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Weekend Box Office (Nov 17-19)
Updated With Actuals W I D E
800+ screens
L I M I T E D
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- 11/19/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
This unusually sensitive, overlooked WW2 romance skips the morale-boosting baloney of the day. Two people meet on a train, each with a personal shame they dare not speak of. Ginger Rogers and Joseph Cotten are excellent under William Dieterle’s direction, and Shirley Temple doesn’t do half the damage you’d think she might.
I’ll Be Seeing You
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1944 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 85 min. / Street Date November 21, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, John Derek, Tom Tully, Chill Wills, Kenny Bowers.
Cinematography: Tony Gaudio
Film Editor: William H. Zeigler
Special Effects: Jack Cosgrove
Original Music: Daniele Amfitheatrof
Stunt Double: Cliff Lyons
Written by Marion Parsonette from a play by Charles Martin
Produced by Dore Schary
Directed by William Dieterle
Aha! A little research explains why several late-’40s melodramas from David O. Selznick come off as smart productions,...
I’ll Be Seeing You
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1944 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 85 min. / Street Date November 21, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, John Derek, Tom Tully, Chill Wills, Kenny Bowers.
Cinematography: Tony Gaudio
Film Editor: William H. Zeigler
Special Effects: Jack Cosgrove
Original Music: Daniele Amfitheatrof
Stunt Double: Cliff Lyons
Written by Marion Parsonette from a play by Charles Martin
Produced by Dore Schary
Directed by William Dieterle
Aha! A little research explains why several late-’40s melodramas from David O. Selznick come off as smart productions,...
- 11/4/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
This week, the Cinemaholics saw Only the Brave and they’re more than ready to talk about the movie, which is based on true events surrounding the Granite Mountain Hotshots. Starring Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges and Jennifer Connelly, this is a biographical drama full of some big surprises, and we definitely recommend that you see it before digging into the real story.
Elsewhere on the show, Jon, Will and Maveryke also talk about The Snowman, starring Michael Fassbender and Rebecca Ferguson and directed by Tomas Alfredson. Based on the seventh novel of a series of detective stories by Jo Nesbø, The Snowman hasn’t exactly taken the critics or audiences by storm (and don’t get us started on Geostorm), so sit back and hear Will’s thoughts on how the David Fincher knockoff plays out.
Following that, Jon and Maveryke rave about Fincher’s work in Mindhunter Season 1, now on Netflix,...
Elsewhere on the show, Jon, Will and Maveryke also talk about The Snowman, starring Michael Fassbender and Rebecca Ferguson and directed by Tomas Alfredson. Based on the seventh novel of a series of detective stories by Jo Nesbø, The Snowman hasn’t exactly taken the critics or audiences by storm (and don’t get us started on Geostorm), so sit back and hear Will’s thoughts on how the David Fincher knockoff plays out.
Following that, Jon and Maveryke rave about Fincher’s work in Mindhunter Season 1, now on Netflix,...
- 10/22/2017
- by Jon Negroni
- We Got This Covered
Editor's Note: Harvey Weinstein is an occasional contributor to Deadline when he has something on his mind. One of my favorite films that I ever distributed is Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master. Believe me, it’ll live in history long after most celluloid fades. When you watch it and then watch something like John Huston’s documentary Let There Be Light, the subtext of The Master is understanding an entire generation’s need — especially World War II veterans — to find some…...
- 9/28/2017
- Deadline
And now for something completely different. Many of the writing staff here at ScreenAnarchy have different careers outside of their movie enthusiasms. Myself, I have a degree in Chemistry, and work as a materials scientist. So when the opportunity to talk to the pair of nuclear fusion physicists presented itself, I was excited to get a bit more scientifically technical than is the norm when talking movies. I hope you enjoy the discussion, which is not dumbed down, with the two principals in the current excellent primer on creating the worlds first operating fusion power plant, Let There Be Light. With all the alternative energy options slowly encroaching on the fossil fuel majority, the least discussed energy source in the 21st century is one...
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- 9/22/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Article by Dane Eric Marti
Sometimes a film will speak directly to a person in an audience: A preternatural, unearthly tendril of luminous light tapping you on the shoulder, a benevolent yet mysterious voice reminding you of an obligation, or a musical, colorful Dream Message entering your eyes and speaking to your soul with wonder, awe and truth. Like other Art forms, film can do amazing things.
For me, there are definitely a few choice films of overwhelming, pristine power. Yet one cinematic work is not just great, deeply special to me: ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind.’ Directed by the Wonderkind, Steven Spielberg, directly after his landmark suspense-adventure film, ‘Jaws’.
Now, his new flick, released in 1977, also dealt with the fantastic, with riveting moments of terror… but its endgame was something quite dissimilar.
I think it would take either a first-rate Psychologist or an Exorcist with a lot of...
Sometimes a film will speak directly to a person in an audience: A preternatural, unearthly tendril of luminous light tapping you on the shoulder, a benevolent yet mysterious voice reminding you of an obligation, or a musical, colorful Dream Message entering your eyes and speaking to your soul with wonder, awe and truth. Like other Art forms, film can do amazing things.
For me, there are definitely a few choice films of overwhelming, pristine power. Yet one cinematic work is not just great, deeply special to me: ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind.’ Directed by the Wonderkind, Steven Spielberg, directly after his landmark suspense-adventure film, ‘Jaws’.
Now, his new flick, released in 1977, also dealt with the fantastic, with riveting moments of terror… but its endgame was something quite dissimilar.
I think it would take either a first-rate Psychologist or an Exorcist with a lot of...
- 8/31/2017
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The pieces finally came together, literally, as Season 2 of Fox’s Lucifer came to a close on Monday night. But with conflicting family agendas at hand, what ultimate use was made of the Flaming Sword?
RelatedFox Fall Schedule: Marvel Mutants Paired With DC’s Lucifer
In fact, assembling the Flaming Sword, even with the key now found, was easier said that done, seeing as Amenadiel needed some time “to process” his demarcation as the Favorite Son. As he saw it, it was his job to protect the key and not let it play a role in unconscionable uses of the sword — such as to,...
RelatedFox Fall Schedule: Marvel Mutants Paired With DC’s Lucifer
In fact, assembling the Flaming Sword, even with the key now found, was easier said that done, seeing as Amenadiel needed some time “to process” his demarcation as the Favorite Son. As he saw it, it was his job to protect the key and not let it play a role in unconscionable uses of the sword — such as to,...
- 5/30/2017
- TVLine.com
‘Five Came Back’: How the Story of Hollywood Directors In World War II Became a Great Netflix Series
Entertainment journalist Mark Harris followed up his well-reviewed 2009 “Pictures at a Revolution” with an even better and more accessible book, the dramatic story of five top Hollywood directors and their roles in producing WWII propaganda films, told over 500 pages: “Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War. The first book was doomed not to become a movie due to prohibitive clip costs. But the urge to open up Harris’s exhaustive research on “Five Came Back” via dramatic documentary shorts shot in the global arena was irresistible — and they were free.
