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Monday, April 3 The Chaos of Cool: A Tribute to Seijun Suzuki
In February, cinema lost an icon of excess, Seijun Suzuki, the Japanese master who took the art of the B movie to sublime new heights with his deliriously inventive approach to narrative and visual style. This series showcases seven of the New Wave renegade’s works from his career breakthrough in the sixties: Take Aim at the Police Van (1960), an off-kilter whodunit; Youth of the Beast (1963), an explosive yakuza thriller; Gate of Flesh (1964), a pulpy social critique; Story of a Prostitute (1965), a tragic romance; Tokyo Drifter...
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Monday, April 3 The Chaos of Cool: A Tribute to Seijun Suzuki
In February, cinema lost an icon of excess, Seijun Suzuki, the Japanese master who took the art of the B movie to sublime new heights with his deliriously inventive approach to narrative and visual style. This series showcases seven of the New Wave renegade’s works from his career breakthrough in the sixties: Take Aim at the Police Van (1960), an off-kilter whodunit; Youth of the Beast (1963), an explosive yakuza thriller; Gate of Flesh (1964), a pulpy social critique; Story of a Prostitute (1965), a tragic romance; Tokyo Drifter...
- 3/29/2017
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
The first full day of sporting events at Olympics XXX featured the first face-off between Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps, a thrilling beach volleyball battle between Team USA and Team Australia, an impressive (and not entirely believable) attempt by NBC to transform the men’s gymnastics competition into a topical America vs. China showdown, and the usual dose of filler melodrama. Look elsewhere for a breakdown of the impressive athleticism on display: Here’s your recap of the pure spectacle of NBC’s coverage of the 30th modern Olympics, Day 1.
Misty and Kerri: The Quest for Perfection
Misty May-Treanor and...
Misty and Kerri: The Quest for Perfection
Misty May-Treanor and...
- 7/29/2012
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
by Vadim Rizov
Criterion's DVD box-set release (on their Eclipse label) of Aki Kaurismäki's loose-knit Leningrad Cowboys trilogy chronicles eight years in the group's history, from their ramshackle fictional roots to becoming a bona fide crowd-pleaser for 70,000 real Finns. A fake Siberian cover band that rarely performs original material, they're actually versatile performers. And aside from their idiosyncratic attire (lengthy pompadours extend and hang like diving boards from their foreheads, mirrored by outrageously long and pointy elf shoes), they're typical Kaurismäki characters who enjoy diligent beer drinking whenever possible, staring to deadpan effect—and furthermore, showing no visible facial reactions to anything. The members of Sleepy Sleepers first teamed up with Kaurismäki for 1986’s eight-minute, faux-mtv epic "Rocky VI," a fictional rock pastiche that rewrites Rocky IV’s triumphant ending, an early sign of Kaurismäki’s interest in toying with Cold War imagery.
Continued reading DVD Of The Week: Aki Kaurismäki's Leningrad Cowboys.
Criterion's DVD box-set release (on their Eclipse label) of Aki Kaurismäki's loose-knit Leningrad Cowboys trilogy chronicles eight years in the group's history, from their ramshackle fictional roots to becoming a bona fide crowd-pleaser for 70,000 real Finns. A fake Siberian cover band that rarely performs original material, they're actually versatile performers. And aside from their idiosyncratic attire (lengthy pompadours extend and hang like diving boards from their foreheads, mirrored by outrageously long and pointy elf shoes), they're typical Kaurismäki characters who enjoy diligent beer drinking whenever possible, staring to deadpan effect—and furthermore, showing no visible facial reactions to anything. The members of Sleepy Sleepers first teamed up with Kaurismäki for 1986’s eight-minute, faux-mtv epic "Rocky VI," a fictional rock pastiche that rewrites Rocky IV’s triumphant ending, an early sign of Kaurismäki’s interest in toying with Cold War imagery.
Continued reading DVD Of The Week: Aki Kaurismäki's Leningrad Cowboys.
- 10/18/2011
- GreenCine Daily
The Divide is a quiet, end of the world thriller that most onliners haven't heard a whit of information about. Here I am to remedy that.
The facts:
It's directed by Xavier Gans (Hitman, Frontier(s)). The Divide stars Michael Biehn (Terminator, Aliens), Milo Ventimiglia (Heroes, Rocky VI), Rosanna Arquette (missing since the 1980s), Courtney B. Vance and Lauren German. It has a release date of January 13, 2012, which is usually a dumping ground for studios. That doesn't mean that you should automatically write The Divide off just yet. The Divide played at the Toronto Film Festival's After Dark series, and reviews were Ok for the movie.
Here's the new trailer and a message to Yahoo's Movie department: when you make a trailer blocked by country, it pisses me off and I grab it from YouTube. This isn't like ripping a movie guys, everyone should have the opportunity to see a movie trailer.
