In Robert Aldrich's 1967 World War II film "The Dirty Dozen," an ambitious army Major named John Reisman (Lee Marvin) is tasked with assembling 12 American soldiers who have all been thrown in military prison for their insubordination and tendencies toward violence. His job is to whip them into shape, as he intends to send them on a particularly dangerous mission: infiltrating a Nazi stronghold. It's easily one of the manliest films ever made, something Aldrich was good at; he also directed "Kiss Me Deadly," "The Longest Yard," and "The Flight of the Phoenix." It's a testament to Aldrich's talent that he also made famously femme films like "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?," and "Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte."
The second member of the Dirty Dozen was a character named Vernon L. Pinkley, played by the late, great Donald Sutherland. There is a scene wherein Reisman asks Pinkley -- at the last...
The second member of the Dirty Dozen was a character named Vernon L. Pinkley, played by the late, great Donald Sutherland. There is a scene wherein Reisman asks Pinkley -- at the last...
- 6/20/2024
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Donald Sutherland, the tall, lean and long-faced Canadian actor who became a countercultural icon with such films as “The Dirty Dozen,” “Mash,” “Klute” and “Don’t Look Now,” and who subsequently enjoyed a prolific and wide-ranging career in films including “Ordinary People,” “Without Limits” and the “Hunger Games” films, died Thursday in Miami after a long illness, CAA confirmed. He was 88.
For over a half century, the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor, who received an honorary Oscar in 2017, memorably played villains, antiheroes, romantic leads and mentor figures. His profile increased in the past decade with his supporting role as the evil President Snow in “The Hunger Games” franchise.
Most recently, he appeared as Judge Parker on the series “Lawmen: Bass Reeves” and in the “Swimming With Sharks” series in 2022. His other recent recurring roles include the series “Undoing” and “Trust,” in which he played J. Paul Getty, and features “Ad Astra” and “The Burnt-Orange Heresy.
For over a half century, the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor, who received an honorary Oscar in 2017, memorably played villains, antiheroes, romantic leads and mentor figures. His profile increased in the past decade with his supporting role as the evil President Snow in “The Hunger Games” franchise.
Most recently, he appeared as Judge Parker on the series “Lawmen: Bass Reeves” and in the “Swimming With Sharks” series in 2022. His other recent recurring roles include the series “Undoing” and “Trust,” in which he played J. Paul Getty, and features “Ad Astra” and “The Burnt-Orange Heresy.
- 6/20/2024
- by Rick Schultz
- Variety Film + TV
The "Star Trek" episode "The Apple" contained one of show creator Gene Roddenberry's favorite tropes: a remote, agrarian species living in harmony with nature, overseen by an ineffable technological marvel. In "The Apple," the Edenic planet of Gamma Trianguli VI is the home of a sexually innocent, childlike species that is granted their every wish by an all-powerful computer called Vaal. Vaal appears to be a giant snake-like head carved into the rock, but the Enterprise discovers that it is a machine intelligence that has kept the locals in a perpetual childlike state. They are immortal, but also have never had to work, nor are they allowed to "touch" (that is: have sex). Naturally, it will be up to Kirk (William Shatner) and the crew of the Enterprise to destroy Vaal and teach the aliens that growing up is necessary, and that having sex is okay and super-fun.
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- 1/26/2024
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
London, Jan 5 (Ians) David Soul, who starred as Detective Kenneth ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson in the popular American TV series ‘Starsky & Hutch’, which ran from 1975 to 1979, died on Thursday, his wife Helen Snell informed BBC. He was 80, reports ‘Variety’.
In addition to ‘Starsky & Hutch’, Soul starred in the Western series ‘Here Come the Brides’ and movies such as ‘Magnum Force’, ‘Salem’s Lot’ and more. Soul moved to the UK in the 1990s and obtained British citizenship in 2004.
In 1971, ‘Variety’ notes, Soul made his film debut in ‘Johnny Got His Gun’ and he appeared opposite Clint Eastwood in ‘Magnum Force’ (1972), one of the seasoned actor’s Dirty Harry movies.
Soul was also a singer and released several albums in the 1970s and ’80s, including the No. 1 single ‘Don’t Give Up on Us’.
And then, Soul landed the biggest role of his career on ‘Starsky & Hutch’, alongside Paul Michael Glaser as Sergeant David Michael Starsky,...
In addition to ‘Starsky & Hutch’, Soul starred in the Western series ‘Here Come the Brides’ and movies such as ‘Magnum Force’, ‘Salem’s Lot’ and more. Soul moved to the UK in the 1990s and obtained British citizenship in 2004.
In 1971, ‘Variety’ notes, Soul made his film debut in ‘Johnny Got His Gun’ and he appeared opposite Clint Eastwood in ‘Magnum Force’ (1972), one of the seasoned actor’s Dirty Harry movies.
Soul was also a singer and released several albums in the 1970s and ’80s, including the No. 1 single ‘Don’t Give Up on Us’.
And then, Soul landed the biggest role of his career on ‘Starsky & Hutch’, alongside Paul Michael Glaser as Sergeant David Michael Starsky,...
- 1/5/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Best known for playing Detective Ken ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson in the original 1970s “Starsky & Hutch” television series, actor/singer David Soul has passed away this week at the age of 80.
A post to the late actor’s official Twitter account states this morning, “David Soul—beloved husband, father, grandfather and brother—died yesterday after a valiant battle for life in the loving company of family. He shared many extraordinary gifts in the world as actor, singer, storyteller, creative artist and dear friend. His smile, laughter and passion for life will be remembered by the many whose lives he has touched.”
Here in the world of horror, David Soul is known for playing vampire hunter Ben Mears in Tobe Hooper’s Salem’s Lot, the original 1979 miniseries adaptation of the Stephen King tale.
Soul had previously appeared in one episode of the Richard Matheson-created supernatural anthology series “Circle of Fear,” and...
A post to the late actor’s official Twitter account states this morning, “David Soul—beloved husband, father, grandfather and brother—died yesterday after a valiant battle for life in the loving company of family. He shared many extraordinary gifts in the world as actor, singer, storyteller, creative artist and dear friend. His smile, laughter and passion for life will be remembered by the many whose lives he has touched.”
Here in the world of horror, David Soul is known for playing vampire hunter Ben Mears in Tobe Hooper’s Salem’s Lot, the original 1979 miniseries adaptation of the Stephen King tale.
Soul had previously appeared in one episode of the Richard Matheson-created supernatural anthology series “Circle of Fear,” and...
- 1/5/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
David Soul, who starred alongside Paul Michael Glaser on the 1970s’ ABC buddy cop show Starsky and Hutch and had a No. 1 hit with the song “Don’t Give Up on Us,” has died. He was 80.
