Cinephiles will have plenty to celebrate this April with the next slate of additions to the Criterion Channel. The boutique distributor, which recently announced its June 2024 Blu-ray releases, has unveiled its new streaming lineup highlighted by an eclectic mix of classic films and modern arthouse hits.
Students of Hollywood history will be treated to the “Peak Noir: 1950” collection, which features 17 noir films from the landmark film year from directors including Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock, and John Huston.
New Hollywood maverick William Friedkin will also be celebrated when five of his most beloved movies, including “Sorcerer” and “The Exorcist,” come to the channel in April.
Criterion will offer the streaming premiere of Wim Wenders’ 3D art documentary “Anselm,” which will be accompanied by the “Wim Wenders’ Adventures in Moviegoing” collection, which sees the director curating a selection of films from around the world that have influenced his careers.
Contemporary cinema is also well represented,...
Students of Hollywood history will be treated to the “Peak Noir: 1950” collection, which features 17 noir films from the landmark film year from directors including Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock, and John Huston.
New Hollywood maverick William Friedkin will also be celebrated when five of his most beloved movies, including “Sorcerer” and “The Exorcist,” come to the channel in April.
Criterion will offer the streaming premiere of Wim Wenders’ 3D art documentary “Anselm,” which will be accompanied by the “Wim Wenders’ Adventures in Moviegoing” collection, which sees the director curating a selection of films from around the world that have influenced his careers.
Contemporary cinema is also well represented,...
- 3/18/2024
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
April’s an uncommonly strong auteurist month for the Criterion Channel, who will highlight a number of directors––many of whom aren’t often grouped together. Just after we screened House of Tolerance at the Roxy Cinema, Criterion are showing it and Nocturama for a two-film Bertrand Bonello retrospective, starting just four days before The Beast opens. Larger and rarer (but just as French) is the complete Jean Eustache series Janus toured last year. Meanwhile, five William Friedkin films and work from Makoto Shinkai, Lizzie Borden, and Rosine Mbakam are given a highlight.
One of my very favorite films, Comrades: Almost a Love Story plays in a series I’ve been trying to program for years: “Hong Kong in New York,” boasting the magnificent Full Moon in New York, Farewell China, and An Autumn’s Tale. Wim Wenders gets his “Adventures in Moviegoing”; After Hours, Personal Shopper, and Werckmeister Harmonies fill...
One of my very favorite films, Comrades: Almost a Love Story plays in a series I’ve been trying to program for years: “Hong Kong in New York,” boasting the magnificent Full Moon in New York, Farewell China, and An Autumn’s Tale. Wim Wenders gets his “Adventures in Moviegoing”; After Hours, Personal Shopper, and Werckmeister Harmonies fill...
- 3/18/2024
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Ron Haffkine, a Grammy-winning record producer and manager known for his work with Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, has died. He was 84.
Haffkine died Sunday at his home in Mexico after a brief bout with leukemia and kidney failure, his friend of 50 years, music executive Joel Diamond, told The Hollywood Reporter.
“Ron always had an uncanny knack of hearing a hit song in its rawest stage and the rare talent to couple it with the best musicians and then top it off with a meticulous performance by the artist,” Diamond noted.
Haffkine was instrumental in getting Dr. Hook signed by Clive Davis at Columbia Records in the 1970s, and the band led by Dennis Locorriere, George Cummings, the eyepatch-wearing Ray Sawyer and Billy Francis would compile a string of hits that included “Sylvia’s Mother,” “Cover of the Rolling Stone,” “Sharing the Night Together,” “When You’re in Love With a Beautiful Woman,...
Haffkine died Sunday at his home in Mexico after a brief bout with leukemia and kidney failure, his friend of 50 years, music executive Joel Diamond, told The Hollywood Reporter.
“Ron always had an uncanny knack of hearing a hit song in its rawest stage and the rare talent to couple it with the best musicians and then top it off with a meticulous performance by the artist,” Diamond noted.
Haffkine was instrumental in getting Dr. Hook signed by Clive Davis at Columbia Records in the 1970s, and the band led by Dennis Locorriere, George Cummings, the eyepatch-wearing Ray Sawyer and Billy Francis would compile a string of hits that included “Sylvia’s Mother,” “Cover of the Rolling Stone,” “Sharing the Night Together,” “When You’re in Love With a Beautiful Woman,...
- 10/6/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Producer Sam Okun and his Sam Okun Productions banner have optioned worldwide film and TV remake and sequel rights to a pair of classic films directed and produced by three-time Oscar nominee Otto Preminger: 1959’s Anatomy of a Murder and 1962’s Advise & Consent.
The former courtroom drama based on Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker’s novel watched as an upstate Michigan lawyer defended a soldier who claimed he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. The drama starring James Stewart, Lee Remick and Ben Gazzara landed seven Academy Award nominations upon its release, including Best Picture, Screenplay and Actor.
Advise & Consent was a political thriller based on Allen Drury’s 1959 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, in which the polarizing search for a new Secretary of State had far-reaching consequences. Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford,...
The former courtroom drama based on Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker’s novel watched as an upstate Michigan lawyer defended a soldier who claimed he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. The drama starring James Stewart, Lee Remick and Ben Gazzara landed seven Academy Award nominations upon its release, including Best Picture, Screenplay and Actor.
Advise & Consent was a political thriller based on Allen Drury’s 1959 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, in which the polarizing search for a new Secretary of State had far-reaching consequences. Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford,...
- 3/21/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
A dark desert highway isn’t just something in an Eagles song — it’s what some Angelenos will be taking to Palm Springs this weekend to experience the particular shade of nightfall that is film noir. The Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival is resuming at the Palm Springs Cultural Center after a pandemic-mandated time-out last year, offering a slate of a dozen familiar or obscure picks over the course of one concentrated weekend, some of them unspooling in rare 35mm prints.
Alan K. Rode, a familiar presence to L.A. repertory filmgoers, not to mention noir fans around the country, is returning as producer and host, joined as a presenter by cohort Eddie Muller, the host of TCM’s “Noir Alley.” TCM is signing onto the Palm Springs event as a presenting sponsor for the first time.
Films range from one of the quintessential noirs, “The Big Sleep,” on the...
Alan K. Rode, a familiar presence to L.A. repertory filmgoers, not to mention noir fans around the country, is returning as producer and host, joined as a presenter by cohort Eddie Muller, the host of TCM’s “Noir Alley.” TCM is signing onto the Palm Springs event as a presenting sponsor for the first time.
