It’s a wonder movie from the 1930s, a political fantasy that imagines a Utopia of peace and kindness hidden away in a distant mountain range — or in our daydreams. Sony’s new restoration is indeed impressive. Ronald Colman is seduced by a vision of a non-sectarian Heaven on Earth, while Savant indulges his anti-Frank Capra grumblings in his admiring but hesitant review essay.
Lost Horizon (1937)
80th Anniversary Blu-ray + HD Digital
Sony
1937 / B&W / 1:37 Academy / 133 min. / Street Date October 3, 2017 / 19.99
Starring: Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard, Thomas Mitchell, Margo, Isabel Jewell, H.B. Warner, Sam Jaffe, Noble Johnson, Richard Loo.
Cinematography: Joseph Walker
Film Editors: Gene Havelick, Gene Milford
Art Direction: Stephen Goosson
Musical director: Max Steiner
Original Music: Dimitri Tiomkin
Written by Robert Riskin from the novel by James Hilton
Produced and Directed by Frank Capra
Frank Capra had a way with actors and comedy...
Lost Horizon (1937)
80th Anniversary Blu-ray + HD Digital
Sony
1937 / B&W / 1:37 Academy / 133 min. / Street Date October 3, 2017 / 19.99
Starring: Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard, Thomas Mitchell, Margo, Isabel Jewell, H.B. Warner, Sam Jaffe, Noble Johnson, Richard Loo.
Cinematography: Joseph Walker
Film Editors: Gene Havelick, Gene Milford
Art Direction: Stephen Goosson
Musical director: Max Steiner
Original Music: Dimitri Tiomkin
Written by Robert Riskin from the novel by James Hilton
Produced and Directed by Frank Capra
Frank Capra had a way with actors and comedy...
- 10/10/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
As a general rule, I’m a big believer in cinema moving forward. It’s vital for an artform to constantly renew and reinvigorate itself, in order to remain interesting and avoid stagnation. That’s why bold and visionary filmmakers are so important. To date, the writer and director of Reach Me – John Herzfeld – has been neither of those things (2 Days In The Valley, anyone?), but the new trailer for his latest movie suggests a move in a new, more intriguing direction.
The film is about a large collection of characters and their respective connections to a self-help book – titled ‘Reach Me’ – written by a reclusive author, played by Tom Berenger. Now, here’s the thing – it would seem that while this film represents the all-important forward motion for helmer Herzfeld, it may also prove to be the opposite for many in its cast – and that’s just fine. For...
The film is about a large collection of characters and their respective connections to a self-help book – titled ‘Reach Me’ – written by a reclusive author, played by Tom Berenger. Now, here’s the thing – it would seem that while this film represents the all-important forward motion for helmer Herzfeld, it may also prove to be the opposite for many in its cast – and that’s just fine. For...
- 7/7/2014
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
On Wednesday, The Lone Ranger received multiple Razzie nominations, including the notorious Worst Picture nod. The next day, The Lone Ranger was nominated for an Oscar, for best makeup.
This isn’t the first movie to get nods from both ends of the spectrum. Since the Razzies first began back in 1981, 47 movies have been nominated for both “awards”– some even for the same exact person or song. Here’s a look at the club The Lone Ranger just joined:
The Competition
Oscar nods: Film editing, music (original song) for “People Alone” with music by Lalo Schifrin and lyrics by Wilbur...
This isn’t the first movie to get nods from both ends of the spectrum. Since the Razzies first began back in 1981, 47 movies have been nominated for both “awards”– some even for the same exact person or song. Here’s a look at the club The Lone Ranger just joined:
The Competition
Oscar nods: Film editing, music (original song) for “People Alone” with music by Lalo Schifrin and lyrics by Wilbur...
- 1/16/2014
- by Ariana Bacle
- EW.com - PopWatch
From the press release:
Are you ready for a spine-chilling global avalanche of Indian zombies, Israeli oldboys, vengeance-crazed Vikings, Swedish mesmerists, Irish telekinesis, Argentine undead, Aussie bone-crushers, murderous Mormons and Chilean assassins?
Film4 FrightFest 2013, returning for its 4teenth year, has unveiled its biggest line-up in history. From Thurs 22 August to Monday 26 August, the UK’s leading event for genre fans will be at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square to present 51 films on three screens. Empire 1 will house the main event while the Discovery strands will play in Empires 2 & 4. The new FrightFest Xtra strand, also in Screen 2, will allow fans to catch up with sold-out performances of the most popular attractions.
This year there are eleven countries representing five continents with a record-breaking thirty-three UK or European premieres and ten world premieres.
The world premieres include our opening night attraction The Dead 2: India from the Ford Brothers,...
