Ivan Passer’s superb coda to the ’60s counterculture generation now enjoys a formidable reputation; this new Fun City Editions release packs it with terrific extras. It may have the best performances by top stars John Heard, Jeff Bridges and Lisa Eichhorn. Disaffected 30-somethings in Santa Barbara investigate a murder and then try to blackmail a corporate CEO. Heard is the maimed, one-eyed veteran already judged unstable, Bridges the yacht bum who gets by on his good looks, and Eichhorn the most forlorn woman of the early ’80s, looking for a reason to give a damn about something. Jordan Cronenweth’s cinematography and Jack Nitzsche’s music track couldn’t be bettered; the movie deserves the place of honor granted to Easy Rider.
Cutter’s Way
Blu-ray
Fun City Editions
1981 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 109 min. / Street Date October 25, 2022 / Available from Vinegar Syndrome / 39.98
Starring Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Ann Dusenberry,...
Cutter’s Way
Blu-ray
Fun City Editions
1981 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 109 min. / Street Date October 25, 2022 / Available from Vinegar Syndrome / 39.98
Starring Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Ann Dusenberry,...
- 10/18/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Is this show a hatchet job on Raymond Chandler’s confidential agent, or do Robert Altman and Leigh Brackett honestly find a place for Philip Marlowe in the laid-back 1970s? Vilmos Zsigmond’s even more laid-back ‘pushed and pre-flashed’ cinematography made industry news by shooting in places that normally needed three times more artificial light. The characters are vivid, as portrayed by Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, and Mark Rydell. It’s also a terrific Los Angeles film, from Marlowe’s Hollywood apartment to the Malibu Colony, and a dangster’s Sunset Blvd. tower office suite. Elliott Gould’s mellow Marlowe may be unfocused and sloppy, but he still subscribes to the old ethics, particularly where friendship and betrayal are concerned. And darn it, he cares about his pet cat.
The Long Goodbye
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1973 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 112 min. / Street Date December 14, 2021 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Elliott Gould,...
The Long Goodbye
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1973 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 112 min. / Street Date December 14, 2021 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Elliott Gould,...
- 12/14/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Normal 0 false false false En-us X-none X-none
Rip Van Marlowe
By Raymond Benson
(Note: Portions of this review appeared on Cinema Retro in 2014 for an earlier Kino Lorber edition.)
Robert Altman was a very quirky director, sometimes missing the mark, but oftentimes brilliant. His 1973 take on Raymond Chandler’s 1953 novel The Long Goodbye is a case in point. It might take a second viewing to appreciate what’s really going on in the film. Updating what is essentially a 1940s film noir character to the swinging 70s was a risky and challenging prospect—and Altman and his star, Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe (!), pull it off.
It’s one of those pictures that critics hated when it was first released; and yet, by the end of the year, it was being named on several Top Ten lists. I admit that when I first saw it in 1973, I didn’t much care for it.
Rip Van Marlowe
By Raymond Benson
(Note: Portions of this review appeared on Cinema Retro in 2014 for an earlier Kino Lorber edition.)
Robert Altman was a very quirky director, sometimes missing the mark, but oftentimes brilliant. His 1973 take on Raymond Chandler’s 1953 novel The Long Goodbye is a case in point. It might take a second viewing to appreciate what’s really going on in the film. Updating what is essentially a 1940s film noir character to the swinging 70s was a risky and challenging prospect—and Altman and his star, Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe (!), pull it off.
It’s one of those pictures that critics hated when it was first released; and yet, by the end of the year, it was being named on several Top Ten lists. I admit that when I first saw it in 1973, I didn’t much care for it.
- 12/14/2021
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Joaquin Phoenix stumbles through every scene in Lynne Ramsay’s “You Were Never Really Here” as if he overslept, dashed out of bed, and accidentally rushed into the abandoned set of a film noir, then forgot what he was supposed to do. The results are thrilling and frustrating, often within the constraints of a single scene. It’s an enticing challenge for the writer-director to develop a stylish mood piece out this flimsy material, adapted from a Jonathan Ames novella as a series of textured moments. The movie is an elegant homage to a mold of scrappy detective stories that often collapses into a concise pileup of stylish possibilities.
That’s nothing new for the British director, whose 2002 feature “Morvern Callar” showed a penchant for grim genre exercises that treasured mood over plot and mysteries over solutions; her 2011 thriller “We Need to Talk About Kevin” suggested the prospects for expanding...
That’s nothing new for the British director, whose 2002 feature “Morvern Callar” showed a penchant for grim genre exercises that treasured mood over plot and mysteries over solutions; her 2011 thriller “We Need to Talk About Kevin” suggested the prospects for expanding...
