Billy Wilder always more or less disowned his one real musical, which leaves the enthusiast with a choice: keep re-watching the classic Wilder films, of which there are many, or probe into the obscure, disreputable corners of the great man's oeuvre?The year was 1948. Wilder had been involved with the war effort. Lost Weekend had belatedly come out in 1945 and won an Oscar for Ray Milland. And while the rest of Hollywood was churning out movies that developed the film noir genre Wilder had helped launch with Double Indemnity, he made a Bing Crosby musical set in Austria. He claimed it was offered to him, but the script is credited to Wilder and Charles Brackett, so he can't distance himself that easily."On a December night, some forty-odd years ago, His Majesty Franz Joseph the First, Emperor of Austria, Apostolic King of Hungary, King of Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Galicia,...
- 9/27/2017
- MUBI
Louise Dudley “Teddy” Lynch, J. Paul Getty‘s fifth and final wife, has died at 103.
Her daughter, Louise Gigi Gaston, confirmed the death on Facebook Sunday night, writing, “My mother died in my arms at 11:11 Pm last night. Her last words were, ‘Be strong, Gigi, never quit.’ ”
She added, “My life is changed forever. God Bless the women who held me in my first breath, and God Blessed me with a great mother who’s last breath she took in my arms. Her faithful dog Apache at her feet.”
Known later in life as Teddy Getty Gaston, the red-haired...
Her daughter, Louise Gigi Gaston, confirmed the death on Facebook Sunday night, writing, “My mother died in my arms at 11:11 Pm last night. Her last words were, ‘Be strong, Gigi, never quit.’ ”
She added, “My life is changed forever. God Bless the women who held me in my first breath, and God Blessed me with a great mother who’s last breath she took in my arms. Her faithful dog Apache at her feet.”
Known later in life as Teddy Getty Gaston, the red-haired...
- 4/10/2017
- by Mike Miller
- PEOPLE.com
The King Baggot Tribute will take place Wednesday September 28th at 7pm at Lee Auditorium inside the Missouri History Museum (Lindell and DeBaliviere in Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri). The 1913 silent film Ivanhoe will be accompanied by The Rats and People Motion Picture Orchestra and there will be a 40-minute illustrated lecture on the life and career of King Baggot by We Are Movie Geeks’ Tom Stockman.
While cleaning out an old barn in New Hampshire recently, a man named Peter Massie discovered an old silent film projector and seven reels of nitrate films hidden in the shadows of a corner of the structure. Among these old reels was a 30-minute 1913 film titled When Lincoln Paid starring Francis Ford (older brother of director John Ford). It was one of six silent films, all presumed lost, in which Ford played Abraham Lincoln. It is stories like this that give hope to silent film fans.
While cleaning out an old barn in New Hampshire recently, a man named Peter Massie discovered an old silent film projector and seven reels of nitrate films hidden in the shadows of a corner of the structure. Among these old reels was a 30-minute 1913 film titled When Lincoln Paid starring Francis Ford (older brother of director John Ford). It was one of six silent films, all presumed lost, in which Ford played Abraham Lincoln. It is stories like this that give hope to silent film fans.
- 9/13/2016
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
To celebrate the Australian release of BBC’s BAFTA-winning series, Murder: The Complete Series on home video, Rlj Entertainment is giving local readers the chance to win one of Five copies of the series on DVD! Here’s a description of the series: Murder throws a stark and unsettling light on four separate cases titled Joint Enterprise, The Third Voice, Lost Weekend and The Big Bang. Rich in forensic and psychological detail, with a unique depth of characterisation, each of the films pick apart a murder in all its terrible complexity, hearing the story from every angle and casting the viewer as a jury-member forced to decide on guilt and innocence. Mixing techniques of documentary with the power, invention and breathtaking visuals of drama, these haunting...
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- 5/21/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Even if you're not a professional writer, it's safe to assume you've experienced writer's block at one point in your life. Whether it was working on a paper for school, trying to craft that perfectly worded e-mail, or attempting to write that novel you've always wanted to crank out, you know the feeling of desperately wanting to write something great (or at least good) and having absolutely zero inspiration.
Editors Ben Watts and Ivan Kandor know that feeling, too, and they've crafted a supercut featuring 50 movies that deal with this exact thing. Thankfully, they don't just stop at the low point — they also include that transcendent moment where the words just start flowing and it feels like they'll never stop, complete with a great soundtrack that mirrors the writers' journey.
A Murder of Crows
Adaptation
Almost Famous
Amadeus
As Good As It Gets
Atonement
Barfly
Barton Fink
Capote
Cloud Atlas...
Editors Ben Watts and Ivan Kandor know that feeling, too, and they've crafted a supercut featuring 50 movies that deal with this exact thing. Thankfully, they don't just stop at the low point — they also include that transcendent moment where the words just start flowing and it feels like they'll never stop, complete with a great soundtrack that mirrors the writers' journey.
A Murder of Crows
Adaptation
Almost Famous
Amadeus
As Good As It Gets
Atonement
Barfly
Barton Fink
Capote
Cloud Atlas...
