Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Freiheit (Freedom) is a 2 1/2 minute short film from George Lucas' student days back in 1966. It stars fellow student Randal Kleiser , who is also a director now. It's newly online at youtube: HT: Quiet Earth
Final Cut (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
I thought I would finish this mini-series on teen movies with my personal list of Top 50 Teen Movies. I haven't seen Graffitti , Dazed and Confused , The Last Picture Show and Risky Business , etc, so this list is open to editing over my future film viewing years. Please feel free to share your own favourites by posting a comment below. 50. A Walk to Remember (Adam Shankman, 2002) 49. Freaky Friday...
Sandlander (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
This is what I call 'summery'. It's a trailer for a 1982 movie by Randal Kleiser, who directed Grease and Blue Lagoon . I'm pretty sure Kleiser must have known Barbet Shroeder's More which was made a good ten years before. Summer Lovers never showed up on my radar at the time. But now I realise that Darryl Hannah was hot !
Hamster's Wheel (Free subscription) | 07/21/2009
Sorry it's late LGBT people born today: 1924 – Hans Lodeizen – Dutch Poet – Died 26th July 1950 1946 – Randal Kleiser – US Actor / Director / Producer 1950 – Roberta Achtenberg – US Politician 1954 – Larry Levan – US DJ – Died 8th November 1992 1955 – Rene-Daniel Dubois – Canadian Playwright / Actor 1958 – Rick Castro –...
Retro Finds - The best of the 70s and 80s 70's and 80's (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Great fan made video from You tube featuring Flight Of The Navigator, with music from Alan Silvestri - Main Theme and Robot Romp. Great music! Flight of The Navigator is a 1986 Disney science fiction film directed by Randal Kleiser and was written by Mark H. Baker and Michael Burton. A 12-year old boy, David, who is abducted by an alien space craft in 1978 . Due to time dilation , David is gone for...
The Dish (Free subscription) | 05/26/2009
We all know that Disney has the power to bring the dead to life, the life to dead or merge the realm of impossible with the possible, so it comes as no surprise to hear that Disney are to recreate the 1986 kids adventure flick Flight of The Navigator, originally directed by Randal Kleiser. The [...]
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 05/26/2009
Another day, another remake. Disney is readying another launch of the sci-fi adventure movie Flight of the Navigator. The original film came out in 1986 and starred Joey Cramer as a boy who takes command over an alien spaceship and goes joyriding around the world. Disney has hired Wild Hogs screenwriter Brad Copeland to write the new script, but they haven't chosen a director yet. John Hyde, who executive...
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 05/21/2009
I’ll be honest here, I don’t get all hype surrounding this flick. This was the first time I’ve watched GREASE and I didn’t really care for it. I’m not saying it’s a bad movie (I know it has a crazy fan base), I’m just not much for musicals, so naturally a bunch of guys and gals dancing around to cheesy tunes ain’t exactly my thing. Had I seen this as...
EclipseMagazine.com (Free subscription) | 04/08/2009
How’s this for a Blu-Ray release Trifecta Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Saturday Night Fever and Grease from the fine folks at Paramount Home Video. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Synopsis: High-schooler Ferris Bueller (Mathew Broderick), his girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara), and his best bud Cameron (Alan Ruck) are off on the spontaneous romp through Chicago known as Ferris Bueller’s [...]...
Musings of a Bookish Kitty (Free subscription) | 03/23/2009
Monday's Movie hosted by Sheri at A Novel Menagerie Movie: Grease (1978) Genre: Comedy, Romance, Musical MPAA Rating: G Directed By: Randal Kleiser Writers: Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey (musical) & Allan Carr (adaptation) & Bronte Woodard (screenplay) Rating: 5 Bags of Popcorn (Just Because) I couldn't be more excited. It was my first day on campus. My first day in my dorm room. I was...
Thighs Wide Shut (Free subscription) | 02/17/2009
Flight of the Navigator 's Joey Cramer FOUND!!!! and he still sorta looks like C. Thomas Howell ! + the ship itself rots somewhere in Orlando director Randal Kleiser appeared in one of George Lucas ' first student films, Freiheit [ clip ] YTNND The Urinating Navigator Has No Class
Veritas et Venustas (Free subscription) | 02/09/2009
From the New York Times: Mr. Lucas, an architectural hobbyist, laid out the original designs for the project and donated an initial $175 million to build and support it. Industry benefactors like Warner Brothers, Fox and the Walt Disney Company have contributed another $50 million.... In effect Mr. Lucas is...
Webomatica (Free subscription) | 12/30/2008
Synopsis Sandy (Oliva Newton-John) and Danny (John Travolta) have a short summer romance and say their goodbyes, only to find they're both enrolled at the same high-school.
Frankly My Dear... (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
Lots of Hollywood folk drop the name Nina Foch when they talk of acting influences. An actress turned teacher who taught directors such as Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz how to work with story and with actors, Foch has died...
gay persons of color (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
Get a hankie for this one. In keeping with World AIDS Week, I've decided to post this clip of the last few minutes of It's My Party , a 1996 American film, written and directed by Randal Kleiser, which chronicles a two-day party hosted by architect Nick Stark (played by Eric Roberts), who has been diagnosed with Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML). Rather than fall into a state of mental...
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