The German legend of The Pied Piper of Hamelin is the basis of two recent horror productions. The first of these “twin films” to receive a wide release is Erlingur Thoroddsen’s take, which shares the same title as Anthony Waller’s adaptation. And although both reimaginings feature demonic updates of that famous ratcatcher, only Thoroddsen’s story appears to underscore the musical component.
The Piper finds Charlotte Hope’s (The Nun) character Mel trapped in a familiar situation: her aspirations come at a great cost, and the consequences will be harmful. Here the young composer wants a future in her orchestra ensemble as well as the means to take care of her deaf daughter (Aoibhe O’Flanagan). Stealing a concerto from the estate of her recently departed mentor (Louise Gold) seems like the only option, but once the protagonist goes through with the plan, Mel’s conductor (Julian Sands) then...
The Piper finds Charlotte Hope’s (The Nun) character Mel trapped in a familiar situation: her aspirations come at a great cost, and the consequences will be harmful. Here the young composer wants a future in her orchestra ensemble as well as the means to take care of her deaf daughter (Aoibhe O’Flanagan). Stealing a concerto from the estate of her recently departed mentor (Louise Gold) seems like the only option, but once the protagonist goes through with the plan, Mel’s conductor (Julian Sands) then...
- 3/8/2024
- by Paul Lê
- bloody-disgusting.com
The United States had been at war a little over a year when the 15th Academy Awards were presented on March 4, 1943. It was the last year that the awards were celebrated at a lavish banquet; they would be moved to a theater setting in the ensuing years. The impact of World War II can be seen in the films honored, as well as the ceremony itself.
Popular musical star Jeannette MacDonald sang the National Anthem, and newly enlisted military privates Tyrone Power and Alan Ladd unfurled a flag that listed over 25,000 film industry members who had joined the armed forces. Bob Hope hosted the event, which saw one big winner, numerous patriotic choices and the first win for one of the industry’s biggest record-makers. Let’s flashback 80 years to the Oscars ceremony of 1943.
SEEOscar hosts: Performers who have hosted the Academy Awards
Ten movies made the cut for a Best Picture nomination.
Popular musical star Jeannette MacDonald sang the National Anthem, and newly enlisted military privates Tyrone Power and Alan Ladd unfurled a flag that listed over 25,000 film industry members who had joined the armed forces. Bob Hope hosted the event, which saw one big winner, numerous patriotic choices and the first win for one of the industry’s biggest record-makers. Let’s flashback 80 years to the Oscars ceremony of 1943.
SEEOscar hosts: Performers who have hosted the Academy Awards
Ten movies made the cut for a Best Picture nomination.
- 2/6/2023
- by Susan Pennington
- Gold Derby
Hello, everyone! We have a brand new assortment of horror and sci-fi headed home this week, and there are plenty of offerings that should undoubtedly make for great additions to your Halloween season viewing plans. Universal is showing some love to a trio of classics, as it is set to release John Carpenter’s The Thing as well as Rear Window and Vertigo from Alfred Hitchcock all on 4K Ultra HD today. Kino Lorber has put together new Blu-ray presentations for both The Tomb of Ligeia and Theatre of Blood, and if you’re looking to catch up with some newer horror, both Great White and Slaxx arrive today courtesy of Rlje Films.
Other Blu-ray and DVD releases for September 7th include Lawnmower Man 2: Jobe’s War, Hellbox, Witches of Blackwood, Skinwalker, and War of the God Monsters.
Great White
A blissful tourist trip turns into a nightmare for five...
Other Blu-ray and DVD releases for September 7th include Lawnmower Man 2: Jobe’s War, Hellbox, Witches of Blackwood, Skinwalker, and War of the God Monsters.
Great White
A blissful tourist trip turns into a nightmare for five...