Soul died Thursday after “a valiant battle for life in the loving company of family,” his wife, Helen Snell, said in a statement.
“He shared many extraordinary gifts in the world as actor, singer, storyteller, creative artist and dear friend,” she said. “His smile, laughter and passion for life will be remembered by the many whose lives he has touched.”
Soul also appeared for two seasons on the 1968-70 ABC show Here Come the Brides, played one of the corrupt young motorcycle cops brought down by Clint Eastwood’s Harry Callahan in the thriller Magnum Force (1973) and stood out as a terrified vampire hunter in the 1979 Stephen King CBS miniseries Salem’s Lot.
On two...
Soul died Thursday after “a valiant battle for life in the loving company of family,” his wife, Helen Snell, said in a statement.
“He shared many extraordinary gifts in the world as actor, singer, storyteller, creative artist and dear friend,” she said. “His smile, laughter and passion for life will be remembered by the many whose lives he has touched.”
Soul also appeared for two seasons on the 1968-70 ABC show Here Come the Brides, played one of the corrupt young motorcycle cops brought down by Clint Eastwood’s Harry Callahan in the thriller Magnum Force (1973) and stood out as a terrified vampire hunter in the 1979 Stephen King CBS miniseries Salem’s Lot.
On two...
- 1/5/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
David Soul, who starred as Sergeant Kenneth Richard “Hutch” Hutchinson in the TV series “Starsky & Hutch,” died Thursday, his wife announced on his website. He was 80.
“David Soul — beloved husband, father, grandfather, and brother — died yesterday after a valiant battle for life in the loving company of family,” she wrote. “He shared many extraordinary gifts in the world as actor, singer, storyteller, creative artist, and dear friend. His smile, laughter, and passion for life will be remembered by the many whose lives he has touched.”
In addition to “Starsky & Hutch,” Soul starred in the Western series “Here Comes the Brides” and movies like “Magnum Force,” “Salem’s Lot” and more. He was also a singer and released several albums in the ’70s and ’80s, and the No. 1 single “Don’t Give Up on Us.”
Born in Chicago on August 28, 1943, Soul started acting on stage in the ’60s and began pursuing his passion for music.
“David Soul — beloved husband, father, grandfather, and brother — died yesterday after a valiant battle for life in the loving company of family,” she wrote. “He shared many extraordinary gifts in the world as actor, singer, storyteller, creative artist, and dear friend. His smile, laughter, and passion for life will be remembered by the many whose lives he has touched.”
In addition to “Starsky & Hutch,” Soul starred in the Western series “Here Comes the Brides” and movies like “Magnum Force,” “Salem’s Lot” and more. He was also a singer and released several albums in the ’70s and ’80s, and the No. 1 single “Don’t Give Up on Us.”
Born in Chicago on August 28, 1943, Soul started acting on stage in the ’60s and began pursuing his passion for music.
- 1/5/2024
- by Jordan Moreau
- Variety Film + TV
The death of actress-activist Marsha Hunt this week is a historical watershed and a personal loss. Marsha was one of the last living actors who began her movie career during the Great Depression in 1935. She became part of a now vanished Hollywood, initially at Paramount then at MGM, that bound contracted talent to studios with artists having little to no say over their choice of roles and careers. Nevertheless, she thrived in the studio system by becoming somewhat less than a genuine movie star and more of a consummate professional actress.
Marsha’s career was derailed by the Blacklist, a perfidious period of American history that has been endlessly chronicled and misunderstood. Never a Communist or radical, she was a forthright liberal who refused to accept her voice being marginalized by the endemic sexism and politics of the period. Marsha was the final survivor of the Committee of the First Amendment,...
Marsha’s career was derailed by the Blacklist, a perfidious period of American history that has been endlessly chronicled and misunderstood. Never a Communist or radical, she was a forthright liberal who refused to accept her voice being marginalized by the endemic sexism and politics of the period. Marsha was the final survivor of the Committee of the First Amendment,...
- 9/11/2022
- by Alan K. Rode
- Variety Film + TV
Marsha Hunt, a veteran actress of the Golden Age of film, radio and Broadway who later saw her career wither over her protests against the infamous House Un-American Activities Committee (Huac), died of natural causes on Sept. 7 in Los Angeles.
Her caregivers, nephew, actor/director Allan Hunt and Elizabeth Lauritsen, confirmed her death.
Hunt starred in more than 60 films for Paramount, MGM and Republic, starting her career in 1935. She also appeared in more than 30 staged productions, including six on Broadway.
In television’s early days, Hunt appeared as Viola in Twelfth Night, the first Shakespeare play to be aired coast to coast. She hosted and guest starred twice on Your Show Of Shows, featuring Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, and Carl Reiner. Numerable live and recorded guest appearances followed through the decades.
But her name appeared in Red Channels, an anti-communist pamphlet that was said to wield considerable influence over TV and film studios.
Her caregivers, nephew, actor/director Allan Hunt and Elizabeth Lauritsen, confirmed her death.
Hunt starred in more than 60 films for Paramount, MGM and Republic, starting her career in 1935. She also appeared in more than 30 staged productions, including six on Broadway.
In television’s early days, Hunt appeared as Viola in Twelfth Night, the first Shakespeare play to be aired coast to coast. She hosted and guest starred twice on Your Show Of Shows, featuring Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, and Carl Reiner. Numerable live and recorded guest appearances followed through the decades.
But her name appeared in Red Channels, an anti-communist pamphlet that was said to wield considerable influence over TV and film studios.
- 9/10/2022
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Old Hollywood actor and activist Marsha Hunt has died at the age of 104.
Best known for her roles in films such as These Glamour Girls, Pride and Prejudice and Raw Deal, Hunt fell into obscurity after being blacklisted from the industry during the McCarthy communist witchhunts.
Roger C Memos, the writer and director of the 2014 documentary Marsha Hunt’s Sweet Adversity, confirmed news of her death to The Hollywood Reporter.
Hunt died of natural causes at her home in Sherman Oaks, California.
She started her career as a model, before being signed to Paramount Pictures studio at the age of 17.
Her breakthrough came in MGM’s These Glamour Girls in 1939, in which she featured opposite Lana Turner.
A number of other well-received roles followed, including in Anthony Mann’s Raw Deal in 1948.
Hunt’s career took a turn in 1947, when she and her second husband, screenwriter Robert Presnell Jr, joined...
Best known for her roles in films such as These Glamour Girls, Pride and Prejudice and Raw Deal, Hunt fell into obscurity after being blacklisted from the industry during the McCarthy communist witchhunts.