- 5/3/2016
- by Ben Pearson
- GeekTyrant
Earlier this month, with the closing of San Francisco's Le Video, it seemed that streaming had hammered another nail in the video store's coffin. The Bay Area institution, founded in 1980, had amassed some 90,000 titles, with a particular focus on early cinema, foreign films, and independents, and—to quote the subtitle of Tom Roston's oral history "I Lost It at the Video Store" (Critical Press, $25.00)—the demise of Le Video severed one more connection to "a vanished era." Not so fast. Beginning in January Alamo Drafthouse's New Mission, which opened in San Francisco Dec. 17, will partner with neighborhood video store Lost Weekend to rent curated selections from the Le Video and Lost Weekend archives in the theater's upstairs lobby. (The racks are already in place.) "Despite the fact that great video stores like Le Video are closing all over the country, I am confident that a new iteration of the video store experience can exist,...
- 12/28/2015
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
Read More: Watch: Drafthouse Films' 'Dangerous Men' Could Be The Next 'Roar'-Style Cult Sensation After closing its doors in November of this year, the San Francisco video store Le Video is being resurrected by Alamo Drafthouse CEO Tim League and Annapurna Pictures founder Megan Ellison. Residents of the Bay Area will be able to access the Le Video collection at the Alamo Drafthouse Theater in San Francisco. Details are still pending, but rentals will be available through the help of another San Francisco video store, Lost Weekend. Commenting on the new venture, League stated, "Despite the fact that great video stores like Le Video are closing all over the country, I am confident that a new iteration of the video store experience can exist, and even thrive today. A passionate video store clerk can do what no algorithm can. They can recommend your new favorite movie, one that can't...
- 12/9/2015
- by Ryan Anielski
- Indiewire
Plus: Kirk Douglas in $15M care home donation; The Boston Globe announces $100,000 Spotlight Investigative Journalism Fellowship; and more…
Telefilm Canada has announced that three Canadian features, four virtual reality works and eight shorts will be included in the official selection at Sundance.
“What’s impressive about this selection is that the three directors whose feature films are being screened at the festival have already won awards or have been otherwise recognised at Sundance,” said Telefilm executive director Carolle Brabant.
“We’re also very proud to see that Canadian short films account for more than 10 percent of the shorts in the Sundance line-up. Furthermore, virtual reality artists heading off to Utah will once again put Canada in the spotlight with their remarkable work.”
The features are: Sundance Kids selection Showtime!; Next entry Operation Avalanche; and World Cinema Documentary title The Settlers.
The New Frontier Vr works are: Nomads: Maasai And Nomads: Sea Gypsies; The Unknown Photographer; and Cardboard...
Telefilm Canada has announced that three Canadian features, four virtual reality works and eight shorts will be included in the official selection at Sundance.
“What’s impressive about this selection is that the three directors whose feature films are being screened at the festival have already won awards or have been otherwise recognised at Sundance,” said Telefilm executive director Carolle Brabant.
“We’re also very proud to see that Canadian short films account for more than 10 percent of the shorts in the Sundance line-up. Furthermore, virtual reality artists heading off to Utah will once again put Canada in the spotlight with their remarkable work.”
The features are: Sundance Kids selection Showtime!; Next entry Operation Avalanche; and World Cinema Documentary title The Settlers.
The New Frontier Vr works are: Nomads: Maasai And Nomads: Sea Gypsies; The Unknown Photographer; and Cardboard...
- 12/9/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
So Ben Stiller is 50 today, which is just weird. Wasn't he just futilely romancing Winona Ryder in Reality Bites?! Well, presumably he feels the same way. But lucky for everybody, the actor, filmmaker and family man is still everywhere, making hilarious wink-wink cameos and churning out movies that people can't wait for. And, of course, he's still ridiculously good-looking. (Just don't tell Derek Zoolander he's 50—he may go on some Lost Weekend-style Botox tear.) In honor of his milestone birthday, here are 12 of our favorite Ben Stiller moments that will stand the test of time: The Ben Stiller Show only lasted 13 episodes, but all 13 are worth a re-watch. Or a...
- 11/30/2015
- E! Online
While cleaning out an old barn in New Hampshire recently, a man named Peter Massie discovered an old silent film projector and seven reels of nitrate films hidden in the shadows of a corner of the structure. Among these old reels was a 30-minute 1913 film titled When Lincoln Paid starring Francis Ford (older brother of director John Ford). It was one of six silent films, all presumed lost, in which Ford played Abraham Lincoln. It is stories like this that give hope to silent film fans. 75 per cent of movies from the silent era have been lost to decay or neglect, but when it comes to the over 200 movies that St. Louis native King Baggot acted in between 1909 and 1921, that number is closer to 100%. Here’s a look at Absinthe, a lost film from 100 years ago that I wish someone would find.
Absinthe is a distilled, highly alcoholic (90-148 proof...
Absinthe is a distilled, highly alcoholic (90-148 proof...
- 6/2/2014
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
On the latest "Pretty Little Liars," some suspicions are cast Mrs. Dilaurentis' way, as Spencer tries to figure out what happened the night Alison "died."
Alison/A/Mrs. D and Spencer
Mrs. Dilaurentis has always been a little unhinged, but her daughter disappeared and was then found in a grave under a gazebo, so we all let it slide, right? However, in this latest episode, she makes some vaguely-worded threats to Spencer and then scares the ever-living daylights out of us when she appears in Spencer's room at episode's end.