- 9/7/2021
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Fear No Evil / Ritual of Evil
Blu ray
Kino Lorber
1969, 1970 / 196 Min. / 1:33.1
Starring Louis Jourdan, Wilfred Hyde-White, Bradford Dillman
Cinematography by Andrew J. McIntyre, Lionel Lindon
Directed by Paul Wendkos, Robert Day
Just as she hops into bed with Charles Aznavour in Shoot the Piano Player, Michèle Mercier exclaims, “Television is a cinema that you can see at home.” Et voilà—from Michèle’s lips to Studio City’s ear, Hollywood responded with a new kind of home entertainment, movies made exclusively for TV. The first examples of this awkward hybrid began to appear in the mid-sixties, but it wasn’t the first time the small-screen tried to expand its horizons; CBS beat movie studios to the punch with Playhouse 90‘s original productions of The Miracle Worker in 1957 and Judgment at Nuremberg in 1959. And there was the occasional holiday treat like NBC’s The Pied Piper of Hamelin starring Van Johnson...
Blu ray
Kino Lorber
1969, 1970 / 196 Min. / 1:33.1
Starring Louis Jourdan, Wilfred Hyde-White, Bradford Dillman
Cinematography by Andrew J. McIntyre, Lionel Lindon
Directed by Paul Wendkos, Robert Day
Just as she hops into bed with Charles Aznavour in Shoot the Piano Player, Michèle Mercier exclaims, “Television is a cinema that you can see at home.” Et voilà—from Michèle’s lips to Studio City’s ear, Hollywood responded with a new kind of home entertainment, movies made exclusively for TV. The first examples of this awkward hybrid began to appear in the mid-sixties, but it wasn’t the first time the small-screen tried to expand its horizons; CBS beat movie studios to the punch with Playhouse 90‘s original productions of The Miracle Worker in 1957 and Judgment at Nuremberg in 1959. And there was the occasional holiday treat like NBC’s The Pied Piper of Hamelin starring Van Johnson...
- 12/8/2020
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
In his latest podcast/interview, host and screenwriter Stuart Wright talks to film composer Sacha Puttnam about his new music project which is out now: Spirit of Cinema: Sacha Puttnam with the Classic Film Orchestra.
Tracklisting: Love’s Theme
Original score by Giorgio Moroder for Midnight Express, 1978. Best Original score at the Oscars, 1979 First of May
Music by The Bee Gees for the film Melody, 1971 Chariots of Fire
Original score by Vangelis for the film Chariots of Fire, 1981. Best original score at The Oscars, 1982 Sailing Homeward
Music by Donovan for the film The Pied Piper, 1972 Gabriel’s Theme
Original score by Ennio Morricone for The Mission, 1986. Best Original Score at The Golden Globes and Best Music at The Baftas, 1986 Theme From Midnight Express (Istanbul)
Original score by Giorgio Moroder for Midnight Express, 1978. Best Original score at the Oscars, 1979 War of the Buttons Suite
Original score By Rachel Portman, from the film War of the Buttons,...
Tracklisting: Love’s Theme
Original score by Giorgio Moroder for Midnight Express, 1978. Best Original score at the Oscars, 1979 First of May
Music by The Bee Gees for the film Melody, 1971 Chariots of Fire
Original score by Vangelis for the film Chariots of Fire, 1981. Best original score at The Oscars, 1982 Sailing Homeward
Music by Donovan for the film The Pied Piper, 1972 Gabriel’s Theme
Original score by Ennio Morricone for The Mission, 1986. Best Original Score at The Golden Globes and Best Music at The Baftas, 1986 Theme From Midnight Express (Istanbul)
Original score by Giorgio Moroder for Midnight Express, 1978. Best Original score at the Oscars, 1979 War of the Buttons Suite
Original score By Rachel Portman, from the film War of the Buttons,...
- 11/24/2020
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
Scott Jeffrey's Don't Speak will debut on DVD and digital platforms on March 10th, and we have a look at the film's trailer. Also in today's Horror Highlights: details on Jennifer Nicole Stang's short film The Whistler coming to Shudder and a Q&a with Chad Rehmann, the composer of Shout! Studios' new horror film Camp Cold Brook.
Don't Speak Trailer: "It wasn't supposed to escape.
