Kevin Costner has been in the entertainment industry for decades now. Although he kickstarted his career with the independent film Sizzle Beach, U.S.A., many consider his film debut to be 1983’s The Touch due to issues with the former’s documentation and release.
Kevin Costner in a still from Horizon: An American Saga
1987’s The Untouchables and No Way Out catapulted Costner to superstar status. Soon, after the success of his movie Dances with Wolves, which won 7 out of the 12 Academy Awards it was nominated for, he chose to go against all odds to cast the late singer Whitney Houston in the 1992 romantic drama The Bodyguard. He once revealed how he faced opposition for this decision and also the reason why some found the legendary singer unfit for the role.
Kevin Costner on His Decision to Star Against Whitney Houston Being Opposed
Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner in...
Kevin Costner in a still from Horizon: An American Saga
1987’s The Untouchables and No Way Out catapulted Costner to superstar status. Soon, after the success of his movie Dances with Wolves, which won 7 out of the 12 Academy Awards it was nominated for, he chose to go against all odds to cast the late singer Whitney Houston in the 1992 romantic drama The Bodyguard. He once revealed how he faced opposition for this decision and also the reason why some found the legendary singer unfit for the role.
Kevin Costner on His Decision to Star Against Whitney Houston Being Opposed
Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner in...
- 4/9/2024
- by Ankita
- FandomWire
The film is out of the running due to a “conflict of interest” among the selection committee.
The producer of Hong Kong film A Light Never Goes Out has spoken out following the disqualification of the feature from the 2024 Oscars race.
The drama was submitted by the Federation of Motion Film Producers of Hong Kong for the international feature film category of the 96th Academy Awards in September. But when the Academy revealed the list of eligible titles last Thursday, A Light Never Goes Out was not included and the Federation is trying to figure out why.
Despite the outcome,...
The producer of Hong Kong film A Light Never Goes Out has spoken out following the disqualification of the feature from the 2024 Oscars race.
The drama was submitted by the Federation of Motion Film Producers of Hong Kong for the international feature film category of the 96th Academy Awards in September. But when the Academy revealed the list of eligible titles last Thursday, A Light Never Goes Out was not included and the Federation is trying to figure out why.
Despite the outcome,...
- 12/12/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Taiwanese screenwriter and director Su Chao Bin wrote this Ming Dynasty wuxia drama primarily for Michelle Yeoh to star in. According to Su and producer Terence Chang, the approach was to do a story in the style of Gu Long's wuxia, populated with multiple characters plus a touch of suspense and mystery. Producer John Woo's input is mainly as an adviser, but he did direct one action scene which featured his daughter and thereby also credited as co-director. Su won the Best Director award for his effort at the 17th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards.
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The story starts off with an interesting animated prologue detailing the arrival of Monk Bodhi from India some eight hundred years ago. He spent his early years preaching in the Palace and then retired to Mt Jinhua where he trained and...
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The story starts off with an interesting animated prologue detailing the arrival of Monk Bodhi from India some eight hundred years ago. He spent his early years preaching in the Palace and then retired to Mt Jinhua where he trained and...
- 10/27/2023
- by David Chew
- AsianMoviePulse
This has a very 80s feel with some 90s elements in there, doesn’t it? Stan Bush has come through with a couple of big songs for the movies that people might remember since he came up with “The Touch” for the Transformers movie and “Fight to Survive” for Bloodsport. Now you’re placing him a little better, aren’t you? This clip from Baki and Kengan Ashura does a great job of allowing Stan to bust out his 80s magic and inspiration that was actually pretty cool when it first came around in a couple of other movies since it really fit
Check Out The Netflix Anime Music Video for Stan Bush’s 80s-Tastic “Born to Fight”...
Check Out The Netflix Anime Music Video for Stan Bush’s 80s-Tastic “Born to Fight”...
- 11/27/2020
- by Tom
- TVovermind.com
Stage and screen acting legend Max Von Sydow, who starred in The Seventh Seal and appeared in The Exorcist, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Flash Gordon, and Game of Thrones, died on March 8 at the age of 90, according to Variety.
“It is with a broken heart and with infinite sadness that we have the extreme pain of announcing the departure of Max von Sydow,” his wife, the producer Catherine Brelet, said in a statement.
Von Sydow made his Hollywood debut as Jesus in the 1965 Biblical epic The Greatest Story Ever Told. This gave him the authority to observe “if Jesus were alive today and saw what they are saying in his name, he would never stop throwing up” in Woody Allen’s 1986 film Hannah and Her Sisters. Von Sydow had the power to compel Satan as Father Merrin in William Friedkin’s 1973 horror classic The Exorcist and Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), directed by John Boorman.
“It is with a broken heart and with infinite sadness that we have the extreme pain of announcing the departure of Max von Sydow,” his wife, the producer Catherine Brelet, said in a statement.
Von Sydow made his Hollywood debut as Jesus in the 1965 Biblical epic The Greatest Story Ever Told. This gave him the authority to observe “if Jesus were alive today and saw what they are saying in his name, he would never stop throwing up” in Woody Allen’s 1986 film Hannah and Her Sisters. Von Sydow had the power to compel Satan as Father Merrin in William Friedkin’s 1973 horror classic The Exorcist and Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), directed by John Boorman.
