Everyone from Agnes Varda to Peter Farrelly, from Julie Taymor to Patty Jenkins, from Ben Kingsley to Geena Davis and countless others are interviewed in Be Natural, commenting on the films of Guy - Blaché after Green provided those film that still survive (many are in the Library of Congress, or in the hands of collectors) to view, while most admit they had never before heard of Alice Guy - Blaché — even savvy filmmaker /
film historian Peter Bogdanovich said he hadn't.
Bonus materials include a new conversation between author Herve Dumont, author of Frank Borzage: The Life and Films of a Hollywood Romantic, and
film historian Peter Cowie; and a critical essay.
On the DVD,
film historian Peter Cowie provides encyclopedic commentary on everything from actress Bibi Andersson (who would become Bergman's lover) to the silence that envelops the scene in which Death first appears.
Not exact matches
Those
film historians who've summed up Kemp's post-Z Cars TV appearances as «sporadic» evidently haven't seen his small - screen work in such miniseries as Winds of War and its sequel War and Remembrance (he played German general Armin Von Roon in both); he also played Cornwall in Sir Laurence Olivier's 1983 television adaptation of King Lear, and was featured in the internationally produced historical multiparters George Washington (1985) and
Peter the Great (1986).
House of the Long Shadows (Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu - ray, DVD), directed by Pete Walker, stars Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and
Peter Cushing, along with John Carradine and Desi Arnaz Jr., and the disc features separate commentary tracks by director Pete Walker and
film historian David Del Valle and an interview with Walker.
The four - disc combo release includes both
films on Blu - ray and DVD plus new video interviews with
Peter Bogdanovich (discussing the differences between the two cuts) and
historian Lee Clark Mitchell (on the history of the western novel and the
film's debt to the literary tradition) and a video essay by Molly Haskell.
Included is an excellent new audio commentary by the always informative
film historian / author Troy Howarth; an additional audio commentary by director
Peter Duffell and author Jonathan Rigsby; a new 10 - minute interview with second assistant director Mike Higgins; A-Rated Horror
Film, a 17 - minute vintage featurette about the
film featuring interviews with director
Peter Duffell and actors Geoffrey Bayldon, Ingrid Pitt, and Chloe Franks; the English and Spanish theatrical trailers for the
film, both in HD; 4 radio spots; an animated image gallery with 68 stills containing on - set photos, promotional materials, and advertisements; and a collection of Amicus radio spots and still galleries for Asylum, At the Earth's Core, From Beyond the Grave, Madhouse, Scream and Scream Again, Tales from the Crypt, The Beast Must Die, The Land That Time Forgot, The Mind of Mr. Soames, The People That Time Forgot, and Vault of Horror.
Among those appearing are lead voice cast members Tom Hanks (goateed) and Tim Allen, acclaimed animation directors Brad Bird and Hayao Miyazaki (who delivers only a brief subtitled anecdote), helmers of cinematic spectacle George Lucas and a surprisingly svelte
Peter Jackson, Disney's go - to
film historians Leonard Maltin and John Canemaker, and Roy E. Disney (who gets to sprinkle in the sage observation that the
film excels because of story, not CGI - a philosophy Pixar seems to be pushing here).
Other notable
films that will screen at TIFF include Tom Ford «s «Nocturnal Animals,» with Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams; «Whiplash» director Damien Chazelle «s musical «La La Land,» with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone;
Peter Berg «s «Deepwater Horizon,» a true - life drama about the oil spill, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell; Werner Herzog «s «Salt and Fire,» a drama in which Michael Shannon and Gael Garcia Bernal face ecological disaster in South America; Ewan McGregor «s Philip Roth adaptation «American Pastoral,» the actor's directorial debut; Denis Villeneuve «s sci - fi drama «Arrival,» formerly titled «Story of Your Life,» with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner; Juan Antonio Bayona «s «A Monster Calls»; «Denial,» Mick Jackson's drama starring Rachel Weisz as a
historian sued by a Holocaust denier; Irish director Jim Sheridan «s «The Secret Scripture,» with Vanessa Redgrave and Rooney Mara playing two different ages of a woman who keeps a diary of her time in a mental hospital; and «Mascots,» Christopher Guest «s comedy about the world of sports mascots.
Peter Bogdanovich is a director, writer, actor, producer,
film historian, and former
film journalist.
In this one - hour, nine - minute, two - second show, we hear from Fricke, Ebsen, composers / lyricists Marc Shaiman and Stephen Schwartz, author's great - great - grandson Robert A. Baum,
film critic Michael Sragow,
film historians Leonard Maltin and Sam Wasson, filmmakers William Friedkin and Rob Marshall, Bert Lahr's son John, actors Ruth Duccini and Margaret Pelligrini, author William Wellman, Jr., costume designer Ruth Myers, makeup artist Charles H. Schram, cinematographer
Peter Deming, visual effects supervisor Craig Barron, sound designer Ben Burtt,
Veteran sound designer Ben Burtt, composer John Morgan,
film historian Rudy Behlmer, and directors
Peter Jackson and Joe Dante, among others, describe the revolutionary ideas Steiner and Spivack employed in what remains a standard in blockbuster filmmaking for the action / fantasy genre.
Special Features: NEW Audio Commentary by
film historian / author Troy Howarth NEW interview with second assistant director Mike Higgins Audio Commentary with director
Peter Duffell and author Jonathan Rigby Vintage Featurette — A-Rated Horror
Film — featuring interviews with director
Peter Duffell, actors Geoffrey Bayldon, Ingrid Pitt and Chloe Franks Theatrical Trailers (English and Spanish) Radio Spots The Amicus Radio Spots Collection Still Gallery
Joining
Peter this week are Casey Tanaka, Coronado mayor, who discusses literature; Chris Donovan,
historian, who talks about Kate Morgan, the Del's resident ghost; and Doug St. Denis, founder and co-executive director of the Coronado Island
Film Festival, who piques our interest about a brand new
film festival.
As in the first two volumes, nine diverse contributors are included, ranging from art
historian Jonathan Crary and philosopher Boris Groys to
film theoretician
Peter Wollen, from curator Russell Ferguson to cultural critic Elaine Showalter.
To learn more about the Hadza, look out for the documentary
film «Hadza: Last of the First,» directed and produced by Bill Benenson and featuring engaging interviews with Jane Goodall, late Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai, author
Peter Mathiessen, Hadza
historian and Conservancy partner Daudi Peterson, and the Conservancy's Africa director, David Banks.