Roger C Memos, the writer and director of the 2014 documentary Marsha Hunt’s Sweet Adversity, confirmed news of her death to The Hollywood Reporter.
Hunt died of natural causes at her home in Sherman Oaks, California.
She started her career as a model, before being signed to Paramount Pictures studio at the age of 17.
Her breakthrough came in MGM’s These Glamour Girls in 1939, in which she featured opposite Lana Turner.
A number of other well-received roles followed, including in Anthony Mann’s Raw Deal in 1948.
Hunt’s career took a turn in 1947, when she and her second husband, screenwriter Robert Presnell Jr, joined...
- 9/10/2022
- by Louis Chilton
- The Independent - Film
Marsha Hunt, a star of MGM and Paramount beginning in the 1930s who was blacklisted in Hollywood in the ’50s during Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s Communist witch hunt, died Wednesday at age 104.
Roger Memos, who directed a documentary about Hunt’s life, confirmed the news.
A former model, Hunt was a standout in such films as John Wayne’s 1937 Western “Born to the West”; 1939’s “The Glamour Girls,” opposite Lana Turner; 1940’s “Pride and Prejudice” and 1948’s beloved noir “Raw Deal.” In 1945, she joined the board of the Screen Actors Guild.
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But her career unraveled after she and her second husband, screenwriter Robert Presnell Jr., joined a Hollywood group that questioned McCarthy’s efforts to root out Communists in American society, including in Hollywood. In 1950, the right-wing publication Red Channels named her as a potential Communist and she was asked to...
Roger Memos, who directed a documentary about Hunt’s life, confirmed the news.
A former model, Hunt was a standout in such films as John Wayne’s 1937 Western “Born to the West”; 1939’s “The Glamour Girls,” opposite Lana Turner; 1940’s “Pride and Prejudice” and 1948’s beloved noir “Raw Deal.” In 1945, she joined the board of the Screen Actors Guild.
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But her career unraveled after she and her second husband, screenwriter Robert Presnell Jr., joined a Hollywood group that questioned McCarthy’s efforts to root out Communists in American society, including in Hollywood. In 1950, the right-wing publication Red Channels named her as a potential Communist and she was asked to...
- 9/10/2022
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
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Marsha Hunt, the bright-eyed starlet who stood out in such films as These Glamour Girls, Pride and Prejudice and Raw Deal before her career came unraveled by the communist witch hunt that hit Hollywood, has died. She was 104.
She died Wednesday of natural causes at her Sherman Oaks home, where she had lived since 1946, Roger C. Memos — writer-director of the documentary Marsha Hunt’s Sweet Adversity — told The Hollywood Reporter.
Hunt also appeared opposite Mickey Rooney in the best picture Oscar nominee The Human Comedy (1943) during a period in which she was known as “Hollywood’s Youngest Character Actress.”
A former model who signed with Paramount Pictures at age 17, the Chicago native made her first big splash as a suicidal co-ed opposite Lana Turner in MGM’s These Glamour Girls (1939).
Playing Walter Brennan’s sweetheart in Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the...
Marsha Hunt, the bright-eyed starlet who stood out in such films as These Glamour Girls, Pride and Prejudice and Raw Deal before her career came unraveled by the communist witch hunt that hit Hollywood, has died. She was 104.
She died Wednesday of natural causes at her Sherman Oaks home, where she had lived since 1946, Roger C. Memos — writer-director of the documentary Marsha Hunt’s Sweet Adversity — told The Hollywood Reporter.
Hunt also appeared opposite Mickey Rooney in the best picture Oscar nominee The Human Comedy (1943) during a period in which she was known as “Hollywood’s Youngest Character Actress.”
A former model who signed with Paramount Pictures at age 17, the Chicago native made her first big splash as a suicidal co-ed opposite Lana Turner in MGM’s These Glamour Girls (1939).
Playing Walter Brennan’s sweetheart in Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the...
- 9/10/2022
- by Maureen Lee Lenker
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The lasting horror of war is the blight it leaves on the lives of those left behind. Early sound pictures tried to deal with the guilt and pain of WW1, and the great Ernst Lubitsch took time out from romantic comedies and musicals for this very grim rumination on lies and responsibility. A French soldier decides to contact the family of a German he killed in the trenches; with no clear purpose or plan, he’s apt to make things worse for everybody. Lionel Barrymore and Nancy Carroll are wonderful, but you’ll choke up in the scenes with the German mother, played by Louise Carter. The film is best known for its opening montage, in which Lubitsch openly attacks the hypocrisy of militarist patriotism. It’s an exceedingly effective, non-hysterical piece of anti-war filmmaking.
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- 3/29/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
I'm writing this during the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. It's a strange time to be writing about eco horror, but the work still needs to be done, and with 3 billion people around the globe in some sort of lockdown, we need books more than ever before. My new novel Eden is released April 7th in the USA on ebook and paperback, and May 25th in the UK. My publishers are calling it an eco horror thriller, and I'm very happy with that description. When I set out to write a novel I'm never too concerned about which 'genre' it might fall into, but Eden definitely arose partly from my love of nature, and my fear over what we've been doing to our world.
Because sometimes, the world bites back.
As a nature lover, there's a deep history of eco horror novels and movies that might have subconsciously influenced and inspired me during my writing of Eden.
Because sometimes, the world bites back.
As a nature lover, there's a deep history of eco horror novels and movies that might have subconsciously influenced and inspired me during my writing of Eden.
- 4/7/2020
- by Tim Lebbon
- DailyDead
Igo Kantor, whose Hollywood career took him from Howard Hughes’ projection room to supervising post-production on “Easy Rider” and producing B-movies like “Kingdom of the Spiders” and “Mutant,” died Oct. 15. He was 89.
Kantor, who was born in Vienna and raised in Lisbon, met “Dillinger” director Max Nosseck on the ship to New York. Nosseck gave him an intro to his projectionist brother while Kantor was studying at UCLA, leading to a job screening screened movies for Hughes at a private theater while he was secretly dating actress Jean Peters, whom Hughes later married.
In the early 1960s, Kantor opened post-production house Synchrofilm, becoming the post-production supervisor on “The Monkees,” which led to Bert Schneider and Bob Rafelson hiring him to head post-production on “Easy Rider,” “Five Easy Pieces” and “The King of Marvin Gardens.”
He received Emmy nominations three years in a row for his work on the Bob Hope Christmas specials.
Kantor, who was born in Vienna and raised in Lisbon, met “Dillinger” director Max Nosseck on the ship to New York. Nosseck gave him an intro to his projectionist brother while Kantor was studying at UCLA, leading to a job screening screened movies for Hughes at a private theater while he was secretly dating actress Jean Peters, whom Hughes later married.
