Roger Dicken, the Oscar-nominated British special effects artist, sculptor and model maker known for his work on Alien and When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, has died. He was 84.
Dicken died Feb. 18 at his home in North Wales, Mick Cooper, a friend of more than five decades, told The Hollywood Reporter.
On his first film, Dicken was a member of the effects team for Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); later, he created and operated the dinosaur puppets seen in The Land That Time Forgot (1974).
Dicken sculpted several prehistoric creatures — plus a pair of full-sized pterodactyl feet — for the stop-motion adventure tale When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970), written and directed by Val Guest for Hammer Films. He and American animator Jim Danforth shared the Oscar nomination for visual effects.
For Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979), Dicken constructed and controlled the terrifying chest-bursting creature that kills Executive Officer Kane (John Hurt) in...
Dicken died Feb. 18 at his home in North Wales, Mick Cooper, a friend of more than five decades, told The Hollywood Reporter.
On his first film, Dicken was a member of the effects team for Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); later, he created and operated the dinosaur puppets seen in The Land That Time Forgot (1974).
Dicken sculpted several prehistoric creatures — plus a pair of full-sized pterodactyl feet — for the stop-motion adventure tale When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970), written and directed by Val Guest for Hammer Films. He and American animator Jim Danforth shared the Oscar nomination for visual effects.
For Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979), Dicken constructed and controlled the terrifying chest-bursting creature that kills Executive Officer Kane (John Hurt) in...
- 4/18/2024
- by Mike Barnes and Rhett Bartlett
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Runner released in the Criterion Collection on March 19th, 2024.
The Criterion Collection is my favorite place to explore and discover amazing cinematic releases that may have slipped under my radar. Straw Dogs, Mona Lisa and White Dog are some of my favorite films, all of which I first watched after they received a physical release through Criterion. The Runner has now joined that list.
The Runner Plot
Madjid Niroumand as Amiro in The Runner (1984)
Also Read: Criterion Collection Eric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons Review
A young Iranian orphan fends for himself, surviving by working odd jobs collecting glass bottles, shining shoes and selling ice water. Despite the harsh conditions he faces, his natural curiosity and imagination never waiver. He harbors a fascination for the airplanes and cargo ships that move in and out of the port city he calls home. While he dreams of escape, he...
The Criterion Collection is my favorite place to explore and discover amazing cinematic releases that may have slipped under my radar. Straw Dogs, Mona Lisa and White Dog are some of my favorite films, all of which I first watched after they received a physical release through Criterion. The Runner has now joined that list.
The Runner Plot
Madjid Niroumand as Amiro in The Runner (1984)
Also Read: Criterion Collection Eric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons Review
A young Iranian orphan fends for himself, surviving by working odd jobs collecting glass bottles, shining shoes and selling ice water. Despite the harsh conditions he faces, his natural curiosity and imagination never waiver. He harbors a fascination for the airplanes and cargo ships that move in and out of the port city he calls home. While he dreams of escape, he...
- 4/1/2024
- by Joshua Ryan
- FandomWire
The broad beats of a courtroom drama are simple and finite; any procedural fan would know. And French film “Anatomy of a Fall” has everything you would expect from a taut crime thriller: a mystery that runs deeper than our initial understanding, cops trying to prove different theories, warring lawyers in the courtroom, a piece of new evidence that throws the case into confusion, a major scene on the witness stand. But the film does not approach those moments in an expected fashion, neither emotionally nor formally. Director Justine Triet is more interested in pushing back on genre tropes wherever she can to create a messier, but more involving, picture of the many narratives we use to explain a fall.
The titular fall — and possible murder — is of frustrated writer and stay-at-home dad Samuel (Samuel Theis). The main suspect is his wife, a successful author named Sandra (Sandra Hüller). “Anatomy of a Fall...
The titular fall — and possible murder — is of frustrated writer and stay-at-home dad Samuel (Samuel Theis). The main suspect is his wife, a successful author named Sandra (Sandra Hüller). “Anatomy of a Fall...
- 10/26/2023
- by Sarah Shachat
- Indiewire
TV director Dan Attias discusses his favorite cinematic moments with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Sweet Smell of Success (1957) – John Landis’s trailer commentary
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
White Dog (1982)
Silver Bullet (1985)
Witness (1985)
The Verdict (1982)
Scent Of A Woman (1992)
The Piano (1993)
The Pawnbroker (1965)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
True Romance (1993)
Infested (2002)
A History Of Violence (2005)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Gremlins (1984) – Glenn Erickson’s review, Tfh’s 30th anniversary links
It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) – Bill Duke’s trailer commentary, John Landis’s trailer commentary
Jaws (1975) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary
Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982) – Karyn Kusama’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Criterion review
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) – Glenn Erickson’s Criterion review
12 Angry Men (1957)
Dodes’ka-den (1970)
Memento (2000)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Other Notable Items
Phillips Club in NYC
Tfh Guru Alan Spencer
Sledge Hammer! TV series (1986-1988)
The Garland in...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Sweet Smell of Success (1957) – John Landis’s trailer commentary
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
White Dog (1982)
Silver Bullet (1985)
Witness (1985)
The Verdict (1982)
Scent Of A Woman (1992)
The Piano (1993)
The Pawnbroker (1965)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
True Romance (1993)
Infested (2002)
A History Of Violence (2005)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Gremlins (1984) – Glenn Erickson’s review, Tfh’s 30th anniversary links
It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) – Bill Duke’s trailer commentary, John Landis’s trailer commentary
Jaws (1975) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary
Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982) – Karyn Kusama’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Criterion review
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) – Glenn Erickson’s Criterion review
12 Angry Men (1957)
Dodes’ka-den (1970)
Memento (2000)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Other Notable Items
Phillips Club in NYC
Tfh Guru Alan Spencer
Sledge Hammer! TV series (1986-1988)
The Garland in...
- 9/14/2021
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Actor Gael García Bernal made a surprise appearance at “Amores Perros” reunion event on Wednesday and told the story on how he landed the role that would launch his film career. Timed to the 20th anniversary of his groundbreaking directorial debut, Alejandro G. Iñárritu reunited with the cast and crew on a Zoom call Wednesday as part of the opening night of the Morelia Film Festival.
García Bernal, who at that time was studying acting in London at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, received a live on the air phone call from Iñárritu (who was a host at Mexican radio station Wfm), and told the young actor on live radio he was going to send him the script.
“I took the phone (call). I was studying in London back then and I heard, ‘Hi Gael, how are you, this is Wfm radio station. We are broadcasting from Mexico City,...
García Bernal, who at that time was studying acting in London at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, received a live on the air phone call from Iñárritu (who was a host at Mexican radio station Wfm), and told the young actor on live radio he was going to send him the script.
“I took the phone (call). I was studying in London back then and I heard, ‘Hi Gael, how are you, this is Wfm radio station. We are broadcasting from Mexico City,...
- 10/29/2020
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Netflix has acquired the worldwide rights to Pieces of a Woman, which stars Shia Labeouf and The Crown star Vanessa Kirby playing a couple shattered by the loss of their newborn baby.
Also Saturday, Kirby was awarded the Volpi Cup for best actress at the Venice Film Festival for her performance in Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo’s first English-language movie after his 2014 break-out film White Dog.