Films range from one of the quintessential noirs, “The Big Sleep,” on the...
- 10/19/2021
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
At his leisure, the musician Mavi plays with space and time. The 21-year-old rapper from Charlotte, North Carolina sees storytelling as a way to speak his truth while he’s alive. His latest EP End of the Earth was released to critical praise and marked a significant step towards what could be a major sophomore album from the rising star. The EP’s cover art takes after Shel Silverstein’s Where The Sidewalk Ends, and the metaphor tracks. End of the Earth features Mavi’s sharpest lyrical skill melded seamlessly with shapeshifting lo-fi sonics.
- 6/11/2021
- by Clarissa Brooks
- Rollingstone.com
The Oscar winning co-writer and producer of Brokeback Mountain takes us on a cinematic journey through her life, and talks about the pleasures of writing with Larry McMurtry and Joe Bonnano, and what Ken Kesey’s favorite movie was.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Good Night, And Good Luck (2005)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Red River (1948)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Hud (1963)
Piranha (1978)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
They Drive By Night (1940)
Kings Row (1942)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1942)
The Grapes of Wrath (1942)
Buffalo Bill (1944)
Laura (1944)
Where The Sidewalk Ends (1950)
The Day of the Triffids (1963)
Moby Dick (1956)
Village of the Damned (1960)
Written on the Wind (1956)
Magnificent Obsession (1954)
There’s Always Tomorrow (1956)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Brazil (1985)
Lost In La Mancha (2002)
The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of Twelve Monkeys (1996)
The Fisher King (1991)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
A History of Violence...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Good Night, And Good Luck (2005)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Red River (1948)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Hud (1963)
Piranha (1978)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
They Drive By Night (1940)
Kings Row (1942)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1942)
The Grapes of Wrath (1942)
Buffalo Bill (1944)
Laura (1944)
Where The Sidewalk Ends (1950)
The Day of the Triffids (1963)
Moby Dick (1956)
Village of the Damned (1960)
Written on the Wind (1956)
Magnificent Obsession (1954)
There’s Always Tomorrow (1956)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Brazil (1985)
Lost In La Mancha (2002)
The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of Twelve Monkeys (1996)
The Fisher King (1991)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
A History of Violence...
- 6/23/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Now that he’s done playing Tommy Wiseau, James Franco is turning his attention to a much less disastrous artist: Shel Silverstein. Deadline reports that the multi-multi-hyphenate is now in talks to both direct and star in a biopic about the children’s author, songwriter, poet, and cartoonist, whose books have adorned many a classroom for decades.
Read More:James Franco Recreated 25 Minutes of ‘The Room’ Shot-for-Shot in ‘The Disaster Artist’
Chris Shafer and Paul Vicknair are writing the as-yet untitled project, which is based on the Lisa Rogak book “A Boy Named Shel.” Deadline’s report notes that the film “will focus on the personal and professional struggles that made Silverstein a unique voice.”
Read More:James Franco Reveals Why He Became ‘Frustrated’ After 10 Years of Acting and Had to Do More — Watch
Silverstein, who was born in 1930 and died in 1999, is best known for books like “The Giving Tree,...
Read More:James Franco Recreated 25 Minutes of ‘The Room’ Shot-for-Shot in ‘The Disaster Artist’
Chris Shafer and Paul Vicknair are writing the as-yet untitled project, which is based on the Lisa Rogak book “A Boy Named Shel.” Deadline’s report notes that the film “will focus on the personal and professional struggles that made Silverstein a unique voice.”
Read More:James Franco Reveals Why He Became ‘Frustrated’ After 10 Years of Acting and Had to Do More — Watch
Silverstein, who was born in 1930 and died in 1999, is best known for books like “The Giving Tree,...
- 12/2/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
It looks like James Franco has found a great new film project to jump on board. According to Variety, he is in talks to in and direct a film that will tell the story of prolific children’s book author, cartoonist, and lyricist Shel Silverstein.
Shel Silverstein is best known for his children's books such as The Giving Tree, Where The Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up, A Light in the Attic, Everything On It, The Missing Piece and more. I own all of these books and I enjoyed reading many of them all the time when I was growing up!
In case you didn't know, Silverstein was also a singer, songwriter, and screenwriter. According to the report, the movie will focus "not only on his struggles professionally, but personally as well, and trace how he became the iconic author he is today."
This is actually incredibly cool and James Franco is...
Shel Silverstein is best known for his children's books such as The Giving Tree, Where The Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up, A Light in the Attic, Everything On It, The Missing Piece and more. I own all of these books and I enjoyed reading many of them all the time when I was growing up!
In case you didn't know, Silverstein was also a singer, songwriter, and screenwriter. According to the report, the movie will focus "not only on his struggles professionally, but personally as well, and trace how he became the iconic author he is today."
This is actually incredibly cool and James Franco is...
- 12/1/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Shel Silverstein's book of children's poems, Where The Sidewalk Ends, was a mainstay in all the elementary schools I went to. So, because of that, I have many fond memories of reading through the poems and looking at the crude but unique drawings accompanying them with my friends, laughing our little heads off (especially the poem "Hat"). That fact makes it all the more exciting for... Read More...
- 12/1/2017
- by Damion Damaske
- JoBlo.com
James Franco will play children's book author Shel Silverstein in a biopic that he will also direct.
Based on Lisa Rogak's book A Boy Named Shel, the movie will focus on the personal and professional struggles of the author behind the popular book The Giving Tree and collection of poems Where the Sidewalk Ends. Chris Shafer and Paul Vicknair will write the screenplay.
McG and Mary Viola will produce through their Wonderland banner, along with Gigi Pritzker and Rachel Shane for Mwm Studios, which was recently rebranded from Pritzker's OddLot Entertainment.
Franco will executive produce through Rowena Films with Vince Jolivette and Adrian Alperovich of Mwm, which will fully finance.
The...
Based on Lisa Rogak's book A Boy Named Shel, the movie will focus on the personal and professional struggles of the author behind the popular book The Giving Tree and collection of poems Where the Sidewalk Ends. Chris Shafer and Paul Vicknair will write the screenplay.
McG and Mary Viola will produce through their Wonderland banner, along with Gigi Pritzker and Rachel Shane for Mwm Studios, which was recently rebranded from Pritzker's OddLot Entertainment.
