A thyroid operation every ten years, plus regular libations of an eerie green liquid, has allowed Anton Diffring to live over a hundred years without looking a year over forty. Hammer’s medical horror show features Christopher Lee, Hazel Court and sumptuous cinematography, but not a whole lot of surprises.
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1959 / Color/ 1:66 widescreen / 83 min. / Street Date March 14, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee, Arnold Marle, Delphi Lawrence.
Cinematography: Jack Asher
Production Design: Bernard Robinson
Art Direction: Roy Ashton
Film Editor: John Dunsford
Original Music: Richard Rodney Bennett
Written by Jimmy Sangster from a play by Barré Lyndon
Produced by Michael Carreras
Directed by Terence Fisher
For its first two years of Technicolor horror Hammer Films could seemingly do no wrong. In just a few months their revivals of classic horror motifs were being bankrolled and...
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1959 / Color/ 1:66 widescreen / 83 min. / Street Date March 14, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee, Arnold Marle, Delphi Lawrence.
Cinematography: Jack Asher
Production Design: Bernard Robinson
Art Direction: Roy Ashton
Film Editor: John Dunsford
Original Music: Richard Rodney Bennett
Written by Jimmy Sangster from a play by Barré Lyndon
Produced by Michael Carreras
Directed by Terence Fisher
For its first two years of Technicolor horror Hammer Films could seemingly do no wrong. In just a few months their revivals of classic horror motifs were being bankrolled and...
- 3/7/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Mel Gibson’s “Hacksaw Ridge” earned the top two sound editing awards Sunday night at the 64th Mpse Golden Reel Awards, while Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land” and Disney’s “Moana” took musical and animation honors.
“The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble” and “Warcraft: The Beginning” won for documentary and score.
“Hacksaw Ridge” now becomes the favorite to beat “La La Land” in the Oscar battle.
TV winners included “Westworld” (for both long form and short form FX/Foley), “The Night of” “Part 1 The Beach,” “Penny Dreadful III” “Ebb Tide,” “Stranger Things,” and “The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again,” and “Mozart in the Jungle.”
The Filmmaker and Career Achievement Awards were presented to Guillermo del Toro and Harry Cohen.
64th Mpse Golden Reel Award Highlights:
Best Sound Editing In Feature Film – Dialogue / Adr
Hacksaw Ridge
Crosscreek...
“The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble” and “Warcraft: The Beginning” won for documentary and score.
“Hacksaw Ridge” now becomes the favorite to beat “La La Land” in the Oscar battle.
TV winners included “Westworld” (for both long form and short form FX/Foley), “The Night of” “Part 1 The Beach,” “Penny Dreadful III” “Ebb Tide,” “Stranger Things,” and “The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again,” and “Mozart in the Jungle.”
The Filmmaker and Career Achievement Awards were presented to Guillermo del Toro and Harry Cohen.
64th Mpse Golden Reel Award Highlights:
Best Sound Editing In Feature Film – Dialogue / Adr
Hacksaw Ridge
Crosscreek...
- 2/20/2017
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Photo by Nosrat Panahi NejadWe are heartbroken to learn that Iran's greatest filmmaker, and one of the cinema's most important, innovative and moving artists, Abbas Kiarostami, has died at the age of 76. He won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1997 for Taste of Cherry, but his sprawling and varied filmography, beginning in 1970 in Iran and ending in Japan for 2012's Like Someone in Love, carried immeasurable impact on international cinema.Below you can find our specific writing about with the director over the years.Spectators as Characters: Close-Up on Abbas Kiarostami's Shirin by Matthew Harrison TedfordPutting the Parts Together: A Conversation with Abbas Kiarostami by Daniel KasmanAbbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love by Daniel KasmanLove Streams: Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy by Michael SicinskiWatching the Watchers: Abbas Kiarostami's Shirin by David Cairns...
- 7/5/2016
- MUBI
Sometimes actors are cast in a movie together and instantly display great onscreen chemistry. You look at them and think, “These two should work together again. They make a good team.” Sometimes they do reunite and it leads to a series of great screen collaborations, but sometimes they don’t and we’re left wishing the pair would have made more films together.
