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AFI FEST 2009: POLICE, ADJECTIVE; TO DIE LIKE A MAN
Alternative Film Guide Nov 06 09
To Die Like a Man by JoĂ£o Pedro Rodrigues (top); Police, Adjective by Corneliu Porumboiu (bottom)
AFI FEST 2009 continues in a more compact version on Friday and Saturday at the Santa Monica Laemmle Theater 4 on 2nd Street in Santa Monica.
Grace Kelly: TO CATCH A THIEF, THE SWAN
Alternative Film Guide Nov 05 09
Grace Kelly on TCM: Part I
Thanks to Kelly’s Oscar win, The Country Girl is interesting as a historical curiosity — it’s the sort of "gutsy" and "realistic" film adaptation of a respected stage play that was very popular among the filmgoing elite of the 1950s (e.
Grace Kelly on TCM
Alternative Film Guide Nov 05 09
Stating the obvious: most people take great pleasure in idealizing their idols — which is why idols are idols.
AFI FEST 2009: A SINGLE MAN, THE SINGULARITY
Alternative Film Guide Nov 04 09
Colin Firth, Julianne Moore in A Single Man (top); Steve Evets, Eric Cantona in Looking for Eric (bottom)
AFI FEST 2009 highlights on Thursday, Nov.
AFI FEST 2009: THE ROAD, EASIER WITH PRACTICE
Alternative Film Guide Nov 04 09
Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee in The Road (top); Brian Geraghty in Easier with Practice (bottom)
Tonight, Wed.
Academy Awards $450,000 to US Film Festivals
Alternative Film Guide Nov 04 09
True/False Film Fest
In case you think the Academy only hands out Oscars:
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Academy Foundation has awarded a total of $450,000 to 24 U.
Oscar-Winning Filmmakers Mark Jonathan Harris, Tracy Seretean at Academy Screening
Alternative Film Guide Nov 04 09
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Into the Arms of Stranger: Stories of the Kindertransport, shown as part of the "Oscar’s Docs" series, at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood on Monday, November 2, 2009.
Real Horrorshow! Event Photos
Alternative Film Guide Nov 04 09
"The Sound Behind the Image III: Real Horrorshow!," presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Science and Technology Council, which focused on the role of sound in horror films from its beginning through the digital age, took place at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on Thursday, October 29, 2009.
Shadows of Russia Schedule
Alternative Film Guide Nov 04 09
Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Warren Beatty in Reds
Below is the complete "Shadows of Russia" schedule on Turner Classic Movies:
Wednesday, Jan.
Shadows of Russia: Communism on TCM
Alternative Film Guide Nov 04 09
Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas in Ninotchka (top); Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford in The Way We Were (bottom)
From the Romanovs’ last stand to Warren Beatty’s first solo directorial effort: On every Wednesday in January 2010, Turner Classic Movies will present the 20-film festival "Shadows of Russia," a showcase of Hollywood movies portraying Russia (and/or the Soviet Union) and the sociopolitical reverberations of Communism throughout the 20th century.
Oscar 2010: Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin to Host Oscar Telecast
Alternative Film Guide Nov 03 09PRESS RELEASE
Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will serve as co-hosts of the 82nd Academy Awards®, Oscar telecast producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman announced today.
The Movies’ Top Five Scariest Living Dead
Alternative Film Guide Nov 03 09
In The Sixth Sense, Haley Joel Osment not only sees dead people, he hears them as well. Bruce Willis, for his part, sees and hears what he wants to see and hear.
THE WAR GAME Review II
Alternative Film Guide Nov 02 09
THE WAR GAME Review: Part I
Given the spate of nuclear Armageddon films made in the 1960s (e.g., Fail Safe, Planet of the Apes) and up through the early 1980s television production The Day After, it’s remarkable how such a low-budget effort like The War Game retains its effectiveness when almost all other films on the topic seem corny.
THE WAR GAME d: Peter Watkins
Alternative Film Guide Nov 02 09
The War Game (1965)
Direction and Screenplay: Peter Watkins
Narration: Michael Aspel and Peter Graham
By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
For anyone who thinks that those 50-pack mega-DVD sets of public domain films put out by several different video companies are worthless, I would argue that the amount of films you get for the money is worth it, even if all were mediocre, and that the truth is: each DVD package will come with at least 8-10 enjoyable films, a few true classics like Carnival of Souls or Night of the Living Dead, and every so often a great little film will pop up that makes the package a total steal.
RICH MAN’S FOLLY – George Bancroft, Frances Dee
Alternative Film Guide Nov 02 09
Rich Man’s Folly (1931)
Direction: John Cromwell
Screenplay: Grover Jones and Edward E. Paramore Jr.
THE PONY EXPRESS – Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez
Alternative Film Guide Nov 02 09
The Pony Express (1925)
Direction: James Cruze
Screenplay: Walter Woods; from Woods and Henry James Forman’s story
Cast: Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez, George Bancroft, Ernest Torrence, Wallace Beery, Al Hart
The Pony Express is a rousing James Cruze Western depicting the founding of the Pony Express with a backdrop of political ambitions concerning a senator’s plans to get California to secede from the United States so he can build his own empire.
THE APARTMENT ABOVE d: Leon Trystan
Alternative Film Guide Nov 02 09
Pietro Wyzej / The Apartment Above (1937)
Direction: Leon Trystan
Screenplay: Emanuel Schlechter, Ludwik Starski, Eugeniusz Bodo
Cast: Eugeniusz Bodo, Helena GrossĂłwna, JĂłzef Orwid
Leon Trystan’s Pietro Wyzej (alternately known in the US as The Apartment Above, Neighbors, and The Neighbor from the Next Floor) is a delightful Polish comedy about two men — one older (JĂłzef Orwid), the other younger (Eugeniusz Bodo) — who happen to have the same name.
THE RAVEN – Henry B. Walthall – d: Charles Brabin
Alternative Film Guide Nov 02 09
The Raven (1915)
Direction: Charles Brabin
Screenplay: Charles Brabin; from George Cochran Hazelton’s novel and play The Raven: The Love Story of Edgar Allan Poe
Cast: Henry B.
Doha Tribeca Film Festival Awards 2009
Alternative Film Guide Nov 02 09
Team Qatar by Liz Mermin (top); Hiam Abbass in Najwa Najjar’s Pomegranates and Myrrh (bottom)
Doha Tribeca Film Festival Executive Director Amanda Palmer and Robert De Niro handed out two audience awards, worth US$50,000 each, at the festival’s closing night gala on Nov.
2009 Fetish Film Festival Winners
Alternative Film Guide Nov 02 09
Flemish filmmaker Erik Lamens‘ SM-rechter / SM Judge (above) was chosen the best narrative feature at the 2009 Fetish Film Festival, held in the northern German city of Kiel from Oct.
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