- 3/9/2020
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
Max von Sydow, the tall, tragic-faced Swedish actor whose name was virtually synonymous with the films of Ingmar Bergman, has died. He was 90.
Variety has confirmed that the actor died on Sunday.
Von Sydow, who became Bergman’s symbol for the modern man in such films as “The Passion of Anna” and “Shame” after making his Bergman debut as the errant knight in “The Seventh Seal,” also had an unusually prolific career in Hollywood and international films.
He made his American debut in the role of Jesus Christ in George Stevens’ turgid 1965 epic “The Greatest Story Ever Told” and went on to make strong impressions with audiences in “The Exorcist,” Woody Allen’s “Hannah and Her Sisters,” David Lynch’s “Dune,” “Three Days of the Condor,” “Hawaii,” “Conan the Barbarian” and “Awakenings.”
Von Sydow worked for other Scandinavian directors as well, drawing an Oscar nomination for his role in Bille August...
Variety has confirmed that the actor died on Sunday.
Von Sydow, who became Bergman’s symbol for the modern man in such films as “The Passion of Anna” and “Shame” after making his Bergman debut as the errant knight in “The Seventh Seal,” also had an unusually prolific career in Hollywood and international films.
He made his American debut in the role of Jesus Christ in George Stevens’ turgid 1965 epic “The Greatest Story Ever Told” and went on to make strong impressions with audiences in “The Exorcist,” Woody Allen’s “Hannah and Her Sisters,” David Lynch’s “Dune,” “Three Days of the Condor,” “Hawaii,” “Conan the Barbarian” and “Awakenings.”
Von Sydow worked for other Scandinavian directors as well, drawing an Oscar nomination for his role in Bille August...
- 3/9/2020
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
Robert Altman’s freewheeling La-set mystery “The Long Goodbye” arrived in 1973 like a cigarette in the eye of detective-story conventions. Based on Raymond Chandler’s pulp novel, the film also announced the leading-man status of the idiosyncratic Elliott Gould, who plays world-weary, boozy, chain-smoking gumshoe Philip Marlowe. Gould previously starred in Robert Altman’s 1970 Palme d’Or winner “Mash” and earned a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for 1969’s “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice.”
During a wide-ranging Q&a following a 35mm screening of “The Long Goodbye” at Los Angeles’ genre film festival Beyond Fest at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, Gould discussed his many iconic collaborations — from Altman to Ingmar Bergman (1971’s “The Touch”) and Steven Soderbergh, for whom Gould starred in the “Ocean’s” films as well as “Contagion.”
While no formal sequel to “The Long Goodbye” has ever been announced, Gould thinks Soderbergh would make...
During a wide-ranging Q&a following a 35mm screening of “The Long Goodbye” at Los Angeles’ genre film festival Beyond Fest at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, Gould discussed his many iconic collaborations — from Altman to Ingmar Bergman (1971’s “The Touch”) and Steven Soderbergh, for whom Gould starred in the “Ocean’s” films as well as “Contagion.”
While no formal sequel to “The Long Goodbye” has ever been announced, Gould thinks Soderbergh would make...
- 9/29/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Chicago – With the major league baseball playoffs on the horizon, there is no better way to celebrate than a screening of the ballgame-themed TV pilot “Vendors,” created by Christopher Biewer, directed by Joel Murray and featuring Biewer, Kim DeJesus, Tim Kazurinsky, Emo Philips and former Chicago Cub Ryan Dempster. The event will take place at The iO Theater in Chicago on Saturday, September 14th at 5:30pm, followed by a Q&a with Joel Murray, Christopher Biewer and Ryan Dempster, moderated by Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com. For more details and tickets, click here.
“Vendors” is a TV pilot that tells the story of Kyle Lydecker (Christopher Biewer), a former businessman who ends up losing everything and must start over. Through the connections of his uncle (Tim Kazurinsky), he starts working as a vendor at the same stadium where he attended college. His fellow vendors are a collection of oddballs and castoffs,...
“Vendors” is a TV pilot that tells the story of Kyle Lydecker (Christopher Biewer), a former businessman who ends up losing everything and must start over. Through the connections of his uncle (Tim Kazurinsky), he starts working as a vendor at the same stadium where he attended college. His fellow vendors are a collection of oddballs and castoffs,...
- 9/12/2019
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
When a big, prestigious, internationally celebrated arthouse filmmaker, hoisted by his acclaim, gets the chance to make a “crossover” movie somewhere other than his native country, it tends to seem like a great idea on paper, yet often doesn’t work out so well. Examples of this time-honored phenomenon range from Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Zabriskie Point” to Ingmar Bergman’s “The Touch” to Wim Wenders’ “Hammett” to Asghar Farhadi’s recent “Everybody Knows” — movies in which you can hear the voice of the filmmaker, though not nearly as vividly as you did in the films that made his crossover possible. But “The Truth,” the first movie written and directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda (“Shoplifters”) outside his native Japan, doesn’t fall into that more-mainstream-yet-lesser trap.
