About a decade ago, Damien Chazelle was Hollywood’s hottest young filmmaker. His indie hit “Whiplash” made tens of millions of dollars in profit and earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. He followed it up with “La La Land,” which earned hundreds of millions in profit and made him the youngest Best Director Oscar winner ever at age 32. He was riding high. But what goes up must come down.
His next film, 2018’s “First Man,” underperformed at the box office and the Oscars. And 2022’s “Babylon” was an outright flop, losing money, winning no Academy Awards, and earning mixed reviews from critics and a fair amount of derision for its three-hour runtime and over-the-top spectacle – this despite a loyal hive of fans who remain convinced it will age like a lost masterpiece. Regardless, it was the kind of exercise in excess that can derail a director...
His next film, 2018’s “First Man,” underperformed at the box office and the Oscars. And 2022’s “Babylon” was an outright flop, losing money, winning no Academy Awards, and earning mixed reviews from critics and a fair amount of derision for its three-hour runtime and over-the-top spectacle – this despite a loyal hive of fans who remain convinced it will age like a lost masterpiece. Regardless, it was the kind of exercise in excess that can derail a director...
- 3/1/2024
- by Liam Mathews
- Gold Derby
Three-time Oscar winner Oliver Stone has courted controversy with a series of technically ambitious, rabble rousing political dramas, chronicling the highs and lows of American history. But how many of his titles remain classics? In honor of his birthday, let’s take a look back at all 20 of his films, ranked worst to best.
Born in 1946, Stone served in the Vietnam War before enrolling in NYU film school. He first came to prominence as a screenwriter, winning an Oscar for penning “Midnight Express” (Best Original Screenplay in 1978) before writing “Conan the Barbarian” (1982), “Scarface” (1983) and “Year of the Dragon” (1985). During this same period, he directed the low-budget horror films “Seizure” (1974) and “The Hand” (1981).
He emerged as a an A-list director when he was 40 years old with a pair of acclaimed war dramas released in 1986: “Salvador” and “Platoon.” Both earned him Best Original Screenplay nominations, while “Platoon,” which was based on...
Born in 1946, Stone served in the Vietnam War before enrolling in NYU film school. He first came to prominence as a screenwriter, winning an Oscar for penning “Midnight Express” (Best Original Screenplay in 1978) before writing “Conan the Barbarian” (1982), “Scarface” (1983) and “Year of the Dragon” (1985). During this same period, he directed the low-budget horror films “Seizure” (1974) and “The Hand” (1981).
He emerged as a an A-list director when he was 40 years old with a pair of acclaimed war dramas released in 1986: “Salvador” and “Platoon.” Both earned him Best Original Screenplay nominations, while “Platoon,” which was based on...
- 9/8/2023
- by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
What do you do after you make a film that soars so far over budget it cripples one of Hollywood's most beloved studios? First off, you fall to your knees and thank the cinema gods that anyone is willing to finance anything more substantial than a home movie with your name on it. Secondly, you make certain your next film comes in on time and on budget. Finally, maybe tackle a subject that's unlikely to court controversy.
Michael Cimino at the very least delivered 1985's "Year of the Dragon" with a minimum of production fuss, even though his exacting aesthetic standards led him to seamlessly recreate parts of New York City's Chinatown on the Deg backlot in Wilmington, North Carolina while shooting select interiors and exteriors in six different cities all over the world. This might sound like a logistical nightmare, but Cimino learned his lesson from the debacle of "Heaven's Gate.
Michael Cimino at the very least delivered 1985's "Year of the Dragon" with a minimum of production fuss, even though his exacting aesthetic standards led him to seamlessly recreate parts of New York City's Chinatown on the Deg backlot in Wilmington, North Carolina while shooting select interiors and exteriors in six different cities all over the world. This might sound like a logistical nightmare, but Cimino learned his lesson from the debacle of "Heaven's Gate.
- 9/9/2022
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Jack Kehler, a character actor who had supporting roles in dozens of TV shows and films over four decades including the Dude’s landlord in The Big Lebowski, has died. He was 75.
Kehler’s son, Eddie Kehler told Deadline, that his father died Saturday of complications of leukemia at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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Born on May 22, 1946, in Philadelphia, the elder Kehler studied with Sanford Meisner and Wynn Handman and was a lifetime member of The Actors Studio. He was a regular on the short-lived ABC adventure series McKenna and in Season 2 of ABC’s Murder One. He recurred on such shows as The Man in the High Castle, mid-2000s ABC sitcom I’m with Her and the star-packed 1986 miniseries Fresno.
He also guested on dozens of popular series ranging from Hill Street Blues, Hunter, Cagney & Lacey, L.A. Law, Newhart...
Kehler’s son, Eddie Kehler told Deadline, that his father died Saturday of complications of leukemia at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery
Born on May 22, 1946, in Philadelphia, the elder Kehler studied with Sanford Meisner and Wynn Handman and was a lifetime member of The Actors Studio. He was a regular on the short-lived ABC adventure series McKenna and in Season 2 of ABC’s Murder One. He recurred on such shows as The Man in the High Castle, mid-2000s ABC sitcom I’m with Her and the star-packed 1986 miniseries Fresno.
He also guested on dozens of popular series ranging from Hill Street Blues, Hunter, Cagney & Lacey, L.A. Law, Newhart...
- 5/10/2022
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Actor David Morse joins Josh and Joe to talk about his favorite movies.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Slaughter Rule (2002)
Dancer In The Dark (2000)
A History Of Violence (2005)
The Indian Runner (1991)
Inside Moves (1980) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Death Wish (1974) – Darren Bousman’s trailer commentary
The Virtuoso (2021)
The Crossing Guard (1995)
Prototype (1983)
Cry in the Wild: The Taking of Peggy Ann (1991)
Seven Beauties (1975)
Swept Away (1974)
Mimic (1997)
Hannibal (2001)
Mean Streets (1973)
Taxi Driver (1976) – Rod Lurie’s trailer commentary
The Godfather Part II (1974) – Katt Shea’s trailer commentary
Being There (1979) – Alan Spencer’s trailer commentary
The Ghost of Peter Sellers (2018)
A Shot In The Dark (1964) – Dan Ireland’s trailer commentary
Midnight Cowboy (1969) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Papillon (1973)
Straight Time (1978) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary
Straw Dogs (1971) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary
Wait Until Dark (1967) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Catch 22 (1970) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary
Desperate Hours (1990)
The Bounty...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Slaughter Rule (2002)
Dancer In The Dark (2000)
A History Of Violence (2005)
The Indian Runner (1991)
Inside Moves (1980) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Death Wish (1974) – Darren Bousman’s trailer commentary
The Virtuoso (2021)
The Crossing Guard (1995)
Prototype (1983)
Cry in the Wild: The Taking of Peggy Ann (1991)
Seven Beauties (1975)
Swept Away (1974)
Mimic (1997)
Hannibal (2001)
Mean Streets (1973)
Taxi Driver (1976) – Rod Lurie’s trailer commentary
The Godfather Part II (1974) – Katt Shea’s trailer commentary
Being There (1979) – Alan Spencer’s trailer commentary
The Ghost of Peter Sellers (2018)
A Shot In The Dark (1964) – Dan Ireland’s trailer commentary
Midnight Cowboy (1969) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Papillon (1973)
Straight Time (1978) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary
Straw Dogs (1971) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary
Wait Until Dark (1967) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Catch 22 (1970) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary
Desperate Hours (1990)
The Bounty...
- 5/18/2021
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
In trying to explain why 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long would walk into three Atlanta-area massage spas on March 16 and shoot eight people, including six women of Asian descent, law enforcement officials cited the shooter’s self-reported motivation as “sexual addiction,” not one of racial hatred. But amid a yearlong backdrop of anti-Asian sentiment fueled by the Covid-19 pandemic, on top of decades of fetishism of Asian women, skepticism quickly mounted in the Asian American community.
For Renee Tajima-Peña, one of the Academy Award-nominated filmmakers behind the documentary “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” — about the 1982 killing of a Chinese American by two white autoworkers who called Chin racial slurs and beat him to death with a baseball bat— the violence seemed inescapably entangled in the cultural objectification of Asians.
“I think when Asian Americans looked at this murder in Atlanta, [they see] he targeted three Asian American businesses, he killed six Asian American women,...
