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Brooklyn Rail. May 08.

post from GreenCine Daily on 11 May 2008 01:18:00 PM. © GreenCine Daily

The Flight of the Red Balloon has Ara Osterweil revisiting Hou Hsiao-hsien's oeuvre in the new issue of the Brooklyn Rail: "[A]s anyone who has watched Hou's films knows, history ain't like pornography: you don't always know it when...

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Triloquist DVD artwork and details

post from Toxic Shock TV - Movie News, Reviews, Celebrity Interviews, Video Game Trailers, Music Videos on 11 May 2008 12:46:33 PM. © Toxic Shock TV - Movie News, Reviews, Celebrity Interviews, Video Game Trailers, Music Videos

Take a look at the official DVD artwork and release details for the upcoming horror film “Triloquist” from Dimension Extreme.Street Date: July 1, 2008Actors: Rocky Marquette, Paydin LoPachin, Katie ChonacasDirector: Mark JonesWriter: Mark JonesProducer: Michael Levine, Marlon Parry, Jack Edward SawyersGenre: Comedy, HorrorPRODUCT INFO:Runtime: 81Languages: EnglishScreen Format: WSAudio: Dolby 5.1US Rating: R

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The Sniper (Edward Dmytryk, 1952)

post from davekehr.com on 11 May 2008 12:16:00 PM. © davekehr.com

Alfred Hitchcock was a voracious filmgoer, and like many great artists, a bit of a magpie. Consciously or unconsciously, he would file away shots and sequences that impressed him, and years later some of them would re-emerge, reshaped by Hitchcock?s genius and fully integrated into his personal universe.
As ?Vertigo? turns 50 this weekend, I?m reminded of Edward Dmytryk?s 1952 ?The Sniper,? a Stanley Kramer production for Columbia that recently resurfaced on TCM after years of unavailability. (It?s missing, alas, from Sony?s recent Kramer box set, where it would have been overwhelmingly the best film in the collection.)
Based on a story by Edna and Edward Anhalt, ?The Sniper? is one of the earliest films to conform fully to the serial killer formula as we know it today. Much of the film is told from the point of view of the sympathetic anti-hero, Eddie Miller (Arthur Franz), a young, mentally disturbed veteran of World War II who has taken to the streets of San Francisco with a high powered rifle he uses to pick off women. Harry Brown?s screenplay contains what is very likely one of the first uses of the quintessential line in serial killer movies, when a bystander remarks, ?There?s a maniac loose in San Francisco and the police are powerless to stop him!?
Because San Francisco it is: again, ?The Sniper? is very likely one of the first films ? using the new, more mobile equipment that emerged in the late 40s ? to take full advantage as San Francisco as a location, transforming the city?s famously vertiginous geography into a metaphor for its protagonist?s unstable mental state. Using the extreme foreground/background tension that is his stylistic hallmark, Dmytryk plays huge close-ups of Franz against the open chasms of the city, very much as Hitchcock would do ? though in less tense, more lyrical manner ? six years later. There is even a rooftop chase sequence, when a group of cops converges on a teenager they mistakenly believe to be the killer, that directly suggests the opening sequence in ?Vertigo? ? the chase that leads to Scottie?s fall.
If Hitchcock mined ?The Sniper? for ?Vertigo,? he seems also to have remembered it in constructing ?Psycho.? Franz ?s character is portrayed as a strangely asexual loner with a profound mother complex (there is even a fatuous police psychiatrist, played by Richard Kiley, around to ?explain? his compulsion, just like Simon Oakland in ?Psycho?). Just like Norman Bates, Eddie is driven to kill as a substitute for sexual fulfillment; he is alternately shyly protective around women (the Janet Leigh figure here is a nightclub pianist played by Marie Windsor) and violently contemptuous, a transformation triggered the instant a woman reveals a hint of sexual desire. Like ?Psycho,? ?The Sniper? ends with the camera closing in on an astonishing close-up of the killer, though in place of the death?s head grin that Hitchcock would give Norman Bates, Franz?s Eddie releases a single glycerin tear as he looks up at the police detective (a rumpled Adolphe Menjou) who has finally, providentially captured him.
And the detective?s name (no kidding): Lt. Frank Kafka.

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STILLS: Night of the Living Dead 40th Anniversary
Edition movie stills

post from Toxic Shock TV - Movie News, Reviews, Celebrity Interviews, Video Game Trailers, Music Videos on 11 May 2008 12:00:31 PM. © Toxic Shock TV - Movie News, Reviews, Celebrity Interviews, Video Game Trailers, Music Videos

Check out some movie stills from the upcoming release “Night of the Living Dead: 40th Anniversary Edition” by director George Romero.Synopsis: Chaos descends upon the world as the brains of the recently deceased become inexplicably reanimated, causing the dead to rise and feed on human flesh.