Plus, it turns out Ez-cyclopedia Brown's big theory is that "A" is Mrs. Dilaurentis. That would be kind of interesting, to be sure. A grief-stricken mother stumbles on her dead daughter's secrets and starts terrorizing the daughter's little friends? We don't think that'll turn out to be it in the end, but if in the meantime we get to watch Andrea Parker be creepy,...
Alison/A/Mrs. D and Spencer
Mrs. Dilaurentis has always been a little unhinged, but her daughter disappeared and was then found in a grave under a gazebo, so we all let it slide, right? However, in this latest episode, she makes some vaguely-worded threats to Spencer and then scares the ever-living daylights out of us when she appears in Spencer's room at episode's end.
Plus, it turns out Ez-cyclopedia Brown's big theory is that "A" is Mrs. Dilaurentis. That would be kind of interesting, to be sure. A grief-stricken mother stumbles on her dead daughter's secrets and starts terrorizing the daughter's little friends? We don't think that'll turn out to be it in the end, but if in the meantime we get to watch Andrea Parker be creepy,...
- 3/5/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Behold the first still released from Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac which will star Charlotte Gainsbourg (in her third collaboration with the director following Antichrist & Melancholia). These are the thoughts I had in actual chronological order...
• That's a really odd choice for a first still. It's a tremendously vague tease but better this than those movies which release "first looks!" that might as well be headshots of the actors, they're so generic.
• Remember when Laura Dern got high from inhaling glue in paper bags in Citizen Ruth?
• If that were Michelle Pfeiffer and this were 1992, a bunch of cats could run into frame and resurrect this poor soul.
• Who is this poor soul?
• This doesn't look as fun as the movie's title. Bleak it looks.
• If this movie is as good as The Idiots (1998), my vote for the single most underappreciated von Trier marvel, I will want to have sex with it.
• That's a really odd choice for a first still. It's a tremendously vague tease but better this than those movies which release "first looks!" that might as well be headshots of the actors, they're so generic.
• Remember when Laura Dern got high from inhaling glue in paper bags in Citizen Ruth?
• If that were Michelle Pfeiffer and this were 1992, a bunch of cats could run into frame and resurrect this poor soul.
• Who is this poor soul?
• This doesn't look as fun as the movie's title. Bleak it looks.
• If this movie is as good as The Idiots (1998), my vote for the single most underappreciated von Trier marvel, I will want to have sex with it.
- 2/8/2013
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Flight
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Denzel Washington, Kelly Reilly, John Goodman, Don Cheadle, Melissa Leo
Running Time: 2 hrs 18 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Plot: An airline pilot (Washington) who executes a life-saving crash landing has the story of his heroism scrutinized by his own personal flaws.
Who’S It For? If you love Denzel Washington, great original stories, or challenging mainstream dramas, don’t miss Flight.
Expectations: This is Zemeckis’ first live-action movie since 2000 – would Flight ring with the confidence of Cast Away, or turn out goofy like that odd motion-capture Beowulf movie he once did?
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Denzel Washington as Whip Whitaker: This, this ladies and gentlemen of the internet, this right here is the type of movie that Washington is built for. Despite what many of his previous roles may promote to his expansive (and guaranteed) audience, the sure-fire actor doesn’t need to pound his chest,...
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Denzel Washington, Kelly Reilly, John Goodman, Don Cheadle, Melissa Leo
Running Time: 2 hrs 18 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Plot: An airline pilot (Washington) who executes a life-saving crash landing has the story of his heroism scrutinized by his own personal flaws.
Who’S It For? If you love Denzel Washington, great original stories, or challenging mainstream dramas, don’t miss Flight.
Expectations: This is Zemeckis’ first live-action movie since 2000 – would Flight ring with the confidence of Cast Away, or turn out goofy like that odd motion-capture Beowulf movie he once did?
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Denzel Washington as Whip Whitaker: This, this ladies and gentlemen of the internet, this right here is the type of movie that Washington is built for. Despite what many of his previous roles may promote to his expansive (and guaranteed) audience, the sure-fire actor doesn’t need to pound his chest,...
- 11/2/2012
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
Chicago International Film Festival 2012
Flight
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Denzel Washington, Kelly Reilly, John Goodman, Don Cheadle, Melissa Leo
Running Time: 2 hrs 10 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Click Here for complete coverage of the Chicago International Film Festival (Ciff 2012)
Plot: A pilot (Washington) who executes a life-saving crash landing is accused of being intoxicated during the flight.
Who’S It For? If you love Denzel Washington, great original stories, or challenging mainstream dramas, don’t miss Flight.
Overall
Just as the Oscar-winning film The Artist played Ciff’s closing night last year, so will Flight with the same type of transitional attitude that takes us from festival season into award season.
Without gushing too much about this film (that will come November 2, when the film is released nationwide), this captivating American drama is the most accomplished work from director Robert Zemeckis and star Washington in at least a decade.
Flight
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Denzel Washington, Kelly Reilly, John Goodman, Don Cheadle, Melissa Leo
Running Time: 2 hrs 10 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Click Here for complete coverage of the Chicago International Film Festival (Ciff 2012)
Plot: A pilot (Washington) who executes a life-saving crash landing is accused of being intoxicated during the flight.