In the early 1960s, Kantor opened post-production house Synchrofilm, becoming the post-production supervisor on “The Monkees,” which led to Bert Schneider and Bob Rafelson hiring him to head post-production on “Easy Rider,” “Five Easy Pieces” and “The King of Marvin Gardens.”
He received Emmy nominations three years in a row for his work on the Bob Hope Christmas specials.
- 10/17/2019
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Over the weekend, I went to two kinds of theatrical hauntings: Saturday was an immersive theater performance called “The Johnny Cycle,” held at an actual mausoleum north of Los Angeles, surrounded by long-interred bodies of the well-to-do. Sunday was a sleek funhouse on Hollywood and Vine to promote the movie “It: Chapter 2.” The two hauntings were scary in different ways.
Both are personal to me. I went to the “Johnny Cycle” at the invitation of new friends who help run the Speakeasy Society theater company, which mounted the production. I went to “The It Experience Chapter 2” with another friend who makes documentaries about Stephen King movies and is currently making one about “It.”
The “It Experience” is haunted with killer clowns and excellent actors in bodysuits and top-notch jump scares and tasteful advertising for a horror sequel due in theaters next week. But “The Johnny Cycle” is haunted by thoughts...
Both are personal to me. I went to the “Johnny Cycle” at the invitation of new friends who help run the Speakeasy Society theater company, which mounted the production. I went to “The It Experience Chapter 2” with another friend who makes documentaries about Stephen King movies and is currently making one about “It.”
The “It Experience” is haunted with killer clowns and excellent actors in bodysuits and top-notch jump scares and tasteful advertising for a horror sequel due in theaters next week. But “The Johnny Cycle” is haunted by thoughts...
- 8/26/2019
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
A few years after Soundgarden reunited, Chris Cornell went out on a solo acoustic tour called Songbook, on which he played tunes from his entire career along with covers of songs by Michael Jackson, Led Zeppelin and the Beatles. The most surprising cover, however, was “One” — a mash-up that improbably combined the chords of U2’s smash 1992 single of the same name and Metallica’s 1989 breakthrough single, also titled “One.”
“A few years ago, I was going to do ‘One’ by U2 — I Googled the lyrics, but the words to Metallica’s ‘One’ came up,...
“A few years ago, I was going to do ‘One’ by U2 — I Googled the lyrics, but the words to Metallica’s ‘One’ came up,...
- 11/16/2018
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Get Your War On: ‘Come And See, ‘Grave Of The Fireflies’ & ‘Johnny Got His Gun’ [Over/Under Podcast]
After a long hiatus, many behind-the-scenes discussions, and simultaneously agreeing to a looser structure on the formula, Over/Under Movies podcast is back!
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This is the point where we’d usually say, “The podcast in which we choose one overrated film and one underrated film, similar in tone, genre, style, or however we may see fit, and discuss them.” But, in these dark times – and how volatile the discourse can be and how we don’t want to seem like we’re shouting into an echo chamber – we’ve decided to shift our focus to the positives.
Continue reading Get Your War On: ‘Come And See, ‘Grave Of The Fireflies’ & ‘Johnny Got His Gun’ [Over/Under Podcast] at The Playlist.
Read More: 55 Must-See Films: The 2018 Fall Movie Preview
This is the point where we’d usually say, “The podcast in which we choose one overrated film and one underrated film, similar in tone, genre, style, or however we may see fit, and discuss them.” But, in these dark times – and how volatile the discourse can be and how we don’t want to seem like we’re shouting into an echo chamber – we’ve decided to shift our focus to the positives.
Continue reading Get Your War On: ‘Come And See, ‘Grave Of The Fireflies’ & ‘Johnny Got His Gun’ [Over/Under Podcast] at The Playlist.
- 9/15/2018
- by Ryan Oliver
- The Playlist
“Gotham’s” Ben McKenzie will star opposite Aaron Eckhart in the Solution Entertainment Group film “Live,” sources tell Variety.
"Marauders” helmer Steve C. Miller will direct the movie with Jeremy Drysdale penning the script. Courtney Eaton has also joined the cast.
The pic takes place over the course of two hours and follows a disgraced cop who is put in charge of finding the police commissioner’s kidnapped daughter, Penny, who’s trapped somewhere in the city and running out of time. With a deranged killer on his heels, Penny’s only hope is teaming up with an ambitious young online reporter who films the wild chase live.
McKenzie plays an antagonist in the film.
Myles Nestel and Craig Chapman will produce through Solution, which was behind the recently released “Kodachrome,” starring Jason Sudeikis and Ed Harris.
McKenzie is best known for his role as police commissioner Jim Gordon in...
"Marauders” helmer Steve C. Miller will direct the movie with Jeremy Drysdale penning the script. Courtney Eaton has also joined the cast.
The pic takes place over the course of two hours and follows a disgraced cop who is put in charge of finding the police commissioner’s kidnapped daughter, Penny, who’s trapped somewhere in the city and running out of time. With a deranged killer on his heels, Penny’s only hope is teaming up with an ambitious young online reporter who films the wild chase live.
McKenzie plays an antagonist in the film.
Myles Nestel and Craig Chapman will produce through Solution, which was behind the recently released “Kodachrome,” starring Jason Sudeikis and Ed Harris.
McKenzie is best known for his role as police commissioner Jim Gordon in...
- 5/8/2018
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
By Todd Garbarini
Robert Z. Leonard’s 1940 film Pride and Predjudice, which stars Lawrence Olivier, Edmund Gwenn, Marsha Hunt, Greer Garson, and Maureen O’Sullivan, will be screened at the The Royale Laemmle Theater in Los Angeles. Based upon the novel by Jane Austen, the 118-minute film will be screened on Tuesday, December 8th, 2015 at 7:00 pm.
Actress Marsha Hunt, who played Mary Bennet in the film, is scheduled to appear in-person to discuss the film and answer audience questions.
From the press release:
This lush, Oscar-winning film from the heyday of MGM is the most entertaining of the many screen adaptations of Jane Austen’s best-loved novel. Laurence Olivier plays Mr. Darcy, Greer Garson is Elizabeth Bennet, and they give definitive performances as the archetypal battling lovers who set the model for almost every rom-com of the future. The supporting cast includes Edmund Gwenn, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver,...
Robert Z. Leonard’s 1940 film Pride and Predjudice, which stars Lawrence Olivier, Edmund Gwenn, Marsha Hunt, Greer Garson, and Maureen O’Sullivan, will be screened at the The Royale Laemmle Theater in Los Angeles. Based upon the novel by Jane Austen, the 118-minute film will be screened on Tuesday, December 8th, 2015 at 7:00 pm.
