Cinema completionists and fans of unreleased movies appeared to receive their Holy Grail last week when reports began to circulate that “The Day the Clown Cried,” Jerry Lewis’ infamous Holocaust movie that has never seen the light of day, would be screened at the Library of Congress in 2024.
Lewis spent decades disavowing the film, which he directed and stars in as a circus clown imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, but ultimately donated his footage from it to the Library of Congress in 2014. The deal stipulated that the footage could not be screened for 10 years, meaning that 2024 would be the first year that it could be made public. Lewis died in 2017.
However, a representative for the Library of Congress confirmed to IndieWire that no public screenings are planned, as the archive does not possess a complete cut of the film. The footage donated by Lewis contains several unedited scenes from...
Lewis spent decades disavowing the film, which he directed and stars in as a circus clown imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, but ultimately donated his footage from it to the Library of Congress in 2014. The deal stipulated that the footage could not be screened for 10 years, meaning that 2024 would be the first year that it could be made public. Lewis died in 2017.
However, a representative for the Library of Congress confirmed to IndieWire that no public screenings are planned, as the archive does not possess a complete cut of the film. The footage donated by Lewis contains several unedited scenes from...
- 1/13/2024
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
White Bird.The repeatedly delayed film White Bird, based on the 2019 graphic novel by R.J. Palacio, follows an elderly Jewish woman looking back on her youth in France during World War II, particularly the time she spent hiding from the Nazis. The framing is odd: She is telling this tale to impart a lesson to her grandson, a bully character from a different, earlier novel by Palacio, Wonder. Both stories are part of a wider fictive universe authored by Palacio, the “World of Wonder,” which comprises spinoff books, film adaptations, and merchandise, all branded with the poptimistic slogan/hashtag “Choose Kind.” A friendly schoolmate refusing to persecute White Bird’s protagonist for being Jewish is implicitly an example of “choosing kind,” divorced from any historically based understanding of solidarity or resistance to fascism. More problematically, White Bird has as its epigraph George Santayama’s famous quote “Those who can’t...
- 11/28/2023
- MUBI
The shelved Coyote vs Acme film may see the light of day after all. Amid industry outcry that WB was shelving yet another film, the studio has begun screening the movie for streaming services. Deadline reports that Prime Video seems to be the frontrunner as far as acquiring the movie goes. The shelving of the completed film has spurred lots of anger within the industry, as unlike the previously shelved Batgirl or Scoob’s Holiday Haunt, Coyote Vs Acme was complete and scheduled for a theatrical release.
Not only that, but reports suggest that the film was testing very well, with composer Steven Price roasting the company on Twitter for their “bizarre anti-art studio shenanigans.”
Had a lot of fun scoring Coyote Vs Acme. As no-one will be able to hear it now, due to bizarre anti-art studio financial shenanigans I will never understand, here is a bit of behind...
Not only that, but reports suggest that the film was testing very well, with composer Steven Price roasting the company on Twitter for their “bizarre anti-art studio shenanigans.”
Had a lot of fun scoring Coyote Vs Acme. As no-one will be able to hear it now, due to bizarre anti-art studio financial shenanigans I will never understand, here is a bit of behind...
- 11/13/2023
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
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Bo Brundin, the Swedish actor best known for his turn as a demoralized German World War I pilot opposite Robert Redford in the aerial adventure film The Great Waldo Pepper, has died. He was 85.
Brundin died Sunday in his hometown of Uppsala in Sweden, a spokesperson for Paar Productions told The Hollywood Reporter. The company worked with the actor on one of his last projects, the 2011 short film Starlight, in which he played God.
Brundin appeared in an early stage production of Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal — his role would be taken by Max Von Sydow in the classic 1957 feature — and he had a small role as a political prisoner in The Day the Clown Cried (1972), the infamous never-released film from Jerry Lewis.
Brundin, who played lots of Germans and Russians during his career, also appeared on the big screen in the...
Bo Brundin, the Swedish actor best known for his turn as a demoralized German World War I pilot opposite Robert Redford in the aerial adventure film The Great Waldo Pepper, has died. He was 85.
Brundin died Sunday in his hometown of Uppsala in Sweden, a spokesperson for Paar Productions told The Hollywood Reporter. The company worked with the actor on one of his last projects, the 2011 short film Starlight, in which he played God.
Brundin appeared in an early stage production of Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal — his role would be taken by Max Von Sydow in the classic 1957 feature — and he had a small role as a political prisoner in The Day the Clown Cried (1972), the infamous never-released film from Jerry Lewis.
Brundin, who played lots of Germans and Russians during his career, also appeared on the big screen in the...
- 9/10/2022
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There are relatively few famous unfinished films, ranging from von Sternberg’s “I, Claudius” to Jerry Lewis’ “The Day the Clown Cried” to various Orson Welles joints that continue to be patched together by former collaborators long after his death. But most such projects, usually abandoned due to financial and/or legal woes, languish in an obscurity compounded by the fact no one cries for the resuscitation of something they don’t know exists.
But somebody did notice the plight of “New York Ninja,” , a moderately successful figure in Taiwanese action cinema. An already marginal, guerrilla-shot endeavor whose plug got pulled when the planned distributor went under, it has now been meticulously if none-too-seriously reconstructed by Vinegar Syndrome’s Kurtis M. Spieler, who “re-directed” the extant footage sans any surviving original script or sound components.
Its newly dubbed dialogue performed by a host of fan-fave exploitation veterans including Cynthia Rothrock,...
But somebody did notice the plight of “New York Ninja,” , a moderately successful figure in Taiwanese action cinema. An already marginal, guerrilla-shot endeavor whose plug got pulled when the planned distributor went under, it has now been meticulously if none-too-seriously reconstructed by Vinegar Syndrome’s Kurtis M. Spieler, who “re-directed” the extant footage sans any surviving original script or sound components.
Its newly dubbed dialogue performed by a host of fan-fave exploitation veterans including Cynthia Rothrock,...
- 1/18/2022
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Today would have marked the 100th birthday of Army Archerd, the beloved Variety columnist who chronicled Hollywood’s inner circle for more than 50 years.