This March, writer-director Scott Jeffrey sets the creature free.
Terror abounds in Don’t Speak, premiering on DVD and Digital this March 10.
Upon arriving at their grandparents' farm, a family soon realizes the entire town has been taken out by an unknown monster. And soon, they become their prey.
Stephanie Lodge, Ryan Davies, and Jake Watkins star in Don’t Speak – on DVD and Digital March 10 from Uncork'd Entertainment."
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The Whistler Coming to Shudder: Press Release: "(Vancouver, BC-January 25th, 2020) - The Whistler,...
Don't Speak Trailer: "It wasn't supposed to escape.
This March, writer-director Scott Jeffrey sets the creature free.
Terror abounds in Don’t Speak, premiering on DVD and Digital this March 10.
Upon arriving at their grandparents' farm, a family soon realizes the entire town has been taken out by an unknown monster. And soon, they become their prey.
Stephanie Lodge, Ryan Davies, and Jake Watkins star in Don’t Speak – on DVD and Digital March 10 from Uncork'd Entertainment."
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The Whistler Coming to Shudder: Press Release: "(Vancouver, BC-January 25th, 2020) - The Whistler,...
- 2/4/2020
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
A forgotten oddity from the early 1970s is Jacques Demy’s English language mounting of The Pied Piper, a rather bleak but mostly unequivocal version of the famed Grimm Bros.
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- 5/3/2017
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Taking a look at the French director’s fascinating filmography.
One of the biggest films of 2016, La La Land, owes a thing or two to French director Jacques Demy. The bright, colorful musical visually mirrors Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), and director Damien Chazelle was able to capture something of the melancholic sweetness of Demy’s musicals. Demy is not one of the most famous French directors, however his films have a specific charm and intelligence that no other filmmaker could match. The way he blended Hollywood style with French culture was unlike any other filmmaker at the time.
Demy began his career in 1960s France, during the time of the “Nouvelle Vague” or French New Wave. This was the time of films such as Breathless, Jules and Jim, The 400 Blows, and Le Beau Serge. However, Demy lies a little bit outside of this group of filmmakers, and...
One of the biggest films of 2016, La La Land, owes a thing or two to French director Jacques Demy. The bright, colorful musical visually mirrors Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), and director Damien Chazelle was able to capture something of the melancholic sweetness of Demy’s musicals. Demy is not one of the most famous French directors, however his films have a specific charm and intelligence that no other filmmaker could match. The way he blended Hollywood style with French culture was unlike any other filmmaker at the time.
Demy began his career in 1960s France, during the time of the “Nouvelle Vague” or French New Wave. This was the time of films such as Breathless, Jules and Jim, The 400 Blows, and Le Beau Serge. However, Demy lies a little bit outside of this group of filmmakers, and...
- 3/20/2017
- by Angela Morrison
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Actor Peter Vaughan, best known for his performances as Maester Aemon on “Game of Thrones” and Harry “Grouty” Grout on the BBC sitcom “Porridge,” has died at the age of 93. According to his agent Sally Long-Innes, Vaughan passed away “at approximately 10:30 this morning” and “died peacefully with his family around him.”
Read More: Review: ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 5 Episode 7 ‘The Gift’ Doesn’t Bounce Back From Last Week’s Trauma
The actor began his career at the Wolverhampton Repertory theater company before joining the army during World War II where he served as an officer in Normandy, Belgium and then later, the Far East. After the war, he returned to the stage where he played a bevy of roles for many years.
His first film performance was in Ralph Thomas’ 1959 film “The 39 Steps,” a loose remake of the Alfred Hitchcock film by the same name, but his first lead...
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The actor began his career at the Wolverhampton Repertory theater company before joining the army during World War II where he served as an officer in Normandy, Belgium and then later, the Far East. After the war, he returned to the stage where he played a bevy of roles for many years.
His first film performance was in Ralph Thomas’ 1959 film “The 39 Steps,” a loose remake of the Alfred Hitchcock film by the same name, but his first lead...
