Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner (Patton; The Boys from Brazil), Papillon stars Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman.
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Back then, space was the place where you took on the Man
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 11/27/2007
Were American science-fiction movies ever as fertile and frantic as they were in the 1970s? The one-two punch of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" and Franklin J. Schaffner's "Planet of the Apes" in 1968 kicked off more than a...