Who’S It For? If you love Denzel Washington, great original stories, or challenging mainstream dramas, don’t miss Flight.
Overall
Just as the Oscar-winning film The Artist played Ciff’s closing night last year, so will Flight with the same type of transitional attitude that takes us from festival season into award season.
Without gushing too much about this film (that will come November 2, when the film is released nationwide), this captivating American drama is the most accomplished work from director Robert Zemeckis and star Washington in at least a decade.
- 10/21/2012
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
There is a sub-canon of films about alcohol as deep and as dark as a barrel of bourbon, from "Lost Weekend" to "Days of Wine and Roses" to "Trees Lounge." "Smashed" casts Aaron Paul and Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Charlie and Kate, a married couple in L.A. whose love is strong, full and, more to the point, well-saturated. Charlie and Kate like to drink, and it shows; Kate's mortified to have a hung-over vomiting fit while teaching, apologizing to her 1st graders and answering, falsely, yes when her kids ask if she's pregnant. When Kate is busted by her vice-Principal Mr. Davies (Nick Offerman, in a performance that in a just world would be an Oscar contender), she confesses her lies and he simply notes "That's… not good." It turns out that Mr. Davies is 9 years sober, though, and guides Kate to her first AA meeting. She explains: "Things...
- 10/11/2012
- by James Rocchi
- The Playlist
I had such a good time covering True Blood last year that I decided early on that I'd chime in again this year. Unfortunately those slutty Bon Temps whackjobs and their blaspheming god (Alan Ball) did not reward me with a fine debut. Cliffhangers are rarely the best way to end a TV season -- especially one with a really devout fanbase that's coming back anyway. They invariably make the return feel like less of a drunken celebration and more like the clean up after A Lost Weekend. No one remembers how things got so messy but excuse us while we mop up.
Turn Turn Turn... Tara? The angriest bartender in Bon Temps won't be happy about this.
There's so much clean up. Sookie's house had not one but two dead girls to dispose of (Tara and Debby) and icky leftovers (the tooth!) but to avoid Tara's death being a true one,...
Turn Turn Turn... Tara? The angriest bartender in Bon Temps won't be happy about this.
There's so much clean up. Sookie's house had not one but two dead girls to dispose of (Tara and Debby) and icky leftovers (the tooth!) but to avoid Tara's death being a true one,...
- 6/13/2012
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
There are few directors that had a career like Billy Wilder‘s. There are probably none that reached his level of skill and notability while staying as diverse as a storyteller. The man did drama and comedy with equal acuity, but his dominance of filmmaking almost didn’t happen. Born in what is now present-day Poland, Wilder left for Paris during the initial rise of the Nazi party in Germany and soon left for the States. He got out early, yes, but it’s difficult to think about the magic he’s delivered without being reminded that but for a few years he may have found himself a victim of the fear-mongering and murder that befell European Jews at the height of Hitler. Fortunately, he did get out and did go on to craft some of the best scripts and movies of the era (and, you know, of all time). His breakout was writing the hilarious Best...
- 5/9/2012
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
There is a sub-canon of films about alcohol as deep and as dark as a barrel of bourbon, from "Lost Weekend" to "Days of Wine and Roses" to "Trees Lounge." "Smashed," premiering at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, casts Aaron Paul and Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Charlie and Kate, a married couple in L.A. whose love is strong, full and, more to the point, well-saturated. Charlie and Kate like to drink, and it shows; Kate's mortified to have a hung-over vomiting fit while teaching, apologizing to her 1st graders and answering, falsely, yes when her kids ask if she's pregnant. When Kate is busted by her vice-Principal Mr. Davies (Nick Offerman, in a performance that in a just world would be an Oscar contender), she confesses her lies and he simply notes "That's … not good." It turns out that Mr. Davies is 9 years sober, though, and guides Kate to her first AA meeting.
- 1/24/2012
- The Playlist
Getty Actor Michael Fassbender, left, and director Steve McQueen attend the ‘Shame’ premiere during the 68th Venice Film Festival at Palazzo del Cinema on September 4, 2011 in Venice, Italy.
Steve McQueen—the British artist and director, not the American movie star—likes to tackle subjects nobody wants to discuss: the death of British soldiers in Iraq (for “Queen and Country,” a recent art installation); and the Irish prison riots of the early 1980s (in “Hunger,” his first feature film). His latest film,...
Steve McQueen—the British artist and director, not the American movie star—likes to tackle subjects nobody wants to discuss: the death of British soldiers in Iraq (for “Queen and Country,” a recent art installation); and the Irish prison riots of the early 1980s (in “Hunger,” his first feature film). His latest film,...
- 12/2/2011
- by Rachel Dodes
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
The tragedy is that John Lennon graced the earth for but forty years. But a perfect storm of brilliance, social consciousness, personal pain and populist embers whipped around Lennon, leading the confused lad from Northern England to fit more life into those years than perhaps anyone else in the 20th century. For that, on what would have been his 71st birthday, we celebrate.
Born as German bombs rained down on Liverpool in 1940, Lennon was born to Alf and Julia Lennon, a forbidden couple that flouted class convention in a still hierarchical society. That, years later, their son would be a self-styled Working Class Hero seems, in retrospect, predetermined by the scandal into which he was born.