- 12/6/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Stars: Johnny Rey Diaz, Christina Licciardi, Lindsay Sawyer, Talia A Davis, Trae Ireland, Isaac Reyes, Fiona Rene, Joseph Michael Harris, Nick Principe, Aaron Moses, Randall Yarbrough | Written and Directed by Jeremy M. Inman
To be fair, you know what you’re in for with any Asylum movie that is homaging a bigger-budget Hollywood flick… After all it’s become de rigueur for David Michael Latt and co. to produce what have been affectionately dubbed “mockbusters” for all the big Summer blockbusters: films such as Transmorphers, American Battleship, The Terminators, Almighty Thor, Battle of Los Angeles, and Avengers Grimm. But watching a mockbuster from The Asylum doesn’t neccesarily mean audiences are in for a terrible time, there are often sparks of genius within their films – be it some great casting or an inspired plot.
Case in point: the aforementioned Avengers Grimm, which used the Avengers film format to tell a...
To be fair, you know what you’re in for with any Asylum movie that is homaging a bigger-budget Hollywood flick… After all it’s become de rigueur for David Michael Latt and co. to produce what have been affectionately dubbed “mockbusters” for all the big Summer blockbusters: films such as Transmorphers, American Battleship, The Terminators, Almighty Thor, Battle of Los Angeles, and Avengers Grimm. But watching a mockbuster from The Asylum doesn’t neccesarily mean audiences are in for a terrible time, there are often sparks of genius within their films – be it some great casting or an inspired plot.
Case in point: the aforementioned Avengers Grimm, which used the Avengers film format to tell a...
- 10/10/2016
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Ron Moody as Fagin in 'Oliver!' based on Charles Dickens' 'Oliver Twist.' Ron Moody as Fagin in Dickens musical 'Oliver!': Box office and critical hit (See previous post: "Ron Moody: 'Oliver!' Actor, Academy Award Nominee Dead at 91.") Although British made, Oliver! turned out to be an elephantine release along the lines of – exclamation point or no – Gypsy, Star!, Hello Dolly!, and other Hollywood mega-musicals from the mid'-50s to the early '70s.[1] But however bloated and conventional the final result, and a cast whose best-known name was that of director Carol Reed's nephew, Oliver Reed, Oliver! found countless fans.[2] The mostly British production became a huge financial and critical success in the U.S. at a time when star-studded mega-musicals had become perilous – at times downright disastrous – ventures.[3] Upon the American release of Oliver! in Dec. 1968, frequently acerbic The...
- 6/19/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Once Upon a Time spent another week in Neverland Sunday, as our intrepid crew tried to battle their own "Nasty Habits" in order to save Henry. Unfortunately, it didn't work out the way they had hoped.
Below, TV Fanatics Carla Day, Jim Garner, Nick McHatton and Christine Orlando are joined by Gareth from Once Upon a Fan to decide if Neal made the right call and to debate which is the scariest fairy tale. Join in the debate now!
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What was your favorite scene or line from this Once Upon a Time Season 3 episode?
Carla: I liked when Emma found Bae's light map. She knows him well, even from back before they met. Plus, the interactions between the others was interesting too. I love the Charmings, Hook and Regina all working together.
Gareth: So many great moments in this episode. What a dark turn this season is taking. Loved...
Below, TV Fanatics Carla Day, Jim Garner, Nick McHatton and Christine Orlando are joined by Gareth from Once Upon a Fan to decide if Neal made the right call and to debate which is the scariest fairy tale. Join in the debate now!
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What was your favorite scene or line from this Once Upon a Time Season 3 episode?
Carla: I liked when Emma found Bae's light map. She knows him well, even from back before they met. Plus, the interactions between the others was interesting too. I love the Charmings, Hook and Regina all working together.
Gareth: So many great moments in this episode. What a dark turn this season is taking. Loved...
- 10/23/2013
- by christine@tvfanatic.com (Christine Orlando)
- TVfanatic
While investigating the death of a backwoods cannabis farmer, Nick glimpses what he thinks might be a Blutbad living alone the in the woods. This links to a case Hank has never forgotten: the unsolved disappearance of a little girl.