Archerd, who died in 2009, penned “Just for Variety,” a classic “three-dot” column (aka short items separated by ellipses) that had a prime anchor slot in Daily Variety‘s pages from 1953 until 2005. After that, the indefatigable writer continued to report news stories that ran in Variety and on his blog.
Archerd’s first column, published April 27, 1953, addressed the new sensation of 3-D movies and included 32 other news items — which means he averaged 150 exclusives a week. And yes, every item was exclusive: God help the poor publicist who double-planted a story with him and another news outlet, and had to face the Wrath of Army.
For decades, it ran five days a week, 900 words at a time, with the frequency eventually dropping to four times a week.
His...
Archerd, who died in 2009, penned “Just for Variety,” a classic “three-dot” column (aka short items separated by ellipses) that had a prime anchor slot in Daily Variety‘s pages from 1953 until 2005. After that, the indefatigable writer continued to report news stories that ran in Variety and on his blog.
Archerd’s first column, published April 27, 1953, addressed the new sensation of 3-D movies and included 32 other news items — which means he averaged 150 exclusives a week. And yes, every item was exclusive: God help the poor publicist who double-planted a story with him and another news outlet, and had to face the Wrath of Army.
For decades, it ran five days a week, 900 words at a time, with the frequency eventually dropping to four times a week.
His...
- 1/13/2022
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
In the early '70s, Jerry Lewis made a Holocaust drama so controversial that it still provokes lively debate today, even though almost no-one on the planet has seen it. The film is "The Day the Clown Cried," the story of Helmut Doork, a third-rate German clown who finds himself in Auschwitz, where he is given the task of leading Jewish children to their deaths in the gas chambers.
Lewis, who rose to fame as part of a wildly popular comedy duo with Dean Martin, was one of America's biggest stars during his heyday. He directed several films too, including perhaps his best known...
The post Why Jerry Lewis' The Day the Clown Cried Was Never Released appeared first on /Film.
Lewis, who rose to fame as part of a wildly popular comedy duo with Dean Martin, was one of America's biggest stars during his heyday. He directed several films too, including perhaps his best known...
The post Why Jerry Lewis' The Day the Clown Cried Was Never Released appeared first on /Film.
- 12/22/2021
- by Lee Adams
- Slash Film
It’s a very musical episode! Director and Tfh Guru, Allan Arkush, returns to talk about his favorite rock and roll movies with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
No Nukes (1980)
Amazing Grace (2018) – Dennis Cozzalio’s Oscar nominee reactions
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) – Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review
Get Crazy (1983) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979) – Eli Roth’s trailer commentary
Blackboard Jungle (1955) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
Rock, Rock, Rock! (1956) – Jesus Treviño’s trailer commentary
Mister Rock And Roll (1957)
Go, Johnny, Go! (1959) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
Hail Hail Rock And Roll! (1987) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
The Girl Can’t Help It (1956) – Dan Ireland’s trailer commentary
Hellzapoppin’ (1941)
Innerspace (1987) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Almost Famous (2000) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
Wayne’s World (1992)
The Graduate (1967) – Neil Labute’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review
Scorpio Rising...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
No Nukes (1980)
Amazing Grace (2018) – Dennis Cozzalio’s Oscar nominee reactions
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) – Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review
Get Crazy (1983) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979) – Eli Roth’s trailer commentary
Blackboard Jungle (1955) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
Rock, Rock, Rock! (1956) – Jesus Treviño’s trailer commentary
Mister Rock And Roll (1957)
Go, Johnny, Go! (1959) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
Hail Hail Rock And Roll! (1987) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
The Girl Can’t Help It (1956) – Dan Ireland’s trailer commentary
Hellzapoppin’ (1941)
Innerspace (1987) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Almost Famous (2000) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
Wayne’s World (1992)
The Graduate (1967) – Neil Labute’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review
Scorpio Rising...
- 12/7/2021
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
What classifies as a lost film? On one side, there are silent films that Hollywood studios dumped in the Pacific Ocean once talkies took over. On another, there is Jerry Lewis’ The Day the Clown Cried, which he suppressed for personal moral reasons, and there are also movies like Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind, which was caught in legal trouble for years before it was finally edited and debuted in 2018.
Bill Morrison expands on these ideas of lost cinema with The Village Detective: a song cycle, a project about a recovered print of The Village Detective (1969) starring populist Soviet actor Mikhail Žarov—who acted in roles criticizing the bourgeoisie and socialism—and how the film is well known to Russians of a certain age but lost to many in post-Soviet Union Russia. By comparison, it’s like if network television stopped showing It’s A Wonderful Life...
Bill Morrison expands on these ideas of lost cinema with The Village Detective: a song cycle, a project about a recovered print of The Village Detective (1969) starring populist Soviet actor Mikhail Žarov—who acted in roles criticizing the bourgeoisie and socialism—and how the film is well known to Russians of a certain age but lost to many in post-Soviet Union Russia. By comparison, it’s like if network television stopped showing It’s A Wonderful Life...
- 9/24/2021
- by Joshua Encinias
- The Film Stage
In the pantheon of notoriously unavailable films, Jerry Lewis’ “The Day the Clown Cried” occupies a special plinth: Its outline — a circus clown is imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp where he cheers up Jewish children before being forced to lead them to their doom — makes it one of the few movies to have been suppressed purely on the grounds of “yikes.” It is perhaps unfair to compare it with “Freaks Out,” the second film from Italian director Gabriele Mainetti (“They Call Me Jeeg”), though given that Mainetti’s film also involves circus performers, Nazis and a train full of Jewish people being transported to the camps, quite which film the comparison is unfair to is up for debate. After all, Lewis’ boondoggle didn’t have in it a psychotic, ether-addicted, six-fingered, “Sieg Heil!”-ing pianist who can see into the future, and a whole host of references to, of all things,...
- 9/9/2021
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
If you’re a film nerd putting together a late summer reading list, look no further. There are a number of books here that could qualify as “beach reads,” chief among them a new novel from Quentin Tarantino. Others might be a tad heavy to lug to the beach, but they will be just as enticing at home. So let’s go swimming in a deep roundup of new books on filmmaking.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino (Harper Perennial)
Only Quentin Tarantino could return to a film just two years later and radically change the order of things, remove numerous noteworthy scenes while expanding others, devote a shocking number of pages to Lancer plot summaries, embark on a headline-grabbing press tour, and still emerge with a book as successful as Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. As with any creation from Tarantino, there are moments of real reader discomfort here,...