That awareness of the economic and social lines dug deep into Scouse society was aided by his unconventional childhood, which kicked off in earnest after he was forced, in a deep act of cruelty,...
Born as German bombs rained down on Liverpool in 1940, Lennon was born to Alf and Julia Lennon, a forbidden couple that flouted class convention in a still hierarchical society. That, years later, their son would be a self-styled Working Class Hero seems, in retrospect, predetermined by the scandal into which he was born.
That awareness of the economic and social lines dug deep into Scouse society was aided by his unconventional childhood, which kicked off in earnest after he was forced, in a deep act of cruelty,...
- 10/9/2011
- by Jordan Zakarin
- Huffington Post
Director Mark Pellington has had a pretty successful career so far in both the music and the film world, directing music videos for The Fray, Michael Jackson, Foo Fighters, Bruce Springsteen, and many more great artists.
His film credits also include 1999’s terrific Arlington Road, starring Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, and Joan Cusack, and his upcoming film, I Melt With You, is definitely something to look forward to.
Yahoo Movies have got the film’s great first poster and three new images from it, and they all look promising for what should be a great film. I Melt With You premiered at Sundance earlier in the year, where it sold to Magnolia Pictures. According to the press release, via Collider,
““Mark Pellington has made a maverick, stylish and powerful film that resonates for days after viewing,” said Magnolia Svp Tom Quinn. “Thomas Jane, Rob Lowe, Jeremy Piven and Christian McKay...
His film credits also include 1999’s terrific Arlington Road, starring Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, and Joan Cusack, and his upcoming film, I Melt With You, is definitely something to look forward to.
Yahoo Movies have got the film’s great first poster and three new images from it, and they all look promising for what should be a great film. I Melt With You premiered at Sundance earlier in the year, where it sold to Magnolia Pictures. According to the press release, via Collider,
““Mark Pellington has made a maverick, stylish and powerful film that resonates for days after viewing,” said Magnolia Svp Tom Quinn. “Thomas Jane, Rob Lowe, Jeremy Piven and Christian McKay...
- 10/1/2011
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Randy dials Hitch for a drink.
Alfred Hitchcock was always pouring drinks down the throats of his characters. The director used alcohol as medicine in many of his films, particularly as a cure for the nervousness his suspenseful story lines caused. If a character survived a near-death experience with a homicidal maniac, a vehicle or some birds, the next thing heard was likely to be “Here – have some brandy.”
In “Dial M For Murder“ he really put drinking on a pedestal. Ray Milland must have had “Lost Weekend” flashbacks during the filming of this 1954 classic. He suggested drinks to everyone except the key grip, and that offer may have ended up on the cutting room floor.
Thanks to Milland’s character, Grace Kelly and Bob Cummings are always drinking.
“Have a drink!”
“Let’s meet for a drink!”
“Sell the ticket and have a drink on the proceeds!”
“She’s a filthy cook.
Alfred Hitchcock was always pouring drinks down the throats of his characters. The director used alcohol as medicine in many of his films, particularly as a cure for the nervousness his suspenseful story lines caused. If a character survived a near-death experience with a homicidal maniac, a vehicle or some birds, the next thing heard was likely to be “Here – have some brandy.”
In “Dial M For Murder“ he really put drinking on a pedestal. Ray Milland must have had “Lost Weekend” flashbacks during the filming of this 1954 classic. He suggested drinks to everyone except the key grip, and that offer may have ended up on the cutting room floor.
Thanks to Milland’s character, Grace Kelly and Bob Cummings are always drinking.
“Have a drink!”
“Let’s meet for a drink!”
“Sell the ticket and have a drink on the proceeds!”
“She’s a filthy cook.
- 8/18/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
Welcome back to the weekly Tvf Gossip Girl Round Table, where our panel breaks down the previous night's episode (see our review from earlier this morning).
Below, Gg critic Mister Meester is joined by the legendary and incomparable Gossip Guy, TV Fanatic's esteemed co-creator to discuss the Season Four finale.
Our colleague DANdy is back from his Lost Weekend Month with Jack, but will likely take until September to fully recover from that kind of bender. Rough.
It's a two-man show again, sadly, for our last Rt of the season:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1. What was your favorite Gossip Girl quote from last night?
Gossip Guy: "When are you going to realize that I had a better life before you climbed up my fire escape four years ago?" Snap yo, V. Good riddance and enjoy Spain!
Mister Meester: Omg, anything out of G's mouth. "I haven't been this bored since I believed in Jesus" was classic,...
Below, Gg critic Mister Meester is joined by the legendary and incomparable Gossip Guy, TV Fanatic's esteemed co-creator to discuss the Season Four finale.
Our colleague DANdy is back from his Lost Weekend Month with Jack, but will likely take until September to fully recover from that kind of bender. Rough.
It's a two-man show again, sadly, for our last Rt of the season:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1. What was your favorite Gossip Girl quote from last night?
Gossip Guy: "When are you going to realize that I had a better life before you climbed up my fire escape four years ago?" Snap yo, V. Good riddance and enjoy Spain!
Mister Meester: Omg, anything out of G's mouth. "I haven't been this bored since I believed in Jesus" was classic,...
- 5/17/2011
- by steve@iscribelimited.com (Steve Marsi)
- TVfanatic
Is there a little PC penitence creeping into the all-smoking, all-drinking world of 1960s ad-men...?
