Warsaw Film Festival sets out to spotlight a slew of new local releases, from “Anxiety” by Sławomir Fabicki – Oscar-nominated for his short “A Man Thing” – to this year’s opener “Song of Goats” by Andrzej Jakimowski.
The latter, featuring “Eo” star Mateusz Kościukiewicz and set in Greece, will show characters living close to an active volcano, exploring the question of how “each of us is responsible for maintaining our fragile heritage,” says the director.
“We are witnessing a war in a neighboring country [Ukraine], threats from a barbarian empire and rapidly growing populism that is devastating politics. It’s a dreadfully worrying mixture.”
As Poland braces for parliamentary elections on Oct. 15 and the controversy over Agnieszka Holland’s “Green Border” refuses to die down, emotions run high.
“What happened went beyond the accepted framework. There was no shortage of absurdity, like the attempt to force cinema managers to screen propaganda material before the film,...
The latter, featuring “Eo” star Mateusz Kościukiewicz and set in Greece, will show characters living close to an active volcano, exploring the question of how “each of us is responsible for maintaining our fragile heritage,” says the director.
“We are witnessing a war in a neighboring country [Ukraine], threats from a barbarian empire and rapidly growing populism that is devastating politics. It’s a dreadfully worrying mixture.”
As Poland braces for parliamentary elections on Oct. 15 and the controversy over Agnieszka Holland’s “Green Border” refuses to die down, emotions run high.
“What happened went beyond the accepted framework. There was no shortage of absurdity, like the attempt to force cinema managers to screen propaganda material before the film,...
- 10/5/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
I love idiosyncrasy. Even if I’m not as into Idea X as a creator is, the fact that creator is so into it is appealing – I like to see the things creators are passionate about, the things they have to do, even if it doesn’t make commercial sense.
P. Craig Russell adapts operas into comics. He’s been doing it since nearly the beginning of his career, and I see from his bibliography list on Wikipedia that he has a few adaptations of songs from this past decade, though they’re still unpublished.
And what I have today is the second book collecting that work, the grandly titled The P. Craig Russell Library of Opera Adapations, Vol. 2 . It’s a 2003 book, collecting four adaptations spanning the late ’70s to the late ’90s, and Russell worked with different collaborators on each of them, some more involved than others. I...
P. Craig Russell adapts operas into comics. He’s been doing it since nearly the beginning of his career, and I see from his bibliography list on Wikipedia that he has a few adaptations of songs from this past decade, though they’re still unpublished.
And what I have today is the second book collecting that work, the grandly titled The P. Craig Russell Library of Opera Adapations, Vol. 2 . It’s a 2003 book, collecting four adaptations spanning the late ’70s to the late ’90s, and Russell worked with different collaborators on each of them, some more involved than others. I...
- 7/26/2023
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani's The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears (2013) is showing February 4 - March 6 and Dario Argento's Deep Red (1975) is showing February 5 - March 7, 2017 in the United Kingdom in the double feature Giallo/Meta Giallo.“I know it when I see it.” Like film noir, the giallo is one of those genres as easy to pin down as it is difficult to define. More often than not, what constitutes a giallo rests on a given film’s balance of emblematic imagery and an archetypal storyline, while other factors like tone, score, and setting will also play a part in its classification. Arguably no filmmaker has had a more stylish and deftly rigorous hand in establishing these defining traits than Dario Argento. And his 1975 film, Deep Red (Profondo Rosso), is perhaps as good as it gets,...
- 2/26/2017
- MUBI
By the late 1960s, Federico Fellini had more or less permanently transitioned from filmmaker to icon. The autobiographical 8½ basically ensured his films would be permanently inseparable from himself, the sort of commercial accomplishment of which most film directors can only dream. Most directors are fortunate to be recognized for putting their “touch” into an accepted format. Fellini was the format. His follow-up, Juliet of the Spirits, is an equally indulgent affair that serves loosely as an apology to his wife (Giulietta Masina, who also stars in the film), on whom he cheated for more or less the entirety of their marriage; the resulting film is as much his fantasy (sexual extravagance) as hers (Masina had a keen interest in the psychic realm). And so the template is set – Fellini would continue to make films about himself, but largely under the guise of someone else’s perspective.
