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AFI's 100 Years ...100 Movie Quotes
4 November 2009 4:45 AM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »
"Extra" brings you AFI's 100 Best Movie Quotes of all time! From "The Wizard of Oz" to "Taxi Driver," see if your favorites made the list!
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie QuotesGone with the Wind (1939)
“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.” —Said by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler to Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara.
The Godfather (1972)
“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” —Marlon Brando as Don Corleone.
On the Waterfront (1954)
“You don’t understand! »
People Briefs: Actor Dennis Hopper suffering from prostate cancer
30 October 2009 10:40 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Los Angeles - Actor Dennis Hopper is suffering from prostate cancer and has cancelled all engagements to focus on his treatment, his manager said in a statement Friday. Sam Maydew, told Access Hollywood that the 73-year-old actor and artist is being treated through a 'special programme' at the University of Southern California medical centre. The star of Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now and the TV series Crash would be forced to miss an exhibition at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne called Dennis Hopper and the New Hollywood, a collection of his artwork and photos, Mayhew added. 'We're hoping for the »
Dennis Hopper Diagnosed With Prostate Cancer
30 October 2009 7:02 AM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
This is some very upsetting news.
It appears that actor Dennis Hopper has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Earlier this month, there were some reports that Hopper had been rushed to the hospital for an undisclosed reason. Now, according to the BBC, Hopper is entering a special program for treatment in California. The initial stay in the hospital was reportedly due to flu-like symptoms and dehydration.
Hopper has had a long and varied history in cinema, ranging back to his friendship in his youth with actor James Dean. He went from playing bit parts to writing, directing, and starring in Easy Rider, which many regard as one of the formative films of 1960s and 1970s cinema. Since then, he has played many memorable roles in over 200 productions, ranging from villains in Speed and Waterworld to a psychotic photographer in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and as Frank Booth in Blue Velvet. »
- John Cooper
Dennis Hopper Cancels Australian Trip
29 October 2009 9:33 PM, PDT | FilmInk.com.au | See recent FilmInk.com.au news »
The revelation that Hollywood legend Dennis Hopper has prostate cancer is a hard pill to swallow. A man of magnanimous presence on screen, and star of films such Easy Rider, Mad Dog Morgan, Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet and Speed, he has undoubtedly made his name as a tough guy not to be messed with. However, he must now focus all his strength and attention on recovery, which, as a result, puts his artistic endeavours on the backburner. First on the list is the cancellation of Hopper's imminent plans to arrive in Melbourne. The subject of an exclusive Australian exhibition due to open Thursday 12 November at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Acmi), Hopper had arranged to fly in next week to oversee the installation, and take part in the official opening program. »
Movie Review: Ong Bak 2: The Beginning
22 October 2009 9:00 PM, PDT | MovieRetriever | See recent MovieRetriever news »
Oct 23, 2009
If I was still an impressionable young man more easily swayed by the martial arts skills of the cinematic heroes of my youth like Bruce Lee then I think I might have a Tony Jaa poster on my wall. Honestly, the guy totally kicks ass. Despite rumors of the actor/director losing his mind in the Cambodian jungles a la Coppola on Apocalypse Now, the film that resulted, Ong Bak 2: The Beginning features an international star at the top of his particular game right now, delivering continuously impressive vehicles for his gritty, ...Read more at MovieRetriever.com »
Archaia announces 'Titanium Rain'
21 October 2009 9:53 AM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Archaia Studios Press has announced a new science fiction war series titled Titanium Rain. Created by Josh Finney and Kat Rocha, the comic draws influence from cinematic classics including Apocalypse Now, Casablanca, Blade Runner and Ghost In The Shell. "I wanted a story that operated on multiple levels," Finney told Cbr. "Granted, there are going to be a number of readers who pick it up because (more) »
- By Mark Langshaw
Cinema falling apart
13 October 2009 | Cineman.ch/en | See recent Cineman.ch/en news »
Interviewed at the Beirut Film Festival, the great Francis Ford Coppola was pessimistic about the movie industry: "The cinema as we know it is falling apart." Coppola's opinion on the subject is not reassuring: "It's a period of incredible change. We used to think of six, seven big film companies. Every one of them is under great stress now. Probably two or three will go out of business and the others will just make certain kind of films like 'Harry Potter' -- basically trying to make 'Star Wars' over and over again, because it's a business." "Cinema is losing the public's interest, because there is so much it has to compete with to get people's time. The profusion of leisure activities; the availability of movies on copied DVD and on the Internet; and news becoming entertainment are reshaping the industry." The maker of "Apocalypse Now", "Rumble Fish" and the "Godfather »
- Constantin Xenakis (Cineman)
Mvff '09: Zombie Girl: The Movie
12 October 2009 1:24 AM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Having known quite a few "aspiring directors," I noticed that often what kills the potential of so many talented and creative people is the failure to follow through on a project. They could learn a thing or two from the subject of this very entertaining documentary. Emily Haggins was a 10-year-old girl (now 16) who—perhaps against better judgment—decided to write and direct a zombie feature film. We see her try to make the ambitious Pathogen in her hometown of Austin; with schoolwork, budgeting and scheduling middle schoolers as actors being constant setbacks—a perseverance that's really impressive no matter how you slice it.
