The hit 700-word bedtime story is belng made into a half-hour animated BBC film. It's hard to think there's going to be anything better to watch with your family this Christmas As anyone who's ever had the pleasure of reading it will tell you, there's no such thing as a Gruffalo … And yet, in the 10 years since it was published in 1999, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's 700-word story has...
He got his big break playing Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and now, 34 years later, John Hurt is at it again There's something disturbing about John Hurt. That familiar Mount Rushmore face seems to have ironed itself out. It was once compared to a komodo dragon – even his lines seemed to have lines – but today he looks peachy as a schoolboy. You've been on the Botox , haven't...
Gene Logsdon brings up "Mississippi John Hurt’s remark that all music was about human sexual relationships" — Sexual Attitudes In Agrarian Life . "John Hurt was an early country blues singer and a real farmer whose music is now enjoying a resurgence among country music purists," explains parenthetically Mr. Logsdon. Here's a song by Mississippi John Hurt that seems to...
For whatever reason a beautiful Blu-ray of David Lynch's The Elephant Man, long admired for Freddie Francis's ravishing monochome scope photography, is available in Europe but not here. Another standout is Stuart Craig's fascinating production design, which almost makes a character out of the aesthetic ravages of industrialism in late 1800s London. Anthony Hopkins in David Lynch's The Elephant Man...
Out this week… Jim Jarmusch’s take on the hitman genre. A mysterious loner (Isaach De Bankolé) arrives in Spain with instructions to meet various strangers – each one a part of his dangerous mission. Featuring an all-star international cast that includes Gael García Bernal, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton and Bill Murray. It barely registered at the box office, taking [...]...
New Spy DVDs Out This Week: The Limits Of Control That's right, after an embarrassment of riches these past few weeks, there is only one new spy title to speak of hitting DVD shelves this week. And it's a pretty offbeat spy title. Jim Jarmusch's existential might-be-spy deconstruction The Limits of Control starring Casino Royale 's Isaac de Bankolé as a mysterious operative or assassin or something...
Carey Mulligan John Hurt Helen MirrenPete Postlethwaite and Sam Riley as 'Pinkie' look at that cast. the name of the film they are all making together is 'brighton rock.' the popular and prolific writer graham greene wrote the novel 'brighton rock' in 1938. it is my personal favorite of his many books i have read. in 1947 it was first filmed and that version is really good though very hard to come...
As a 3D Jim Carrey bursts out of screens (like some seasonal version of John Hurt's personal alien) in Robert Zemeckis's Disney version of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, I'm reminded that it is time to court your opinions on...
Steve Espinola and his electric tennis racket played Echo Park Film Center last night in a rare LA appearance (okay, yes, I put those last three words in there to sound more reviewerly, but this piece is not really a review). I’ve known Steve for a long time, but I haven’t seen him play in seven years. We go all the way back to the nineties when I tried to burst American Musical Theatre...
Last week, I stumbled into a jam session with Frank Fairfield and other musicians by accident, and blogged a quick iPhone video snapshot. The next day, I started googling and YouTubing and Myspacing to find out more about each of the musicians, and found this. A stunning video of Fairfield performing "Nine Pound Hammer." Give me chills. Shot and directed by Keith Musil (I'm dying to know...
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The Limits of Control 2009 Watch Online : Director : Jim Jarmusch Release Date : 28 May 2009 Genre : Crime, Drama, Thriller Cast : Isaach De Bankolé, Alex Descas, Jean-François Stévenin, Óscar Jaenada, Luis Tosar, Paz de la Huerta, Tilda Swinton, Youki Kudoh, John Hurt, Gael García Bernal, Hiam Abbass, Bill Murray The Limits of Control 2009 Hollywood Movie Watch Online...
John Hurt, one of the best actors of all time and who played the role of wandmaker Ollivander in the first Harry Potter film, sat down for a quick interview with Rotten Tomatoes in which he talked about his newest projects and looked back at a few of the old. Here’s a bit of what he had to say about Harry Potter: You’re returning to Harry Potter for the final films having appeared in the...
John Hurt has been one of Britain's finest acting talents since his career began in the 60s, but it's his roles in films like Alien, Midnight Express and The Elephant Man -- to name a few -- which put him on the international map and for which he's best remembered. At the Dinard Festival of British Film last month to screen An Englishman in New York, a biopic of gay writer Quentin Crisp's time in the...
In the late '30s and '40s, Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys were the biggest stars in country music, but when he appeared onstage at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival, he did so after a number of years spent toiling in relative obscurity The 1963 Newport Folk Festival boasted a roster filled to the brim with up and coming young performers including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Ian and Sylvia. Though the...
Nick Cave put his own spin on the oft recorded story about Lee "Stag Lee" Shelton, and called his take "Stagger Lee", on the classic 1996 album Murder Ballads . I say "his take" because other recordings have various versions of the name (and details) likely due to the story spreading across the US orally in the late 1800's (Stagolee, Stack O' Lee, Stackerlee, Stackoo...
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