For Renee Tajima-Peña, one of the Academy Award-nominated filmmakers behind the documentary “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” — about the 1982 killing of a Chinese American by two white autoworkers who called Chin racial slurs and beat him to death with a baseball bat— the violence seemed inescapably entangled in the cultural objectification of Asians.
“I think when Asian Americans looked at this murder in Atlanta, [they see] he targeted three Asian American businesses, he killed six Asian American women,...
- 3/23/2021
- by Elaine Low and Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Busta Rhymes has tapped Vybz Kartel for a new song, “The Don and the Boss,” the first offering from the rapper’s next album, Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God.
The track boasts a booming beat with thick bass hits and brisk percussion holding down scattered synth loops and blaring trumpets. It’s an ideal beat for Vybz Kartel and Busta to get as boastful and over-the-top as they can: “Kartel is a mystery/Nancy Drew can’t fix it,” Vybz Kartel spits, while later Busta delivers, “Don...
The track boasts a booming beat with thick bass hits and brisk percussion holding down scattered synth loops and blaring trumpets. It’s an ideal beat for Vybz Kartel and Busta to get as boastful and over-the-top as they can: “Kartel is a mystery/Nancy Drew can’t fix it,” Vybz Kartel spits, while later Busta delivers, “Don...
- 8/21/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Directed By: Robert SamuelsCo-Director: James LewProduced By: Mark V. Wiley, Gine Lui, Shing KaCast: Tony Darrow, Vincent Pastore, Lo Meng, Jay Kwon, Raywond J.Barry, Chris Caldovino, Shuya ChangRunning Time: 1:27:29
www.madeinchinatownmovie.com
“Made In Chinatown will be a big Hit”
Made In Chinatown is the latest offering from upcoming Director Robert Samuels, featuring an all star cast which includes Tony Darrow, Vincent Pastore, Lo Meng, Jay Kwon, Raymond J. Barry, Shing Ka, Geoff Lee, Shuya Chang and Chi Ling Chiu.
Co-Directed by James Lew, “Made In Chinatown” centers around Vinnie Chow (Jay Kwon), who will try anything to become part of one of the local crime families; only one problem, he isn’t Italian. Canal Street is the only divide between Little Italy and Chinatown in New York, each crime family wanting more power and more money, which will only bring one thing, a war on the streets.
www.madeinchinatownmovie.com
“Made In Chinatown will be a big Hit”
Made In Chinatown is the latest offering from upcoming Director Robert Samuels, featuring an all star cast which includes Tony Darrow, Vincent Pastore, Lo Meng, Jay Kwon, Raymond J. Barry, Shing Ka, Geoff Lee, Shuya Chang and Chi Ling Chiu.
Co-Directed by James Lew, “Made In Chinatown” centers around Vinnie Chow (Jay Kwon), who will try anything to become part of one of the local crime families; only one problem, he isn’t Italian. Canal Street is the only divide between Little Italy and Chinatown in New York, each crime family wanting more power and more money, which will only bring one thing, a war on the streets.
- 6/14/2020
- by kingofkungfu
- AsianMoviePulse
Tom Hooper just won Worst Director at the Razzie Awards for the movie musical “Cats,” which led these kudos with six wins overall including Worst Picture. That’s bad enough in and of itself, but it also puts him in rarefied air: he’s only the third filmmaker ever to win both an Oscar and a Razzie for directing. Check out the complete list of Razzie winners here.
SEERazzies: Every Worst Picture Winner 1981 to Today
The first was Michael Cimino, who claimed Best Director and Best Picture for “The Deer Hunter” (1978). But then he went and made the notorious western flop “Heaven’s Gate” (1981), which won him Worst Director, though the film mercifully lost Worst Picture to “Mommie Dearest.” Cimino went on to earn two more Razzie nominations for writing and directing “Year of the Dragon” (1985), but he didn’t win.
The second director to go from best to worst was Kevin Costner,...
SEERazzies: Every Worst Picture Winner 1981 to Today
The first was Michael Cimino, who claimed Best Director and Best Picture for “The Deer Hunter” (1978). But then he went and made the notorious western flop “Heaven’s Gate” (1981), which won him Worst Director, though the film mercifully lost Worst Picture to “Mommie Dearest.” Cimino went on to earn two more Razzie nominations for writing and directing “Year of the Dragon” (1985), but he didn’t win.
The second director to go from best to worst was Kevin Costner,...
- 3/16/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Almost from the moment the trailer for “Cats” premiered it looked like it might be destined for the Razzies and not the Oscars despite its strong pedigree. That turned out to be true as the film is nominated nine times including Worst Picture. If Tom Hooper ends up claiming Worst Director for it, he’ll be only the third filmmaker ever to achieve an unfortunate feat: winning both an Oscar and a Razzie for directing.
SEERazzies: Every Worst Picture Winner 1981 to Today
The first was Michael Cimino, who won Best Director and Best Picture for the classic film “The Deer Hunter” (1978), but then made the notorious western flop “Heaven’s Gate” (1981), which won him Worst Director, though the film mercifully lost Worst Picture to “Mommie Dearest.” After that Cimino earned two more Razzie nominations for writing and directing “Year of the Dragon” (1985), but he didn’t win.
The second director to...
SEERazzies: Every Worst Picture Winner 1981 to Today
The first was Michael Cimino, who won Best Director and Best Picture for the classic film “The Deer Hunter” (1978), but then made the notorious western flop “Heaven’s Gate” (1981), which won him Worst Director, though the film mercifully lost Worst Picture to “Mommie Dearest.” After that Cimino earned two more Razzie nominations for writing and directing “Year of the Dragon” (1985), but he didn’t win.
The second director to...
- 2/12/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Matthew Byrd Nov 1, 2019
The next Hearthstone expansion will add an army of dragons to the game.
The next Hearthstone expansion is officially titled Descent of Dragons.
Considering that Hearthstone's current content year is called the Year of the Dragon, it's appropriate that the final expansion of the year will focus on dragons. Specifically, it sees the League of Explorers and the League of E.V.I.L venture to a World of Warcraft staple zone known as Dragonblight. That region contains shrines for the various Dragon Aspects which seems to be where everyone is getting their new dragon friends.
We'll see how the lore plays out, but as always, the next Hearthstone expansion is really all about the cards. So far as that goes, it's clear that one of the new stars of this next expansion will be the dragon Galakrond. As a hero card, Galakrond will replace your current hero and your hero power.
The next Hearthstone expansion will add an army of dragons to the game.
The next Hearthstone expansion is officially titled Descent of Dragons.
Considering that Hearthstone's current content year is called the Year of the Dragon, it's appropriate that the final expansion of the year will focus on dragons. Specifically, it sees the League of Explorers and the League of E.V.I.L venture to a World of Warcraft staple zone known as Dragonblight. That region contains shrines for the various Dragon Aspects which seems to be where everyone is getting their new dragon friends.
We'll see how the lore plays out, but as always, the next Hearthstone expansion is really all about the cards. So far as that goes, it's clear that one of the new stars of this next expansion will be the dragon Galakrond. As a hero card, Galakrond will replace your current hero and your hero power.
- 10/29/2019
- Den of Geek
By Fred Blosser
In Michael Cimino’s “Year of the Dragon” (1985), now available in a handsome Blu-ray edition from the Warner Archive Collection, gang war threatens to erupt in New York’s Chinatown when the city’s elderly Triad kingpin is spectacularly murdered by a young Chinese thug. Police Captain Stanley White (Mickey Rourke) is brought in to crack down before more blood is spilled, as long as he doesn’t crack down too hard. As far as the NYPD and the neighborhood elders are concerned, things are fine the way they are in Chinatown under the Triad. All that’s needed is to bring the suddenly upstart youth gangs under control. But Stanley knows that the only way to really clean up Chinatown is to wipe out the underlying corruption of the Triad itself. To that end, he plunges into his assignment with a zeal that even Dirty Harry Callahan might find excessive.
In Michael Cimino’s “Year of the Dragon” (1985), now available in a handsome Blu-ray edition from the Warner Archive Collection, gang war threatens to erupt in New York’s Chinatown when the city’s elderly Triad kingpin is spectacularly murdered by a young Chinese thug. Police Captain Stanley White (Mickey Rourke) is brought in to crack down before more blood is spilled, as long as he doesn’t crack down too hard. As far as the NYPD and the neighborhood elders are concerned, things are fine the way they are in Chinatown under the Triad. All that’s needed is to bring the suddenly upstart youth gangs under control. But Stanley knows that the only way to really clean up Chinatown is to wipe out the underlying corruption of the Triad itself. To that end, he plunges into his assignment with a zeal that even Dirty Harry Callahan might find excessive.