It’s the 1965 CLIOs, and Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce is up for an award! Let’s see who wants to take credit for the success of Don's Glo-Coat commercial. We get a nice parallel story a new guy wants to join Scdp; set against flashbacks to when Don made the transition from fur coat salesman to Ad Man. Peggy gets naked, and someone goes all Lost Weekend (now where did I put that weekend? It's around here somewhere ...)
Peggy and Don are in his office having an awkward interview with Danny (Strong, Jonathan from Buffy! Danny only got the interview because he’s Roger Sterling’s cousin by marriage. His book includes eighteen or so variations of “The Cure for the Common ____.” It’s total crap. Jonathan is excused. Peggy speaks up to Don about...
It’s the 1965 CLIOs, and Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce is up for an award! Let’s see who wants to take credit for the success of Don's Glo-Coat commercial. We get a nice parallel story a new guy wants to join Scdp; set against flashbacks to when Don made the transition from fur coat salesman to Ad Man. Peggy gets naked, and someone goes all Lost Weekend (now where did I put that weekend? It's around here somewhere ...)
Peggy and Don are in his office having an awkward interview with Danny (Strong, Jonathan from Buffy! Danny only got the interview because he’s Roger Sterling’s cousin by marriage. His book includes eighteen or so variations of “The Cure for the Common ____.” It’s total crap. Jonathan is excused. Peggy speaks up to Don about...
- 9/28/2010
- by admin@shadowlocked.com (Nicole Ugrin)
- Shadowlocked
Previously on Mad Men @ the Movies: 4.1 Live From Times Square 4.2 Sixties Sweethearts 4.3 Catherine Deneuve & Gamera, 4.4 Jean Seberg, 4.5 Hayley Mills & David McCallum
Before we begin, a hearty congrats to Mad Men team for their third Emmy. Confetti thrown.
Episode 4.6 "Waldorf Stories"
In this episode, Don and Roger continue their downward spirals (it seems to be the long arc plot of Season 4) drinking way too much and imbibing too much awards show adulation (Don wins a Clio) or nostalgia (Roger continually reminisces). Meanwhile Peggy and Peter are on the rise, choosing pragmatism and hard work over their individual personal discomfort. The older characters tripping themselves up and the younger characters changing and rising is definitely the long arc of Season 4.
The only character chatting up the movies this week was Roger Sterling (John Slattery).Roger: Charlie Chaplin was very lonely. That Tramp -- too much of a sad sack. Laurel and Hardy - they're much better.
Before we begin, a hearty congrats to Mad Men team for their third Emmy. Confetti thrown.
Episode 4.6 "Waldorf Stories"
In this episode, Don and Roger continue their downward spirals (it seems to be the long arc plot of Season 4) drinking way too much and imbibing too much awards show adulation (Don wins a Clio) or nostalgia (Roger continually reminisces). Meanwhile Peggy and Peter are on the rise, choosing pragmatism and hard work over their individual personal discomfort. The older characters tripping themselves up and the younger characters changing and rising is definitely the long arc of Season 4.
The only character chatting up the movies this week was Roger Sterling (John Slattery).Roger: Charlie Chaplin was very lonely. That Tramp -- too much of a sad sack. Laurel and Hardy - they're much better.
- 9/1/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
In collaboration with ABC, TVOvermind is giving away two tickets to the Profiles in History Lost prop auction in Los Angeles. This is your chance to own a piece of Lost history – or at least stand in the same room as many of Lost’s iconic props. We will select two lucky winners to receive tickets. Since the auction is in Los Angeles, make sure you have transportation and accommodations covered.
Feeling a little Lost lately? Don’t worry… your favorite show is back for only two days, Saturday, August 21, and Sunday, August 22. Celebrate the Lost weekend at Lost: The Official Show Auction & Exhibit at the Barker Hangar located in the Santa Monica Airport. See the Dharma Van, view the Swan Station Hatch and even sit in an Oceanic 815 plane seat, plus much more!
Calling all die-hard LOSTies: Come dressed as your favorite Lost character and each day, one...
Feeling a little Lost lately? Don’t worry… your favorite show is back for only two days, Saturday, August 21, and Sunday, August 22. Celebrate the Lost weekend at Lost: The Official Show Auction & Exhibit at the Barker Hangar located in the Santa Monica Airport. See the Dharma Van, view the Swan Station Hatch and even sit in an Oceanic 815 plane seat, plus much more!
Calling all die-hard LOSTies: Come dressed as your favorite Lost character and each day, one...
- 8/13/2010
- by Jon Lachonis
- TVovermind.com
If you have been waiting for your opportunity to bid in person on Hurley's rabbit's foot, Sawyer's glasses, or Roger Linus's skull, this news flash is for you. Tickets for the Profiles in History "Lost" auction will be going on sale tomorrow for those who want to attend the event in person. It was previously announced that fans interested in owning a piece of Lost history will be able to bid over the internet as well. Here's the official press release from Profiles in History.
Feeling a little Lost lately? Don't worry…your favorite show is back for only two days, Saturday, August 21, and Sunday, August 22. Celebrate the Lost weekend at Lost: The Official Show Auction & Exhibit at the Barker Hangar located in the Santa Monica Airport. Auction tickets go on sale this Thursday, August 5 at 10am Pst: http://www.razorgator.com/tickets/theater/other-theatre/lost-auction-exhibit-tickets.
