In the cinema of Steven Spielberg, to say nothing of the cinema of science fiction, of Hollywood, and of practical effects, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) is a landmark, like the silhouette of a small mountain in the night skyline. Spielberg’s Duel (1971), carried over from television to movie theaters, was a wisp of a story elevated by its visual dynamism. His theatrical debut, The Sugarland Express (1974), was another 70s American road movie, notable today for the way it combines the appealing grit of the New Hollywood (and of Duel) with a much warmer, more charitable view of America and its culture. It contains the director’s first broken family unit—a key theme in his career—and was his first film scored by John Williams, even if it has almost none of the Williams trademarks. Jaws (1975) was the breakout smash, a lurid bucket-of-blood movie turned into a light day-at-the-beach movie,...
- 9/10/2017
- MUBI
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. John Carpenter's Christine (1983) is showing May 4 - June 3 and Starman (1984) is showing May 5 - June 4, 2017 in the United Kingdom.ChristineWas it too dark? Too bleak? Too gory? Did it have the misfortune of opening when American moviegoers were flocking to E.T.? Either way, when John Carpenter's The Thing landed in the summer of 1982, with an apocalyptic cliffhanger and the most surreally grotesque, tactile, gooey monster effects you never realized could be put on film, it fizzled. "It was hated," Carpenter later recalled at a screening in Los Angeles. "Hated by fans. I lost a job. People hated me. They thought I was this horrible, violent—" He trailed off and joked, "And I was." The audience laughed, because by now The Thing's exalted place in movie geek culture is secure: an exquisitely paranoid horror classic and arguably the crown...
- 5/14/2017
- MUBI
Time to lasso in some golden truths. When it comes to legendary female superheroes, few can touch the mammoth iconography - or slip into the badass bustier - of Wonder Woman. And when it comes to actresses who've taken on the character, well, only one person really comes to mind, doesn't it? Lynda Carter. From 1975 to 1979, Carter played the Amazon princess in the landmark TV series, instantly becoming the quintessential embodiment of the golden-lasso-flinging heroine. Although other incarnations have since come and gone - including several comic-book reboots, animated series and an ill-fated TV pilot - Carter has, in large part,...
- 3/27/2016
- by Alexis L. Loinaz, @alexisloinaz
- PEOPLE.com
Time to lasso in some golden truths. When it comes to legendary female superheroes, few can touch the mammoth iconography - or slip into the badass bustier - of Wonder Woman. And when it comes to actresses who've taken on the character, well, only one person really comes to mind, doesn't it? Lynda Carter. From 1975 to 1979, Carter played the Amazon princess in the landmark TV series, instantly becoming the quintessential embodiment of the golden-lasso-flinging heroine. Although other incarnations have since come and gone - including several comic-book reboots, animated series and an ill-fated TV pilot - Carter has, in large part,...
- 3/27/2016
- by Alexis L. Loinaz, @alexisloinaz
- PEOPLE.com
Lynda Carter will always be known a "Wonder Woman," but she had good reason for leaving her Hollywood life behind her. During an interview on "Oprah: Where Are They Now?" the 62-year-old explains that her family always came before her commitment to acting.
Life changed for Carter when she married her husband Robert Altman in 1984. She decided to live with him in Washington D.C. instead of staying in California.
"I wanted to raise my family in a place where you were really gauged on what you accomplished on an intellectual level, not just how much money you have," she explains.
The couple has two children, both of whom are now out of college. That allows Carter to pursue her true love: singing.
"There are a lot of people who don't know I sing, and I understand that," she says.
During her 20s while she was married to her first husband,...
Life changed for Carter when she married her husband Robert Altman in 1984. She decided to live with him in Washington D.C. instead of staying in California.
"I wanted to raise my family in a place where you were really gauged on what you accomplished on an intellectual level, not just how much money you have," she explains.
The couple has two children, both of whom are now out of college. That allows Carter to pursue her true love: singing.
"There are a lot of people who don't know I sing, and I understand that," she says.
During her 20s while she was married to her first husband,...
- 11/4/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Greetings from the apocalypse! Along with my trusty dog, I'm currently gunning the last of the V8 Interceptors towards a fortified gasoline refuge in the middle of the Australian outback. While I'm thus occupied, why don't you innocent clanspeople of Tomorrow-morrow Land check out some of this weekend's most fruitful distractions … unless you're chained to a car with handcuffs made out of high-tensile steel. Man, I've been there …
Friday, June 7
New On Blu
Oh man, oh man, oh man … The 'Mad Max' Collection on Blu-ray! It's all three of the most-worshipped post-apocalyptic vehicular mayhem movies ever burned onto celluloid, including for the first time on Blu-ray the amazingly bizarre "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome." Unfortunately there's not much in the way of new bonus content on any of these, but the prints are all glorious — especially "Thunderdome," which looks like a brand-new movie. There's a great doc on the first "Mad Max,...
Friday, June 7
New On Blu
Oh man, oh man, oh man … The 'Mad Max' Collection on Blu-ray! It's all three of the most-worshipped post-apocalyptic vehicular mayhem movies ever burned onto celluloid, including for the first time on Blu-ray the amazingly bizarre "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome." Unfortunately there's not much in the way of new bonus content on any of these, but the prints are all glorious — especially "Thunderdome," which looks like a brand-new movie. There's a great doc on the first "Mad Max,...
- 6/7/2013
- by Max Evry
- NextMovie
Actors Jeremy Irvine and Emily Watson discuss their roles in Steven Spielberg's War Horse.
