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His previous print work includes many articles about classic films and the Greenwood Press reference volume, Carole Lombard: A Bio-Biography.
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Alicia is passionate about classic films, independent movies and supporting women in film.
They chat about classic films and performances they admire (from To Kill a Mockingbird to Casino), their past experiences in film and television, and working with each other.
Reviewing independently since 1998, the Savant database has grown to over five thousand reviews and articles, and become one of the most respected and sought - out review pages on the web for news and opinions about classic films on disc.
About Blog A blog about classic film, old Hollywood stars, actors and actresses, directors, books about stars and movies and much more.
Farran Smith Nehme writes about classic film on her blog, Self - Styled Siren, and recently published her first novel, Missing Reels.
I spoke to him about that classic film, about hits and flops, and about his long collaboration with his two main filmmaking partners, screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and producer Ismail Merchant.
About Blog A blog about classic film, old Hollywood stars, actors and actresses, directors, books about stars and movies and much more.
About Blog A blog about classic film, old Hollywood stars, actors and actresses, directors, books about stars and movies and much more.
Not exact matches
Stanley Kubrick's classic movie about an ultraviolent teen went so far in showing horrific antics, including house invasion and rape, that numerous countries banned the film for decades.
At the time, O'Connell was working on a poster for a science - fiction and horror film festival featuring John Carpenter's 1988 cult classic «They Live» about aliens living incognito among humans.
Of course, aging Jesus Freaks and Episcopalians alike are all about that brevity thing, so they happily go along with «the Dude abides,» another classic line from the film.
Although White is absolutely right about the tendency of today's animated films (Tangled included) to pander to the most annoying and depressing aspects of popular culture even as they ignore or deny the richer, deeper culture from which most classic fairy tales emerged, the animated features that Disney brought to the screen when Uncle Walt himself still oversaw the studio made a point of drawing considerable aesthetic, emotional, and narrative power from specifically Christian aspects of the culture that, even today, America shares with Europe.
Even after The Disaster Artist gave his own story and his cult - classic indie film The Room — largely regarded as the worst movie ever made — new prominence, little is known about where he comes from or who he truly is.
Speaking about the film recently in Los Angeles, Cera — who in this film, takes some refreshingly bold steps away from his usual one - note nerd persona — and co - writer / director Edgar Wright (who also did the zany cult classics Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) discussed the meaning of the film, the stretching Cera had to go through for the role, and the way in which the film's hyperkinetic action sequences are really just the same as the dance scenes in Grease or a Gene Kelly movie.
When I imagined my summer break this year, all I could think about was going to the beach, sipping iced tea, and catching up on my favorite classic films I've recorded throughout the semester.
Watching a film is a classic «night in» activity, but you should take the time to really think about what you watch.
Today it continues to feature independent and classic cinema, as well as offer opportunities to learn about the art, science, and business of film.
There's something so classic and romantic about a drive in and it's great for a date because unlike a movie theatre you can chat to one another throughout the film and get to know each other without being hushed!
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Everything about this film screams classic Bond and it is by far the greatest spy film ever made and has yet to be topped.
And while the film definitely has a silly side to it (McConaughey's character even has a nasty run of bad luck with animals biting him), it's hardly comparable to a genre classic like «There's Something About Mary.»
«Guess Who» is a dry comedy, a remake of the classic «Guess Who's Coming to Dinner» (1967), only this time, it has a race role reversal, where the original film was about a white family meeting a black man, this film centers around a black family meeting a white man.
Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days by Big Star Games is a third - person top - down shooter with few connections to Quentin Tarantino's film other than it being about gangsters with color - coded names; and yet Bloody Days partially succeeds in its aspiration to revive a classic for crime and gangster films, while offering a time - rewind mechanics that helps the game distinct itself from the pool of titles in the top - down shooter category.
This unintentionally hilarious Depression Era propaganda film has become a cult classic for its outrageous claims about the effects of marijuana, as told by a concerned school principal (Joseph Forte) to a PTA meeting.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is a landmark, science fiction classic - and probably the best science - fiction film of all time about exploration of the unknown.
One of the greatest films about dystopia / aspiring utopia as well as a classic romance.
