Category: Movies
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Roger Corman on DVD
Roger Corman — often referred to as the “King of the B Movie” — is something of a Hollywood legend, famous for making low-budget cult horror films like Piranha and Little Shop of Horrors. But Corman has also mentored many now-famous directors — including Martin Scorsese, James Cameron and Ron Howard — and employed many…
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Review of Rewind
This is a review of the movie Rewind which I edited. The review was part of the Irish Times round-up of the Galway Film Fleadh by Donald Clarke “Do you fancy yet more sinister goings on in further windswept, leafless country roads? If so, you might wish to seek out PJ Dillon’s fine debut as…
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Shia LeBeouf
All of a sudden I don’t hate this guy as much Shia LaBeouf is no Indiana Jones. He said so himself in an interview with the Los Angeles Times at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday. “I feel like I dropped the ball on the legacy that people loved and cherished,” he said, referring to…
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Woody Allen on Death…Again
From Studiobriefing.net Woody Allen, generally regarded as the quintessential New York movie director, told a news conference at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday why he now prefers to make his movies in London. “The films I do in London, I could make in New York,” he said. “It’s just less expensive to do them…
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Restoring Metropolis
I was in Berlin recently and visited the German Museum of Film and Television, which apart from being in a truly wonderful space was full of really interesting exhibits. While we were there they had dedicated a floor to an exhibition on Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis‘. An astonishing achievement for its time, the film still has…
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A Rebuilding Phase for Independent Film
An article from today’s NY Times Only five years ago, the center of the still thriving independent film universe lay behind the green doors of a converted TriBeCa warehouse from which the Weinstein brothers, Bob and Harvey, ran Miramax Films. With their possible deal — negotiations continued through last week — to join investors in…
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Danny Huston on his Father
Danny Huston is one of my favourite actors, he is simply superb in everything I’ve seen him in, especially ‘Ivans XTC’. Here he talks about some advice his father, the great John Huston, gave him as a young man about directing “When I was a kid, I had this Super-8 camera, and I was avidly…
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Dede Allen Obituary
FROM THE LA TIMES Dede Allen dies at 86; editor revolutionized imagery, sound and pace in U.S. films Her work on 1967’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ ushered in a new aesthetic that’s now the standard in American film. She earned Oscar nominations for ‘Dog Day Afternoon,’ ‘Reds’ and ‘Wonder Boys.’ Dede Allen | 1923 – 2010…
John Murphy 