Den of Geek serves as the media partner of the London Action Festival
Sometimes the sequel is better. The London Action Festival 2 blew the bloody doors off with an action-packed weekend celebrating the influential creatives who crafted some of the most iconic moments in the action film and television genre.
Den of Geek returned as senior media partner and we were on hand in London to witness the best panels, surprise moments, and fascinating insights from professionals at all levels of the production process, from directors and stars, to editors, composers, stuntmen, and more. Check out some of the best photos from the weekend below!
The second annual festival rev’d up with what was billed as the “World’s Greatest Screening Ever… Probably” of The Italian Job. Three mini coopers — red, white, and blue — greeted fans who stopped for a photo opp as they entered the screening at the...
Sometimes the sequel is better. The London Action Festival 2 blew the bloody doors off with an action-packed weekend celebrating the influential creatives who crafted some of the most iconic moments in the action film and television genre.
Den of Geek returned as senior media partner and we were on hand in London to witness the best panels, surprise moments, and fascinating insights from professionals at all levels of the production process, from directors and stars, to editors, composers, stuntmen, and more. Check out some of the best photos from the weekend below!
The second annual festival rev’d up with what was billed as the “World’s Greatest Screening Ever… Probably” of The Italian Job. Three mini coopers — red, white, and blue — greeted fans who stopped for a photo opp as they entered the screening at the...
- 7/3/2023
- by Chris Longo
- Den of Geek
When South African director John Barker was seven years old, the Johannesburg native experienced Cape Town’s Minstrel Carnival for the first time. The annual celebration, which is rooted in the traditions of slaves dating back to the early years of colonial rule, is a colorful, raucous pageant unique to the Mother City — an event that Barker would later spend 14 years bringing to the big screen.
“The Umbrella Men” finally premiered last fall at the Toronto Film Festival, 16 years after Barker’s 2006 debut, “Bunny Chow,” debuted at the prestigious North American fest. Barker’s fifth feature was the closing film this week at the Joburg Film Festival, which wrapped Feb. 5 in the South African city.
“The Umbrella Men” is set in the Bo-Kaap, a formerly segregated Cape Town neighborhood that’s home to the city’s Cape Malay community, where the hip-hop producer Jerome Adams (Jaques de Silva) has returned...
“The Umbrella Men” finally premiered last fall at the Toronto Film Festival, 16 years after Barker’s 2006 debut, “Bunny Chow,” debuted at the prestigious North American fest. Barker’s fifth feature was the closing film this week at the Joburg Film Festival, which wrapped Feb. 5 in the South African city.
“The Umbrella Men” is set in the Bo-Kaap, a formerly segregated Cape Town neighborhood that’s home to the city’s Cape Malay community, where the hip-hop producer Jerome Adams (Jaques de Silva) has returned...
- 2/6/2023
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Michael Caine’s heist comedy has been rated one of the top UK movies ever. It’s a flip Swingin’ England slapstick thriller, lavishly produced and with an emphasis on fancy cars. Caine is a cockney crook with an insane scheme to steal millions in Red Chinese gold in Turin. Slick stuntwork combines with ‘Team Brit’ humor for a wild escape in a rush hour traffic jam. The lavish goes for show-off spectacle — its real stars are a trio of undersized, underdog UK automobiles.
The Italian Job 4K
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1969 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 99 min. / Street Date January 31, 2023 / Available from / 39.95
Starring: Michael Caine, Noël Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone, Tony Beckley, Rossano Brazzi, Margaret Blye, Irene Handl, Michael Standing, Harry Baird, Robert Rietty, Lelia Goldoni, Valery Leon, Lisa Shane.
Cinematography: Douglas Slocombe
Production Designer: Disley Jones
Art Director: Michael Knight
Film Editor: John Trumper
Stunt Driving:...
The Italian Job 4K
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1969 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 99 min. / Street Date January 31, 2023 / Available from / 39.95
Starring: Michael Caine, Noël Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone, Tony Beckley, Rossano Brazzi, Margaret Blye, Irene Handl, Michael Standing, Harry Baird, Robert Rietty, Lelia Goldoni, Valery Leon, Lisa Shane.
Cinematography: Douglas Slocombe
Production Designer: Disley Jones
Art Director: Michael Knight
Film Editor: John Trumper
Stunt Driving:...