- 10/23/2019
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Oliver Stone celebrates his 73rd birthday on September 15, 2019. The three-time Oscar winner has courted controversy with a series of technically ambitious, rabble rousing political dramas, chronicling the highs and lows of American history. But how many of his titles remain classics? In honor of his birthday, let’s take a look back at all 20 of his films, ranked worst to best.
Born in 1946, Stone served in the Vietnam War before enrolling in NYU film school. He first came to prominence as a screenwriter, winning an Oscar for penning “Midnight Express” (Best Original Screenplay in 1978) before writing “Conan the Barbarian” (1982), “Scarface” (1983) and “Year of the Dragon” (1985). During this same period, he directed the low-budget horror films “Seizure” (1974) and “The Hand” (1981).
SEEOscar Best Director Gallery: Every Winner In Academy Award History
He emerged as a an A-list director when he was 40 years old with a pair of acclaimed war dramas released in 1986: “Salvador” and “Platoon.
Born in 1946, Stone served in the Vietnam War before enrolling in NYU film school. He first came to prominence as a screenwriter, winning an Oscar for penning “Midnight Express” (Best Original Screenplay in 1978) before writing “Conan the Barbarian” (1982), “Scarface” (1983) and “Year of the Dragon” (1985). During this same period, he directed the low-budget horror films “Seizure” (1974) and “The Hand” (1981).
SEEOscar Best Director Gallery: Every Winner In Academy Award History
He emerged as a an A-list director when he was 40 years old with a pair of acclaimed war dramas released in 1986: “Salvador” and “Platoon.
- 9/15/2019
- by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
I caught the American Cinematheque’s 4K restoration of Visconti’s ‘Death in Venice’ this past week, my second of the Visconti Retrospective that just wrapped.
The American Cinematheque’s moderator explained that Visconti used Mahler’s 5th and 3rd Symphonies because, in fact, Death in Venice was said to be about Gustave Mahler himself. I was surprised to hear this because when I read the book I thought it was more about Thomas Mann than Mahler, as it was about a famous pre-World War I author, Gustav von Aschenbach, making a trip to Venice in the hope of overcoming writer’s block.
And until the American Cinematheque’s screening, no one told me anything about it being about Mahler. Though I had seen the film when it came out in 1971, I thought it starred Burt Lancaster so I was surprised again to see that it starred Dirk Bogarde, who...
The American Cinematheque’s moderator explained that Visconti used Mahler’s 5th and 3rd Symphonies because, in fact, Death in Venice was said to be about Gustave Mahler himself. I was surprised to hear this because when I read the book I thought it was more about Thomas Mann than Mahler, as it was about a famous pre-World War I author, Gustav von Aschenbach, making a trip to Venice in the hope of overcoming writer’s block.
And until the American Cinematheque’s screening, no one told me anything about it being about Mahler. Though I had seen the film when it came out in 1971, I thought it starred Burt Lancaster so I was surprised again to see that it starred Dirk Bogarde, who...
- 4/4/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Matthew Byrd Feb 28, 2019
The next Hearthstone expansion is going to shake the game up quite a bit.
Hearthstone is about to enjoy some sweeping changes in preparation for the incoming Year of the Dragon content season.
First off, the next batch of Hearthstone Hall of Fame cards includes the surprise additions of Genn and Baku. This is the first time that cards have been rotated out of standard ahead of their scheduled date. As Hearthstone players know, though, these two cards have created a bit of a problem in the game in terms of balance. Put simply, they're just too good and the way they force players to build their decks around odd and even cards has limited the incentive for players to create inventive new decks. Other cards which utilize the odd/even system will also be sent to the Hall of Fame.
Joining those cards in the net...
The next Hearthstone expansion is going to shake the game up quite a bit.
Hearthstone is about to enjoy some sweeping changes in preparation for the incoming Year of the Dragon content season.
First off, the next batch of Hearthstone Hall of Fame cards includes the surprise additions of Genn and Baku. This is the first time that cards have been rotated out of standard ahead of their scheduled date. As Hearthstone players know, though, these two cards have created a bit of a problem in the game in terms of balance. Put simply, they're just too good and the way they force players to build their decks around odd and even cards has limited the incentive for players to create inventive new decks. Other cards which utilize the odd/even system will also be sent to the Hall of Fame.
Joining those cards in the net...
- 2/28/2019
- Den of Geek
Great news for fans of Mickey Rourke! Year Of The Dragon is available on Blu-ray From Warner Archives. Pre-order information can be found Here.
Corruption. Extortion. Sometimes, even assassination. For the tradition-bound mob bosses of Manhattan’s Chinatown, there are age-old ways of running things. And now there’s police captain Stanley White’s way.
Mickey Rourke portrays White, a war veteran who has a Vietnam-sized chip on his shoulder when dealing with an emerging blood feud in Chinatown. John Lone plays the crime lord standing in the line of fire of White’s relentless campaign. And Academy Award®-winning* director Michael Cimino, working from a screenplay based on the novel by Robert Daley (Prince of the City) and coscripted by Oliver Stone, fills the screen with adrenaline rushes of action and excitement.
Mickey Rourke stars as Stanley White, the “most decorated cop in the history of the New York Police Department...
Corruption. Extortion. Sometimes, even assassination. For the tradition-bound mob bosses of Manhattan’s Chinatown, there are age-old ways of running things. And now there’s police captain Stanley White’s way.
Mickey Rourke portrays White, a war veteran who has a Vietnam-sized chip on his shoulder when dealing with an emerging blood feud in Chinatown. John Lone plays the crime lord standing in the line of fire of White’s relentless campaign. And Academy Award®-winning* director Michael Cimino, working from a screenplay based on the novel by Robert Daley (Prince of the City) and coscripted by Oliver Stone, fills the screen with adrenaline rushes of action and excitement.
Mickey Rourke stars as Stanley White, the “most decorated cop in the history of the New York Police Department...
- 2/25/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Matthew Byrd Mar 25, 2019
Dragons are finally coming to Elder Scrolls Online along with the Elsweyr update.
Elder Scrolls Online's next content release, Elsweyr, will begin with the release of the Wrathstone Dlc game pack. This pack will include two new dungeons that see collect something referred to as the "Wrathstone tablet." This Dlc pack will go live later today. Best of all, it will be available for free to all players, even if they aren't purchasing the game's next expansion. There are instructions on how to access the content over on the game's website.
In case you missed it, Elder Scrolls Online will soon receive a massive influx of new content that might change the game in some drastic ways. It seems that 2019 is being branded the "Year of the Dragon" for Elder Scrolls Online. For the first time, all four quarterly content releases that come out this year will...
Dragons are finally coming to Elder Scrolls Online along with the Elsweyr update.
Elder Scrolls Online's next content release, Elsweyr, will begin with the release of the Wrathstone Dlc game pack. This pack will include two new dungeons that see collect something referred to as the "Wrathstone tablet." This Dlc pack will go live later today. Best of all, it will be available for free to all players, even if they aren't purchasing the game's next expansion. There are instructions on how to access the content over on the game's website.
In case you missed it, Elder Scrolls Online will soon receive a massive influx of new content that might change the game in some drastic ways. It seems that 2019 is being branded the "Year of the Dragon" for Elder Scrolls Online. For the first time, all four quarterly content releases that come out this year will...
- 1/16/2019
- Den of Geek
Chinese-American actress, writer and director Joan Chen says that she was flattered when Time magazine described her as the “Elizabeth Taylor of China.”
When asked at an in-conversation event in Singapore on Saturday whether she paved the way for Chinese actresses to follow in Hollywood, Chen said, “We never go to work because we want to pave the way for other actors. We go to work because we are compelled to, we must, we love it and it feeds us.”
Chen was a juror at the 2nd International Film Festival & Awards Macao, in 2017. “Sometimes the reality is, you open the way for others, but obviously that wasn’t my motivation,” Chen said. When Chen began her Hollywood career, she did not see any role models, she said. “You turn on the television and basically, you don’t see yourself,” Chen said.