Read More: ‘Five Came Back’ Review: A Cinephile’s Dream Documentary Becomes Enthralling for Everyone on Netflix
There’s plenty of rich footage to choose from: Frank Capra’s “Why We Fight” propaganda, John Huston’s re-enacted “The Battle of San Pietro,” John Ford and William Wyler’s live footage of the D-Day invasion from sea and air,...
Read More: ‘Five Came Back’ Review: A Cinephile’s Dream Documentary Becomes Enthralling for Everyone on Netflix
There’s plenty of rich footage to choose from: Frank Capra’s “Why We Fight” propaganda, John Huston’s re-enacted “The Battle of San Pietro,” John Ford and William Wyler’s live footage of the D-Day invasion from sea and air,...
- 4/3/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
‘Five Came Back’: How the Story of Hollywood Directors In World War II Became a Great Netflix Series
Entertainment journalist Mark Harris followed up his well-reviewed 2009 “Pictures at a Revolution” with an even better and more accessible book, the dramatic story of five top Hollywood directors and their roles in producing WWII propaganda films, told over 500 pages: “Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War. The first book was doomed not to become a movie due to prohibitive clip costs. But the urge to open up Harris’s exhaustive research on “Five Came Back” via dramatic documentary shorts shot in the global arena was irresistible — and they were free.
Read More: ‘Five Came Back’ Review: A Cinephile’s Dream Documentary Becomes Enthralling for Everyone on Netflix
There’s plenty of rich footage to choose from: Frank Capra’s “Why We Fight” propaganda, John Huston’s re-enacted “The Battle of San Pietro,” John Ford and William Wyler’s live footage of the D-Day invasion from sea and air,...
Read More: ‘Five Came Back’ Review: A Cinephile’s Dream Documentary Becomes Enthralling for Everyone on Netflix
There’s plenty of rich footage to choose from: Frank Capra’s “Why We Fight” propaganda, John Huston’s re-enacted “The Battle of San Pietro,” John Ford and William Wyler’s live footage of the D-Day invasion from sea and air,...
- 4/3/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Several years ago, Mark Harris began feeling a little self-conscious about a gap in his film-history knowledge. As a journalist for Entertainment Weekly, New York Magazine and the late, lamented Web site Grantland, among others, he'd covered the waterfront of contemporary moviemaking. As an author, his book Pictures at a Revolution dissected the moment in the late 1960s when the last gasp of the Golden Age studio system gave way to what become known as "New Hollywood." Ask him about the works of legends like, say, John Ford and Frank Capra,...
- 4/1/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Over the last decade or so, non-fiction and documentary cinema has been the breeding ground for some of cinema’s most interesting films and film-makers. However, for many cinephiles the history of this world of cinema has been vastly undervalued and works vastly underseen. Be it the earliest days of silent cinema to the importance of documentary films in global conflicts, non-fiction directors have crafted some of the greatest and most influential works in all of the art form.
And thankfully two great, if light, histories of some of the great films are finally available on DVD.
From Icarus Films comes the release of three films, across two DVDs, that take a direct look at the early days of documentary cinema, ostensibly from the beginning with films like Nanook Of The North to the work of German propagandists like Leni Riefenstahl and Us news reels which would see names like...
And thankfully two great, if light, histories of some of the great films are finally available on DVD.
From Icarus Films comes the release of three films, across two DVDs, that take a direct look at the early days of documentary cinema, ostensibly from the beginning with films like Nanook Of The North to the work of German propagandists like Leni Riefenstahl and Us news reels which would see names like...
- 3/22/2017
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Lineup and Pre-Festival Announcements and News
‘Life’ Will Close South by Southwest
SXSW: Midnighters, Short Films and Vr Round Out 2017 Lineup
Baby Driver,’ ‘The Strange Ones’ and More Join 2017 SXSW Lineup
SXSW 2017 Episodic Lineup to Include ‘Dear White People,’ ‘American Gods’
Terrence Malick’s ‘Song to Song’ Will Open SXSW 2017: See Expanded Lineup
SXSW 2017 Adds Keynotes and Featured Speakers, Including ‘Rogue One’ Director Gareth Edwards and Actress Kathryn Hahn
SXSW 2017: Music Festival Adds 500 Artists to Lineup
South By Southwest Announces Lee Daniels As Keynote Speaker For 2017
Pre-Festival Analysis
SXSW 2017 Lineup: Drug-Addicted Lovers and Barbecue Lead Surprises and Hidden Gems
SXSW 2017: The Most Exciting TV Events You Can’t Miss
SXSW 2017: 13 Must-See Films At This Year’s Festival
‘American Gods’ Will Premiere at SXSW And You Won’t See Reviews: Here’s Why
How the SXSW 2017 Film Festival Shows Us the Future of the Movies
SXSW 2017:...
‘Life’ Will Close South by Southwest
SXSW: Midnighters, Short Films and Vr Round Out 2017 Lineup
Baby Driver,’ ‘The Strange Ones’ and More Join 2017 SXSW Lineup
SXSW 2017 Episodic Lineup to Include ‘Dear White People,’ ‘American Gods’
Terrence Malick’s ‘Song to Song’ Will Open SXSW 2017: See Expanded Lineup
SXSW 2017 Adds Keynotes and Featured Speakers, Including ‘Rogue One’ Director Gareth Edwards and Actress Kathryn Hahn
SXSW 2017: Music Festival Adds 500 Artists to Lineup
South By Southwest Announces Lee Daniels As Keynote Speaker For 2017
Pre-Festival Analysis
SXSW 2017 Lineup: Drug-Addicted Lovers and Barbecue Lead Surprises and Hidden Gems
SXSW 2017: The Most Exciting TV Events You Can’t Miss
SXSW 2017: 13 Must-See Films At This Year’s Festival
‘American Gods’ Will Premiere at SXSW And You Won’t See Reviews: Here’s Why
How the SXSW 2017 Film Festival Shows Us the Future of the Movies
SXSW 2017:...
- 3/10/2017
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
Having found success with her 2012 web series “I Love Lucy & Bekka,” playwright Rachael Holder is returning with a full-scale short form series, “I Love Bekka and Lucy,” premiering worldwide at SXSW this year as part of the Episodic line-up. Produced by Stage 13 through Warner Brothers, “I Love Bekka and Lucy” emphasizes the same ideas of friendship from the previous series, but with more time available to flesh out these two inseparable best friends.
Jessica Parker Kennedy and Tanisha Long star as Bekka and Lucy, respectively. The two bounce off each other in ways that aren’t always so seamless, as Bekka’s cynicism plays against Lucy’s dreamier personality. Despite their differences, their deep friendship grounds them. Rounding out the rest of the cast in Holder’s world is Alexis Denisof (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Angel” fame), as well as Chris Smith.
Read More: SXSW 2017 Lineup: Drug-Addicted Lovers and...
Jessica Parker Kennedy and Tanisha Long star as Bekka and Lucy, respectively. The two bounce off each other in ways that aren’t always so seamless, as Bekka’s cynicism plays against Lucy’s dreamier personality. Despite their differences, their deep friendship grounds them. Rounding out the rest of the cast in Holder’s world is Alexis Denisof (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Angel” fame), as well as Chris Smith.