- 1/21/2023
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Author Matthew Field has released a new, updated edition of his definitive book about the 1969 comedy crime classic "The Italian Job". The book is titled "The Self Preservation Society: 50 Years of The Italian Job". The profusely illustrated book features a foreword by Sir Michael Caine. Field will appear with special guests at a panel discussion about the film and book at Town Hall in Cheltenham on 6 October. Here is the official blurb:
"You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off’ is one of the most iconic lines in British cinema. The Italian Job is 50 years old this year, the Mini is 60, and to celebrate Matthew Field (The Italian Job) is joined by the film’s producer Michael Deeley, widow of the director Peter Collinson, Hazel Collinson, and David Salamone, who drove the red Mini and sourced all the cars for the film. ‘Hang on a minute lads, I’ve got a great idea…...
"You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off’ is one of the most iconic lines in British cinema. The Italian Job is 50 years old this year, the Mini is 60, and to celebrate Matthew Field (The Italian Job) is joined by the film’s producer Michael Deeley, widow of the director Peter Collinson, Hazel Collinson, and David Salamone, who drove the red Mini and sourced all the cars for the film. ‘Hang on a minute lads, I’ve got a great idea…...
- 10/1/2019
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
A babysitter gets more than she bargained for when an unexpected (and deadly) guest arrives in Peter Collinson's Fright, and with the 1971 horror film now on Blu-ray from Scream Factory, we've been provided with three copies to give away to lucky Daily Dead readers!
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Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on September 24th. This contest is only open to those who are eighteen years...
- 9/17/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
This week’s horror and sci-fi Blu-ray and DVD titles are an eclectic bunch, led by a pair of cult classics—Fright and Straight on Till Morning—which were both directed by Peter Collinson. Arrow Video put together a special edition release for Who Saw Her Die?, which this writer is really looking forward to checking out in the coming weeks, and Unearthed Classics is resurrecting Nightwish on both formats as well.
In terms of new films, The Velocipastor arrives on Tuesday on both Blu and DVD, and for those of you who missed it in theaters, Dark Phoenix rises again on multiple formats, and Clownado touches down this week on DVD as well.
Other notable releases for September 17th include The Night Sitter, D-Railed, The Bloody Ape, Return of the Scarecrow, and The Films of Sarah Jacobson: Mary Jane’s Not a Virgin Anymore & I Was a Teenage Serial Killer from Agfa.
In terms of new films, The Velocipastor arrives on Tuesday on both Blu and DVD, and for those of you who missed it in theaters, Dark Phoenix rises again on multiple formats, and Clownado touches down this week on DVD as well.
Other notable releases for September 17th include The Night Sitter, D-Railed, The Bloody Ape, Return of the Scarecrow, and The Films of Sarah Jacobson: Mary Jane’s Not a Virgin Anymore & I Was a Teenage Serial Killer from Agfa.
- 9/17/2019
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
On Sept. 3, 1969, Michael Caine's heist film The Italian Job made its way stateside to theaters. The Hollywood Reporter's original review, headlined "'Bullitt Style End Gives 'Italian Job' Hefty Boost," is below.
Director Peter Collinson's fourth film, The Italian Job, may at last reward Paramount's extended investment of confidence with a popular success. The film is yet another international bullion raid yarn, familiar and not especially well developed, its best early moments largely technical. The Oakhurst production was written by Troy Kennedy Martin, creator of the BBC's Z Cards teleseries. It ...
Director Peter Collinson's fourth film, The Italian Job, may at last reward Paramount's extended investment of confidence with a popular success. The film is yet another international bullion raid yarn, familiar and not especially well developed, its best early moments largely technical. The Oakhurst production was written by Troy Kennedy Martin, creator of the BBC's Z Cards teleseries. It ...
On Sept. 3, 1969, Michael Caine's heist film The Italian Job made its way stateside to theaters. The Hollywood Reporter's original review, headlined "'Bullitt Style End Gives 'Italian Job' Hefty Boost," is below.
Director Peter Collinson's fourth film, The Italian Job, may at last reward Paramount's extended investment of confidence with a popular success. The film is yet another international bullion raid yarn, familiar and not especially well developed, its best early moments largely technical. The Oakhurst production was written by Troy Kennedy Martin, creator of the BBC's Z Cards teleseries. It ...