“The Truth,” which Kore-eda shot with a French crew, is set in Paris, and it’s one of those dramas in which a beloved, larger-than-life movie-star diva — in this case,...
“The Truth,” which Kore-eda shot with a French crew, is set in Paris, and it’s one of those dramas in which a beloved, larger-than-life movie-star diva — in this case,...
- 8/28/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Popular industry blog Yuemuchina recently named the “new big four” companies that it believes have edged out the old guard studios and now dominate the Middle Kingdom movie scene. Along with obvious choices of tech giant Tencent and Beijing Culture, a producer on a hot streak, the list also included Bona Film Group.
Given that Bona is celebrating its 20th anniversary, something that makes it one of the oldest players in the Chinese film industry, labeling it as new and influential is testament to the company’s enduring significance.
That success is in large measure attributable to founder and present-day chairman Yu Dong, who dominates through intellect, instinct and a willingness to make huge decisions that others would shy away from. His analyses of the trends in the Chinese industry are always listened to and his box office forecasts are mostly right.
Yu began his career as an intern at state-controlled behemoth China Film Group,...
Given that Bona is celebrating its 20th anniversary, something that makes it one of the oldest players in the Chinese film industry, labeling it as new and influential is testament to the company’s enduring significance.
That success is in large measure attributable to founder and present-day chairman Yu Dong, who dominates through intellect, instinct and a willingness to make huge decisions that others would shy away from. His analyses of the trends in the Chinese industry are always listened to and his box office forecasts are mostly right.
Yu began his career as an intern at state-controlled behemoth China Film Group,...
- 6/7/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Swedish actress Bibi Andersson, known for her roles in “The Seventh Seal” and “Persona,” died on Sunday, according to Stockholm newspaper Aftonbladet. She was 83.
“She has been sick for many years, but it is sad. I found out that Bibi passed away lunchtime today,” director and friend Christina Olofsson told Aftonbladet.
According to Aftonbladet, Andersson had a stroke in 2009 while living in France with her husband Gabriel Mora Baeza. She returned to Sweden a few days later for hospital care. Shortly thereafter, she moved to a nursing home in Stockholm.
Andersson, who starred in several of writer and director Ingmar Bergman’s classic films, became well-known in the 1950’s, appearing in “The Seventh Seal” and “Wild Strawberries,” among countless other films.
She would go on to work constantly throughout the ’60s, ’70s and subsequent decades and as recently...
“She has been sick for many years, but it is sad. I found out that Bibi passed away lunchtime today,” director and friend Christina Olofsson told Aftonbladet.
According to Aftonbladet, Andersson had a stroke in 2009 while living in France with her husband Gabriel Mora Baeza. She returned to Sweden a few days later for hospital care. Shortly thereafter, she moved to a nursing home in Stockholm.
Andersson, who starred in several of writer and director Ingmar Bergman’s classic films, became well-known in the 1950’s, appearing in “The Seventh Seal” and “Wild Strawberries,” among countless other films.
She would go on to work constantly throughout the ’60s, ’70s and subsequent decades and as recently...
- 4/14/2019
- by Trey Williams
- The Wrap
In “Bumblebee,” the lovable robot in the title uses his cassette deck to express himself after losing his voice early in the film. And when he plays the ’80s power-ballad “The Touch,” he brings a happy ending to a strange journey for the song that included a baffling pit stop in Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1997 classic “Boogie Nights.”
People who were 11 years old when “Transformers: The Movie” was released in 1986 can skip ahead a few paragraphs. But for everyone else: “The Touch” is a hopeful electric-guitar-synth-and-drum-fill-driven masterpiece that could easily pass for a Sammy Hagar or Survivor single custom-written for an inspiring ’80s training montage.
When it lifted off in “Transformers: The Movie,” the lyrics seemed to be about the Autobots and their brave fight against the Decepticons.
Also Read: 'Bumblebee' Film Review: Without Michael Bay as Director, the Best 'Transformers' Yet
Here are a few...
People who were 11 years old when “Transformers: The Movie” was released in 1986 can skip ahead a few paragraphs. But for everyone else: “The Touch” is a hopeful electric-guitar-synth-and-drum-fill-driven masterpiece that could easily pass for a Sammy Hagar or Survivor single custom-written for an inspiring ’80s training montage.
When it lifted off in “Transformers: The Movie,” the lyrics seemed to be about the Autobots and their brave fight against the Decepticons.
Also Read: 'Bumblebee' Film Review: Without Michael Bay as Director, the Best 'Transformers' Yet
Here are a few...
- 12/26/2018
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
Will release in selected cinemas on January 25 2019.
BFI Distribution, the releasing arm of the British Film Institute, has acquired UK rights from The Match Factory. to Jane Magnusson’s Bergman – A Year In A Life, a documentary about Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.
It will release the title UK-wide in select cinemas from January 25, 2019. Home entertainment rights are also part of the deal.
The film made its world premiere in Cannes Classics earlier this year, and also screened at the BFI London Film Festival.
