92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Clockwise from top left: Ben Foster , Dorothy Hamilton, David Bouley , PFFR , Kumail Nanjiani Mon, Nov 9 Film: Coming Home (1978) Directed by Hal Ashby, Starring Jane Fonda Food Talks: Cooks Who Care: Connecting Community Through Food Film: The Messenger with actor Ben Foster and director Oren Moverman in person for post-screening Q&A moderated by Eric Kohn. Tue, Nov 10 Music: John Brodeur , FREE....
The XPN All About The Music Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
This week Pete Yorn is taking over the XPN blog. Here's the second installment. Pete Yorn on: Shampoo (or "The Evolution Of George Roundy")**********************I wanted to make an entire record based on the George Roundy character from Hal Ashby's classic film Shampoo (1975). I settled for one song, appropriately titled, Shampoo. George, played by a strapping Warren Beatty, is a straight...
92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Lloyd Grove attended Gore Vidal’s talk here last night, and re-capped the night at The Daily Beast . Comedian Richard Belzer was there as to lend his support to Vidal. Grove reports Belzer told him: “I’m here as a Jew who knows he’s not an anti-Semite,” Belzer told me about his friend. And if anyone says different? “I’m going to kick their ass,” he vowed....
Cinebeats (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
When I first saw Calvaire (2004) it haunted me for weeks. No matter how much I tried to forgot the film’s snow saturated landscapes, strange characters, unhinged violence and unsettling atmosphere I just couldn’t shake the movie from my memory. Images from Calvaire haunted my dreams and threatened to consume my thoughts. This fascinating horror [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
If we're looking for suspects in the death of cult, Quentin Tarantino has to be up there. He has previous – he didn't even pay his late fees at Amsterdam's famous cult video shop A week ago I was in Amsterdam, a charming city among whose more celebrated attractions lies the Cult Videotheek . Nestled by a canal, its suitably poky interior plays host to a vast array of strange and wonderful DVDs...
Cinebeats (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Fall has finally arrived in all its gold and copper splendor. As I’ve mentioned many times before, Autumn is my favorite season. Summer be damned! I’m more than happy to see it go and I look forward with unabashed glee to dark mornings, cold evenings and watching lots of horror movies during the month of [...]
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
Robert Ginty, a versatile actor who starred in the 1980 film "The Exterminator" and built a varied career as a producer, director and actor in film, television and the stage, has died. He was 60.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
Obituary: Actor wrote, directed TV shows and films -- Robert Ginty, star of action films such as "The Exterminator" who also wrote, produced and directed, died of cancer Monday in Los Angeles. He was 60.
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 17/09/2009
YUSUF ISLAM has stunned fans by announcing he's set to embark on a rare tour - his first in 33 years.The musician, formerly Cat Stevens, will play four dates in the U.K....
/Film (Free subscription) | 16/09/2009
It's Kind of a Funny Story is the title of an upcoming Zach Galifianakis dramedy from the writer/director team behind Half Nelson and their rising gem Sugar. And in a way, the line also describes Nicolas Cage's wild-man reasoning for recently bailing on the The Green Hornet. These tidbits of casting news after the jump... At this juncture, pitch me with "Starring Zach Galifianakis and not one...
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 16/09/2009
It's Kind of a Funny Story is the title of an upcoming Zach Galifianakis dramedy from the writer/director team behind Half Nelson and their rising gem Sugar. And in a way, the line also describes wild-man Nicolas Cage's reasoning for recently bailing on the The Green Hornet. These tidbits of casting news after the jump... At this juncture, pitch me with "Starring Zach Galifianakis and not one...
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 16/09/2009
Hal Ashby's 1972 countercultural touchstone may now seem somewhat adrift, since that dominant, Nixon-era culture has disappeared. Suicidal Bud Cort falls for lively Ruth Gordon, each of them learning valuable life lessons along the course of their, ahem, romance. (They don't actually bridg...
Cinebeats (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
“I’m lost again as I am waking as a wave would wake had it reached the shore: It’s like movement, something which bores us terribly, but remains for a time to be never forgotten. ” - Jim Carroll (from Living At the Movies) Recommended Links: - Jim reading “Just Visiting” from The Book of Nods - His obituary in the NY Times - [...]
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
By Simon Augustine, M.Div [ The final installment, continued from "Part III" here. ] COMEDIES Harold and Maude : A Funny Take on "Sanity Is Not the Absence of Vibrancy" If in drama, the primary mode of audience participation is empathy—and in the horror film, it's vicarious escape achieved by moral extrapolation—then in comedy, the guiding principle...
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
You'll pardon me for stepping out of line here with the blogerati but I'm just not drinking the Jason Reitman kool-aid. In the past few days I've heard him compared to Billy Wilder, Hal Ashby and Preston Sturgess. Uh huh. Frankly I'd like to see more than three films from the guy before declaring him a modern equal to three of the finest directors the medium has seen. To quote Winston Wolfe, let's...
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