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino (Harper Perennial)
Only Quentin Tarantino could return to a film just two years later and radically change the order of things, remove numerous noteworthy scenes while expanding others, devote a shocking number of pages to Lancer plot summaries, embark on a headline-grabbing press tour, and still emerge with a book as successful as Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. As with any creation from Tarantino, there are moments of real reader discomfort here,...
- 7/28/2021
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
Harry Shearer is spending Christmas with the devil, as he does every year, when the Spinal Tap holiday chestnut comes up as part of the annual “Christmas Without Tears” live shows he and his wife, singer-songwriter Judith Owen, do for charity. This year, the event is going virtual, with an array of new guests such as Donald Fagen, Richard Thompson and Ringo Starr taking part in a webcast that begins at 2 p.m. Pt on Friday, Dec. 11.
It’s the cap to an unusually busy year. Along with hosting duties on his weekly syndicated public radio program, “Le Show,” Shearer also has his regular gig voicing 14-plus different characters on “The Simpsons.” The satirical, spot-on impressionist just released a rich musical album as the president, “The Many Moods of Donald Trump.”
There was activity on the Spinal Tap front, too. The faux metal thundergods reunited in October for a Democratic fundraiser.
It’s the cap to an unusually busy year. Along with hosting duties on his weekly syndicated public radio program, “Le Show,” Shearer also has his regular gig voicing 14-plus different characters on “The Simpsons.” The satirical, spot-on impressionist just released a rich musical album as the president, “The Many Moods of Donald Trump.”
There was activity on the Spinal Tap front, too. The faux metal thundergods reunited in October for a Democratic fundraiser.
- 12/11/2020
- by A.D. Amorosi
- Variety Film + TV
A movie that, on paper at least, could have easily gone the way of Jerry Lewis' infamous debacle The Day the Clown Cried, Jojo Rabbit has defied all odds to become one of the year's most beloved films — an unlikely comedic tale about a 10-year-old fledgling Nazi and his imaginary best friend, Adolf Hitler. The film sprung from the mind of Taika Waititi, the New Zealand-based writer-actor-director, who transformed the sober 2004 novel Caging Skies into a World War II-set fairy tale that, when you least expect it to, yanks the rug out from under the audience while delivering a timely ...
- 1/25/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
A movie that, on paper at least, could have easily gone the way of Jerry Lewis' infamous debacle The Day the Clown Cried, Jojo Rabbit has defied all odds to become one of the year's most beloved films — an unlikely comedic tale about a 10-year-old fledgling Nazi and his imaginary best friend, Adolf Hitler. The film sprung from the mind of Taika Waititi, the New Zealand-based writer-actor-director, who transformed the sober 2004 novel Caging Skies into a World War II-set fairy tale that, when you least expect it to, yanks the rug out from under the audience while delivering a timely ...
- 1/25/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Taika Waititi follows a distinguished tradition with this ‘strange art comedy’ about a boy growing up in Nazi Germany, but fails to cut to the dark heart of the matter
Since the days of Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, film-makers have adopted naive or comedic perspectives to pierce and deflate the hideous bubble of Nazi ideology – a risky strategy that can reap rich rewards. In the 1967 classic The Producers, Mel Brooks made comedy gold from the spectre of a terrible play celebrating Hitler’s little-known dance skills. The film won a best screenplay Oscar and spawned a hit stage musical that in turn produced another star-studded screen adaptation. In 1999, Roberto Benigni’s “comedy drama” Life Is Beautiful won three Oscars with its depiction of a man whose comic clowning keeps the horrors of a concentration camp from his son – a premise weirdly reminiscent of Jerry Lewis’s ill-judged The Day the Clown Cried,...
Since the days of Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, film-makers have adopted naive or comedic perspectives to pierce and deflate the hideous bubble of Nazi ideology – a risky strategy that can reap rich rewards. In the 1967 classic The Producers, Mel Brooks made comedy gold from the spectre of a terrible play celebrating Hitler’s little-known dance skills. The film won a best screenplay Oscar and spawned a hit stage musical that in turn produced another star-studded screen adaptation. In 1999, Roberto Benigni’s “comedy drama” Life Is Beautiful won three Oscars with its depiction of a man whose comic clowning keeps the horrors of a concentration camp from his son – a premise weirdly reminiscent of Jerry Lewis’s ill-judged The Day the Clown Cried,...
- 1/5/2020
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
It’s impossible to address the challenge of Nazi satire without considering “The Day the Clown Cried.” Jerry Lewis’ misbegotten 1972 production found the comedian directing himself as a Jewish entertainer at a concentration camp. To date, the completed work (if it exists at all) has never been seen. Lewis was reportedly ashamed of the project and managed to hide the footage from the world for the remainder of his life. “Jojo Rabbit” is some indication of why Lewis wanted to bury it: It’s no easy task to turn the Holocaust into a punchline.
There’s a difference between confronting evil and actually dismantling its assumptions. For all the good intentions of “Jojo Rabbit,” Taika Waititi’s “anti-hate satire” never contends with the Nazism at its core. It would be a different story if the movie, in the grand subversive tradition of “The Producers,” appropriated Nazi iconography by positioning it...
There’s a difference between confronting evil and actually dismantling its assumptions. For all the good intentions of “Jojo Rabbit,” Taika Waititi’s “anti-hate satire” never contends with the Nazism at its core. It would be a different story if the movie, in the grand subversive tradition of “The Producers,” appropriated Nazi iconography by positioning it...
- 10/20/2019
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSClaude Lanzmann, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Satre, 1967. Photo via Rithy Panh.Shoah director and singular cinematic chronicler of the Holocaust, Claude Lanzmann has sadly left us. Daniel Lewis provides a comprehensive remembrance for The New York Times. Last year, we wrote on his last five films films, Napalm and The Four Sisters, a quartet of documentaries.Recommended VIEWINGEven through his perhaps more artistically compromised mainland blockbusters, we remain dedicated fans of Tsui Hark's daring, punk cinematic vision. We especially highly regard his Detective Dee films, and thus are very excited for the forthcoming Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings, which has received this ecstatic new trailer.An oddly modern trailer showcasing the new gorgeous restoration of Jacques Rivette's first masterpiece (starring Anna Karina!), The Nun (1966). In a qualitative sense, Yorgos Lanthimos' films...