Bergman – A Year In A Life centres on 1957, a year in which Bergman directed two feature films and four plays.
BFI Distribution, the releasing arm of the British Film Institute, has acquired UK rights from The Match Factory. to Jane Magnusson’s Bergman – A Year In A Life, a documentary about Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.
It will release the title UK-wide in select cinemas from January 25, 2019. Home entertainment rights are also part of the deal.
The film made its world premiere in Cannes Classics earlier this year, and also screened at the BFI London Film Festival.
Bergman – A Year In A Life centres on 1957, a year in which Bergman directed two feature films and four plays.
- 11/6/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
It seems so rare anymore to see a couple stay together for decades, let alone a couple in Hollywood. But Emmy winner Henry Winkler and his wife, Stacey Weitzman, have been together for 40 years and still look as adorable and in love now as they were in the '70s. The two made a stunning appearance at Monday's Emmy Awards, where Henry took home the award for best supporting actor in a comedy for his role on HBO's Barry - his first Emmy of his entire career. Stacey's been by his side all this time as he worked his ass off to earn this award, so here's what you need to know about her.
Related: Fonzie and Richie Forever! This Happy Days Reunion at the Emmys Is What We Needed Stacey met Henry at an La clothing store. The pair met at a clothing store that was one of her PR firm's clients.
Related: Fonzie and Richie Forever! This Happy Days Reunion at the Emmys Is What We Needed Stacey met Henry at an La clothing store. The pair met at a clothing store that was one of her PR firm's clients.
- 9/19/2018
- by Hedy Phillips
- Popsugar.com
The 1986 animated film Transformers: The Movie is the best Transformers movie that has been made. Sure, it scarred us for life when all of our favorite characters were brutally killed off in the first 20 minutes of the film, but that's part of what made it so great and memorable. I actually got to attend the premiere of the screening when it was first released and I remember bawling when Optimus Prime died!
Now fans will get a chance to see it in theaters again or for the first time thanks to Fathom Events, Hasbro Studios and Shout! Factory. They've come together to bring the film back to theaters for one night only in September, and it has been remastered in high definition!
The Autobots, led by the heroic Optimus Prime, prepare to make a daring attempt to retake their planet from the evil forces of Megatron and the Decepticons. Unknown to both sides,...
Now fans will get a chance to see it in theaters again or for the first time thanks to Fathom Events, Hasbro Studios and Shout! Factory. They've come together to bring the film back to theaters for one night only in September, and it has been remastered in high definition!
The Autobots, led by the heroic Optimus Prime, prepare to make a daring attempt to retake their planet from the evil forces of Megatron and the Decepticons. Unknown to both sides,...
- 8/1/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Paramount Pictures released a new piece of poster art for the upcoming Transformers spinoff film Bumblebee and during their panel at Comic-Con, they revealed some cool new information on the story, the villains, and another transformer that will be making a cameo appearance in the film.
This actually ended up being a really fun panel that showed off some extremely cool new footage from the movie. This movie explodes with the spirit of the original animated series and fans are going to love this movie. Even if you're a hater of the Transformers franchise, this is just going to be a great film that you won't want to miss.
As you already know, the story is set in the 1980s and even though the movie will focus on Bumblebee, it will also include lots of other elements from the franchise. Director Travis Knight confirmed that part of the story will be set on Cybertron,...
This actually ended up being a really fun panel that showed off some extremely cool new footage from the movie. This movie explodes with the spirit of the original animated series and fans are going to love this movie. Even if you're a hater of the Transformers franchise, this is just going to be a great film that you won't want to miss.
As you already know, the story is set in the 1980s and even though the movie will focus on Bumblebee, it will also include lots of other elements from the franchise. Director Travis Knight confirmed that part of the story will be set on Cybertron,...
- 7/21/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
The Transformers prequel, made a mark at San Diego Comic Con, but unless you were there, you wouldn't know it. Thankfully BC was on the case with his Bumblebee Panel Breakdown!
Panel Happenings:
Bumblebee panel was so hyped. They kicked it off with a live performance from Stan Bush singing “The Touch”. That’s how you return the Transformers to Hall H! Hailee Steinfeld and Jorge Lendeborg Jr. came out with Travis Knight they were fun, but it really got dope when they mentioned the villain. “Fight For Your Right” blared, a lot of lights went off, and John Cena made his entrance through the crowd. He controlled the crowd and owned the room the rest of the panel. We learned that Starscream is not in the film, which sucks. But it's Blitzwing we've seen in the trailer. Peter Cullen, the voice of Optimus Prime, was in audience and asked a question as Prime!
Panel Happenings:
Bumblebee panel was so hyped. They kicked it off with a live performance from Stan Bush singing “The Touch”. That’s how you return the Transformers to Hall H! Hailee Steinfeld and Jorge Lendeborg Jr. came out with Travis Knight they were fun, but it really got dope when they mentioned the villain. “Fight For Your Right” blared, a lot of lights went off, and John Cena made his entrance through the crowd. He controlled the crowd and owned the room the rest of the panel. We learned that Starscream is not in the film, which sucks. But it's Blitzwing we've seen in the trailer. Peter Cullen, the voice of Optimus Prime, was in audience and asked a question as Prime!