Jeremy Irvine, the young star of Steven Spielberg's War Horse, has managed to make a distinct impression on Hollywood in a relatively short time. The 21-year-old studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before landing a role on TV's "Life Bites," which led to his casting as Albert Narracott in Spielberg's latest. He recently completed filming Now is Good (with Dakota Fanning) and Great Expectations (with Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter). Here, he discusses his experiences filming War Horse.
Q: War Horse is your first film. That’s an incredible way to start…
Irvine: I’m just proud to be a part of it. Just to have lines in a movie, any movie, is ridiculous and to be in a Steven Spielberg movie is beyond my wildest dreams. It’s something I never even contemplated.
Jeremy Irvine, the young star of Steven Spielberg's War Horse, has managed to make a distinct impression on Hollywood in a relatively short time. The 21-year-old studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before landing a role on TV's "Life Bites," which led to his casting as Albert Narracott in Spielberg's latest. He recently completed filming Now is Good (with Dakota Fanning) and Great Expectations (with Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter). Here, he discusses his experiences filming War Horse.
Q: War Horse is your first film. That’s an incredible way to start…
Irvine: I’m just proud to be a part of it. Just to have lines in a movie, any movie, is ridiculous and to be in a Steven Spielberg movie is beyond my wildest dreams. It’s something I never even contemplated.
- 4/26/2012
- by feeds@themoviepool.com (Victor Medina)
- Cinelinx
Who needs holidays? Make your own with the birthdays of movie people.
Parker, Oleg and Vlad the Impaler (as interpreted by Gary Oldman)
Today's Birthdays 11/08
1431 Vlad the Impaler would have turned 578 years old today if not for that stake through the heart. To be accurate, his exact birthday is unknown but sometimes he's listed on this date which probably has something to do with...
1847 Bram Stoker who wrote the original Dracula, which gave Vlad the immortality that he had mythically already won as the original nosferatu... vampyr. The cinema loves him harder and deeper than Lucy Harker ever could.
1900 Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone With the Wind. She didn't have to impale anyone or renounce heaven to achieve immortality. She just had to write one mammoth book. The movie based on her novel is still the highest grossing film of all time when adjusted for inflation. One of only four films...
Parker, Oleg and Vlad the Impaler (as interpreted by Gary Oldman)
Today's Birthdays 11/08
1431 Vlad the Impaler would have turned 578 years old today if not for that stake through the heart. To be accurate, his exact birthday is unknown but sometimes he's listed on this date which probably has something to do with...
1847 Bram Stoker who wrote the original Dracula, which gave Vlad the immortality that he had mythically already won as the original nosferatu... vampyr. The cinema loves him harder and deeper than Lucy Harker ever could.
1900 Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone With the Wind. She didn't have to impale anyone or renounce heaven to achieve immortality. She just had to write one mammoth book. The movie based on her novel is still the highest grossing film of all time when adjusted for inflation. One of only four films...
- 11/8/2009
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The critical work on the American New Wave, it seems, has only just begun -- Robert Altman still gets a free skate (who thinks "M*A*S*H" is worthwhile anymore?), Hal Ashby has been sanctified, but Alan J. Pakula has not, and Robert Aldrich's contributions to the decade are forgotten, while the proper canonization of the films of Monte Hellman and Barbara Loden's "Wanda" is paperwork still waiting to be filed, and the few fascinating films Peter Fonda directed are still cinema non grata. The era's propensity for desperate road travel, dusty realism and pitiless narrative makes it the match for the meaning of film noir, but as yet it seems more critical and academic thought has been devoted, generally, to "Blade Runner" and "E.T.", to the least of Hitchcock's films and to the oeuvre of David Fincher. There's still so much that's left out of the discussion -- for example,...
- 5/19/2009
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
Wonder Woman star Lynda Carter has confessed to battling alcoholism following her stint on the iconic 1970s show.
The former TV star has struggled with an addiction to booze . but gave up drinking when her husband, lawyer Robert Altman, begged her to stop.
She tells U.S. TV show The Insider, "My husband asked me ... 'Can't you just stop this for the children and for me?'"
The 56-year-old adds, "I was so good at hiding it too... Brilliant."
The TV icon, who has been sober for nearly ten years, cites her two children as the catalyst for her change - prompting her to seek help through a rehab facility in Washington, D.C.
She explains, "I needed help - I begged God in heaven to help me figure this out."...
The former TV star has struggled with an addiction to booze . but gave up drinking when her husband, lawyer Robert Altman, begged her to stop.
She tells U.S. TV show The Insider, "My husband asked me ... 'Can't you just stop this for the children and for me?'"
The 56-year-old adds, "I was so good at hiding it too... Brilliant."
The TV icon, who has been sober for nearly ten years, cites her two children as the catalyst for her change - prompting her to seek help through a rehab facility in Washington, D.C.
She explains, "I needed help - I begged God in heaven to help me figure this out."...
- 7/5/2008
- WENN
To children of the '70s, she was a glamorous TV icon with her bullet-proof bracelets and Star-Spangled corset. But now Wonder Woman Lynda Carter has turned the "Lasso of Truth" on herself, admitting publicly that she's an alcoholic. "I was so good at hiding it too," the 56-year-old mother-of-two tells TV's The Insider. "Brilliant." But, she says, she could not keep the secret from her family: Her attorney husband Robert Altman and their two children, Jamie, 20, and Jessica, 17. "My husband asked me ... 'Can't you just stop this for the children and for me?' " His plea prompted her to...
- 7/4/2008
- by Caris Davis
- PEOPLE.com
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