MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
150 hours. That's 6 and a quarter days. For one movie, Gerard Courant's "Cinematon." I'm not usually one for the avant-garde, but even I'm a little bit staggered by the scale of this thing. The movie(?) actually a massive anthology of short films, all of them running for 3 and a half minutes and focusing [...]
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
So what exactly happens in a film that runs almost as long as an entire week. Well, it looks like anything really since the film itself, titled Cinematon, is comprised of over 2000 segments, each 3½ minutes long, of footage from celebrities, artists, philosophers and journalists, as well as children who were allowed to do exactly as they please in front of the camera. So basically it's YouTube:...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... 150 hours long. You may have thought that Titanic was long with its 3 hour and 14 minute running time, but that's nothing. Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander is an impressive 312 minutes. Cleopatra lounges in a director's cut of 320 minutes. The 1968 Soviet film War and Peace boasts an impressive 484 minutes, and Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz had to be shown in segments on television since...
Chester Chronicle - And Finally (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Film fans are facing the ultimate test - to sit through a silent French movie that lasts more than SIX DAYS....
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Film fans are facing the ultimate test – to sit through a silent French movie that lasts more than SIX DAYS.
ForBidMe's Game Reviews & Impressions (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Just like the title... i mean seriosly... dubayo tee eff! Who the hell would watch a movie that long!? All i have to say is that it better be good as your wasting a good amount of time to watch it. Doubtfully your be unable to watch it all the way through without nodding off, all i have to say is that it better be damn good to make me watch it for so long! Heres a little bit about the guy who wrote...
DaveKehr.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
I’ll be traveling this weekend so I won’t be able to get the live link to my Times review up until Monday. But I’m sure you’re all eager to share your thoughts on this interesting collection from Sony, which includes seven Columbia features — two of them directed by Fuller (”The Crimson Kimono” and [...]
Popdose (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Quick—what won Best Foreign Film at this year’s Academy Awards? If you recalled Departures, from Japan, take a bow. Like most foreign film winners, the movie was pretty much forgotten two minutes after host Hugh Jackman signed off. Where quality is concerned, Foreign Film ties with Best Song in the race to the bottom of [...]
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
When one thinks of great art, there's often the expectation of carefully prepared canvasses, lush materials, and skilled, complex detail. But it doesn't always take a horde of materials to make something impressive -- sometimes all it takes is a little plastic and some brown packing tape. CNN reports that Philly artist Mark Khaisman is taking these seemingly mundane materials and turning them into...
From the Front Row (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Samuel Fuller's directorial debut, , is now available for free at .This is one of my favorite Westerns. Not only is it great fun, but its also surprisingly psychologically astute. It focuses more on the inner turmoil of Robert Ford, after he guns down his friend and partner, Jesse James, in exchange for a reward and judicial immunity. Unlike in Andrew Dominick's masterful The Assassination of Jesse...
GreenCine Guru (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Reviewer: Jeffrey M. Anderson Rating (out of 5): ***** In his autobiography, filmmaker Samuel Fuller wrote that he did not speak a word for the first several years of his life, and then suddenly, at age 4 or 5, he blurted out the word "hammer!" The abruptness of this word, and its punchy imagery, practically defines Fuller's work. He was a hard crime reporter as a teenager, and then a dogface...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Because writer-director Sam Fuller tried his best to skirt the Hollywood system, his filmography tends to be scattered, erratic, and difficult to collect. Sony’s 7-DVD box set The Samuel Fuller Collection features only two movies that Fuller directed ( The Crimson Kimono and Underworld U.S.A. ), along with two he merely co-scripted ( It Happened In Hollywood and Shockproof ), and three based...
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Highly Recommended Reviewed by Glenn Erickson Proof positive of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's commitment to classic films on DVD comes with The Sam Fuller Collection . The seven-disc set packages two of the iconoclastic writer-director's Columbia efforts, preceded by five pictures for which he took story or screenwriting credit. The films feature strong characters from the idealistic Fuller mold...
DVDVerdict (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Reviewed by Ben Saylor Quote: "Of the seven movies here, only The Crimson Kimono and Underworld U.S.A. are essential and, by themselves, they're almost worth the price of the set."
Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
For context, see here. Farber: "Sam Fuller's jagged, suspenseful, off-beat variant of the Mauldin cartoon, expanded into a full-length Korean battle movie without benefit of the usual newsreel clips. Funny, morbid—the best war movie since Bataan. I wouldn't mind seeing...
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