On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.
First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.
Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.
The Pitch: Drink (Responsibly) Every Time They Say “Cat”
Like midnight movie canonization, the Cat Distribution System works in mysterious ways. The term, as made popular on TikTok, refers to an informal branch of feline government by which every cat-human connection is ostensibly forged. Whether you met Mittens at your local animal shelter — or found Paul Gia-Meowti in an empty boarding school over Christmas break — the central tenets of the C.D.S. suggest that any time a cat and owner find one another that connection was somehow fated.
Watching a grindhouse...
First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.
Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.
The Pitch: Drink (Responsibly) Every Time They Say “Cat”
Like midnight movie canonization, the Cat Distribution System works in mysterious ways. The term, as made popular on TikTok, refers to an informal branch of feline government by which every cat-human connection is ostensibly forged. Whether you met Mittens at your local animal shelter — or found Paul Gia-Meowti in an empty boarding school over Christmas break — the central tenets of the C.D.S. suggest that any time a cat and owner find one another that connection was somehow fated.
Watching a grindhouse...
- 2/3/2024
- by Alison Foreman and Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Catering directly to my interests, the Criterion Channel’s January lineup boasts two of my favorite things: James Gray and cats. In the former case it’s his first five features (itself a terrible reminder he only released five movies in 20 years); the latter shows felines the respect they deserve, from Kuroneko to The Long Goodbye, Tourneur’s Cat People and Mick Garris’ Sleepwalkers. Meanwhile, Ava Gardner, Bertrand Tavernier, Isabel Sandoval, Ken Russell, Juleen Compton, George Harrison’s HandMade Films, and the Sundance Film Festival get retrospectives.
Restorations of Soviet sci-fi trip Ikarie Xb 1, The Unknown, and The Music of Regret stream, as does the recent Plan 75. January’s Criterion Editions are Inside Llewyn Davis, Farewell Amor, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and (most intriguingly) the long-out-of-print The Man Who Fell to Earth, Blu-rays of which go for hundreds of dollars.
See the lineup below and learn more here.
Back By Popular Demand
The Graduate,...
Restorations of Soviet sci-fi trip Ikarie Xb 1, The Unknown, and The Music of Regret stream, as does the recent Plan 75. January’s Criterion Editions are Inside Llewyn Davis, Farewell Amor, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and (most intriguingly) the long-out-of-print The Man Who Fell to Earth, Blu-rays of which go for hundreds of dollars.
See the lineup below and learn more here.
Back By Popular Demand
The Graduate,...
- 12/12/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Christine Quinn left The Oppenheim Group ahead of Selling Sunset Season 6. Now, the Netflix reality star and luxury real estate agent reportedly lives and works in Paris, France. Here’s what we know about Quinn’s exit from The O Group to pursue other project, her decision to leave the Netflix series, and her exit from the country.
Christine Quinn in Paris, France | Jeremy Moeller/Getty Images Christine Quinn started a brokerage in April 2022
“We work with buyers, sellers, and agents,” Quinn tweeted on April 23, 2022. “Don’t get left behind…”
We work with buyers, sellers, and agents.
Don’t get left behind… ? https://t.co/yYn0MuhESc
— Christine Quinn (@XtineQuinn) April 23, 2022
Quinn isn’t in much of Selling Sunset Season 5. In addition to the drama between her and The O Group’s employees, Quinn was working on a business of her own — RealOpen.
According to the RealOpen site, “RealOpen is...
Christine Quinn in Paris, France | Jeremy Moeller/Getty Images Christine Quinn started a brokerage in April 2022
“We work with buyers, sellers, and agents,” Quinn tweeted on April 23, 2022. “Don’t get left behind…”
We work with buyers, sellers, and agents.
Don’t get left behind… ? https://t.co/yYn0MuhESc
— Christine Quinn (@XtineQuinn) April 23, 2022
Quinn isn’t in much of Selling Sunset Season 5. In addition to the drama between her and The O Group’s employees, Quinn was working on a business of her own — RealOpen.
According to the RealOpen site, “RealOpen is...
- 3/6/2023
- by Lauren Anderson
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
There is a difference between a famous actor and a "movie star." Actors study their craft, hone their skills in imitating human emotions, and endeavor to inhabit their roles as effectively and convincingly as possible. Movie stars — while they may be good actors — are noted more for an attractive, dazzling "it" quality. Acting is about the art. Being a movie star is about personality. A great actor may languish on the second tier, while a bad actor may become the most recognizable, bankable performer on the planet.
