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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) The best film in this five-movie set - and certainly the most well known - is Fritz Lang's hard-edged "The Big Heat" (1953), based on the novel by William P. McGivern. A police detective (Glenn Ford) uncovers corruption and suffers...
Atomic Popcorn (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Seven out of ten times, I’m going to come out enjoying a film that operates on its own terms. It’s the first and best thing I can say about Michael Mann, which just adds to my fanboy nature when it comes to his work. As a more recent example, the Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man [...]
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Every few years, it seems necessary in the course of critiquing home video releases to clarify and designate the difference between all of those terms that distributors and producers come up with to describe films that arrive in stores in a version other than their theatrical iteration. For example, "unrated" no longer simply means that a film is too bawdy or offensive to garner a proper...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The long-awaited Bluray of Michael Mann's Heat (Warner Home Video, 11.10) lacks that Bluray schwing. Here I am sounding like a plebian again, but dammit, you buy a Bluray version of a film you already own on DVD because you want enhancement -- something with finer detail, more color gradation, sharper focus -- a more robust pop-through quality. That's what you pay for, right? Diane Venora, Al Pacino...
SimplyScripts (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Looks like Universal has kicked off the race to the Oscars (through the Golden Globes, the Spirit Awards and BAFTA). Universal has put up two scripts “for your consideration”. – Don Funny People - Undated, unspecified Draft script by Judd Apatow – hosted by: Universal Pictures – in pdf format When seasoned comedian George Simmons learns [...]
Boxwish (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
We’ve seen it time and time again, a historical film fostering newfound interest in its subject matter. Just earlier this year, Michael Mann’s crime epic, Public Enemies (now out on DVD ) put the spotlight on 30s gangster John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) increasing public fascination with the criminal’s grave site; while in the autumn, culinary comedy/ drama Julie & Julia encouraged...
SciFi Scanner (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Directors like Spike Jonze and Quentin Tarantino may have come close to directing scifi, but they rank among people like Martin Scorsese and Michael Mann who should be working in the genre.
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a little post about Movies That Nobody Seems To Like But You , and it was an awful lot of fun for you (over 100 comments) and me -- so today I thought we could flip it around because I happen to know for a fact that there are movies that everyone seems to love but you ... because for me, that movie is Heat . Released in 1995, Michael Mann 's crime drama was an unofficial...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
From left, Joel Stager, Gary Hall Sr., Peter Finn and Edilson Silva won the men's 400-meter medley relay at the U.S. Masters 2009 Long Course National Championships in Indianapolis. Fabric Streamlines Bulges, Adds Buoyancy; Lifetime Bests From a $500 Fountain of Youth By SUZANNE SATALINE WSJ (See Corrections & Amplifications below.) Competition was fierce at a July swimming meet in Thousand Oaks,...
TechRadar (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Taxi Driver director Martin Scorsese has been speaking about the virtues of Blu-ray this week, saying the hi-def format "will extend the life of movies". Speaking via video-link at Blu-con 2.0 , a US symposium celebrating all things home entertainment, the director was positively glowing about the format explaining: "It's like experiencing the film for the first time again" and...
Entertainment News - MovieWeb.com (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The Black Listed script from Lee Shipman and Brian McGreevy.
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Two film tech tidbits for you: First up, we've caught word from the Italy-based blog screenWEEK that Michael Mann is apparently very interested in doing a 3D feature at some point. In a recent event with Mann regarding Public Enemies, someone in the crowd asks him about shooting in 3D. Mann responds: Yes! I’d love to shoot a 3D movie, it’s something that fascinates me! The more the audience...
Movie Talk (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Michael Mann has produced some of Hollywood’s finest thrillers of the past couple of decades – just think back to Manhunter and Heat – but his gangster biopic Public Enemies doesn’t find him at the top of his game. The movie tells the story of Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger, the bank [...]
ExpoSay (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Kiefer Sutherland stunned bar staff when he bought all of their customers a drink. The '24' actor and crew members of the hit drama series popped into The Spot in San Pedro, California, after finishing a shoot, as they wanted to relax with a few alcoholic beverages.
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Kiefer Sutherland stunned bar staff when he bought all of their customers a drink.The '24' actor and crew members of the hit US drama series popped into The Spot in...
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