Movie City News Archive for August, 2012
Steve Franken, 80, Comic Actor, Drunk Waiter In The Party; Chatworth Osborne, Jr. In “The Loves Of Dobie Gillis”
Steve Franken, 80, Comic Actor, Drunk Waiter In The Party; Chatworth Osborne, Jr. In “The Loves Of Dobie Gillis”; Also Which Way To The Front?, Hardly Working, The Missouri Breaks
Read the full article »The DVD Wrapup: Battleship, Lonesome, Monsieur Lazhar, Penumbra … More
Those fans of the movie “Battleship” born after Nintendo and Sega were introduced to American consumers might find it difficult to believe that one of Hollywood’s most expensive movies was inspired by one of the least costly pastimes of all. Back in the day, all it took to play the Battleship guessing game was a pencil; illegally mimeographed sheets of papers replicating the grids on the Milton Bradley board; and a folded-over checker board to prevent cheating. Players used their pencil to indicate where various sized warships are located and guess the location of their opponent’s fleet, using a bingo-like alphanumeric system. It provided simple, time-consuming and free fun on a rainy day.
Read the full article » 3 Comments »TIFF12: “Protecting Sarah Polley’s Secret” full-on spoilers
TIFF12: “Protecting Sarah Polley’s Secret” full-on spoilers
Read the full article »Jon Voight Brings His Popular Take On The News To Tampa Bay For RNC
Jon Voight Brings His Popular Take On The News To Tampa Bay For RNC
Read the full article »Brian Gerber, 41, Producer And Head Of Digital Hollywood Content Summit, Drives Car Off Angeles Crest Highway
Brian Gerber, 41, Producer And Head Of Digital Hollywood Content Summit, Drives Car Off Angeles Crest Highway
Read the full article »Jacques Bensimon, 69, Documentarian And Former Head Of National Film Board Of Canada
Jacques Bensimon, 69, Documentarian And Former Head Of National Film Board Of Canada At A Crucial Time
Read the full article »Two Unproduced Kubrick Scripts Headed For The Box
Two Unproduced Kubrick Scripts Headed For The Box
Read the full article »Slavoj Žižek G0es 4,000 Words On The Politics Of Batman
Slavoj Žižek Goes 4,000 Words On The Politics Of Batman
Read the full article »Fire Walk With Me Turns 20
Fire Walk With Me Turns 20
Read the full article »Silent Star “Baby Peggy” At 93
Silent Star “Baby Peggy” At 93
Read the full article »Just-Released Gov’t Documents On Thirty Dark Zero Appear To Disprove Conspiracy Theories
Just-Released Gov’t Documents On Thirty Dark Zero Appear To Disprove Conspiracy Theories
Read the full article »Killing Me Softly Co-Producer Files For Bankruptcy
Killing Me Softly Co-Producer Files For Bankruptcy
Read the full article »What Do The Internet’s Extreme Trolls Get From Their Private Sport?
“Social distance can cause a 55-year-old climate change sceptic with a job and a mortgage to behave like a spastic donkey with strange malicious behavior.” What Do The Internet’s Extreme Trolls Get From Their Private Sport?
Read the full article »A 2005 Report Of The Kentucky Incident That Inspired Compliance
A 2005 Report Of The Kentucky Incident That Inspired Compliance spoilers
Read the full article »China Cracks Down On “Co-Productions” Meant To Get U. S. Product Onto Local Screens
Looper, Cloud Atlas, Iron Man 3 Could Be Affected China Cracks Down On “Co-Productions” Meant To Get U. S. Product Onto Local Screens
Read the full article »AFS GRANTS $121,000 TO 2012 TEXAS FILMMAKERS’ PRODUCTION FUND & TRAVEL GRANT RECIPIENTS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, August 29, 2012 (Austin, TX)–The Austin Film Society (AFS) is very proud to announce the recipients of its 2012 Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund (TFPF), which this year awarded cash grants totalling $89,500 to 16 projects by emerging Texas filmmakers. In addition to cash grants, AFS gave away $10,000 in goods and services from MPS Camera Austin,…
Read the full article »Wilmington on DVDs: Darling Companion; Headhunters; Down by Law… more
The movie has its flaws — an outlandishly implausible ending chiefly among them — but compared to most of the un-naturalistic, unfunny, unserious, totally phony and sometimes obnoxiously ageist and condescendingly smart-ass gloppy stuff that often passes for American movie comedy-drama these days (and that sometimes gets a pass from the same people who pile on movies like Darling Companion), it’s a movie that deserves some encouragement.
Read the full article » 1 Comment »Oscar-Winner Geoffrey Fletcher’s Financier, His Hedge-Fund Manager Brother, Faces Losses On Violet & Daisy
Oscar-Winner Geoffrey Fletcher’s Financier, His Hedge-Fund Manager Brother, Faces Losses On Violet & Daisy
Read the full article »IFC’s Jonathan Sehring On The VOD-Theatrical Business Model Of His Co. And Magnolia, As Well As A Recut Of On The Road
“You don’t see Eamonn at Magnolia, you don’t see us—the two pioneers in the changing of the windows—coming out and reporting our numbers on a weekly basis. Magnolia and IFC Films invented the wheel five or six years ago.” IFC’s Sehring On The VOD-Theatrical Business Model, As Well As A Recut Of On The Road
Read the full article »Wilmington on DVDs: High Noon, 60th Anniversary Edition
High Noon became one of the most influential of all movie Westerns, exerting lasting effects even on films and filmmakers you wouldn’t expect it to, like Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch (four men, like the Miller gang, walking alone at the end, instead of one), Clint Eastwood‘s hip, dark High Plains Drifter (which might have been the last vengeful nightmare of a dying Will Kane) and Sergio Leone‘s operatic Once Upon a Time in the West.
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