Director Peter Collinson's fourth film, The Italian Job, may at last reward Paramount's extended investment of confidence with a popular success. The film is yet another international bullion raid yarn, familiar and not especially well developed, its best early moments largely technical. The Oakhurst production was written by Troy Kennedy Martin, creator of the BBC's Z Cards teleseries. It ...
While Scream Factory is bringing enough horror movies to Blu-ray this summer to keep you entertained after countless barbecues and bonfires, they also have a bunch of titles to look forward to this September, as they've now announced three more Hammer horror films coming to Blu-ray (including the Christopher Lee-starring Scars of Dracula), as well as 1972's Fright!
From Scream Factory: "If you’re a fan of Hammer Films (like we are) then save up for this Sept when we release three films from them on Blu-ray for the first time in North America! (**Correction: We originally included Fright as in the Hammer library. Our "Oops!" on that. Sorry! Its still releasing though.)
Scars Of Dracula (1970) - The legendary Christopher Lee is back as Dracula, bringing unspeakable horrors upon a local village that defies his evil reign. But when a young man and his luscious girlfriend unwittingly visit the Count's castle,...
From Scream Factory: "If you’re a fan of Hammer Films (like we are) then save up for this Sept when we release three films from them on Blu-ray for the first time in North America! (**Correction: We originally included Fright as in the Hammer library. Our "Oops!" on that. Sorry! Its still releasing though.)
Scars Of Dracula (1970) - The legendary Christopher Lee is back as Dracula, bringing unspeakable horrors upon a local village that defies his evil reign. But when a young man and his luscious girlfriend unwittingly visit the Count's castle,...
- 6/6/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
New York's Quad Cinema got this summer off to a bloody good start with part 1 of their "Hammer's House of Horror" movie retrospective series featuring 32 films from the Hammer vault. On July 20th, the Quad Cinema team will continue the frights and fun with part 2 of their special Hammer horror screenings, and we've been provided with exclusive details on the second half of their retrospective series that's aptly titled "The Decadent Years."
From July 20th–August 2nd, Quad Cinema will screen a wide range of Hammer horror films from "The Decadent Years," including Dracula A.D. 1972, Countess Dracula, Twins of Evil, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, and many more! There will be 25 total titles shown (all of them from 1967–1976), with 20 of the films screened in glorious 35mm.
Below, we have the full list of titles screening as part of Hammer's House of Horror Part II, and to learn more about screening dates and times,...
From July 20th–August 2nd, Quad Cinema will screen a wide range of Hammer horror films from "The Decadent Years," including Dracula A.D. 1972, Countess Dracula, Twins of Evil, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, and many more! There will be 25 total titles shown (all of them from 1967–1976), with 20 of the films screened in glorious 35mm.
Below, we have the full list of titles screening as part of Hammer's House of Horror Part II, and to learn more about screening dates and times,...
- 6/28/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Simon Brew Jun 26, 2017
The 1969 classic The Italian Job also highlighted the peculiarities of movie studio accounting...
It’s hard to find something close to precise figure when trying to ascertain just how much money the 1969 classic The Italian Job has brought in, but the film is widely regarded as a very successful one, Starring Michael Caine and Noel Coward, and with Peter Collinson directing, the movie was first released in June 1969.
On its original box office run, its receipts were said to be just shy of $10m. The film was a big success, although it struggled to hit in America. In fact, it failed to do so, instead garnering its sizeable support primarily in the UK, and across Europe.
Still, it’s enjoyed theatrical re-releases, a belated tie-in computer game, sizeable sales on VHS and DVD, and at the last count, two remakes. In 2003, F Gary Gray directed the...
The 1969 classic The Italian Job also highlighted the peculiarities of movie studio accounting...
It’s hard to find something close to precise figure when trying to ascertain just how much money the 1969 classic The Italian Job has brought in, but the film is widely regarded as a very successful one, Starring Michael Caine and Noel Coward, and with Peter Collinson directing, the movie was first released in June 1969.
On its original box office run, its receipts were said to be just shy of $10m. The film was a big success, although it struggled to hit in America. In fact, it failed to do so, instead garnering its sizeable support primarily in the UK, and across Europe.