Read More: SXSW 2017 Lineup: Drug-Addicted Lovers and...
- 3/6/2017
- by Maya Reddy
- Indiewire
‘A Critically Endangered Species’ Exclusive Trailer: Lena Olin Decides to End Her Life in SXSW Drama
“A Critically Endangered Species” will have its world premiere on Sunday, March 12, at this year’s SXSW. The drama stars Lena Olin (“Chocolat,” “Remember Me”) as the lead and Rosanna Arquette (“The Whole Nine Yards,” “Roadies”).
Read More: ‘Let There Be Light’ Exclusive Trailer: SXSW Documentary Explores Nuclear Fusion Research — Watch
The film follows Maya Dardel (Olin), an internationally acclaimed poet and novelist who decides to end her life. She makes the announcement on national radio and launches a search for young male published poetry writers to compete to become executors of her estate. As the men compete, Maya will make sure to challenge them intellectually, emotionally and sexually.
The cast also includes Nathan Keyes (“Britney Ever After’), Alexander Koch (“Always Shine”), Jordan Gavaris (“The Sea of Trees”), and Chris Voss (“There Is No God and We All Die Alone”). The film is by writing-directing duo Zachary Cotler and Magdalena Zyzak...
Read More: ‘Let There Be Light’ Exclusive Trailer: SXSW Documentary Explores Nuclear Fusion Research — Watch
The film follows Maya Dardel (Olin), an internationally acclaimed poet and novelist who decides to end her life. She makes the announcement on national radio and launches a search for young male published poetry writers to compete to become executors of her estate. As the men compete, Maya will make sure to challenge them intellectually, emotionally and sexually.
The cast also includes Nathan Keyes (“Britney Ever After’), Alexander Koch (“Always Shine”), Jordan Gavaris (“The Sea of Trees”), and Chris Voss (“There Is No God and We All Die Alone”). The film is by writing-directing duo Zachary Cotler and Magdalena Zyzak...
- 3/3/2017
- by Yoselin Acevedo
- Indiewire
Netflix has announced the new titles arriving on the streaming platform next month, with five original films leading the pack: “Burning Sands” (3/10), “Deidra & Laney Rob a Train” (3/17), “Pandora” (3/17), “The Most Hated Woman in America” (3/24) and “The Discovery” (3/31). Three of these — “Burning Sands,” “Deidra & Laney,” “The Discovery” — are Netflix Origins that premiered during the Sundance Film Festival in January.
Read More: ‘The Discovery’ Review: Rooney Mara And Jason Segel Find Life After Death — Sundance 2017
Also available to stream next month are “The Bfg,” “Pete’s Dragon,” “The Life Aquatic,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Chicago,” “Jurassic Park,” “Memento,” “Million Dollar Baby,” “Evolution,” “Fire at Sea” and “Welcome to New York,” among others, while the likes of “Jaws,” “Animal House,” “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey” and “Entertainment” are all expiring at the end of February. Find a full list of what’s coming in March below.
Read More: Why Martin Scorsese’s Netflix Deal Is...
Read More: ‘The Discovery’ Review: Rooney Mara And Jason Segel Find Life After Death — Sundance 2017
Also available to stream next month are “The Bfg,” “Pete’s Dragon,” “The Life Aquatic,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Chicago,” “Jurassic Park,” “Memento,” “Million Dollar Baby,” “Evolution,” “Fire at Sea” and “Welcome to New York,” among others, while the likes of “Jaws,” “Animal House,” “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey” and “Entertainment” are all expiring at the end of February. Find a full list of what’s coming in March below.
Read More: Why Martin Scorsese’s Netflix Deal Is...
- 2/23/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Arijit Singh, best remembered for his renditions of hit tracks from films like Aashiqui 2 and Dilwale seemed to be at a loss on Tuesday night. In fact Singh, who has recently recorded a track for the upcoming Salman Khan starrer Sultan, apparently rubbed the star the wrong way and was slighted for the same. However in an attempt to set the record straight Arijit posted a public apology on his facebook page (which he incidentally later deleted) urging Salman not to drop his song from Sultan.
Below is a copy of Arijit's apologetic post:
"Dear Mr Salman Khan
This is the last way I thought I would speak to you. I have been trying to text you call you and do everything possible to tell you that you are mistaken about the fact that I insulted you. I never did. That night in the show It was the wrong time and wrong aura.
Below is a copy of Arijit's apologetic post:
"Dear Mr Salman Khan
This is the last way I thought I would speak to you. I have been trying to text you call you and do everything possible to tell you that you are mistaken about the fact that I insulted you. I never did. That night in the show It was the wrong time and wrong aura.
- 5/25/2016
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
Kent Jones with Gone Girl director David Fincher: "I don't think David was responding to Vertigo …" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Wes Anderson, Arnaud Desplechin, James Gray, Olivier Assayas, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Richard Linklater, Peter Bogdanovich and Paul Schrader with a narration by Bob Balaban, come together in Kent Jones' rhythmic Hitchcock/Truffaut, to discuss Alfred Hitchcock and François Truffaut.
John Huston's Let There Be Light, Fincher's The Social Network, Se7en and The Game, Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom narrator and Truffaut's interpreter in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, the defector in Topaz, Psycho and Janet Leigh, Vertigo and Brian De Palma's commitment to Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow for their film De Palma come to light in my conversation with the New York Film Festival Director of Programming Kent Jones.
Alfred Hitchcock in thought with François Truffaut
Hitchcock/Truffaut makes you...
Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Wes Anderson, Arnaud Desplechin, James Gray, Olivier Assayas, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Richard Linklater, Peter Bogdanovich and Paul Schrader with a narration by Bob Balaban, come together in Kent Jones' rhythmic Hitchcock/Truffaut, to discuss Alfred Hitchcock and François Truffaut.
John Huston's Let There Be Light, Fincher's The Social Network, Se7en and The Game, Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom narrator and Truffaut's interpreter in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, the defector in Topaz, Psycho and Janet Leigh, Vertigo and Brian De Palma's commitment to Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow for their film De Palma come to light in my conversation with the New York Film Festival Director of Programming Kent Jones.
Alfred Hitchcock in thought with François Truffaut
Hitchcock/Truffaut makes you...
- 2/13/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In this special episode of Off The Shelf, Ryan and Brian take a look at the new DVD and Blu-ray releases for Tuesday, January 19th 2016.
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12 Monkeys: Season 1 All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records American Gigolo Adventure Time – Stakes! Miniseries Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Arrow) Christmas Eve The Diary of a Teenage Girl Everest Gilda The...
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Help send Scott to Sundance
Follow-Up Ryan screwed up in discussing Arrow’s Fassbinder titles News HBO airs Godfather “Epic” Kino Studio Classics: Freleng DePatie Cartoons Covers & Dates Masters of Cinema: Eureka & Rocco Arrow low-quantity warnings Waking Life cover Links
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The American Friend Bed Sitting Room Bitter Rice Bodyguard Figures in a Landscape Hotel Transylvania 2 How I Won the War How to Smell A Rose The Image Revolution Irrational Man Knack The Look of Silence The Martian Out 1 Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
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12 Monkeys: Season 1 All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records American Gigolo Adventure Time – Stakes! Miniseries Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Arrow) Christmas Eve The Diary of a Teenage Girl Everest Gilda The...