Grimm Season 1, Episode 7: “Let Your Hair Down”
Written by Sarah Goldfinger and Naren Shanka
Directed by Holly Dale
Airs Fridays at 9pm Et on NBC
Grimm is at its best when the writers use the fairytales on which the series is based as a jumping off point rather than a blueprint for the whole story. The weakest episode so far was “Danse Macabre” which attempted a too-literal interpretation of “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” and ended up giving us the slightly ridiculous spectacle of a man playing a violin to bunch of bemused looking rats – surprising, given that the writers of that particular rat’s nest were the originators...
Grimm Season 1, Episode 7: “Let Your Hair Down”
Written by Sarah Goldfinger and Naren Shanka
Directed by Holly Dale
Airs Fridays at 9pm Et on NBC
Grimm is at its best when the writers use the fairytales on which the series is based as a jumping off point rather than a blueprint for the whole story. The weakest episode so far was “Danse Macabre” which attempted a too-literal interpretation of “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” and ended up giving us the slightly ridiculous spectacle of a man playing a violin to bunch of bemused looking rats – surprising, given that the writers of that particular rat’s nest were the originators...
- 12/18/2011
- by Cath Murphy
- SoundOnSight
When a music teacher ends up as the main course for a swarm of rats, Nick and Hank suspect a former student may be responsible. Nick discovers that Roddy Geiger is not only a talented musician, he has a strange empathy with rodents, perhaps to the point that he can make them commit murder on his behalf.
Grimm Season 1, Episode 5: “Danse Macabre”
Written by David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf
Directed by David Solomon
Aired Thursday at 9pm on NBC
The Pied Piper used music to free the citizens of Hamelin from a plague of rats. When they refused to pay, the piper took a terrible revenge, luring all of the children in the city away, into an opening in the nearby hills which closed just as the terrified parents arrived, too late to save all but a single crippled boy. This episode of Grimm attempts to update the tale,...
Grimm Season 1, Episode 5: “Danse Macabre”
Written by David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf
Directed by David Solomon
Aired Thursday at 9pm on NBC
The Pied Piper used music to free the citizens of Hamelin from a plague of rats. When they refused to pay, the piper took a terrible revenge, luring all of the children in the city away, into an opening in the nearby hills which closed just as the terrified parents arrived, too late to save all but a single crippled boy. This episode of Grimm attempts to update the tale,...
- 12/12/2011
- by Cath Murphy
- SoundOnSight
Yes, two new Grimms in one week! And this one looks like it has even more Monroe goodness! We love this show, and Silas Weir Mitchell‘s part in it really adds a necessary quirky element (because people who are actually bees, or goats, or The Pied Piper – that’s just not quirky enough for us). Bring on the Big Bad Wolves:
The Three Bad Wolves (TV-14) A Suspicious Fire Reveals A Rivalry With Connections To Monroe –Nick (David Giuntoli) is called to a suspected arson case, which exposes a longstanding family feud that brings Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell) face-to-face with characters from his troubled past. While Monroe wrestles with restraining his wild side, it’s up to Nick to keep everything from going up in flames. Russell Hornsby, Bitsie Tulloch, Sasha Roiz and Reggie Lee also star.
Grimm airs Fridays at 9/8c on NBC.
The Three Bad Wolves (TV-14) A Suspicious Fire Reveals A Rivalry With Connections To Monroe –Nick (David Giuntoli) is called to a suspected arson case, which exposes a longstanding family feud that brings Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell) face-to-face with characters from his troubled past. While Monroe wrestles with restraining his wild side, it’s up to Nick to keep everything from going up in flames. Russell Hornsby, Bitsie Tulloch, Sasha Roiz and Reggie Lee also star.
Grimm airs Fridays at 9/8c on NBC.