- 7/11/2018
- MUBI
It’s a stereotype of comedians that they want to be taken seriously; think Woody Allen’s Bergman worship or The Day The Clown Cried, to cite a couple of the more notorious cases. But how often does the opposite happen, that a more or less humorless moralist sets out to reinvent themselves as a jokester? Bruno Dumont…
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- 4/10/2018
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky on Film, shared by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky to The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
Part of the Jerry Lewis tribute A Mubi Jerrython. In Hardly Working, Jerry Lewis, as Bo Hooper, is Making America Goyish Again. Made in between The Day the Clown Cried and Jerry’s Telethons for Muscular Dystrophy, this is Jerry’s first (seen) attempt to wed issues of Jewish /outsider identity, and Americana with the desire for artistic or political legacy. Opening with a montage (of other movies): Jerry toots his horn in a greatest moments' super edit. Bracketing the sequences is the typewriting scene in Who’s Minding the Store?. Though it is not a film Jerry directed, it is the only clip shown piecemeal that conspicuously shows craft. The poetry of his comedy, seemingly effortless, credited to hard work.This gaze extending into the past introduces an artistic defense that Jerry makes for himself. In a late career pivot Jerry Lewis (re)directs himself in Hardly Working as a less hapless,...
- 1/10/2018
- MUBI
As is annual tradition, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has announced this year’s 25 film set to join the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Selected for their “cultural, historic and/or aesthetic importance,” the films picked range from such beloved actioners as “Die Hard,” childhood classic “The Goonies,” the seminal “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” and the mind-bending “Memento,” with plenty of other genres and styles represented among the list.
The additions span 1905 to 2000, and includes Hollywood blockbusters, documentaries, silent movies, animation, shorts, independent, and even home movies. The 2017 selections bring the number of films in the registry to 725.
“The selection of a film to the National Film Registry recognizes its importance to American cinema and the nation’s cultural and historical heritage,” Hayden said in an official statement. “Our love affair with motion pictures is a testament to their enduring power to enlighten, inspire and...
The additions span 1905 to 2000, and includes Hollywood blockbusters, documentaries, silent movies, animation, shorts, independent, and even home movies. The 2017 selections bring the number of films in the registry to 725.
“The selection of a film to the National Film Registry recognizes its importance to American cinema and the nation’s cultural and historical heritage,” Hayden said in an official statement. “Our love affair with motion pictures is a testament to their enduring power to enlighten, inspire and...
- 12/13/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Chicago – Jerry Lewis had a long and winding life, dying last week at the age of 91. Through that life he had many show business lives – including the inevitable addictions – surviving all of the them with his signature comic style. He also was featured in over 70 films, and HollywoodChicago.com remembers three of them.
Jerry Lewis in Chicago in 1996
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com
When the gawky 19 year-old Lewis met the suave singer Dean Martin in 1946, little did they know that they would become the most popular act in America for several years, and make 16 films together between 1949 through 1956. Their box office draw was white-hot, so much so that neither of them could keep up with the blur of what happened to them. “Martin & Lewis” eventually broke up at the height of their fame in 1956, during which Martin famously said, “Jer, when I look at you,...
Jerry Lewis in Chicago in 1996
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com
When the gawky 19 year-old Lewis met the suave singer Dean Martin in 1946, little did they know that they would become the most popular act in America for several years, and make 16 films together between 1949 through 1956. Their box office draw was white-hot, so much so that neither of them could keep up with the blur of what happened to them. “Martin & Lewis” eventually broke up at the height of their fame in 1956, during which Martin famously said, “Jer, when I look at you,...
- 8/31/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
As the entertainment world mourns the passing of famed comedian Jerry Lewis, one question is on the minds of the star’s many fans: Will “The Day The Clown Cried” finally see the light of day? The 1972 Holocaust drama — which Lewis wrote, directed and starred in as a past-his-prime circus clown in a Nazi concentration camp — was never released in theaters, leading to wild speculation about its tone as well as quality. The star initially hoped the film would allow him to break out of his goofball reputation and show his skills as a dramatic actor. Instead, Lewis publicly...
- 8/20/2017
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Tony Sokol Aug 21, 2017
Versatile, innovative and controversial, Jerry Lewis leaves a legacy of laughs and charity work.
Jerry Lewis, the legendary comedian, actor, singer and philanthropist, has died at the age of 91.
Lewis is as well known for starring and directing films like The Nutty Professor, Cinderfella, and The Bellboy as he is for his marathon fundraising telethons on Us TV for Muscular Dystrophy. He first found fame with his legendary ten-year partnership with Dean Martin.
Lewis paired with Dean Martin in 1946. Starting in nightclubs, Martin and Lewis moved their way through almost countless radio shows and made 16 movies. The pair costarred in such films as My Friend Irma (1949), At War With the Army (1950), Sailor Beware (1952), The Caddy (1953), Living It Up (1954), You’re Never Too Young (1955), and Artists And Models (1955). The last movie they made together was Hollywood Or Bust (1956).
After the partnership ended, Lewis teamed with director Frank Tashlin...
Versatile, innovative and controversial, Jerry Lewis leaves a legacy of laughs and charity work.
Jerry Lewis, the legendary comedian, actor, singer and philanthropist, has died at the age of 91.
Lewis is as well known for starring and directing films like The Nutty Professor, Cinderfella, and The Bellboy as he is for his marathon fundraising telethons on Us TV for Muscular Dystrophy. He first found fame with his legendary ten-year partnership with Dean Martin.
Lewis paired with Dean Martin in 1946. Starting in nightclubs, Martin and Lewis moved their way through almost countless radio shows and made 16 movies. The pair costarred in such films as My Friend Irma (1949), At War With the Army (1950), Sailor Beware (1952), The Caddy (1953), Living It Up (1954), You’re Never Too Young (1955), and Artists And Models (1955). The last movie they made together was Hollywood Or Bust (1956).