“As a European filmmaker, I couldn’t be more excited and appreciative of finding my home for this film with Netflix. Their taste in independent cinema feels like the United Artists of the 1970s. The true champions ...
Also Saturday, Kirby was awarded the Volpi Cup for best actress at the Venice Film Festival for her performance in Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo’s first English-language movie after his 2014 break-out film White Dog.
“As a European filmmaker, I couldn’t be more excited and appreciative of finding my home for this film with Netflix. Their taste in independent cinema feels like the United Artists of the 1970s. The true champions ...
- 9/12/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Netflix has acquired the worldwide rights to Pieces of a Woman, which stars Shia Labeouf and The Crown star Vanessa Kirby playing a couple shattered by the loss of their newborn baby.
Also Saturday, Kirby was awarded the Volpi Cup for best actress at the Venice Film Festival for her performance in Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo’s first English-language movie after his 2014 break-out film White Dog.
“As a European filmmaker, I couldn’t be more excited and appreciative of finding my home for this film with Netflix. Their taste in independent cinema feels like the United Artists of the 1970s. The true champions ...
Also Saturday, Kirby was awarded the Volpi Cup for best actress at the Venice Film Festival for her performance in Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo’s first English-language movie after his 2014 break-out film White Dog.
“As a European filmmaker, I couldn’t be more excited and appreciative of finding my home for this film with Netflix. Their taste in independent cinema feels like the United Artists of the 1970s. The true champions ...
- 9/12/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hungarian stage and screen director Kornel Mundruczo and partner/screenwriter Kata Weber collaborated closely on “Pieces of a Woman,” in which Vanessa Kirby and Shia Labeouf play a Boston couple devastated by the loss of their newborn baby during a home birth. The film had its world premiere on Saturday in the main competition section of the Venice Film Festival.
They spoke to Variety about various aspects of the meticulous work that went into delivering this powerful picture, which marks the first English-language feature by Mundruczo, who broke out internationally with his 2014 social parable “White Dog.” Excerpts from the conversation.
As I understand it, the film expands a multimedia theater piece you did together. How did that originate?
Kata Weber
I wanted to talk about a taboo, which I think really exists. Women who lose their babies are so relegated to isolation. People (around them) just don’t know how...
They spoke to Variety about various aspects of the meticulous work that went into delivering this powerful picture, which marks the first English-language feature by Mundruczo, who broke out internationally with his 2014 social parable “White Dog.” Excerpts from the conversation.
As I understand it, the film expands a multimedia theater piece you did together. How did that originate?
Kata Weber
I wanted to talk about a taboo, which I think really exists. Women who lose their babies are so relegated to isolation. People (around them) just don’t know how...
- 9/6/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó broke through internationally in 2014 with his snarling social parable about the downtrodden rising up against their oppressors, White Dog. He puts aside political allegory to drill deep into the heart of family tragedy in his first English-language feature, Pieces of a Woman. Puncturing a brittle European veneer with spikes of more American emotional volatility, the drama wears influences from Ingmar Bergman to John Cassavetes — not always lightly. Despite some contrived script passages and unsubtle symbolism, the first-rate cast keeps it gripping.
Written by Kata Wéber, the director’s partner and frequent collaborator as both screenwriter and ...
Written by Kata Wéber, the director’s partner and frequent collaborator as both screenwriter and ...
Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó broke through internationally in 2014 with his snarling social parable about the downtrodden rising up against their oppressors, White Dog. He puts aside political allegory to drill deep into the heart of family tragedy in his first English-language feature, Pieces of a Woman. Puncturing a brittle European veneer with spikes of more American emotional volatility, the drama wears influences from Ingmar Bergman to John Cassavetes — not always lightly. Despite some contrived script passages and unsubtle symbolism, the first-rate cast keeps it gripping.
Written by Kata Wéber, the director’s partner and frequent collaborator as both screenwriter and ...
Written by Kata Wéber, the director’s partner and frequent collaborator as both screenwriter and ...
Bron Releasing handles world sales.
Martin Scorsese has come on board Kornél Mundruczó’s Venice and TIFF entry Pieces Of A Woman as executive producer.
The Bron Studios film stars Vanessa Kirby, Shia Labeouf and Ellen Burstyn and will receive its world premiere in competition at Venice Film Festival and screen as a Gala at Toronto International Film Festival.
Pieces Of A Woman marks the first English-language feature from Cannes regular Mundruczó, who won the Un Certain Regard Prix in 2014 with White Dog, and also took Johanna, Delta Tender Son and Jupiter’s Moon to the Croisette. His debut feature Pleasant...
Martin Scorsese has come on board Kornél Mundruczó’s Venice and TIFF entry Pieces Of A Woman as executive producer.
The Bron Studios film stars Vanessa Kirby, Shia Labeouf and Ellen Burstyn and will receive its world premiere in competition at Venice Film Festival and screen as a Gala at Toronto International Film Festival.
Pieces Of A Woman marks the first English-language feature from Cannes regular Mundruczó, who won the Un Certain Regard Prix in 2014 with White Dog, and also took Johanna, Delta Tender Son and Jupiter’s Moon to the Croisette. His debut feature Pleasant...
- 8/18/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
When the late, great writer-director Samuel Fuller finished shooting what turned out to be his final Hollywood studio film, in 1981, his producer Jon Davison asked who he had in mind to compose the score. After a reflective pull on his cigar, Fuller barked, “Let’s get Morricone.”
And so it was that one of the greatest film music composers of all time made one of his early jaunts to Hollywood to record a haunting soundtrack that, for more than 20 years, was not available on vinyl or anywhere else. And neither was the film itself, the controversial White Dog, which was barely released and only came out on DVD, from Criterion, in 2008.
Although the august film music composer Ennio Morricone, who died last weekend at 91, became internationally renowned in the late 1960s in the wake of his sensational scores for Sergio Leone’s Dollars Westerns, just a small minority of his work came on Hollywood films.
And so it was that one of the greatest film music composers of all time made one of his early jaunts to Hollywood to record a haunting soundtrack that, for more than 20 years, was not available on vinyl or anywhere else. And neither was the film itself, the controversial White Dog, which was barely released and only came out on DVD, from Criterion, in 2008.
Although the august film music composer Ennio Morricone, who died last weekend at 91, became internationally renowned in the late 1960s in the wake of his sensational scores for Sergio Leone’s Dollars Westerns, just a small minority of his work came on Hollywood films.
- 7/9/2020
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline
is reporting Sarah Snook (“Succession”) and Benny Safdie
(co-writer/director of “Uncut Gems”) have joined the cast of Hungarian
filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó’s latest, “Pieces of a Woman.” This is
very exciting news indeed.
Read More:
100 Most Anticipated Films of 2020
The
film, which Deadline describes as following “a grieving woman who is thrust
into an emotional inner journey by trying to come to terms with the loss of her
baby after a home birth goes wrong, while dealing with her husband and
estranged mother,” also stars Shia Labeouf, Vanessa Kirby, Ellen
Burstyn, Molly Parker, Jimmie Fails and Iliza Shlesinger.