Chen did auditions for Michael Cimino’s 1985 film “Year of the Dragon,...
When asked at an in-conversation event in Singapore on Saturday whether she paved the way for Chinese actresses to follow in Hollywood, Chen said, “We never go to work because we want to pave the way for other actors. We go to work because we are compelled to, we must, we love it and it feeds us.”
Chen was a juror at the 2nd International Film Festival & Awards Macao, in 2017. “Sometimes the reality is, you open the way for others, but obviously that wasn’t my motivation,” Chen said. When Chen began her Hollywood career, she did not see any role models, she said. “You turn on the television and basically, you don’t see yourself,” Chen said.
Chen did auditions for Michael Cimino’s 1985 film “Year of the Dragon,...
- 12/9/2018
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Christmas day 1998… I was one lucky girl who got a PlayStation along with Spyro the Dragon game and Crash Bandicoot, flash forward ten years and with the success of the remastered Crash Bandicoot trilogy, Activision wasted very little time in a remastered Spyro trilogy.
Spyro has returned and his attitude is fiercer than before! Enjoy all three of the original games with enhanced HD graphics; enjoy gameplay from old flames including Spyro the Dragon, Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage! And Spyro: Year of the Dragon. With a realm in danger, there’s only one purple dragon to call and he’s prepared to turn the heat on and set evil on fire! There are more puzzles, eggs and dragons to discover and you can easily swap between the three classic games, offering up hours of heated gameplay. Get ready for a real adventure through the realms in Spyro: Reignited Trilogy.
Spyro has returned and his attitude is fiercer than before! Enjoy all three of the original games with enhanced HD graphics; enjoy gameplay from old flames including Spyro the Dragon, Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage! And Spyro: Year of the Dragon. With a realm in danger, there’s only one purple dragon to call and he’s prepared to turn the heat on and set evil on fire! There are more puzzles, eggs and dragons to discover and you can easily swap between the three classic games, offering up hours of heated gameplay. Get ready for a real adventure through the realms in Spyro: Reignited Trilogy.
- 11/28/2018
- by Kat Wheat
- Nerdly
In the late 90’s and early 2000’s, you couldn’t swing a stick without hitting a platformer with a wannabe star. The post-Sonic landscape gave us everything from Blinx the Timesweeper to Jersey Devil, with most of them flopping. There were successes to be had, though. Banjo Kazooie gave Nintendo another hit series, while Crash Bandicoot proved to be a system seller for Sony. Following in Naughty Dog’s footsteps on the original PlayStation was Spyro the Dragon, who saw three successful releases on the console. Over time, though, like his contemporaries, he fell out of style. Since everything old is new once again, though, Activision has resurrected the purple dragon for Spyro Reignited Trilogy, a lovingly created compilation of only the hits.
Bringing together Spyro the Dragon, Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage! and Spyro: Year of the Dragon, the Reignited Trilogy is a full-scale remake of the titular dragon’s biggest hits.
Bringing together Spyro the Dragon, Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage! and Spyro: Year of the Dragon, the Reignited Trilogy is a full-scale remake of the titular dragon’s biggest hits.
- 11/25/2018
- by Eric Hall
- We Got This Covered
Francoise Bonnot, a film editor who won an Oscar for Z and a BAFTA Award for Missing among dozens of credits, died Saturday in Paris. She was 78.
The France native worked with a number of top directors during her nearly 50-year career, notably editing seven consecutive films by Costa-Gavras — from 1969’s Z to 1983’s Hanna K. She won a BAFTA Award for his 1982 film Missing. She also worked with such noted helmers as Jean-Jacques Annaud — on his 1976 debut feature Black and White in Color — Roman Polanski, Michael Cimino (1985’s Year of the Dragon and 1987’s The Sicilian) and four film for Julie Taymor: Titus (1999), Frida (2002), Across the Universe (2007) and The Tempest (2010).
Among her earliest editing credits during a career that would span nearly a half-century was 1962’s A Monkey in Winter for director Henri Verneuil. They also would work together on three other films that decade and eventually were married.
The France native worked with a number of top directors during her nearly 50-year career, notably editing seven consecutive films by Costa-Gavras — from 1969’s Z to 1983’s Hanna K. She won a BAFTA Award for his 1982 film Missing. She also worked with such noted helmers as Jean-Jacques Annaud — on his 1976 debut feature Black and White in Color — Roman Polanski, Michael Cimino (1985’s Year of the Dragon and 1987’s The Sicilian) and four film for Julie Taymor: Titus (1999), Frida (2002), Across the Universe (2007) and The Tempest (2010).
Among her earliest editing credits during a career that would span nearly a half-century was 1962’s A Monkey in Winter for director Henri Verneuil. They also would work together on three other films that decade and eventually were married.
- 6/13/2018
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
After months of leaks and rumors, Activision has finally officially announced a remastered trilogy for everyone's favorite purple dragon, Spyro! Since an announcement likely wouldn't have been enough, they also included a trailer and release date!
When go through video game lore, there are characters that have stood the test of time, that people still have fond memories about. Mario would likely come to mind for most, but Spyro the Dragon had a deep impact on my video game education. I remember growing up in Greece, I had to go to a video game shop to play all the latest video games. Unlike in America where you could rent out games for days, you could only play for about an hour. The game I spent the most time with was Spyro.
Spyro the Dragon is one of my all-time favorite platformers because it allowed gamers to fly, breath fire, be a Dragon.
When go through video game lore, there are characters that have stood the test of time, that people still have fond memories about. Mario would likely come to mind for most, but Spyro the Dragon had a deep impact on my video game education. I remember growing up in Greece, I had to go to a video game shop to play all the latest video games. Unlike in America where you could rent out games for days, you could only play for about an hour. The game I spent the most time with was Spyro.
Spyro the Dragon is one of my all-time favorite platformers because it allowed gamers to fly, breath fire, be a Dragon.
- 4/5/2018
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Matt Malliaros)
- Cinelinx
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSWe are devastated by the death of performer and director Jerry Lewis this week at the age of 91, one of the 20th century's greatest—and most inspiring—artists. Dave Kehr for The New York Times has penned an excellent obituary, and it's worth revisiting Christoph Huber's 2013 coverage of the Viennale's epic retrospective of Lewis's work as an actor and a filmmaker. Last year, Adrian Curry published a selection of the international poster designs for Lewis's films.The Locarno Festival wrapped last week, with the top prize going to Chinese documentarian Wang Bing's Mrs. Fang. We were at the festival covering it day by day, including its retrospective of Hollywood genre director Jacques Tourneur (Cat People, Out of the Past). See all the awards and read our coverage from the Swiss film festival.Recommended VIEWINGThe...
- 8/23/2017
- MUBI
We pay tribute to the film stars and directors from around the world who sadly passed away in 2016.Hector BabencoArgentine-born Brazilian director Hector Babenco died on July 13 at 70-years-old.He found international success with Brazilian slum drama Pixote (1981), going on to make Kiss Of
We pay tribute to the film stars and directors from around the world who sadly passed away in 2016.
Hector Babenco
Argentine-born Brazilian director Hector Babenco died on July 13 at 70-years-old.
He found international success with Brazilian slum drama Pixote (1981), going on to make Kiss Of The Spider Woman (1985), for which he earned a best director Oscar nominee and William Hurt earned an Oscar win for best actor.
Babenco went on to direct Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson in Ironweed (1987) and Tom Berenger and John Lithgow in At Play In The Fields Of The Lord (1991).
After undergoing cancer treatment in the 1990s, he returned to the director’s chair for films including Brazilian prison...
We pay tribute to the film stars and directors from around the world who sadly passed away in 2016.
Hector Babenco
Argentine-born Brazilian director Hector Babenco died on July 13 at 70-years-old.
He found international success with Brazilian slum drama Pixote (1981), going on to make Kiss Of The Spider Woman (1985), for which he earned a best director Oscar nominee and William Hurt earned an Oscar win for best actor.
Babenco went on to direct Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson in Ironweed (1987) and Tom Berenger and John Lithgow in At Play In The Fields Of The Lord (1991).
After undergoing cancer treatment in the 1990s, he returned to the director’s chair for films including Brazilian prison...