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Happy (Hollywood) Mothers Day!

post from Film Experience Blog on 11 May 2008 11:51:00 AM. © Film Experience Blog

First SJP wanted to be a gay icon (see old post: A History of ...Sarah Jessica Parker) and now she wants to be "America's Most Fabulous Mom" Basically she's planning to cover all female archetypal roles before she dies. She's already done plucky child star (Annie), brainy nerd girl (Square Pegs), longsuffering girlfriend (The Robert Downey Jr years), blonde ditz (LA Story), trophy girlfriend (First Wives Club), gay icon/fashion muse/sex symbol/career girl (Sex & The City) so why not? But she has a lot of competition for this latest title.

Though I often express dismay at my favorite actresses ditching their careers for diaper changing (especially in the cases where they just disappear), I do find the subject of Hollywood moms fascinating. If you take press and media at face value ALL OF THEM... every last celebrity who has given birth or adopted is a passionately devoted and caring hands-on mother. I'm talking about the actual stars, mind you, not the stage moms who gain fame from the fruits of their womb. The latter variety are invariably painted as monsters. They're all Rose from Gypsy, only without the sympathy gaining classic curtain calls of their own.

Once famous folks have passed on, the truth (or new perceptions) will out. Superstar mothers and stage mothers alike undoubtedly land on all gradations of the curve between fabulous nurturing role model and abusive and neglectful parent. You know that a few of them have to be Ingrid Bergmans (well liked by their children but by all accounts often not present) and there's probably modern Joan Crawfords (straight up psycho/evil if you believe the infamous tell-alls some star legends become burdened with) too

But today on this special day (have you called your mother yet?) we should believe that they're all saints. Every single one of them is the super do-it-all woman we want her to be. Here are a few of my favorite actresses with their broods as well as some other happy celebrity moms & kids. A happy day to all of them... and any moms reading this, too!

Now, call your mother!

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POSTER: Donnie Darko 2 movie poster

post from Toxic Shock TV - Movie News, Reviews, Celebrity Interviews, Video Game Trailers, Music Videos on 11 May 2008 11:47:19 AM. © Toxic Shock TV - Movie News, Reviews, Celebrity Interviews, Video Game Trailers, Music Videos

Check out the official teaser poster for the upcoming sequel to Richard Kelly’s “Donnie Darko”. The sequel stars Daveigh Chase, Briana Evigan and Ed Westwick.Synopsis: This next chapter of the Darko saga picks up with Samantha, Donnie?s younger sister, who, in the wake of his death, has found herself at 17 with [...]

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TRAILER: Speed Racer video game trailer 2

post from Toxic Shock TV - Movie News, Reviews, Celebrity Interviews, Video Game Trailers, Music Videos on 11 May 2008 11:39:52 AM. © Toxic Shock TV - Movie News, Reviews, Celebrity Interviews, Video Game Trailers, Music Videos

Take a look at the latest trailer for the upcoming video game “Speed Racer” for the Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS and Playstation 2.Description: A unique racing game experience developed for the Wii in part by the movie directing duo, the Wachowski brothers. The game is designed as a game that players can build their own [...]

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TRAILER: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the
Crystal Skull movie trailer 3

post from Toxic Shock TV - Movie News, Reviews, Celebrity Interviews, Video Game Trailers, Music Videos on 11 May 2008 11:35:21 AM. © Toxic Shock TV - Movie News, Reviews, Celebrity Interviews, Video Game Trailers, Music Videos

Watch a brand new movie trailer from the upcoming action film “Indiana Jones 4″ by director Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf, Cate Blanchett and John Hurt.

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POSTER: Plague Town movie poster

post from Toxic Shock TV - Movie News, Reviews, Celebrity Interviews, Video Game Trailers, Music Videos on 11 May 2008 11:29:58 AM. © Toxic Shock TV - Movie News, Reviews, Celebrity Interviews, Video Game Trailers, Music Videos

Check out the latest movie poster for the upcoming horror film “Plague Town” by director David Gregory and starring Josslyn DeCrosta, Erica Rhodes and David Lombard.Plot: An American family visiting their Irish roots accidentally stumbles on a horde of bloodthirsty mutant children.

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Fests and events, 5/11.

"London's second Fashion in Film Festival kicks off, with the theme 'If Looks Could Kill: Cinema's Images of Fashion, Crime and Violence.' To mark the event, we asked four top designers to choose the films whose fashions have inspired...

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