Continue reading Sarah Snook and Benny Safdie Join ‘Pieces of a Woman’ From ‘White Dog’ Director at The Playlist.
is reporting Sarah Snook (“Succession”) and Benny Safdie
(co-writer/director of “Uncut Gems”) have joined the cast of Hungarian
filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó’s latest, “Pieces of a Woman.” This is
very exciting news indeed.
Read More:
100 Most Anticipated Films of 2020
The
film, which Deadline describes as following “a grieving woman who is thrust
into an emotional inner journey by trying to come to terms with the loss of her
baby after a home birth goes wrong, while dealing with her husband and
estranged mother,” also stars Shia Labeouf, Vanessa Kirby, Ellen
Burstyn, Molly Parker, Jimmie Fails and Iliza Shlesinger.
Continue reading Sarah Snook and Benny Safdie Join ‘Pieces of a Woman’ From ‘White Dog’ Director at The Playlist.
- 1/22/2020
- by Drew Taylor
- The Playlist
After writing the DVD Obscura column for years at Movies.com, TheWrap’s Film Reviews Editor Alonso Duralde brings it to its new home. In an age where niche and classic movies are harder and harder to find via traditional streaming services, it’s still worth maintaining a collection of physical media that can’t disappear from the internet (or even from your own online library). Each month, Duralde highlights new DVD, Blu-ray and 4K releases in six categories: Indie, Foreign, Documentary, Grindhouse, Classics and TV.
New Indies
Both hilarious and heartbreaking, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment) may be one of the best films ever made about the plight of the writer — whether it’s the agony of having to be her own publicist or the realization that she’s most valued for her skill at mimicking the voices of other authors, Lee Israel (the...
New Indies
Both hilarious and heartbreaking, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment) may be one of the best films ever made about the plight of the writer — whether it’s the agony of having to be her own publicist or the realization that she’s most valued for her skill at mimicking the voices of other authors, Lee Israel (the...
- 3/19/2019
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Do you miss the Stooges? Miss Edgar Kennedy? Here’s a bizarre bill of goods for committed film fans in search of retro fun. Will Ryan and Nick Santa Maria perform as a madcap ’30s comedy team in a series of imaginatively re-created broad short subjects, all designed to fit the style of the era. It works like gangbusters for those who relish their vintage slapstick laughs.
The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster!
DVD
Kino Lorber
2013-2016 / B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 131 min. cumulative (or nimbus) / Street Date May 22, 2018 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Nick Santa Maria, Will Ryan.
Cinematography: Douglas Knapp
Film Editor and more: Bill Bryn Russell
Produced by Michael Demeritt
Written-Produced-Directed by Michael Schlesinger
It takes about three minutes to fall under the peculiar spell woven by The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster!, a collection of new short subjects. Biffle and Shooster are a mythical comedy...
The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster!
DVD
Kino Lorber
2013-2016 / B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 131 min. cumulative (or nimbus) / Street Date May 22, 2018 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Nick Santa Maria, Will Ryan.
Cinematography: Douglas Knapp
Film Editor and more: Bill Bryn Russell
Produced by Michael Demeritt
Written-Produced-Directed by Michael Schlesinger
It takes about three minutes to fall under the peculiar spell woven by The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster!, a collection of new short subjects. Biffle and Shooster are a mythical comedy...
- 6/5/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Another great Samuel Fuller film on Blu-ray — this one is a crime tale set in downtown Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo, that forms an interracial romantic triangle. It’s risky for its year because of the sexual dynamics — a Japanese-American man falls in love with a Caucasian woman. Fuller’s approach is years ahead of its time, even if Columbia’s sales job was a little weird.
The Crimson Kimono
Blu-ray
Twilight Time
1959 / B&W / 1:85 widescreen / 81 min. / Street Date July 18, 2017 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store 29.95
Starring: Victoria Shaw, Glenn Corbett, James Shigeta, Anna Lee, Paul Dubov, Jaclynne Greene, Neyle Morrow, Gloria Pall, , Barbara Hayden, George Yoshinaga.
Cinematography: Sam Leavitt
Film Editor: Jerome Thoms
Original Music: Harry Sukman
Written, Produced and Directed by Samuel Fuller
“What was his strange appeal for American girls?”
Believe it or not, there was once a time when Samuel Fuller was a fringe figure,...
The Crimson Kimono
Blu-ray
Twilight Time
1959 / B&W / 1:85 widescreen / 81 min. / Street Date July 18, 2017 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store 29.95
Starring: Victoria Shaw, Glenn Corbett, James Shigeta, Anna Lee, Paul Dubov, Jaclynne Greene, Neyle Morrow, Gloria Pall, , Barbara Hayden, George Yoshinaga.
Cinematography: Sam Leavitt
Film Editor: Jerome Thoms
Original Music: Harry Sukman
Written, Produced and Directed by Samuel Fuller
“What was his strange appeal for American girls?”
Believe it or not, there was once a time when Samuel Fuller was a fringe figure,...
- 8/12/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
If you’re a buyer, the Cannes Film Festival isn’t where you go to catch a break. Including festival sidebars like Critics’ Week and Director’s Fortnight, there are more than 75 films at Cannes from all over the world — but when it comes to English-language movies, most are already spoken for.
Read More: The Cannes Film Festival Buyers Guide: Who’s Buying the Movies You’ll Watch
Netflix took the rights to Noah Baumbach’s family drama “The Meyerowitz Stories,” while Amazon has both Todd Haynes’ “Wonderstruck” and Sofia Coppola’s “The Beguiled.” A24 has never bought a completed film at Cannes, but the company is launching four titles at the fest, including Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” and the Safdie brothers’ “Good Time.”
What’s left are mainly foreign-language films from some of the most respected indie auteurs in world. Most of these filmmakers are...
Read More: The Cannes Film Festival Buyers Guide: Who’s Buying the Movies You’ll Watch
Netflix took the rights to Noah Baumbach’s family drama “The Meyerowitz Stories,” while Amazon has both Todd Haynes’ “Wonderstruck” and Sofia Coppola’s “The Beguiled.” A24 has never bought a completed film at Cannes, but the company is launching four titles at the fest, including Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” and the Safdie brothers’ “Good Time.”
What’s left are mainly foreign-language films from some of the most respected indie auteurs in world. Most of these filmmakers are...
- 5/16/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Welcome to another edition of Over/Under Movies, the podcast in which we pick one overrated film and one underrated film — similar in tone, genre, style, or however we see fit — and we discuss them.
We’re doing things a bit differently on this chapter, as my co-host Oktay Ege Kozak has chosen three underrated or hard-to-find titles from The Criterion Collection. We start with Kon Ichikawa’s 1956 anti-war film “The Burmese Harp,” about a pacifist soldier who becomes a monk after Japan surrenders in World War II.
Continue reading Podcast: Over/Under Movies Looks At Criterion Titles ‘The Burmese Harp,’ ‘Nights Of Cabiria’ & ‘White Dog’ at The Playlist.
We’re doing things a bit differently on this chapter, as my co-host Oktay Ege Kozak has chosen three underrated or hard-to-find titles from The Criterion Collection. We start with Kon Ichikawa’s 1956 anti-war film “The Burmese Harp,” about a pacifist soldier who becomes a monk after Japan surrenders in World War II.