He wasn’t shy...
He wasn’t shy...
- 7/6/2015
- by Scott Nye
- CriterionCast
Update, Sunday 4:10 Pm: Adds anecdote about Back From Eternity, below: The blond beauty who added a smoldering Swedish sensuality to the pantheon of European 1950s and ’60s screen sirens that included Gina Lollobrigida and Brigitte Bardot, died Sunday in Rocca di Papa, near Rome, according to reports confirmed by Deadline. She was 83.
She had lived in Italy for decades since a starring role, opposite Marcello Mastroianni in Federico Fellini’s groundbreaking 1960 La Dolce Vita, made her an international sex symbol. In the film she she played Sylvia, a Swedish-American movie star who arrives in Rome and captures the attention of Mastroianni’s night-crawling paparazzo, who takes her on a moonlit tour of the city. In one of the episodic film’s most famous scenes, Sylvia — poured into a strapless, form-fitting black gown — wades into the Trevi Fountain, beckoning her suitor to follow.
Later she pointedly, and frequently, remarked that...
She had lived in Italy for decades since a starring role, opposite Marcello Mastroianni in Federico Fellini’s groundbreaking 1960 La Dolce Vita, made her an international sex symbol. In the film she she played Sylvia, a Swedish-American movie star who arrives in Rome and captures the attention of Mastroianni’s night-crawling paparazzo, who takes her on a moonlit tour of the city. In one of the episodic film’s most famous scenes, Sylvia — poured into a strapless, form-fitting black gown — wades into the Trevi Fountain, beckoning her suitor to follow.
Later she pointedly, and frequently, remarked that...
- 1/12/2015
- by Jeremy Gerard
- Deadline
★★★☆☆"Clown acts have to be short and make people laugh in ten minutes - give it some rhythm!" These are the words of wisdom bestowed during the first interview Federico Fellini conducts in his made-for-television pseudo-documentary, I Clowns (1970). This advice is taken to heart throughout much of the film's mischievous structure as (with the exception of the film's opening and closing set pieces), the hijinks is restricted to short bursts of colourful frivolity. It's fitting, if not inevitable, that such a subject should provide an inspiration for a director whose work was perennially imbued with a carnivalesque spirit. Whilst something of a minor work for the Italian Master, I Clowns arrived at the peek of Fellini's influence.
- 10/27/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Eureka Entertainment unveiled its slate of upcoming titles for the fourth quarter of 2014 earlier today, and it's a magnificent selection of additions to their Masters of Cinema series, as well as a fang-tastic blaxploitation boxset to join their growing selection of Eureka Classics.October sees the release of Fellini's little-known masterpiece I Clowns and Suzuki Seijun's yakuza classic Youth Of The Beast both join the Masters of Cinema series in stacked dual-format releases. Also that month, Blacula - The Complete Collection hits the shelves just in time for Hallowe'en. 1972's Blacula and its sequel Scream Blacula Scream, both starring William Marshall, will be released together in a dual-format set on the company's burgeoning Eureka Classics label.In November and December, Masters of Cinema fans will be spoilt...
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- 8/19/2014
- Screen Anarchy
So, I’ll be the first to admit that I have never seen this film, nor have I ever heard it mentioned, even on the corners of the internet where friends are obsessed with Italian cinema. However, this is a Raro Video Blu-ray, which means it will be part of my collection. I don’t know if you that are reading have ever purchased a Raro Blu-ray before, but they are fantastic releases, and serve a great purpose of exposing us to some of the best of the criminally ignored entries into the Italian genre film scene. On August 5th, Raro Video, in partnership with Kino Lorber will release the new Raro Video Blu-ray release of Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair, and if you’re a fan of what Raro and Kino do, then you should probably hit this link and pre-order a copy for yourself. Check out the press release below.
- 7/26/2014
- by Shawn Savage
- The Liberal Dead
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Oct. 21, 2014
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg take a dip in the Trevi Fountain in La Dolce Vita.