- 12/31/2016
- ScreenDaily
Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals, Pablo Larrain’s Jackie, Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge and Michael Fassbender romance The Light Between Oceans among line-up.Scroll Down For Line-up
The 73rd Venice Film Festival (Aug 31 - Sept 10) has unveiled the 55 features – mixing star vehicles and international auteurs – that will make up this year’s official selection.
A total of 20 films will play in competition, 18 will play out of competition and 19 will play in Horizons.
Venice is on a roll having played host to the Best Picture Oscar winner two years in a row while three years ago Gravity went on to score seven Oscars.
Ahead of the world’s oldest festival, the buzz is palpable once again.
Competition titles include Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals, Pablo Larrain’s Jacqueline Kennedy biopic Jackie (seemingly a last minute confirmation) and Michael Fassbender romance The Light Between Oceans.
Auteur directors among the line-up include Terrence Malick, Lav Diaz, [link...
The 73rd Venice Film Festival (Aug 31 - Sept 10) has unveiled the 55 features – mixing star vehicles and international auteurs – that will make up this year’s official selection.
A total of 20 films will play in competition, 18 will play out of competition and 19 will play in Horizons.
Venice is on a roll having played host to the Best Picture Oscar winner two years in a row while three years ago Gravity went on to score seven Oscars.
Ahead of the world’s oldest festival, the buzz is palpable once again.
Competition titles include Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals, Pablo Larrain’s Jacqueline Kennedy biopic Jackie (seemingly a last minute confirmation) and Michael Fassbender romance The Light Between Oceans.
Auteur directors among the line-up include Terrence Malick, Lav Diaz, [link...
- 7/28/2016
- ScreenDaily
Cimino and star Kris Kristofferson on the set of the ill-fated production of "Heaven's Gate".
By Lee Pfeiffer
Michael Cimino, whose fast rise to royalty in Hollywood was matched only by the sudden demise of his career, has died at age 77. He was born in Long Island and entered the film business with his first success as the co-writer of the 1973 Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry sequel "Magnum Force". (He had previously written the screenplay for the sci-fi cult film "Silent Running" starring Bruce Dern.) Eastwood was suitably impressed and gave Cimino the opportunity to make his directorial debut with the buddy crime caper "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot". Released in 1974, the film was a hit and helped launch Jeff Bridges to stardom with the Oscar nomination he received. In 1978 Cimino released his ambitious Vietnam War epic "The Deer Hunter" starring Robert De Niro and newcomer Meryl Streep. The politics of the big...
By Lee Pfeiffer
Michael Cimino, whose fast rise to royalty in Hollywood was matched only by the sudden demise of his career, has died at age 77. He was born in Long Island and entered the film business with his first success as the co-writer of the 1973 Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry sequel "Magnum Force". (He had previously written the screenplay for the sci-fi cult film "Silent Running" starring Bruce Dern.) Eastwood was suitably impressed and gave Cimino the opportunity to make his directorial debut with the buddy crime caper "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot". Released in 1974, the film was a hit and helped launch Jeff Bridges to stardom with the Oscar nomination he received. In 1978 Cimino released his ambitious Vietnam War epic "The Deer Hunter" starring Robert De Niro and newcomer Meryl Streep. The politics of the big...
- 7/4/2016
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
The Oscar-winning writer-director was widely acclaimed for The Deer Hunter but fell from grace with Heaven’s Gate.
Michael Cimino, the Oscar-winning Hollywood writer-director best known for The Deer Hunter and Heaven’s Gate, has died at age 77.
Press reports said that Cimino’s body was found at his Los Angeles home on Saturday (July 2), with the cause of death yet to be determined.
Cimino started his career in television commercials and as a screenwriter, with credits including 1972 sci-fi tale Silent Running and 1973 Clint Eastwood crime thriller Magnum Force. He made his directing debut on 1974 Eastwood comedy drama Thuderbolt and Lightfoot, which he also wrote.
He rose to prominence as director of 1978 Vietnam war story The Deer Hunter, on which he also got a story credit. The film won five Oscars, including best picture and best director for Cimino himself.
Two years later, however, Cimino’s reputation took a hit when Heaven’s Gate, which he wrote...
Michael Cimino, the Oscar-winning Hollywood writer-director best known for The Deer Hunter and Heaven’s Gate, has died at age 77.
Press reports said that Cimino’s body was found at his Los Angeles home on Saturday (July 2), with the cause of death yet to be determined.
Cimino started his career in television commercials and as a screenwriter, with credits including 1972 sci-fi tale Silent Running and 1973 Clint Eastwood crime thriller Magnum Force. He made his directing debut on 1974 Eastwood comedy drama Thuderbolt and Lightfoot, which he also wrote.
He rose to prominence as director of 1978 Vietnam war story The Deer Hunter, on which he also got a story credit. The film won five Oscars, including best picture and best director for Cimino himself.
Two years later, however, Cimino’s reputation took a hit when Heaven’s Gate, which he wrote...
- 7/3/2016
- ScreenDaily
The Oscar-winning writer-director was widely acclaimed for The Deer Hunter but fell from grace with Heaven’s Gate.
Michael Cimino, the Oscar-winning Hollywood writer-director best known for The Deer Hunter and Heaven’s Gate, has died at age 77.
Press reports said that Cimino’s body was found at his Los Angeles home on Saturday (July 2), with the cause of death yet to be determined.
Cimino started his career in television commercials and as a screenwriter, with credits including 1972 sci-fi tale Silent Running and 1973 Clint Eastwood crime thriller Magnum Force. He made his directing debut on 1974 Eastwood comedy drama Thuderbolt and Lightfoot, which he also wrote.
He rose to prominence as director of 1978 Vietnam war story The Deer Hunter, on which he also got a story credit. The film won five Oscars, including best picture and best director for Cimino himself.
Two years later, however, Cimino’s reputation took a hit when Heaven’s Gate, which he wrote...
Michael Cimino, the Oscar-winning Hollywood writer-director best known for The Deer Hunter and Heaven’s Gate, has died at age 77.
Press reports said that Cimino’s body was found at his Los Angeles home on Saturday (July 2), with the cause of death yet to be determined.
Cimino started his career in television commercials and as a screenwriter, with credits including 1972 sci-fi tale Silent Running and 1973 Clint Eastwood crime thriller Magnum Force. He made his directing debut on 1974 Eastwood comedy drama Thuderbolt and Lightfoot, which he also wrote.
He rose to prominence as director of 1978 Vietnam war story The Deer Hunter, on which he also got a story credit. The film won five Oscars, including best picture and best director for Cimino himself.
Two years later, however, Cimino’s reputation took a hit when Heaven’s Gate, which he wrote...
- 7/3/2016
- ScreenDaily
There are days where the Internet feels like the most ghoulish game of telephone ever, particularly when the word starts to spread that someone notable has died. Edgar Wright was the first one I saw mention the death of Michael Cimino this afternoon, quoting a Tweet by Cannes luminary Thierry Fremaux, who announced, “Michael Cimino died peacefully, surrounded by his family and these two women who loved him. We loved him also.” Without question, Cimino’s career was defined by one remarkable high and one remarkable low, and to some degree, his career is the perfect illustration of what happened as film culture moved from the ‘70s to the ‘80s, and part of what makes him such a fascinating figure is how questionable every “fact” about him was. Cimino was a mystery in many ways, and when he made his debut as a director with Thunderbolt & Lightfoot, he looked like...
- 7/3/2016
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
Michael Cimino, director of the Oscar-winning film The Deer Hunter, has died. He was 77. Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux announced Cimino's passing on Twitter Saturday. "Michael Cimino died peacefully, surrounded by his family and the two women who loved him. We loved him too," Fremaux wrote in French. Among the eight works in his directorial career, The Deer Hunter is arguably Cimino's best known film. In 1978, he directed, produced and co-wrote the war drama that starred Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Cazale. The Deer Hunter took home five Oscars that year. Michael Cimino est mort, en paix,...
- 7/2/2016
- by Karen Mizoguchi and Peter Mikelbank
- PEOPLE.com
Michael Cimino, the Academy Award-winning director and cinematic visionary behind films like The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate, died Saturday.
Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux first announced news of Cimino's death, tweeting that Cimino died surrounded by family members. A representative for the director could neither "confirm nor deny" whether Cimino had died. No cause of death was provided. Cimino was reportedly 77.
