Harvey Keitel takes center stage as a double-crossed crook goes for blood after a major jewel heist turns sour — and bloody. Timothy Hutton and Stephen Dorff are in on the split for one late- ’90s crime caper that’s not a stylistic hijack of Quentin Tarantino. Directed by John Irvin.
City of Industry
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1997 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 97 min. / Street Date October 3, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Stephen Dorff, Timothy Hutton, Famke Janssen, Wade Dominguez, Michael Jai White, Lucy Alexis Liu, Reno Wilson, Dana Barron, Tamara Clatterbuck, Elliott Gould.
Cinematography: Thomas Burstyn
Film Editor: Mark Conte
Special Effects: Joe Lombardi
Original Music: Stephen Endelman
Written by Ken Solarz
Produced by Evzen Kolar, Ken Solarz
Directed by John Irvin
Director John Irvin earned his right to crow early on with TV’s ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and the excellent action film about mercenaries The Dogs of War.
City of Industry
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1997 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 97 min. / Street Date October 3, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Stephen Dorff, Timothy Hutton, Famke Janssen, Wade Dominguez, Michael Jai White, Lucy Alexis Liu, Reno Wilson, Dana Barron, Tamara Clatterbuck, Elliott Gould.
Cinematography: Thomas Burstyn
Film Editor: Mark Conte
Special Effects: Joe Lombardi
Original Music: Stephen Endelman
Written by Ken Solarz
Produced by Evzen Kolar, Ken Solarz
Directed by John Irvin
Director John Irvin earned his right to crow early on with TV’s ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and the excellent action film about mercenaries The Dogs of War.
- 10/21/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Only one man has ever went toe-to-toe with the legendary Bruce Lee, while living to tell about it and that was Chuck Norris in Return of the Dragon. The always calm and cool Chuck Norris has since become the idealization of a bad-ass thanks to popular culture of Chuck Norris Facts and a few really good commercials, and yet when we quote these:
Chuck Norris was once shot. The bullet died.
When Chuck Norris calls 911 it’s to ask if everything is okay.
Have action fans forgot you don’t get cool by being cool, you earn it, and Chuck Norris officially started to earn his coolness factor in a series of Cannon Films productions during the mid-1980s, namely the Missing in Action series, a deeply personal set of action films for Norris. Killer Film is back with another Action Packed Flashback with director Lance Hool on his Missing in Action II: The Beginning.
Chuck Norris was once shot. The bullet died.
When Chuck Norris calls 911 it’s to ask if everything is okay.
Have action fans forgot you don’t get cool by being cool, you earn it, and Chuck Norris officially started to earn his coolness factor in a series of Cannon Films productions during the mid-1980s, namely the Missing in Action series, a deeply personal set of action films for Norris. Killer Film is back with another Action Packed Flashback with director Lance Hool on his Missing in Action II: The Beginning.
- 8/12/2011
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
"The Social Network" editors, Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter, won the Ace Eddie Award for Best Edited Dramatic Feature at the 61st Annual Ace Eddie Awards. The David Fincher film beat "Black Swan," "The Fighter," "Inception," and "The King's Speech." We'll see if "The Social Network" will beat those movies (except for "Inception" which was not nominated in favor of "127 Hours") at the upcoming 83rd Academy Awards.
In the feature category for Musical or Comedy, Chris Lebenzon of "Alice in Wonderland" took home the trophy, winning over "Easy A," "The Kids Are All Right," "Made in Dagenham," and "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World."
In the Best Edited Animated Featuer Film category, surprise, surprise, "Toy Story 3" won over "How to Train Your Dragon" and "Despicable Me."
Tom Fulford & Chris King of "Exit Through the Gift Shop" won for Best Edited Documentary beating "Inside Job" and "Waiting for Superman."
The 61st Annual...
In the feature category for Musical or Comedy, Chris Lebenzon of "Alice in Wonderland" took home the trophy, winning over "Easy A," "The Kids Are All Right," "Made in Dagenham," and "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World."