- 1/20/2016
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
When John Huston went to war he took his mission seriously... as an artist. He made four wartime docus for the army. San Pietro and the long suppressed Let There Be Light are the classics we studied in film school; Winning Your Wings is typical enlistment booster material and Report from the Aleutians a remarkably good record of how the war was really fought in far-flung locations. Let There Be Light: John Huston's Wartime Documentaries Blu-ray Olive Films 1942-1945 Color and B&W 1:33 flat full frame 281 min. Street Date January 19, 2016 available through the Olive Films website 29.95 Directed by John Huston
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Of the Hollywood directors who 'went to war' and made high-profile Signal Corps films for the public, John Huston was surely the most innovative. He made one enlistment booster for the Army Air Corps and then three pictures that the Army thought were either too long,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Of the Hollywood directors who 'went to war' and made high-profile Signal Corps films for the public, John Huston was surely the most innovative. He made one enlistment booster for the Army Air Corps and then three pictures that the Army thought were either too long,...
- 1/19/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Every week we dive into the cream of the crop when it comes to home releases, including Blu-ray and DVDs, as well as recommended deals of the week. Check out our rundown below and return every Tuesday for the best (or most interesting) films one can take home. Note that if you’re looking to support the site, every purchase you make through the links below helps us and is greatly appreciated.
The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller)
Writer-director Marie Heller paints an accurate, honest, and vibrant portrait of her young protagonist, Minnie (Bel Powley), in The Diary of a Teenage Girl. With the use of some beautiful hand-drawn animation, an enlightening and funny narration, and Powley’s versatile performance, this is about as intimate as a subjective picture gets. We experience the world as this young girl does. What’s exciting for Minnie feels truly exciting, and...
The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller)
Writer-director Marie Heller paints an accurate, honest, and vibrant portrait of her young protagonist, Minnie (Bel Powley), in The Diary of a Teenage Girl. With the use of some beautiful hand-drawn animation, an enlightening and funny narration, and Powley’s versatile performance, this is about as intimate as a subjective picture gets. We experience the world as this young girl does. What’s exciting for Minnie feels truly exciting, and...
- 1/19/2016
- by TFS Staff
- The Film Stage
★★★★☆ Gilbert Adair began the first chapter of Flickers (1995), his deeply personal and often eccentric odyssey into the history of the movies - written to mark the centenary of the Lumière brothers' public exhibition of short films shot and projected on their Cinematographe device in Paris's Grand Café Boulevard des Capucines in 1895 - with a grandiose "Let there be light!". It is a mark of cinema's uniqueness as an art form, that it can be so fittingly compared to such a momentous and mystical occasion as the Big Bang. Adair's wonderful book, mixing selected film stills (one for each year) and textual analysis, kicks off with a Lumière short, known as Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory.
- 6/30/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
One half of enjoying a marvel is wondering how it works, and the other half is not knowing. Bruce McClure’s cinema is a spectacle to savor, for once his built-up gallows are packed away and taken home, there can be no encore. While film projectionists have long been an endangered species, the Brooklyn-based licensed architect assumes the mantle of sole creator, hunched over one or two or three 16mm or Super-8 projectors, twiddling away behind a torchlight on a handmade soundboard, with which he has as much fun as he does the guitar pedals at his feet.
This is autonomy incarnate: projector, performer, meaning-maker and destroyer. “Have we got time?” He asks during one of his nine live shows at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam. “I mean I know we have time but I could go on with this all night.”
McClure is difficult to pin down in a number of ways.
This is autonomy incarnate: projector, performer, meaning-maker and destroyer. “Have we got time?” He asks during one of his nine live shows at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam. “I mean I know we have time but I could go on with this all night.”
McClure is difficult to pin down in a number of ways.
- 1/31/2015
- by Michael Pattison
- MUBI
"John Huston doesn’t have a flawless track record as a film director, but few have so perfectly embodied the idea of what a film director ought to be," writes Nick Pinkerton in his overview of Let There Be Light: The Films of John Huston, the retrospective running at the Film Society of Lincoln Center through January 11. In the L, Justin Stewart recommends The Kremlin Letter (1970), which "delivers everything you want in a Cold War spy thriller, along with a vintage draught of sexism and groovy S&M particular to its moment in time." And Henry Stewart writes up White Hunter, Black Heart (1990): "In this fictionalized telling of the making of The African Queen, Clint Eastwood performs a sustained, fascinating, campy impression of the larger-than-life John Huston." » - David Hudson...
- 12/29/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
"John Huston doesn’t have a flawless track record as a film director, but few have so perfectly embodied the idea of what a film director ought to be," writes Nick Pinkerton in his overview of Let There Be Light: The Films of John Huston, the retrospective running at the Film Society of Lincoln Center through January 11. In the L, Justin Stewart recommends The Kremlin Letter (1970), which "delivers everything you want in a Cold War spy thriller, along with a vintage draught of sexism and groovy S&M particular to its moment in time." And Henry Stewart writes up White Hunter, Black Heart (1990): "In this fictionalized telling of the making of The African Queen, Clint Eastwood performs a sustained, fascinating, campy impression of the larger-than-life John Huston." » - David Hudson...
- 12/29/2014
- Keyframe
Let there be light (or color).
Jonas bursts out of his black-and-white world in the new trailer for The Giver, the Ya film based on Lois Lowry’s beloved book. The clip may seem pretty dystopian paint by numbers (don’t question authority! etc.) — but, of course, Lowry wrote the book that all the others are borrowing from decades ago. Except in this version, Asher flies a plane.
For those unfamiliar with the tale (read the book!), the main character is Jonas (12 in the book, 16-ish here), a boy who is chosen to become the new Receiver of Memory — a.
Jonas bursts out of his black-and-white world in the new trailer for The Giver, the Ya film based on Lois Lowry’s beloved book. The clip may seem pretty dystopian paint by numbers (don’t question authority! etc.) — but, of course, Lowry wrote the book that all the others are borrowing from decades ago. Except in this version, Asher flies a plane.
For those unfamiliar with the tale (read the book!), the main character is Jonas (12 in the book, 16-ish here), a boy who is chosen to become the new Receiver of Memory — a.
- 6/4/2014
- by Erin Strecker
- EW - Inside Movies
Who doesn’t love the wonders of the wizarding world of Harry Potter? The boy wizard has captivated audiences since the first book was published in 1997 and the movies have not only brought new fans to the novels, but have also cemented the series’ place as one of the most popular fictional tales of all time. However, although you might think you know the books from cover to cover, or the films from Philosopher’s Stone to Deathly Hallows: Part II, there are still some secret things about the much-loved characters you may not be aware of.
Here are some of the most amazing facts about Harry Potter:
1) Raucous Ron Weasley?