"I cannot believe Michael Cimino has passed away too," director Edgar Wright tweeted."'Thunderbolt & Lightfoot' is one of my favourite films. R.I.P."
After beginning his career in art and advertising,...
Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux first announced news of Cimino's death, tweeting that Cimino died surrounded by family members. A representative for the director could neither "confirm nor deny" whether Cimino had died. No cause of death was provided. Cimino was reportedly 77.
"I cannot believe Michael Cimino has passed away too," director Edgar Wright tweeted."'Thunderbolt & Lightfoot' is one of my favourite films. R.I.P."
After beginning his career in art and advertising,...
- 7/2/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Cimino has died at the age of 77.
Cimino was one of the filmmakers that made up the 'New Hollywood' wave in the 1970s which pushed directors as the driving creative force behind filmmaking. He broke onto the scene with the 1974 heist film "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" starring Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges.
It was his second film though, 1978's post-Vietnam war drama "The Deer Hunter," which became a bonafide cinematic classic and Best Picture Winner. A scathing look at the fallout and impact of the war on the lives of people from small town Pennsylvania, it remains a major milestone in the careers of its stars like Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Savage.
Following up such a film was always going to be a tall order, and Cimino's third film became famous for other reasons. The 1980 western "Heaven's Gate" scored a reputation for being...
Cimino was one of the filmmakers that made up the 'New Hollywood' wave in the 1970s which pushed directors as the driving creative force behind filmmaking. He broke onto the scene with the 1974 heist film "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" starring Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges.
It was his second film though, 1978's post-Vietnam war drama "The Deer Hunter," which became a bonafide cinematic classic and Best Picture Winner. A scathing look at the fallout and impact of the war on the lives of people from small town Pennsylvania, it remains a major milestone in the careers of its stars like Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Savage.
Following up such a film was always going to be a tall order, and Cimino's third film became famous for other reasons. The 1980 western "Heaven's Gate" scored a reputation for being...
- 7/2/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
It had been a long time since I was in the same room with director Michael Cimino. My first job out of Nyu Cinema Studies was in the publicity department at United Artists in New York, where I witnessed the long delays on Cimino’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning 1978 anti-war diatribe “The Deer Hunter,” the period western “Heaven’s Gate.”
The director got caught up in chasing authenticity in the myriad details of the production, training for weeks the cast led by Kris Kristofferson and Isabelle Huppert to roller-skate for one scene — and demanding endless retakes until he shot more feet of film, over 1 million, than even Francis Coppola did on another memorably out-of-control UA movie, “Apocalypse Now.” The original $11 million budget bloated to $32 million (Cimino’s figure), as recounted in Steven Bach’s “Final Cut: Art, Money and Ego in the Making of ‘Heaven’s Gate.’
“Heaven’s...
The director got caught up in chasing authenticity in the myriad details of the production, training for weeks the cast led by Kris Kristofferson and Isabelle Huppert to roller-skate for one scene — and demanding endless retakes until he shot more feet of film, over 1 million, than even Francis Coppola did on another memorably out-of-control UA movie, “Apocalypse Now.” The original $11 million budget bloated to $32 million (Cimino’s figure), as recounted in Steven Bach’s “Final Cut: Art, Money and Ego in the Making of ‘Heaven’s Gate.’
“Heaven’s...
- 7/2/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
It had been a long time since I was in the same room with director Michael Cimino. My first job out of Nyu Cinema Studies was in the publicity department at United Artists in New York, where I witnessed the long delays on Cimino’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning 1978 anti-war diatribe “The Deer Hunter,” the period western “Heaven’s Gate.”
The director got caught up in chasing authenticity in the myriad details of the production, training for weeks the cast led by Kris Kristofferson and Isabelle Huppert to roller-skate for one scene — and demanding endless retakes until he shot more feet of film, over 1 million, than even Francis Coppola did on another memorably out-of-control UA movie, “Apocalypse Now.” The original $11 million budget bloated to $32 million (Cimino’s figure), as recounted in Steven Bach’s “Final Cut: Art, Money and Ego in the Making of ‘Heaven’s Gate.’
“Heaven’s...
The director got caught up in chasing authenticity in the myriad details of the production, training for weeks the cast led by Kris Kristofferson and Isabelle Huppert to roller-skate for one scene — and demanding endless retakes until he shot more feet of film, over 1 million, than even Francis Coppola did on another memorably out-of-control UA movie, “Apocalypse Now.” The original $11 million budget bloated to $32 million (Cimino’s figure), as recounted in Steven Bach’s “Final Cut: Art, Money and Ego in the Making of ‘Heaven’s Gate.’
“Heaven’s...
- 7/2/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Updated: Michael Cimino, known for his films such as “The Deer Hunter” and “Heaven’s Gate,” has died. He was 77 years old.
The news was revealed by Cannes Film Festival Director Thierry Frémaux who tweeted on June 2 about the director’s passing, “Michael Cimino died peacefully, surrounded by his family and the two women who loved him. We loved him too.”
Michael Cimino est mort, en paix, entouré des siens et de ces deux femmes qui l’aimaient. Nous l’aimions aussi. pic.twitter.com/emPv4nj5cZ
— Thierry Fremaux (@Thierryfremaux) July 2, 2016
Read More: Remembering Michael Cimino, Dead at 77
Various other outlets such as Variety and The Hollywood Reporter are also reporting the death. No other details have been announced at this moment.
Cimino directed eight films total and made his directorial debut in 1974 with the movie “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.” His second, “The Deer Hunter,” about the ways in which...
The news was revealed by Cannes Film Festival Director Thierry Frémaux who tweeted on June 2 about the director’s passing, “Michael Cimino died peacefully, surrounded by his family and the two women who loved him. We loved him too.”
Michael Cimino est mort, en paix, entouré des siens et de ces deux femmes qui l’aimaient. Nous l’aimions aussi. pic.twitter.com/emPv4nj5cZ
— Thierry Fremaux (@Thierryfremaux) July 2, 2016
Read More: Remembering Michael Cimino, Dead at 77
Various other outlets such as Variety and The Hollywood Reporter are also reporting the death. No other details have been announced at this moment.
Cimino directed eight films total and made his directorial debut in 1974 with the movie “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.” His second, “The Deer Hunter,” about the ways in which...
- 7/2/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Below you will find our favorite films of the 68th Locarno Film Festival, as well as an index of our coverage.Daniel Kasmantop Picksi. L’Accademia delle Muse, CosmosII. Thithi, Happy Hour, Right Now, Wrong ThenIII. Deux Rémi, deux, 88:88COVERAGEDay 1: James White (Josh Mond), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)Day 2: Infinitas (Marlen Khutsiev), I Am Twenty (Marlen Khutsiev), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah)Day 3: Cosmos (Andrzej Żuławski), The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)Day 4: Thithi (Raam Reddy), Te prometo anarquía (Julio Hernández Cordón), Chant d'hiver (Otar Iosseliani), July Rain (Marlen Khutsiev), Year of the Dragon (Michael Cimino)Day 5: L’Accademia delle Muse (José Luis Guerín), Les idoles (Marc'o), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah), The Killer Elite (Sam Peckinpah)Day 6: Good Morning, Night (Marco Bellocchio), No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman), Epilogue (Marlen Khutsiev)Day 7: Chevalier (Athina Rachel Tsangari...
- 9/1/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Early this morning I left the cinema from one film on the way to another when a friend said why not this instead of that? Since nothing was driving me in my original direction more than curiosity, and my friend's own sparked more than enough for this other possibility, my path was diverted, as can happen so serendipitously at a film festival. And indeed I owe my friend thanks, as what I saw, Thithi, the debut feature by 25-year-old independent Indian director Raam Reddy, is the best new film I've so far seen in Locarno.Its beginning already promised greatness: a crumpled down, cranky old man sits in his village thoroughfare hilariously heckling and insulting every man, woman and child passing him by, each of whom pay him no mind. Walking to the nearest alley to relieve himself, this venerable citizen keels over, sending the story after his elderly son,...
- 8/13/2015
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
The director of The Deer Hunter and Heaven’s Gate revealed that he often wonders “why I made the crazy, suicidal turn in the road that I did”.
The day after receiving the Locarno Film Festival’s Pardo d’onore on the Piazza Grande, Us filmmaker Michael Cimino took part in a discussion about his career at the Spazio outdoor forum.