The film is about magic, but it's more or less a classic story of star crossed lovers that uses magic as a plot device.
Baz Luhrmann hasn't directed a film since 2008's Australia, but, over the past few weeks, rumors have started swirling about Luhrmann taking on F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby.
A stirring romance between an emotionally stifled sheep farmer and an irrepressible Romanian migrant worker, isn't shy about paying homage to the classic «Brokeback Mountain,» but in many ways, this British film turns out better.
What is there to say about this remake of the classic film?
Digital Networks partnership, each month FilmStruck will feature the Warner Bros. classics in a curated collection of about two dozen films.
THN has been lucky enough to be invited to the lush surroundings of the famous Savoy Hotel in London, which coincidentally also happens to be a major location in the upcoming comedy caper we're here to find out about — GAMBIT, a remake of the classic 1966 Michael Caine / Shirley MacLaine film of the same name.
In his review, Turan compares the film to the classic - age comedies of Preston Sturges and Ernst Lubitsch in noting that «making an anarchic, absurdist comedy about 2008's housing market collapse and the global financial crisis that followed is as unlikely as the collapse itself.
Not many will debate against that Woody Harrelson is one of the greatest actors of his time (this year alone he has appeared in a wide variety of films and given a pair of incredible performances in War for the Planet of the Apes and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), but his portrayal of Texan Lyndon B. Johnson in the biopic about the polarizing political figure simply titled LBJ (directed by Rob Reiner of A Few Good Men fame among other widely regarded classics) is a mixed bag.
Alas, my heart sank when I realized that the film I was about to see was not a remake of the 1995 forgotten Cindy Crawford - William Baldwin classic but a in fact change of pace low - key political drama from the go to high concept action film - maker of the past decade, Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr & Mrs Smith) focusing on the Plame Affair, one of the key scandals in recent American political history.
Gerwig herself has been open about the many films that inspired «Lady Bird» — she even programmed an entire series at NYC's Quad Cinema featuring a dozen films that she says helped fuel her creativity — and it while the list is peppered with some surprises, there's at least one coming - of - age classic that seems obvious: Howard Deutch's «Pretty in Pink.»
In it, four of the film's essential crew members — special makeup artists Stephan Dupuis and Chris Walas, director of photography Mark Irwin, and special effects supervisor Gary Zeller — talk about how they created the cult classic's signature effect.
«Women of all ages are enthusiastic about this film,» said Sony Pictures Classics co-president Michael Barker, whose company picked up the title out of Sundance in January.
In case you are wondering about the director, Jeff Kanew, he is known best for directing the classic comedy film «Revenge of the Nerds».
OPENING THIS WEEK by Kam Williams For movies opening September 7, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS 3:10 to Yuma (R for violence and profanity) Christian Bale and Russell Crowe co-star in this remake of the 1957 classic Western about the dangerous gauntlet across the desert negotiated by a broke rancher out to collect a bounty for escorting an outlaw man to a train waiting to transport the wanted man to justice.
Those who see the original after this remake will now be bored, but most will choose not to even view the classic because this one seems so weak and stupid it will make them care even less about seeking the 1960 film out.
This darkly funny and eerily relevant 1982 cult classic about how to stop worrying and love the bomb is pieced together from government - produced educational and training films, newsreels and... More
There is nothing conspicuously revolutionary about the «The Kids Are All Right», a sleek, smart, enormously entertaining film about a middle - aged lesbian couple (played by Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) whose teenage kids seek out the sperm donor who is their biological father (Mark Ruffalo); it has big - name actors, a sun - dappled Los Angeles setting, and the feel of a classic Hollywood comedy at its snappiest.
Jean - Luc Godards 1963 classic is perhaps the quintessential film about film.
Director Renen Schorr speaks about how his classic 1986 debut feature film has withstood the test of time.
In this sense, the film feels like a drolly amusing riff on David Fincher's 2007 classic, Zodiac, itself about the folly of searching for finite truth.
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So the institution known as the hoopla.nu classic movie review is quickly becoming a place for me to have a whinge about those older films that everyone knows and loves.
This is Demme's second remake of a classic film in row, however, unlike his overcooked update of Charade in The Truth About Charlie, he directs with just the right amount of style here, always staying true to the events of the story as they unfold.