- 5/26/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
At this point the best actress race for the 2017 Oscars is a tight one boiling down to two very talented women: La La Land’s Emma Stone and Jackie’s Natalie Portman. Most critics are put these breakthrough performances atop their projections list — but does history show us anything about a showdown between a made-up character and one based on a real person?
Of the 16 ceremonies that have been held in the 21st century thus far, it is surprisingly an even 50-50 split between wins for a completely fictional character and a real-life character. There have been eight trophies given to each of these two respective types of characters. Given these results, let’s take a look at which roles took home the gold.
For the fictional characters, there are: Halle Berry as Leticia Musgrove in Monster’s Ball (2001), Hilary Swank as Margaret “Maggie” Fitzgerald...
Managing Editor
At this point the best actress race for the 2017 Oscars is a tight one boiling down to two very talented women: La La Land’s Emma Stone and Jackie’s Natalie Portman. Most critics are put these breakthrough performances atop their projections list — but does history show us anything about a showdown between a made-up character and one based on a real person?
Of the 16 ceremonies that have been held in the 21st century thus far, it is surprisingly an even 50-50 split between wins for a completely fictional character and a real-life character. There have been eight trophies given to each of these two respective types of characters. Given these results, let’s take a look at which roles took home the gold.
For the fictional characters, there are: Halle Berry as Leticia Musgrove in Monster’s Ball (2001), Hilary Swank as Margaret “Maggie” Fitzgerald...
- 11/9/2016
- by Carson Blackwelder
- Scott Feinberg
The New York Television Festival today announced the Official Selections for its inaugural Nytvf Scripts Competition. In its first year, the festival accepted half-hour comedy scripts from writers worldwide. Out of 995 submissions, 21 television and digital comedy pilot scripts were selected and will be showcased to industry executives at the 12th Annual New York Television Festival, which takes places from October 24 through 29th in Manhattan.
Read More: New York TV Festival Selects Record 63 Independent Pilots For Its 12th Annual Event
This year’s Nytvf Scripts Official Selections will join the 63 Officially-Selected pilots and series competing in the Festival’s flagship Independent Pilot Competition. All of the competing writers and creators will enjoy designation as Official Artists, which qualifies them for a chance to receive a development deal from one of the Nytvf’s Development Partners – networks and studios which have guaranteed they will offer at least one deal to independent artists this year.
Read More: New York TV Festival Selects Record 63 Independent Pilots For Its 12th Annual Event
This year’s Nytvf Scripts Official Selections will join the 63 Officially-Selected pilots and series competing in the Festival’s flagship Independent Pilot Competition. All of the competing writers and creators will enjoy designation as Official Artists, which qualifies them for a chance to receive a development deal from one of the Nytvf’s Development Partners – networks and studios which have guaranteed they will offer at least one deal to independent artists this year.
- 8/19/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Rapper Freddie Gibbs was arrested shortly before a concert at Le Rex in Toulouse, France, on Thursday in connection with an alleged rape that occurred in Austria last year, French news source La Depeche reports. According to La Depeche, 33-year-old Gibbs, who was born Frederick Tipton in Gary, Indiana, attended a hearing on Friday and is being held in custody "pending his extradition to Austria." (People was unable to reach Toulouse authorities for comment.) Austrian news source Vienna Online confirmed that Austrian authorities had called for Gibbs' extradition. "We have requested his transfer," Nina Bussek, spokeswoman for the Vienna prosecutor's office,...
- 6/4/2016
- by Andrea Park, @scandreapark
- PEOPLE.com
Rapper Freddie Gibbs was arrested shortly before a concert at Le Rex in Toulouse, France, on Thursday in connection with an alleged rape that occurred in Austria last year, French news source La Depeche reports. According to La Depeche, 33-year-old Gibbs, who was born Frederick Tipton in Gary, Indiana, attended a hearing on Friday and is being held in custody "pending his extradition to Austria." (People was unable to reach Toulouse authorities for comment.) Austrian news source Vienna Online confirmed that Austrian authorities had called for Gibbs' extradition. "We have requested his transfer," Nina Bussek, spokeswoman for the Vienna prosecutor's office,...