The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, 1960’s La Dolce Vita rocketed Federico Fellini (The Clowns) to international mainstream success—ironically, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom.
A look at the darkness beneath the seductive lifestyles of Rome’s rich and glamorous, the film follows a notorious celebrity journalist—played by a sublimely cool Marcello Mastroianni (The 10th Victim)—during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight.
La Dolce Vita was an incisive commentary on the deepening decadence of the European 1960s, and it provided a prescient glimpse of just how gossip- and fame-obsessed our society would become.
Presented in Italian with English subtitles, Criterion’s Blu-ray and DVD editions contain the...
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg take a dip in the Trevi Fountain in La Dolce Vita.
The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, 1960’s La Dolce Vita rocketed Federico Fellini (The Clowns) to international mainstream success—ironically, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom.
A look at the darkness beneath the seductive lifestyles of Rome’s rich and glamorous, the film follows a notorious celebrity journalist—played by a sublimely cool Marcello Mastroianni (The 10th Victim)—during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight.
La Dolce Vita was an incisive commentary on the deepening decadence of the European 1960s, and it provided a prescient glimpse of just how gossip- and fame-obsessed our society would become.
Presented in Italian with English subtitles, Criterion’s Blu-ray and DVD editions contain the...
- 7/22/2014
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Raro Video will be releasing the second volume of Fernando Di Leo’s crime films in a three piece set on Blu-Ray or DVD including the films Shoot First, Die Later, Kidnap Syndicate and Naked Violence. For those of you unfamiliar with Di Leo’s films, I have included the trailers & synopses below the official Press Release info. For fans of Reservoir Dogs or just crime & heist films in general, you will find some delight in these Di Leo films. Bravo to Raro for giving these films the TLC that was needed.
Los Angeles - (May 30, 2013) – Hailed by cinephiles for expertly restoring rare films by influential filmmakers and publishing them with compelling extras, Italian film label Raro Video announces the company will debut a second volume of the critically acclaimed and commercially successful films of the “Master of mafia mayhem” Fernando Di Leo.
Outstanding in bold, intricately plotted, ultra-violent stories about pimps and petty gangsters,...
Los Angeles - (May 30, 2013) – Hailed by cinephiles for expertly restoring rare films by influential filmmakers and publishing them with compelling extras, Italian film label Raro Video announces the company will debut a second volume of the critically acclaimed and commercially successful films of the “Master of mafia mayhem” Fernando Di Leo.
Outstanding in bold, intricately plotted, ultra-violent stories about pimps and petty gangsters,...
- 5/30/2013
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
Raro Video USA has been amassing a virile and potent collection of Italian genre classics on Us home video since their release of Federico Fellini's The Clowns back in 2011. In the two years since they've also dedicated themselves to the preservation and proliferation of little known masterpieces of Eurocrime from some of the genre's greatest artists and performers. Following up on their stellar Fernando Dileo box set of the Millieu Trilogy in 2012, Raro begins another dalliance with the master on May 28th with their international DVD debut of Dileo's Shoot First, Die Later.Shoot First, Die Later is only the beginning of the Dileo goodness coming our way. On June 25th they'll release Volume 2 of their Dileo box set collection. In addition to...
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- 4/9/2013
- Screen Anarchy
In recent years, much of the English-speaking world has heard about Iranian cinema. Many Western audiences have seen the Oscar-winning "A Separation" and explored the filmography of Abbas Kiarostami. With the imprisonment of seminal Iranian director Jafar Panahi, plenty of stories about the challenges of making movies in Iran have circled the world. But what about the challenges of writing *about* movies in Iran? You may never have heard about Iranian film critics, about how they watch movies in a country that never screens foreign titles and where DVDs are not sold in stores. Allow me to fill that gap. What you are about to read is my personal account of watching movies in Iran as a film critic, but I am certain much about my experience applies to other young critics in the country. The first thing I remember about movies is a single picture: Federico Fellini with clown...