After the partnership ended, Lewis teamed with director Frank Tashlin...
- 8/20/2017
- Den of Geek
As the shadow of “The Day The Clown Cried” looms ever larger, Jerry Lewis is hoping some late-stage career moves can take the focus of his famously abandoned WWII movie. Just this spring, he had an unlikely small role in the Nicolas Cage/Elijah Wood joint “The Trust;” and you may have forgotten, but a few years […]
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- 8/3/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Kyle Molzan: "If you ever meet Jerry Lewis, send him our movie!" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Georges Simenon, Charles Laughton in Burgess Meredith's The Man On The Eiffel Tower, Cédric Kahn's Red Lights (Feux Rouges) with Carole Bouquet and Jean-Pierre Darroussin, The Day The Clown Cried, Jerry Lewis, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's In A Year With 13 Moons (In Einem Jahr Mit 13 Monden), Christian Petzold's Phoenix, John Cassavetes' A Woman Under The Influence, Kurt Weill, Brian Wilson and Moonriders were unearthed in my For the Plasma conversation with co-director Kyle Molzan.
Helen (Rosalie Lowe) having a meal
Keiichi Suzuki's score informs how we meander through the landscapes filmed dream-like by Christopher Messina (Dear Renzo). Charlie (Anabelle LeMieux) arrives at a house in Maine where a pal from the past, Helen (Rosalie Lowe), has a job monitoring forest fires and where she also miraculously predicts shifts in global finance.
Georges Simenon, Charles Laughton in Burgess Meredith's The Man On The Eiffel Tower, Cédric Kahn's Red Lights (Feux Rouges) with Carole Bouquet and Jean-Pierre Darroussin, The Day The Clown Cried, Jerry Lewis, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's In A Year With 13 Moons (In Einem Jahr Mit 13 Monden), Christian Petzold's Phoenix, John Cassavetes' A Woman Under The Influence, Kurt Weill, Brian Wilson and Moonriders were unearthed in my For the Plasma conversation with co-director Kyle Molzan.
Helen (Rosalie Lowe) having a meal
Keiichi Suzuki's score informs how we meander through the landscapes filmed dream-like by Christopher Messina (Dear Renzo). Charlie (Anabelle LeMieux) arrives at a house in Maine where a pal from the past, Helen (Rosalie Lowe), has a job monitoring forest fires and where she also miraculously predicts shifts in global finance.
- 7/20/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The story around Jerry Lewis‘s allegedly terrible and near-unwatchable Holocaust drama “The Day The Clown Cried” is the stuff of legend. The movie, filmed but never fully completed or released, has been described by the very few who been able to view it, as an artistic folly that widely misses the mark. Telling the story of […]
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- 6/17/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Ferne Pearlstein: "Renee [Firestone] and Steven Spielberg became very close." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
A highlight of the Tribeca Film Festival, Ferne Pearlstein's stunning The Last Laugh has Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Sarah Silverman, Robert Clary, Rob Reiner, Harry Shearer, Jeffrey Ross, Alan Zweibel, Gilbert Gottfried, Judy Gold, Larry Charles, David Steinberg, Susie Essman, Lisa Lampanelli and Hanala Sagal reflect on questions of free speech, taboos and time limits. Holocaust survivor Renee Firestone is the film's responsive centre.
Jerry Lewis's The Day The Clown Cried, James Moll's The Last Days and Paul Provenza's The Aristocrats open up the discussion and Brooks's comment on Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful leads me to Son Of Saul star Géza Röhrig's response to Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds in my conversation with Ferne and her co-writer/co-producer Robert Edwards.
Mel Brooks who never included a swastika in his material until The Producers, makes an important distinction between jokes about Nazis and jokes about the Holocaust....
A highlight of the Tribeca Film Festival, Ferne Pearlstein's stunning The Last Laugh has Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Sarah Silverman, Robert Clary, Rob Reiner, Harry Shearer, Jeffrey Ross, Alan Zweibel, Gilbert Gottfried, Judy Gold, Larry Charles, David Steinberg, Susie Essman, Lisa Lampanelli and Hanala Sagal reflect on questions of free speech, taboos and time limits. Holocaust survivor Renee Firestone is the film's responsive centre.
Jerry Lewis's The Day The Clown Cried, James Moll's The Last Days and Paul Provenza's The Aristocrats open up the discussion and Brooks's comment on Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful leads me to Son Of Saul star Géza Röhrig's response to Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds in my conversation with Ferne and her co-writer/co-producer Robert Edwards.
Mel Brooks who never included a swastika in his material until The Producers, makes an important distinction between jokes about Nazis and jokes about the Holocaust....
- 6/14/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
To put it simply, Jerry Lewis' "The Day The Clown Cried" is unmatched in the realm of unseen movies. In case you're just catching up, the movie is the legendary comedian's 1970s effort that he directed, in which he plays a German circus clown arrested by the Gestapo after mocking Hitler, who is eventually forced by the Nazis to perform and help lead Jewish children to concentration camp gas chambers. The result (which was never completely finished due to production and financial problems) has been kept from public view by Lewis, and only a handful of people in the world have managed to witness the misfire. But that day will end soon. Last summer, "The Day The Clown Cried" was selected for the Library Of Congress, and while it will be under a ten-year embargo from anyone viewing, it does mean that within your lifetime, there will be some...
- 1/11/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Back in 1972, Jerry Lewis made a film entitled The Day The Clown Cried. Not exactly an intriguing character examination of a depressed clown, the film instead starred Lewis as a German clown who, after mocking Hitler, was forced to entertain children before they went into the gas chambers. Unsurprisingly, after filming it, Lewis never wanted it to see the light of day. But it has now been acquired by the Library Of Congress, which means that it might. A recent Los Angeles Times article revealed that the sole copy of the film has now been acquired by the Library Of Congress based in Washington D.C. It seems as though The Day The Clown Cried was part of a large collection of Jerry Lewis films that have been acquired. This is bad news for Lewis, who has widely stated that no-one will ever see The Day The Clown Cried because,...