- 7/21/2018
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Matt Malliaros)
- Cinelinx
Laser lights, smoke machines and a video presentation set to live musical stylings of Stan Bush singing “The Touch” set the tone for Paramount’s Bumblebee panel at San Diego Comic-Con with some major and totally tubular ’80s flair.
Bumblebee marks the live-action feature debut for two-time Academy Award-nominated director Travis Knight, who is known for movies like Kubo and the Two Strings. The director not only brought his animation eye to the Transformers movie universe but also a genuine love for the popular toy that was made famous in the ’80s.
Knight was joined by the movie’s stars Hailee Steinfeld, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., and Comic-Con first-timer John Cena — who entered Hall H like the wrestling superstar he is. They talked about their characters and their place in the movie, but more importantly, that talked about the plot of the movie which has been under wraps.
“It’s an origin story,...
Bumblebee marks the live-action feature debut for two-time Academy Award-nominated director Travis Knight, who is known for movies like Kubo and the Two Strings. The director not only brought his animation eye to the Transformers movie universe but also a genuine love for the popular toy that was made famous in the ’80s.
Knight was joined by the movie’s stars Hailee Steinfeld, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., and Comic-Con first-timer John Cena — who entered Hall H like the wrestling superstar he is. They talked about their characters and their place in the movie, but more importantly, that talked about the plot of the movie which has been under wraps.
“It’s an origin story,...
- 7/21/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Tomorrow is the centenary of the birth of one of cinema’s greatest directors, Ingmar Bergman, and to celebrate, The Criterion Collection has announced of their most expansive releases ever. This November, they will release Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema, a 39-film box set comprising nearly all of his work, including 18 films never before released by Criterion. Curated akin to a film festival, the set features Opening, Centerpiece, and Closing Films, with many double features in between. The set also features 11 introductions and over five hours of interviews with the director himself, six making-of documentaries, a 248-page book, and much more.
As we await for its November 20 release, check out an overview from Criterion below, as well as the box art, the trailer, and the full list of films, in curated order. One can also see much more about each release and the special features on the official site.
With the...
As we await for its November 20 release, check out an overview from Criterion below, as well as the box art, the trailer, and the full list of films, in curated order. One can also see much more about each release and the special features on the official site.
With the...
- 7/13/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
An extramarital affair, Elliott Gould and passionate letter-writing – could Ingmar Bergman’s little-seen 1971 film get any more 70s?
Ingmar Bergman’s little-seen English-language movie The Touch, from 1971, is rereleased in UK cinemas as part of the major Bergman retrospective at London’s BFI Southbank. It is a passionate and flawed but very engrossing film about that most 70s of things: an extramarital affair. This is allowed to play out with all its tension, rapture, sensual abandonment, vicious quarrelling, desperate making up, and finally an autumnal regret and bitterness on which Bergman finally, uncompromisingly, lowers the curtain.
Elliott Gould gives a saturnine performance as David, an American archaeologist from a family of Holocaust survivors who is in Sweden to study a unique medieval wooden statue of the Blessed Virgin that has just been uncovered in a remote church. While in hospital – for reasons which are to be cleverly revealed in a...
Ingmar Bergman’s little-seen English-language movie The Touch, from 1971, is rereleased in UK cinemas as part of the major Bergman retrospective at London’s BFI Southbank. It is a passionate and flawed but very engrossing film about that most 70s of things: an extramarital affair. This is allowed to play out with all its tension, rapture, sensual abandonment, vicious quarrelling, desperate making up, and finally an autumnal regret and bitterness on which Bergman finally, uncompromisingly, lowers the curtain.
Elliott Gould gives a saturnine performance as David, an American archaeologist from a family of Holocaust survivors who is in Sweden to study a unique medieval wooden statue of the Blessed Virgin that has just been uncovered in a remote church. While in hospital – for reasons which are to be cleverly revealed in a...
- 2/21/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Ingmar Bergman’s spellbinding films made his female stars immortal. But they weren’t all grateful. Could this famously manipulative genius have survived in the #MeToo era?
In 1971, Ingmar Bergman had just completed his first English-language film, The Touch. It starred Elliott Gould as an American archaeologist in Sweden, who has an affair with a beautiful, troubled woman, played by Bergman regular Bibi Andersson. To promote it, Bergman and Andersson made an extraordinary appearance on America’s Dick Cavett Show – an unimaginably rare TV outing for this director, rather like seeing Jean-Luc Godard pop up on Trevor Noah’s The Daily Show.
Seated next to his very quiet star, Bergman declared: “I think acting is a very special women’s profession. Women have much more talent for acting. I think women, perhaps from education, are more used to enjoying looking into the mirror that is the audience or the camera’s eye.
In 1971, Ingmar Bergman had just completed his first English-language film, The Touch. It starred Elliott Gould as an American archaeologist in Sweden, who has an affair with a beautiful, troubled woman, played by Bergman regular Bibi Andersson. To promote it, Bergman and Andersson made an extraordinary appearance on America’s Dick Cavett Show – an unimaginably rare TV outing for this director, rather like seeing Jean-Luc Godard pop up on Trevor Noah’s The Daily Show.