- 8/24/2012
- by Hossein Eidi Zadeh
- Indiewire
[Since I've reviewed the film on DVD back in February, I will only be adding my comments on the Blu-ray upgrade at the bottom]I will confess upfront that this is my first complete viewing of a Fellini film. I've seen bits and pieces of at least half a dozen, and I've seen Fellini's segment from Spirits of the Dead, but not full features. I think that may put me at a bit of a disadvantage with The Clowns, but I think I've done enough reading up to overcomes this deficit. It is a strange film in his oeuvre, and therefore a fresh eye may actually be an advantage in gauging its effectiveness. Then again, maybe I'm just telling myself that be comforted. Anyway, onward and...
- 10/24/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Your Weekly Source for the Newest Releases to Blu-Ray Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
Attack On Leningrad (2009)
Synopsis: When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a young and idealist police officer and together they will fight for their own survival and the survival of the people in the besieged Leningrad. (blu-ray.com)
Special Features: Unknown.
Baaria (2009)
Synopsis: Peppino, the nickname of the boy at the story’s heart, is a tough little kid in the 1930s, used to the rough-and-tumble world of Baaria (local slang for Tornatore’s native Bagheria), a hot and dusty Sicilian village with one main street. His adventures are many and his memories singular: men gambling in the local square, goats eating his schoolbooks, and...
Attack On Leningrad (2009)
Synopsis: When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a young and idealist police officer and together they will fight for their own survival and the survival of the people in the besieged Leningrad. (blu-ray.com)
Special Features: Unknown.
Baaria (2009)
Synopsis: Peppino, the nickname of the boy at the story’s heart, is a tough little kid in the 1930s, used to the rough-and-tumble world of Baaria (local slang for Tornatore’s native Bagheria), a hot and dusty Sicilian village with one main street. His adventures are many and his memories singular: men gambling in the local square, goats eating his schoolbooks, and...
- 10/18/2011
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Release Date: Oct. 11, 2011
Price: Blu-ray $34.95
Studio: Kino
Anita Ekberg is all smiles in Boccaccio '70
Four legendary Italian filmmakers direct some of Europe’s biggest stars in the landmark 1962 anthology comedy-drama film Boccaccio’70.
Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street), Federico Fellini (The Clowns) Luchino Visconti (Senso) and Vittorio De Sica (Shoeshine) direct Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider and many others through a quartet of titillating stories filled with unabashed eros. Modeled on Boccaccio’s Decameron, the four are comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy.
Monicelli’s “Renzo e Luciana” (cut out of the original American release) is a tale of young love and office politics in the big city. Fellini’s notorious “Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio” features Ekberg as a busty model in a milk advertisement whose image begins to haunt an aging prude. Visconti’s “Il Lavoro” stars Romy Schneider as...
Price: Blu-ray $34.95
Studio: Kino
Anita Ekberg is all smiles in Boccaccio '70
Four legendary Italian filmmakers direct some of Europe’s biggest stars in the landmark 1962 anthology comedy-drama film Boccaccio’70.
Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street), Federico Fellini (The Clowns) Luchino Visconti (Senso) and Vittorio De Sica (Shoeshine) direct Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider and many others through a quartet of titillating stories filled with unabashed eros. Modeled on Boccaccio’s Decameron, the four are comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy.
Monicelli’s “Renzo e Luciana” (cut out of the original American release) is a tale of young love and office politics in the big city. Fellini’s notorious “Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio” features Ekberg as a busty model in a milk advertisement whose image begins to haunt an aging prude. Visconti’s “Il Lavoro” stars Romy Schneider as...
- 10/1/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Release Date: Oct. 18, 2011
Price: Blu-ray $39.98
Studio: Raro Video
The belly laugh is on in The Clowns.
The first high-definition Blu-ray release in the U.S. from Italian DVD label Raro Video is a goodie: Federico Fellini’s1970 Italian TV movie The Clowns.
It’s the same film that marked the supplier’s DVD launch in the U.S. in February 2011, along with The Fernando Di Leo Crime Collection, a four-disc set featuring the Italian genre filmmaker.
Fellini’s The Clowns is a typically “Fellini-esque” documentary/memoir mash-up about the lives of circus clowns, with Fellini delighting in the role of ringmaster. The movie features a carnival-sounding score composed by Nino Rota and an appearance by Anita Ekberg (star of Fellini’s 1960 La Dolce Vita).