Actress Marsha Hunt, who played Mary Bennet in the film, is scheduled to appear in-person to discuss the film and answer audience questions.
From the press release:
This lush, Oscar-winning film from the heyday of MGM is the most entertaining of the many screen adaptations of Jane Austen’s best-loved novel. Laurence Olivier plays Mr. Darcy, Greer Garson is Elizabeth Bennet, and they give definitive performances as the archetypal battling lovers who set the model for almost every rom-com of the future. The supporting cast includes Edmund Gwenn, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver,...
- 12/1/2015
- by [email protected] (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
'Trumbo' movie: Bryan Cranston as screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and Helen Mirren as gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. 'Trumbo' movie review: Highly entertaining 'history lesson' Full disclosure: on the wall in my study hangs a poster – the iconic photograph of blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, with black-horned rim glasses, handlebar mustache, a smoke dangling from the end of a dramatic cigarette holder. He's sitting – stark naked – in a tub surrounded by his particular writing apparatus. He's looking directly into the camera of the photographer, his daughter Mitzi. Dalton Trumbo's son, Christopher Trumbo, gave me the poster after my interview with him for the release of Peter Askin's 2007 documentary also titled Trumbo. That film combines archival footage, including family movies and photographs, with performances of the senior Trumbo's letters to his family during their many years of turmoil before and through the blacklist, including his time in prison. The letters are read by,...
- 11/7/2015
- by Tim Cogshell
- Alt Film Guide
For those awaiting a big Bryan Cranston comeback since "Breaking Bad" went off the air two years ago, the nail biting is finally over. The first trailer for "Trumbo" has arrived ahead of the film's Special Presentations premiere at Tiff next month. Cranston has teamed with director Jay Roach to chronicle the dark days of Hollywood blacklisting, when screenwriters were called upon to renounce their Communist sentiments or risk being expelled from the system they worked tirelessly to dominate. Celebrated screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who wrote "Spartacus," "Roman Holiday," "Johnny Got His Gun" and "The Brave One," found himself at the epicenter of this dogfight and resisted, tooth-and-nail, being cut down for his own principles and ideology. It cost him his career. Read More: Teasing More Toronto Reveals "Trumbo" also features supporting roles from Elle Fanning, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, John...
- 8/12/2015
- by Ruben Guevara
- Thompson on Hollywood
Steven Spielberg and daughter Destry Spielberg on the Oscars' Red Carpet Steven Spielberg and daughter Destry Steven Spielberg and daughter Destry Spielberg arrive at the 83rd Academy Awards, held on Feb. 27 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Spielberg has taken home two Best Director Oscars: Schindler's List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998). Schindler's List also won Best Picture, but Saving Private Ryan lost to John Madden's Miramax-distributed Shakespeare in Love. There was quite a bit of animosity at the time, as some felt that Miramax, owned by brothers Bob and Harvey Weinstein, overdid its Oscar campaigning – while still managing to sway enough Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences members to vote for its film. Somewhat ironically, at the 2011 Academy Awards ceremony Steven Spielberg presented the Best Picture Award to The King's Speech. Toplining Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, Geoffrey Rush, Guy Pearce, and Claire Bloom, this British production was...
- 5/14/2015
- by D. Zhea
- Alt Film Guide
'The Fixer' movie with Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm (background) 'The Fixer' movie review: 1968 anti-Semitism drama wrecked by cast, direction, and writing In 1969, director John Frankenheimer declared that he felt "better about The Fixer than anything I've ever done in my life." Considering Frankenheimer's previous output – Seven Days in May, the much admired The Manchurian Candidate – it is hard to believe that the director was being anything but a good P.R. man for his latest release. Adapted from Bernard Malamud's National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (itself based on the real story of Jewish brick-factory worker Menahem Mendel Beilis), The Fixer is an overlong, overblown, and overwrought contrivance that, albeit well meaning, carelessly misuses most of the talent involved while sadistically abusing the patience – and at times the intelligence – of its viewers. John Frankenheimer overindulges in 1960s kitsch John Frankenheimer...
- 5/13/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Kristen Stewart, 'Camp X-Ray' star, to join cast of 'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk' Kristen Stewart to join 'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk' movie After putting away her Bella Swan wig and red (formerly brown) contact lenses, Kristen Stewart has been making a number of interesting career choices. Here are three examples: Stewart was a U.S. soldier who befriends an inmate (Peyman Moaadi) at the American Gulag, Guantanamo, in Peter Sattler's little-seen (at least in theaters) Camp X-Ray. She was one of Best Actress Oscar winner Julianne Moore's daughters in Wash Westmoreland and the recently deceased Richard Glatzer's Alzheimer's drama Still Alice. She was the personal assistant to troubled, aging actress Juliette Binoche in Olivier Assayas' Clouds of Sils Maria, which earned her a history-making Best Supporting Actress César. (Stewart became the first American actress to take home the French Academy Award.
- 4/4/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Veterans Day movies on TCM: From 'The Sullivans' to 'Patton' (photo: George C. Scott in 'Patton') This evening, Turner Classic Movies is presenting five war or war-related films in celebration of Veterans Day. For those outside the United States, Veterans Day is not to be confused with Memorial Day, which takes place in late May. (Scroll down to check out TCM's Veterans Day movie schedule.) It's good to be aware that in the last century alone, the U.S. has been involved in more than a dozen armed conflicts, from World War I to the invasion of Iraq, not including direct or indirect military interventions in countries as disparate as Iran, Guatemala, and Chile. As to be expected in a society that reveres people in uniform, American war movies have almost invariably glorified American soldiers even in those rare instances when they have dared to criticize the military establishment.
- 11/12/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
‘Montezuma’: Steven Spielberg next movie (or at least a Spielberg movie some time in the future)? Will Steven Spielberg next tackle the life and times of Aztec king Montezuma, from a screenplay by none other than former Hollywood Ten member Dalton Trumbo? If so, that won’t be the first time that Spielberg has adapted a Trumbo screenplay (more on that below). Anyhow, following Lincoln, which earned Spielberg his seventh Best Director Academy Award nomination, the Jaws, E.T., Schindler’s List, and Saving Private Ryan filmmaker has had his name attached to — and then detached from — a couple of projects. First, there was Drew Goddard’s adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson’s novel Robopocalypse, which isn’t a RoboCop spin-off but a sci-fier about a smart robot who reaches the (perfectly logical) conclusion that the only way to save the planet is to get rid of human beings. Robopocalypse,...