Still, it’s enjoyed theatrical re-releases, a belated tie-in computer game, sizeable sales on VHS and DVD, and at the last count, two remakes. In 2003, F Gary Gray directed the...
- 6/19/2017
- Den of Geek
Ten strangers. One hotel. One item on the agenda: murder. Tensions escalate as the body count rises in Peter Collinson's And Then There Were None, a 1974 adaptation of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians that's coming out on Blu-ray with a new HD master from Scorpion Releasing, Variety Films, and Kino Video in 2017.
From Scorpion Releasing: "Scorpion Releasing, in conjunction with Variety Films, coming in 2017, from a brand new 2016 HD master, Peter Collinson's Ten Little Indians (aka And There Were None) starring Oliver Reed, Richard Attenborough, Herbert Lom, Elke Sommers, Maria Rohm, Stephane Audran, Charles Aznavour, Gert Frobe, Adolfo Celi and Orson Welles. It will be released on DVD and BluRay, and sold at retailers via Kino."
Synopsis (via Blu-ray.com): "A group is invited, under false pretenses, to an isolated hotel in the Iranian desert. After dinner, a cassette tape accuses them all of crimes that they have gotten away with.
From Scorpion Releasing: "Scorpion Releasing, in conjunction with Variety Films, coming in 2017, from a brand new 2016 HD master, Peter Collinson's Ten Little Indians (aka And There Were None) starring Oliver Reed, Richard Attenborough, Herbert Lom, Elke Sommers, Maria Rohm, Stephane Audran, Charles Aznavour, Gert Frobe, Adolfo Celi and Orson Welles. It will be released on DVD and BluRay, and sold at retailers via Kino."
Synopsis (via Blu-ray.com): "A group is invited, under false pretenses, to an isolated hotel in the Iranian desert. After dinner, a cassette tape accuses them all of crimes that they have gotten away with.
- 12/27/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
'And Then There Were None' movie with Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, June Duprez, Louis Hayward and Roland Young. 'And Then There Were None' movie remake to be directed by Oscar nominee Morten Tyldum One of the best-known Agatha Christie novels, And Then There Were None will be getting another big-screen transfer. 20th Century Fox has acquired the movie rights to the literary suspense thriller first published in the U.K. (as Ten Little Niggers) in 1939. Morten Tyldum, this year's Best Director Academy Award nominee for The Imitation Game, is reportedly set to direct. The source for this story is Deadline.com, which adds that Tyldum himself “helped hone the pitch” for the acquisition while Eric Heisserer (A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010, The Thing 2011) will handle the screenplay adaptation. And Then There Were None is supposed to have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide, thus holding the...
- 9/29/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
By Todd Garbarini
Scream Factory continues their winning streak of releasing horror film favorites with their double feature Blu-ray release of 1988’s Bad Dreams and 1982’s Visiting Hours. They originally released these films together on DVD in September 2011.
Bad Dreams opened on Friday, April 8, 1988 and is, in hindsight, eerily prescient of David Koresh, the leader of the Branch Davidian religious sect who met a horrific end when the FBI closed in on him and his compound ignited into a conflagration on April 19, 1993 in Waco, TX. Jim Jones and the Jonestown deaths in 1978 also come to mind. In this film, the late Richard Lynch plays a cult leader named Harris who convinces a group of people that love and unity are the only ways to live, and he shows that love by dousing them all in gasoline and lighting them on fire. Jennifer Rubin plays Cynthia, a confused and reluctant holdout...
Scream Factory continues their winning streak of releasing horror film favorites with their double feature Blu-ray release of 1988’s Bad Dreams and 1982’s Visiting Hours. They originally released these films together on DVD in September 2011.
Bad Dreams opened on Friday, April 8, 1988 and is, in hindsight, eerily prescient of David Koresh, the leader of the Branch Davidian religious sect who met a horrific end when the FBI closed in on him and his compound ignited into a conflagration on April 19, 1993 in Waco, TX. Jim Jones and the Jonestown deaths in 1978 also come to mind. In this film, the late Richard Lynch plays a cult leader named Harris who convinces a group of people that love and unity are the only ways to live, and he shows that love by dousing them all in gasoline and lighting them on fire. Jennifer Rubin plays Cynthia, a confused and reluctant holdout...