- 6/4/2016
- by Andrea Park, @scandreapark
- PEOPLE.com
"Sorry, I just slashed my wrists." "Well, tape 'em!" This is the aftermath of the '60s protest movement. Ivan Passer's riveting murder mystery of flakes and losers in sun-drenched, guilty Santa Barbara expresses the rage of radicals faced with the growing class divide, and the arrogance of the wealthy. Cutter's Way Blu-ray Twilight Time Limited Edition 1981 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 109 min. / Ship Date , 2016 / available through Twilight Time Movies / 29.95 Starring Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Ann Dusenberry, Stephen Elliott, Arthur Rosenberg, Nina Van Pallandt. Cinematography Jordan Cronenweth Production Designer Josan F. Russo Film Editor Caroline Biggerstaff Original Music Jack Nitzsche Writing credits Jeffrey Alan Fiskin, from the novel Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg. Produced by Paul R. Gurian Directed by Ivan Passer
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Sort of the bad-news post-graduate version of American Graffiti, Ivan Passer's Cutter's Way is a movie with a mindset and background that I partly lived through,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Sort of the bad-news post-graduate version of American Graffiti, Ivan Passer's Cutter's Way is a movie with a mindset and background that I partly lived through,...
- 4/19/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Desiree Akhavan to head First Feature Competition jury; Jarvis Cocker to host annual awards ceremony.Scroll down for competition titles
The 59th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-18) has revealed the full line-up of its competition juries and announced that presenter and Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker will host this year’s awards ceremony on Oct 17.
The jury for the Sutherland Award for the First Feature Competition includes:
Desiree Akhavan, director/screenwriter (Appropriate Behaviour) (president)
Clio Barnard, director/artist (The Selfish Giant)James Kent, director (Testament of Youth)Allen Leech, actor (The Imitation Game)Kate Muir, film critic, The Times
The jury for the Grierson Award for the Documentary Competition includes:
Mark Cousins, director (I Am Belfast) (president)
Brian Woods, producer (The Dying Rooms)Charlie Phillips, head of docs, The GuardianAlex Cooke, filmmakerIain Forsyth, director (20,000 Days on Earth)Jane Pollard, director (20,000 Days on Earth)
The jury for the Lff’s first Short Film Competition includes:
Daisy Jacobs, director...
The 59th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-18) has revealed the full line-up of its competition juries and announced that presenter and Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker will host this year’s awards ceremony on Oct 17.
The jury for the Sutherland Award for the First Feature Competition includes:
Desiree Akhavan, director/screenwriter (Appropriate Behaviour) (president)
Clio Barnard, director/artist (The Selfish Giant)James Kent, director (Testament of Youth)Allen Leech, actor (The Imitation Game)Kate Muir, film critic, The Times
The jury for the Grierson Award for the Documentary Competition includes:
Mark Cousins, director (I Am Belfast) (president)
Brian Woods, producer (The Dying Rooms)Charlie Phillips, head of docs, The GuardianAlex Cooke, filmmakerIain Forsyth, director (20,000 Days on Earth)Jane Pollard, director (20,000 Days on Earth)
The jury for the Lff’s first Short Film Competition includes:
Daisy Jacobs, director...
- 9/23/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Official competition to include Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts Of No Nation and European premieres for Jonás Cuarón’s Desierto and Johnnie To’s Office.Scroll down for competition titles
The full line-up for the 59th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-18) has been unveiled this morning, including the titles set to compete in its four competitions.
The festival will screen a total of 238 fiction and documentary features, including 16 world premieres, eight international premieres, 40 European premieres and 11 archive films including five restoration world premieres. The line-up also includes 182 live action and animated shorts.
As previously announced, the festival will open with Sarah Gavron’s period drama Suffragette, starring Carey Mulligan, and will close with Danny Boyle’s biopic Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender as the home computer pioneer and Apple co-founder. Both are European premieres.
Further headline galas at the festival will be Todd Haynes’ Carol, Jay Roach’s Trumbo, Scott Cooper’s Black Mass, John Crowley...
The full line-up for the 59th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-18) has been unveiled this morning, including the titles set to compete in its four competitions.
The festival will screen a total of 238 fiction and documentary features, including 16 world premieres, eight international premieres, 40 European premieres and 11 archive films including five restoration world premieres. The line-up also includes 182 live action and animated shorts.
As previously announced, the festival will open with Sarah Gavron’s period drama Suffragette, starring Carey Mulligan, and will close with Danny Boyle’s biopic Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender as the home computer pioneer and Apple co-founder. Both are European premieres.
Further headline galas at the festival will be Todd Haynes’ Carol, Jay Roach’s Trumbo, Scott Cooper’s Black Mass, John Crowley...
- 9/1/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
When One Life to Live strayed from the soap script in 2002 and went live for a week’s worth of episodes, Michelle Stafford — who at the time played Phyllis Newman on CBS’ The Young and the Restless — got very jealous, very quickly.
Like, throw-a-vase-at-your-rival’s-head-and-plot-a-complicated-revenge-plan-ending-in-a-Friday-cliffhanger jealous.