Franco will executive produce through Rowena Films with Vince Jolivette and Adrian Alperovich of Mwm, which will fully finance.
The...
- 12/1/2017
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Dana Andrews movies: Film noir actor excelled in both major and minor crime dramas. Dana Andrews movies: First-rate film noir actor excelled in both classics & minor fare One of the best-looking and most underrated actors of the studio era, Dana Andrews was a first-rate film noir/crime thriller star. Oftentimes dismissed as no more than a “dependable” or “reliable” leading man, in truth Andrews brought to life complex characters that never quite fit into the mold of Hollywood's standardized heroes – or rather, antiheroes. Unlike the cynical, tough-talking, and (albeit at times self-delusionally) self-confident characters played by the likes of Alan Ladd, Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, and, however lazily, Robert Mitchum, Andrews created portrayals of tortured men at odds with their social standing, their sense of ethics, and even their romantic yearnings. Not infrequently, there was only a very fine line separating his (anti)heroes from most movie villains.
- 1/22/2017
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The Notebook is the North American home for Locarno Film Festival Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian's blog. Chatrian has been writing thoughtful blog entries in Italian on Locarno's website since he took over as Director in late 2012, and now you can find the English translations here on the Notebook as they're published. The Locarno Film Festival will be taking place August 2 - 12. We can begin with one of those anecdotes that are the stuff of Hollywood, marking the birth of a star and mapping out a whole career. Gene Tierney had already caught the eye of Anatole Litvak when aged only 17 and, after a happy period of study abroad (right here in Switzerland, in Lausanne), had been invited by a cousin to visit a Hollywood film set. But she took her father’s advice and turned down an offer from Warner Bros in favor of starting on the stage, on Broadway.
- 1/9/2017
- MUBI
There are two major sides to the film noir coin, as I see it – the psychological and the practical. Now, the practical noir is fairly straightforward; maybe a detective has to solve a crime, or someone gets themselves in over their head with some scheme gone wrong. There’s a problem to be solved, and the protagonist either overcomes or becomes consumed by it. Double Indemnity, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Night and the City, The Killing, and The Maltese Falcon fit into this section rather well. The psychological noir uses genre tropes to investigate someone’s soul, usually stemming from their nearness to sin and death. Scarlet Street, Laura, Female on the Beach, The Chase, Sunset Boulevard, and Kiss Me Deadly fit the bill. Obviously films in each use elements of the other to shade the characters or move the story along, but the texture and flavor is notably distinct,...
- 7/19/2016
- by Scott Nye
- CriterionCast
Otto Preminger looks at police corruption and comes up with a classy noir starring Dana Andrews as a rogue cop and Gene Tierney as the woman whose father he accidentally frames for murder. With Karl Malden, Gary Merrill and velvety-slick B&W cinematography by Joseph Lashelle. Where the Sidewalk Ends Blu-ray Twilight Time Limited Edition 1950 / B&W / 1:37 Academy / 95 min. / Ship Date February 9, 2016 / available through Twilight Time Movies / 29.95 Starring Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill, Bert Freed, Tom Tully, Karl Malden, Ruth Donnelly, Craig Stevens. Cinematography Joseph Lashelle Art Direction J. Russell Spencer, Lyle Wheeler Film Editor Louis R. Loeffler Original Music Cyril J. Mockridge Written by Ben Hecht, Robert E. Kent, Frank P. Rosenberg, Victor Trivas from the novel Night Cry by William L. Stuart Produced and Directed by Otto Preminger
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Want to see an example of a gloriously polished studio production, a film noir...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Want to see an example of a gloriously polished studio production, a film noir...
- 2/21/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
In this special episode of Off The Shelf, Ryan and Brian take a look at the new DVD and Blu-ray releases for Tuesday, January 26th 2016.
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Follow-Up Depatie-Freleng Supplements News Arrow Video: Cult Cinema sold out directly (Available from Amazon UK), BFI: Napoleon Criterion Collection: In A Lonely Place Disney: Star Wars: The Force Awakens on Blu-ray 4/5 Flicker Alley: Blu-ray Mod, film noirs John Carpenter Lost Themes II Kino: Tijuana Toads, Roland and Rattfink, Beware! The Blob, Eleni, Fuzz, Absolution, Masters of Cinema: April announcements tomorrow Olive Films: April titles Second Run: teaming up with Arrow Video Shout! Scream: Manhunter cover, MST3K Vol 2, NightHawks, I Saw What You Did / You’ll Like My Mother Thunderbean: Flip the Frog and Cubby Bear Twilight Time: New February titles available for pre-order on Wednesday February 3rd: Where The Sidewalk Ends, Cowboy, The Big Heat,...
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Follow-Up Depatie-Freleng Supplements News Arrow Video: Cult Cinema sold out directly (Available from Amazon UK), BFI: Napoleon Criterion Collection: In A Lonely Place Disney: Star Wars: The Force Awakens on Blu-ray 4/5 Flicker Alley: Blu-ray Mod, film noirs John Carpenter Lost Themes II Kino: Tijuana Toads, Roland and Rattfink, Beware! The Blob, Eleni, Fuzz, Absolution, Masters of Cinema: April announcements tomorrow Olive Films: April titles Second Run: teaming up with Arrow Video Shout! Scream: Manhunter cover, MST3K Vol 2, NightHawks, I Saw What You Did / You’ll Like My Mother Thunderbean: Flip the Frog and Cubby Bear Twilight Time: New February titles available for pre-order on Wednesday February 3rd: Where The Sidewalk Ends, Cowboy, The Big Heat,...
- 2/3/2016
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
Jules Dassin didn’t do much in the way of subversion. At least not cinematically. He didn’t have many overarching themes to his work, he didn’t twist his genre films into something they weren’t. What he did was utilize every one of the handful of tools he was given, and pushed his films to their absolute breaking point. His subversion was a sort of perversion, an excess of imagination and a willingness to show the world as he saw it. If that meant creating a filmography that looked suspicious to the House Committee of Un-American Activities, well, that was just the natural result of having an eye and an ear for how the common man lived.
It can’t have helped that his last film before the blacklist order came down was Thieves’ Highway, an all-out indictment of capitalism cloaked in the noir-drenched mode of a typical Fox gritty,...