In the Best Edited Animated Featuer Film category, surprise, surprise, "Toy Story 3" won over "How to Train Your Dragon" and "Despicable Me."
Tom Fulford & Chris King of "Exit Through the Gift Shop" won for Best Edited Documentary beating "Inside Job" and "Waiting for Superman."
The 61st Annual...
- 2/21/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
The American Cinema Editors announced their nominees for the 61st Annual Ace Eddie Awards today. The awards ceremony will be held Feb. 19. Among the nominated films are Black Swan, The King’s Speech, Inception, The Social Network, The Kids Are All Right, How To Train Your Dragon, and Toy Story 3. The nominees are:
Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic):
Black Swan — Andrew Weisblum, A.C.E.
The Fighter — Pamela Martin
Inception — Lee Smith, A.C.E.
The King’s Speech — Tariq Anwar
The Social Network — Angus Wall, A.C.E., & Kirk Baxter
Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy Or Musical...
Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic):
Black Swan — Andrew Weisblum, A.C.E.
The Fighter — Pamela Martin
Inception — Lee Smith, A.C.E.
The King’s Speech — Tariq Anwar
The Social Network — Angus Wall, A.C.E., & Kirk Baxter
Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy Or Musical...
- 1/14/2011
- by Margaret Lyons
- EW - Inside Movies
hollywoodnews.com: The American Cinema Editors announced the nominees for the 61st annualL Ace Eddie awards. They recognize the best editing of the year.
Ace, the American Cinema Editors, is an honorary society of motion picture editors founded in 1950. Film editors are voted into membership on the basis of their professional achievements, their dedication to the education of others and their commitment to the craft of editing.
Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic):
Black Swan
Andrew Weisblum, A.C.E.
The Fighter
Pamela Martin
Inception
Lee Smith, A.C.E.
The King’s Speech
Tariq Anwar
The Social Network
Angus Wall, A.C.E. & Kirk Baxter
Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy Or Musical):
Alice in Wonderland
Chris Lebenzon, A.C.E.
Easy A
Susan Littenberg
The Kids Are All Right
Jeffrey M. Werner
Made In Dagenham
Michael Parker
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Jonathan Amos & Paul Machliss
Best Edited...
Ace, the American Cinema Editors, is an honorary society of motion picture editors founded in 1950. Film editors are voted into membership on the basis of their professional achievements, their dedication to the education of others and their commitment to the craft of editing.
Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic):
Black Swan
Andrew Weisblum, A.C.E.
The Fighter
Pamela Martin
Inception
Lee Smith, A.C.E.
The King’s Speech
Tariq Anwar
The Social Network
Angus Wall, A.C.E. & Kirk Baxter
Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy Or Musical):
Alice in Wonderland
Chris Lebenzon, A.C.E.
Easy A
Susan Littenberg
The Kids Are All Right
Jeffrey M. Werner
Made In Dagenham
Michael Parker
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Jonathan Amos & Paul Machliss
Best Edited...
- 1/14/2011
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
Despite fleeting moments of clarity, where the characters are believably reacting to problems created and worsened by science-villains of the near future, "The 6th Day" amounts to the same old tarnished utopia fantasy that tries to dazzle one with a vision of North American life both happily obsessed with digital technology and still kicked-back enough to have cans of beer handy for thirsty guys on a break from running for their lives. Even if they are clones, a Budweiser still makes their day.
In a minutely more believable performance than usual in his trademark big-budget spectacles, Arnold Schwarzenegger still gets to break a neck or two, fuss over his character's daughter like a good parent, pilot helicopters and -- rather tiresomely -- toss off the jokey afterthoughts when he terminates several opponents. The Columbia Pictures release, directed by Roger Spottiswoode, ought to bring out the sci-fi faithful, who've been underserved this year in favor of dozens of cheap and expensive horror movies, but it won't come close to Schwarzenegger's mightiest triumphs at the boxoffice.
