All-time classic Gone with the Wind is back in Cineplex theatres as part of the Classic Film Series!
All-time classic Gone with the Wind is back in Cineplex theatres as part of the Classic Film Series!All-time classic Gone with the Wind is back in Cineplex theatres as part of the Classic Film Series!Ingrid Randoja - Cineplex Magazine9/13/2017 1:03:00 Pm
It took three directors, seven writers, 1,500 extras and one obsessed producer named David O. Selznick to make the 1939 classic Gone with the Wind.
Selznick bought the rights to author Margaret Mitchell’s 1,037-page epic Civil War romance that finds spoiled Southern belle Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) pining for the melancholy Ashley (Leslie Howard) while falling into a tempestuous relationship with the arrogant Rhett Butler (Clark Gable).
Selznick wanted only Gable for the role and waited two years until he became available. However, finding the perfect Scarlett was a chore as he screen-tested 33 actors before signing Leigh, a relatively unknown British beauty. He hired screenwriters only to fire them,...
It took three directors, seven writers, 1,500 extras and one obsessed producer named David O. Selznick to make the 1939 classic Gone with the Wind.
Selznick bought the rights to author Margaret Mitchell’s 1,037-page epic Civil War romance that finds spoiled Southern belle Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) pining for the melancholy Ashley (Leslie Howard) while falling into a tempestuous relationship with the arrogant Rhett Butler (Clark Gable).
Selznick wanted only Gable for the role and waited two years until he became available. However, finding the perfect Scarlett was a chore as he screen-tested 33 actors before signing Leigh, a relatively unknown British beauty. He hired screenwriters only to fire them,...
- 9/13/2017
- by Ingrid Randoja - Cineplex Magazine
- Cineplex
Gone With the Wind is now gone from a Memphis, Tennessee, movie theater where it was annually screened for the past 34 years — and fans have mixed feelings about it.
The 1939 film adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s novel of the same name — which tells the story of plantation Southern belle Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh)’s love affair with Confederate soldier Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods — has been pulled from The Orpheum Theatre’s 2018 summer movie series.
Though it had been a part of The Orpheum’s annual summer movie series for years, complaints from an Aug.
The 1939 film adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s novel of the same name — which tells the story of plantation Southern belle Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh)’s love affair with Confederate soldier Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods — has been pulled from The Orpheum Theatre’s 2018 summer movie series.
Though it had been a part of The Orpheum’s annual summer movie series for years, complaints from an Aug.
- 8/29/2017
- by Dave Quinn
- PEOPLE.com
Jennifer Leigh Williamson Jun 13, 2017
As far back as the 1920s, cinema has brought us feminist heroes. Here's a bunch of films way ahead of their time...
“I never realised until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.” - Katharine Hepburn
Feminism, equality of the sexes. Often when watching old movies, the sexism of the time can catch you off guard. Bums are pinched, bimbos bounce, old maids glower and you shake your head and sigh, glad that those times have (mostly) passed. So when we see classic films with strong, intelligent, impressive, witty, ambitious, feminist female characters, equals to their male counterparts, we sit up and take notice. There are many great classic films with impressive female characters, too many to list here. This article is about the characters that have inspired me personally. Classic feminist films way ahead of their time.
Spoilers ahead...
The Passion Of Joan Of Arc...
As far back as the 1920s, cinema has brought us feminist heroes. Here's a bunch of films way ahead of their time...
“I never realised until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.” - Katharine Hepburn
Feminism, equality of the sexes. Often when watching old movies, the sexism of the time can catch you off guard. Bums are pinched, bimbos bounce, old maids glower and you shake your head and sigh, glad that those times have (mostly) passed. So when we see classic films with strong, intelligent, impressive, witty, ambitious, feminist female characters, equals to their male counterparts, we sit up and take notice. There are many great classic films with impressive female characters, too many to list here. This article is about the characters that have inspired me personally. Classic feminist films way ahead of their time.
Spoilers ahead...
The Passion Of Joan Of Arc...
- 4/29/2017
- Den of Geek
Simon Brew Dec 8, 2016
Tom Cruise continues to deliver in blockbuster movies: but it can't just be us who'd love to see him making a few more leftfield choices.
Over the weekend, we got the release of the trailer for 2017’s The Mummy movie. In it, as many were quick to point out, Tom Cruise is soon running again. Few actors run with the speed and intensity of Tom Cruise on the big screen, and few actors seem committed to the productions they take on in the manner that Cruise is. Whenever we’ve interviewed anyone to do with a Tom Cruise movie, they all volunteer just how far the man goes out of his way to have a chat, make them feel settled, and make them feel part of things.