Continue reading Podcast: Over/Under Movies Looks At Criterion Titles ‘The Burmese Harp,’ ‘Nights Of Cabiria’ & ‘White Dog’ at The Playlist.
- 3/31/2017
- by Ryan Oliver
- The Playlist
It’s ugly, it’s violent, it’s graphic novelist Frank Miller’s nasty vision through and through. Scream Factory’s Collector’s Edition brings out the amazing backstory of the production of this stop-motion- intensive first sequel to RoboCop. Druglord Caine is a menace, but we’re just as appalled by the film’s vivid depiction of a greater terror: Predatory Privatization.
RoboCop 2
Blu-ray
Shout! Factory / Scream Factory
1990 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 117 min. / Collector’s Edition / Street Date March 21, 2011 / 34.93
Starring: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O’Herlihy, Robert DoQui, Tom Noonan, Gabriel Damon, Belinda Bauer, Felton Perry.
Cinematography: Mark Irwin
Production Design: Peter Jamison
Original Music: Leonard Rosenman
Special Effects: Phil Tippett, Rob Bottin, Peter Kuran, Rocco Gioffre.
Written by Frank Miller, Walon Green from characters created by Edward Neumeier, Michael Miner
Produced by Jon Davison
Directed by Irvin Kershner
I wish I could say that 1990’s RoboCop 2 has been...
RoboCop 2
Blu-ray
Shout! Factory / Scream Factory
1990 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 117 min. / Collector’s Edition / Street Date March 21, 2011 / 34.93
Starring: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O’Herlihy, Robert DoQui, Tom Noonan, Gabriel Damon, Belinda Bauer, Felton Perry.
Cinematography: Mark Irwin
Production Design: Peter Jamison
Original Music: Leonard Rosenman
Special Effects: Phil Tippett, Rob Bottin, Peter Kuran, Rocco Gioffre.
Written by Frank Miller, Walon Green from characters created by Edward Neumeier, Michael Miner
Produced by Jon Davison
Directed by Irvin Kershner
I wish I could say that 1990’s RoboCop 2 has been...
- 3/12/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
One of the most celebrated film makers of the last four decades has died. Here’s how the New York Times reported it….
Curtis Hanson, the film director whose adaptation of the James Ellroy noir novel “L.A. Confidential” won him an Academy Award, died on Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 71.
The death was confirmed by Officer Jenny Houser, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department. She said that officers had been called to the house shortly before 5 p.m., and that Mr. Hanson had died of natural causes.
Julie Mann, his business manager, said Mr. Hanson had been struggling for some time with a form of dementia.
Let’s take a look at his long career. His first screen credit is for helping to adapt H.P. Lovecraft’s short story in the 1970 American International Pictures’ The Dunwich Horror starring Sandra Dee and Dean Stockwell.
Curtis Hanson, the film director whose adaptation of the James Ellroy noir novel “L.A. Confidential” won him an Academy Award, died on Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 71.
The death was confirmed by Officer Jenny Houser, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department. She said that officers had been called to the house shortly before 5 p.m., and that Mr. Hanson had died of natural causes.
Julie Mann, his business manager, said Mr. Hanson had been struggling for some time with a form of dementia.
Let’s take a look at his long career. His first screen credit is for helping to adapt H.P. Lovecraft’s short story in the 1970 American International Pictures’ The Dunwich Horror starring Sandra Dee and Dean Stockwell.
- 9/23/2016
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Curtis Hanson--Confidentially
By
Alex Simon
Curtis Hanson was my first interview with a fellow film buff and film journalist. He was nice enough to sit down with me twice, first at the Rose Cafe in Venice, then at a lunch spot in the Marina, the name of which has been lost to time. He was then kind enough to invite me to the world premiere of "L.A. Confidential" at the Chinese Theater as his guest, my first time on the red carpet at a real-life Hollywood premiere, and called me after this piece ran to thank me personally. A nice man. Hanson, and co-writer Brian Helgeland, would go on to win Best Adapted Screenplay Oscars for "L.A. Confidential."
Years later, I ran into Hanson at a book signing party for Pat York that was held in Westwood. I approached him and reminded him of our interview a decade or so earlier.
By
Alex Simon
Curtis Hanson was my first interview with a fellow film buff and film journalist. He was nice enough to sit down with me twice, first at the Rose Cafe in Venice, then at a lunch spot in the Marina, the name of which has been lost to time. He was then kind enough to invite me to the world premiere of "L.A. Confidential" at the Chinese Theater as his guest, my first time on the red carpet at a real-life Hollywood premiere, and called me after this piece ran to thank me personally. A nice man. Hanson, and co-writer Brian Helgeland, would go on to win Best Adapted Screenplay Oscars for "L.A. Confidential."
Years later, I ran into Hanson at a book signing party for Pat York that was held in Westwood. I approached him and reminded him of our interview a decade or so earlier.
- 9/21/2016
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Samuel Fuller's first picture under his Fox contract is a fine Korean War 'suicide squad' tale, filmed on a sound stage but looking quite authentic. Richard Basehart leads a fine cast. Lots of cigars get chomped, and Gene Evans is actually named Sgt. Rock. Plus an excellent commentary from Trailers from Hell's new guru Michael Schlesinger. Fixed Bayonets! Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1951 / B&W / 1:37 flat full frame / 92 min. / Street Date September 20, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Richard Basehart, Gene Evans, Michael O'Shea, Richard Hylton, Craig Hill, Skip Homeier, Neyle Morrow, Wyott Ordung, John Doucette, George Conrad Cinematography Lucien Ballard Art Direction George Patrick, Lyle Wheeler Film Editor Nick DeMaggio Original Music Roy Webb Written by Samuel Fuller from a novel by John Brophy Produced by Jules Buck Directed by Samuel Fuller
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Sam Fuller's third independent film The Steel Helmet was a risky proposition...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Sam Fuller's third independent film The Steel Helmet was a risky proposition...
- 8/30/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Samuel Fuller's 'White Dog' and America's George Zimmerman (2 Years After Trayvon Martin's Death) Continue Reading →...
- 8/26/2016
- by Erik Luers
- ShadowAndAct
Project comes from Land Of Mine’s producer and writer duo.
Danish director Asger Leth (Man On A Ledge) will direct the timely, politically-minded Us-set drama White Dog, from a story by Land Of Mine writer/director Martin Zandvliet.
Nordisk’s Mikael Rieks, who also produced the likely Oscar-contender Land Of Mine, will produce. Zandvliet co-wrote the script with Anders August.
The film is described as “an eye-level portrait of two skinhead brothers at a point in their lives where their paths are pointed in very different directions.”
The team expects to shoot the film in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
“The film will take place in Pittsburgh, USA, but it is just as easily a portrait of a time where populist politicians everywhere are appealing to the worst in us,” said Asger Leth, whose credits also include Ghosts Of Cite Soleil.
Meanwhile, Zandvliet is currently in pre-production in Japan on his English-language debut The Outsider starring Jared Leto.
“I...
Danish director Asger Leth (Man On A Ledge) will direct the timely, politically-minded Us-set drama White Dog, from a story by Land Of Mine writer/director Martin Zandvliet.