- 2/19/2014
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Michael Caine's early films defined the look of an era, but with scores by John Barry, Quincy Jones and Sonny Rollins they also defined its soundrack
There is a kind of music in Michael Caine's voice: deceptively flat, barely inflected, emitting just the tiniest glints of detached insolence and laconic menace as it maps the area between the pre-war docklands community of Rotherhithe, his birthplace, and Elephant and Castle, where his family was rehoused in a prefab built on bomb-damaged land not far from the location of Shakespeare's theatres. Few people alive know more about the actor's craft than Caine, none is more gifted in the art of underplaying, and that voice is integral to his virtuosity.
But there is music of a more conventional kind in the films that made him famous – when the former Maurice Micklewhite rather unexpectedly became the model of a new kind of English leading man,...
There is a kind of music in Michael Caine's voice: deceptively flat, barely inflected, emitting just the tiniest glints of detached insolence and laconic menace as it maps the area between the pre-war docklands community of Rotherhithe, his birthplace, and Elephant and Castle, where his family was rehoused in a prefab built on bomb-damaged land not far from the location of Shakespeare's theatres. Few people alive know more about the actor's craft than Caine, none is more gifted in the art of underplaying, and that voice is integral to his virtuosity.
But there is music of a more conventional kind in the films that made him famous – when the former Maurice Micklewhite rather unexpectedly became the model of a new kind of English leading man,...
- 1/31/2014
- by Richard Williams
- The Guardian - Film News
The following is an expanded article Clothes on Film editor Chris Laverty wrote for men’s style resource Mr Porter analysing Michael Caine’s suits in The Italian Job. This post covers all the costumes he wore during the film.
If The Italian Job (1969) needs any introduction at all it might be possible you’ve been in a coma for the past 40 years. It’s so well known and so well loved that were it not for the fact that no-one has really delved into the sartorial details of Michael Caine’s suits there would be nothing left to talk about. As it happens we have spent time studying and researching The Italian Job for this very purpose; we even got in touch with Caine’s original tailor for the film, Douglas Hayward (now just ‘Hayward’ since he sadly died in 2008) to confirm the particulars on those scalpel sharp suits that still make us drool.
If The Italian Job (1969) needs any introduction at all it might be possible you’ve been in a coma for the past 40 years. It’s so well known and so well loved that were it not for the fact that no-one has really delved into the sartorial details of Michael Caine’s suits there would be nothing left to talk about. As it happens we have spent time studying and researching The Italian Job for this very purpose; we even got in touch with Caine’s original tailor for the film, Douglas Hayward (now just ‘Hayward’ since he sadly died in 2008) to confirm the particulars on those scalpel sharp suits that still make us drool.
- 1/28/2014
- by Lord Christopher Laverty
- Clothes on Film
The definition of a slasher film varies depending on who you ask, but in general, it contains several specific traits that feed into the genre’s formula. Author Vera Dika rather strictly defines the sub-genre in her book Games of Terror by only including films made between 1978 and 1984. In other words, she saw it as a movement. When someone describes Brick, they don’t define it as a noir, but instead neo-noir . In other words, it’s a modern motion picture that prominently utilizes elements of film noir, but with updated themes, content, style, visual elements or media that were absent in those from the 1940s and 1950s. So does one consider Scream a slasher film or a neo-slasher, or simply put, a modern slasher?
Some consider Thirteen Women to be the earliest slasher – released all the way back in 1932. Personally I think that is rubbish. Thirteen Women is more like Desperate Housewives on sedatives.
Some consider Thirteen Women to be the earliest slasher – released all the way back in 1932. Personally I think that is rubbish. Thirteen Women is more like Desperate Housewives on sedatives.
- 10/29/2012
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
By Allen Gardner
Harold And Maude (Criterion) Hal Ashby’s masterpiece of black humor centers on a wealthy young man (Bud Cort) who’s obsessed with death and the septuagenarian (Ruth Gordon) with whom he finds true love. As unabashedly romantic as it is quirky, with Cat Stevens supplying one of the great film scores of all-time. Fine support from Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner, and Ellen Geer. Fine screenplay by Colin Higgins. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Commentary by Hal Ashby biographer Nick Dawson, producer Charles Mulvehill; Illustrated audio excerpts from seminars by Ashby and Higgins; Interview with Cat Stevens. Widescreen. Dolby 2.0 stereo.