“I don’t know movies in the way that someone like my friend Quentin Tarantino does; I’m not a cinephile in that sense,” Cimino told a rapt audience.
A legendary figure in the industry thanks to his small but potent body of work (including The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate and Year Of The Dragon) and eccentric reputation, Cimino added: “I’m a frustrated would-be architect who stumbled into this lunatic business of making movies. I don’t why I made the crazy, suicidal turn in the road that I did; I wonder that all...
The day after receiving the Locarno Film Festival’s Pardo d’onore on the Piazza Grande, Us filmmaker Michael Cimino took part in a discussion about his career at the Spazio outdoor forum.
“I don’t know movies in the way that someone like my friend Quentin Tarantino does; I’m not a cinephile in that sense,” Cimino told a rapt audience.
A legendary figure in the industry thanks to his small but potent body of work (including The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate and Year Of The Dragon) and eccentric reputation, Cimino added: “I’m a frustrated would-be architect who stumbled into this lunatic business of making movies. I don’t why I made the crazy, suicidal turn in the road that I did; I wonder that all...
- 8/11/2015
- by matt.mueller@screendaily.com (Matt Mueller)
- ScreenDaily
Spanish director José Luis Guerín is best known in the States for his pseudo-fictional love letter to women-watching In the City of Sylvia, but in fact is a prolific documentary filmmaker and has brought with him to Locarno the lovely and elegant pseudo-documentary L’Accademia delle Muse. Playful and clever as ever, Guerín has collaborated with Professor Raffaele Pinto and several actresses, perhaps students, to stage a false course in philology. The class, populated almost entirely by women, discusses the nature, influence and meaning of muses in poetry, and what starts as seemingly a documentary on this classroom, its teacher and a few select students, subtly evolves into a drama of words and unseen actions.The issues at stake as discourse in the class—what desire means, if it has to be sexual, the difference between a woman and a muse, how a lover influences the beloved and vice versa...
- 8/10/2015
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
Hong Sang-soo's Right Now, Wrong Then.The lineup for the 2015 festival has been revealed, including new films by Hong Sang-soo, Andrzej Zulawski, Chantal Akerman, Athina Rachel Tsangari, and others, alongside retrospectives and tributes dedicated to Sam Peckinpah, Michael Cimino, Bulle Ogier, and much more.Piazza GRANDERicki and the Flash (Jonathan Demme, USA)La belle saison (Catherine Corsini, France)Le dernier passage (Pascal Magontier, France)Der staat gegen Fritz Bauer (Lars Kraume, Germany)Southpaw (Antoine Fuqua, USA)Trainwreck (Judd Apatow, USA)Jack (Elisabeth Scharang, Austria)Floride (Philippe Le Guay, France)The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, UK/USA)Erlkönig (Georges Schwizgebel, Switzerland)Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre (Philippe Falardeau, Canada)Bombay Velvet (Anurag Kashyap, India)Pastorale cilentana (Mario Martone, Italy)La vanite (Lionel Baier, Switzerland/France)The Laundryman (Lee Chung, Taiwan)Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, USA) I pugni ni tasca (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)Heliopolis (Sérgio Machado, Brazil)Amnesia (Barbet Schroeder,...
- 7/20/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Deer Hunter director to receive Pardo d’onore.
American screenwriter, director and producer Michael Cimino will receive a Pardo d’onore at the 68th Locarno Film Festival (Aug 5-15), where several of his films will be shown in tribute.
New York native Cimino, who initially enlisted in the Army Reserves while working towards a Masters Degree in painting from Yale, made his directorial debut on 1974 comedy crime-drama Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.
His second film The Deer Hunter (1978) won five Oscars, including Best Film and Best Director, and cemented Cimino’s reputation as one of the most exciting directors of the American New Wave.
Festival director Carlo Chatrain stated: “I am very honored to be able to welcome Michael Cimino and I am sure that his presence will be a great stimulus for the many viewers and young filmmakers attending Locarno.
“As enduring and majestic as the granite of the American mountains with which he has often surrounded his characters...
American screenwriter, director and producer Michael Cimino will receive a Pardo d’onore at the 68th Locarno Film Festival (Aug 5-15), where several of his films will be shown in tribute.
New York native Cimino, who initially enlisted in the Army Reserves while working towards a Masters Degree in painting from Yale, made his directorial debut on 1974 comedy crime-drama Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.
His second film The Deer Hunter (1978) won five Oscars, including Best Film and Best Director, and cemented Cimino’s reputation as one of the most exciting directors of the American New Wave.
Festival director Carlo Chatrain stated: “I am very honored to be able to welcome Michael Cimino and I am sure that his presence will be a great stimulus for the many viewers and young filmmakers attending Locarno.
“As enduring and majestic as the granite of the American mountains with which he has often surrounded his characters...
- 7/8/2015
- by mantus@masonlive.gmu.edu (Madison Antus)
- ScreenDaily
All week long our writers will debate: Which was the greatest film year of the past half century. Click here for a complete list of our essays. How to decide in the grand scheme of things which film year stands above all others? History gives us no clear methodology to unravel this thorny but extremely important question. Is it the year with the highest average score of movies? So a year that averages out to a B + might be the winner over a field strewn with B’s, despite a few A +’s. Or do a few masterpieces lift up a year so far that whatever else happened beyond those three or four films is of no consequence? Both measures are worthy, and the winner by either of those would certainly be a year not to be sneezed at. But I contend the only true measure of a year’s...
- 4/27/2015
- by Richard Rushfield
- Hitfix
Last month it was announced that Richard Armitage (The Hobbit's Thorin) is to play Frances Dolarhyde in season 3 of NBC's hit TV series Hannibal. Dolarhyde, a serial killer who leaves bite marks on his victims and is thus granted the nom de plume The Tooth Fairy, will reportedly feature in a six-episode arc touching upon the events of Red Dragon.
It was Red Dragon, both Thomas Harris's 1991 novel and Brett Ratner's 2002 movie, that many articles referenced when reporting the Armitage news, with scribes recalling Ralph Fiennes's haunting portrayal of the home-invasion killer who slays entire families. Less common, but more discerning, were the recollections of Tom Noonan's towering, heavyweight (6'7" and 217lb, to be exact) take on Dolarhyde in Michael Mann's atmosphere-drenched 1986 adaptation, Manhunter.
Mann's movie might have jettisoned Harris's title to avoid confusion with Year of the Dragon, which flopped the previous year, and...
It was Red Dragon, both Thomas Harris's 1991 novel and Brett Ratner's 2002 movie, that many articles referenced when reporting the Armitage news, with scribes recalling Ralph Fiennes's haunting portrayal of the home-invasion killer who slays entire families. Less common, but more discerning, were the recollections of Tom Noonan's towering, heavyweight (6'7" and 217lb, to be exact) take on Dolarhyde in Michael Mann's atmosphere-drenched 1986 adaptation, Manhunter.
Mann's movie might have jettisoned Harris's title to avoid confusion with Year of the Dragon, which flopped the previous year, and...
- 2/17/2015
- Digital Spy
Welcome to The Best Movie You Never Saw, a column dedicated to examining films that have flown under the radar or gained traction throughout the years, earning them a place as a cult classic or underrated gem that was either before it’s time and/or has aged like a fine wine. This week we’ll be looking at Michael Cimino’s Year Of The Dragon! The Story: Vietnam Vet turned cop Stanley White (Mickey Rourke) is assigned to crackdown on crime in Chinatown,...
- 4/25/2014
- by Paul Shirey
- JoBlo.com
The rarest of all possible worlds, a TV spin-off from a film that’s actually good (there’s pretty much this and M.A.S.H.), Dragons: Defenders of Berk is hitting with a Part 1 DVD on March 25th, and I’ve got a copy you can win.
So far, everything connected with this franchise has been pretty amazing, which gives one a lot of hope for the next film. The series is a lot of fun, though obviously geared a bit more toward not having to completely account for older audiences. Still, the characters are rich and fun, and it doesn’t get boring, or bogged down in routine, cliche episodic content.
If you’re a fan, or know of one, get your entry in now for your chance to take this one home.
Take a look at all the info about the release below, including the bonuses.
Kick Off...
So far, everything connected with this franchise has been pretty amazing, which gives one a lot of hope for the next film. The series is a lot of fun, though obviously geared a bit more toward not having to completely account for older audiences. Still, the characters are rich and fun, and it doesn’t get boring, or bogged down in routine, cliche episodic content.
