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In the 1983 gangster film Scarface, Al Pacino gave a «performance the size of a Caribbean cruise ship,» says critic John Powers.

What's more, this spot between two art deco hotels — the Beacon and the Colony — also has a claim to fame as the location of the Sun Ray Apartments where Al Pacino's chainsaw scene in the 1983 film Scarface took place.

Not exact matches

Touted as the natural successor to Lon Chaney, Karloff was signed by Universal to a seven - year contract, but first he needed to fulfill his prior commitments and exited to appear in films including the Howard Hawks classic Scarface and Business or Pleasure.

One of the most talented, influential, and iconoclastic filmmakers of all time, Brian De Palma's career started in the 60s and has included such acclaimed and diverse films as Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Scarface, The Untouchables, Carlito's Way, and Mission: Impossible.

It's funny, but it's also Phillips» most dramatic and political film, owing to the fact that it takes place during the Iraq War and tells the insane true story of a pair of cocky, Scarface - aspiring gun runners (played by Jonah Hill and Miles Teller) who bite off more than they can chew.

The moderator at a Scarface 35th anniversary screening, asked Michelle Pfeiffer about her weight during filming.

In a series of tweets from various users, references from Scarface, to renaming his classic Harry Potter films and a nod to the current «Yanny vs. Laurel» debate are notable standouts.

Well, to the film's credit, there was a Scarface joke.

«The Public Enemy» launched a cycle of gangster films in the early years of the Depression that also includes «Little Caesar» with Edward G. Robinson, and «Scarface» with Paul Muni.

With indie - film admirers Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow at the helm, De Palma holds forth with bracing candour on his hits (Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Mission: Impossible, The Untouchables), his misses (The Bonfire of the Vanities, Casualties of War, The Black Dahlia) and his excursions in excess (Scarface, Body Double, Murder à la Mod and much more).

Scarface Rated R Available on Blu - ray It's easy to appreciate the influence this Cuban American gangster film has had on world cinema, but after watching it again, I just don't see what all the fuss is about.

The subject's films, especially Scarface and The Bonfire of the Vanities, still inspire as much hate as love, which makes watching them a cinematic cage match that gets your blood up.

That Johnny Boy is comparatively peripheral in Mean Streets may suggest the uniqueness of Scorsese's film in its relationship to movies in which the alienated hood stands in a position to manipulate perspective by ensconcing himself at the metaphysical core of his cinematic universe, but Johnny Boy's gangland genealogy traces back in a psychologically straight line to Hawks» Tony Camonte, and there is little doubt that Corman, Carver, and screenwriter Browne at least had Scarface in mind during the making of Capone.

Oscar Micheaux offered audiences a black perspective on the Chicago gangster film genre (Little Caesar, Scarface) as emphasised in this poster.

His slangy eloquence, his brilliance at scene making, and his nose for the zeitgeist fostered a slew of smash movie classics, including the seminal silent gangster film Underworld (1927), which won the first Oscar for best original screen story, and its sound - film successor, Scarface (1932); the screwball satire Nothing Sacred (1937); and the seductive romantic thriller, Notorious (1946).

This opens up the casting process to upstart talents — fitting a similar strategy as what producers did with the standalone Han Solo Star Wars film and the reboot of Scarface.

The Climber (Arrow Video) is a gangster film in the tradition of such classics as The Public Enemy and Scarface that chronicles the rise and inevitable fall of small - time smuggler Aldo (Joe Dallesandro).

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: «I'm something of an agnostic when it comes to De Palma, but he's unquestionably a director of consummate style and skill, one whose most popular films — from Carrie to Scarface to The Untouchables — have become tremendously influential in contemporary cinema.

From Goodfellas to The Untouchables to Heat to Scarface to The Godfather saga, Scott sticks to the predetermined game plan to give us that which we know and enjoy, and it is to his credit that he does it well, even if the film offers little that we haven't seen before.

De Palma's earlier 80s films ---- Dressed to Kill (1980), Blow Out (1981), and Scarface (1983)---- were hit - and - miss at the box office but each drew considerable controversy for their violent content and exploitation elements.

Absent through much of the film is the seductively beautiful world imaged in drug - cartel films like Blow or Scarface although some of the same dangers that lurk in those films are present here, too, including pessimism and potential exhaustion, but this is tempered by a tense rhythm and a potentially explosive payoff.

Scarface — The original Howard Hawks film, from 1932, is near impossible to separate from the genre it created and the Brian DePalma flm that's every gangsta rapper and frat boy's favorite bulletfest.

Sure there are a handful of gags poking fun at Westerns and grindhouse films (and even hints at Brian de Palma's Scarface), but Casa de mi Padre really takes its spoof target by the reins and goes with it... possibly to a fault.

Tagged as: Antoine Fuqua, gangster films, gangster movies, Martin Scorsese, Scarface, Scarface remake, Terence Winter, The Wolf of Wall Street

Terence Winter, writer of the hit film The Wolf of Wall Street and creator of the HBO series Vinyl is returning to writing for films and this time it's for a project we've had our curiosities about, and that is Antoine Fuqua's Scarface remake.