It can’t have helped that his last film before the blacklist order came down was Thieves’ Highway, an all-out indictment of capitalism cloaked in the noir-drenched mode of a typical Fox gritty,...
- 12/1/2015
- by Scott Nye
- CriterionCast
★★★★★ Alongside Billy Wilder, Howard Hawks, and John Huston, Otto Preminger was one of the most influential film noir directors in Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s. This new collection by the BFI gives us three of his finest works, namely Fallen Angel (1945), Whirlpool (1949) and Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950). The collection itself is handsomely, if a little sparsely, presented with a small but informative booklet, and trailers and commentaries for each film.
- 9/29/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Part I.
1971 was an incredibly violent year for movies. That year saw, among others, Tom Laughlin’s Billy Jack, with its half-Indian hero karate-chopping rednecks; William Friedkin’s The French Connection, its dogged cops stymied by well-heeled drug runners; Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, banned for the copycat crimes it reportedly inspired; and Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs, featuring the most controversial rape in cinema history. Every bloody shooting, sexual assault and death by penis statue reflected a world gone mad.
It seemed a reaction to America’s skyrocketing crime. Between 1963 and 1975, violent crimes tripled; riots, robberies and assassinations racked major cities. The antiwar and Civil Rights movements generated violent offshoots like the Weathermen and Black Panthers. Citizens blamed politicians like New York Mayor John Lindsay (the original “limousine liberal”), who proclaimed “Peace cannot be imposed on our cities by force of arms,” and Earl Warren’s Supreme Court,...
1971 was an incredibly violent year for movies. That year saw, among others, Tom Laughlin’s Billy Jack, with its half-Indian hero karate-chopping rednecks; William Friedkin’s The French Connection, its dogged cops stymied by well-heeled drug runners; Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, banned for the copycat crimes it reportedly inspired; and Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs, featuring the most controversial rape in cinema history. Every bloody shooting, sexual assault and death by penis statue reflected a world gone mad.
It seemed a reaction to America’s skyrocketing crime. Between 1963 and 1975, violent crimes tripled; riots, robberies and assassinations racked major cities. The antiwar and Civil Rights movements generated violent offshoots like the Weathermen and Black Panthers. Citizens blamed politicians like New York Mayor John Lindsay (the original “limousine liberal”), who proclaimed “Peace cannot be imposed on our cities by force of arms,” and Earl Warren’s Supreme Court,...
- 5/28/2015
- by Christopher Saunders
- SoundOnSight
Skidoo
Written by Doran William Cannon
Directed by Otto Preminger
USA, 1968
Of the nearly 70 films I’ve written about in this column, I would whole-heartedly recommend each without reservation, to not only watch, but to spend good money on. With 1968′s Skidoo, out now on a new Olive Films Blu-ray, I’m breaking that tradition. I wouldn’t suggest anyone purchase this film, though everyone should see it. This is a most unusual, absolutely indefinable, wholly unique motion picture.
I initially viewed Skidoo on the sole basis of its starring Alexandra Hay, who I’ve been smitten with since first seeing her in Jacques Demy’s Model Shop, released the following year. On this point, Skidoo succeeds. Hay is a delightful beauty, charming in a way that is very much of the era. Admittedly unfamiliar with her biography, I can’t imagine why she didn’t have more of a career.
Written by Doran William Cannon
Directed by Otto Preminger
USA, 1968
Of the nearly 70 films I’ve written about in this column, I would whole-heartedly recommend each without reservation, to not only watch, but to spend good money on. With 1968′s Skidoo, out now on a new Olive Films Blu-ray, I’m breaking that tradition. I wouldn’t suggest anyone purchase this film, though everyone should see it. This is a most unusual, absolutely indefinable, wholly unique motion picture.
I initially viewed Skidoo on the sole basis of its starring Alexandra Hay, who I’ve been smitten with since first seeing her in Jacques Demy’s Model Shop, released the following year. On this point, Skidoo succeeds. Hay is a delightful beauty, charming in a way that is very much of the era. Admittedly unfamiliar with her biography, I can’t imagine why she didn’t have more of a career.
- 1/6/2015
- by Jeremy Carr
- SoundOnSight
Terminator: Salvation director McG is producing a feature film biopic based on the life of children's book author, cartoonist, and poet Shel Silverstein. The movie will be an adaptation of the book, A Boy Named Shel: The Life and Times of Shel Silverstein, which was written by Lisa Rogak.
According to the report, the book "explores the personal and professional struggles that made Silverstein, who died in 1999, a unique voice." For those of you not familiar with what he's done, some of the books he wrote include The Giving Tree, and poetry collections Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic. He also wrote songs such as Johnny Cash’s A Boy Named Sue as well as Dr. Hook’s The Cover of Rolling Stone.
I grew up reading Silverstein's stuff, I absolutely loved his stories and poems. They made me laugh and also provided great entertainment. I...
According to the report, the book "explores the personal and professional struggles that made Silverstein, who died in 1999, a unique voice." For those of you not familiar with what he's done, some of the books he wrote include The Giving Tree, and poetry collections Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic. He also wrote songs such as Johnny Cash’s A Boy Named Sue as well as Dr. Hook’s The Cover of Rolling Stone.
I grew up reading Silverstein's stuff, I absolutely loved his stories and poems. They made me laugh and also provided great entertainment. I...
- 7/22/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
If you were ever a grade schooler in desperate need of clever rhymes and you had finally graduated to the point where you were just a hair too mature for the wacky words of a one Dr. Seuss, your grubby little hands likely reached for a heavy Shel Silverstein tome like “Where the Sidewalk Ends” or “A Light in the Attic.” His sprawling books of colorful poetry and beautiful accompanying illustrations (all his own) chronicled all the issues that mattered the most to children. For instance, flipping open a Silverstein book could point you to the plight of a modern day King Midas, who turns everything he touches to raspberry jello. A perfect hell! Or maybe you’d settle on the story of Melinda Mae, the girl who tried to eat an entire whale, an actually does so in the span of 80 years. That’s just silly. Now, the man who brought so much joy to our...