Nordisk’s Mikael Rieks, who also produced the likely Oscar-contender Land Of Mine, will produce. Zandvliet co-wrote the script with Anders August.
The film is described as “an eye-level portrait of two skinhead brothers at a point in their lives where their paths are pointed in very different directions.”
The team expects to shoot the film in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
“The film will take place in Pittsburgh, USA, but it is just as easily a portrait of a time where populist politicians everywhere are appealing to the worst in us,” said Asger Leth, whose credits also include Ghosts Of Cite Soleil.
Meanwhile, Zandvliet is currently in pre-production in Japan on his English-language debut The Outsider starring Jared Leto.
“I...
- 5/13/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The irrepressible Sam Fuller fashions a crime thriller for German TV with his expected eccentricity: old-fashioned hardboiled scripting, freeform direction and bits of graffiti from the French New Wave. Christa Lang is the femme fatale and Glenn Corbett is the twofisted American hero, whose name is Not Griff. And yes, a pigeon does bite the pavement on Beethoven Street, and I tell you, that's one dead pigeon. Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street Blu-ray Olive Films 1974 / Color / 1:33 flat full frame (for German TV / 127 min. / Tote Taube in der Beethovenstraße / Street Date April 19, 2016 / / available through the Olive Films website / 29.95 Starring Glenn Corbett, Christa Lang, Sieghardt Rupp, Anton Diffring, Stéphane Audran, Alexander D'Arcy, Anthony Chinn. Cinematography Jerzy Lipman Film Editor Liesgret Schmitt-Klink Original Music The Can German dialogue by Manfred R. Köhler Produced by Joachim von Mengershausen Written and Directed by Samuel Fuller
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Not that it helped Sam Fuller's career much,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Not that it helped Sam Fuller's career much,...
- 4/26/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
New on Netflix in August: The original series "Narcos," about Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, starring Wagner Moura of "Elysium;" and the site's first Spanish-language original series, "Club de Cuervos," about a brother and sister who inherit a soccer team.
You'll also be able to stream the critically acclaimed film "White Dog," Best Picture Oscar winner "The Hurt Locker," the Kristin Wiig dramedy "Welcome to Me," and Simon Pegg as an assassin in "Kill Me Three Times."
There are also new episodes of "Doctor Who," "Revenge," "Once Upon a Time," "Transporter: The Series," and "GIrl Meets World." Happy binging!
Here's a full rundown of what's new on Netflix in August 2015, provided by Netflix. As always, all titles and dates are subject to change. We've also go you covered in terms of what's leaving Netflix in August 2015, in case you were wondering.
Available August 1
"Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein" (1999)
"Asylum...
You'll also be able to stream the critically acclaimed film "White Dog," Best Picture Oscar winner "The Hurt Locker," the Kristin Wiig dramedy "Welcome to Me," and Simon Pegg as an assassin in "Kill Me Three Times."
There are also new episodes of "Doctor Who," "Revenge," "Once Upon a Time," "Transporter: The Series," and "GIrl Meets World." Happy binging!
Here's a full rundown of what's new on Netflix in August 2015, provided by Netflix. As always, all titles and dates are subject to change. We've also go you covered in terms of what's leaving Netflix in August 2015, in case you were wondering.
Available August 1
"Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein" (1999)
"Asylum...
- 7/27/2015
- by Sharon Knolle
- Moviefone
All Dogs Go To: Mundruczo’s Sad Trumpet Ballad an Allegory of Inhumanity
Terminology is key to deciphering the shaggy subtext of Kornel Mundruczo’s allegorical film, White God, a film about the monstrousness that humans create due to a seeming hardwired cruelty that demands the obliteration of difference and diversity. Technically assured and boasting an impressive array of multiple canine performances, Mundruczo’s interspecial balancing act is unfortunately a bit one sided, with his human characters are relayed less effectively and generally as one-note. Though it speeds through its two hour running time, it still manages to feel a bit too long in the tooth, and perhaps less time spent on the overwhelmingly execrable humans tends to lessen the empathetic impact.
Thirteen year old trumpet player Lili (Zsofia Psotta) is forced to live with her surly father Sandor Zsoter) after her mother leaves with her new beau. Lili is accompanied by her dog,...
Terminology is key to deciphering the shaggy subtext of Kornel Mundruczo’s allegorical film, White God, a film about the monstrousness that humans create due to a seeming hardwired cruelty that demands the obliteration of difference and diversity. Technically assured and boasting an impressive array of multiple canine performances, Mundruczo’s interspecial balancing act is unfortunately a bit one sided, with his human characters are relayed less effectively and generally as one-note. Though it speeds through its two hour running time, it still manages to feel a bit too long in the tooth, and perhaps less time spent on the overwhelmingly execrable humans tends to lessen the empathetic impact.
Thirteen year old trumpet player Lili (Zsofia Psotta) is forced to live with her surly father Sandor Zsoter) after her mother leaves with her new beau. Lili is accompanied by her dog,...
- 3/27/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Doggedly heavy on allegory, Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó's White God (originally Fehér Isten) has a relatively simple premise: beware the comeuppance for those that treat badly those they believe to be inferior. At its heart, the film plays as if Samuel Peckinpaw [sic] directed The Incredible Journey, that Disney Animal film referenced in last year's Cannes hit Inside Llewyn Davis. The title was at first a mystery and mere pun, but appears to at least partially be a play on White Dog, Sam Fuller's 1982 canines-and-racism flick. A revenge fantasy from the canine perspective, this is part political polemic, part action thriller, with a climax that is equal parts hyperbolic and effective. The archetypes abound, be they in the notion of the denigration of those...
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- 3/26/2015
- Screen Anarchy
The human condition. It is a tricky and complicated concept for us mortals to grasp in terms of our ugly, unpredictable behaviors. However, when one applies a revealing spotlight on the animal kingdom and takes a look at their on-screen aggression against humans it becomes a whole new ballgame. Occasionally, the source of frustration embedded in these wayward creatures is often times triggered by the psychological prompting of the bad seed humans responsible for their behavioral tirade against nature and man.
In Creature Feature: Top Ten Animals Gone Bad in the Movies we will look at the bombastic beasts gone ballistic in cinematic society. Maybe you have your own selections of haywire critters out to cause random havoc? If so then they probably would suffice within the theme of this movie column when detailing the animals that run amok on land, by sea or in the air.
The selections for...
In Creature Feature: Top Ten Animals Gone Bad in the Movies we will look at the bombastic beasts gone ballistic in cinematic society. Maybe you have your own selections of haywire critters out to cause random havoc? If so then they probably would suffice within the theme of this movie column when detailing the animals that run amok on land, by sea or in the air.
The selections for...
- 2/24/2015
- by Frank Ochieng
- SoundOnSight
We’ve been appreciating the clearly defined, distributor friendly, solid eight Spotlight section since it’s inception a couple of years back. In 2014 we had sugary, critic darlings from the world film festival circuit in films from Pawel Pawlikowski, Steven Knight and a solid foursome from Cannes from the likes of Jeremy Saulnier, Ritesh Batra, Jim Jarmusch and Alain Guiraudie. This year we have a pair from Berlin (Aloft, ’71), four films from Cannes (Girlhood, The Tribe, White Dog, Wild Tales), one from Venice (99 Homes), one from Tiff (Eden) and Mark Cousins’ London BFI preemed, 6 Desires: Dh Lawrence and Sardinia. This really is a cinephile’s wetdream.