Plus, get a chance...
Feeling a little Lost lately? Don't worry…your favorite show is back for only two days, Saturday, August 21, and Sunday, August 22. Celebrate the Lost weekend at Lost: The Official Show Auction & Exhibit at the Barker Hangar located in the Santa Monica Airport. Auction tickets go on sale this Thursday, August 5 at 10am Pst: http://www.razorgator.com/tickets/theater/other-theatre/lost-auction-exhibit-tickets.
Plus, get a chance...
- 8/5/2010
- by Jon Lachonis
- TVovermind.com
Filed under: Features
Over the weekend in Los Angeles, 'Lost' fans from around the world gathered for an event called Lost Weekend to celebrate the final season of the series and participate in an auction benefiting the Children's Defense Fund. Several members of the cast and crew attended, and helped to raise almost $5,000 for the charity!
Charity Auction
Items ranging from hats to action figures to messenger bags were donated the to auction by ABC, J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot production company and various actors and crew. Also up for bidding were autographed T-shirts by 'Lost' stars Michael Emerson, Matthew Fox, Jorge Garcia, Yunjin Kim, Evangeline Lilly and Terry O'Quinn, as well as a few copies of the pending 'Lost Encyclopedia,' which will be released in August. Authors Tara Bennett and Paul Terry were in attendance and sweetened the pot by having the books...
Over the weekend in Los Angeles, 'Lost' fans from around the world gathered for an event called Lost Weekend to celebrate the final season of the series and participate in an auction benefiting the Children's Defense Fund. Several members of the cast and crew attended, and helped to raise almost $5,000 for the charity!
Charity Auction
Items ranging from hats to action figures to messenger bags were donated the to auction by ABC, J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot production company and various actors and crew. Also up for bidding were autographed T-shirts by 'Lost' stars Michael Emerson, Matthew Fox, Jorge Garcia, Yunjin Kim, Evangeline Lilly and Terry O'Quinn, as well as a few copies of the pending 'Lost Encyclopedia,' which will be released in August. Authors Tara Bennett and Paul Terry were in attendance and sweetened the pot by having the books...
- 5/18/2010
- by Jo Garfein
- Aol TV.
The CW continues to bulk up its reality slate, developing two more competition series using popular unscripted subject matter.
The first is a dancing show, "One Mass Dance," in which choreographers go to three cities to assemble large dance teams, which then perform a "mass dance" before an unsuspecting audience. The project is from Stone & Co. and Warner Horizon.
The second title is "Shed to Wed," a weight-loss series from production companies Mindcrime and 25/7 in which couples compete to lose pounds before getting hitched.
The projects are in addition to CW's recently reported docusoap in development with celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson and the scavenger-hunt show "Lost Weekend."
With two other reality shows -- "Fly Girls" and "High Society" -- hitting the air this month, the network is angling to have enough reality for a summer block or to potentially pair with "America's Next Top Model" in the fall.
The first is a dancing show, "One Mass Dance," in which choreographers go to three cities to assemble large dance teams, which then perform a "mass dance" before an unsuspecting audience. The project is from Stone & Co. and Warner Horizon.
The second title is "Shed to Wed," a weight-loss series from production companies Mindcrime and 25/7 in which couples compete to lose pounds before getting hitched.
The projects are in addition to CW's recently reported docusoap in development with celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson and the scavenger-hunt show "Lost Weekend."
With two other reality shows -- "Fly Girls" and "High Society" -- hitting the air this month, the network is angling to have enough reality for a summer block or to potentially pair with "America's Next Top Model" in the fall.
- 3/10/2010
- by By James Hibberd
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hey, isn't it supposed to be the other way around? Win an Oscar, then get drunk? Ah, well, here's a toast to Jeff Bridges' pending victory for playing a stumbling, jelly-belly drunk in "Crazy Heart." Getting soused or high on screen is an almost surefire way to win an Academy Award in a town where that pastime is a major sport off screen. Consider these notable, boozy wins: Nicolas Cage ("Leaving Las Vegas"), Elizabeth Taylor ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"), Ray Milland ("Lost Weekend"), Gig Young ("They Shoot Horses, Don't They?") James Dunn ("A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"), Claire Trevor ("Key Largo"), Maggie Smith ("California Suite"). Alcohol was brewing behind some of the biggest upsets...
- 3/2/2010
- by tomoneil
- Gold Derby
The CW is developing two reality shows, including one with celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson.
Best known as Madonna's former personal trainer, Anderson has teamed with Ryan Seacrest Prods. to work out a TV show.
The project is a docusoap following the New York-based Anderson as she trains and keeps celebrities in shape. The single mom's client list includes Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Hudson and Shakira.
The Anderson project joins another reality series in development at the network, "Lost Weekend," a scavenger hunt show from producers Justin Hochberg and Brett Ratner.
With the CW's spring lineup already set and five pilots in contention for a potentially crowded fall, there's a possibility one or both of these could get greenlighted for midseason or even summer. The CW typically goes into repeats during the off-season, but sources say this year could have the network stocking original content into the summer months.
Best known as Madonna's former personal trainer, Anderson has teamed with Ryan Seacrest Prods. to work out a TV show.