Married screenwriters Cormac and Marianne Wibberley go only so far in imagining a future of talking refrigerators, cars that drive themselves and a society where smoking is illegal. If they tried to go much further, it might have been called "The 45th Day", as many devices shown and technologies employed require large dollops of explanation. Take for instance, RePet, a business devoted to cloning dead and dying family pets, an option that everyman lead Adam Gibson (Schwarzenegger) finds fundamentally disturbing.
The amount of time it takes for Adam and the audience to grasp the basics of how RePet works is not necessary given the minor contribution it makes to the story. Indeed, the movie lurches around a menu of options, none of which includes down-to-earth dramatics or believable motivations. The hope is that viewers will not mind the occasional forced injections of premise-clarifying chitchat and computer graphics -- in an unsuccessful attempt to keep things internally logical, almost always the catch in science fiction works -- because the whole milieu is so inescapably cool.
But cool in a bad way, "6th Day" -- so named for God's creation of man in Genesis -- has unexciting characters overall, and it relies on routine car chases and shootouts that would be even sillier without the booming soundtrack and special effects. While the helicopters flown by Adam and his partner Hank (Michael Rapaport) can morph into jets, and everybody throws laser bolts instead of lead, the filmmakers don't come up with any new memorable feats of derring-do and fail to explore the rich possibilities of a man confronting his own clone. (The Michael Keaton comedy "Multiplicity" is arguably still the best of the genre.) Alas, though loaded up with some 600-plus special effects shots and lushly packaged in widescreen, the film comes nowhere near achieving the impact of paranoid sci-fi thrillers "The Terminator", "Total Recall" or "The Matrix". But it tries.
"6th Day" opens with an XFL game in which the sport's "first $300 million quarterback" suffers a career-ending spinal injury. On the way to the hospital, the injured man is snuffed out by one Robert Marshall (Michael Rooker), an enforcer for Replacement Technologies. Not to worry. Although declared illegal, human cloning is possible, and Marshall's boss Michael Drucker (Tony Goldwyn) has secretly been breaking the law for years. The fans and the world at large will never know the difference, and another investment is protected.
A very small amount of time is wasted on simplistic discussions of the philosophical/spiritual implications of cloning. Jokes are more the order of the day, with Marshall's frequently killed and resurrected comrades Talia (Sarah Wynter) and Wiley (Rod Rowland) always coming back for more. Drucker and his genius partner Dr. Weir (Robert Duvall) have more selfish reasons in mind than humanity's betterment with their clandestine operation meant to survive until the laws are changed and copying humans is accepted.
Adam is a former military pilot who runs a charter helicopter service with Hank. One day, they are hired by Drucker for a joyride to the mountains -- after a brief "vision" test -- with Hank pretending to be Adam, so the latter can deal with a crisis involving the death of the family pooch and whether or not to visit RePet. Bad things happen to Hank and Drucker, while Adam can't bring himself to mess with the natural cycle of life and gets a lifelike Sim-Pal doll instead, a creepy contraption that won't shut up and eventually suffers a fate worthy of Chucky.
Heading home late and anticipating a birthday party waiting for him, Adam instead discovers a clone in his house, having a ball with his wife (Wendy Crewson), daughter, friends and the pesky cloned-behind-his-back dog. Before he can take action, Talia and Wiley try to grab him, in order to prevent anyone from seeing Adam and his clone together. But they flub it, and our hero jumps in a 1957 Cadillac for a house-crunching chase through suburbia. It ends with Adam taking a big, preposterous leap off a cliff into a river to get away.
When a making-no-sense Adam goes to the cops, he's humored and held until Marshall and crew show up. But Adam scampers away again and seeks out Hank. They go to Adam's house to spy on the clone. Adam not only must deal with his wife making love to a copy of himself, but his daughter almost exposes him. With a lame cigars-are-aphrodisiacs joke thrown in willy-nilly, the scene shifts to the troubles of Dr. Weir, whose once-cloned wife (Wanda Cannon) is dying of a congenital defect stealithly programmed into her new body by Drucker.