There can be no disputing that Pacino, reuniting with his Scarface screenwriter, is the film's lead.

He has appeared in many roles, both leading and supporting, in films such as All the President's Men and Scarface.

Plus, David Ayer exits «Scarface» remake, first images for «A Wrinkle in Time», and Margot Robbie up for the role of Sharon Tate in Tarantino's Manson film.

An established screenwriter of such films as Scarface, Conan the Barbarian, and Midnight Express (which won him the Adapted Screenplay Oscar), Stone would cement his reputation as a director with Platoon, a drama based on his experiences in the Vietnam War.

Charlize Theron, meanwhile, presented Allen Daviau — an Oscar nominee for films like E.T., The Color Purple, The Empire of the Sun and Bugsy — with the Lifetime Achievement Award, while the ASC John Alonzo Heritage Award — named in honor of the cinematographer of such classics as Harold and Maude, Norma Rae and Scarface — was presented to a pair of student filmmakers, Brian Melton from the North Carolina School of the Arts and Lyle Vincent from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Training Day director Antoine Fuqua steps away from the helm of Universal's planned Scarface reboot, leaving the film to search for a new director.

Furthermore, Gangster Squad is aware of the legacy of crime, gangster and action films to have come since so there are also moments that seem to be direct references to films such as Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, 1971), Scarface (Brian De Palma, 1983) The Untouchables (Brian De Palma, 1987) and Lethal Weapon (Richard Donner, 1987).

Various bits of ephemera appear in the secondary picture window as the film plays back — interviews, alternate line readings, clips from the edited - for - TV version of the film and the 1932 Scarface.

12:00 M — TCM — The Public Enemy Famous for the scene where James Cagney smashes a grapefruit into Mae Clarke's face, this is one of the gold standards of early gangster films, along with Little Caesar and Howard Hawks's Scarface.

The film, of course, centers on Brian De Palma, whose career since the «60s has spanned films such as Carrie, Scarface, The Untouchables, Carlito's Way and Mission: Impossible.

After viewing a double feature of Pulp Fiction and Scarface in his early teens, film became his biggest passion.

Of course, De Palma has made a number of films that were not particularly well - received when they first came out, only to grow in stature with critics and audiences over the years — «Blow Out» (1981) and «Scarface» (1983) being perhaps the best - known examples of such reevaluations.

Chances are you've never heard of its subjects — storyboard artist and production designer Harold Michelson and his film - researcher wife Lillian — even though they worked on some big movies, including «The Birds,» «The Apartment,» «Scarface,» «Spaceballs» and «Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Goodbye South, Goodbye — Hou Hsiao - hsien's gangster film is about as far away from the pyrotechnics of Scarface as you can get.

Even more effectively than in Frankenstein, Whale adapts the shadowy darkness of the silent German Expressionist classics to the early sound era, a time when most Hollywood directors had seemingly forgotten everything that had been learned about the creation of mood, atmosphere and meaning through image over the prior 20 years in the struggle to capture the novelty of actors actually talking (By 1932, this phase of film was thankfully on it's way out, thanks to Whale, Howard Hawks (Scarface) and Busby Berkeley).

The direction is fine and Huston's always great, but the rest of the cast (aside from Boris Karloff) is pretty mediocre, and the film lacks the fierce energy Hawks would bring to Scarface a year later.

Pacino had been away from movies for almost four years before doing this one, and when you consider his last film was the mega-flop Revolution, it's amazing better roles weren't chosen after the powerhouse performance in Scarface in 1983.

While Sea of Love probably won't go down as one of Al Pacino's (Scarface, Godfather Part II) greatest films, his performance still makes this otherwise standard police thriller worth watching.

Diaz became a household name after starring as «Scarface» in the cult classic film «Half Baked» in 1998, opposite Dave Chappelle and Jim Breuer.

BOMBSHELL DAYS AT MGM John Lee Mahin wrote some of the Thirties» fastest, raciest films (Scarface, Red Dust, Bombshell, Too Hot to Handle).

In the preface, Seitz states that this isn't just a portrait of the director responsible for iconic films such as Scarface, Platoon, Wall Street, JFK and the loony Natural Born Killers, but a celebration of one of America's film titans.

It is also worth noting that the radio station Flashback FM from Grand Theft Auto III features the songs that were written for Scarface; the developers acknowledged the film as being a major influence on the overall rise - to - criminal - power theme of that game, and the soundtrack was included as an homage.

For example, the Brian DePalma version of «Scarface» is one of my all - time favorite films.

The artist filled one room of the gallery with film posters, prints, a wall text and five vitrines containing sundry Scarface - related objects such as key chains, jackets and toys, each sporting an image of Al Pacino (who plays drug kingpin Tony Montana) in various degrees of gun - wielding bravado.