Seated next to his very quiet star, Bergman declared: “I think acting is a very special women’s profession. Women have much more talent for acting. I think women, perhaps from education, are more used to enjoying looking into the mirror that is the audience or the camera’s eye.
- 2/4/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Author: Euan Franklin
Anyone experienced with Bergman’s better-known films associate him with death, mortality, and the irrelevance of religion. In his most recognised film The Seventh Seal, Death is personified by Bengt Ekerot in a pitch-black cloak – but we can almost see Bergman’s face under that hood, casting a gloomy presence within his sumptuous oeuvre.
But in the ‘70s, these existential themes loosened in his work and he became more optimistic (to the criticism of some). In 1971, the year Ekerot died, Bergman’s 31st film The Touch opened to bad box-office takings and a poor response from critics – Roger Ebert claimed it was “a movie that no one liked that much”. I’m going to be controversial and say that, despite its issues, I like The Touch.
In a small medieval town in Sweden, a place where everyone knows everyone, happily-married Karin (Bibi Andersson) visits her mother in...
Anyone experienced with Bergman’s better-known films associate him with death, mortality, and the irrelevance of religion. In his most recognised film The Seventh Seal, Death is personified by Bengt Ekerot in a pitch-black cloak – but we can almost see Bergman’s face under that hood, casting a gloomy presence within his sumptuous oeuvre.
But in the ‘70s, these existential themes loosened in his work and he became more optimistic (to the criticism of some). In 1971, the year Ekerot died, Bergman’s 31st film The Touch opened to bad box-office takings and a poor response from critics – Roger Ebert claimed it was “a movie that no one liked that much”. I’m going to be controversial and say that, despite its issues, I like The Touch.
In a small medieval town in Sweden, a place where everyone knows everyone, happily-married Karin (Bibi Andersson) visits her mother in...
- 1/16/2018
- by Euan Franklin
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Some actors and directors go together like spaghetti and meatballs. They just gel together in a rare way that makes their collaborations special. Here is a list of the seven best parings of director and actor in film history.
7: Tim Burton & Johnny Depp:
Edward Scissorhands; Ed Wood; Sleepy Hollow; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Corpse Bride; Sweeney Todd; Alice in Wonderland; Dark Shadows
Of all the parings on this list, these two make the oddest films. (In a good way.) Tim Burton is one of the most visually imaginative filmmakers of his generation and Johnny Depp was once the polymorphous master of playing a wide variety of eccentric characters. They were a natural combo. Depp made most of his best films with Burton, before his current ‘Jack Sparrow’ period began. The duo had the knack for telling stories about misfits and freaks, yet making them seem sympathetic and likable.
7: Tim Burton & Johnny Depp:
Edward Scissorhands; Ed Wood; Sleepy Hollow; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Corpse Bride; Sweeney Todd; Alice in Wonderland; Dark Shadows
Of all the parings on this list, these two make the oddest films. (In a good way.) Tim Burton is one of the most visually imaginative filmmakers of his generation and Johnny Depp was once the polymorphous master of playing a wide variety of eccentric characters. They were a natural combo. Depp made most of his best films with Burton, before his current ‘Jack Sparrow’ period began. The duo had the knack for telling stories about misfits and freaks, yet making them seem sympathetic and likable.
- 9/5/2016
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Rob Young)
- Cinelinx
Criterion repackages one of its earlier Ingmar Bergman inclusions this month, restoring his brilliant, enigmatic 1972 masterpiece Cries and Whispers for Blu-ray release. Financed with Bergman’s own money, the auteur had difficulty securing an American distributor, eventually finding an unlikely champion in Roger Corman, of all people, who had recently established his own releasing company, New World, and was in search of prestige titles to build artistic merit.
Rushed to theatrical release to qualify for Academy Awards consideration, it would secure five nominations, including for Best Picture and Director, winning Best Cinematography for Sven Nyqvist, before going on to be selected to play out of competition at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival (awarded the Vulcain Prize of the Technical Artist). In Bergman’s illustrious filmography, it’s unnecessary (and incredibly difficult) to endow any one title as his best from a body of work that sports a myriad of celebrated examples spanning seven decades.
Rushed to theatrical release to qualify for Academy Awards consideration, it would secure five nominations, including for Best Picture and Director, winning Best Cinematography for Sven Nyqvist, before going on to be selected to play out of competition at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival (awarded the Vulcain Prize of the Technical Artist). In Bergman’s illustrious filmography, it’s unnecessary (and incredibly difficult) to endow any one title as his best from a body of work that sports a myriad of celebrated examples spanning seven decades.