6 Desires: Dh Lawrence and Sardinia/ United Kingdom, Italy (Director: Mark Cousins) — In winter 1921, Dh Lawrence and his wife journeyed to Sardinia, and he chronicled their experiences in Sea and Sardinia. Now, Mark Cousins retraces Lawrence’s footsteps. The film is conceived partly as a...
6 Desires: Dh Lawrence and Sardinia/ United Kingdom, Italy (Director: Mark Cousins) — In winter 1921, Dh Lawrence and his wife journeyed to Sardinia, and he chronicled their experiences in Sea and Sardinia. Now, Mark Cousins retraces Lawrence’s footsteps. The film is conceived partly as a...
- 12/4/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
A photograph of Samuel Fuller in "the shack."
It is always well to remember that documentaries are first of all films like other films, meaning that no less than fictional narrative movies, they too have a narrative shaped by the vision of their maker and are not only about their subjects but also are that vision and the individual elements that make it up. So, in A Fuller Life there are a number of choices that Samantha Fuller as director has made, for example to film in “the shack”—the bungalow her father kept as office and filled with his memorabilia from his days as a crime reporter, an infantryman in WWII, a writer and filmmaker; or to use her “readers” (including both actors—mostly from Fuller’s movies—and some well-chosen directors) dramatically, effectively acting their readings from Fuller’s posthumous autobiography A Third Face; or, very simply, to...
It is always well to remember that documentaries are first of all films like other films, meaning that no less than fictional narrative movies, they too have a narrative shaped by the vision of their maker and are not only about their subjects but also are that vision and the individual elements that make it up. So, in A Fuller Life there are a number of choices that Samantha Fuller as director has made, for example to film in “the shack”—the bungalow her father kept as office and filled with his memorabilia from his days as a crime reporter, an infantryman in WWII, a writer and filmmaker; or to use her “readers” (including both actors—mostly from Fuller’s movies—and some well-chosen directors) dramatically, effectively acting their readings from Fuller’s posthumous autobiography A Third Face; or, very simply, to...
- 11/21/2014
- by Blake Lucas
- MUBI
I can't say if this intended or not, but there is a gimmick I noticed this year: almost every movie is introduced as either an "homage to" or an "adaptation of." White God one is no exception being a homage to Samuel Fuller's White Dog, itself an adaptation of Romain Gary's Chien Blanc.
Yes this is getting ridiculous.
If you have never read nor seen the previous versions of this tale, proceed now to your nearest cultural sale point (or Wikipedia if you're a lazy cheap-stake) for I'll assume in the remaining piece, that you are familiar with the story. The point being that this is a modern day, politically-correct-to-the-point-of-straining, pint of golden syrup version of the original material. A bit like what Disney's The Fox and the Hound is to the Daniel [Continued ...]...
Yes this is getting ridiculous.
If you have never read nor seen the previous versions of this tale, proceed now to your nearest cultural sale point (or Wikipedia if you're a lazy cheap-stake) for I'll assume in the remaining piece, that you are familiar with the story. The point being that this is a modern day, politically-correct-to-the-point-of-straining, pint of golden syrup version of the original material. A bit like what Disney's The Fox and the Hound is to the Daniel [Continued ...]...
- 9/11/2014
- QuietEarth.us
Samuel Fuller didn't do anything halfway, either in his life, or with his movies. His filmography reads like punch after punch of hard-hitting films — "Park Row," "Underworld U.S.A.," "Shock Corridor," "The Naked Kiss," "The Big Red One" — and it was 1982's "White Dog" that got him in particular trouble. The controversial film about dog trained to attack black people unsurprisingly found him at odds with Paramount, so Fuller went into self-imposed exile in France, where among his many activities, he turned to novel writing. It's something he had always done throughout his career, and even you might know his "The Dark Page" though the film version, "Scandal Street" (that was not directed by Fuller). However, "Brainquake," written during his foray abroad, fell through the cracks. The book was released overseas, published only in French and Japanese, and rather remarkably, never saw an English...
- 8/26/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
In 1993, disillusioned with the film industry and living in France, Sam Fuller - director of I Shot Jesse James, The Big Red One and White Dog - set pen to paper with the tale of a brain damaged mafia bagman trying to help a dead colleague's widow. The result, titled Brainquake, would prove to be the final effort in Fuller's long literary career and yet would never actually make it into print, not until now. Titan Books are releasing Fuller's lost final effort on August 12th and we've got an exclusive excerpt for you below. Find your own copy here.------------------------ Word was spreading there was not just a gun but a bomb under the baby's ass. Barricades had been rushed in, hastily erected, barely...
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- 8/11/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Doggedly heavy on allegory, the film by Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó's White God (Fehér Isten) has a relatively simple premise - beware the comeuppance for those that treat badly those they believe to be inferior.At its heart, the film plays as if Samuel Peckinpaw [sic] directed The Incredible Journey, that Disney Animal film referenced in last year's Cannes hit Inside Llewyn Davis. The title was at first a mystery and mere pun, but appears to at least partially be a play on White Dog, Fuller's 1982 Dog fighting flick. A revenge fantasy from the canine perspective, this is part political polemic, part action thriller, with a climax that is equal parts hyperbolic and effective.The archetypes abound, be they in the notion of the denigration of...
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- 5/26/2014
- Screen Anarchy
A new trailer for Clouds of Sils Maria has debuted at Cannes.
The Olivier Assayas drama, which follows an actress confronting her changing industry status while consumed by her past choices, stars Juliette Binoche, Chloë Moretz and Kristen Stewart.
Binoche plays the lead, Maria Enders, with Stewart replacing original casting Mia Wasikowska as Binoche's assistant Valentine.
Moretz stars as Jo-Ann Ellis, a young starlet taking on Enders' breakout role in a remake of film Maloja Snake.
Clouds of Sils Maria is scheduled to open on December 1 in the USA, with a UK date not yet confirmed.
Apocalyptic horror-thriller White Dog - about stray dogs on a rampage - was named as the Un Certain Regard winner at Cannes today.
The Olivier Assayas drama, which follows an actress confronting her changing industry status while consumed by her past choices, stars Juliette Binoche, Chloë Moretz and Kristen Stewart.
Binoche plays the lead, Maria Enders, with Stewart replacing original casting Mia Wasikowska as Binoche's assistant Valentine.
Moretz stars as Jo-Ann Ellis, a young starlet taking on Enders' breakout role in a remake of film Maloja Snake.
Clouds of Sils Maria is scheduled to open on December 1 in the USA, with a UK date not yet confirmed.
Apocalyptic horror-thriller White Dog - about stray dogs on a rampage - was named as the Un Certain Regard winner at Cannes today.