- 8/12/2015
- cinemablend.com
Following a rushed shooting schedule to avoid turning over the rights to Marvel, and now a nasty tweet dismissing the film from its own director Josh Trank, a reboot of Fantastic Four was released this weekend, and surprise, it’s rough. This week we welcome CutPrintFilm’s Chris Evangelista to talk the trend of indie directors taking on massive franchises, and whether the scorn heaped on Trank is in anyway deserving. We also talk new trailers, new projects by the Coen Brothers and Greta Gerwig, and take a blast to the past for our Wtf of the Week.
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- 8/11/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
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Some movies are famously bad because everybody and their grandmother saw them. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a good example. Others gain their notoriety from a sense of mystery, none more so than Jerry Lewis’ 1971 holocaust curio The Day the Clown Cried.
Made almost 45-years ago, The Day the Clown Cried follows a German clown sent to a concentration camp during WW2 for treason. There he becomes a sort of pied-piper, leading children to gas chambers and their resulting deaths. Sound a bit dodgy? Well, now you understand why it’s such a subject of infamy.
Adding to the movie’s legend is the fact it never received any sort of wide release, the sole copy of the film remaining in Lewis’ possession, hidden away due to its potentially offensive narrative. The comedian has been staunch about keeping it locked-up, but a report in The La Times suggests...
Some movies are famously bad because everybody and their grandmother saw them. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a good example. Others gain their notoriety from a sense of mystery, none more so than Jerry Lewis’ 1971 holocaust curio The Day the Clown Cried.
Made almost 45-years ago, The Day the Clown Cried follows a German clown sent to a concentration camp during WW2 for treason. There he becomes a sort of pied-piper, leading children to gas chambers and their resulting deaths. Sound a bit dodgy? Well, now you understand why it’s such a subject of infamy.
Adding to the movie’s legend is the fact it never received any sort of wide release, the sole copy of the film remaining in Lewis’ possession, hidden away due to its potentially offensive narrative. The comedian has been staunch about keeping it locked-up, but a report in The La Times suggests...
- 8/10/2015
- by Daniel Kelly
- Obsessed with Film
The only surviving print of The Day the Clown Cried has been picked up by the Library of Congress but won’t be shown for at least 10 years
It has become one of the most discussed films of all time, despite never being released, but the Los Angeles Times has reported that Jerry Lewis’s controversial comedy The Day the Clown Cried has been acquired by the Library of Congress.
The only known print of the film, made in 1971 but buried soon after, was bought by the federal cultural institution as part of a Jerry Lewis collection. But it reportedly won’t be shown for at least 10 years.
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It has become one of the most discussed films of all time, despite never being released, but the Los Angeles Times has reported that Jerry Lewis’s controversial comedy The Day the Clown Cried has been acquired by the Library of Congress.
The only known print of the film, made in 1971 but buried soon after, was bought by the federal cultural institution as part of a Jerry Lewis collection. But it reportedly won’t be shown for at least 10 years.
Continue reading...
- 8/10/2015
- by Benjamin Lee
- The Guardian - Film News
In 1971, slapstick auteur par excellence Jerry Lewis embarked on a sojourn to Sweden to film The Day the Clown Cried, a movie about a German clown named Helmut Doork who is forced to lead children into the Auschwitz gas chambers after he mocks Hitler. Lewis hated the film. After spending time hewing and splicing it, trying to no avail to fix what he considered to be an embarrassment to his artistry, he scrapped the project. Few people have seen the film, and its creator has repeatedly claimed the world will never see it, even after he dies, which has imbued the film with a mysterious aura. Some consider it the Holy Grail of lost comedies.That mysterious aura may soon be lifted. Embedded deep in a Los Angeles Times article on lost films is a fascinating little aside from Rob Stone, the moving-image curator at the Library of Congress: Stone...
- 8/8/2015
- by Greg Cwik
- Vulture
A film that many thought would be lost forever could be finding new life…but we will have to wait awhile to see it.
The Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday that The Library of Congress would be adding multiple films from the career of Jerry Lewis as part of a retrospective. Among those films is the famous The Day the Clown Cried, a movie that Lewis has violently been against releasing. But there is a catch — we won’t be able to see the movie for 10 years.
According to the report, the Library has put a 10-year wait on the release of the film, which should be awhile after Lewis passes away. Once that happens, the only person who has been against showing it will be out of the way.
Lewis spoke to The Cinefamily about the movie back in 2013 and was still completely against anyone seeing it.
“In terms of that film,...
The Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday that The Library of Congress would be adding multiple films from the career of Jerry Lewis as part of a retrospective. Among those films is the famous The Day the Clown Cried, a movie that Lewis has violently been against releasing. But there is a catch — we won’t be able to see the movie for 10 years.
According to the report, the Library has put a 10-year wait on the release of the film, which should be awhile after Lewis passes away. Once that happens, the only person who has been against showing it will be out of the way.
Lewis spoke to The Cinefamily about the movie back in 2013 and was still completely against anyone seeing it.
“In terms of that film,...
- 8/7/2015
- by Zach Dennis
- SoundOnSight
One of the most infamous unreleased films may finally be seen one day - Jerry Lewis' Holocaust drama "The Day The Clown Cried".
The bleak film has Lewis playing a German circus clown arrested by the Gestapo after making fun of Adolf Hitler. He is soon forced by the Nazis to use his performance to help lead Jewish children to the gas chamber.
The legendary comedian has long been sitting on the only copy of the movie that is said to exist - a film he's previously been embarrassed about. More recently he's changed his mind somewhat, but remains resolute that the film - which had production and financial troubles - will never be screened publicly. He did say in 2013 that it could work if it were tweaked a bit.
Today, The Los Angeles Times reports that the U.S. Library Of Congress has just received a collection of...
The bleak film has Lewis playing a German circus clown arrested by the Gestapo after making fun of Adolf Hitler. He is soon forced by the Nazis to use his performance to help lead Jewish children to the gas chamber.
The legendary comedian has long been sitting on the only copy of the movie that is said to exist - a film he's previously been embarrassed about. More recently he's changed his mind somewhat, but remains resolute that the film - which had production and financial troubles - will never be screened publicly. He did say in 2013 that it could work if it were tweaked a bit.