“I remember going, ‘Oh my God,” the actress tells TVLine, “I want to do that here.'”
Related General Hospital‘s Anthony Geary to Exit: ‘I Don’t Want to Die on the Gh Set’
Fast-forward more than a decade, and Stafford is finally getting her wish. As part of its ongoing 52nd anniversary celebration,...
Like, throw-a-vase-at-your-rival’s-head-and-plot-a-complicated-revenge-plan-ending-in-a-Friday-cliffhanger jealous.
“I remember going, ‘Oh my God,” the actress tells TVLine, “I want to do that here.'”
Related General Hospital‘s Anthony Geary to Exit: ‘I Don’t Want to Die on the Gh Set’
Fast-forward more than a decade, and Stafford is finally getting her wish. As part of its ongoing 52nd anniversary celebration,...
- 5/15/2015
- TVLine.com
Rip Van Marlowe
By Raymond Benson
Robert Altman was a very quirky director, sometimes missing the mark, but oftentimes brilliant. His 1973 take on Raymond Chandler’s 1953 novel The Long Goodbye is a case in point. It might take a second viewing to appreciate what’s really going on in the film. Updating what is essentially a 1940s film noir character to the swinging 70s was a risky and challenging prospect—and Altman and his star, Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe (!), pull it off.
It’s one of those pictures that critics hated when it was first released; and yet, by the end of the year, it was being named on several Top Ten lists. I admit that when I first saw it in 1973, I didn’t much care for it. I still wasn’t totally in tune with the kinds of movies Altman made—even after M*A*S*H,...
By Raymond Benson
Robert Altman was a very quirky director, sometimes missing the mark, but oftentimes brilliant. His 1973 take on Raymond Chandler’s 1953 novel The Long Goodbye is a case in point. It might take a second viewing to appreciate what’s really going on in the film. Updating what is essentially a 1940s film noir character to the swinging 70s was a risky and challenging prospect—and Altman and his star, Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe (!), pull it off.
It’s one of those pictures that critics hated when it was first released; and yet, by the end of the year, it was being named on several Top Ten lists. I admit that when I first saw it in 1973, I didn’t much care for it. I still wasn’t totally in tune with the kinds of movies Altman made—even after M*A*S*H,...
- 2/27/2015
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
At a loss for what to watch this week? From new DVDs and Blu-rays, to what's streaming on Netflix, we've got you covered.
New on DVD and Blu-ray
"What If"
This charming indie rom-com stars Daniel Radcliffe as Wallace and Zoe Kazan as Chantry, two platonic friends who maybe, kinda sorta want to be more than friends. At least Wallace does; Chantry is in a long-term relationship, and Wallace has convinced himself being "just friends" is better than not having Chantry in his life at all. Adam Driver and Mackenzie Davis co-star as Wallace's best friend and his new girl; together, their newfound lust (or it is love?) is hilarious and unstoppable.
"The Long Goodbye"/"Thieves Like Us"
Don't overlook these classic '70s films by Robert Altman. "The Long Goodbye" stars Elliot Gould as Philip Marlowe in an updated version of Raymond Chandler's novel, alongside Nina Van Pallandt,...
New on DVD and Blu-ray
"What If"
This charming indie rom-com stars Daniel Radcliffe as Wallace and Zoe Kazan as Chantry, two platonic friends who maybe, kinda sorta want to be more than friends. At least Wallace does; Chantry is in a long-term relationship, and Wallace has convinced himself being "just friends" is better than not having Chantry in his life at all. Adam Driver and Mackenzie Davis co-star as Wallace's best friend and his new girl; together, their newfound lust (or it is love?) is hilarious and unstoppable.
"The Long Goodbye"/"Thieves Like Us"
Don't overlook these classic '70s films by Robert Altman. "The Long Goodbye" stars Elliot Gould as Philip Marlowe in an updated version of Raymond Chandler's novel, alongside Nina Van Pallandt,...
- 11/24/2014
- by Jenni Miller
- Moviefone
On TV this Monday: CBS’ Hostages crisis comes to an end, The Bachelor roses to the occasion and death doesn’t really become Teen Wolf. Here are 10 programs to keep on your radar.
8 pm The Bachelor (ABC) | Season 18 premiere: Single dad/former Bachelorette contestant Juan Pablo Galavis searches for his soul mate as this inexhaustible “reality” series churns on.
8 pm Almost Human (Fox) | When a psychopathic killer straps a bomb to Kennex’s neck, the team must race to save his life. Guess this would be a really bad time for Dorian to start malfunctioning, eh?
8 pm Antiques Roadshow (PBS...