- 1/6/2014
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
We all know that the issue of marriage equality is quite divisive, generating various sorts of responses and stances. Gay marriage is now official in places as diverse as Canada, Argentina, Australia, Mexico City, and Washington State, but it's all but unthinkable (at least for the time being) in places such as China, Nigeria, Iran, Texas, and Arkansas. Brad Pitt's mother and Angelina Jolie's father (that's Oscar-winning actor and Midnight Cowboy star Jon Voight) are totally against it, while Clint Eastwood doesn't give a damn about who gets hitched to whom. Unlike the Dirty Harry star, a former MGM contract player in the '40s -- that's Marsha Hunt (please see more info about her dozens of films further down) and a political activist in the last several decades, does very much care. (Pictured above: Hunt and documentarian Roger C. Memos, currently working on a project about the blacklisted actress.
- 3/29/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Continuing NBC’s cruel, Johnny Got His Gun-like experiment on Up All Night—which, despite losing most of its limbs and its face, the network is determined to keep alive out of some mad, patriotic fervor—Will Arnett has signed on to star in Greg Garcia’s new CBS sitcom, yet still Up All Night has not been allowed to die. As we were reminded earlier this week, when Maya Rudolph similarly attempted to defect through the escape tunnel of her uterus, both she and Arnett remain contractually obligated to the series, having neglected to obtain whatever clause allowed ...
- 2/21/2013
- avclub.com
Timothy Bottoms Gets His Pound Of Flesh
By
Alex Simon
Timothy Bottoms became an overnight sensation at the height of the so-called “Easy Riders and Raging Bulls” era, after landing the leading role in The Last Picture Show (1971), Peter Bogdanovich’s film about the social and sexual rites of small town Texans in the early 1950s. Internationally acclaimed for his portrait of Sonny, a sensitive kid struggling to find his way in the harsh landscape of post-war America, the then-twenty year-old Bottoms suddenly found himself not only in-demand as a rising young star, but a major celebrity, as well, with younger brothers Sam (who co-starred in The Last Picture Show), Joseph and Ben following in their older brother’s footsteps, making names for themselves on stage and screen. Bottoms reprised the role of Sonny for Picture Show's 1990 sequel, Texasville.
After another triumphant turn with the lead in James Bridges’ The Paper Chase...
By
Alex Simon
Timothy Bottoms became an overnight sensation at the height of the so-called “Easy Riders and Raging Bulls” era, after landing the leading role in The Last Picture Show (1971), Peter Bogdanovich’s film about the social and sexual rites of small town Texans in the early 1950s. Internationally acclaimed for his portrait of Sonny, a sensitive kid struggling to find his way in the harsh landscape of post-war America, the then-twenty year-old Bottoms suddenly found himself not only in-demand as a rising young star, but a major celebrity, as well, with younger brothers Sam (who co-starred in The Last Picture Show), Joseph and Ben following in their older brother’s footsteps, making names for themselves on stage and screen. Bottoms reprised the role of Sonny for Picture Show's 1990 sequel, Texasville.
After another triumphant turn with the lead in James Bridges’ The Paper Chase...
- 5/22/2012
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Happy birthday…?
AMC’s Mad Men opened its long-awaited Season 5 by celebrating, in assorted and at times very, ahem, “interesting” ways, Don Draper’s 40th birthday.
The two-hour premiere opened with no familiar faces, but a fraternity of Young & Rubicam flunkies pranking protesters on the streets below their office windows; that tomfoolery would ultimately feed into Joan’s story (making her question her job security at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce), then bookend the opener with a bevy of African-American job applicants in the agency’s lobby, deftly dealt with by Lane.
In between all that, here’s what happened,...
AMC’s Mad Men opened its long-awaited Season 5 by celebrating, in assorted and at times very, ahem, “interesting” ways, Don Draper’s 40th birthday.
The two-hour premiere opened with no familiar faces, but a fraternity of Young & Rubicam flunkies pranking protesters on the streets below their office windows; that tomfoolery would ultimately feed into Joan’s story (making her question her job security at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce), then bookend the opener with a bevy of African-American job applicants in the agency’s lobby, deftly dealt with by Lane.
In between all that, here’s what happened,...
- 3/26/2012
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
I guess this one goes under "Decades-long injustice finally righted." Dalton Trumbo, who some of you will probably recognize as having written Johnny Got His Gun, has finally been given credit for writing the 1953 Audrey Hepburn/Gregory Peck film Roman Holiday. Trumbo was one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of writers and directors hauled in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and he served eleven months in federal prison for refusing to testify to Congress. Blacklisted, he continued to write while living in exile in Mexico, under fake names and fronts. The screen credit and Academy Award for Roman Holiday were originally given to Ian McLellan Hunter, one of Trumbo's fronts. Trumbo was awarded his Academy Award for Roman Holiday posthumously in 1993, but his writer's credit has just officially been restored by the Writer's Guild of America, West. Wgaw President Chris Keyser: &[...]...
- 12/19/2011
- Nerve
Ben McKenzie plays a wealthy young man on a personal quest for justice in TNT’s hit series Southland. Now the actor heads to the streets of Gotham City as the voice of another rich young adult with a need for righteousness in Batman: Year One, the next entry in the popular, ongoing series of DC Universe Animated Original Movies.
McKenzie makes his maiden voyage into animation voiceovers as Bruce Wayne/Batman, the title character of comics legend Frank Miller’s classic retelling of the Dark Knight’s gritty, formative days.
Produced by Warner Premiere, DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation, the all-new, PG-13 rated Batman: Year One arrives today, 2011 from Warner Home Video as a Blu-ray™ Combo Pack and DVD, On Demand and for Download. Batman: Year One is also be available in a special download-for-purchase through iTunes, Xbox Live, Zune, Vudu HD Movies and Video Unlimited on the PlayStation Network & Sony Entertainment Network.
McKenzie makes his maiden voyage into animation voiceovers as Bruce Wayne/Batman, the title character of comics legend Frank Miller’s classic retelling of the Dark Knight’s gritty, formative days.
Produced by Warner Premiere, DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation, the all-new, PG-13 rated Batman: Year One arrives today, 2011 from Warner Home Video as a Blu-ray™ Combo Pack and DVD, On Demand and for Download. Batman: Year One is also be available in a special download-for-purchase through iTunes, Xbox Live, Zune, Vudu HD Movies and Video Unlimited on the PlayStation Network & Sony Entertainment Network.
- 10/18/2011
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
After a small break The Spooky Hour Horror Hour with Ted, Raychul, Sub-z and DerrickH is back for another week of horror speak, including classic and current movie reviews, news, and even a game review. Read on for the details.
This week AMC is apparently trying to destroy "The Walking Dead", and we break it down. Raychul sees Final Destination 5 and thinks it's the best since the first. We watch The Brain That Wouldn't Die on classic streaming night. Ted is moved by Johnny Got His Gun but even more so by Elvira: Mistress of the Dark. Plus theDCD calls in, and we check out Army of Darkness: Defense for the iPhone.
