Before inimitable blonde bombshell Gena Rowlands became one half of an indie "it" couple alongside actor/director John Cassevetes, she had her start on television and in the films "High Cost of Living" and "Lonely Are the Brave." She starred in Cassavetes' early (and seemingly for-hire effort) "A Child Is Waiting" before busting out of the screen in his excruciatingly intense black-and-white chamber drama "Faces" (1968). In 1975, she was Oscar-nominated for the role that defines her career as a lovable but severely mentally unwound housewife in "A Woman Under the Influence." Back in January, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association awarded the cinema nonpareil its Career Achievement Award. In spirit, Lafca member Chuck Wilson and filmmaker Matt Amato put together this career-spanning reel (below), with sound-bytes from Rowlands herself overlapping the actress' most alluring screen moments.
- 2/25/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
The future of 35mm rep cinema, a personal history of cinephilia as mediated by changing archival access, how the garbage heap of “hot takes” colonizes the internet and more in this week’s round-up of assorted reading: • Quentin Tarantino has owned Los Angeles’ beloved New Beverly Cinema since 2007; now he plans to take over programming himself, drawing extensively upon his private collection of prints. Talking with the La Weekly‘s Chuck Wilson, Tarantino repeatedly goes off on the crappiness of Dcp, including this gem: I have all three Sergio Leone Clint Eastwood movies in I.B. Technicolor. Magnificent looking. I just […]...
- 9/5/2014
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
The future of 35mm rep cinema, a personal history of cinephilia as mediated by changing archival access, how the garbage heap of “hot takes” colonizes the internet and more in this week’s round-up of assorted reading: • Quentin Tarantino has owned Los Angeles’ beloved New Beverly Cinema since 2007; now he plans to take over programming himself, drawing extensively upon his private collection of prints. Talking with the La Weekly‘s Chuck Wilson, Tarantino repeatedly goes off on the crappiness of Dcp, including this gem: I have all three Sergio Leone Clint Eastwood movies in I.B. Technicolor. Magnificent looking. I just […]...
- 9/5/2014
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
After a recent limited theatrical release, Anchor Bay Films and WWE Studios released No One Lives to Blu-ray and DVD yesterday. If you’d like a good idea of what to expect from the movie, we’ve been provided with four clips and the trailer.
“From the director of Midnight Meat Train and Versus comes the story of a man who will go to all lengths to ensure that no one lives. The Village Voice’s Chuck Wilson said, “The body count rises with bloody, relentless precision in No One Lives…” Jeannette Catsoulis at The New York Times described No One Lives as “Utterly mad yet improbably fascinating.”
No One Lives, which stars Luke Evans (The Raven, Fast and Furious 6) and Adelaide Clemens (“Rectify,” Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, The Great Gatsby), is the story of a ruthless criminal gang that takes a young couple hostage and goes to ground...
“From the director of Midnight Meat Train and Versus comes the story of a man who will go to all lengths to ensure that no one lives. The Village Voice’s Chuck Wilson said, “The body count rises with bloody, relentless precision in No One Lives…” Jeannette Catsoulis at The New York Times described No One Lives as “Utterly mad yet improbably fascinating.”
No One Lives, which stars Luke Evans (The Raven, Fast and Furious 6) and Adelaide Clemens (“Rectify,” Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, The Great Gatsby), is the story of a ruthless criminal gang that takes a young couple hostage and goes to ground...
- 8/21/2013
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
After a recent limited theatrical release, Anchor Bay Films and WWE Studios have announced that No One Lives will be headed to Blu-ray and DVD this August:
Stamford, Conn, June 11, 2013 – Anchor Bay Films and WWE Studios® (NYSE:wwe) announced today the Blu-ray™/DVD Combo Pack and DVD release of the thriller, No One Lives, is headed to retail on Tuesday, August 20 and will include the feature film with audio commentary for a suggested retail price of $30.99 for the Blu-ray™/DVD Combo Pack and $26.98 for the DVD.
