Production earmarked for Marbella, Spain, by mid-2024 pending SAG-AFTRA strike resolution.
Passage Pictures led by Uri Singer, has secured rights to bring Peter Viertel’s 1984 novel American Skin to the big screen.
Production has been earmarked for Marbella, Spain, by mid-2024 pending the resolution of the SAG-AFTRA strike.
Singer has brought on rising Spanish filmmaker and shorts and commercials director Mariano Schoendorff Ares to adapt the screenplay and direct.
American Skin explores the expatriate lifestyle and cultural clashes along the Costa del Sol. The story centres on David Brandt, a handsome Californian who arrives in Marbella hoping to soothe...
Passage Pictures led by Uri Singer, has secured rights to bring Peter Viertel’s 1984 novel American Skin to the big screen.
Production has been earmarked for Marbella, Spain, by mid-2024 pending the resolution of the SAG-AFTRA strike.
Singer has brought on rising Spanish filmmaker and shorts and commercials director Mariano Schoendorff Ares to adapt the screenplay and direct.
American Skin explores the expatriate lifestyle and cultural clashes along the Costa del Sol. The story centres on David Brandt, a handsome Californian who arrives in Marbella hoping to soothe...
- 10/16/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
In the pantheon of great director-actor pairings, it is hard to match the six-film run of John Huston and Humphrey Bogart. The blustery filmmaker and his brutally handsome star confidently segued from the world-weary noir of "The Maltese Falcon" to the caustically funny misadventure of "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and on to the rambunctiously romantic banter of "The African Queen." Over their first five films, Huston's style is refreshingly unfussy. He's not trying to knock the viewer out with bravura coups de cinema. Rather, he reads the emotion of his characters, and, if he's cast well, the camera always ends up in the right place, while every cut and transition flows mellifluously through to the final reel.
Huston made a lot of movies, and more than his share of stinkers, but he never misfired when collaborating with Bogie -- that is, until 1953, when they came together for the garishly cynical "Beat the Devil.
Huston made a lot of movies, and more than his share of stinkers, but he never misfired when collaborating with Bogie -- that is, until 1953, when they came together for the garishly cynical "Beat the Devil.
- 8/24/2022
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
One of the more unexpected shifts in media habits during the pandemic, at least for me, has been a new interest in those little bird-box book libraries that inhabit front lawns in the quieter neighborhoods here. I regularly pass a dozen of them on a circuit of five or six miles around Santa Monica and Brentwood. Always, I stop to see what they’re offering. Sometimes, bag and sanitizer in hand, I’ll actually swap a book.
It’s a fascinating exercise, in that the books—from a crumbling Pocket Book edition of George Plimpton’s Out of My League, printed in 1967, to the hefty contemporary cookbooks at a stand-up shed in Santa Monica Canyon—turn out to be far more intellectually, culturally, and politically diverse than the current run of lawn signs, cable news or festival films.
Publicly, people in this neighborhood, which much of the entertainment community calls home,...
It’s a fascinating exercise, in that the books—from a crumbling Pocket Book edition of George Plimpton’s Out of My League, printed in 1967, to the hefty contemporary cookbooks at a stand-up shed in Santa Monica Canyon—turn out to be far more intellectually, culturally, and politically diverse than the current run of lawn signs, cable news or festival films.
Publicly, people in this neighborhood, which much of the entertainment community calls home,...
- 1/25/2021
- by Michael Cieply
- Deadline Film + TV
Clint Eastwood is back in the nation’s theaters once again, but you won’t see him on screen. His latest film, “The 15:17 to Paris” is a biographical suspense drama based on the 2015 terrorist attack on a Thalys train headed to Paris. Three American soldiers (Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler and Alek Skarlatos) thwarted the terrorist and were declared heroes by the French Government. In a bold move, Eastwood cast the trio of heroes to play themselves in the film, but as a director, Eastwood is no stranger to bold moves.
For over half a century Eastwood has been one of the world’s greatest movie stars. Comfortable in both westerns and contemporary roles, his measured growl of a voice has been a key part in creating such iconic characters as The Man With No Name and Dirty Harry.