All this week on Shhh.
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This week AMC is apparently trying to destroy "The Walking Dead", and we break it down. Raychul sees Final Destination 5 and thinks it's the best since the first. We watch The Brain That Wouldn't Die on classic streaming night. Ted is moved by Johnny Got His Gun but even more so by Elvira: Mistress of the Dark. Plus theDCD calls in, and we check out Army of Darkness: Defense for the iPhone.
All this week on Shhh.
Click here to download or listen to the latest episode of Shhh as an MP3! Click here to download, subscribe to, or just listen to previous episodes of Shhh!
Visit The Evilshop @ Amazon!
- 8/17/2011
- by Tedakin
- DreadCentral.com
Feeling peaky? You will be after this journey through some of the more disturbing hospitals of cinematic history
There's no safer place is there? A hospital is the only place you'd want to be if something was wrong with you, surely. A gleaming white palace of holistic healthcare where the only thing on the agenda is curing the ailments inflicted by the dangerous world outside. And in among all of this altruistic intent is the jovial atmosphere on the wards; the friendly banter of healthcare professionals and the recovering patients. Such visions recur so often in British cinema and TV history that we must hold a special respect in our collective consciousness for the wards. This can be the only reason for the remorseless 25-year domestic accident-based grind through the ranks of aspiring actors that is Casualty.
The happy-go-lucky pratfalls of the Carry On films aren't the worldwide norm though.
There's no safer place is there? A hospital is the only place you'd want to be if something was wrong with you, surely. A gleaming white palace of holistic healthcare where the only thing on the agenda is curing the ailments inflicted by the dangerous world outside. And in among all of this altruistic intent is the jovial atmosphere on the wards; the friendly banter of healthcare professionals and the recovering patients. Such visions recur so often in British cinema and TV history that we must hold a special respect in our collective consciousness for the wards. This can be the only reason for the remorseless 25-year domestic accident-based grind through the ranks of aspiring actors that is Casualty.
The happy-go-lucky pratfalls of the Carry On films aren't the worldwide norm though.
- 4/6/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
• Bill Stamets and Roger Ebert
The 46th Chicago International Film Festival will play this year at one central location, on the many screens of the AMC River East 21, 322 E. Illinois. A festivalgoers and filmmakers' lounge will be open during festival hours at the Lucky Strike on the second level. Tickets can be ordered online at Ciff's website, which also organizes the films by title, director and country. Tickets also at AMC; sold out films have Rush Lines. More capsules will be added here.
"127 Hours" (USA)A tour de force by James Franco and Danny Boyle ("Slumdog Millionaire"). Many are familiar with the true story, and just as many probably thought it could never be filmed. Boyle succeeds. A climber named Aron Ralston went climbing by himself in remote canyons, and was trapped deep in a crevice when a falling rock pinned his arm. He had limited food and water, no...
The 46th Chicago International Film Festival will play this year at one central location, on the many screens of the AMC River East 21, 322 E. Illinois. A festivalgoers and filmmakers' lounge will be open during festival hours at the Lucky Strike on the second level. Tickets can be ordered online at Ciff's website, which also organizes the films by title, director and country. Tickets also at AMC; sold out films have Rush Lines. More capsules will be added here.
"127 Hours" (USA)A tour de force by James Franco and Danny Boyle ("Slumdog Millionaire"). Many are familiar with the true story, and just as many probably thought it could never be filmed. Boyle succeeds. A climber named Aron Ralston went climbing by himself in remote canyons, and was trapped deep in a crevice when a falling rock pinned his arm. He had limited food and water, no...
- 10/16/2010
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Cologne, Germany -- Actor Timothy Bottoms, a star of the New Hollywood era with roles in films such as "The Last Picture Show" and "Johnny Got His Gun" and who received a late career revival playing President George W. Bush in Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Comedy Central series "That's My Bush!" will be honored with a retrospective of his work at this year's Oldenburg Film Festival (Sept. 15-19).
Oldenburg, the indie-focused fest known as "Germany's Sundance," will also screen the world premiere of Bottoms' latest, the thriller "Pound of Flesh" co-staring Malcolm McDowell and Angus Macfadyen.
"Pound of Flesh" director Tamar Simon Hoffs, also known as the mother of Bangles lead singer Susanna Hoffs and mother-in-law to "Dinner With Schmucks" helmer Jay Roach, will attend Oldenburg for the premiere.
Oldenburg is still fleshing out its lineup but Spanish drama "The Mosquito Net" from Agusti Vila, which won Karlovy Vary's grand prize,...
Oldenburg, the indie-focused fest known as "Germany's Sundance," will also screen the world premiere of Bottoms' latest, the thriller "Pound of Flesh" co-staring Malcolm McDowell and Angus Macfadyen.
"Pound of Flesh" director Tamar Simon Hoffs, also known as the mother of Bangles lead singer Susanna Hoffs and mother-in-law to "Dinner With Schmucks" helmer Jay Roach, will attend Oldenburg for the premiere.
Oldenburg is still fleshing out its lineup but Spanish drama "The Mosquito Net" from Agusti Vila, which won Karlovy Vary's grand prize,...
- 7/30/2010
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mubarak Ali
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Some Notes on "Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis"
David Cairns
The Forgotten: Night and Fog
The Forgotten: Hey, Pluto!
Ce n'est pas une pipe: "The Illusionist" (Sylvain Chomet, UK)
The Forgotten: Messing About in Boats
Johnny Got His Gun: "Caterpillar" (Koji Wakamatsu, Japan)
Life's Work: "And Everything is Going Fine" (Steven Soderbergh, Us)
The Forgotten: Bad Words
Taking Fire: "Restrepo" (Tim Hetherington & Sebastian Junger, Us)
Adrian Curry
Movie Posters of the Week: The Films of Agnès Varda
Movie Posters of the Week: Early Dreyer
Movie Poster of the Week: "The American"
Movie Poster of the Week: "Dogtooth"
Doug Dibbern
Mann Power: The Director as Worker
The Ferroni Brigade
The Golden Donkey Cannes 2010: The French Connection
Jean-Luc Godard
Quote of the Day
Daniel Kasman
Now on DVD: Shapeshifting Songs of Sex
At the Cinematheque: "Nightfall" (Jacques Tourneur, 1957)
Video Sundays: Cinema...
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Some Notes on "Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis"
David Cairns
The Forgotten: Night and Fog
The Forgotten: Hey, Pluto!