- 3/31/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
96 years ago, Ingmar Bergman was born and once he hit Stockholm University College at the age of 23, he fell in love with the movies. And so began a career that would span decades, with Bergman making films would become stone cold classics, all while bringing an intellectual rigor that to this is day is still hard to match by many. He's one of the 20 Celebrated Filmmakers Who Never Won A Best Directing Oscar, but what you might not know about Bergman is that despite his very serious oeuvre, Bergman had a playful side. In fact, he apparently loved Steven Soderbergh's "Ocean's Eleven" and was a fan of "Die Hard," and while you find him talking about those in this vintage interview, give it a look anyway. Back in 1971, the director visited "The Dick Cavett Show," a couple of weeks after his latest film at the time, "The Touch," had been released in theatres.
- 7/14/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Dustin Hoffman on being difficult, the movies he didn't make and why he's finally directing
Dustin Hoffman is on the phone to his wife. I know I shouldn't eavesdrop, but I can't help it. It's the voice. "Where's your meeting? Good luck. Bye-bye." So slow and deep and rich, like whipped cream mixed with gravel. Even when he started out 45 years ago in The Graduate, as virginal Benjamin Braddock about to be educated in the ways of love and lust, he had the voice. Hoffman is an extraordinarily convincing actor – when he sweats crazily in Straw Dogs, the sweat's for real; you can almost smell him as crippled hobo Ratso in Midnight Cowboy; and when he steps into a frock and heels for Tootsie, you know he's really learned to walk a lady's walk – but in the end it's down to the voice.
And to the choices he has made.
Dustin Hoffman is on the phone to his wife. I know I shouldn't eavesdrop, but I can't help it. It's the voice. "Where's your meeting? Good luck. Bye-bye." So slow and deep and rich, like whipped cream mixed with gravel. Even when he started out 45 years ago in The Graduate, as virginal Benjamin Braddock about to be educated in the ways of love and lust, he had the voice. Hoffman is an extraordinarily convincing actor – when he sweats crazily in Straw Dogs, the sweat's for real; you can almost smell him as crippled hobo Ratso in Midnight Cowboy; and when he steps into a frock and heels for Tootsie, you know he's really learned to walk a lady's walk – but in the end it's down to the voice.
And to the choices he has made.
- 12/17/2012
- by Simon Hattenstone
- The Guardian - Film News
For Reverse Shot's 30th symposium (congrats!), contributors "consider at length the movie that they believe to be the worst in a single filmmaker's career." So far: Jeff Reichert on Woody Allen's Anything Else (2003), Leah Churner on Otto Preminger's Skidoo (1968) and Leo Goldsmith on Ingmar Bergman's The Touch (1971) … PopMatters wraps its "100 Essential Directors" series … Kristin Thompson on Dw Griffith's devices … Max Goldberg previews The Outsiders: New Hollywood Cinema in the Seventies, running at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley through October 27; related reads: Andy McCarthy on Larry Cohen's The Private Files of J Edgar Hoover (1977), Sam Wasson (Paul on Mazursky) on three Mazurskys and Peter Tonguette (The Films of James Bridges) on The China Syndrome (1979).
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- 9/6/2011
- MUBI
Sad news tonight folks. Longtime Ingmar Bergman collaborator, Gunnar Fischer, has passed away earlier today at the ripe old age of 100. I just saw the Masters Of Cinema twitter feed posting a link to this Swedish web site (HD.se), announcing that he had died earlier today in Sweden.
From the translated story:
Gunnar Fischer out of time
The photographer and film director Gunnar Fischer died on Saturday, 100 years old.
Stockholm. He worked closely with Ingmar Bergman in the 50′s in classic films such as Summer with Monika, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries and The Magician.
- He passed away in the afternoon. This fall, he would have turned 101 years, says his son and cinematographer Jens Fischer said.
Gunnar Fischer was employed by the Swedish Film Industry 1935-1970 and the 1970-75 Svt.
Fischer‘s cinematography is well represented in the Criterion Collection. You can find him working with Bergman early...
From the translated story:
Gunnar Fischer out of time
The photographer and film director Gunnar Fischer died on Saturday, 100 years old.
Stockholm. He worked closely with Ingmar Bergman in the 50′s in classic films such as Summer with Monika, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries and The Magician.
- He passed away in the afternoon. This fall, he would have turned 101 years, says his son and cinematographer Jens Fischer said.
Gunnar Fischer was employed by the Swedish Film Industry 1935-1970 and the 1970-75 Svt.
Fischer‘s cinematography is well represented in the Criterion Collection. You can find him working with Bergman early...
- 6/12/2011
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
The 39th annual Festival du Nouveau Cinema is set to run in Montreal on Oct 13-24. But, within the overall, massive festival is the Fnc Lab, the avant-garde and experimental section that will be having screenings and live film performances every night on Oct. 14-22.
This year, the Fnc Lab is showcasing two retrospectives; plus, a short film program of strictly 16mm films, films from the Korean Jeonju Digital Project, four feature-length projects and several special one-of-a-kind performances.
The retrospectives are of two key American women experimental filmmakers. First, in conjunction with the Double Negative Collective, the fest presents a career overview of Chick Strand, the eminent ethnographic filmmaker who sadly passed away last year at the age of 77.
Then, there’s also a retrospective of playful avant-garde filmmaker Marie Losier, who is well known for her collaborations with and film portraits of key underground figures like George Kuchar, Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge.