- 12/9/2011
- by Erin Willard
- ScifiMafia
Now that we're closing in on NBC's big two-night event showcasing "Grimm"'s return this week on Thursday, December 8th, and Friday, December 9th, the network has released a few new promo videos and interviews for the upcoming "Danse Macabre" and "The Three Bad Wolves" episodes. Check 'em out, and be sure to tune in!
"Danse Macabre" Synopsis (Airing 12/8/11):
A beloved high school music teacher’s body is destroyed by rats.
"The Three Bad Wolves" Synopsis (Airing 12/9/11):
Nick and Hank investigate the explosion of a Blutbad's home, which exposes a longstanding family feud that brings Monroe face-to-face with characters from his troubled past. While Monroe wrestles with restraining his wild side, it's up to Nick to keep everything from going up in flames.
Inspired by Grimm's fairy tales, "Grimm" follows Portland homicide Detective Nick Burkhardt, played by David Giuntoli, as he battles supernatural forces. Bitsie Tulloch portrays his fiancée,...
"Danse Macabre" Synopsis (Airing 12/8/11):
A beloved high school music teacher’s body is destroyed by rats.
"The Three Bad Wolves" Synopsis (Airing 12/9/11):
Nick and Hank investigate the explosion of a Blutbad's home, which exposes a longstanding family feud that brings Monroe face-to-face with characters from his troubled past. While Monroe wrestles with restraining his wild side, it's up to Nick to keep everything from going up in flames.
Inspired by Grimm's fairy tales, "Grimm" follows Portland homicide Detective Nick Burkhardt, played by David Giuntoli, as he battles supernatural forces. Bitsie Tulloch portrays his fiancée,...
- 12/6/2011
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
NBC is bringing the creepy factor on its Friday night fairy tale show "Grimm." But the program is more than meets the eye. It has a complex back story for its main character Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli) who is constantly fending off his foes while keeping secrets from friends, including fellow cop Hank Griffin (Russell Hornsby).
The stars of the show, Giuntoli and Hornsby, sat down with Zap2it to talk about a variety of subjects. Here are a few highlights:
On how Burkhardt will keep his identity a secret: "As the show goes on, I realize that the bad boys are coming for me where ever I am...It's getting dangerously close to everybody...I'm spinning a lot of plates. I'm trying to figure out how to live a double life."
On Hornsby's favorite Grimm tale: "I enjoy 'The Pied Piper' because I'm deathly afraid of rats.
The stars of the show, Giuntoli and Hornsby, sat down with Zap2it to talk about a variety of subjects. Here are a few highlights:
On how Burkhardt will keep his identity a secret: "As the show goes on, I realize that the bad boys are coming for me where ever I am...It's getting dangerously close to everybody...I'm spinning a lot of plates. I'm trying to figure out how to live a double life."
On Hornsby's favorite Grimm tale: "I enjoy 'The Pied Piper' because I'm deathly afraid of rats.
- 11/18/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Fairytales are in hot demand. Puss in boots just got his own movie, audiences recently became Tangled up in Rapunzel’s adventures and Snow White is looking to kick ass in not one but two reboots next year. Today it was announced 20th Century Fox is looking to invest in the Brothers Grimm story, The Pied Piper. For those of you kiddy-winks who were not read it before bedtime (lucky you), it's the dark tale of a piper hired to rid a town of a rat infestation. However when the job is done and the officials refuse to pay him, he uses his...
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- 5/13/2011
- by Total Film
- TotalFilm
From Page To Screen, Bridport
Guest curator Jonathan Coe lends the appropriate literary lustre to this festival of movies adapted from novels, and for a respected author he's not as sniffy as you'd expect. Coe's list includes some successful examples recent and ancient – from True Grit, The Social Network and How To Train Your Dragon to Jacques Demy's Donovan-scored The Pied Piper and forgotten 1945 melodrama They Were Sisters – most of which are introduced by himself and other experts. Coe also talks to some of those concerned in the process, including Kazuo Ishiguro about the recent version of his Never Let Me Go and Bill Forsyth on his version of Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, while Rowan Joffé discusses his recent adaptations of The American and Brighton Rock.