Today, The Los Angeles Times reports that the U.S. Library Of Congress has just received a collection of...
- 8/7/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
One of the most notorious, unreleased films ever made, Jerry Lewis' Holocaust drama "The Day The Clown Cried" has long been the subject of rumor and speculation. Even Lewis himself, who has long been sitting on the only copy of the movie, has veered in recent interviews from being "embarrassed" to "proud" of the effort in which he plays a German circus clown arrested by the Gestapo after mocking Hitler, and who is eventually forced by the Nazis to perform and help lead Jewish children to concentration camp gas chambers. But he has long held he would never show the movie (which was plagued by production and financial woes) publicly, though he thinks if he had a chance to tweak it, maybe it could work. "I think about this a lot. If I could pull certain specific elements from the project, and give me these three or four elements...
- 8/6/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
The Fantastic Four (1994) Director: Oley Sassone Stars: Alex Hyde-White, Rebecca Staab, Jay Underwood Four astronauts are zapped with cosmic rays from a passing comet, giving them powers beyond their wildest dreams. Unless their wildest dreams include having their movie seen by the public. Aside from Jerry Lewis' The Day The Clown Cried, Roger Corman's 1994 version of The... Read More...
- 8/5/2015
- by Jason Adams
- JoBlo.com
There's a weird netherworld that movies sometimes fall into, films that were completed, or as good as, but whether because of issues of quality, or because of circumstances outside their control, never saw release in any form, or at best were buried on DVD or VOD somewhere. Jerry Lewis' "The Day The Clown Cried" was a famous example, Kenneth Lonergan's "Margaret" lingered in limbo for six years before release, and more recently, films such as David O Russell's "Nailed" and Sienna Miller/Chris O'Dowd drama "Hippie Hippie Shake" finished principal photography, but never made it to a screen of any kind. And now, there's worrying signs that another film has joined those ranks. A couple of years ago, Dylan Kidd, director of the great "Roger Dodger" and the underrated "P.S," went behind cameras for the first time in nearly a decade with "Get A Job." An ensemble...
- 9/8/2014
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
It's one of the cinema's holy grail movies, but unlike the excised ending of "The Magnificent Ambersons," everyone knows where Jerry Lewis' "The Day The Clown Cried" is located. He's got the only copy of it, sitting in a vault somewhere and he's determined to ensure that no one ever gets a chance to view the whole thing. As always, there's hope, and last week a bounty of footage made its way online in the form of seven-minutes of material from part of a Dutch TV special about the making of about the making of the Holocaust movie. It was the biggest peek anyone has ever gotten of the movie to date and Lewis has largely been reluctant to talk about it in interviews. But some vintage Lewis has also surfaced, this time with the comedy legend talking extensively about the movie. Chris Nashawaty has the goods over at EW and as he explains,...
- 8/20/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
At first I wasn't sure if I should add this to "Cool Videos" because obviously there was nothing "cool" about the Holocaust, however as a movie buff I've always been fascinated by The Day The Clown Cried. The film was written and directed by Jerry Lewis (he's also the lead), and is about a circus clown who is imprisoned by Nazis after publicly humiliating Hitler. The clown is sent to concentration camps where he is then forced to...
- 8/13/2013
- by Jesse Giroux
- JoBlo.com
There are several theories about why Jerry Lewis' 1972 movie "The Day the Clown Cried" has never seen the light of day. Starring Lewis as a failed circus clown who is employed to entertain and lead children into a concentration camp gas chamber during the Holocaust, generally it has been considered possibly too offensive. The footage has been buried in a vault for the last 40 years. But some rare behind-the-scenes footage has leaked. And it's worth a watch. Here's the clip:...
- 8/12/2013
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Few films that never played in theaters manage to become legends, but Jerry Lewis's The Day The Clown Cried is infamous for a reason. The comedian famous as The Nutty Professor and Dean Martin's goofy sidekick agreed in 1972 to direct and star in a movie about a German circus clown who isn't just sent to a concentration camp, but who entertains children on their way to the gas chamber. It's delicate subject matter that is almost impossible to pull off-- many would argue Roberto Benigni didn't even do it with the Oscar-nominated Life is Beautiful-- and at some point after shooting, amid conflicts with the producer, Lewis took the one copy of the film and refused to release it. Only a handful of people had ever seen a single frame of the film. Until now. Above is a video that appears to be taken from a behind-the-scenes...
- 8/12/2013
- cinemablend.com
You haven't seen it -- almost no one has -- but there's a good chance that you've heard of "The Day The Clown Cried," because it's one of the most famous unreleased movies in history. Directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, the film involved a German circus clown arrested by the Gestapo after mocking Hitler, who is eventually forced by the Nazis to perform and help lead Jewish children to concentration camp gas chambers. Yes, you read that right. The film went into production in 1972, but was initially held up due to a falling-out between the financiers. Once completed, the film was screened privately, emerging as a disaster that makes "Life Is Beautiful" look about as sensitive as "Shoah." "Simpsons" veteran Harry Shearer was at one screening, and was quoted as saying "This movie is so drastically wrong, its pathos and its comedy are so wildly misplaced, that you could not,...
- 8/12/2013
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Footage from Jerry Lewis' infamous 1972 film "The Day The Clown Cried" has surfaced online. Written by Joan O'Brien and Charles Denton and Lewis -- who also directed -- "The Day The Clown Cried" is about a German circus clown named Helmut Doork who winds up performing for Jewish children at a concentration camp. Doork's routine is used to help lead the children to their deaths in the gas chamber. "The Day The Clown Cried" was never released because Lewis was unhappy with the final product.
"It was all bad and it was bad because I lost the magic," Lewis said about "The Day The Clown Cried" during this year's Cannes Film Festival. "You will never see it, no-one will ever see it, because I am embarrassed at the poor work."
One person who has seen Lewis' lost film is comedian Harry Shearer. "If you say, 'Jerry Lewis, clown in a concentration camp,...
"It was all bad and it was bad because I lost the magic," Lewis said about "The Day The Clown Cried" during this year's Cannes Film Festival. "You will never see it, no-one will ever see it, because I am embarrassed at the poor work."