Back in the days of the old ‘Studio System,’ movies studio execs would look for actors who had good on-screen chemistry and repeatedly cast them together in films. This was called “packaging”, and it lead to the frequent teaming of people like Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers; William Powell & Myrna Loy; Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall; Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi; Bob Hope & Bing Crosby; Errol Flynn & Olivia de Havilland; Nelson Eddy & Jeannette MacDonald; etc., etc.
The ‘Studio System’ is long gone and so is “packaging”. It’s a pity...
Back in the days of the old ‘Studio System,’ movies studio execs would look for actors who had good on-screen chemistry and repeatedly cast them together in films. This was called “packaging”, and it lead to the frequent teaming of people like Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers; William Powell & Myrna Loy; Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall; Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi; Bob Hope & Bing Crosby; Errol Flynn & Olivia de Havilland; Nelson Eddy & Jeannette MacDonald; etc., etc.
The ‘Studio System’ is long gone and so is “packaging”. It’s a pity...
- 4/10/2016
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Rob Young)
- Cinelinx
Dailies is a round-up of essential film writing, news bits, videos, and other highlights from across the Internet. If you’d like to submit a piece for consideration, get in touch with us in the comments below or on Twitter at @TheFilmStage.
See the full list of the 2016 Film Independent Spirit Awards, including Spotlight, Room, Beasts of No Nation, Tangerine, and more.
Watch Martin Scorsese discuss the restoration of Rocco and His Brothers:
Paul Schneider on his top 10 Criterion films:
I saw Blue for the first time when I was in film school. I checked out a VHS tape from the library and watched it on a twelve-inch TV/Vcr. The movie finished and I sat staring at the dark screen while the tape auto-rewound. When it reached the beginning, I pressed “Play” and watched it a second time. When it stopped the second time, I turned everything off,...
See the full list of the 2016 Film Independent Spirit Awards, including Spotlight, Room, Beasts of No Nation, Tangerine, and more.
Watch Martin Scorsese discuss the restoration of Rocco and His Brothers:
Paul Schneider on his top 10 Criterion films:
I saw Blue for the first time when I was in film school. I checked out a VHS tape from the library and watched it on a twelve-inch TV/Vcr. The movie finished and I sat staring at the dark screen while the tape auto-rewound. When it reached the beginning, I pressed “Play” and watched it a second time. When it stopped the second time, I turned everything off,...
- 2/29/2016
- by TFS Staff
- The Film Stage
By Alex Simon
The Tennessee state House voted Wednesday to adopt the Holy Bible as the official state book. The chamber approved the measure 55-38. It is sponsored by Republican Rep. Jerry Sexton, a former pastor, who argued that his proposal reflects the Bible's historical, cultural and economic impact in Tennessee. In addition to the measure ignoring serious constitutional issues, it brings to mind a legendary legal case held in Tennessee nearly a century ago.
The Scopes “Monkey Trial” was held in the small town of Dayton, Tn. in 1925. A substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. The trial drew intense international publicity, as two of the nation’s most high-profile attorneys, William Jennings Bryan (prosecution) and Clarence Darrow (defense), argued the case, one of the earliest examples of Fundamentalist vs. Modernist...
The Tennessee state House voted Wednesday to adopt the Holy Bible as the official state book. The chamber approved the measure 55-38. It is sponsored by Republican Rep. Jerry Sexton, a former pastor, who argued that his proposal reflects the Bible's historical, cultural and economic impact in Tennessee. In addition to the measure ignoring serious constitutional issues, it brings to mind a legendary legal case held in Tennessee nearly a century ago.
The Scopes “Monkey Trial” was held in the small town of Dayton, Tn. in 1925. A substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. The trial drew intense international publicity, as two of the nation’s most high-profile attorneys, William Jennings Bryan (prosecution) and Clarence Darrow (defense), argued the case, one of the earliest examples of Fundamentalist vs. Modernist...
- 4/16/2015
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Having finally found acclaim as a writer/director with critical successes like The Defiant Ones (1958) after a brief period serving as a producer for others at Columbia on films such as Death of a Salesman (1951), The Juggler (1953), and The Wild One (1953), Stanley Kramer took it upon himself to follow-up his politically controversial nuclear war drama On the Beach (1959) with yet another topically contentious production – Inherit The Wind. Based on the stage play of the same name written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, the film fictionalizes the famed 1925 Scopes “Monkey” Trial, in which a high school teacher named John Scopes was accused of violating Tennessee’s Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach Darwin’s Theory of Evolution in any state-funded school. Riding high on the creation/evolution controversy, as well as a genius ploy to exploit the witch hunt narrative to discuss the dangers of McCarthyism, which had previously seen Nedrick Young,...