As with the DVD, the Blu-ray version of The Clowns includes an additional short film by Fellini, a video essay on the genesis of the...
Price: Blu-ray $39.98
Studio: Raro Video
The belly laugh is on in The Clowns.
The first high-definition Blu-ray release in the U.S. from Italian DVD label Raro Video is a goodie: Federico Fellini’s1970 Italian TV movie The Clowns.
It’s the same film that marked the supplier’s DVD launch in the U.S. in February 2011, along with The Fernando Di Leo Crime Collection, a four-disc set featuring the Italian genre filmmaker.
Fellini’s The Clowns is a typically “Fellini-esque” documentary/memoir mash-up about the lives of circus clowns, with Fellini delighting in the role of ringmaster. The movie features a carnival-sounding score composed by Nino Rota and an appearance by Anita Ekberg (star of Fellini’s 1960 La Dolce Vita).
As with the DVD, the Blu-ray version of The Clowns includes an additional short film by Fellini, a video essay on the genesis of the...
- 9/22/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Tuesday, DVD roundup day, is a fine day for taking a look at the new Summer 2011 issue of Cineaste, particularly since, among the online samplings this time around, DVD reviews outnumber all other types of articles combined.
To begin, Darragh O'Donoghue on Harun Farocki's Still Life (1997): "Five aphoristic essays on 17th-century Dutch still-life painting, of about three minutes each, bracket four documentary sequences of photographers creating modern still lifes for magazine advertisements. These two levels, though defined by opposites — stasis/motion, tell/show — are linked by visual motifs and rhymes, just as the modern products echo the subjects of the paintings. The documentary sequences have no commentary, mostly last ten to fifteen minutes, and take their cue from Farocki's earlier An Image (Ein bild, 1983). In that short, he recorded the shooting of a German Playboy centerfold spread, from the building of sets and the arrangement of props (including...
To begin, Darragh O'Donoghue on Harun Farocki's Still Life (1997): "Five aphoristic essays on 17th-century Dutch still-life painting, of about three minutes each, bracket four documentary sequences of photographers creating modern still lifes for magazine advertisements. These two levels, though defined by opposites — stasis/motion, tell/show — are linked by visual motifs and rhymes, just as the modern products echo the subjects of the paintings. The documentary sequences have no commentary, mostly last ten to fifteen minutes, and take their cue from Farocki's earlier An Image (Ein bild, 1983). In that short, he recorded the shooting of a German Playboy centerfold spread, from the building of sets and the arrangement of props (including...
- 6/7/2011
- MUBI
"Antonioni's career can be divided into the periods before and after L'Avventura (1960)," writes Dennis Lim in the Los Angeles Times. "By the time that film was booed and championed at Cannes, putting him on the global map, he had been active for well more than a decade — though his formative work always has remained in the shadows of his more influential later films, which essentially invented a cinematic vocabulary for alienation. Now thanks to Raro Video, Antonioni's second feature from 1953, I Vinti (The Vanquished), a muddled triptych of stories that nonetheless anticipates the themes and methods of his better-known films, is finally available for the first time on DVD here. An Italian label that recently launched an American division, Raro also has just released Federico Fellini's pseudo-documentary The Clowns (1970) and a boxed set devoted to the genre auteur Fernando Di Leo."...
- 4/5/2011
- MUBI
Raro Video U.S. will release a restored version of Michelangelo Antonioni’s (Blow-up) 1953 I Vinti, one of the Italian master’s first feature films, on DVD on March 29.
Passion and murder collide in Michelangelo Antonioni's I Vinti.
I Vinti is a unique triptych film revolving around three murders, one taking place in Paris, another in Rome, and another in London. All of the perpetrators are affluent youths, each killing for dubious motives. In the France segment, a group of adolescents kill for money, even though they don’t need it; in the London segment, a poet uncovers a woman’s body and tries to profit from the discovery; and in the Italian segment, a student becomes caught up in a smuggling ring, with deadly results.
The film is told with Antonioni’s trademark splintered chronology, which weaves multiple story lines, in this case. The director remains one of...