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For over half a century Eastwood has been one of the world’s greatest movie stars. Comfortable in both westerns and contemporary roles, his measured growl of a voice has been a key part in creating such iconic characters as The Man With No Name and Dirty Harry.
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- 2/26/2018
- by Tom O'Brien and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
by Nick Schager
[This week's "Retro Active" pick is inspired by Willem Dafoe's ignoble expedition in The Hunter.]
Clint Eastwood's surgical dissection of the iconic alpha-male persona that made him the '70s biggest box-office draw began as early as 1980's Bronco Billy (if not before, lest we forget the goofball shenanigans of 1978's Every Which Way But Loose and its sequel). Yet that critical modus operandi, which would gradually come to dominate his latter body of work (up to 2008's Gran Torino), began in earnest with White Hunter Black Heart, an adaptation of Peter Viertel's novel based on his experiences as a screenwriter on John Huston's The African Queen. It is, on the face of it, a wholly uncharacteristic vehicle for Eastwood, who not only helms the film but stars as John Wilson, a blustery, boozy movie director-cum-adventurer whom the star embodies with the same swagger, fierceness and drawn-out drawl of the legendary Huston. Devoid of serious action or genre accouterments,...
[This week's "Retro Active" pick is inspired by Willem Dafoe's ignoble expedition in The Hunter.]
Clint Eastwood's surgical dissection of the iconic alpha-male persona that made him the '70s biggest box-office draw began as early as 1980's Bronco Billy (if not before, lest we forget the goofball shenanigans of 1978's Every Which Way But Loose and its sequel). Yet that critical modus operandi, which would gradually come to dominate his latter body of work (up to 2008's Gran Torino), began in earnest with White Hunter Black Heart, an adaptation of Peter Viertel's novel based on his experiences as a screenwriter on John Huston's The African Queen. It is, on the face of it, a wholly uncharacteristic vehicle for Eastwood, who not only helms the film but stars as John Wilson, a blustery, boozy movie director-cum-adventurer whom the star embodies with the same swagger, fierceness and drawn-out drawl of the legendary Huston. Devoid of serious action or genre accouterments,...
- 4/5/2012
- GreenCine Daily
Poisonous snakes, filthy water, a diet of whisky and a leading lady throwing up between takes . . . Anjelica Huston reveals how her father filmed his classic, The African Queen
Anjelica Huston is recalling her father's reputation for putting his actors through hell on shoots. "Basically," she says, "the one thing you had to do was take it well. My father admired anyone who actually survived it all. Usually, it was a test to see if you had: a) any bravery; or b) a sense of humour. Somehow, if you came out with either of those intact, you graduated."
Anjelica knows all about her father's approach, having acted in four of his films, but on this occasion she's talking about The African Queen, one of John Huston's best loved and most enduring films, which was made in 1951, the year Anjelica was born. The film's status as a classic has now been cemented by a full restoration,...
Anjelica Huston is recalling her father's reputation for putting his actors through hell on shoots. "Basically," she says, "the one thing you had to do was take it well. My father admired anyone who actually survived it all. Usually, it was a test to see if you had: a) any bravery; or b) a sense of humour. Somehow, if you came out with either of those intact, you graduated."
Anjelica knows all about her father's approach, having acted in four of his films, but on this occasion she's talking about The African Queen, one of John Huston's best loved and most enduring films, which was made in 1951, the year Anjelica was born. The film's status as a classic has now been cemented by a full restoration,...
- 5/12/2010
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
The African Queen (Blu-ray)Paramount Home Entertainment1951/Rated G/105 minsList Price $39.99 – Available March 23, 2010It's amazing that an acclaimed and successful film like The African Queen still holds up today, yet was in danger of being lost forever. Actually it should come as no surprise that the film's original negative had deteriorated so much, John Huston's masterpiece is nearly sixty years old. Thank the powers that be that today's filmmaking tools aren't just for elaborate showstopping visual effects. Effects artists have painstakingly restored every single frame of the picture in tune with its original three strip technicolor palette and the end result is a presentation that rivals the film's 1951 debut. I had the pleasure of recently attending a screening of The African Queen and though this blu-ray edition represents the best this film has looked in decades, even my high tech home theater doesn't beat a theatrical presentation. I'm glad...