The doc drops in on local Austin film figures, including AICN's Harry Knowles and the Alamo Drafthouse caretaker Tim League, who know Emily personally and chime in on what they think of her effort, speculating on whether or not it would be fruitful. Well, after 4 years, »
- Arya Ponto
Viff 2009: 'Tetro'
10 October 2009 12:32 AM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
From the opening credits of Tetro you know you're watching a film from a master of the craft.
Produced, written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, the film stars Vincent Gallo and Alden Ehrenreich (who has an eerie resemblance to a young River Phoenix) as two brothers. Ehrenreich's Bennie is coming of age, while Gallo's Tetro is simply coming to terms.
The themes here are much the same as with Coppola's Godfather films. Big families with traditions and names to live up to, and the secrets within those bonds.
But Tetro is much more intimate than the Godfather films, and focuses not on the sprawling family, but the broken connection between the brothers. Bennie, looking for answers to his questions about the family, and Tetro wanting nothing more than to escape.
The cinematography by Mihai Malaimare, who lensed Coppola's Youth Without Youth, is almost too polished, too perfect. The black »
MacHete Maidens to cut in from Not Quite Hollywood director
9 October 2009 11:14 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Fango’s Australian correspondent Michael Helms sent along word that a new exploitation documentary called MacHete Maidens Unleashed is coming from Mark Hartley, the man behind Not Quite Hollywood. Much the way that film (just out on DVD from Magnolia) delved into the history of Aussie genre fare, MacHete Maidens will be a feature-length exploration of Filipino cinema.
“It was the Marcos era—the country was under martial law and, at the same time people were being taken into the jungle and shot for their political views, filmmakers such as Roger Corman were making women-in-prison films full of revolutionaries,” Hartley told Screendaily.com. Produced by Veronica Fury and backed by the Melbourne International Film Festival, MacHete Maidens will spotlight the insane horror and action fare to emerge from the Philippines at that time (like the mini-James Bond epic For Your Height Only, pictured above), as well as the production of »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
Mini Recap – Supernatural 5.05 "The End"
1 October 2009 10:22 PM, PDT | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »
This week, on Supernatural: Welcome to Apocalypse Now, Wal-Mart edition! All the End of Days destruction and drama you could want at a low low price!
Shortly after the events of last week's episode, Sam frantically calls Dean and tells him he's just found out that he's Lucifer's vessel. Dean's none too thrilled with the idea of joining up again and more or less repeats his speech from the end of "Shadow" about Winchesters being weak when they're together. And then he hangs up on Sam. Nice attempt at a parallel, but I'm not sure if I'm buying it. Because there was that one time that Dean left Sam on his own (yes, I understand he was in Hell) and Sam got wrangled by a demon bitch and hooked on blood and started the Apocalypse. Remember, boys? Oh, yes. You're definitely better off alone.
Focus, Julia! Recap. So the next morning, »
- Julia Thorne
Review: Vinyan - Wash Out
1 October 2009 4:23 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
Director: Fabrice Du Welz Starring: Emmanuelle Béart - Jeanne Bellmer; Rufus Sewell - Paul Bellmer One would think it almost impossible that a film which follows the journey of grieving parents into a remote Burmese jungle to find their lost son - washed away 6 months previously by the 2004 tsunami - could fail to elicit any emotion from its viewer, and so it is something of a disastrous achievement that Vinyan manages to do exactly that. The lurching and hallucinogenic journey itself is launched when troubled mother Jeanne (Emmanuelle Béart) becomes convinced that she sees her missing son in the background of some grainy documentary footage at a charity evening in Phuket which she and her husband Paul (Rufus Sewell) are attending. Immediately enraptured by the idea that her son is alive in nearby Burma, she convinces her initially skeptical spouse to set out on a predictably hazardous rescue journey. Enlisting »
- Joel Gregory
Does Oscar Ever Get It Wrong?
1 October 2009 3:15 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
Even the most intelligent people in the world make mistakes. The brightest minds once thought the world was flat. Over the years I think there have been great injustices at the Academy Awards. Films that were not so deserving have walked off with the Best Picture Oscar. Actors & Directors have picked up that coveted statue even though someone better should have received it. Let’s take a look at some of those moments and of course as always, if you don’t agree or can think of a different time I haven’t covered feel free to let us know via the comments section.