Bridport Arts Centre & Electric Palace, Wed to 17 Apr
From Ecstasy To Rapture: 50 Years Of The Other Spanish Cinema/Pere Portabella, London
You...
Guest curator Jonathan Coe lends the appropriate literary lustre to this festival of movies adapted from novels, and for a respected author he's not as sniffy as you'd expect. Coe's list includes some successful examples recent and ancient – from True Grit, The Social Network and How To Train Your Dragon to Jacques Demy's Donovan-scored The Pied Piper and forgotten 1945 melodrama They Were Sisters – most of which are introduced by himself and other experts. Coe also talks to some of those concerned in the process, including Kazuo Ishiguro about the recent version of his Never Let Me Go and Bill Forsyth on his version of Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, while Rowan Joffé discusses his recent adaptations of The American and Brighton Rock.
Bridport Arts Centre & Electric Palace, Wed to 17 Apr
From Ecstasy To Rapture: 50 Years Of The Other Spanish Cinema/Pere Portabella, London
You...
- 4/8/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
I'm a sucker for bad movies set in the Middle Ages that function as attacks on the Church, then and now. My favorite might be Jacques Demy's "The Pied Piper," which stars Donovan in the title role. Like that film, "Season of the Witch" concerns the Plague and the belief that it's been caused by an unnatural source. There is also a minor link in their references to the Crusades. But the new movie, starring Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman as knights who go Awol at the end of a hilarious, and surely historically inaccurate, montage of multiple Crusades battles,…...
- 1/7/2011
- Spout
Donovan was the Cosmic King of the sixties. His hits are familiar to many generations, and they include the folky "Catch The Wind" and "Colours," the psychedelic "Sunshine Superman" and "Mellow Yellow," and the rocking "Season Of The Witch" and "Barabajagal" with the Jeff Beck Group. He was a contemporary of Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan (sometimes even referred to as the British version of the latter). Through the years, he has been an often-covered songwriter, and also has appeared on the big screen musically in the cult favorite Brother Sun, Sister Moon, and personally in the films If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, The Pied Piper, and Don't Look Back. But most important, he has appeared as himself in Futurama, that legendary performance being the single reason for the show's renewal. Possibly. Tonight, Donovan--with his family and...
- 3/21/2010
- by Mike Ragogna
- Huffington Post
Publisher Zenescope Entertainment has teamed up with Persistent Entertainment and Pantry Films to bring its popular graphic novel The Piper to the big screen. The book is a dark reimagining of Brothers Grimm fairy tale The Pied Piper Of Hamelin. It revolves around a down-trodden music student who unwittingly channels the spirit of the mysterious Piper, with terrifying consequences. Persistent Entertainment executive Aaron Cruze will spearhead the development of the project. The studio has produced over 20 films to date, including Palme d'Or nominee Southland Tales and the upcoming Nailed, (more)...
- 11/25/2009
- by By Mark Langshaw
- Digital Spy
The Disney Classic Short Films collection abounds with animation gems that have been wiling away the last few years. In the third installment of this collection, headlined by the more well-known The Prince and the Pauper, we get one the better animated features in the old Disney library. Accompanying the main cartoon we have five additional cartoons of starkly varied age, style and quality (more so than on the other sets).
The Prince and the Pauper (1990)
Directed by George Scribner, Written by Gerrit Graham and Sam Graham
Here we have one of the best Disney shorts to come of the pre-Pixar era. Created back in 1990, the animation here stands up to the test of time – in fact, seeing it for the first time in what must have been a decade, I was shocked at how beautiful it still looks. Based on the classic story by Mark Twain, it has all...
The Prince and the Pauper (1990)
Directed by George Scribner, Written by Gerrit Graham and Sam Graham
Here we have one of the best Disney shorts to come of the pre-Pixar era. Created back in 1990, the animation here stands up to the test of time – in fact, seeing it for the first time in what must have been a decade, I was shocked at how beautiful it still looks. Based on the classic story by Mark Twain, it has all...
- 5/16/2009
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
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