- 3/19/2010
- LRMonline.com
Tyrone Power, Loretta Young Tyrone Power II: Hollywood Career Rumors of a Tyrone Power-Errol Flynn romance. Total myth? Is there any evidence that Power was at all attracted to men or is that just make-believe? Okay, you asked for it. I am going to go on and on and on about this because I have had to do so much research and had to fight so hard to get a half-decent Wikipedia page for him — and that’s all it is, half-decent. So forgive me if I’m endless. I sincerely doubt the Power-Flynn thing is true. Peter Viertel, who wrote the screenplay for The Sun Also Rises, was incensed when my old boss asked him that and insisted that there was never any affair. [...]...
- 12/6/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Deborah Kerr, the elegant, red-headed actress best known for her roles in The King and I and From Here to Eternity, died Tuesday (10/16) of Parkinson's disease in Suffolk, England. She was 86. Kerr was born in Scotland in 1921. A former ballet dancer, she acted on the stage as well but was quickly put before the cameras. She was 20 when she was cast in a supporting part in Major Barbara, opposite Rex Harrison and multiple roles in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp as Blimp's (and the directors') ideal woman. Her next role for Powell, a lead part as a Catholic nun in Black Narcissus five years later, made her a star and got the attention of Hollywood. On contract with MGM, she was often cast as a refined paragon of womanly virtue, appearing as the virtuous Lygia in Quo Vadis?, the headstrong Beth in King Solomon's Mines, and Portia, the noble wife of the equally noble Brutus (James Mason) in Julius Caesar. Kerr went decidedly against that typecasting when she landed the part of the adulterous Karen Holmes, who has an affair with one of her husband's subordinates, played by Burt Lancaster, in 1953's From Here to Eternity. Kerr and Lancaster's lusty beachside romp, one so intense that they seem oblivious to the pounding waves about them, became one of the most notorious and famous kisses in movie history, perhaps all the more so due to Kerr's established image of reserve and civility. She went on to return to that image in Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's musical The King and I. Marni Nixon was dubbed in for Ms. Kerr's singing voice, but it was all Deborah filling the screen as the prim but level-headed Anna Leonowens. The film was a smashing success and earned nine Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. Though her co-star, Yul Brynner won for Best Actor, Kerr was not to win for Best Actress (that went to Ingrid Bergman for Anastasia). Indeed Kerr was never to win an acting Oscar though she was nominated six times in twelve years. Kerr followed King with more memorable roles, including Terry McKay, the vibrant, witty woman with whom Cary Grant has An Affair to Remember, the matriarch of an Australian family of sheep-drovers in The Sundowners, a nun again, shipwrecked with a hard-living Marine (Robert Mitchum) in Heaven Knows, Mr. Alison, and a governess utterly unable to comprehend her charges in The Innocents. Kerr acted sporadically thereafter and moved to Switzerland for many years before returning to the UK in the face of her illness. Married twice, she is survived by her second husband, screenwriter Peter Viertel, two children from her first marriage, and three grandchildren. In 1994 she received an honorary Oscar for being "An artist of impeccable grace and beauty, a dedicated actress whose motion picture career has always stood for perfection, discipline and elegance." -Keith Simanton, IMDb...
- 10/18/2007
- IMDb News
Hollywood legend Deborah Kerr is winning her battle against Parkinson's Disease and it's all thanks to her fans. The 81-year-old star of classics like From Here To Eternity and The King And I announced she was suffering from the brain disorder earlier this year, prompting her fans to write loving letters to her in a bid to boost her morale. And her doctors claim the outpouring of support and love has helped slow down her degeneration. Her husband Peter Viertel says, "It's meant a great deal to her. The letters have cheered her up immensely. She still needs a nurse, but she's able to get out of the apartment and go for a walk. She's a lot more alert."...
- 12/23/2002
- WENN
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