In Darkness (Sony) Agnieszka Holland’s Ww II epic tells the true story of a sewer worker and petty thief in Nazi-occupied Poland who single-handedly helped hide a group of Jews in the city’s labyrinthine sewer system for the duration of the war.
Harold And Maude (Criterion) Hal Ashby’s masterpiece of black humor centers on a wealthy young man (Bud Cort) who’s obsessed with death and the septuagenarian (Ruth Gordon) with whom he finds true love. As unabashedly romantic as it is quirky, with Cat Stevens supplying one of the great film scores of all-time. Fine support from Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner, and Ellen Geer. Fine screenplay by Colin Higgins. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Commentary by Hal Ashby biographer Nick Dawson, producer Charles Mulvehill; Illustrated audio excerpts from seminars by Ashby and Higgins; Interview with Cat Stevens. Widescreen. Dolby 2.0 stereo.
In Darkness (Sony) Agnieszka Holland’s Ww II epic tells the true story of a sewer worker and petty thief in Nazi-occupied Poland who single-handedly helped hide a group of Jews in the city’s labyrinthine sewer system for the duration of the war.
- 6/5/2012
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
By Lee Pfeiffer
The Warner Archive has released the 1975 remake of The Spiral Staircase as a burn-to-order title. The original version from 1946 has always been well-regarded and holds up well even today. Not so with this version, which was made for American television and released theatrically in Europe. The movie boasts an impressive cast and was directed by Peter Collinson, who died only a few years later at the young age of 44. Collinson's main claim to fame is the original version of The Italian Job which, over the decades, has developed a very enthusiastic cult following in England. The wit and liveliness he brought to that production is nowhere to be found in this pedantic affair. Jacqueline Bisset plays Helen Mallory, a beautiful young woman who has been rendered mute by the trauma of having witnessed her husband and young daughter killed in a house fire. She's trying to get...
The Warner Archive has released the 1975 remake of The Spiral Staircase as a burn-to-order title. The original version from 1946 has always been well-regarded and holds up well even today. Not so with this version, which was made for American television and released theatrically in Europe. The movie boasts an impressive cast and was directed by Peter Collinson, who died only a few years later at the young age of 44. Collinson's main claim to fame is the original version of The Italian Job which, over the decades, has developed a very enthusiastic cult following in England. The wit and liveliness he brought to that production is nowhere to be found in this pedantic affair. Jacqueline Bisset plays Helen Mallory, a beautiful young woman who has been rendered mute by the trauma of having witnessed her husband and young daughter killed in a house fire. She's trying to get...
- 5/20/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
More long hidden horrors are now available as part of Warner's made-to-order Archive Collection. Oh, the classic terrors that await you, dearest reader! Dig it!
Head on over to the Warner Archives and order yours today!
The Awakening
Director: Mike Newell
Cast: Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Jill Townsend, Stephanie Zimbalist
Synopsis
Mention Bram Stoker’s name, and literature and movie buffs will conjure up Count Dracula. But there was more blood in Stoker’s pen. He also wrote The Jewel of the Seven Stars, later filmed with chilling effect as The Awakening, grippingly directed by Mike Newell (Dance with a Stranger, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) and sensuously shot on Egyptian locations by veteran cinematographer Jack Cardiff. Charlton Heston stars as an Egyptologist with a passion that will trigger several mysterious deaths. He’s obsessed with a sorceress whose return has been prophesied – and whose tomb he opened...
Head on over to the Warner Archives and order yours today!
The Awakening
Director: Mike Newell
Cast: Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Jill Townsend, Stephanie Zimbalist
Synopsis
Mention Bram Stoker’s name, and literature and movie buffs will conjure up Count Dracula. But there was more blood in Stoker’s pen. He also wrote The Jewel of the Seven Stars, later filmed with chilling effect as The Awakening, grippingly directed by Mike Newell (Dance with a Stranger, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) and sensuously shot on Egyptian locations by veteran cinematographer Jack Cardiff. Charlton Heston stars as an Egyptologist with a passion that will trigger several mysterious deaths. He’s obsessed with a sorceress whose return has been prophesied – and whose tomb he opened...
