Saturday, March 03, 2007
The Weekend Image Depot: 3/3/07
Nothing but one sheets, one sheets, and one sheets...
Vacancy
U.S. Release: April 20, 2007
U.K. Release: June 1, 2007
Sunshine
U.S. Release: Fall 2007
U.K. Release: April 6, 2007
The Reaping
U.S. Release: April 6, 2007
U.K. Release: April 13, 2007
Year of the Dog
U.S. Release: April 13, 2007
U.K. Release: June 15, 2007
Captivity
U.S. Release: May 18, 2007 (Limited)
U.K. Release: TBA
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
U.S. Release: June 15, 2007
U.K. Release: August 10, 2007
Live Free or Die Hard (Die Hard 4.0)
U.S. Release: June 29, 2007
U.K. Release: July 6, 2007
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Labels: Captivity, Die Hard, Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Sunshine, The Weekend Image Depot, Vacancy, Year of the Dog
Continue reading The Weekend Image Depot: 3/3/07Thursday, March 01, 2007
The Big Screen: Los Angeles, March 2007
March will be a great month to live in L.A. and love movies. Oh, sure, the rest of the country will get some great stuff too: the very fun Korean monster movie The Host, Black Snake Moan (already getting some rave reviews), and the not-at-all-gay 300. But for Angelenos, the cinematic choices will be positively overwhelming!
So as not to bury the lede, let's start with the New Beverly Cinema, which is being given over for the next two months to curator Quentin Tarantino, who will be programming double- and triple-features of grindhouse exploitation movies. This is your chance to see classic films like Rolling Thunder, Chinese Hercules, Eyeball, Revenge of the Cheerleaders, Supermanchu, The Blood Spattered Bride, The Girl from Starship Venus, Hot Summer in Barefoot County, Kung Fu: The Punch of Death and Jailbait Babysitter on the big screen!
On the opposite end of the spectrum, The Egyptian Theater is starting the month with a program of Douglas Sirk's larger-than-life melodramas. This is your chance to be bathed in the Technicolor visions of tormented souls in movies like All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind and Imitation of Life. Beyond that, most of the month is taken up by a survey of recent Spanish cinema which promises to bring some great films to light, but I'm most looking forward to the program that closes out the month, Movies & The Beats, a two-night extravaganza of Beatnixploitation flicks that includes The Beat Generation, starring "Mamie Van Doren, Margaret Hayes, Louis Armstrong, James Mitchum, Jackie Coogan, Vampira (reciting some twisted poetry) and "Slapsy Maxie" Rosenbloom as a wrestling beatnik!" Depending on your taste, you may also want to catch the FREE afternoon program of Japanese and Korean animation on the 31st (featuring a new film by the creator of Neon Genesis Evangeline), or the "gratifyingly mean-spirited horror comedy" Killhouse on the 7th.
Meanwhile, at the Aero Theater across town, the Cinematheque is programming monograms of Paul Verhoeven (including a sneak preview of his new film Black Book), Luc Besson (including a sneak preview of Angel-A), and Werner Herzog, as well as repeating much of the Douglas Sirk programming from The Egyptian, and kicking off a 50 Years of Janus retrospective! The Janus program will also be showing at LACMA, where it will include a great double feature of Beauty and the Beast and Spirit of the Beehive.
The UCLA Film and Television Archive is welcoming guest curator Guy Maddin, who will be showing some of his favorite old movies, including Fritz Lang's Ministry of Fear, Cecil B. DeMille's Godless Girl, the silent fairy tale A Kiss for Cinderella, and more. There's also a program of Maddin's incredible shorts (including the gorgeous Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity), and a talk by Maddin ("Maddin will delve into the inner workings of his psyche and may even reveal the secret contents of the Mammalopedia, the source of ALL in his childhood home; or show clips of and recreate his pistol-whipping at the hands of a chimp on his fourth birthday"). There's also a Roberto Rossellini retrospective in progress, and on the 14th, a great double feature of March of the Penguins and Grizzly Man.
Among the interesting shows at The Silent Movie Theatre this month are the 1926 version of The Wizard of Oz, and a triple feature of Metropolis, A Trip to the Moon, and the Fleischer cartoon Theory of Relativity. Down in El Segundo, the Old Town Music Hall will be showing The Lost World this weekend (check their schedule for other interesting screenings coming up). And finally, March 23 at Midnight, The Nuart will be showing Jodorowski's Sante Sangre.
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Labels: Los Angeles, The Big Screen
Continue reading The Big Screen: Los Angeles, March 2007Monday, February 26, 2007
Martin Scorsese, we salute thee!
The Oscar ceremonies have come and gone. And in the end? A short, enthusiastic, and lovable Italian-American filmmaker finally walked away with the award that has (perplexingly) eluded him for decades. Yes, the man who once uttered... "Have you ever seen what a .44 Magnum will do to a woman's pussy?" ...walked away with gold. Fuckin' A.
The winners...
BEST PICTURE
The Departed
BEST DIRECTION
Martin Scorsese (The Departed)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
William Monahan (The Departed)
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine)
BEST ACTOR
Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)
BEST ACTRESS
Helen Mirren (The Queen)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls)
BEST MUSICAL SCORE
Gustavo Santaolalla (Babel)
BEST FILM EDITING
Thelma Schoonmaker (The Departed)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Guillermo Navarro (Pan's Labyrinth)
BEST ART DIRECTION
Pan's Labyrinth
BEST MAKEUP
Pan's Labyrinth
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Marie Antoinette
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
BEST SOUND EDITING
Letters from Iwo Jima
BEST SOUND MIXING
Dreamgirls
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Lives of Others (Germany)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Happy Feet
BEST DOCUMENTARY
An Inconvenient Truth
BEST MUSIC
"I Need to Wake Up" by Melissa Etheridge (An Inconvenient Truth)
BEST SHORT SUBJECT DOCUMENTARY
The Blood of Yingzhou District
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
The Danish Poet
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
West Bank Story
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Labels: Martin Scorsese, News, Oscars
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