If you’re a fan, or know of one, get your entry in now for your chance to take this one home.
Take a look at all the info about the release below, including the bonuses.
Kick Off...
- 3/23/2014
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
In Year of the Dragon, King of New York, and Heat: we see the backs of heads, we see men with obsessive drives, propelled, driven by force.
The camera has no choice but to follow them.
In fact, Year of the Dragon gives us men who are not just propelled by force, but are force.
—but at the expense of their personal lives, destroying the relationships with those closest to them.
So too, then, does Heat, 10 years later.
Friends and loved ones all die, thus accidental Pietàs are formed.
—foreshadowed by existing Pietàs.
All three films are romantic films, because color is no longer an outward physical phenomenon, but rather an internal representation, a mood. An emotion.
The camera sweeps.
“In the words of my friend Bernardo Bertolucci, you’re creating a nostalgia for a past that never existed.” —Michael Cimino
The camera is in constant activity,...
The camera has no choice but to follow them.
In fact, Year of the Dragon gives us men who are not just propelled by force, but are force.
—but at the expense of their personal lives, destroying the relationships with those closest to them.
So too, then, does Heat, 10 years later.
Friends and loved ones all die, thus accidental Pietàs are formed.
—foreshadowed by existing Pietàs.
All three films are romantic films, because color is no longer an outward physical phenomenon, but rather an internal representation, a mood. An emotion.
The camera sweeps.
“In the words of my friend Bernardo Bertolucci, you’re creating a nostalgia for a past that never existed.” —Michael Cimino
The camera is in constant activity,...
- 12/8/2013
- by Neil Bahadur
- MUBI
The highlight of the 22nd Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (Sliff), held Nov. 14- 24, (aside from the Ray Harryhausen Tribute November 15th) is an appearance by famed writer/director Oliver Stone. A three-time Academy Award® winner, Stone has written and directed more than 20 feature films, among them some of the most influential and iconic films of the last decades. Stone will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22, at the Tivoli Theatre, 6350 Delmar Blvd. Directors who have previously been honored with a Sliff Lifetime Achievement Award include Paul Schrader, John Sayles, Michael Apted, and Joe Dante.
Held on the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the program will feature a screening of the director’s cut of Stone’s “JFK.” The evening will begin with a clip reel surveying Stone’s career, the presentation of the award, and a conversation between Stone and St.
Held on the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the program will feature a screening of the director’s cut of Stone’s “JFK.” The evening will begin with a clip reel surveying Stone’s career, the presentation of the award, and a conversation between Stone and St.
- 11/10/2013
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Sony has announced that the HD remake of Team Ico’s classic PS2 Giant-killer simulator, Shadow of the Colossus, will be added to PlayStation Plus members’ free Instant Game Collection when the Ps Store updates tomorrow.
If slaughtering a bunch of Colossus who were minding their own damn business so you can selfishly resurrect your dead girlfriend doesn’t interest you (and it should because it really is a fantastic game), then Sony has also lined up some new PlayStation Plus discounts on the following Activision-published titles:
Game Title Ps+ Price Regular Price Worms Crazy Golf $2.50 $9.99 Deadpool $39.59 $49.99 Fast & Furious: Showdown $19.99 $39.99 Angry Birds: Trilogy $20.99 $39.99 Angry Birds: Trilogy – Anger Management Pack $2.99 $4.99 Angry Birds: Trilogy – Fowl Tempered Pack $2.99 $4.99 Family Guy: Back To The Multiverse $29.99 $59.99 Family Guy: Back To The Multiverse – Peter Griffin’s Man Boob Mega Sweat Pack $2.99 $4.99 The Amazing Spider-Man $20.99 $39.99 Men In Black: Alien Crisis $20.99 $39.99 Prototype $10.49 $19.99 Tony Hawk: Pro Skater...
If slaughtering a bunch of Colossus who were minding their own damn business so you can selfishly resurrect your dead girlfriend doesn’t interest you (and it should because it really is a fantastic game), then Sony has also lined up some new PlayStation Plus discounts on the following Activision-published titles:
Game Title Ps+ Price Regular Price Worms Crazy Golf $2.50 $9.99 Deadpool $39.59 $49.99 Fast & Furious: Showdown $19.99 $39.99 Angry Birds: Trilogy $20.99 $39.99 Angry Birds: Trilogy – Anger Management Pack $2.99 $4.99 Angry Birds: Trilogy – Fowl Tempered Pack $2.99 $4.99 Family Guy: Back To The Multiverse $29.99 $59.99 Family Guy: Back To The Multiverse – Peter Griffin’s Man Boob Mega Sweat Pack $2.99 $4.99 The Amazing Spider-Man $20.99 $39.99 Men In Black: Alien Crisis $20.99 $39.99 Prototype $10.49 $19.99 Tony Hawk: Pro Skater...
- 10/7/2013
- by Justin Alderman
- We Got This Covered
This video is so bad that it's difficult to watch all the way through.
Above Ground's spot for "Asian Girlz' is quite possibly the most racist thing to happen to music since "Accidental Racist".
The totally-unsafe-for-work clip is packed with every imaginable cliche faced by people of Asian descent.
The worst verse? Before you read on, know that is both explicit and ignorant.
"I love your sticky rice / Butt f**king all night/ Bitch I love you / I love your creamy yellow thighs/ Ooh your slanted eyes / It's the Year of the Dragon / Ninja pussy I'm stabbin"
The song actually ends with a series of cliched shoutouts to random Asian-related things.
Bruce Lee, Toyota, spicy tuna sashimi, Sailor Moon, Tibet ... you get the idea.
Outraged reaction to the video is sweeping the web and there is already talk of a protest, according to La Weekly.
The band issued a statement...
Above Ground's spot for "Asian Girlz' is quite possibly the most racist thing to happen to music since "Accidental Racist".
The totally-unsafe-for-work clip is packed with every imaginable cliche faced by people of Asian descent.
The worst verse? Before you read on, know that is both explicit and ignorant.
"I love your sticky rice / Butt f**king all night/ Bitch I love you / I love your creamy yellow thighs/ Ooh your slanted eyes / It's the Year of the Dragon / Ninja pussy I'm stabbin"
The song actually ends with a series of cliched shoutouts to random Asian-related things.
Bruce Lee, Toyota, spicy tuna sashimi, Sailor Moon, Tibet ... you get the idea.
Outraged reaction to the video is sweeping the web and there is already talk of a protest, according to La Weekly.
The band issued a statement...
- 8/1/2013
- by The Huffington Post Canada
- Huffington Post
by Tami Katzoff (@tvtamijo)
On the Chinese zodiac calendar, 2012 is the Year of the Dragon. On the pop culture calendar, 2012 is the Year of the Whedonite.
It’s been a phenomenal year for Joss Whedon and his fans (whose numbers have swelled since the release of a certain superhero flick). From the big screen to the small screen to the computer screen, Whedon’s presence was felt like never before. So to recap 2012, The Weekly Whedon presents this handy Gif Guide.
March: After years in Hollywood limbo, “The Cabin in the Woods” finally premieres at the SXSW Film Festival.
April: “Marvel’s The Avengers,” one of the most highly anticipated comic book movies of all time, has its world premiere.
July: Whedon’s status as the King of Comic-Con is solidified as he and his cast celebrate the 10th anniversary of “Firefly” in San Diego.
August: Joss shows off his...
On the Chinese zodiac calendar, 2012 is the Year of the Dragon. On the pop culture calendar, 2012 is the Year of the Whedonite.
It’s been a phenomenal year for Joss Whedon and his fans (whose numbers have swelled since the release of a certain superhero flick). From the big screen to the small screen to the computer screen, Whedon’s presence was felt like never before. So to recap 2012, The Weekly Whedon presents this handy Gif Guide.
March: After years in Hollywood limbo, “The Cabin in the Woods” finally premieres at the SXSW Film Festival.
April: “Marvel’s The Avengers,” one of the most highly anticipated comic book movies of all time, has its world premiere.
July: Whedon’s status as the King of Comic-Con is solidified as he and his cast celebrate the 10th anniversary of “Firefly” in San Diego.
August: Joss shows off his...
- 12/14/2012
- by Splash Page Team
- MTV Splash Page
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