- 5/23/2014
- Digital Spy
The Big Red One
Written and directed by Samuel Fuller
USA, 1980
When a director like Samuel Fuller finally gets the chance to make his passion project, rest assured, there’s going to be more than a little of the man himself in the movie. With Fuller, this would have undoubtedly been the case no matter what type of film it was, but when the film is an autobiographical World War II yarn about the first infantry division — the “fighting first” — the filmmaker’s stamp is evident from start to finish. The Big Red One is an episodic chronicle of this military assembly, here focused on The Sergeant (Lee Marvin, adding classic film respectability), and the “four horsemen,” Pvt. Griff (Mark Hamill, adding contemporary film marketability), Pvt. Zab (Robert Carradine), Pvt. Vinci (Bobby Di Cicco), and Pvt. Johnson (Kelly Ward). The men who make up the four horsemen, a label that...
Written and directed by Samuel Fuller
USA, 1980
When a director like Samuel Fuller finally gets the chance to make his passion project, rest assured, there’s going to be more than a little of the man himself in the movie. With Fuller, this would have undoubtedly been the case no matter what type of film it was, but when the film is an autobiographical World War II yarn about the first infantry division — the “fighting first” — the filmmaker’s stamp is evident from start to finish. The Big Red One is an episodic chronicle of this military assembly, here focused on The Sergeant (Lee Marvin, adding classic film respectability), and the “four horsemen,” Pvt. Griff (Mark Hamill, adding contemporary film marketability), Pvt. Zab (Robert Carradine), Pvt. Vinci (Bobby Di Cicco), and Pvt. Johnson (Kelly Ward). The men who make up the four horsemen, a label that...
- 5/23/2014
- by Jeremy Carr
- SoundOnSight
The Cannes Film Festival has added more than 30 films to its lineup, including a new feature by French director André Téchiné, revival screenings of “Paris, Texas,” “8 ½” and “Lost Horizon” and documentaries about Roger Ebert and Cannon Films. Six of the films announced on Wednesday have been added to the Cannes official selection, though only Kornél Mundruczó's “White Dog” (“Feher Isten”) will screen in competition, as part of the Un Certain Regard section. The others, including Téchiné's “L'homme qu'on aimait trop,” Tony Gatlif's “Geromino” and Pablo Fendrik's “El Ardor” (starring Cannes jury member Gael Garcia Bernal) will be.
- 4/30/2014
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The 2014 Cannes Film Festival has added six new films to its official selection. The additions include new works starring Catherine Deneuve and main competition jury member Gael Garcia Bernal. Veteran French director André Téchiné ("Thieves") will screen his latest, "L’Homme qu’on aimait trop," starring Guillaume Canet and Deneuve, out of competition. Kornél Mundruczó's "White Dog" has been added to the Un Certain Regard lineup. Read More: Trailers for Cannes 2014 Titles Including 'Maps to the Stars,' 'Foxcatcher' and 'The Rover' Four films have been added to the Special Screenings lineup, including Pablo Fendrik's "El Ador," starring Bernal, and the documentary "Of Men and War," directed by Laurent Bécue-Renard. Below are the six new additions:Out of CompetitionL’Homme qu’on aimait trop by André Téchiné with Guillaume Canet, Catherine Deneuve and Adèle Haenel (1h56)Un Certain Regard Fehér Isten (White Dog) by Kornél Mundruczó (1h47) Special ScreeningsOf...
- 4/30/2014
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
Catherine Deneuve and Guillaume Canet in L'Homme Qu'on Aimait Trop, a late addition to the Cannes line-up
With only two weeks to go before the start of the 67th edition of this year's Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25), the event's artistic director today (April 30) has added six titles to the official selection, including an out-of-competition slot for veteran André Techiné's latest L'Homme Qu'on Aimait Trop (literally The Man Who Was Loved Too Much) with Catherine Deneuve and Guillaume Canet.
The other additions include White Dog (Fehér Isten) by Hungarian Kornél Mundruczó in Un Certain Regard, which traces the misadventures of a girl and her best friend, a canine, in a world of winners and losers.
There will be Special Screenings for Of Men and War (Des Hommes Et De La Guerre), a documentary by Laurent Bécue-Renard; The Owners by Kazakhstan film-maker Adilkhan Yerzhanov; Géronimo from France's Tony Gatlif, and starring...
With only two weeks to go before the start of the 67th edition of this year's Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25), the event's artistic director today (April 30) has added six titles to the official selection, including an out-of-competition slot for veteran André Techiné's latest L'Homme Qu'on Aimait Trop (literally The Man Who Was Loved Too Much) with Catherine Deneuve and Guillaume Canet.
The other additions include White Dog (Fehér Isten) by Hungarian Kornél Mundruczó in Un Certain Regard, which traces the misadventures of a girl and her best friend, a canine, in a world of winners and losers.
There will be Special Screenings for Of Men and War (Des Hommes Et De La Guerre), a documentary by Laurent Bécue-Renard; The Owners by Kazakhstan film-maker Adilkhan Yerzhanov; Géronimo from France's Tony Gatlif, and starring...
- 4/30/2014
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
(Samuel Fuller, 1982; Eureka!, 15)
One of American cinema's true mavericks, Samuel Fuller (1912-97), had two major careers first as a crime reporter for New York tabloids, then as a much-decorated Us infantry sergeant in the second world war before becoming a writer-director. His heyday was the 1950s, making bold thrillers, westerns and war movies, mostly on small budgets. Later he fell on hard times with films aborted, abandoned, butchered and shelved. But he also became a cult figure, revered by European critics and younger filmmakers, the latter giving him cameo roles.
In the early 80s, however, he got to make two highly personal movies, though neither was well handled by their distributors. The Big Red One, his second world war memoir starring Lee Marvin, was well received at Cannes but not widely shown in Fuller's version until after his death. The other, White Dog, is an allegorical melodrama based on an...
One of American cinema's true mavericks, Samuel Fuller (1912-97), had two major careers first as a crime reporter for New York tabloids, then as a much-decorated Us infantry sergeant in the second world war before becoming a writer-director. His heyday was the 1950s, making bold thrillers, westerns and war movies, mostly on small budgets. Later he fell on hard times with films aborted, abandoned, butchered and shelved. But he also became a cult figure, revered by European critics and younger filmmakers, the latter giving him cameo roles.
In the early 80s, however, he got to make two highly personal movies, though neither was well handled by their distributors. The Big Red One, his second world war memoir starring Lee Marvin, was well received at Cannes but not widely shown in Fuller's version until after his death. The other, White Dog, is an allegorical melodrama based on an...
- 4/26/2014
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
One of Hollywood's true maverick filmmakers, Sam Fuller was never a man to shy away from tackling important social and political issues in his films. Famously, he was the first American filmmaker to tackle the Korean War, in The Steel Helmet, mental illness (among other issues) in Shock Corridor, and child abuse in The Naked Kiss. So when Paramount executives Jon Davison and Don Simpson were scrambling to get a bunch of projects through production ahead of an upcoming writers' strike in 1981, who better to take on the long-gestating White Dog than Fuller, hot again after the recent success of The Big Red One.White Dog is adapted from an autobiographical novel written by Romain Gray, which told the story of how he and his...