The facts:
It's directed by Xavier Gans (Hitman, Frontier(s)). The Divide stars Michael Biehn (Terminator, Aliens), Milo Ventimiglia (Heroes, Rocky VI), Rosanna Arquette (missing since the 1980s), Courtney B. Vance and Lauren German. It has a release date of January 13, 2012, which is usually a dumping ground for studios. That doesn't mean that you should automatically write The Divide off just yet. The Divide played at the Toronto Film Festival's After Dark series, and reviews were Ok for the movie.
Here's the new trailer and a message to Yahoo's Movie department: when you make a trailer blocked by country, it pisses me off and I grab it from YouTube. This isn't like ripping a movie guys, everyone should have the opportunity to see a movie trailer.
- 10/12/2011
- by Patrick Sauriol
- Corona's Coming Attractions
Release Date: Oct. 18, 2011
Price: DVD $44.95
Studio: Criterion
The Leningrad Cowboys prepare for another hair-raising show.
Criterion‘s Eclipse Series 29 features the inimitable work of Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki (The Match Factory Girl), the master of the deadpan comedy, and his weirdest creation: the band Leningrad Cowboys, billed by their inventor as “the worst rock-and-roll band in the world.”
A bizarre posse of fur-coated, outrageously pompadoured Siberian hipsters, the band struck a chord with international audiences via their debut star turn in the 1989 Kaurismäki film Leningrad Cowboys Go America. The fictional band was so popular that it became a genuine attraction, touring the world and appearing in a handful of subsequent Kaurismäki movies.
This Eclipse series presents these crackpot musical and comic odysseys, all Finnish films, along with five Leningrad Cowboys music videos directed by Kaurismäki.
Here’s what’s included in the DVD:
Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989)
The struggling Siberian...
Price: DVD $44.95
Studio: Criterion
The Leningrad Cowboys prepare for another hair-raising show.
Criterion‘s Eclipse Series 29 features the inimitable work of Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki (The Match Factory Girl), the master of the deadpan comedy, and his weirdest creation: the band Leningrad Cowboys, billed by their inventor as “the worst rock-and-roll band in the world.”
A bizarre posse of fur-coated, outrageously pompadoured Siberian hipsters, the band struck a chord with international audiences via their debut star turn in the 1989 Kaurismäki film Leningrad Cowboys Go America. The fictional band was so popular that it became a genuine attraction, touring the world and appearing in a handful of subsequent Kaurismäki movies.
This Eclipse series presents these crackpot musical and comic odysseys, all Finnish films, along with five Leningrad Cowboys music videos directed by Kaurismäki.
Here’s what’s included in the DVD:
Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989)
The struggling Siberian...
- 8/5/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Follow your dreams, but not if they get you injured says Joe Queenan, as he attempts to extract the essential pearl of wisdom from the grit of sports films such as Caddyshack, Invictus and The Blind Side
I have just found out that a professor at a Florida university has been using the 1980 film Caddyshack in a course as "a forum for discussing everything from civility and class distinctions to sports gambling and animal rights". Theodore Curtis teaches sports management at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida. Sports management is a discipline that prepares students for careers as, among other things, golf pros. This is precisely the managerial position that comes under siege in Caddyshack, a film in which drunks, gamblers, sluts, drug addicts and pesky subterranean critters wreak havoc at a posh country club. In one of the most memorable scenes, Bill Murray, playing a vigilante groundskeeper, uses high-powered...
I have just found out that a professor at a Florida university has been using the 1980 film Caddyshack in a course as "a forum for discussing everything from civility and class distinctions to sports gambling and animal rights". Theodore Curtis teaches sports management at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida. Sports management is a discipline that prepares students for careers as, among other things, golf pros. This is precisely the managerial position that comes under siege in Caddyshack, a film in which drunks, gamblers, sluts, drug addicts and pesky subterranean critters wreak havoc at a posh country club. In one of the most memorable scenes, Bill Murray, playing a vigilante groundskeeper, uses high-powered...
- 2/11/2010
- by Joe Queenan
- The Guardian - Film News
Stallone is on the verge of wrapping up shooting for the fifth installment in his "Rambo" franchise and now has his sights set on reviving his other iconic turn, Rocky. I think it's safe to say everybody was shocked when "Rocky VI" received such positive feedback from both fans and critic and Stallone seems as confident as ever with a seventh entry. He says this: "When I was 21 years old and at drama school. My teacher said to me, ‘If you ever put your head out there, thousands of people will try to cut it off, but that’s exactly what you need to do as an artist.’ “I know it’s ludicrous and everyone would laugh. I would laugh about it. But I also know that I’d be successful if I can make this a film about becoming older, not about boxing but about myself".
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- 10/25/2009
- by Chad Langen
- Reel Empire
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