8 pm The Bachelor (ABC) | Season 18 premiere: Single dad/former Bachelorette contestant Juan Pablo Galavis searches for his soul mate as this inexhaustible “reality” series churns on.
8 pm Almost Human (Fox) | When a psychopathic killer straps a bomb to Kennex’s neck, the team must race to save his life. Guess this would be a really bad time for Dorian to start malfunctioning, eh?
8 pm Antiques Roadshow (PBS...
- 1/6/2014
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
Newly released on collectable Blu-ray, The Long Goodbye (1973, directed by Robert Altman) is the kind of film you feel ashamed for not watching more often. Starring Elliot Gould as Raymond Chandler’s pulp private dick Phillip Marlowe, this is a quirky, very seventies re-imagining of the Humphrey Bogart man-in-a-trenchcoat myth. The film is contemporary set, yet Gould’s Marlowe is a man out of place and time. Everything from his car to apartment to clothes is indicative of the P.I’s golden age; a world of cocktails, dames and pinstripe suits, not cat food, hippies and polyester.
Hollywood’s effortless private detective was created in the post-Prohibition era of the 1930s-40s, and into the 50’s. The noir stories of The Thin Man (1934), The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Big Sleep (1946), Kiss Me Deadly (1955) and beyond were characterised by a hero – generally not an anti-hero despite the dark tone – who dressed and acted a certain way.
Hollywood’s effortless private detective was created in the post-Prohibition era of the 1930s-40s, and into the 50’s. The noir stories of The Thin Man (1934), The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Big Sleep (1946), Kiss Me Deadly (1955) and beyond were characterised by a hero – generally not an anti-hero despite the dark tone – who dressed and acted a certain way.
- 12/12/2013
- by Christopher Laverty
- Clothes on Film
Broadway actress Marta Heflin dead at 68: Featured in several Robert Altman movies (photo: Marta Heflin in ‘A Perfect Couple’) Stage actress Marta Heflin, who was featured in a handful of movies in the ’70s and early ’80s, including three Robert Altman efforts, died on September 18, 2013, after "a long illness." Heflin (born on March 29, 1945, in Washington, D.C.) was 68. On Broadway, Marta Heflin was featured in the musicals Fiddler on the Roof, Hair, Soon, and Jesus Christ Superstar (replacing Yvonne Elliman as Mary Magdalene). Additionally, she was seen in Ed Graczyk’s Robert Altman-directed 1982 play Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, about a group of James Dean fans — among them Karen Black, Cher, Sandy Dennis, Kathy Bates, Sudie Bond, and Mark Patton — who get together on the twentieth anniversary of Dean’s death. Marta Heflin movies Along with her fellow Come Back to the Five and Dime,...
- 9/25/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Sometimes the Internet makes us wonder if there is a network of moms and dads out there making awesome lunch-centric art for their kids just so websites like ours will write about it. We just looked at the lunch-bag art of a San Diego dad — including a great drawing of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters — and Design Taxi just introduced us to a creative mom who draws superheroes on napkins for her son. Brooklyn-based artist Nina Levy has been making her son Ansel the envy of his school since 2007 — that's over 2,000 drawings. We like her whimsical pairings of characters like Robin with… a Komodo dragon! We also approve of the number of dogs in capes that seem to fill Ansel's collection. In case you're feeling...
Read More...
Read More...
- 4/29/2013
- by Alison Nastasi
- Movies.com
Director Robert Altman.
Robert Altman: Eclectic Maverick
By
Alex Simon
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the April 1999 issue of Venice Magazine.
It's the Fall of 1977 and I'm a bored and rebellious ten year old in search of a new movie to occupy my underworked and creativity-starved brain, feeling far too mature for previous favorites Wily Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) and Return of the Pink Panther (1975), and wanting something more up-to-date and edgy than Chaplin's City Lights (1931). I needed a movie to call my favorite that would be symbolic of my own new-found manhood (and something that would really piss off my parents and teachers). Mom and Dad were going out for the evening, leaving me with whatever unfortunate baby-sitter happened to need the $10 badly enough to play mother hen to an obnoxiously precocious only child like myself. I scanned the TV Guide for what...
Robert Altman: Eclectic Maverick
By
Alex Simon
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the April 1999 issue of Venice Magazine.
It's the Fall of 1977 and I'm a bored and rebellious ten year old in search of a new movie to occupy my underworked and creativity-starved brain, feeling far too mature for previous favorites Wily Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) and Return of the Pink Panther (1975), and wanting something more up-to-date and edgy than Chaplin's City Lights (1931). I needed a movie to call my favorite that would be symbolic of my own new-found manhood (and something that would really piss off my parents and teachers). Mom and Dad were going out for the evening, leaving me with whatever unfortunate baby-sitter happened to need the $10 badly enough to play mother hen to an obnoxiously precocious only child like myself. I scanned the TV Guide for what...