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- 4/14/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Stars: Kristy McNichol, Paul Winfield, Jameson Parker, Helen Siff, Christa Lang, Vernon Weddle, Paul Bartel | Written by Samuel Fuller, Curtis Hanson | Directed by Samuel Fuller
In 1982, the late Massachusetts film-maker, Samuel Fuller (The Big Red One, Shock Corridor) took his place behind the camera to tell a story of racism, hope, neglect and terror in the wonderful, chilling, poignant and ruthless film, White Dog.
Based on a true life story that was published at one time in Life Magazine in the 1970′s, White Dog follows the character of Julie Sawyer (Kristy McNichol) who accidentally hits a dog with her car while on a night drive in a secluded forest-heavy area of the Hollywood hills. She takes in the dog after being informed that the pound would put him to sleep, and soon finds that the dog, a white German Shepard, though loyal to her, has a dark and violent tendency...
In 1982, the late Massachusetts film-maker, Samuel Fuller (The Big Red One, Shock Corridor) took his place behind the camera to tell a story of racism, hope, neglect and terror in the wonderful, chilling, poignant and ruthless film, White Dog.
Based on a true life story that was published at one time in Life Magazine in the 1970′s, White Dog follows the character of Julie Sawyer (Kristy McNichol) who accidentally hits a dog with her car while on a night drive in a secluded forest-heavy area of the Hollywood hills. She takes in the dog after being informed that the pound would put him to sleep, and soon finds that the dog, a white German Shepard, though loyal to her, has a dark and violent tendency...
- 4/12/2014
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
★★★★☆In an alternate history of American cinema, Samuel Fuller would stand shoulder to shoulder with John Ford and Howard Hawks. If the latter pair constitute the heart and the soul, then Fuller would be its insatiable id. He's a director almost overcome with ideas, yet manages to channel them through lean, genre-defying works that excel in their blazing energy and passionate devotion to the art form. White Dog (1982) is an odd work, even for Fuller. Ostensibly an allegory about racism in America, it's a work that layers disparate ideas onto the B-movie form, ending up as an ambitious cross-breed; a biting social satire and Hollywood elegy.
- 4/9/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
'White Dog is an angry, didactic take on a subject more commonly handled at arm's length'
Long gone are the days when budding cinephiles would seek out new discoveries by gazing up at the marquee of their local nickelodeon and hoping against hope for a Capra retrospective or anything else that might offer a counterpoint to the paltry stream of new releases otherwise on offer.
Ever since the 1970s rolled up in a clapped-out three-wheeler filled with overpriced VHS tapes, our ability to consume film culture has been limited only by the scope of our imaginations, as millions of movies have poured into our living rooms on three decades' worth of home entertainment formats.
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Long gone are the days when budding cinephiles would seek out new discoveries by gazing up at the marquee of their local nickelodeon and hoping against hope for a Capra retrospective or anything else that might offer a counterpoint to the paltry stream of new releases otherwise on offer.
Ever since the 1970s rolled up in a clapped-out three-wheeler filled with overpriced VHS tapes, our ability to consume film culture has been limited only by the scope of our imaginations, as millions of movies have poured into our living rooms on three decades' worth of home entertainment formats.
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- 4/5/2014
- by Charlie Lyne
- The Guardian - Film News
One of the most controversial American films of the 1980s, Samuel Fuller's White Dog (1982) was withheld from release in the States at the time and has rarely been seen since. This head-on examination of racism remains a riveting and startlingly powerful film experience, with superb performances and a brilliant score by the great musical master, Ennio Morricone. To celebrate the film's Dual Format release this Monday (31 March), we have Three copies of White Dog to give away, courtesy of Eureka Entertainment and Masters of Cinema. This is an exclusive competition for our Facebook and Twitter fans, so if you haven't already, 'Like' us at facebook.com/CineVueUK or follow us @CineVue before answering the question below.
- 4/3/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Sam Fuller's classic thriller White Dog gets the Masters of Cinema treatment later this month, with a brand new dual format Blu-ray/DVD release hitting UK shelves on 31st March. The film stars Paul Winfield and Kristy McNichol in the story of a stray dog that is discovered to have been conditioned to attack black people. Fuller's controversial film, which questions whether racism is a treatable condition, or an untreatable problem, will be making its Blu-ray debut, courtesy of those good people over at Eureka Entertainment, and you can check out a clip from the newly restored version of the film below, to whet our appetites....
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- 3/13/2014
- Screen Anarchy
The Austin Film Society's Godard Vs. Truffaut series continues on this weekend with a 35mm print of Godard's A Woman Is A Woman tonight and Sunday afternoon at the Marchesa. There's also an austin premiere on tap Sunday afternoon for The Big Shootout with director Mike Looney, Edith Royal and members of the 1969 Ut football team in attendance. The Q&A will be moderated by Klbj's Ed Clements.
On Monday night, you can head back over to the Marchesa for "An Austinite's Guide To The 2014 SXSW Film Festival." It will feature a Q&A with festival programmers Janet Pierson, Jarod Neece and Claudette Godfrey as well as a happy hour and a filmmakers' chat about how to make the most of the fest. On Wednesday, Richard Linklater will be hanging out with a 35mm print of Sam Fuller's White Dog and Essential Cinema is bringing you a newly restored...
- 2/14/2014
- by Matt Shiverdecker
- Slackerwood
It is always an exciting day when Eureka Entertainment announces their upcoming titles for its Masters of Cinema series, and with today's announcement, they might have just outdone themselves. Sidney Lumet's seminal police thriller, Serpico, starring a top-of-his-game Al Pacino leads the pack, followed by William A. Wellman's silent classic Wings, Ted Kotcheff's brilliantly bizarre Australian outback nightmare, Wake In Fright and Sam Fuller's racially charged White Dog. We will also see Andrew Bujalski's delightfully eccentric Computer Chess released on the label, as well as Francesco Rosi's Hands Over The City, which arrives alongside Federico Fellini's love letter to his home city, Roma. As a little cherry on the top of their already gloriously glazed announcement, Eureka annouced that they will be releasing Robert Altman's ensemble epic,...
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- 11/25/2013
- Screen Anarchy
“Maybe I was straitjacketing myself because even back when I was doing Tulsa or Teenage Lust, I wouldn't go see movies about teenagers. I wouldn't look at books if they were about teenagers, because I was afraid that either I would be influenced or that someone had already done something that I had done, or someone was doing it better. I was just afraid to look at anything, because I didn't want any ideas. I don't know why, but I didn't. Just frightened. Scared to death.”
—Larry Clark
“I am a complete man, having both sexes of the mind.”
—Jules Michelet
When you have nothing, the very wise Luc Moullet tells us, you should cultivate relentless artifice. These days, Larry Clark is almost there, down to one thing: Marfa, a bitty town in Texas. And Marfa has been oft blessed, first just obliquely by Edna Ferber, then harder by George Stevens,...
—Larry Clark
“I am a complete man, having both sexes of the mind.”
—Jules Michelet
When you have nothing, the very wise Luc Moullet tells us, you should cultivate relentless artifice. These days, Larry Clark is almost there, down to one thing: Marfa, a bitty town in Texas. And Marfa has been oft blessed, first just obliquely by Edna Ferber, then harder by George Stevens,...
- 2/4/2013
- by Uncas Blythe
- MUBI
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