The Date: 25th March 1991
Location: Shrine Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles
The Victim: Martin Scorsese
The Crime: The Best Director Oscar goes to… Kevin Costner for Dances With Wolves! Pardon me? Come again? I’m sorry but even if you are the most die hard Kevin Costner »
- Alex Wagner
Dennis Hopper Hospitalized with Flu-Like Symptoms
30 September 2009 11:45 AM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
Easy Rider filmmaker Dennis Hopper was rushed to a New York City emergency room by ambulance Wednesday, reported ET. The actor, 73, was wearing an oxygen mask when he was wheeled in, sources tell ET. His rep, Sheila Feren, later confirmed to the Associated Press that Hopper was suffering flu-like symptoms and complaining of a stomach ailment when he was admitted to an unidentified New York medical facility. Hopper, who has played intense, insane characters in such films as Apocalypse Now and Blue Velvet, was nominated for Oscars for Easy Rider and Hoosiers. Feren said he has been forced to cancel »
Cannibal Holocaust – Reviewing The Oldies
22 September 2009 9:46 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
At the time of its release Cannibal Holocaust was seized by authorities across the world and prosecuted under obscenity, animal cruelty and (potential) murder charges. Quite a collection of accolades. Many were convinced something more repugnant than senseless animal slaughter had gone on – real murder! Its director, Ruggero Deodato, had to bring his quartet of actors onto Italian television to prove he hadn’t done away with them, in the name of cinema, deep in the Amazon jungle. There were casualties: several animals, insects and careers. Like the film’s ravenous cannibals – film censor’s cut it to shreds – or it was banned it outright on legal grounds. In other countries such as Germany and Japan (what does this tell us?) it was a box office smash.
It has been almost-thirty years since its explosive debut in Milan. Deodato has continued working after his brief time in jail; Luca Barbareschi »
- Martyn Conterio
Mirror/Mirror — “There’s Room For Only One Genius in This Family”
19 September 2009 6:52 PM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
What is it about the Coppola family that makes the substance of Francis Ford Coppola’s films so often driven by what happens behind a family’s closed doors?
It’s never exactly a positive situation, either: his Godfather trilogy is about the implosion of a family, the fall of a son and an effort to sustain a lineage. The final famous frame of The Godfather is of a door closing Michael Corleone from view of his loving wife, sealing his own doom.
Then there’s the behind the scenes element of his films — the casting of family members such as Talia Shire and Sofia Coppola in her much derided performance in The Godfather Part III (which, if I may go on record, isn’t half as bad as it’s usually said to be). Then there’s Carmine Coppola, Francis’ father, who composed much of the scores for the »
- John Cooper
Oh No, Not Another Film About Climate Change
16 September 2009 1:07 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
"But didn't Al Gore already make the climate change documentary?" has been a common question over the five years we've been making The Age of Stupid. Which never fails to raise a weary smile. Casablanca had already done love, so why bother with Brokeback Mountain? Apocalypse Now did war, what's the point of Three Kings? Love and war will soon become minor concerns to us humans, as the full horrors of climate change begin to unfold. When I started my first documentary, McLibel, I never for a moment thought it would have any effect on that immovable corporate mountain called McDonald's. I just found the story of two people daring to stand up to Big Mac enormously inspiring -- and felt that others would too. But only ten years later -- thanks also to Fast Food Nation, Jamie's School Dinners and... »
- Franny Armstrong
Film-Music Moment of the Day: The Peyote Song at the Center of Barry Levinson's "Sleepers" (1996)
14 September 2009 12:01 AM, PDT | Boombox Serenade | See recent Boombox Serenade news »
Thanks to the San Francisco Film Society I recently had the pleasure of sitting at the feet of master sound designer Richard Beggs for an evening. He talked about his work with directors like Alfonso Cuaron, Spike Jonze, and Sofia Coppola, and showed a few clips of some of his best known films. We sat rapt at the famous opening montage of Apocalypse Now and he explained how Francis Ford Coppola was fascinated with the role technology played in the Vietnam War and how this affected his own approach to the soundtrack, like his idea to use a Moog to... »
- Shannon Coulter
2009, Apocalypse Now
11 September 2009 12:38 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
With everyone focused on the tiniest green shoots of economic recovery, on health care or on why it is not okay to shout 'liar' at the president, few people have had time to keep up with events in the natural world. And yet this is the year -2009- when climate change has begun to show us what 'ugly' really means. Arctic ice has disappeared at such a phenomenal rate that not only are polar bears endangered, but Alaskan walruses are now grounded on the state's northwest coast. The next step will be their death. Methane seeps in northern lakes are bubbling this intensive greenhouse gas into earth's atmosphere since permafrost no longer traps it on the bottom of Arctic lakes. California is simultaneously in flame and suffering its third year of drought. Both events are states-of-emergency, but there are no federal... »
- Giles Slade
What are the 25 Best Book to Film Adaptations?
10 September 2009 4:46 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
The Telegraph has posted a nice little list of what they consider to be the 25 best book to film adaptations and while most of the titles will likely not surprise you, perhaps the order in which they are placed will. Considering this is the Internet, the most discussed placement is sure to be The Lord of the Rings trilogy in the 25th spot while the Harry Potter filmed franchise comes in three spots earlier at 22. Unfortunately, I haven't read many of the books from this list, but I have seen all but a few of the films. I will say I am far more partial to Stephen King's "The Shining" than I was to Kubrick's adaptation and I hardly remember the Harry Potter books well enough to even say if I think they are great adaptations as much as I have simply enjoyed both the films and the books. »
- Brad Brevet
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