- 7/21/2014
- by Samantha Wilson
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Written by Ben Hecht
Directed by Otto Preminger
USA, 1950
To those paying attention, film history teaches that groups of like-minded artists enjoy working together. The better the result of their initial project, the higher the likelihood the same team shall reconvene to produce one, two, or more films, hopefully of equal or superior quality. Some time ago in this column, Otto Preminger’s 1944 Laura was reviewed, a brilliant picture about a detective falling in love with a believed-to-be-deceased woman based on her stunning portrait, starring Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney as the lovers in question. Six years following said sumptuous collaboration, the same director-actors partnership brought audiences Where the Sidewalk Ends, an equally bittersweet tale of misguided love.
The set-up to Preminger’s 1950 film makes it come across as something of a spiritual precursor to Nicholas Ray’s On Dangerous Ground, which would come out two years later.
Written by Ben Hecht
Directed by Otto Preminger
USA, 1950
To those paying attention, film history teaches that groups of like-minded artists enjoy working together. The better the result of their initial project, the higher the likelihood the same team shall reconvene to produce one, two, or more films, hopefully of equal or superior quality. Some time ago in this column, Otto Preminger’s 1944 Laura was reviewed, a brilliant picture about a detective falling in love with a believed-to-be-deceased woman based on her stunning portrait, starring Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney as the lovers in question. Six years following said sumptuous collaboration, the same director-actors partnership brought audiences Where the Sidewalk Ends, an equally bittersweet tale of misguided love.
The set-up to Preminger’s 1950 film makes it come across as something of a spiritual precursor to Nicholas Ray’s On Dangerous Ground, which would come out two years later.
- 9/5/2013
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
Why Watch? It’s impossible not to cheer for the young boy in Icarus 1 as he builds something to help him escape a troubled home life. The film from writer/director/Dp Anthony Ladesich envisions a world where childhood hopes can be glued together on cardboard along with loose wires and a bit of imagination to create something that defies reality. Shot beautifully to put us in smaller shoes, we get a ground level view of the humble pieces that the kid cobbles together even as the floating voices of his fighting parents threaten to invade his safe space. When it’s time to go (he’s smart enough to pack some clothes and a copy of “Where the Sidewalk Ends”), there’s a palpable rush of hope filling us with a desperate desire to see the machines of his engineered imagination work in a weary world burdened by gravity. What...
- 6/20/2013
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Woody Harrelson became famous 30 years ago when, still in his early 20s, he joined the cast of the TV comedy series Cheers as the goofy, grinning bartender Woody Boyd from Hanover, Indiana. He seemed to be a simple, friendly small-town boy, somewhat out of his depth in the big city. During the 1990s his public and private personae rapidly changed. He became known as a reckless hard drinker and an outspoken political activist, whose father was a contract killer serving a life sentence for murdering a federal judge. On screen he played increasingly complex and darker roles, some of them bizarre variations on the Woody character (basketball hustler in White Men Can't Jump; psychotic criminal in Natural Born Killers), others reaching out in quite different directions (the pornographer with a civil rights mission in The People vs Larry Flynt; the gay Washington gigolo in The Walker). Ingratiation with popular audiences...
- 2/26/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Many people remember Shel Silverstein as the beloved illustrator and author of childhood poetry, including the legendary Where The Sidewalk Ends. Now, 12 years after his death, his family has released a new collection of beautiful poems called Everything on It.
As the title suggests, some of the poetry is inspired by food. There were more than 1,000 poems to choose from, but the family narrowed the selections down to 145. Here's a sample from the collection:
Italian Food
Oh, how I love Italian food.
I eat it all the time,
Not just 'cause how good it tastes
But 'cause how good it rhymes.
Minestrone, cannelloni,
Macaroni, rigatoni,
Spaghettini, scallopini,
Escarole, braciole,
Insalata, cremolata, manicotti,
Marinara, carbonara,
Shrimp francese, Bolognese,
Ravioli, mostaccioli,
Mozzarella, tagliatelle,
Fried zucchini, rollatini,
Fettuccine, green linguine,
Tortellini, Tetrazzini,
Oops—I think I split my jeani.
You can buy the book here.
As the title suggests, some of the poetry is inspired by food. There were more than 1,000 poems to choose from, but the family narrowed the selections down to 145. Here's a sample from the collection:
Italian Food
Oh, how I love Italian food.
I eat it all the time,
Not just 'cause how good it tastes
But 'cause how good it rhymes.
Minestrone, cannelloni,
Macaroni, rigatoni,
Spaghettini, scallopini,
Escarole, braciole,
Insalata, cremolata, manicotti,
Marinara, carbonara,
Shrimp francese, Bolognese,
Ravioli, mostaccioli,
Mozzarella, tagliatelle,
Fried zucchini, rollatini,
Fettuccine, green linguine,
Tortellini, Tetrazzini,
Oops—I think I split my jeani.
You can buy the book here.
- 9/25/2011
- by aadragna
- Foodista
Twelve years after his death, there's a new book of poems from noted children's author Shel Silverstein.
The collection, entitled "Every Thing On It," offers 145 previously unreleased poems with typical Silverstein-esque titles like "Italian Food" and "Dirty Clothes."
Silverstein had prolific career, publishing nearly 20 books including "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and "A Light in the Attic." In addition to these books, which sold in excess of 20 million copies, Silverstein recorded more than 10 albums, received a Grammy and was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe.
Toni Markiet, editor of book, worked for years alongside the author. She tells NPR that Silvestein was a stickler for details.
She says. "I think one of the reasons his books are still so immensely popular after almost 50 years is that every tiny detail was considered."
And now there's one more to add to the library.
The collection, entitled "Every Thing On It," offers 145 previously unreleased poems with typical Silverstein-esque titles like "Italian Food" and "Dirty Clothes."
Silverstein had prolific career, publishing nearly 20 books including "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and "A Light in the Attic." In addition to these books, which sold in excess of 20 million copies, Silverstein recorded more than 10 albums, received a Grammy and was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe.
Toni Markiet, editor of book, worked for years alongside the author. She tells NPR that Silvestein was a stickler for details.
She says. "I think one of the reasons his books are still so immensely popular after almost 50 years is that every tiny detail was considered."
And now there's one more to add to the library.
- 9/20/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Book adaptations -- when they're done right -- are movie magic. You need only look to "Harry Potter" and "Twilight" for proof that smart producers make films with a built-in fan base, and many (if not most) of our favorite kids' movies got their start on the bookshelf.
We're probably not the target audience for "Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer," starring Heather Graham and a sweet li'l moppet named Jordana Beatty. The book was released in 2000, when most of us here were a touch too old to be reading about third grade troublemakers.