- 5/15/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
John Carter, based on the John Carter of Mars series written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, was released last weekend with underwhelming box-office results in North America. Expect a more enthusiastic reception for the Warner Archive's release of the late '60s television series Tarzan (season one, in two parts) in celebration of the Lord of the Apes' 100th anniversary. Ron Ely stars, while guests include former Tarzan Jock Mahoney, Academy Award nominee Julie Harris (The Member of the Wedding), Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols, Woody Strode, Russ Tamblyn, Maurice Evans, Jack Elam, and Chips Rafferty. Also coming out via the Warner Archive Collection are several lesser-known titles that should definitely be worth a look, especially considering the talent involved. Released in a newly remastered print, the 1941 drama Rage in Heaven was directed by W.S. Van Dyke (aka "One-Take Woody"), and stars Ingrid Bergman, Robert Montgomery, and George Sanders. Christopher Isherwood contributed to the screenplay.
- 3/14/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Brian brings more Carmageddon to your flatscreen.
Brian Trenchard-Smith has popped by the site for the second time this week, this time bringing with him his options for stay-at-home, Carmageddon-appropriate viewing. Take it away, Bts:
Carmageddon is upon us. 53 hours of gridlock in a city where prius politesse is only skin deep. How should we respond? This Bollywood movie has some suggestions for navigating crowded streets. Think Tandoori Michael Bay.
Perhaps a better suggestion would be to spend your land locked weekend at home watching a bunch of car chase movies. We all have our favorites. Here are a couple of mine from the pre-cgi era.
In 1968, audiences all over the world were stunned by this 10 minute sequence in Bullit. British director Peter Yates brought a fresh eye to San Francisco locations. The action is meticulously staged, with a keen sense of geography. No shaky-cam, no frenzied cutting. When the chase goes full throttle,...
Brian Trenchard-Smith has popped by the site for the second time this week, this time bringing with him his options for stay-at-home, Carmageddon-appropriate viewing. Take it away, Bts:
Carmageddon is upon us. 53 hours of gridlock in a city where prius politesse is only skin deep. How should we respond? This Bollywood movie has some suggestions for navigating crowded streets. Think Tandoori Michael Bay.
Perhaps a better suggestion would be to spend your land locked weekend at home watching a bunch of car chase movies. We all have our favorites. Here are a couple of mine from the pre-cgi era.
In 1968, audiences all over the world were stunned by this 10 minute sequence in Bullit. British director Peter Yates brought a fresh eye to San Francisco locations. The action is meticulously staged, with a keen sense of geography. No shaky-cam, no frenzied cutting. When the chase goes full throttle,...
- 7/14/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
By Darren Allison, Cinema Retro music critic
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Peter Collinson’s directorial career may have been cut tragically short (he died of cancer at the age of 44), but the British born director left an indelible mark in cinema during the latter half of the 1960s. Collinson made a powerful debut with the disturbing The Penthouse (1967), a film which caused Film Review magazine to comment, ‘quite brilliantly achieved.’ In 1969 his contribution to cinema would become eternally cemented with the classic The Italian Job, a film that turned Michael Caine’s popular Charlie Croker into a movie legend. In between these two projects, Collinson directed the gritty drama Up the Junction (1968). The film centred on a mixed class romance between middle-class Polly (Suzy Kendall) and working-class Peter (Dennis Waterman). Most of Up the Junction’s soundtrack (Rpm 189) was written by Mike Hugg and Manfred Man. It may have...
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Peter Collinson’s directorial career may have been cut tragically short (he died of cancer at the age of 44), but the British born director left an indelible mark in cinema during the latter half of the 1960s. Collinson made a powerful debut with the disturbing The Penthouse (1967), a film which caused Film Review magazine to comment, ‘quite brilliantly achieved.’ In 1969 his contribution to cinema would become eternally cemented with the classic The Italian Job, a film that turned Michael Caine’s popular Charlie Croker into a movie legend. In between these two projects, Collinson directed the gritty drama Up the Junction (1968). The film centred on a mixed class romance between middle-class Polly (Suzy Kendall) and working-class Peter (Dennis Waterman). Most of Up the Junction’s soundtrack (Rpm 189) was written by Mike Hugg and Manfred Man. It may have...