- 2/15/2013
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
It’s that time again… okay, it’s a little past that normal time, thanks to the Mix March Madness wrapup, but here are the preview materials for DC Comics releases for July 2012.
What’s on tap this month? More of the Before Watchmen books, with the debut of Ozymandias from Len Wein and Jae Lee, the conclusion of the Court of Owls storyline and crossover in all the Bat-books, and the debut of the done-in-one book, National Comics, featuring the New 52 Debut (coming right at you) of Eternity.
And in the white elephant of desire category, there’s the $300 statue showing the climactic scene from The Dark Knight Returns.
Once more, into the breach? Banzai!
As always, spoilers may lurk beyond this point.
Before Watchmen: Ozymandias #1
Written by Len Wein
Art and cover by Jae Lee
Backup story art by John Higgins
1:25 Variant cover by Phil Jimenez...
What’s on tap this month? More of the Before Watchmen books, with the debut of Ozymandias from Len Wein and Jae Lee, the conclusion of the Court of Owls storyline and crossover in all the Bat-books, and the debut of the done-in-one book, National Comics, featuring the New 52 Debut (coming right at you) of Eternity.
And in the white elephant of desire category, there’s the $300 statue showing the climactic scene from The Dark Knight Returns.
Once more, into the breach? Banzai!
As always, spoilers may lurk beyond this point.
Before Watchmen: Ozymandias #1
Written by Len Wein
Art and cover by Jae Lee
Backup story art by John Higgins
1:25 Variant cover by Phil Jimenez...
- 4/12/2012
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
David Letterman is set to become the longest-running late night TV show host in Us history. The presenter has signed a new contract which ensures he will be fronting 'The Late Show with David Letterman' until 2014, meaning he would have hosted the show for 32 years. Johnny Carson presented 'The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson' for 30 years, so when David's contract comes to an end he will have surpassed the TV legend. In the deal, David's sidekick Craig Ferguson will also continue to host 'The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson' and is set to take over when the 64-year-old presenter eventually retires. CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassle said in a statement: 'David Letterman is a late-night legend...
- 4/4/2012
- Monsters and Critics
Unforgettable
Created by John Bellucci and Ed Redlich
Based on J. Robert Lennon’s short story The Rememberer
imdb, CBS, Tuesdays at 10 Pm
1.01 Pilot
Directed by Niels Arden Oplev
Written by John Bellucci and Ed Redlich
Based on J. Robert Lennon’s short story “The Rememberer”
1.02 Heroes
Directed by Niels Arden Oplev
Written by Sherri Cooper and Jennifer Levin
1.03 Check Out Time
Directed by John David Coles
Written by Joan Binder Weiss
1.04 Up in Flames
Directed by Niels Arden Oplev
Written by Michael Foley and Erik Oleson
*****
Launching a new police procedural is tricky. On one hand, you have to stand out from all the competition – especially visually. At the same time, you have to be familiar enough not to alienate viewers. You have to be old, but in a new way.
Unforgettable has an interesting twist on the Sherlock Holmes formula that it is able to express in a visual way,...
Created by John Bellucci and Ed Redlich
Based on J. Robert Lennon’s short story The Rememberer
imdb, CBS, Tuesdays at 10 Pm
1.01 Pilot
Directed by Niels Arden Oplev
Written by John Bellucci and Ed Redlich
Based on J. Robert Lennon’s short story “The Rememberer”
1.02 Heroes
Directed by Niels Arden Oplev
Written by Sherri Cooper and Jennifer Levin
1.03 Check Out Time
Directed by John David Coles
Written by Joan Binder Weiss
1.04 Up in Flames
Directed by Niels Arden Oplev
Written by Michael Foley and Erik Oleson
*****
Launching a new police procedural is tricky. On one hand, you have to stand out from all the competition – especially visually. At the same time, you have to be familiar enough not to alienate viewers. You have to be old, but in a new way.
Unforgettable has an interesting twist on the Sherlock Holmes formula that it is able to express in a visual way,...
- 10/19/2011
- by Michael Ryan
- SoundOnSight
We’ve reached the point in the Project Runway season where Nina Garcia has stopped firing insulting buckshot directly into contestants’ faces, choosing instead to slip them sweet and subtle poison. “That gown has a lot of potential,” she said to this week’s auf’d designer, leaving out her mental note that it would take a month in Badgley Mischka’s workshop to bring said potential to the surface. Or take the way she cooed this vague compliment — “she knows how to make clothes in her sleep” — subtly playing up Michael Kors’ previous comment that one of the designer...