But all good kids' books satisfy someone's sense of nostalgia -- your "Judy Moody" might be our "Willy Wonka." And no matter how many classics get the big screen treatment, some will always fall through the cracks. So here are nine books we can't believe we've never seen onscreen.
'A Wrinkle in Time'...
We're probably not the target audience for "Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer," starring Heather Graham and a sweet li'l moppet named Jordana Beatty. The book was released in 2000, when most of us here were a touch too old to be reading about third grade troublemakers.
But all good kids' books satisfy someone's sense of nostalgia -- your "Judy Moody" might be our "Willy Wonka." And no matter how many classics get the big screen treatment, some will always fall through the cracks. So here are nine books we can't believe we've never seen onscreen.
'A Wrinkle in Time'...
- 6/8/2011
- by Brooke Tarnoff
- NextMovie
For this go around in our Faces of Indie Horror Month, I spoke to director Walter Ruether about his just released Nightmare Alley. I wanted to highlight someone that's just about indie as it gets in the horror field. Here's what he had to say:
For those unfamiliar with you, who are you and what are you all about?
Well my real name is Walter Ruether (aka Scarlet Fry). To date I have done three anthology films, two in which have been distributed. My latest film Nightmare Alley comes out on DVD August 10th. You can pre order it right now on Amazon, Borders, or Walmart just about anywhere.
You've acted and directed, what made you want to get involved with horror?
I've always loved horror. The only reason I ever acted and started to make films was due to my love for the genre. I've acted in several films...
For those unfamiliar with you, who are you and what are you all about?
Well my real name is Walter Ruether (aka Scarlet Fry). To date I have done three anthology films, two in which have been distributed. My latest film Nightmare Alley comes out on DVD August 10th. You can pre order it right now on Amazon, Borders, or Walmart just about anywhere.
You've acted and directed, what made you want to get involved with horror?
I've always loved horror. The only reason I ever acted and started to make films was due to my love for the genre. I've acted in several films...
- 8/24/2010
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
Gene Tierney on TCM Schedule and synopses from the TCM website: 3:00 Am Plymouth Adventure (1952) Epic dramatization of the Pilgrims’ journey to the new world on the Mayflower. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Gene Tierney, Van Johnson. Dir: Clarence Brown. C-106 mins. 5:00 Am Personal Affair (1953) When a teenaged student disappears, her teacher is suspected of killing her. Cast: Gene Tierney, Leo Genn, Glynis Johns. Dir: Anthony Pelissier. Bw-82 mins. 6:30 Am Never Let Me Go (1953) An American correspondent and his Russian ballerina wife are separated by the Soviet authorities. Cast: Clark Gable, Gene Tierney, Richard Haydn. Dir: Delmer Daves. Bw-94 mins. 8:15 Am Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) A police detective’s violent nature keeps him from being a good cop. Cast: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill. Dir: Otto Preminger. Bw-95 mins. 10:00 Am Shanghai Gesture, The (1941) A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from [...]...
- 8/14/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
What the hell is wrong with kids? Looking over the list of winners for Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards, held over the weekend, you have to wonder if their brains are fully formed yet. What genuinely awful taste kids have in film and television. Nevermind just the winners, where's Meryl Streep among the nominees? Or Precious? Or Inglorious Basterds? What? Are they too pedestrian for "Breaking Bad" or "Mad Men"? Clearly, I just don't understand the younger generation. What's an iCarly, anyway?
Here's some advice that came to me while I was reading the list of winners: Next time you're out on the playground, hanging with the little ones, walk up to one of the kids and ask, "Who is your favorite couple?" If they mention anyone from the Twilight movies, just kill it*. Snuff it out. Give that snot-nosed crumb-snatching booger eater some mercy -- just squelch all the life...
Here's some advice that came to me while I was reading the list of winners: Next time you're out on the playground, hanging with the little ones, walk up to one of the kids and ask, "Who is your favorite couple?" If they mention anyone from the Twilight movies, just kill it*. Snuff it out. Give that snot-nosed crumb-snatching booger eater some mercy -- just squelch all the life...
- 3/29/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
With another awards show having come and gone, the stars put on quite the show at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday (March 27).
Hosted by "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" actor Kevin James, the annual fete at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion was kicked off with a hip-hop dance routine while Adam Sandler serenaded him while descending from the ceiling dressed as an angel.
As for the winners, Taylor Lautner snatched up two orange blimps as Favorite Actor and the Couple Award with "New Moon" co-star Kristen Stewart.
Others to take home honors included "iCarly" for Favorite TV Show, Selena Gomez for TV Actress and Dylan Sprouse for TV Actor.
A complete list of winners at the 2010 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards is as follows:
Favorite TV Show
iCarly - Winner
Sonny with a Chance
The Suite Life on Deck
Wizards of Waverly Place
Cutest Couple
Jacob and Bella -...
Hosted by "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" actor Kevin James, the annual fete at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion was kicked off with a hip-hop dance routine while Adam Sandler serenaded him while descending from the ceiling dressed as an angel.
As for the winners, Taylor Lautner snatched up two orange blimps as Favorite Actor and the Couple Award with "New Moon" co-star Kristen Stewart.
Others to take home honors included "iCarly" for Favorite TV Show, Selena Gomez for TV Actress and Dylan Sprouse for TV Actor.
A complete list of winners at the 2010 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards is as follows:
Favorite TV Show
iCarly - Winner
Sonny with a Chance
The Suite Life on Deck
Wizards of Waverly Place
Cutest Couple
Jacob and Bella -...
- 3/28/2010
- GossipCenter
Taylor Swift topped the winners at the 2010 Kids' Choice Awards with two wins -- one for Favorite Female Singer and one for Favorite Song.
Taylor Lautner also took home two -- if you count an award for Jacob Black in "Cutest Couple."
The complete 2010 Kids Choice Awards Nominees and Winners List:
Favorite TV Show
iCarly
Sonny with a Chance
The Suite Life on Deck
Wizards of Waverly Place
Favorite TV Actor
Cole Sprouse
Dylan Sprouse
Joe Jonas
Nick Jonas
Favorite TV Actress
Miranda Cosgrove
Miley Cyrus
Selena Gomez
Keke Palmer
Favorite Music Group
Black Eyed Peas
Coldplay
Jonas Brothers
Linkin Park
Favorite Female Singer
Beyonce
Miley Cyrus
Lady Gaga
Taylor Swift
Favorite Male Singer
Jay-z
Sean Kingston
Mario
Ne-Yo
Favorite Song
I Gotta Feeling, Black Eyed Peas
Paparazzi, Lady Gaga
Party in the USA, Miley Cyrus
You Belong with Me, Taylor Swift
Favorite Movie
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The...