This dichotomy has brought a great deal of frustration to certain celebrities. When approached by journalists, a celebrity may find themselves having to answer questions about a world they are not privy to. An actor doesn't necessarily know what levels of pop awareness the journalist is carrying when entering the room. They are not involved in deep-cut fandom or online conversations about the nature of their character.
This dichotomy has brought a great deal of frustration to certain celebrities. When approached by journalists, a celebrity may find themselves having to answer questions about a world they are not privy to. An actor doesn't necessarily know what levels of pop awareness the journalist is carrying when entering the room. They are not involved in deep-cut fandom or online conversations about the nature of their character.
- 9/20/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Disney opens ‘Spies In Disguise’ as ‘Star Wars’, ‘Cats’ roll on.
This weekend sees the latest version of Louisa May Alcott’s classic 19th-century novel Little Women hit UK cinemas through Sony, looking to capitalise on the seasonal setting of the story.
Adapted and directed by Greta Gerwig, the film stars Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Eliza Scanlen and Screen Star of Tomorrow 2016 Florence Pugh as the four March sisters, each navigating life and exploring themselves in Massachusetts.
The supporting cast includes Laura Dern, Timothée Chalamet, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, Louis Garrel, Chris Cooper, and Screen Star of Tomorrow 2013 James Norton.
This weekend sees the latest version of Louisa May Alcott’s classic 19th-century novel Little Women hit UK cinemas through Sony, looking to capitalise on the seasonal setting of the story.
Adapted and directed by Greta Gerwig, the film stars Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Eliza Scanlen and Screen Star of Tomorrow 2016 Florence Pugh as the four March sisters, each navigating life and exploring themselves in Massachusetts.
The supporting cast includes Laura Dern, Timothée Chalamet, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, Louis Garrel, Chris Cooper, and Screen Star of Tomorrow 2013 James Norton.
- 12/27/2019
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Here’s a confession: I’m not really a cat guy. I have nothing against the critters, and I do get why a lot of people love them; loyalty, beauty, etc. I’m just a dog person. I’m assuming the lead character of Eye of the Cat (1969) is too, because he has one lulu of a cat phobia in this sly and amusing thriller.
Ailurophobia is the exact term for an extreme fear of cats, and I won’t use the word again because it’s a bitch to spell and I ain’t no fancy lad neither. Eye of the Cat was released in June by Universal with the tagline “Terror that tears the screams right out of your throat!” This would not be true unless you also suffer from a debilitating fear of felines; but what you do get is a solid little mystery with a lot of twists,...
Ailurophobia is the exact term for an extreme fear of cats, and I won’t use the word again because it’s a bitch to spell and I ain’t no fancy lad neither. Eye of the Cat was released in June by Universal with the tagline “Terror that tears the screams right out of your throat!” This would not be true unless you also suffer from a debilitating fear of felines; but what you do get is a solid little mystery with a lot of twists,...
- 8/11/2018
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
A former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver is speaking out following his release from the team after he was wrongly accused of shoplifting — after the actual suspect allegedly stole his identity.
Even before being cleared of any wrongdoing in the Virginia case, Lucky Whitehead worked to convince Dallas Cowboys management that he wasn’t the man who stole from a Wawa convenience store on June 22. He claims the team didn’t believe him.
“Let’s not sugarcoat anything,” Whitehead told the Dallas Morning News. “I was pretty much being called a liar.”
The statements come just days after authorities in Prince William County,...
Even before being cleared of any wrongdoing in the Virginia case, Lucky Whitehead worked to convince Dallas Cowboys management that he wasn’t the man who stole from a Wawa convenience store on June 22. He claims the team didn’t believe him.
“Let’s not sugarcoat anything,” Whitehead told the Dallas Morning News. “I was pretty much being called a liar.”
The statements come just days after authorities in Prince William County,...
- 7/26/2017
- by Char Adams
- PEOPLE.com
Theodore Bikel. Theodore Bikel dead at 91: Oscar-nominated actor and folk singer best known for stage musicals 'The Sound of Music,' 'Fiddler on the Roof' Folk singer, social and union activist, and stage, film, and television actor Theodore Bikel, best remembered for starring in the Broadway musical The Sound of Music and, throughout the U.S., in Fiddler on the Roof, died Monday morning (July 20, '15) of "natural causes" at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. The Austrian-born Bikel – as Theodore Meir Bikel on May 2, 1924, in Vienna, to Yiddish-speaking Eastern European parents – was 91. Fled Hitler Thanks to his well-connected Zionist father, six months after the German annexation of Austria in March 1938 ("they were greeted with jubilation by the local populace," he would recall in 2012), the 14-year-old Bikel and his family fled to Palestine, at the time a British protectorate. While there, the teenager began acting on stage,...