Not long after this complication, more revelations occur and just about everybody turns out to be a clone, or will be one shortly. With a lengthy showdown at the headquarters of Replacement Technologies, where big tanks of "new bodies" are stored for Drucker's frequent use -- we're told that the cloning process takes two hours and costs $1.2 million -- "6th Day" is quite violent but not graphic. While Spottiswoode has an unfortunate weakness for slow motion, it's employed mostly to highlight stunts, of which the movie has its share of good ones.
From Hank's Virtual Girlfriend (played with saucy attitude by Jennifer Gareis) to schools of not-really-there fish swimming in the huge interior of a shopping mall, holograms are ubiquitous in this vision of the future, but clothes and cars have changed little. There are marginal elements that hint at what surely must be a more complex world than today, but the status quo is maintained, and at least one large building blowing up is deemed acceptable for the good guy to emerge on top.
THE 6TH DAY
Columbia Pictures
Phoenix Pictures presents
A Jon Davidson production
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Screenwriters: : Cormac Wibberley &
Marianne Wibberley
Producers: Mike Medavoy,
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jon Davison
Executive producers: Daniel Petrie Jr.,
David Coatsworth
Director of photography: Pierre Mignot
Production designers: James Bissell, John Willett
Editors: Mark Conte,
Dominique Fortin, Michel Arcand
Costume designer: Trish Keating
Music: Trevor Rabin
Casting: Judith Holstra
Color/stereo
Cast:
Adam Gibson: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Hank Morgan: Michael Rapaport
Michael Drucker: Tony Goldwyn
Robert Marshall: Michael Rooker
Talia Elsworth: Sarah Wynter
Natalie Gibson: Wendy Crewson
Wiley: Rod Rowland
Dr. Griffin Weir: Robert Duvall
Running time - 124 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
In a minutely more believable performance than usual in his trademark big-budget spectacles, Arnold Schwarzenegger still gets to break a neck or two, fuss over his character's daughter like a good parent, pilot helicopters and -- rather tiresomely -- toss off the jokey afterthoughts when he terminates several opponents. The Columbia Pictures release, directed by Roger Spottiswoode, ought to bring out the sci-fi faithful, who've been underserved this year in favor of dozens of cheap and expensive horror movies, but it won't come close to Schwarzenegger's mightiest triumphs at the boxoffice.
Married screenwriters Cormac and Marianne Wibberley go only so far in imagining a future of talking refrigerators, cars that drive themselves and a society where smoking is illegal. If they tried to go much further, it might have been called "The 45th Day", as many devices shown and technologies employed require large dollops of explanation. Take for instance, RePet, a business devoted to cloning dead and dying family pets, an option that everyman lead Adam Gibson (Schwarzenegger) finds fundamentally disturbing.
The amount of time it takes for Adam and the audience to grasp the basics of how RePet works is not necessary given the minor contribution it makes to the story. Indeed, the movie lurches around a menu of options, none of which includes down-to-earth dramatics or believable motivations. The hope is that viewers will not mind the occasional forced injections of premise-clarifying chitchat and computer graphics -- in an unsuccessful attempt to keep things internally logical, almost always the catch in science fiction works -- because the whole milieu is so inescapably cool.
But cool in a bad way, "6th Day" -- so named for God's creation of man in Genesis -- has unexciting characters overall, and it relies on routine car chases and shootouts that would be even sillier without the booming soundtrack and special effects. While the helicopters flown by Adam and his partner Hank (Michael Rapaport) can morph into jets, and everybody throws laser bolts instead of lead, the filmmakers don't come up with any new memorable feats of derring-do and fail to explore the rich possibilities of a man confronting his own clone. (The Michael Keaton comedy "Multiplicity" is arguably still the best of the genre.) Alas, though loaded up with some 600-plus special effects shots and lushly packaged in widescreen, the film comes nowhere near achieving the impact of paranoid sci-fi thrillers "The Terminator", "Total Recall" or "The Matrix". But it tries.
