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The IFC Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Nothing says 1969 like "Easy Rider," the bad-trip Altamont to the ebullient celebration of the next year's "Woodstock." While the hippies were partying down, Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson were discovering there was no place for them in America, either old or new. On the occasion of its 40th anniversary, Keith Phipps retraced the road trip taken by the gang. The week-long...
World Hum (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Keith Phipps followed Wyatt and Billy’s path from Southern California to the Gulf Coast, and the first part of his resulting multi-day series for Slate ran yesterday. It looks to be a good one. Here’s a sample: More an elegy for a generation that never got where it wanted to go than a celebration of that generation’s superiority, it pits hopefulness against resignation and sets the...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
On the 40th anniversary of Easy Rider (which I personally commemorated with a purchase of the recently released Bluray, which makes the film seem vibrant and highly attuned and freshly found), Slate's Keith Phipps went on a journey that followed Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper's original path, and has written an essay about the movie, its legacy, and how the places it visited have changed. LACMA's Michael...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood veterans turned out in force to see Lauren Bacall, grand dame of film noir, receive an honorary Oscar at the motion picture academy's Governors Awards on Saturday night, away from TV cameras.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood veterans turned out in force to see Lauren Bacall, grand dame of film noir, receive an honorary Oscar at the motion picture academy's Governors Awards on Saturday night, away from TV cameras.
Movie City Indie (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
James Chressanthis ' No Subtitles Necessary premieres Tuesday night on ITVS' "Independent Lens" series: it's an anecdote-rich documentary about lifelong friends, cinematographic greats Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond, from their youthful escape from Hungary in 1956 with footage of the Russian invasion of Budapest to the glory days of Hollywood in the 1960s and 1970s and into their mature...
Entertainment Weekly (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Sylvester Stallone, and more reminisce about new Oscar honoree
FEARnet: News & Reviews (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
To celebrate the launch of their amazing new book The Gospel of Filth, Cradle of Filth frontman Dani Filth and occult writer Gavin Baddeley will be appearing at London's Hammersmith Riverside...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Bold prediction: At his current glacial pace of progress, Troy Duffy is likely to write and direct the great Irish-American payback movie sometime in the year 2049.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
He is the unbearable lightness of being a director, producer, actor, mentor. He is the most effervescent of gentlemen, one who has that gene for making it all look easy.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
There are plenty of trippy movie scenes – but watching them sober makes you feel like the designated driver in a roomful of drunks Thirty-six years ago, I dropped a tab of LSD. It was OK, but I never felt the urge to do it again, and never thought much about it – until the other day, when I was watching Taking Woodstock. To the sound of Love's The Red Telephone, Ang Lee serves up an acid...
Hongkie Town (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
This trip was ten days but seemed like forever. So it feels extra nice to get home. The flight back was relatively painless, or as painless as a 16 hour flight can be for a heavy smoker with a short attention span. I didn't get tagged with any excess baggage charges and the food on board was slightly better than the food ten days ago on my HK/LA flight. On the flight, aside from my Kindle, my MacBook...
Pats Pulpit (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
File this under "thank god they kept it in-house." Noted graphic artist Ken Carbone took a shot at redesigning three of what he felt were the worst graphic designs on NFL helmets. Number three? The "Flying Elvis" of your New England Patriots . Now, I've never been a fan of the new design. I'm very partial to old Pat Patriot, ready to snap the ball and rip off your face. But Elvis...
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus star in ''The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day,'' a sequel to the 1999 cult favorite. ''The Arizona Republic'' reviews the movie.
Vulture (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Breaking up is hard to do. Especially when you’re sleeping with four different people. Hank Moody has decided to change his ways. “It’s time for me to grow up … the gods have seen fit to give me another shot with the soulmate,” he announces to Charlie, as they run along the beach panting, then stop for a cigarette. If so, suggests Charlie, maybe it’s also time to...
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