When J.K. Rowling first started developing the characters for the Harry Potter series, it was her intention that Ron Weasley would swear a lot. While there were plenty of “bloody hells” in the films, the language could have been...
Here are some of the most amazing facts about Harry Potter:
1) Raucous Ron Weasley?
When J.K. Rowling first started developing the characters for the Harry Potter series, it was her intention that Ron Weasley would swear a lot. While there were plenty of “bloody hells” in the films, the language could have been...
- 5/29/2014
- by Ginger_Phoenix
- Nerdly
This article is available for free for Time magazine subscribers. Subscribe now.From the moment God declared, "Let there be light," Scripture christened light as holy and condemned darkness to hell. The Christian liturgy soaked in the theme in the centuries that followed. The Book of Common Prayer addresses God as "O Light" and begs, "Be our light in the darkness, O Lord." Hymns followed suit, from “Amazing Grace” to the hit "In the Light" from Christian hip-hop band dc Talk. But theologian Barbara Brown Taylor sees it differently. As impossible as it is to imagine faith without light, it...
- 4/18/2014
- PEOPLE.com
In the beginning, God said, "Let there be light"—but He might've added, "Camera! Action!" Since the genesis of moviemaking, Hollywood has turned to the Good Book for story inspiration, from silent-movie versions of The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur in the 1920s to…well…blockbuster remakes of The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur in the 1950s! When The Greatest Story Ever Told flopped in 1965, studios mostly forsook biblical spectacles. Even divine profits for The Passion of the Christ in 2004 didn't inspire execs to sign Jesus to a multipicture deal. But miracles do happen, and now religious epics are flooding theaters again like 40 days and nights of rain. Son of God, adapted from...
- 3/30/2014
- E! Online
Mark Harris's study of the interwoven war careers of Ford, Wyler, Capra, Stevens and Huston impresses Philip French
The two most remarkable film books of last year were both about the ways – mostly craven and temporising – that the American cinema responded to the rise of Nazism: The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler by Ben Urwand and Hollywood and Hitler 1933-1939 by Thomas Doherty. By a useful coincidence, the first important movie history so far this year, and likely to prove one of the most memorable, is Mark Harris's Five Came Back. His complementary work picks up Urband's and Doherty's studies at that crucial point where the bombs fall on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 and Hollywood rolls up its sleeves and swaps the diplomatic velvet glove for a patriotic steel fist. As in his impressive first book, Scenes from a Revolution, a long, detailed study of five 1967 movies that...
The two most remarkable film books of last year were both about the ways – mostly craven and temporising – that the American cinema responded to the rise of Nazism: The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler by Ben Urwand and Hollywood and Hitler 1933-1939 by Thomas Doherty. By a useful coincidence, the first important movie history so far this year, and likely to prove one of the most memorable, is Mark Harris's Five Came Back. His complementary work picks up Urband's and Doherty's studies at that crucial point where the bombs fall on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 and Hollywood rolls up its sleeves and swaps the diplomatic velvet glove for a patriotic steel fist. As in his impressive first book, Scenes from a Revolution, a long, detailed study of five 1967 movies that...
- 3/17/2014
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
In my endless quest to seek out the darkest and scariest music on the planet, I've frequently returned to a few experimental bands who are supremely skilled at bending and twisting the conventions of rock and metal into strange, new and often nightmarish shapes. One of my favorite groups in this category is Norwegian band Ulver, who evolved from an old-school black metal unit in the '90s into a highly experimental collective, focusing their energies on everything from '60s psychedelic rock (Childhood's End) to neoclassical and avant-garde compositions (Messe). The main connecting thread between their diverse material is a focus on arcane, ominous and often terrifying themes (an approach noted by director Scott Derrickson, who incorporated the band's tracks into his 2012 horror hit Sinister). Another heavy hitter with a huge cult following is the enigmatic Seattle, Wa-based “drone metal” team Sunn O))), whose onstage image of faceless figures...
- 2/6/2014
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
Review Laura Akers 28 Jan 2014 - 07:22
Did NBC do Dracula a disservice by skipping the pilot process? Here's Laura's review of the season one finale...
This review contains spoilers.
1.10 Let There Be Light
I’ve been dreading this moment for weeks. After sticking it out through slow and poorly constructed episode after episode, hoping all the time that there would be some payoff at the end, I am ultimately not just disappointed at the ten-week series of Dracula; I’m actually a bit resentful.
I think the largest part of my resentment comes from the knowledge that there are a lot of very good writers, actors, and directors working in television right now - creative minds struggling under the weight of cancellation-happy broadcast and cable networks for a shot to tell their stories. So to spend months regularly viewing a show that was spared the obstacles that most have to overcome,...
Did NBC do Dracula a disservice by skipping the pilot process? Here's Laura's review of the season one finale...
This review contains spoilers.
1.10 Let There Be Light
I’ve been dreading this moment for weeks. After sticking it out through slow and poorly constructed episode after episode, hoping all the time that there would be some payoff at the end, I am ultimately not just disappointed at the ten-week series of Dracula; I’m actually a bit resentful.
I think the largest part of my resentment comes from the knowledge that there are a lot of very good writers, actors, and directors working in television right now - creative minds struggling under the weight of cancellation-happy broadcast and cable networks for a shot to tell their stories. So to spend months regularly viewing a show that was spared the obstacles that most have to overcome,...
- 1/28/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Mina is finally home and has received an invitation to Grayson’s demonstration of the resonator. Lucy is avoiding the sun, telling her mother she isn’t feeling well and insisting on not seeing any doctors. Mina goes to see Harker to give him back his mother’s cross necklace, but Harker does not want it back. Harker […]
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- 1/27/2014
- by Eric Miller
- The Flickcast
Dracula Episode 110
“Let There Be Light”
Written By: Cole Haddon
Directed By: Tim Fywell
Original Airdate: 24 January 2014
In This Episode…
Mina stops by Jonathan’s house to return his cross. She wasn’t expecting him to be there, but he is, and he doesn’t want the necklace back. He is instead furious with Mina: “I warned you to stay away from him!” He wants her to swear that she doesn’t love Grayson, which she can’t do. All she will say is that she will be at the demonstration tonight.
Jayne has what seems to be every huntsman in Europe. She also has a powerful Sicilian seer who comes bearing a gift from the Vatican: the blood of Christ. This will allow him to better see the vampires in town. When he locates a nest, teams of hunters will be dispatched in pairs or trios. They are to...
“Let There Be Light”
Written By: Cole Haddon
Directed By: Tim Fywell
Original Airdate: 24 January 2014
In This Episode…
Mina stops by Jonathan’s house to return his cross. She wasn’t expecting him to be there, but he is, and he doesn’t want the necklace back. He is instead furious with Mina: “I warned you to stay away from him!” He wants her to swear that she doesn’t love Grayson, which she can’t do. All she will say is that she will be at the demonstration tonight.
Jayne has what seems to be every huntsman in Europe. She also has a powerful Sicilian seer who comes bearing a gift from the Vatican: the blood of Christ. This will allow him to better see the vampires in town. When he locates a nest, teams of hunters will be dispatched in pairs or trios. They are to...