Ce n'est pas une pipe: "The Illusionist" (Sylvain Chomet, UK)
The Forgotten: Messing About in Boats
Johnny Got His Gun: "Caterpillar" (Koji Wakamatsu, Japan)
Life's Work: "And Everything is Going Fine" (Steven Soderbergh, Us)
The Forgotten: Bad Words
Taking Fire: "Restrepo" (Tim Hetherington & Sebastian Junger, Us)
Adrian Curry
Movie Posters of the Week: The Films of Agnès Varda
Movie Posters of the Week: Early Dreyer
Movie Poster of the Week: "The American"
Movie Poster of the Week: "Dogtooth"
Doug Dibbern
Mann Power: The Director as Worker
The Ferroni Brigade
The Golden Donkey Cannes 2010: The French Connection
Jean-Luc Godard
Quote of the Day
Daniel Kasman
Now on DVD: Shapeshifting Songs of Sex
At the Cinematheque: "Nightfall" (Jacques Tourneur, 1957)
Video Sundays: Cinema...
- 7/6/2010
- MUBI
Koji Wakamatsu's Caterpillar, screening at Edinburgh International Film Festival, is a short yet grueling tale of domestic horror set in a semi-depopulated Japanese village during World War Two. Protagonist Shigeko (Shinobu Terajima) is given the task of looking after her husband (Keigo Kasuya), multiply-disabled in the second Sino-Japanese war.
In Dalton Trumbo's novel Johnny Got His Gun (filmed by Trumbo in 1971), the hero is left limbless, deaf, dumb and blind. Wakamatsu's "living war god" suffers all these losses except for his eyesight, which is spared. But any assumption that Wakamatsu is therefore a more merciful filmmaker than Trumbo is swiftly dispelled.
In Dalton Trumbo's novel Johnny Got His Gun (filmed by Trumbo in 1971), the hero is left limbless, deaf, dumb and blind. Wakamatsu's "living war god" suffers all these losses except for his eyesight, which is spared. But any assumption that Wakamatsu is therefore a more merciful filmmaker than Trumbo is swiftly dispelled.
- 6/19/2010
- MUBI
Some artists work in oils, or plaster. Some use a brush or a chisel. Dalton Trumbo used words, craftily painted on standard white paper with the help of a well worn typewriter. By the time he was in high school, he was a cub reporter for his local Colorado newspaper. After college, he wrote for Vogue, published his first novel, and headed out to Hollywood. By the 1940s, he had won the National Book Award for his cautionary anti-war tome Johnny Got His Gun, and was one of the industries highest paid screenwriters, famous for such films as Thirty Seconds…...
- 9/13/2009
- by By Bill Gibron
- PopMatters
Some artists work in oils, or plaster. Some use a brush or a chisel. Dalton Trumbo used words, craftily painted on standard white paper with the help of a well worn typewriter. By the time he was in high school, he was a cub reporter for his local Colorado newspaper. After college, he wrote for Vogue, published his first novel, and headed out to Hollywood. By the 1940s, he had won the National Book Award for his cautionary anti-war tome Johnny Got His Gun, and was one of the industries highest paid screenwriters, famous for such films as Thirty Seconds…...
- 9/13/2009
- by By Bill Gibron
- PopMatters
Dalton Trumbo set his novel Johnny Got His Gun in a gruesome corner of the first World War. In the years between 1938, when he wrote it, and 1971, when he adapted it into his only directorial effort, Trumbo temporarily withdrew the novel in deference to the second world war, then watched his successful screenwriting career get sidelined by imprisonment and blacklisting, thanks to his refusal to cooperate with Huac. The blacklist faded, and Trumbo’s career revived. Wars came and went, and though years divide the story’s conception from its adaptation, the simplicity of its grim story has ...
- 4/8/2009
- avclub.com
Today, as our young soldiers return home with scarred psyches and injuries never before imagined, Johnny Got His Gun's relevance is once again clear. Based on American author Dalton Trumbo's classic 1939 novel and adapted for the stage by Bradley Rand Smith, Johnny Got His Gun is the inspiring story of twenty-year-old Joe Bonham, a quadruple amputee who has lost his ability to see, hear and speak during his service in World War I. Regaining consciousness, Joe discovers that while his brain is healthy and able to reason, the rest of his body is irreparably shattered, leaving him trapped forever within the confines of his own imagination. The play follows his valiant struggle to find some way to communicate with the outside world, to rejoin humanity and to confront society as a living example of the cost of war.
- 1/31/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
By Neil Pedley
If the old maxim "What I really want to do is direct" still holds true, this week's releases confirm that the filmmaking game is more open than ever. Anyone can have a crack at it; actors, teachers, digital artists, preachers. Perhaps you should have a go yourself. Hell, if Paul W.S. Anderson can get work doing it...
"The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela"
Offering up the most unlikely fairytale you're ever likely to see, Icelandic filmmaker Olaf de Fleur Johannesson draws on his documentary background with this endearing low-budget, semi-improvised Cinderella story. As a young Filipino lady-boy, the spunky, pre-op sex worker Raquela longs to be the belle of the ball as she trawls the Internet looking for love. When an American suitor pledges to be her Prince Charming and proposes a meeting in France, Raquela departs for her long-awaited date with destiny under the glittering Paris skyline.
If the old maxim "What I really want to do is direct" still holds true, this week's releases confirm that the filmmaking game is more open than ever. Anyone can have a crack at it; actors, teachers, digital artists, preachers. Perhaps you should have a go yourself. Hell, if Paul W.S. Anderson can get work doing it...
"The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela"
Offering up the most unlikely fairytale you're ever likely to see, Icelandic filmmaker Olaf de Fleur Johannesson draws on his documentary background with this endearing low-budget, semi-improvised Cinderella story. As a young Filipino lady-boy, the spunky, pre-op sex worker Raquela longs to be the belle of the ball as she trawls the Internet looking for love. When an American suitor pledges to be her Prince Charming and proposes a meeting in France, Raquela departs for her long-awaited date with destiny under the glittering Paris skyline.
- 9/22/2008
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
Actor Byron Morrow Dies
Byron Morrow, a veteran character actor in television and films whose distinguished look often led him to be cast as a top military officer, police chief or judge died on May 11. He was 94. The actor died at the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, his family announced last week. Morrow was born in Chicago, Illinois and his early career included stints as a model, puppeteer and radio announcer. He briefly played semi-professional basketball in a US Midwest barnstorming league that included the original Harlem Globetrotters. Morrow moved to Hollywood in the late 1930s and appeared in nearly two dozen major movies including Johnny Got His Gun. He also appeared in numerous television series, including episodes of Star Trek, Dragnet, Dallas, Perry Mason, Get Smart and Vegas.
- 9/6/2006
- WENN
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