- 10/14/2011
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
This superb poster for Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye—one of my very favorite films—was illustrated by the great Richard Amsel (1947-1985). Amsel was a prodigy whose career hit the ground running when, aged 22 and still a student at the Philadelphia College of Art, he won a nationwide contest sponsored by 20th Century Fox to design a poster for Hello Dolly. For the next 15 years, until his untimely AIDS-related death at the age of 37, Amsel illustrated some of the best loved posters of the '70s and early '80s, including, most famously, those for The Sting and Raiders of the Lost Ark. His poster for The Long Goodbye is one of his more elegantly spare designs, conveying Elliott Gould's rumpled, tough guy charm as Philip Marlowe, as well as a hint of mystery in Nina Van Pallandt's robed figure in the doorway. Just the elements...
- 9/2/2011
- MUBI
Composer most closely associated with the golden age of James Bond but whose scores ranged from Midnight Cowboy to Dances With Wolves
John Barry, who has died aged 77 following a heart attack, will always be associated with the golden age of James Bond, but though much of his most famous music was written to accompany the outlandish adventures of 007, his work covered a huge variety of moods and styles. Barry wrote epic, sweeping film scores for Zulu (1964), Born Free (1966) and Out of Africa (1985), introduced blues and jazz themes into The Chase (1966) and The Cotton Club (1984), and conceived the shivery, sinister music for The Ipcress File (1965). He even became something of a pop star in his own right.
He was born Jonathan Barry Prender- gast in York, where his father ran a chain of cinemas. His mother was a talented musician, but had abandoned the attempt to establish herself as a concert pianist.
John Barry, who has died aged 77 following a heart attack, will always be associated with the golden age of James Bond, but though much of his most famous music was written to accompany the outlandish adventures of 007, his work covered a huge variety of moods and styles. Barry wrote epic, sweeping film scores for Zulu (1964), Born Free (1966) and Out of Africa (1985), introduced blues and jazz themes into The Chase (1966) and The Cotton Club (1984), and conceived the shivery, sinister music for The Ipcress File (1965). He even became something of a pop star in his own right.
He was born Jonathan Barry Prender- gast in York, where his father ran a chain of cinemas. His mother was a talented musician, but had abandoned the attempt to establish herself as a concert pianist.
- 2/1/2011
- by Adam Sweeting
- The Guardian - Film News
Tim Bagley and William Shatner in a scene from the $#*! My Dad Says pilot.
CBS does not immediately spring to mind when it comes to the inclusion of gay characters, not only because the network received a “failing” grade from GLAAD last summer in a study of Glbt-inclusivity in prime time, but also because CBS has found a winning formula that’s anything but edgy. Crime dramas and middlebrow comedies dominate the network’s top-rated schedule (CBS is No. 1 in households and No. 2, behind Fox, among viewers ages 18-49 season-to-date).
So it was surprising to hear CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler sound a note of embarrassment at last July’s Television Critics Association press tour and at the same time announce plans for improvement.
“We're adding a few [Lgbt] characters to this season because we're very disappointed in our track record so far,” she said in response to a question from AfterElton.
CBS does not immediately spring to mind when it comes to the inclusion of gay characters, not only because the network received a “failing” grade from GLAAD last summer in a study of Glbt-inclusivity in prime time, but also because CBS has found a winning formula that’s anything but edgy. Crime dramas and middlebrow comedies dominate the network’s top-rated schedule (CBS is No. 1 in households and No. 2, behind Fox, among viewers ages 18-49 season-to-date).
So it was surprising to hear CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler sound a note of embarrassment at last July’s Television Critics Association press tour and at the same time announce plans for improvement.
“We're adding a few [Lgbt] characters to this season because we're very disappointed in our track record so far,” she said in response to a question from AfterElton.
- 12/1/2010
- by Rob Owen
- The Backlot
Supporting actors aren't just those familiar faces who can steal a film. They show a way for movies to portray real life
Do you remember the film Iris? Directed by Richard Eyre, it opened in 2001, and was about the marriage between novelist Iris Murdoch, and her husband, the literary professor John Bayley. I have not seen the picture since it opened and as I try to recall it, I see three faces – Judi Dench and Kate Winslet (they played the older Iris and the younger woman), and Jim Broadbent – who was Bayley in his mature years. I think of it as a tripartite film, yet I know there was a fourth corner and a fourth actor – the young Bayley. I hope he will forgive me, but I have to check his name – of course, it was Hugh Bonneville.
Having looked the film up, here is what surprises me: Dench was nominated for best actress,...