Taylor Lautner also took home two -- if you count an award for Jacob Black in "Cutest Couple."
The complete 2010 Kids Choice Awards Nominees and Winners List:
Favorite TV Show
iCarly
Sonny with a Chance
The Suite Life on Deck
Wizards of Waverly Place
Favorite TV Actor
Cole Sprouse
Dylan Sprouse
Joe Jonas
Nick Jonas
Favorite TV Actress
Miranda Cosgrove
Miley Cyrus
Selena Gomez
Keke Palmer
Favorite Music Group
Black Eyed Peas
Coldplay
Jonas Brothers
Linkin Park
Favorite Female Singer
Beyonce
Miley Cyrus
Lady Gaga
Taylor Swift
Favorite Male Singer
Jay-z
Sean Kingston
Mario
Ne-Yo
Favorite Song
I Gotta Feeling, Black Eyed Peas
Paparazzi, Lady Gaga
Party in the USA, Miley Cyrus
You Belong with Me, Taylor Swift
Favorite Movie
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The...
- 3/28/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
The slime is cooking, the jokes are carefully being picked, and the final nomination list has been presented. In years past, we have seen some pretty outrageous moments and the Kca is the place for actors to come and let loose. Get ready for a night of fun with the return of the annual Kids' Choice Awards airing live from UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion on Saturday, March 27 from 8:00-9:30pm. Check out the full list of nominees to see if your favorites from movies, television, music, sports, and other categories made the cut this year. Hosted by actor/comedian Kevin James whose most notable roles include Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2008) and his hit series The King of Queens (TV) which ended in 2007 after a nine year run. This June, James will be starring alongside Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Steve Buscemi, and Salma Hayek in Grown Ups (2010), a story...
- 2/18/2010
- by cjoyce@corp.popstar.com (Colleen Joyce)
- PopStar
Does one leg of the "Twilight" love triangle win your heart or are you taken with the real-life love story happening at the White House?
The Nickelodeon Kids Choice awards announced its nominees and wants fans to vote on their favorite couple, among other categories.
The "Twilight" Team Edward and Team Jacob debate is a classic, but Kids Choice also wants to consider "Avatar's" Jake and Neytiri and President Obama and his First Lady for the favorite couple.
In the real world, Team Edward lost out to Team Jacob in the favorite movie actor category. Taylor Lautner got nominated, but Robert Pattinson was left off the list.
The TV actor category is even more fierce. It's brother against brother as Cole and Dylan Sprouse face off against each other as well as Joe and Nick Jonas.
Voting begins on Thursday, Feb. 25 at Nick.com
Favorite Couple
Edward & Bella ("Twilight...
The Nickelodeon Kids Choice awards announced its nominees and wants fans to vote on their favorite couple, among other categories.
The "Twilight" Team Edward and Team Jacob debate is a classic, but Kids Choice also wants to consider "Avatar's" Jake and Neytiri and President Obama and his First Lady for the favorite couple.
In the real world, Team Edward lost out to Team Jacob in the favorite movie actor category. Taylor Lautner got nominated, but Robert Pattinson was left off the list.
The TV actor category is even more fierce. It's brother against brother as Cole and Dylan Sprouse face off against each other as well as Joe and Nick Jonas.
Voting begins on Thursday, Feb. 25 at Nick.com
Favorite Couple
Edward & Bella ("Twilight...
- 2/17/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Nickelodeon has announced the nominees for their annual Kids' Choice Awards. See which of the nominees get the orange blimp on Saturday, March 27. Actor Kevin James is set to host the show. Read on for a list of nominees who may get slimed onstage. TV Show: iCarly Sonny with a Chance The Suite Life on Deck Wizards of Waverly Place TV Actor: Cole Sprouse Dylan Sprouse Joe Jonas Nick Jonas TV Actress: Miranda Cosgrove Miley Cyrus Selena Gomez Keke Palmer Music Group: Black Eyed Peas Coldplay Jonas Brothers Linkin Park Female Singer: Beyonce Miley Cyrus Lady Gaga Taylor Swift Male Singer: Jay-z Sean Kingston Mario Ne-Yo Song: I Gotta Feeling (Black Eyed Peas) Paparazzi (Lady Gaga) Party in the USA (Miley Cyrus) You Belong with Me (Taylor Swift) Movie: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen The Twilight Saga: New Moon X-Men Origins: Wolverine Movie...
- 2/17/2010
- by TheInsider
- TheInsider.com
Kevin James has been tapped as host of Nickelodeon's 23rd Annual Kids' Choice Awards, which will air March 27 live from UCLA's Pauley Pavilion.
He succeeds last year's host Dwayne Johnson.
"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" expectedly led the nominations with five noms, followed by "Monsters vs. Aliens" and "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" with three.
The best movie field includes "Twilight," "Transformers," "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" and "X-Men Origins: Wolverine."
Three-time Kids' Choice winner Miley Cyrus scored four nominations: one each for Favorite TV Actress ("Hannah Montana"), Favorite Movie Actress ("Hannah Montana: The Movie"), Favorite Female Singer and Favorite Song ("Party in the USA").
Brother acts Sprouse and Jonas are television category favorites, each with three nominations for Favorite TV Show ("The Suite Life on Deck") and TV Actor (Dylan Sprouse, Cole Sprouse) and Favorite Music Group (Jonas Brothers) and TV Actor (Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas), respectively.
He succeeds last year's host Dwayne Johnson.
"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" expectedly led the nominations with five noms, followed by "Monsters vs. Aliens" and "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" with three.
The best movie field includes "Twilight," "Transformers," "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" and "X-Men Origins: Wolverine."
Three-time Kids' Choice winner Miley Cyrus scored four nominations: one each for Favorite TV Actress ("Hannah Montana"), Favorite Movie Actress ("Hannah Montana: The Movie"), Favorite Female Singer and Favorite Song ("Party in the USA").
