Fifty years ago this week, on December 22, 1965, David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago had its world premiere at the Capitol Theatre in New York. Contrary to current practices, it was reviewed in The New York Times the following day. (In his first paragraph the redoubtable Bosley Crowther notably refers to it as “Robert Bolt’s dramatization of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago” rather than Lean’s, though he later mentions the “skillful direction of David Lean.” No auteurist, he.)The Capitol, which had stood on Broadway just north of Times Square since 1919, was one of New York’s first movie palaces, and was a flagship theater for MGM. It was the theater in which the Wizard of Oz had its first New York run and in 1964 it was converted for the presentation of Cinerama films. (It closed in 1968 not long after the premiere of 2001: A Space Odyssey.) All of which...
- 12/25/2015
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
Here's a great collection of storyboard art from James Cameron's 1986 film Aliens, which to this day remains one of my all time favorite sci-fi films. The storyboards included here were drawn by Roger Dear, Maciek Piotrowski, and Denis Rich. It sure looks like Cameron stuck very close to what was done in the storyboard planning stage of the film. Check out the storyboard art below.
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- 9/12/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
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