- 1/13/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
How would you program this year's newest, most interesting films into double features with movies of the past you saw in 2014?
Looking back over the year at what films moved and impressed us, it is clear that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, the annual tradition of our end of year poll, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2014—in theatres or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2014 to create a unique double feature.
All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2014 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch...
Looking back over the year at what films moved and impressed us, it is clear that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, the annual tradition of our end of year poll, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2014—in theatres or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2014 to create a unique double feature.
All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2014 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch...
- 1/5/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
This weekend's Sundance ShortsLab La panels offered a wealth of useful gleanings. Held at Google's Venice offices, panels included Story Development (director Spike Jonze and longtime editor Eric Zumbrunnen), Collaboration (director Azazel Jacobs, cinematographer Pj Raval, editor Annette Davey, production designer Kk Barrett, and moderator Matthew Harrison) and Working with Actors (Joshua Leonard, Nick Offerman, Gina Rodriguez, and moderator Matt Ross). Sundance director of programming Trevor Groth and programmers Landon Zakheim and Mike Plante also shared info and advice about submitting to the festival, presenting a case study on filmmaker Nicholas McCarthy's short film "The Pact" and its journey into becoming a feature within a year of playing at Sundance. Below are 12 key lessions for filmmakers--and anyone planning to collaborate in the medium. Story Development 1. Make it for yourself, make it your own. If you don't...
- 8/13/2012
- by Sophia Savage
- Thompson on Hollywood
For the second consecutive year, Blue Jays outfielder Jose Bautista will start the All-Star Game for the American League, receiving 4,971,155 votes. The former Silver Slugger leads the league in homeruns (26), is second is second in Rbi (63) and is fourth in runs scored (56). Bautista is the lone Blue Jay heading to the All-Star game, for third time in three years.
The 83rd Mid-Season Classic unveiled its rosters earlier today, and it included a whole lot of Yankees, Rangers, Cardinals and Giants. You can check out the full list below.
The 2012 All-Star Game will be held at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City on July 10.
Here are the roster cards for both teams:
American League roster Starters C Mike Napoli, Tex 1B Prince Fielder, Det 2B Robinson Cano, Nyy 3B Adrian Beltre, Tex SS Derek Jeter, Nyy Of Josh Hamilton, Tex Of Curtis Granderson, Nyy Of Jose Bautista, Tor Dh David Ortiz, Bos Pitchers Rhp Ryan Cook,...
The 83rd Mid-Season Classic unveiled its rosters earlier today, and it included a whole lot of Yankees, Rangers, Cardinals and Giants. You can check out the full list below.
The 2012 All-Star Game will be held at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City on July 10.
Here are the roster cards for both teams:
American League roster Starters C Mike Napoli, Tex 1B Prince Fielder, Det 2B Robinson Cano, Nyy 3B Adrian Beltre, Tex SS Derek Jeter, Nyy Of Josh Hamilton, Tex Of Curtis Granderson, Nyy Of Jose Bautista, Tor Dh David Ortiz, Bos Pitchers Rhp Ryan Cook,...
- 7/2/2012
- by Harlan Nemers
- We Got This Covered
So I know that this whole season of Game of Thrones has been a little lackluster. But you know what, that's Ok. I guess as a whole the second season was about setting up the chess pieces for the rest of the second, third and yes, even fourth season. So is a slightly boring season all that bad?
No, absolutely not. Especially because last night was so incredibly epic that it makes up for the weeks of waiting. Best episode of the year? It's a very strong contender. Actually, I'm still trying to wrap my head around what happened. Was this episode so good because it was actually written by George R.R. Martin? That it was directed by Neil Marshall (The Descent, Centurion)?
It was not only packed with incredible action sequences but everyone acted their face off. There was no star of this episode really, everyone was so great,...
No, absolutely not. Especially because last night was so incredibly epic that it makes up for the weeks of waiting. Best episode of the year? It's a very strong contender. Actually, I'm still trying to wrap my head around what happened. Was this episode so good because it was actually written by George R.R. Martin? That it was directed by Neil Marshall (The Descent, Centurion)?
