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Home Video News - MovieWeb.com (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
We're giving away this huge 11-film set to some lucky readers.
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Film News: Thesps to be recognized at Stockholm film fest -- This year's Stockholm Intl. Film Festival's honorees are Wong Kar Wai and Charlotte Rampling.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
If the young Marlon Brando is pure cinema, then Vivien Leigh is frankly pure theatre, in Elia Kazan's stolid 1951 movie version of the Tennessee Williams play, presented at London's BFI Southbank as part of a Williams season. Brando is lethally powerful, but I am ambivalent about Leigh's stagey, mad-eyed performance, often pitilessly inspected in closeup. She plays the delusional, manipulative, parasitic...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
This wouldn't have got a 12A on its first release back in 1951.
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
Films get ever more like videogames, videogames get ever more like films, and the adaptations roll on with Max Payne, writes Tim Robey.
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Moon in the Gutter (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
Fox Movie Channel is having two showings of Elia Kazan's extraordinary Wild River this month, including one this afternoon. The film, starring Montgomery Clift and Lee Remick, is one of Kazan's finest and it is sadly still not available on DVD in America. FMC is advertising the showings as Widescreen and I can't wait to watch this undervalued treasure again.
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New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Seen any good movies lately? If current films about talking Chihuahuas or saw-wielding killers don't spark reel excitement, here's your ticket to check out some classics from Hollywood's golden past.
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
In a delightfully subversive programming decision, Turner Classic Movies is showing A Face in the Crowd tonight at 8pm, just days before the election.
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Babalu Blog (Free subscription) | 10/25/2008
“We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.” Stephen Vizinczey Thinking about the morphing rhetoric coming from "the one," I would say that Mr. Vizinczey is...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/19/2008
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Critics still talk about Henry Mancini bringing jazz to soundtracks with "Peter Gunn" in 1958, but seven years earlier Alex North (1910-1991) was the first to write a full-length jazz-oriented score for a Hollywood feature: Elia...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 10/17/2008
1965, midtown Manhattan, outside the production offices of Elia Kazan. A 23-year-old film student called Martin Scorsese is standing in front of his hero, the already legendary film-maker Kazan (On the Waterfront, East of Eden), and begging him for a break. Scorsese has written Kazan a long fan letter, has previously accosted him after a guest lecture that Kazan gave at Washington Square College (soon...