- 7/23/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
James Farentino, best remembered for his roles in the television series The Bold Ones: The Lawyers and Dynasty, died of heart failure earlier today at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 73. A Brooklyn native (born on Feb. 24, 1938), Farentino made his Broadway debut in the 1961 production of Tennessee Williams' Night of the Iguana, starring Bette Davis, Margaret Leighton, and Patrick O'Neal. The following year, he began guesting on various television series, among them The Defenders, Route 66, and 77 Sunset Strip. Despite a Golden Globe as Most Promising Newcomer – Male for Brian G. Hutton's 1967 comedy The Pad and How to Use It, Farentino's film career was a minor one. He did, however, play one of the leads in a more important comedy that same year, David Lowell Rich's Rosie!, based on a play co-written by Ruth Gordon, and starring Rosalind Russell, Sandra Dee, and Brian Aherne. Additionally,...
- 1/25/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The Film Society of Lincoln Center will again be offering its popular Scary Movies Film Series. And it’s not just any scary movies they’ll be showing. They’ve got classics, and they’ve got New York City premieres. They’ve even got Stuart Gordon’s live theater presentation of Nevermore starring Jeffrey Combs accompanying the screening of The Black Cat.
All right New Yorkers, check this out ... from October 27 to 31 Lincoln Center will present an ass-load of horror. Unfortunately, brevity is not one of their strong points so I’m going to sign off here and turn it over to the good folks of Lincoln Center to give you all the film titles and schedule. With NYC premieres of Ben Wheatley’s Kill List and Ti West’s The Innkeepers, along with a ton of other great titles, this is the film festival you don’t want to miss.
All right New Yorkers, check this out ... from October 27 to 31 Lincoln Center will present an ass-load of horror. Unfortunately, brevity is not one of their strong points so I’m going to sign off here and turn it over to the good folks of Lincoln Center to give you all the film titles and schedule. With NYC premieres of Ben Wheatley’s Kill List and Ti West’s The Innkeepers, along with a ton of other great titles, this is the film festival you don’t want to miss.
- 10/5/2011
- by Doctor Gash
- DreadCentral.com
In 1970, one movie invented the modern disaster film. After grossing more than $100 million at the domestic box office (adjusted for inflation, it made more than any of the "Lord of the Rings"), it spawned three sequels that stretched through the entire decade. But this landmark series is now almost totally forgotten, long eclipsed by the film that so brilliantly spoofed the genre tropes it helped define. In honor of its 40th anniversary, we're looking back at the "Airport" franchise this week, one film at a time. Today, "The Concorde... Airport '79," the rare movie with an ellipsis in the title.
The Concorde... Airport '79
Directed by David Lowell Rich
Nature of Air Emergency: A journalist (Susan Blakely) boards Federation World Airlines' new Concorde plane with documents implicating weapons manufacturer Kevin Harrison (Robert Wagner) in illegal arms deals with America's enemies. He tries to shoot down the Concorde and fails.
The Concorde... Airport '79
Directed by David Lowell Rich
Nature of Air Emergency: A journalist (Susan Blakely) boards Federation World Airlines' new Concorde plane with documents implicating weapons manufacturer Kevin Harrison (Robert Wagner) in illegal arms deals with America's enemies. He tries to shoot down the Concorde and fails.
- 11/11/2010
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
Wardour Pictures have been in touch to give us the first look at the new poster from their latest movie, The Hot Potato. As well as the first image, they’ve also given us a heads up of the cast in the new movie.
The cast will include Ray Winstone, Colm Meaney, Jack Huston,David Harewood, John lynch, Phil Davis, Derren Nesbitt, Lois Winstone, Maike Billitis, Jean-Louis Sbille and as far as I’m aware, her first movie for Louise Redknapp. It’s directed by Tim Lewiston and is due for release in 2011.
I placed the fill press release below the poster.
Casting is now announced on a new British comedy crime caper
Ray Winstone, Colm Meaney, Jack Huston,
David Harewood, John lynch, Phil Davis, Derren Nesbitt, Lois Winstone, Maike Billitis, Jean-Louis Sbille and
Louise Redknapp star in
‘The Hot Potato’
Filming on location in Belgium and the...