Brother acts Sprouse and Jonas are television category favorites, each with three nominations for Favorite TV Show ("The Suite Life on Deck") and TV Actor (Dylan Sprouse, Cole Sprouse) and Favorite Music Group (Jonas Brothers) and TV Actor (Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas), respectively.
- 2/16/2010
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The nominations have been announced and The Twilight Saga is nominated in three different categories for the 2010 Kids Choice Awards! The awards which air live on Nickelodeon on March 27th at 8pm list The Twilight Saga New Moon as a nominee for Favorite Movie Taylor Lautner as a nominee for Favorite Movie Actor and the entire Twilight Series as a nominee for Favorite Book. Check out the nominees and their competition belowFavorite Movie Alvin and the Chipmunks The Squeakuel Transformers Revenge of the Fallen The Twilight Saga New Moon XMen Origins WolverineFavorite Movie Actor Zac Efron Taylor Lautner Shia LeBeouf Tyler PerryFavorite Book Diary of a Wimpy Kid series Twilight series Vampire Diaries series Where the Sidewalk Ends View all of the nominees here check out the Kids Choice Awards site here and dont forget to watch the 2010 Kids Choice Awards live on Saturday March 27th at 8pm!
- 2/15/2010
- twilightersanonymous.com
The nominations for the 2010 Kids' Choice Awards are in, and the Twilight series has been recognized in quite a few categories! First of all, 2009's The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the second film in the series, is now nominated for "Favorite Movie" (alongside Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakuel, Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine). Additionally, the Twilight series (by Stephenie Meyer) is nominated, once again, for "Favorite Book." The Twilight series is nominated alongside the Diary Of A Wimpy Kid series (by Jeff Kinney), the Vampire Diaries series (by L.J. Smith), and Where The Sidewalk Ends (by Shel Silverstein). At the 2009 Kids' Choice Awards, the Twilight series was nominated against the Diary Of A Wimpy Kid books (as well as the Harry Potter series) and won. Taylor Lautner (who portrays "Jacob Black" in the film series) is nominated for "Favorite Movie Actor" alongside Zac Efron,...
- 2/15/2010
- by thetwilightexaminer
- Twilight Examiner
Danica Patrick has another chance to be named Favorite Female Athlete at the upcoming Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. The race car driver has been included in the nomination once again after winning the category in 2008 and losing it to basketball player Candance Parker last year.
Meanwhile, in the Favorite Male Athlete, Kobe Bryant is seen back on the list after the last time nominated in 2003. He will battle out the title with fellow basketballer LeBron James, skateboarder Ryan Sheckler, and snowboarder Shaun White. Golfer Tiger Woods who had consecutively been nominated in the past three years, is not included this year.
In the book category, Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series which inspires box office movies "Twilight" and "The Twilight Saga's New Moon" is nominated along with another vampire books "Vampire Diaries" which are adapted to TV series "The Vampire Diaries".
Winners of the 23rd Annual Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards will...
Meanwhile, in the Favorite Male Athlete, Kobe Bryant is seen back on the list after the last time nominated in 2003. He will battle out the title with fellow basketballer LeBron James, skateboarder Ryan Sheckler, and snowboarder Shaun White. Golfer Tiger Woods who had consecutively been nominated in the past three years, is not included this year.
In the book category, Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series which inspires box office movies "Twilight" and "The Twilight Saga's New Moon" is nominated along with another vampire books "Vampire Diaries" which are adapted to TV series "The Vampire Diaries".
Winners of the 23rd Annual Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards will...
- 2/15/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Nominees for 2010 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards have been unraveled, and Miley Cyrus has come out as the leader of the nominations collectors. Not only did she lead the pack, the Disney star was also the only one who manage to score nomination from three different categories; music, movie and television.
The 17-year-old songstress grabbed noms for Favorite Song for her single "Party in the U.S.A", Favorite Female Singer, Favorite Movie Actress and Favorite TV Actress. In both of her music nominations, she will be facing tough competition from Grammy-winning singers Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift.
For her television category, Miley is up against her fellow Disney star Selena Gomez, whose TV series "Wizards of Waverly Place" also gets nominated for Favorite TV Show. Meanwhile, in movie, the rumored girlfriend of Liam Hemsworth will be facing Sandra Bullock, Megan Fox, Zoe Saldana.
Other nominees include Taylor Lautner. While he...
The 17-year-old songstress grabbed noms for Favorite Song for her single "Party in the U.S.A", Favorite Female Singer, Favorite Movie Actress and Favorite TV Actress. In both of her music nominations, she will be facing tough competition from Grammy-winning singers Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift.
For her television category, Miley is up against her fellow Disney star Selena Gomez, whose TV series "Wizards of Waverly Place" also gets nominated for Favorite TV Show. Meanwhile, in movie, the rumored girlfriend of Liam Hemsworth will be facing Sandra Bullock, Megan Fox, Zoe Saldana.
Other nominees include Taylor Lautner. While he...
- 2/15/2010
- by celebrity-mania.com
- Celebrity Mania
Every Hollywood studio had its distinctive style, partly brought about by artists it had under contract. This quartet of classic 20th Century-Fox thrillers features three films directed by Otto Preminger (Fallen Angel, 1945; Whirlpool, 1949; Where the Sidewalk Ends, 1950). The fourth film is the greatest noir movie made in Britain, Jules Dassin's Night and the City (1950), the first film I saw being made. As an impressionable 15-year-old, I (and my parents) stumbled across a shoot in a Soho alley featuring Fox's new heavy Richard Widmark and femme fatale Googie Withers. Gene Tierney (the eponymous Laura in Preminger's first venture into noir) is in three of the movies, her Laura co-star Dana Andrews in two of them. Indicative of the way the genre reflected disturbing social undercurrents is that in all these films there were people – actors, writers and a director (Jules Dassin) – who became blacklisted McCarthy victims.
DVD and video reviewsPhilip French
guardian.
DVD and video reviewsPhilip French
guardian.
- 12/20/2009
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Currently screening at the Pacific Film Archive through December 20, 2009 is a 14-film tribute "Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie", curated by Steve Seid. The first three entries in the series--Laura (1944), Fallen Angel (1945) and Daisy Kenyon (1947)--constitute the heft of Otto Preminger's collaboration with actor Dana Andrews, with the exception of Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950), which has not been included in the series (though--incidentally enough--it reunited the Laura duo: Andrews and Gene Tierney).
- 12/3/2009
- Screen Anarchy
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