Passion and murder collide in Michelangelo Antonioni's I Vinti.
I Vinti is a unique triptych film revolving around three murders, one taking place in Paris, another in Rome, and another in London. All of the perpetrators are affluent youths, each killing for dubious motives. In the France segment, a group of adolescents kill for money, even though they don’t need it; in the London segment, a poet uncovers a woman’s body and tries to profit from the discovery; and in the Italian segment, a student becomes caught up in a smuggling ring, with deadly results.
The film is told with Antonioni’s trademark splintered chronology, which weaves multiple story lines, in this case. The director remains one of...
- 3/24/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Raro Video is coming out of the gate very strong. After their initial Us offerings of Fellini's The Clowns, and the Fernando Dileo Crime Films box set, they've got another winner in The Perfume of the Lady in Black. The film has never been legitimately available stateside, but this release is well worth the wait. Francesco Barilli's directorial debut is a film very much of its time, and upon watching it, we are transported to 1974, both through the styles in the film and the style of the film, which is very much in keeping with the classic giallo aesthetic.The story revolved around Sylvia, played to manic perfection by Mimsy Farmer, who seems to be having a bit of a breakdown. She is a successful...
- 3/23/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Given the “Carnival Of Life” theme that always pervaded Federico Fellini’s work—his life as an artist almost literally takes the form of a three-ring circus in his autobiographical masterpiece 8 1/2—it was, as Fellini himself admits, inevitable that he would devote an entire movie to the subject. Produced in 1970 for Italian television, The Clowns is a loose, semi-experimental/semi-documentary/semi-fictional essay on circus jesters, their presence in the culture, and their profound affect on Fellini’s way of thinking. Though nowhere near as radical as Orson Welles’ F For Fake three years later, the film ...
- 3/16/2011
- avclub.com
Reviewer: Jeffrey M. Anderson
Rating (out of 5): Movie ***½ DVD: ****
The arc of Federico Fellini's career is endlessly fascinating. He started as something of a neo-realist, and then his films grew in style and scope until they became bizarre, swirl-colored, phantasmagoric spectacles. Then still later, he stepped back again and began making more intimate, personal projects in the last section of his career. Made for television, The Clowns seems to have been a crucial turning point; it came immediately after the overblown Satyricon, and it shows an interesting mix of that film, and the film that would come just a few years later, the wonderful Amarcord. It fits perfectly.
Rating (out of 5): Movie ***½ DVD: ****
The arc of Federico Fellini's career is endlessly fascinating. He started as something of a neo-realist, and then his films grew in style and scope until they became bizarre, swirl-colored, phantasmagoric spectacles. Then still later, he stepped back again and began making more intimate, personal projects in the last section of his career. Made for television, The Clowns seems to have been a crucial turning point; it came immediately after the overblown Satyricon, and it shows an interesting mix of that film, and the film that would come just a few years later, the wonderful Amarcord. It fits perfectly.
- 3/14/2011
- by GreenCineStaff
- GreenCine
Yesterday, I dredged up the terrifying childhood memory of the creepy ventriloquist's dummy (if that's not redundant) in the ads for Magic, so let's keep the young-nightmare fuel going with a discussion of clowns. But even if those painted circus harlequins make you uneasy -- studies show you're in the majority -- you should still check out the DVD debut of Federico Fellini's fascinating The Clowns (RaroVideo).
- 3/2/2011
- Movieline
Hitting movie theaters this weekend:
The Adjustment Bureau – Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Lisa Thoreson
Beastly – Alex Pettyfer, Vanessa Hudgens, Mary-Kate Olsen
Rango – (voices of) Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Timothy Olyphant
Take Me Home Tonight – Topher Grace, Anna Faris, Dan Fogler
Movie of the Week
Rango
The Stars: Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Timothy Olyphant
The Plot: A chameleon that aspires to be a swashbuckling hero (Depp) finds himself in a Western town plagued by bandits and is forced to literally play the role in order to protect it.
The Buzz: Director Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Carribean Trilogy, The Ring) takes a swash at his first animated feature. I thought the trailer for this film was excellent — Rango looks to be visually stunning, narratively engaging, and comically amusing. Verbinski’s adventure-film stripes are well earned — he knows his way around the genre — and this looks to be a strong addition to his filmography.
