Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
I think my favorite movie from a Jim Thompson book is Coup du Torchon, by Tavernier. Coup du Torchon is great -- it really French-i-fies the story without losing a drop of its essence, and Philippe Noiret is brilliant -- but don't count out The Grifters. It may be the
Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Nom de Plume -- watch what you ask for. Spielberg's Artificial Intelligence: AI was based on a script Kubrick never filmed. I think my favorite movie from a Jim Thompson book is Coup du Torchon, by Tavernier. It's based on Thompston's novel Pop. 1280 but is set in a French colony i Africa and stars Philippe Noiret in a great performance. http://www.imdb.com/t
Aceshowbiz.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Take a peek at the feature adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel which features Casey Affleck , Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson among others.
Get the Big Picture (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
I read The Killer Inside Me about 25 years ago, and in general I'm an admirer of the work of pulp novelist Jim Thompson . His most recognized works are probably that title, The Killing (later turned into an early Kubrick film), The Getaway , and The Grifters , released as a film over 10 years after his death. I heard about him while growing up in Oklahoma, because that's where he was from. The Killer...
U.S. Politics and the World (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
corn1971 posted a reply: The IL Republican party went through what the national party is now going through. For decades the Governor's office was held by Republicans, moderates like Jim Thompson, Jim Edgar & George Ryan. George Ryan had been the Sec of State before becoming Gov. A license for bribes scandal would hound him, ultimately leading him not to run for re-election and a prison conviction....
Filmstalker (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A promotional trailer has arrived for The Killer Inside Me, the adaptation of the Jim Thompson novel which sees a small town sheriff who slowly allows the psychopathic killer inside him, a part he's been hiding for a very long time, out, and watches his life fall apart around him. Directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Ned Beatty, Bill Pullman, Simon...
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
I've really been looking forward to footage from Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of the Jim Thompson novel The Killer Inside Me. I'm a massive Thompson fan, and adaptations of his novels have about a .500 average. (I'm the guy that doesn't like The Grifters much; I infinitely prefer a movie like Tavernier's Coup de Torchon.) The cast here seems to be on the money -- Casey Affleck as the duplicitous...
RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Thanks to The Playlist we have been made aware of a promotional trailer for Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me based on the Jim Thompson novel and starring Casey Affleck, Simon Baker, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Elias Koteas, Bill Pullman and Ned Beatty. Thompson, as many of you may already know co-wrote Stanley Kubrick's killer heist [...]
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Photo by: jrpms U.S. Cellular Field may be getting a makeover sometime soon. The state agency that owns the field said on Friday that it's in the early stages of planning a new development across the street from the ballpark on 35th Street, including new restaurants, stores, and other attractions. The development would replace the parking lots that were built on the site where Comiskey Park used to...
Dream Sequins (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Bangkok is a spiritual place, a decadent place; an ancient town, a super modern city: it is a blend of all these things and much much more. The Mr. and I landed safely after a long flight from New York. On our first full day in the city, we decided to tackle three of Bangkok's most significant tourist attractions: The Royal Palace, Wat Pho (an anicent Buddhist temple) and Jim Thompson House museum...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Five Republican candidates for governor each sounded themes of creating economic development and imposing tougher ethics reforms in pitching their candidacies at a forum today. Several of the contenders at the Union League Club of Chicago event also talked about the need to reform an Illinois Republican Party that has struggled for relevancy following the scandals that sent the state's last GOP governor,...
Ed Gorman Blog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
How's this for a resume (from Wikipedia): "Geoffrey O'Brien (b. 1948) is a widely published author, editor, book and film critic, poet, and cultural historian. In 1992, he joined the staff of the Library of America, (later) becoming editor in chief. He has been a contributor to Artforum, Film Comment, The New York Times, Village Voice, New Republic, Filmmaker and, especially, to the New York Review...
illinoisreview (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
What a difference 31 years makes, eh? From 1978, a Chicago Tribune editorial called Governor Jim Thompson on his effort to shut down the United Republican Fund and extolled the value and importance of the URF ... "As long as...
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
EDINBURGH pro Jim Thompson is on course to turn out for his adopted Selkirk club against the Heriot's team he helps coach in the Scottish Hydro Premiership on Saturday wee
Woody Haut's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Heartbreak & Vine Film Festival Day 4 Elisha Cook, Sterling Hayden, Marie Windsor, etc. in Kubrick's 1956 The Killing, with a script by Jim Thompson. Another great character actor: Timothy Carey, who also appeared in The Killing, from his 1962 World's Greatest Sinner (music by Frank Zappa): Coming next: Femmes Fatales
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anonymous (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
Paths of Glory dvd download Paths of Glory dvd download Paths of Glory Synopsis: Adapting Humphrey Cobb's novel to the screen, director Stanley Kubrick and his collaborators Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson set out to make a devastating anti-war statement, and they succeeded above and beyond the call of duty. In the third year of World War I, the erudite but morally bankrupt French general Broulard...
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