One person who has seen Lewis' lost film is comedian Harry Shearer. "If you say, 'Jerry Lewis, clown in a concentration camp,...
- 8/12/2013
- by Christopher Rosen
- Huffington Post
If I could snap my fingers and magically see any movie that already exists right now, there is no question in my mind what film I'd watch. I have been fascinated by the stories about the Jerry Lewis film "The Day The Clown Cried" since the very first time I heard about it. And why wouldn't I be? The premise is fairly audacious, and the idea that Lewis finished it, looked at it, and immediately ordered it to be buried forever only makes it that much more enticing. I am just as interested in art that fails as I am in...
- 8/12/2013
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
Jerry Lewis Max Rose panned: Cannes Film Festival 2013 Jerry Lewis and Charles Chaplin both made comedies. What else do they have in common? One possible answer: Claire Bloom, Chaplin’s Limelight "discovery" (Bloom had already been featured in the 1948 British drama The Blind Goddess) and Lewis’ leading lady in Max Rose. (Photo: Jerry Lewis in Max Rose.) Jerry Lewis’ first movie since Funny Bones (1995), Max Rose was screened yesterday at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Written and directed by Daniel Noah, whose previous directorial effort was the little-seen 2001 thriller Twelve, Max Rose stars the 87-year-old Lewis in the title role: a former jazz pianist who, following the death of his wife (Claire Bloom), discovers that his marriage may have been less than ideally monogamous. Max Rose: Jerry Lewis’ ‘best script in 40 years’ — critics, however, considerably less impressed At the 2013 Cannes press conference, Jerry Lewis called Max Rose the “best script I read in 40 years,...
- 5/25/2013
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Review by Barbara Snitzer
On my about me page, I mentioned several genres of movies that I dislike and avoid.
I neglected to mention the genre I will call .Holocaust for the Kiddies!.
I absolutely hated Life Is Beautiful and refused to see The Boy in the Striped Pajamas after being completely offended by its preview. The only, and I mean only, exception I would make is The Day The Clown Cried. Unlike the titles I just mentioned, this film is reportedly so offensive, its star Jerry Lewis is too ashamed to allow it to be seen. I will need to be convinced that there could be a movie more offensive than these…….
The read the rest of Barbara’s review Here
1/2 of 5 Stars
War Of The Buttons Opens in St. Louis today at Landmark’s Tivoli Theater
Read more of Barbara’s reviews at her blog Le Movie Snob
http://lemoviesnob.
On my about me page, I mentioned several genres of movies that I dislike and avoid.
I neglected to mention the genre I will call .Holocaust for the Kiddies!.
I absolutely hated Life Is Beautiful and refused to see The Boy in the Striped Pajamas after being completely offended by its preview. The only, and I mean only, exception I would make is The Day The Clown Cried. Unlike the titles I just mentioned, this film is reportedly so offensive, its star Jerry Lewis is too ashamed to allow it to be seen. I will need to be convinced that there could be a movie more offensive than these…….
The read the rest of Barbara’s review Here
1/2 of 5 Stars
War Of The Buttons Opens in St. Louis today at Landmark’s Tivoli Theater
Read more of Barbara’s reviews at her blog Le Movie Snob
http://lemoviesnob.
- 11/2/2012
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Welcome to "Where on the Shelf Is..." In this column, I look at great TV shows and movies that have never been on DVD and/or Blu-ray. For your pleasure and out of all of our frustrations, this column examines the Where, When and, of course, Why?! of these non-releases. Up this week is...The Day The Clown Cried What Is It?: In his prime, Jerry Lewis was one of the top comedic presences in Hollywood, co-starring with Dean Martin in over a dozen films and headlining a number...
- 10/9/2012
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
(As our editor Matt Holmes turns 25 today, he’s out of office and we are going to re-publish some old favourites.)
With the frustrating news breaking last week that Guillermo Del Toro’s adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness (based on an H.P. Lovecraft story) is ‘dead’, I began thinking about some of the other potentially great projects that audiences were tragically destined to never see. From further research it’s clear that the major directors that have worked within the industry have abandoned vast numbers of productions that would have easily been big money makers and both critical and financial successes. Indeed, filmmakers like Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch and Orson Welles have abandoned dozens of projects, even after beginning production on some of them!
Read on to discover the ten unrealised features that we’d love to have seen completed…
10. George Sluizer’S Dark Blood
George Sluizer’s...
With the frustrating news breaking last week that Guillermo Del Toro’s adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness (based on an H.P. Lovecraft story) is ‘dead’, I began thinking about some of the other potentially great projects that audiences were tragically destined to never see. From further research it’s clear that the major directors that have worked within the industry have abandoned vast numbers of productions that would have easily been big money makers and both critical and financial successes. Indeed, filmmakers like Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch and Orson Welles have abandoned dozens of projects, even after beginning production on some of them!
Read on to discover the ten unrealised features that we’d love to have seen completed…
10. George Sluizer’S Dark Blood
George Sluizer’s...
- 7/25/2011
- by Stuart Cummins
- Obsessed with Film
With the frustrating news breaking last weak that Guillermo Del Toro’s adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness (based on an H.P. Lovecraft story) is ‘dead’, I began thinking about some of the other potentially great projects that audiences were tragically destined to never see. From further research it’s clear that the major directors that have worked within the industry have abandoned vast numbers of productions that would have easily been big money makers and both critical and financial successes. Indeed, filmmakers like Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch and Orson Welles have abandoned dozens of projects, even after beginning production on some of them!
Read on to discover the ten unrealised features that we’d love to have seen completed…
10. George Sluizer’S Dark Blood
George Sluizer’s Dark Blood starred River Phoenix as Boy, a widower who lives as a hermit on a nuclear testing site. In this tale of a dystopian future,...
Read on to discover the ten unrealised features that we’d love to have seen completed…
10. George Sluizer’S Dark Blood
George Sluizer’s Dark Blood starred River Phoenix as Boy, a widower who lives as a hermit on a nuclear testing site. In this tale of a dystopian future,...
- 3/15/2011
- by Stuart Cummins
- Obsessed with Film
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