The Adjustment Bureau – Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Lisa Thoreson
Beastly – Alex Pettyfer, Vanessa Hudgens, Mary-Kate Olsen
Rango – (voices of) Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Timothy Olyphant
Take Me Home Tonight – Topher Grace, Anna Faris, Dan Fogler
Movie of the Week
Rango
The Stars: Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Timothy Olyphant
The Plot: A chameleon that aspires to be a swashbuckling hero (Depp) finds himself in a Western town plagued by bandits and is forced to literally play the role in order to protect it.
The Buzz: Director Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Carribean Trilogy, The Ring) takes a swash at his first animated feature. I thought the trailer for this film was excellent — Rango looks to be visually stunning, narratively engaging, and comically amusing. Verbinski’s adventure-film stripes are well earned — he knows his way around the genre — and this looks to be a strong addition to his filmography.
- 3/2/2011
- by Aaron Ruffcorn
- The Scorecard Review
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"127 Hours" (2010)
Directed by Danny Boyle
Released by Fox Home Entertainment
With a fast-forward button at the ready on home devices, it's high time more people see James Franco's Spirit Award-winning performance as real-life adventurer Aron Ralston, who gets his arm trapped under a boulder in Utah's Bluejohn Canyon and struggles to survive and free himself in Danny Boyle's life-affirming followup to "Slumdog Millionaire." (Matt Singer's interview with James Franco and Danny Boyle is here.)
"420 High Desert Way" (2011)
Directed by Tom Breedlove
Released by Maverick Entertainment Group
Dealing with a different drug than the one suggested by the title, this procedural drama follows a young undercover cop who must refine his extreme sports skills as he infiltrates a drug cartel and must bust them before they learn his true identity.
"Bambi" (1942)
Directed by James Algar and Samuel Armstrong
Released by Walt Disney Home Entertainment...
"127 Hours" (2010)
Directed by Danny Boyle
Released by Fox Home Entertainment
With a fast-forward button at the ready on home devices, it's high time more people see James Franco's Spirit Award-winning performance as real-life adventurer Aron Ralston, who gets his arm trapped under a boulder in Utah's Bluejohn Canyon and struggles to survive and free himself in Danny Boyle's life-affirming followup to "Slumdog Millionaire." (Matt Singer's interview with James Franco and Danny Boyle is here.)
"420 High Desert Way" (2011)
Directed by Tom Breedlove
Released by Maverick Entertainment Group
Dealing with a different drug than the one suggested by the title, this procedural drama follows a young undercover cop who must refine his extreme sports skills as he infiltrates a drug cartel and must bust them before they learn his true identity.
"Bambi" (1942)
Directed by James Algar and Samuel Armstrong
Released by Walt Disney Home Entertainment...
- 2/27/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
<p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wDOXQ-jM468lEYPw9-fpK8Jka74/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wDOXQ-jM468lEYPw9-fpK8Jka74/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wDOXQ-jM468lEYPw9-fpK8Jka74/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wDOXQ-jM468lEYPw9-fpK8Jka74/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="RaroVideo.jpg" src="http://twitchfilm.com/news/RaroVideo.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;" width="190" height="158" /></span> <div>Exciting news for fans of international cult film with word that Italy's RaroVideo - one of the finest boutique video labels in the world - is coming to the Us. I have a handful of Raro titles in my collection at the moment and their reputation for delivering the highest quality product, both in terms of transfers and extras, is very well deserved in my opinion. Here's the official announcement:<br /><br /><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><i>Hailed by cinephiles for expertly restoring rare films by influential filmmakers and publishing them with compelling extras, Italian DVD label RaroVideo announces the company will begin distributing its acclaimed DVDs in the U.S. for the first time ever in February 2011 through E One Entertainment.</i><br /><br /><i>To launch RaroVideo in the U.S., the company will spotlight two powerhouse directors of Italian cinema with Federico Fellini's hard-to-find The Clowns (1970) and The Fernando Di Leo Crime Collection, a four-disc set that...
- 12/2/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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