From the director of Midnight Meat Train and Versus comes the story of a man who will go to all lengths to ensure that no one lives. The Village Voice’s Chuck Wilson said, “The body count rises with bloody, relentless precision in No One Lives…” Jeannette Catsoulis at The New York Times described No One Lives as “Utterly mad yet improbably fascinating.”
No One Lives,...
Stamford, Conn, June 11, 2013 – Anchor Bay Films and WWE Studios® (NYSE:wwe) announced today the Blu-ray™/DVD Combo Pack and DVD release of the thriller, No One Lives, is headed to retail on Tuesday, August 20 and will include the feature film with audio commentary for a suggested retail price of $30.99 for the Blu-ray™/DVD Combo Pack and $26.98 for the DVD.
From the director of Midnight Meat Train and Versus comes the story of a man who will go to all lengths to ensure that no one lives. The Village Voice’s Chuck Wilson said, “The body count rises with bloody, relentless precision in No One Lives…” Jeannette Catsoulis at The New York Times described No One Lives as “Utterly mad yet improbably fascinating.”
No One Lives,...
- 6/11/2013
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: May 28, 2013
Price: DVD $27.97, Blu-ray $29.97
Studio: Image Entertainment
Malin Akerman (Rock of Ages) and John Cusack (The Raven) headline the thriller movie The Numbers Station.
Cusack plays veteran CIA black ops agent Emerson Kent whose last mission went horrible wrong. He gets one last chance to prove he can still do his job when he’s assigned to guard Katherine (Akerman), a code operator at a top-secret remote CIA “Numbers Station” where encrypted messages are sent and received.
But, after an elite team of heavily armed assailants attack the station, Emerson and Katherine end up in a life-or-death struggle to stop the deadly plot.
The first screenplay by F. Scott Frazier, R-rated The Numbers Station was directed by Danish filmmaker Kasper Barfoed (The Candidate). Games of Thrones‘ Liam Cunningham and Hannah Murray and True Blood‘s Lucy Griffiths also star in the independent film.
The movie wasn...
Price: DVD $27.97, Blu-ray $29.97
Studio: Image Entertainment
Malin Akerman (Rock of Ages) and John Cusack (The Raven) headline the thriller movie The Numbers Station.
Cusack plays veteran CIA black ops agent Emerson Kent whose last mission went horrible wrong. He gets one last chance to prove he can still do his job when he’s assigned to guard Katherine (Akerman), a code operator at a top-secret remote CIA “Numbers Station” where encrypted messages are sent and received.
But, after an elite team of heavily armed assailants attack the station, Emerson and Katherine end up in a life-or-death struggle to stop the deadly plot.
The first screenplay by F. Scott Frazier, R-rated The Numbers Station was directed by Danish filmmaker Kasper Barfoed (The Candidate). Games of Thrones‘ Liam Cunningham and Hannah Murray and True Blood‘s Lucy Griffiths also star in the independent film.
The movie wasn...
- 5/15/2013
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
More than halfway through October now, and it's high time for a followup to the first "Scary Monsters" roundup of the year, the one that pointed to several ongoing month-long cinephilic celebrations of Halloween. Before taking a look at a few recent and upcoming releases, let's begin with a list, namely, Glenn Kenny's at MSN Movies, the "50 Scariest Movies of All Time." At Some Came Running, Glenn kicks himself for forgetting to include Erle C Kenton's Island of Lost Souls (1932) with Charles Laughton and Bela Lugosi: "In my defense, I've long held that it's not a real 'greatest' list unless it complains at least one completely bone-headed and inexcusable omission, and the omission of Souls, I would say, constitutes a particularly distinguished instance of such." Update: At Criterion's Current, Susan Arosteguy lists "10 Things I Learned" about Souls — factoids, some odd, some nifty, some a little spooky. Update, 10/21:...