Are you ready for a spine-chilling global avalanche of Indian zombies, Israeli oldboys, vengeance-crazed Vikings, Swedish mesmerists, Irish telekinesis, Argentine undead, Aussie bone-crushers, murderous Mormons and Chilean assassins?
Film4 FrightFest 2013, returning for its 4teenth year, has unveiled its biggest line-up in history. From Thurs 22 August to Monday 26 August, the UK’s leading event for genre fans will be at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square to present 51 films on three screens. Empire 1 will house the main event while the Discovery strands will play in Empires 2 & 4. The new FrightFest Xtra strand, also in Screen 2, will allow fans to catch up with sold-out performances of the most popular attractions.
This year there are eleven countries representing five continents with a record-breaking thirty-three UK or European premieres and ten world premieres.
The world premieres include our opening night attraction The Dead 2: India from the Ford Brothers,...
- 6/30/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The director has made 'a great, tragic love story', but Fitzgerald himself thought his book was more about delusion and failure
Is The Great Gatsby a love story? The new Baz Luhrmann adaptation is being sold as such. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan and boasting a haunting love theme from Lana Del Ray, the film is a "great, tragic love story with action, passion, drama", said director Baz Luhrmann to the Hollywood Reporter, comparing his the casting of Daisy to the search for Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind. The romance novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford proclaimed the novel to be "the greatest love story ever told". Gatsby can certainly sold that way – but can it be told that way?
Reading on mobile? Watch The Great Gatsby trailer here
For those in need of a refresher, here's a quick recap of the plot: drawn to New York by his...
Is The Great Gatsby a love story? The new Baz Luhrmann adaptation is being sold as such. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan and boasting a haunting love theme from Lana Del Ray, the film is a "great, tragic love story with action, passion, drama", said director Baz Luhrmann to the Hollywood Reporter, comparing his the casting of Daisy to the search for Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind. The romance novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford proclaimed the novel to be "the greatest love story ever told". Gatsby can certainly sold that way – but can it be told that way?
Reading on mobile? Watch The Great Gatsby trailer here
For those in need of a refresher, here's a quick recap of the plot: drawn to New York by his...
- 5/9/2013
- by Tom Shone
- The Guardian - Film News
Sylvester Stallone will star in the indie drama Reach Me. The story tells of people who all have a connection to a self-help book written by a reclusive former football coach and is being helmed and written by John Herzfeld, who starred with Stallone in the classic action crime flick Cobra. Remember that one? The film wherre Stallone walks around with a toothpick, sunglasses and a black chest-bairing shirt while taking out the trash...moving on. Also in the cast of Reach Me are Nelly, Omari Hardwick, Elizabeth Henstridge, Danny Aiello and Rebekah Chaney. Herzfeld's previous directorial credits include working with Robert De Niro in 15 Minutes, helming and scripting Charlize Theron starrer 2 Days in the Valley, and The Death and Life of Bobby Z starring Paul Walker, Olivia Wilde and Laurence Fishburne.
- 11/14/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Sylvester Stallone will star in the indie drama Reach Me. The story tells of people who all have a connection to a self-help book written by a reclusive former football coach and is being helmed and written by John Herzfeld, who starred with Stallone in the classic action crime flick Cobra. Remember that one? The film wherre Stallone walks around with a toothpick, sunglasses and a black chest-bairing shirt while taking out the trash...moving on. Also in the cast of Reach Me are Nelly, Omari Hardwick, Elizabeth Henstridge, Danny Aiello and Rebekah Chaney. Herzfeld's previous directorial credits include working with Robert De Niro in 15 Minutes, helming and scripting Charlize Theron starrer 2 Days in the Valley, and The Death and Life of Bobby Z starring Paul Walker, Olivia Wilde and Laurence Fishburne.
- 11/14/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
September 9, 1923 – September 10, 2011
American actor Cliff Robertson died at the age of 88 on Saturday September 10 from natural causes.
To the younger generation (God…I sound like my Dad!) Cliff Robertson will be best remembered as Uncle Ben in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, also seen in flashback in Spider-Man 2 and 3.
In my childhood, he was a very familiar face in the mid sixties and seventies. Many of the films that he appeared in probably won’t register with most people but he made a big impact with me. Maybe it was Robertson’s calming demeanour and intelligent delivery that made you believe in every character that he played. You also felt that you knew him like some favourite Uncle.
He played Mosquito pilot wing commander Roy Grant in the British war film 633 Squadron (64). At the time I didn’t think that it was at all strange for an American officer to fly with the Raf.
American actor Cliff Robertson died at the age of 88 on Saturday September 10 from natural causes.