- 1/25/2014
- by Alyse Wax
- FEARnet
A new "Unearthed" video has come for the "Dracula" season finale, Episode 1.10, "Let There Be Light" (although it appears to have once had a different title); and you can hear what the cast and crew had to say about it right here.
There's been no official word yet as to whether or not the show is getting a second season, but from the series' creators' comments, they definitely have some ideas of where to take the story. We'll keep you posted.
"Dracula" stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula/Alexander Grayson/Vlad Tepes, Oliver Jackson-Cohen as Jonathan Harker, Jessica De Gouw as Mina Murray/Ilona, Thomas Kretschmann as Abraham Van Helsing, Katie McGrath as Lucy Westenra, Nonso Anozie as R.M. Renfield, Victoria Smurfit as Lady Jayne Wetherby, Ben Miles as Mr. Browning, and Robert Bathurst as Lord Thomas Davenport.
"Dracula" Episode 1.10 - "Let There Be Light" (aired 1/24/14)
A public demonstration...
There's been no official word yet as to whether or not the show is getting a second season, but from the series' creators' comments, they definitely have some ideas of where to take the story. We'll keep you posted.
"Dracula" stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula/Alexander Grayson/Vlad Tepes, Oliver Jackson-Cohen as Jonathan Harker, Jessica De Gouw as Mina Murray/Ilona, Thomas Kretschmann as Abraham Van Helsing, Katie McGrath as Lucy Westenra, Nonso Anozie as R.M. Renfield, Victoria Smurfit as Lady Jayne Wetherby, Ben Miles as Mr. Browning, and Robert Bathurst as Lord Thomas Davenport.
"Dracula" Episode 1.10 - "Let There Be Light" (aired 1/24/14)
A public demonstration...
- 1/25/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
Dracula, Season 1, Episode 10, “Let There Be Light”
Written by Cole Haddon
Directed by Tim Fywell
Aired Fridays at 10pm (Et) on NBC
NBC’s Dracula has been a tough show to love, or even like for that matter. One episode is effortless fun, another darkly intriguing, and the next unbearably frustrating. On one hand, lead Jonathan Rhys Meyers is delightfully fun and dark as Dracula/Grayson and supporting actors like Katie McGrath have been marvelous even when their plotlines are not. On the other hand, Dracula has never felt quite right. It’s just never really found its footing. At least that was the case until a few episodes ago, when it seemed to settle into a steady and entertaining pattern.
“Let There Be Light” centers itself on Grayson’s (Johnathan Rhys Meyers) final act of revenge, Mina’s (Jessica De Gouw) indecision and ultimate choice, and Lady Jayne Weatherby...
Written by Cole Haddon
Directed by Tim Fywell
Aired Fridays at 10pm (Et) on NBC
NBC’s Dracula has been a tough show to love, or even like for that matter. One episode is effortless fun, another darkly intriguing, and the next unbearably frustrating. On one hand, lead Jonathan Rhys Meyers is delightfully fun and dark as Dracula/Grayson and supporting actors like Katie McGrath have been marvelous even when their plotlines are not. On the other hand, Dracula has never felt quite right. It’s just never really found its footing. At least that was the case until a few episodes ago, when it seemed to settle into a steady and entertaining pattern.
“Let There Be Light” centers itself on Grayson’s (Johnathan Rhys Meyers) final act of revenge, Mina’s (Jessica De Gouw) indecision and ultimate choice, and Lady Jayne Weatherby...
- 1/25/2014
- by Tressa
- SoundOnSight
New Dracula finale episode 10,season 1 intense spoilers & clips hit the net. Last night, NBC delivered the new spoilers and sneak peek/spoiler clip (below) for their upcoming "Dracula" finale episode 10 of season 1. The episode is entitled, "Let There Be Light," and it appears to be majorly intense and quite dramatic as deadly fight scenes take place, some people get bit, fiery explosions break out, and more! In the new "Let There Be Light" finale episode, A public demonstration of Grayson's technology will continue on with catastrophic consequences. Lucy is going to end up, joining the ranks of the undead. Van Helsing will exact a terrible revenge directed at Mr. Browning. Then Lady Jane and her huntsmen will attempt to eradicate London of all vampires, culminating with a huge confrontation and battle-royal between her and Grayson. Lastly, Mina will find out the secret of Grayson's obsessive love. The finale episode 10 is...
- 1/18/2014
- by Eric
- OnTheFlix
NBC's "Dracula" looks to have quite a grand finale in store for those who've stuck with it. If you're among them, here are a preview and over 3 dozen stills of the season (series?) ending Episode 1.10, "Let There Be Light."
As a bonus, we also have a "Dracula Unearthed" video for last night's episode, "Four Roses," in which the show's creators talk about Grayson's decision to transform Lucy, Van Helsing's terrible fate, and what's ahead for Lady Jane.
"Dracula" Episode 1.09 - "Four Roses" (aired 1/17/14)
As Mina recovers from her attack, Harker joins The Order of the Dragon, and Grayson goes to war with them. Everything begins to unravel.
Browning desperately searches for his children, Lady Jane prepares for the ultimate vampire hunt, and Lucy confesses her betrayal to Mina, destroying their friendship and ultimately suffering the ultimate backlash.
With all the surrounding chaos, Grayson decides to make a heartfelt confession to Mina.
As a bonus, we also have a "Dracula Unearthed" video for last night's episode, "Four Roses," in which the show's creators talk about Grayson's decision to transform Lucy, Van Helsing's terrible fate, and what's ahead for Lady Jane.
"Dracula" Episode 1.09 - "Four Roses" (aired 1/17/14)
As Mina recovers from her attack, Harker joins The Order of the Dragon, and Grayson goes to war with them. Everything begins to unravel.
Browning desperately searches for his children, Lady Jane prepares for the ultimate vampire hunt, and Lucy confesses her betrayal to Mina, destroying their friendship and ultimately suffering the ultimate backlash.
With all the surrounding chaos, Grayson decides to make a heartfelt confession to Mina.
- 1/18/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
New Dracula episode 10,season 1 official spoilers,plotline revealed by NBC. Recently,NBC served up the new,official,synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Dracula" episode 10 of season 1. The episode is called, "Let There Be Light," and it sounds like things will quite intense as catastrophic consequences arise from Grayson's technology, and more. In the new,10th episode press release: A public demonstration of Grayson's technology will move forward with catastrophic consequences. Lucy will join the ranks of the undead. Van Helsing is going to exact a terrible revenge upon Mr. Browning ,and Lady Jane and her huntsmen are going to attempt to eradicate London of all vampires, culminating with a confrontation and battle-royal between her and Grayson. Finally, Mina will discover the secret of Grayson's obsessive love. Episode 10 is set to air on Friday night, January 24th at 9pm central time on NBC.