Do you remember the film Iris? Directed by Richard Eyre, it opened in 2001, and was about the marriage between novelist Iris Murdoch, and her husband, the literary professor John Bayley. I have not seen the picture since it opened and as I try to recall it, I see three faces – Judi Dench and Kate Winslet (they played the older Iris and the younger woman), and Jim Broadbent – who was Bayley in his mature years. I think of it as a tripartite film, yet I know there was a fourth corner and a fourth actor – the young Bayley. I hope he will forgive me, but I have to check his name – of course, it was Hugh Bonneville.
Having looked the film up, here is what surprises me: Dench was nominated for best actress,...
- 7/1/2010
- by David Thomson
- The Guardian - Film News
After kicking off the 2010 Pajiba Neo-Noir Retrospective with an analysis of Paul Thomas Anderson's Hard Eight (1996), I felt the strong desire to put his film in dialogue with the neo-noir of his mentor Robert Altman: The Long Goodbye (1973). Oddly, this comparison yielded more differences than similarities, as Anderson's film came off as classical in its use of noir tropes: former hood seeks the good life only to find his new life upended by the inescapable past of his horrific deeds. Admittedly, Anderson tells the rather conventional thriller story unconventionally by favoring the minimalist approach of French noir director Jean-Pierre Melville over the direct approach taken by the bulk of Hollywood cinema. Yet, in the end, and I don't intend for this line of thought to be a criticism, Hard Eight feels more like a classical noir than neo-noir, as the themes of the genre remain intact and have...
- 6/1/2010
- by Drew Morton
Welcome to another edition of Gays of Our Lives. This week we start with Gool Theater where Luke and Noah’s new story arc begins. And if you think Oakdale’s cutest gay teens have had some strange storylines before … this one takes the cake. Plus, Fer faces losing his boyfriend when David might have to move away in Física o’ Química, Simon ‘Doctors’ a boy being bullied and helps to console a gay man who might lose custody of his adopted daughter. And Riley looks to be de-gayed on Degrassi: The Next Generation.
Gool Scoops And Spoilers has the dish on Emmerdale as bad boy Aaron Livesy acts out, Luke gets a really bad idea on As the World Turns (what else is new?), Kyle and Oliver celebrate their first Thanksgiving together on One Life to Live and the Walkers go to Hawaii for Justin and Rebecca’s wedding on Brothers & Sisters.
Gool Scoops And Spoilers has the dish on Emmerdale as bad boy Aaron Livesy acts out, Luke gets a really bad idea on As the World Turns (what else is new?), Kyle and Oliver celebrate their first Thanksgiving together on One Life to Live and the Walkers go to Hawaii for Justin and Rebecca’s wedding on Brothers & Sisters.
- 11/24/2009
- by Anthony D. Langford
- The Backlot
(Elliott Gould, above, as Philip Marlowe in The Long Goodbye.)
by Jon Zelazny
Editor’s note: this article originally appeared at EightMillionStories.com on November 14, 2008.
With the back-to-back success of his Oscar-nominated role in the off-beat wife-swapping hit Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) and the even bigger off-beat hit Mash (1970), Brooklyn’s own Elliott Gould skyrocketed to worldwide fame.
While perhaps best known to those under 40 as Ross and Monica’s dad on “Friends,” or Vegas financier Reuben Tishkoff in the blockbuster Ocean’s 11 series, cine-scholars generally regard Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye (1973) as Gould’s most iconic starring role. 2008 marks the 35th anniversary of their extraordinary modern-day reinterpretation of Raymond Chandler’s classic private eye, Philip Marlowe.
Elliott Gould invited me to his home in west Los Angeles, where he generously spoke at length of his three major collaborations with Altman, who passed away two years ago.
I read...
by Jon Zelazny
Editor’s note: this article originally appeared at EightMillionStories.com on November 14, 2008.
With the back-to-back success of his Oscar-nominated role in the off-beat wife-swapping hit Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) and the even bigger off-beat hit Mash (1970), Brooklyn’s own Elliott Gould skyrocketed to worldwide fame.
While perhaps best known to those under 40 as Ross and Monica’s dad on “Friends,” or Vegas financier Reuben Tishkoff in the blockbuster Ocean’s 11 series, cine-scholars generally regard Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye (1973) as Gould’s most iconic starring role. 2008 marks the 35th anniversary of their extraordinary modern-day reinterpretation of Raymond Chandler’s classic private eye, Philip Marlowe.
Elliott Gould invited me to his home in west Los Angeles, where he generously spoke at length of his three major collaborations with Altman, who passed away two years ago.
I read...
- 5/10/2009
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.