This year, the Fnc Lab is showcasing two retrospectives; plus, a short film program of strictly 16mm films, films from the Korean Jeonju Digital Project, four feature-length projects and several special one-of-a-kind performances.
The retrospectives are of two key American women experimental filmmakers. First, in conjunction with the Double Negative Collective, the fest presents a career overview of Chick Strand, the eminent ethnographic filmmaker who sadly passed away last year at the age of 77.
Then, there’s also a retrospective of playful avant-garde filmmaker Marie Losier, who is well known for her collaborations with and film portraits of key underground figures like George Kuchar, Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge.
- 10/6/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Ingmar Bergman Exhibit To Premiere In La, Hosted By The Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts And Sciences
With Criterion staple, and all around film legend (and my personal favorite filmmaker of all time) Jean Luc-Godard (Breathless, A Woman Is A Woman, Made In The U.S.A, just to name a few) set to receive an honorary Oscar from the Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts And Sciences, it looks like the Academy is set to honor yet another legend in the world of film.
According to the Criterion blog, the Academy is set to play host to the La premiere of a new exhibition, entitled Ingmar Bergman: Truth And Lies, all organized by the Deutsche Kinemathek, along with the Bergman Foundation.
Exhibition Information When September 16 through December 12, 2010 Where The Academy’s Fourth Floor Gallery Public viewing hours Tuesday – Friday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday – Sunday: Noon to 6 p.m.*
Closed Mondays.
*Sunday, October 10: 1 to 6 p.m. Admission Free
The show will feature movie clips...
According to the Criterion blog, the Academy is set to play host to the La premiere of a new exhibition, entitled Ingmar Bergman: Truth And Lies, all organized by the Deutsche Kinemathek, along with the Bergman Foundation.
Exhibition Information When September 16 through December 12, 2010 Where The Academy’s Fourth Floor Gallery Public viewing hours Tuesday – Friday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday – Sunday: Noon to 6 p.m.*
Closed Mondays.
*Sunday, October 10: 1 to 6 p.m. Admission Free
The show will feature movie clips...
- 9/10/2010
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
HollywoodNews.com: “Ingmar Bergman: Truth and Lies,” an exhibition that delves into the career and personal life of the legendary Swedish director, will have its world premiere at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday, September 16. Organized by the Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen, Berlin, in association with the Academy, the exhibition, which is open to the public, will run through December 12. Admission is free.
In preparation for the first major exhibition since the director’s death in 2007, the Bergman Foundation in Stockholm has granted unprecedented access to Bergman’s personal papers, allowing for an in-depth examination of his life and vast creative output.
“Truth and Lies” will provide unique insights into Bergman’s film, theater work and personal life, with sections devoted to his early creative efforts, his ascent as an artist and his struggles with faith. The exhibition’s film projections and...
In preparation for the first major exhibition since the director’s death in 2007, the Bergman Foundation in Stockholm has granted unprecedented access to Bergman’s personal papers, allowing for an in-depth examination of his life and vast creative output.
“Truth and Lies” will provide unique insights into Bergman’s film, theater work and personal life, with sections devoted to his early creative efforts, his ascent as an artist and his struggles with faith. The exhibition’s film projections and...
- 9/7/2010
- by Linny Lum
- Hollywoodnews.com
(Elliott Gould, above, as Philip Marlowe in The Long Goodbye.)
by Jon Zelazny
Editor’s note: this article originally appeared at EightMillionStories.com on November 14, 2008.
With the back-to-back success of his Oscar-nominated role in the off-beat wife-swapping hit Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) and the even bigger off-beat hit Mash (1970), Brooklyn’s own Elliott Gould skyrocketed to worldwide fame.
While perhaps best known to those under 40 as Ross and Monica’s dad on “Friends,” or Vegas financier Reuben Tishkoff in the blockbuster Ocean’s 11 series, cine-scholars generally regard Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye (1973) as Gould’s most iconic starring role. 2008 marks the 35th anniversary of their extraordinary modern-day reinterpretation of Raymond Chandler’s classic private eye, Philip Marlowe.
Elliott Gould invited me to his home in west Los Angeles, where he generously spoke at length of his three major collaborations with Altman, who passed away two years ago.
I read...
by Jon Zelazny
Editor’s note: this article originally appeared at EightMillionStories.com on November 14, 2008.
With the back-to-back success of his Oscar-nominated role in the off-beat wife-swapping hit Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) and the even bigger off-beat hit Mash (1970), Brooklyn’s own Elliott Gould skyrocketed to worldwide fame.
While perhaps best known to those under 40 as Ross and Monica’s dad on “Friends,” or Vegas financier Reuben Tishkoff in the blockbuster Ocean’s 11 series, cine-scholars generally regard Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye (1973) as Gould’s most iconic starring role. 2008 marks the 35th anniversary of their extraordinary modern-day reinterpretation of Raymond Chandler’s classic private eye, Philip Marlowe.
Elliott Gould invited me to his home in west Los Angeles, where he generously spoke at length of his three major collaborations with Altman, who passed away two years ago.
I read...
- 5/10/2009
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
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