- 1/17/2014
- by Andre
- OnTheFlix
Director Arnaud Desplechin sends Mathieu Amalric packing. Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard give us characters who decide on survival in James Gray's The Immigrant. Mathieu Amalric as a therapist of veiled past confronts the title's Native American war veteran played by Benicio Del Toro in Arnaud Desplechin's resonant Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian, and Gloria (Paulina García) in Sebastián Lelio's film knows that you don't need to be in a costume drama to dress up. Free association may lead from a skateboard ride in (Gloria producer) Pablo Larraín's No to dancing skeletons, Arthur Ripley's gripping The Chase to John Huston's Let There Be Light, and Maria Falconetti's performance in Dreyer's Jeanne d'Arc to rickets.
Who are you? How does reinvention work? Do we have to change country, nationality, language, or profession to become ourselves?
The Immigrant
Joaquin Phoenix...
Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard give us characters who decide on survival in James Gray's The Immigrant. Mathieu Amalric as a therapist of veiled past confronts the title's Native American war veteran played by Benicio Del Toro in Arnaud Desplechin's resonant Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian, and Gloria (Paulina García) in Sebastián Lelio's film knows that you don't need to be in a costume drama to dress up. Free association may lead from a skateboard ride in (Gloria producer) Pablo Larraín's No to dancing skeletons, Arthur Ripley's gripping The Chase to John Huston's Let There Be Light, and Maria Falconetti's performance in Dreyer's Jeanne d'Arc to rickets.
Who are you? How does reinvention work? Do we have to change country, nationality, language, or profession to become ourselves?
The Immigrant
Joaquin Phoenix...
- 10/13/2013
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
At the movies the past is merely a digest of recognisable tropes, offering the comforts of home – like some bad cruise liner
The Lone Ranger begins with a scene in which Tonto (Johnny Depp), now 100 years old and making a living at a traveling wild west show in San Francisco, runs into a little boy dressed as the Lone Ranger and decides to tell him the real story.
The film's producers might as well have held up a big sign outside the theatre that says: "We are worried about the fading demographic appeal of this story to the eight-year-old at whom our merchandisers say we must direct our film." Smelling fear as swiftly as a pack of wolves, the critics have pounced.
"Indigestible swill," said Screen Daily. "A catastrophe of tone," judged HitFix. "Delivers all the energy and spectacle audiences have come to expect from a Jerry Bruckheimer production, but...
The Lone Ranger begins with a scene in which Tonto (Johnny Depp), now 100 years old and making a living at a traveling wild west show in San Francisco, runs into a little boy dressed as the Lone Ranger and decides to tell him the real story.
The film's producers might as well have held up a big sign outside the theatre that says: "We are worried about the fading demographic appeal of this story to the eight-year-old at whom our merchandisers say we must direct our film." Smelling fear as swiftly as a pack of wolves, the critics have pounced.
"Indigestible swill," said Screen Daily. "A catastrophe of tone," judged HitFix. "Delivers all the energy and spectacle audiences have come to expect from a Jerry Bruckheimer production, but...
- 7/8/2013
- by Tom Shone
- The Guardian - Film News
For short films, the Tribeca Film Festival is a must. Winning the award for Narrative Short or Best Documentary Short automatically qualifies a film for the Academy Awards. Their track record isn’t too bad either. Shawn Christensen’s Curfew had its New York premiere at the Festival and went on to win the Academy Award.
This year, Tribeca will show 60 short films in eight categories, from a variety of new and returning directors (including Christensen with Grandma’s Not A Toaster), and featuring performances from a number of Hollywood stars. Elijah Wood plays a standup comic who attempts a daring set in Setup,...
This year, Tribeca will show 60 short films in eight categories, from a variety of new and returning directors (including Christensen with Grandma’s Not A Toaster), and featuring performances from a number of Hollywood stars. Elijah Wood plays a standup comic who attempts a daring set in Setup,...
- 3/11/2013
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
The Master | Bellflower | Utopia | My Brother The Devil | The Amazing Mr Blunden
The Master
It's a fairly safe bet that The Master will still be watched and discussed decades from now, when most of the movies it competed against this awards season are long forgotten.
Joaquin Phoenix plays Freddie Quell, an alcoholic navy veteran who, when the second world war ends, finds himself adrift and broken. He falls in with an organisation, dubbed "The Cause", led by Philip Seymour Hoffman's charismatic Lancaster Dodd. Dodd is constructing a cultish movement based around faddish belief systems, mixing and matching from a variety of sources; a little past-life regression here, a little psychoanalysis there. Quell is used by Dodd as acolyte, muscle and raw material, the crude ex-serviceman a perfect display of the type of destructive, selfish, uncontrollable personality Dodd aims to eradicate with his "processing". In a world still in postwar flux,...
The Master
It's a fairly safe bet that The Master will still be watched and discussed decades from now, when most of the movies it competed against this awards season are long forgotten.
Joaquin Phoenix plays Freddie Quell, an alcoholic navy veteran who, when the second world war ends, finds himself adrift and broken. He falls in with an organisation, dubbed "The Cause", led by Philip Seymour Hoffman's charismatic Lancaster Dodd. Dodd is constructing a cultish movement based around faddish belief systems, mixing and matching from a variety of sources; a little past-life regression here, a little psychoanalysis there. Quell is used by Dodd as acolyte, muscle and raw material, the crude ex-serviceman a perfect display of the type of destructive, selfish, uncontrollable personality Dodd aims to eradicate with his "processing". In a world still in postwar flux,...
- 3/9/2013
- by Phelim O'Neill
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – I’m always stunned when anyone calls P.T. Anderson’s very divisive “The Master” boring. There are a number of totally valid criticisms that can be thrown at the film but it’s never boring. The performances are too strong, the images too striking, and the thematic play by Anderson too captivating for this viewer to comprehend how anyone could be bored while watching it. Frustrated? Sure. Annoyed by the lack of characters or narrative thrust? I get that. But I think that’s what Anderson wants. He wants to challenge the viewer in ways that he only hinted at in “There Will Be Blood.” He wants you to be puzzled and annoyed, to take the film home with you and work it over in your mind. And now you can do so over and over again on Blu-ray and DVD.
Rating: 5.0/5.0
“The Master” contains traditionally strong elements like...
Rating: 5.0/5.0
“The Master” contains traditionally strong elements like...
- 3/5/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Paul Thomas Anderson might go down as one of the most important filmmakers of all-time. His work on films such as There Will Be Blood or Magnolia has ensured him a spot on many critics best directors list. His latest experimental character study, The Master, will surely go down as his most challenging film yet as he attempts to tell a troubling story about a lost Navy man who finds a glimpse of hope in a cult. The Master isn’t PTA’s best film, but it’s clearly one that is to be commended for its performances and visuals.
Freddie (Joaquin Phoenix) is a Navy man that’s been lost at sea for as long as he can remember. He’s got a slight obsession with sex and he continues to drink himself silly by way of homemade alcohol. His life is a complex one, full of loneliness and regret,...
Freddie (Joaquin Phoenix) is a Navy man that’s been lost at sea for as long as he can remember. He’s got a slight obsession with sex and he continues to drink himself silly by way of homemade alcohol. His life is a complex one, full of loneliness and regret,...