"6th Day" opens with an XFL game in which the sport's "first $300 million quarterback" suffers a career-ending spinal injury. On the way to the hospital, the injured man is snuffed out by one Robert Marshall (Michael Rooker), an enforcer for Replacement Technologies. Not to worry. Although declared illegal, human cloning is possible, and Marshall's boss Michael Drucker (Tony Goldwyn) has secretly been breaking the law for years. The fans and the world at large will never know the difference, and another investment is protected.
A very small amount of time is wasted on simplistic discussions of the philosophical/spiritual implications of cloning. Jokes are more the order of the day, with Marshall's frequently killed and resurrected comrades Talia (Sarah Wynter) and Wiley (Rod Rowland) always coming back for more. Drucker and his genius partner Dr. Weir (Robert Duvall) have more selfish reasons in mind than humanity's betterment with their clandestine operation meant to survive until the laws are changed and copying humans is accepted.
Adam is a former military pilot who runs a charter helicopter service with Hank. One day, they are hired by Drucker for a joyride to the mountains -- after a brief "vision" test -- with Hank pretending to be Adam, so the latter can deal with a crisis involving the death of the family pooch and whether or not to visit RePet. Bad things happen to Hank and Drucker, while Adam can't bring himself to mess with the natural cycle of life and gets a lifelike Sim-Pal doll instead, a creepy contraption that won't shut up and eventually suffers a fate worthy of Chucky.
Heading home late and anticipating a birthday party waiting for him, Adam instead discovers a clone in his house, having a ball with his wife (Wendy Crewson), daughter, friends and the pesky cloned-behind-his-back dog. Before he can take action, Talia and Wiley try to grab him, in order to prevent anyone from seeing Adam and his clone together. But they flub it, and our hero jumps in a 1957 Cadillac for a house-crunching chase through suburbia. It ends with Adam taking a big, preposterous leap off a cliff into a river to get away.
When a making-no-sense Adam goes to the cops, he's humored and held until Marshall and crew show up. But Adam scampers away again and seeks out Hank. They go to Adam's house to spy on the clone. Adam not only must deal with his wife making love to a copy of himself, but his daughter almost exposes him. With a lame cigars-are-aphrodisiacs joke thrown in willy-nilly, the scene shifts to the troubles of Dr. Weir, whose once-cloned wife (Wanda Cannon) is dying of a congenital defect stealithly programmed into her new body by Drucker.
Not long after this complication, more revelations occur and just about everybody turns out to be a clone, or will be one shortly. With a lengthy showdown at the headquarters of Replacement Technologies, where big tanks of "new bodies" are stored for Drucker's frequent use -- we're told that the cloning process takes two hours and costs $1.2 million -- "6th Day" is quite violent but not graphic. While Spottiswoode has an unfortunate weakness for slow motion, it's employed mostly to highlight stunts, of which the movie has its share of good ones.
From Hank's Virtual Girlfriend (played with saucy attitude by Jennifer Gareis) to schools of not-really-there fish swimming in the huge interior of a shopping mall, holograms are ubiquitous in this vision of the future, but clothes and cars have changed little. There are marginal elements that hint at what surely must be a more complex world than today, but the status quo is maintained, and at least one large building blowing up is deemed acceptable for the good guy to emerge on top.
THE 6TH DAY
Columbia Pictures
Phoenix Pictures presents
A Jon Davidson production
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Screenwriters: : Cormac Wibberley &
Marianne Wibberley
Producers: Mike Medavoy,
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jon Davison
Executive producers: Daniel Petrie Jr.,
David Coatsworth
Director of photography: Pierre Mignot
Production designers: James Bissell, John Willett
Editors: Mark Conte,
Dominique Fortin, Michel Arcand
Costume designer: Trish Keating
Music: Trevor Rabin
Casting: Judith Holstra
Color/stereo
Cast:
Adam Gibson: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Hank Morgan: Michael Rapaport
Michael Drucker: Tony Goldwyn
Robert Marshall: Michael Rooker
Talia Elsworth: Sarah Wynter
Natalie Gibson: Wendy Crewson
Wiley: Rod Rowland
Dr. Griffin Weir: Robert Duvall
Running time - 124 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 11/10/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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