- 10/22/2011
- MUBI
Vera Farmiga's Higher Ground "admirably tries, on a minuscule budget, to evoke the spirit of American cinema from 35 years ago: the age of Sissy Spacek and Shelley Duvall, an era much more hospitable to serious roles for women than the current one." Melissa Anderson in the Voice: "As reported in a New York Times Magazine cover story on the actress in 2006 (three years before her Oscar-nominated performance in Up in the Air), Farmiga has expressed her disgust with the roles offered her by setting scripts on fire: 'I stack up all those crass female characters, all those utterly ordinary women, all those hundreds and hundreds of parts that have no substance or meaning and turn them into a blazing pyre.' It's a shame, then, that Higher Ground never really ignites."
Farmiga plays "Corinne, a Midwest rural woman who embraces a hippie-inflected but paternalistic evangelical community with her high...
Farmiga plays "Corinne, a Midwest rural woman who embraces a hippie-inflected but paternalistic evangelical community with her high...
- 8/26/2011
- MUBI
Updated through 5/11.
Suddenly, it's summer: trailers for X-Men: First Class, Transformers 3 and the final, no-really-this-is-it installment of the Harry Potter franchise have popped online in rapid succession, Fast Five "is racing towards a $79 million to $81 million weekend opening," and the first round of summer movie previews is out.
"As it celebrates its tenth anniversary with its fifth series entry, Universal's Fast and the Furious franchise should rightly be regarded as one of the more reliable popcorn pleasures of recent years," writes Scott Foundas at the Fslc's Blog, "and also, like the Harry Potter films, that rare long-legged franchise that has actually gotten better with age. A revved-up, nitrous-boosted makeover of the hot-rod movies of the 50s and 60s, the first Fast and the Furious (borrowing the title, though not the plot, from a 1955 Roger Corman quickie) followed undercover Los Angeles cop Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) as he infiltrated an...
Suddenly, it's summer: trailers for X-Men: First Class, Transformers 3 and the final, no-really-this-is-it installment of the Harry Potter franchise have popped online in rapid succession, Fast Five "is racing towards a $79 million to $81 million weekend opening," and the first round of summer movie previews is out.
"As it celebrates its tenth anniversary with its fifth series entry, Universal's Fast and the Furious franchise should rightly be regarded as one of the more reliable popcorn pleasures of recent years," writes Scott Foundas at the Fslc's Blog, "and also, like the Harry Potter films, that rare long-legged franchise that has actually gotten better with age. A revved-up, nitrous-boosted makeover of the hot-rod movies of the 50s and 60s, the first Fast and the Furious (borrowing the title, though not the plot, from a 1955 Roger Corman quickie) followed undercover Los Angeles cop Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) as he infiltrated an...
- 5/11/2011
- MUBI
With gratitous violence and nudity, Piranha 3D earned a "hard R" rating. Is there enough comedy and camp to make it worth watching if you're over the age of 12?
"...a pitch-perfect, guilty-pleasure serving of late-summer schlock that handily nails the tongue-in-cheek spirit of the Roger Corman original."
— Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter
"...a low-tech drive-in throwback, complete with corny jokes, unnecessary gore, stunt casting and plenty of skin."
— Peter Paras, E!
"Irredeemable, and yet, the movie ... is too funny and the filmmaking too self-aware to be truly offensive."
— Chuck Wilson, La Weekly
"Before long, one begins to suspect these piranha were engineered to gnaw through bikini tops, with the bloodshed serving as an excuse for a boob show."
— Peter Debruge, Variety
"Though there are many laughs, Piranha 3D never reaches the smart observational satire of, say, Scream, and it goes seriously overboard on the gore."
— Betsy Sharkey, Chicago Tribune
Next Showing:...
"...a pitch-perfect, guilty-pleasure serving of late-summer schlock that handily nails the tongue-in-cheek spirit of the Roger Corman original."
— Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter
"...a low-tech drive-in throwback, complete with corny jokes, unnecessary gore, stunt casting and plenty of skin."