It was not only packed with incredible action sequences but everyone acted their face off. There was no star of this episode really, everyone was so great,...
- 5/28/2012
- by Emily Cheever
- TVology
The Old Globe today announced principal casting for the Globe's 2012 Shakespeare Festival. Craig Noel Award winner Jay Whittaker returns to the Festival for his third consecutive season to appear in the title role of William Shakespeare's Richard III. He will also appear as Oliver in Shakespeare's As You Like It. Also returning to the Festival are Craig Noel Award winner Robert Foxworth and Adrian Sparks, who will take to the courtroom floor as titanic lawyers Henry Drummond and Matthew Harrison Brady, respectively, in the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee classic Inherit the Wind. Foxworth, an Old Globe Associate Artist, will also play Lord Hastings in Richard III, and Sparks will play Lord Mayor of London in Richard III and Corin in As You Like It. Festival veteran Dana Green will star as Rosalind, and Dan Amboyer, new to the Festival stage, will play Orlando, the object of her affections,...
- 2/6/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Though Game 7s should be, by definition, the most dramatic games in sports, Game 6s have a better reputation for classic World Series games. The ball dribbled through Bill Buckner’s legs in a Game 6. Carlton Fisk waved his home run fair in a Game 6. Kirby Puckett hit his walk-off home run in a Game 6. Last night, St. Louis Cardinal David Freese, who hit only 10 home runs during the season, saved his team’s season with a two-strike, two-out triple in the bottom of the ninth inning to tie the score and then hit a solo home run in the...
- 10/28/2011
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW.com - PopWatch
On TV this weekend: The Fall Classic continues, Good Wife brings back a bad guy, Dexter has a crisis of faith, and… did someone order Robot Chicken? Here are 19 programs to keep on your radar.
Saturday, October 22
5 pm House of Bones (Syfy) | In case this week’s Supernatural got you jonesing for more Charisma Carpenter, here she is in a 2009 TV-movie about two “ghost hunter” types (her and Corin Nemec) who get more than they bargained for.
7:30 College Football (NBC) | Notre Dame hosts USC. Ausiello, you’ll be watching this, right?
8 pm World Series Game 3 (Fox) | With the series...
Saturday, October 22
5 pm House of Bones (Syfy) | In case this week’s Supernatural got you jonesing for more Charisma Carpenter, here she is in a 2009 TV-movie about two “ghost hunter” types (her and Corin Nemec) who get more than they bargained for.
7:30 College Football (NBC) | Notre Dame hosts USC. Ausiello, you’ll be watching this, right?
8 pm World Series Game 3 (Fox) | With the series...
- 10/22/2011
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
The 16th annual Slamdance Film Festival, which runs Jan. 21-28 in Park City, has added three films to its Special Screening program: Jordan Brady's documentary "I Am Comic," featuring Sarah Silverman and Kathy Griffin, Gerard Johnson's "Tony" and Ben Wheatley's "Down Terrace."
Slamdance also has programmed 36 narrative and experimental shorts, 10 animations, 12 short documentaries and seven horror shorts that will screen as part of its inaugural Twilight Shorts program.
The shorts programs include such titles as "Head in the Sand," a look at a naive soldier's tour of duty in Afghanistan; "Saturday Morning Blues," in which an inner-city teens wrangles doses of knowledge and poison from her best friend; and "Solarium," a sci-fi piece designed entirely with found and recycled materials.
"In spite of the recession, we saw an increase in both quantity and quality of shorts submissions this year," said Paul Sbrizzi, captain of the shorts programming committee.
Slamdance also has programmed 36 narrative and experimental shorts, 10 animations, 12 short documentaries and seven horror shorts that will screen as part of its inaugural Twilight Shorts program.
The shorts programs include such titles as "Head in the Sand," a look at a naive soldier's tour of duty in Afghanistan; "Saturday Morning Blues," in which an inner-city teens wrangles doses of knowledge and poison from her best friend; and "Solarium," a sci-fi piece designed entirely with found and recycled materials.
"In spite of the recession, we saw an increase in both quantity and quality of shorts submissions this year," said Paul Sbrizzi, captain of the shorts programming committee.
- 12/16/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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