To the younger generation (God…I sound like my Dad!) Cliff Robertson will be best remembered as Uncle Ben in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, also seen in flashback in Spider-Man 2 and 3.
In my childhood, he was a very familiar face in the mid sixties and seventies. Many of the films that he appeared in probably won’t register with most people but he made a big impact with me. Maybe it was Robertson’s calming demeanour and intelligent delivery that made you believe in every character that he played. You also felt that you knew him like some favourite Uncle.
He played Mosquito pilot wing commander Roy Grant in the British war film 633 Squadron (64). At the time I didn’t think that it was at all strange for an American officer to fly with the Raf.
- 9/14/2011
- by Mark Foker
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Boys in the Band
Can I make a confession? I didn't want to watch or review Making the Boys, the new documentary about the landmark 1968 play and 1970 film The Boys in the Band that opens in limited release in March.
Yes, yes, I know how important the movie is in gay entertainment history (which is why I put it as number one on my list of the most important gay movies of all time, even as I also put it on another list of my least favorite gay movies).
But it's also probably the most discussed gay movie of all time. As Making the Boys points out, it was hailed upon its first staging, then condemned by gays in the post-Stonewall era, then "rediscovered" in the 1990s. At every point in modern gay history, it's been there in the background, cited as an example of post-Stonewall "truth," or as...
Can I make a confession? I didn't want to watch or review Making the Boys, the new documentary about the landmark 1968 play and 1970 film The Boys in the Band that opens in limited release in March.
Yes, yes, I know how important the movie is in gay entertainment history (which is why I put it as number one on my list of the most important gay movies of all time, even as I also put it on another list of my least favorite gay movies).
But it's also probably the most discussed gay movie of all time. As Making the Boys points out, it was hailed upon its first staging, then condemned by gays in the post-Stonewall era, then "rediscovered" in the 1990s. At every point in modern gay history, it's been there in the background, cited as an example of post-Stonewall "truth," or as...
- 2/22/2011
- by Brent Hartinger
- The Backlot
Remember that quirky kid from Arrested Development? Man, he was awesome in Zombieland. Or, wait, was that the weird kid from The Squid and the Whale? I can’t remember. Then there was that guy from the Facebook movie–what was his name? Same guy? That doesn’t seem right.
Since the release of Zombieland, the Internet has been abuzz about Jesse Eisenberg and Michael Cera. “They’re, like, the same guy, man.” It’s true, the two actors are fairly similar, both physically and professionally. Cera would look like Eisenberg if he grew facial hair. (He can, he’s just contractually obligated not to.) They’ve played similar roles, too: Eisenberg’s lead in Zombieland had many moviegoers questioning, “What would that squirrely kid from Superbad do in a zombie apocalypse?”
Michael Cera seems to be spending his career being typecast as his Arrested Development character. His roles in Superbad,...
Since the release of Zombieland, the Internet has been abuzz about Jesse Eisenberg and Michael Cera. “They’re, like, the same guy, man.” It’s true, the two actors are fairly similar, both physically and professionally. Cera would look like Eisenberg if he grew facial hair. (He can, he’s just contractually obligated not to.) They’ve played similar roles, too: Eisenberg’s lead in Zombieland had many moviegoers questioning, “What would that squirrely kid from Superbad do in a zombie apocalypse?”
Michael Cera seems to be spending his career being typecast as his Arrested Development character. His roles in Superbad,...
- 1/27/2011
- by Austin Wulf
- Movie Cultists
The 2010 Dallas International Film Festival kicked off this past weekend by presenting actress Amber Heard with the first Dallas Shining Star Award on Saturday, April 10, at The Angelika Film Center, and on Friday, April 16th, writer/director Frank Darabont will receive the Dallas Star Award for his many contributions to the film industry over the course of his illustrious career.
Heard's "Shining Star" was created with an eye toward celebrating actors, filmmakers, and film artists who have delivered exceptional performances or works on film in their brief careers as well as exhibiting the potential for greater achievements to come. "We couldn’t have found a better person to receive the inaugural Dallas Shining Star Award," said Dallas Iff Artistic Director James Faust. "Amber has put together an incredible string of films in a few short years and is obviously just getting warmed up. We know that we’ll be able...
Heard's "Shining Star" was created with an eye toward celebrating actors, filmmakers, and film artists who have delivered exceptional performances or works on film in their brief careers as well as exhibiting the potential for greater achievements to come. "We couldn’t have found a better person to receive the inaugural Dallas Shining Star Award," said Dallas Iff Artistic Director James Faust. "Amber has put together an incredible string of films in a few short years and is obviously just getting warmed up. We know that we’ll be able...
- 4/12/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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