- 7/6/2011
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
In this week's episode, Ben and Tyler take on a double feature of The Italian Job with Peter Collinson's 1969 version and F. Gary Gray's 2003 version. Check out all of the back episodes of the show at NotJustNewMovies.com.
Introduction
Character Name Game intro - 02:35
In My Netflix - 3:00
Media Consumed
Tyler
The Frotcast - 11:30
Wtf Podcast - 12:25
Fred: The Movie - 14:25
Ben
Green Street Hooligans - 19:25
Review
The Italian Job ('69) - 25:25
The Italian Job ('03) - 47:10
Wrap-Up
Next Week: Eight Men Out - 01:19:45
Listener Voicemail/E-Mail/Twitter - 01:20:29
Character Name Game - 01:21:46
Where You Can Find Us - 01:26:20
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- 3/27/2011
- by benp
- GeekTyrant
Turner Classic Movies (North America) presents two gems over this weekend that have never been available on home video in America. Tonight at 12:15 Am (Est)(actually Sunday morning), TCM presents the acclaimed 1966 comedy drama The Family Way, starring Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett as teenage newlyweds who find that fate keeps preventing them from consummating their marriage. Roy Boulting directs and Paul McCartney provides the musical score. On Sunday October 10 at 6:15 Pm (Est), TCM presents a real rarity as part of its tribute to Tony Curtis: the rarely-seen 1970 adventure You Can't Win 'Em All starring Curtis and Charles Bronson as mercenaries in Turkey. The film was directed by Peter Collinson, who helmed the original classic The Italian Job.
- 10/9/2010
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Up the Junction by Peter Collinson (1968)
I could say Tokyo Story, or It's a Wonderful Life, or Bicycle Thieves, all films that I rate, but which I have learned to rate as an adult. The one film that absolutely changed and informed me as a child, though, was Up the Junction, directed by Peter Collinson and based on an earlier TV version by Ken Loach. I saw it on telly on a Saturday afternoon when I was about nine. At the time, I didn't know it was going to be an important film but it has stayed with me for 40 years.
It's about a rich girl from the Chelsea set of the 60s, who decides to give that up and live in Battersea, a poorer part of London, where Dennis Waterman becomes her boyfriend. She cuts her Lulu-style hair and starts looking like the working-class girls.
I remember being fascinated by the class differences.
I could say Tokyo Story, or It's a Wonderful Life, or Bicycle Thieves, all films that I rate, but which I have learned to rate as an adult. The one film that absolutely changed and informed me as a child, though, was Up the Junction, directed by Peter Collinson and based on an earlier TV version by Ken Loach. I saw it on telly on a Saturday afternoon when I was about nine. At the time, I didn't know it was going to be an important film but it has stayed with me for 40 years.
It's about a rich girl from the Chelsea set of the 60s, who decides to give that up and live in Battersea, a poorer part of London, where Dennis Waterman becomes her boyfriend. She cuts her Lulu-style hair and starts looking like the working-class girls.
I remember being fascinated by the class differences.
- 5/1/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
A red, white and blue line of classic Minis outside the Soho Hotel, London, March 25, 2009 said one thing: The Self-Preservation Society had returned! It took forty years to get their skates back on but this reunion was a promise of more treats in store for fans of the classic comedy crime caper, The Italian Job. Paramount Pictures presented a pristine digital print of the original 1969 film as a precurser to the launch of the ruby anniversary edition DVD coming June this year.
The legendary Remy Julienne with the legendary Mini Coopers.(L to R): David Salamone, Remy Julienne, Matthew Field and Michael Deeley. The project was Matthew Field's labor of love. He produced the original DVD documentary on the film that was released by Paramount several years ago. However, for the new documentary, he managed to get even more talent involved, including Sir Michael Caine. The screening for...
The legendary Remy Julienne with the legendary Mini Coopers.(L to R): David Salamone, Remy Julienne, Matthew Field and Michael Deeley. The project was Matthew Field's labor of love. He produced the original DVD documentary on the film that was released by Paramount several years ago. However, for the new documentary, he managed to get even more talent involved, including Sir Michael Caine. The screening for...
- 4/3/2009
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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