— Peter Paras, E!
"Irredeemable, and yet, the movie ... is too funny and the filmmaking too self-aware to be truly offensive."
— Chuck Wilson, La Weekly
"Before long, one begins to suspect these piranha were engineered to gnaw through bikini tops, with the bloodshed serving as an excuse for a boob show."
— Peter Debruge, Variety
"Though there are many laughs, Piranha 3D never reaches the smart observational satire of, say, Scream, and it goes seriously overboard on the gore."
— Betsy Sharkey, Chicago Tribune
Next Showing:...
- 8/20/2010
- by reelz reelz
- Reelzchannel.com
Director Breck Eisner (yes, former Disney CEO Michael Eisner's son) directed a stinker 5 years ago (Sahara). Is the zombie/post-apocalypse genre more up his alley?
"...has the makings of a certified hit."
— Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter
"...easily the most accomplished bit of contextless, big-budget pre-apocalyptic doomsaying since Zack Snyder's 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead."
— Simon Abrams, Slant Magazine
"...Eisner stages a series of nifty action sequences, nearly all of which feature a moment of surprise, as well as gruesome wit..."
— Chuck Wilson, Village Voice
"...emerges an above-average genre piece that's equal parts horror-meller and doomsday action thriller."
— Dennis Harvey, Variety
"...a perfectly competent genre film in a genre that has exhausted its interest for me, the Zombie Film."
— Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Next Showing:
The Crazies - Trailer
Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, and Danielle Panabaker star
Link | Posted 2/26/2010 by reelz
Breck Eisner | Sahara | The Crazies...
"...has the makings of a certified hit."
— Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter
"...easily the most accomplished bit of contextless, big-budget pre-apocalyptic doomsaying since Zack Snyder's 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead."
— Simon Abrams, Slant Magazine
"...Eisner stages a series of nifty action sequences, nearly all of which feature a moment of surprise, as well as gruesome wit..."
— Chuck Wilson, Village Voice
"...emerges an above-average genre piece that's equal parts horror-meller and doomsday action thriller."
— Dennis Harvey, Variety
"...a perfectly competent genre film in a genre that has exhausted its interest for me, the Zombie Film."
— Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Next Showing:
The Crazies - Trailer
Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, and Danielle Panabaker star
Link | Posted 2/26/2010 by reelz
Breck Eisner | Sahara | The Crazies...
- 2/26/2010
- by reelz reelz
- Reelzchannel.com
Paranormal Activity, a Blair Witch-style videocam horror pic made in 7 days for just $15,000, has done so well at midnight screenings that this weekend Paramount is expanding the movie's release beyond Los Angeles and New York; specifically to Boston, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Cleveland, El Paso, Hampton Roads metro area, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Portland, Salt Lake City, and Toronto.
Paramount is also saying they'll release the movie nationwide if 1M people demand it on the Paranormal Activity eventful.com page. So if you live in Boise, vote now!
Reviews for the movie have been very good, some going so far as calling it the scariest movie of the decade.
"...freaky and terrifying."
— Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
"...[delivers] old-school scares, refreshingly blood-free..."
— Chuck Wilson, Village Voice
"...a simple yet hair-raising enterprise..."
— Dennis Harvey, Variety
"...this potent frightfest will fry your nerves and creep you out big time without spending a dime on obvious special effects.
Paramount is also saying they'll release the movie nationwide if 1M people demand it on the Paranormal Activity eventful.com page. So if you live in Boise, vote now!
Reviews for the movie have been very good, some going so far as calling it the scariest movie of the decade.
"...freaky and terrifying."
— Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
"...[delivers] old-school scares, refreshingly blood-free..."
— Chuck Wilson, Village Voice
"...a simple yet hair-raising enterprise..."
— Dennis Harvey, Variety
"...this potent frightfest will fry your nerves and creep you out big time without spending a dime on obvious special effects.
- 10/6/2009
- by reelz reelz
- Reelzchannel.com
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