- 3/4/2013
- by Jeremy Lebens
- We Got This Covered
"If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world." – Philip Seymour Hoffman, 'The Master'
Greetings from the apocalypse! This week finds me once again walking down memory lane as I recall two new movies I visited the sets of and, as usual, childhood traumas. Do those traumas involve giants? Do I seek the therapy I so desperately need? Read on …
Friday, March 1
Okay, so in case you haven't heard already, "21 and Over" is basically the same movie as "The Hangover," as evidenced by our informative chart. I had the honor of touring the set of this raunchy sex/alcohol poisoning comedy in Seattle around 2011 or so (I can't quite remember for some reason) and got to watch Justin Chon ride a mechanical buffalo while projectile vomiting.
Greetings from the apocalypse! This week finds me once again walking down memory lane as I recall two new movies I visited the sets of and, as usual, childhood traumas. Do those traumas involve giants? Do I seek the therapy I so desperately need? Read on …
Friday, March 1
Okay, so in case you haven't heard already, "21 and Over" is basically the same movie as "The Hangover," as evidenced by our informative chart. I had the honor of touring the set of this raunchy sex/alcohol poisoning comedy in Seattle around 2011 or so (I can't quite remember for some reason) and got to watch Justin Chon ride a mechanical buffalo while projectile vomiting.
- 3/1/2013
- by Max Evry
- NextMovie
This week: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams all earned Oscar nominations for their performances in the period drama "The Master," writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's thinly disguised commentary on Scientology.
Also new this week is the critically acclaimed surreal art film "Holy Motors" and the surfing movie "Chasing Mavericks" starring Gerard Butler and Jonny Weston.
'The Master'
Box Office: $16 million
Rotten Tomatoes: 86% Fresh
Storyline: Paul Thomas Anderson's portrait of drifters and lost souls in post-World War II America follows a Naval vet (Joaquin Phoenix) who arrives home from war uncertain about his future until he is taken in by "the Cause" and its charismatic leader (Philip Seymour Hoffman). Amy Adams and Laura Dern also star.
Extras! Both the DVD and Blu-ray contain "Back Beyond," an unconventional collection of deleted scenes set to music by Jonny Greenwood; eight minutes of behind-the-scenes footage; and John Huston's 1946 documentary...
Also new this week is the critically acclaimed surreal art film "Holy Motors" and the surfing movie "Chasing Mavericks" starring Gerard Butler and Jonny Weston.
'The Master'
Box Office: $16 million
Rotten Tomatoes: 86% Fresh
Storyline: Paul Thomas Anderson's portrait of drifters and lost souls in post-World War II America follows a Naval vet (Joaquin Phoenix) who arrives home from war uncertain about his future until he is taken in by "the Cause" and its charismatic leader (Philip Seymour Hoffman). Amy Adams and Laura Dern also star.
Extras! Both the DVD and Blu-ray contain "Back Beyond," an unconventional collection of deleted scenes set to music by Jonny Greenwood; eight minutes of behind-the-scenes footage; and John Huston's 1946 documentary...
- 2/25/2013
- by Robert DeSalvo
- NextMovie
One of the creepiest and most clever Fyc items I received this winter was a proselytizing newspaper "The Cause Footpath" for Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, featuring mostly articles and reviews praising the film but peppered with ads and items from Lancaster Dodd and The Cause.
So I've used that to guide me in this new Blu-Ray contest. The Blu-Ray comes out on Tuesday just after the Oscars and includes a WWII veterans documentary from 1946 called Let There Be Light by the legendary John Huston. And your normal mix of outtakes and additional scenes, a short called "Unguided Message" and so on.
I have two copies to give away. Do you want it?
To enter the contest you must submit yourself to processing...
You can answer those questions by Monday February 25th either by e-mail or by sharing your responses on facebook, twitter, your blog or whatever (so long...
So I've used that to guide me in this new Blu-Ray contest. The Blu-Ray comes out on Tuesday just after the Oscars and includes a WWII veterans documentary from 1946 called Let There Be Light by the legendary John Huston. And your normal mix of outtakes and additional scenes, a short called "Unguided Message" and so on.
I have two copies to give away. Do you want it?
To enter the contest you must submit yourself to processing...
You can answer those questions by Monday February 25th either by e-mail or by sharing your responses on facebook, twitter, your blog or whatever (so long...
- 2/21/2013
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The following "Auditions at a Glance" calendar conveniently organizes projects by the date and day-of-the-week that the projects' auditions are taking place, to help you schedule your plans. Click on any of the following links to see the casting and job notices related to the dates and project titles highlighted below. Thu. Feb. 7 • 'Anne of Green Gables' • 'Extravaganza' • 'One Night with Janis Joplin' Fri. Feb. 8 • Columbia College Hollywood, 'The Circus' • Nyfa, 'California Dreaming' • 'Orange County Project' Sat. Feb. 9 • 'Across a Tiled Pathway' • Cherry Poppins, Burlesque Troupe • Columbia College Hollywood, 'The Circus' • 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee' Sun. Feb. 10 • 'Across a Tiled Pathway' • 'Let There Be Light' Mon. Feb. 11 • 'Across a Tiled Pathway' • 'In the Heights', Singers • 'Let There Be Light' • 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee' • 'The Laramie Project' & 'The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later' • 'Waterworld' Tue. Feb.
- 2/5/2013
- backstage.com
Anchor Bay has announced the Blu-Ray release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master for later this month. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams.
There’s not a bolder filmmaker out there than Paul Thomas Anderson. The man is one of the last true artists in the field of film and because of that I greet each and every one of his new films with a warm embrace. PTA is not known for making films that instantly click with his small audience, but instead films that will test you and put you through an experience. The Master is no different than say There Will Be Blood or even Punch-Drunk Love. If anything, The Master is his most challenging film yet.
I walked out of The Master with such a bewildered feeling. I enjoyed so many moments in the film, but at the same time I...
There’s not a bolder filmmaker out there than Paul Thomas Anderson. The man is one of the last true artists in the field of film and because of that I greet each and every one of his new films with a warm embrace. PTA is not known for making films that instantly click with his small audience, but instead films that will test you and put you through an experience. The Master is no different than say There Will Be Blood or even Punch-Drunk Love. If anything, The Master is his most challenging film yet.
I walked out of The Master with such a bewildered feeling. I enjoyed so many moments in the film, but at the same time I...
- 2/3/2013
- by Jeremy Lebens
- We Got This Covered
As Paul Thomas Anderson's latest "The Master" gears up for Oscar next month, with its leading trio of actors -- Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams -- all nominated, fans and newcomers alike will get a chance to revisit the film all over again as it hits DVD and Blu-ray. And there will plenty of extras to dig into. The official details of the forthcoming release have been unveiled, and they are certainly promising for those eager to explore more from Anderson's world. As previously reported, 20 minutes of deleted scenes will be coming, assembled into a montage/pastiche scored by Jonny Greenwood. The director showed this extra material off last fall at the Film Independent at Lacma, and during the same evening, he also screened John Huston's 1946 "Let There Be Light," a documentary Anderson has long cited as being influential on the film. It's a look...
- 1/14/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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