The project is a docusoap following the New York-based Anderson as she trains and keeps celebrities in shape. The single mom's client list includes Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Hudson and Shakira.
The Anderson project joins another reality series in development at the network, "Lost Weekend," a scavenger hunt show from producers Justin Hochberg and Brett Ratner.
With the CW's spring lineup already set and five pilots in contention for a potentially crowded fall, there's a possibility one or both of these could get greenlighted for midseason or even summer. The CW typically goes into repeats during the off-season, but sources say this year could have the network stocking original content into the summer months.
- 2/17/2010
- by By James Hibberd
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tomorrow, we'll be unveiling our Ten Best Films of 2009, but before then -- as we did last year -- we'd like to focus your attention to ten movies of a different ilk. They're not what we consider the ten best of the year, but when you're adding titles to your Netflix queue or picking up something from Redbox on your home, the best movie is not always the one you want to see. You might simply prefer some light entertainment, a little escapist fun, or something silly and frothy, but that won't cause permanent brain damage. I despite it when people suggest that you should turn your brain off and just enjoy a movie -- as if there were a goddamn switch on the thing -- but I do often enjoy a movie that doesn't tax the already deteriorating intellect too much.
A movie doesn't have to be an awards...
A movie doesn't have to be an awards...
- 1/6/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
Strand Releasing
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter by Harvey Karten
Grade: B-
Directed by: Noah Buschel
Written By: Noah Buschel
Cast: Michael Shannon, Frank Wood, Amy Ryan, Margaret Colin
Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 11/10/09
Opens: November 20, 2009
Going from a screening of .2012,. which cost $260 million into a showing of .The Missing Person. that seems to be made from pocket change leads to cognitive dissonance. Here again is an exception to the rule that you get what you pay for. This is not to say that .The Missing Person. has much to write home about, but we can allow that this picture is the preferable one to see if you have to choose between the two.
A cop picture without so much as a siren, .The Missing Person. comes at you as an intellectual, noirish production, its desaturated colors even more unattractive than black-and-white, all presumably for the purpose of announcing itself as unreconstructed noir.
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter by Harvey Karten
Grade: B-
Directed by: Noah Buschel
Written By: Noah Buschel
Cast: Michael Shannon, Frank Wood, Amy Ryan, Margaret Colin
Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 11/10/09
Opens: November 20, 2009
Going from a screening of .2012,. which cost $260 million into a showing of .The Missing Person. that seems to be made from pocket change leads to cognitive dissonance. Here again is an exception to the rule that you get what you pay for. This is not to say that .The Missing Person. has much to write home about, but we can allow that this picture is the preferable one to see if you have to choose between the two.
A cop picture without so much as a siren, .The Missing Person. comes at you as an intellectual, noirish production, its desaturated colors even more unattractive than black-and-white, all presumably for the purpose of announcing itself as unreconstructed noir.
- 11/24/2009
- Arizona Reporter
So It's Cotillion Time again in the Upper East Side. Remember the fantastic Cotillion episode from season one? Tonight's Gossip Girl matched that one and then some, but in the drama department, not the elegant part. And that little Threesome bit? That was awesome, as well.
Blair plans to be a mentor for the Cotillion, but has to face Serena, who she is still beefing with. Chuck tells her to go, because he's Chuck Bass, dammit, and probably deep down wants to see a catfight go down. Meanwhile, Serena has just been hired by Trip Vanderbilt as his publicist, despite the Congressman not needing a new publicist. Ahem…
Jenny preps for the Cotillion, but since she has missed one practice (and is not a ballet student) she has to practice extra hard. Throw in the fact that Jenny doesn't have a escort for the biggest night in a junior Upper East Sider's life,...
Blair plans to be a mentor for the Cotillion, but has to face Serena, who she is still beefing with. Chuck tells her to go, because he's Chuck Bass, dammit, and probably deep down wants to see a catfight go down. Meanwhile, Serena has just been hired by Trip Vanderbilt as his publicist, despite the Congressman not needing a new publicist. Ahem…
Jenny preps for the Cotillion, but since she has missed one practice (and is not a ballet student) she has to practice extra hard. Throw in the fact that Jenny doesn't have a escort for the biggest night in a junior Upper East Sider's life,...
- 11/10/2009
- by Mark O. Estes
- TVovermind.com
By Daniel Frankel
This turns out to be the box office's Lost Weekend.
Universal comedy “Couples Retreat” will represent the weekend’s only major studio release, with the $60 million comedy -- written by and starring “Swingers” duo Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau -- likely unseating Sony’s incumbent box-office champ “Zombieland.”
An ensemble project that also stars Jason Bateman, Kristen Bell and Kristin Davis, "Couples" is projected to do “north of $20 million” worth of business, one Universal official who didn't ...
This turns out to be the box office's Lost Weekend.
Universal comedy “Couples Retreat” will represent the weekend’s only major studio release, with the $60 million comedy -- written by and starring “Swingers” duo Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau -- likely unseating Sony’s incumbent box-office champ “Zombieland.”
An ensemble project that also stars Jason Bateman, Kristen Bell and Kristin Davis, "Couples" is projected to do “north of $20 million” worth of business, one Universal official who didn't ...
- 10/8/2009
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
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