The cast will include Ray Winstone, Colm Meaney, Jack Huston,David Harewood, John lynch, Phil Davis, Derren Nesbitt, Lois Winstone, Maike Billitis, Jean-Louis Sbille and as far as I’m aware, her first movie for Louise Redknapp. It’s directed by Tim Lewiston and is due for release in 2011.
I placed the fill press release below the poster.
Casting is now announced on a new British comedy crime caper
Ray Winstone, Colm Meaney, Jack Huston,
David Harewood, John lynch, Phil Davis, Derren Nesbitt, Lois Winstone, Maike Billitis, Jean-Louis Sbille and
Louise Redknapp star in
‘The Hot Potato’
Filming on location in Belgium and the...
- 10/24/2010
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
There is a point in Satan”S School For Girls (David Lowell Rich, 1973) that you realize how thankful we should all be for hidden gems, films that by all accounts should be bad, but thankfully are not. This is one of those films; at once an atmospheric mystery-thriller and a relic of the days of drive-in horror. Although misplaced boom mikes slip into shots, and footsteps running down a flight of stairs sound like they came directly from the coconut clappers in Monty Python, and dialogue echoes in empty rooms, the film still manages to capture a mood of growing terror and hysteria, balancing tension against predictability.
Posing as a student to investigate her sister’s supposed suicide, Elizabeth Sayers (Pamela Franklin) infiltrates the Salem Institute (naturally…Satan…witches…Salem…subtle) only to find a school under the influence of, well, Satan. On her way she befriended by a group of girls,...
Posing as a student to investigate her sister’s supposed suicide, Elizabeth Sayers (Pamela Franklin) infiltrates the Salem Institute (naturally…Satan…witches…Salem…subtle) only to find a school under the influence of, well, Satan. On her way she befriended by a group of girls,...
- 1/6/2010
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Alicia Kozma)
- Fangoria
2009 Torino Glbt Film Festival: Filmmaker Ferzan Ozpetek (above, with festival director Giovanni Minerba) presents "the films of his life." Ozpetek’s quotes below are from the festival’s press release. "I couldn’t have been happier when Giovanni Minerba made this proposition to me. I wanted to start out with a series of ‘Madames,’ ranging from the splendid Madame X, by David Lowell Rich, with Lana Turner, to Madame Rosa, [starring] Simone Signoret, and then on to Madame Sousatzka by John Schlesinger, with the intriguing Shirley MacLaine, and finishing off with Madame de… directed by Max Ophüls, in 1953. "Unfortunately there were problems in getting the films, so the only remaining ‘madame’ belongs to Ophüls himself, a film which had literally enraptured me [because of] its camera movement! There is another ‘mama’ that I dearly loved as a child: Auntie Mame by Morton Da Costa [made in] 1958. [...]...
- 4/26/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
DVD Playhouse—March 2009
By
Allen Gardner
Let The Right One In (Magnolia) An awkward 12 year-old boy, ignored by his mother and the target of bullies, finds himself drawn to his new neighbor: a girl his own age who only appears at night, and seems herself to be as lonely an outcast as he. Haunting film from Sweden is best described as The 400 Blows meets Nosferatu, and contains some of the most haunting imagery of any film in recent memory. Truly a unique and memorable work. Bonuses: Deleted scenes; Featurette; Photo and poster gallery. Widescreen. Dolby 5.1 surround.
Paramount Centennial Collection Paramount offers two more classic titles, restored, remastered and loaded with extras. Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch A Thief stars Cary Grant as a retired jewel thief trying to enjoy his sunset years on the French Riviera with a minimum of drama, until he catches the eye of a high-maintenance heiress (Grace Kelly,...
By
Allen Gardner
Let The Right One In (Magnolia) An awkward 12 year-old boy, ignored by his mother and the target of bullies, finds himself drawn to his new neighbor: a girl his own age who only appears at night, and seems herself to be as lonely an outcast as he. Haunting film from Sweden is best described as The 400 Blows meets Nosferatu, and contains some of the most haunting imagery of any film in recent memory. Truly a unique and memorable work. Bonuses: Deleted scenes; Featurette; Photo and poster gallery. Widescreen. Dolby 5.1 surround.
Paramount Centennial Collection Paramount offers two more classic titles, restored, remastered and loaded with extras. Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch A Thief stars Cary Grant as a retired jewel thief trying to enjoy his sunset years on the French Riviera with a minimum of drama, until he catches the eye of a high-maintenance heiress (Grace Kelly,...
- 3/11/2009
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
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