See related Matt Reeves interview: Dawn, Andy Serkis and blockbuster filmmaking Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes review
Appreciating it’s internet law,...
Tom Cruise continues to deliver in blockbuster movies: but it can't just be us who'd love to see him making a few more leftfield choices.
Over the weekend, we got the release of the trailer for 2017’s The Mummy movie. In it, as many were quick to point out, Tom Cruise is soon running again. Few actors run with the speed and intensity of Tom Cruise on the big screen, and few actors seem committed to the productions they take on in the manner that Cruise is. Whenever we’ve interviewed anyone to do with a Tom Cruise movie, they all volunteer just how far the man goes out of his way to have a chat, make them feel settled, and make them feel part of things.
See related Matt Reeves interview: Dawn, Andy Serkis and blockbuster filmmaking Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes review
Appreciating it’s internet law,...
- 12/6/2016
- Den of Geek
Ah, swear words! We’re taught from such a young age to abstain from using profane language that the desire to use it becomes almost inherent the older we get. An f-bomb here, a slip of the tongue there, these words have been cultivated to be an important part of our modern day vernacular, no matter how taboo they’ve been considered historically.
In film, swear words are the difference between a PG-13 or an R-rating; they’re the unforgettable final line muttered by a scorned Rhett Butler in “Gone With The Wind,” or in a whirlwind performance by Ben Kingsley in Jonathan Glazer‘s terrific “Sexy Beast.” In a new video essay from Now You See It, we learn more about the aesthetics of cursing in film.
Continue reading Video Essay Details The Art Of Cursing In Cinema at The Playlist.
In film, swear words are the difference between a PG-13 or an R-rating; they’re the unforgettable final line muttered by a scorned Rhett Butler in “Gone With The Wind,” or in a whirlwind performance by Ben Kingsley in Jonathan Glazer‘s terrific “Sexy Beast.” In a new video essay from Now You See It, we learn more about the aesthetics of cursing in film.
Continue reading Video Essay Details The Art Of Cursing In Cinema at The Playlist.
- 10/25/2016
- by Samantha Vacca
- The Playlist
It had been a long time since I was in the same room with director Michael Cimino. My first job out of Nyu Cinema Studies was in the publicity department at United Artists in New York, where I witnessed the long delays on Cimino’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning 1978 anti-war diatribe “The Deer Hunter,” the period western “Heaven’s Gate.”
The director got caught up in chasing authenticity in the myriad details of the production, training for weeks the cast led by Kris Kristofferson and Isabelle Huppert to roller-skate for one scene — and demanding endless retakes until he shot more feet of film, over 1 million, than even Francis Coppola did on another memorably out-of-control UA movie, “Apocalypse Now.” The original $11 million budget bloated to $32 million (Cimino’s figure), as recounted in Steven Bach’s “Final Cut: Art, Money and Ego in the Making of ‘Heaven’s Gate.’
“Heaven’s...
The director got caught up in chasing authenticity in the myriad details of the production, training for weeks the cast led by Kris Kristofferson and Isabelle Huppert to roller-skate for one scene — and demanding endless retakes until he shot more feet of film, over 1 million, than even Francis Coppola did on another memorably out-of-control UA movie, “Apocalypse Now.” The original $11 million budget bloated to $32 million (Cimino’s figure), as recounted in Steven Bach’s “Final Cut: Art, Money and Ego in the Making of ‘Heaven’s Gate.’
“Heaven’s...
- 7/2/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
It had been a long time since I was in the same room with director Michael Cimino. My first job out of Nyu Cinema Studies was in the publicity department at United Artists in New York, where I witnessed the long delays on Cimino’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning 1978 anti-war diatribe “The Deer Hunter,” the period western “Heaven’s Gate.”
The director got caught up in chasing authenticity in the myriad details of the production, training for weeks the cast led by Kris Kristofferson and Isabelle Huppert to roller-skate for one scene — and demanding endless retakes until he shot more feet of film, over 1 million, than even Francis Coppola did on another memorably out-of-control UA movie, “Apocalypse Now.” The original $11 million budget bloated to $32 million (Cimino’s figure), as recounted in Steven Bach’s “Final Cut: Art, Money and Ego in the Making of ‘Heaven’s Gate.’
“Heaven’s...
The director got caught up in chasing authenticity in the myriad details of the production, training for weeks the cast led by Kris Kristofferson and Isabelle Huppert to roller-skate for one scene — and demanding endless retakes until he shot more feet of film, over 1 million, than even Francis Coppola did on another memorably out-of-control UA movie, “Apocalypse Now.” The original $11 million budget bloated to $32 million (Cimino’s figure), as recounted in Steven Bach’s “Final Cut: Art, Money and Ego in the Making of ‘Heaven’s Gate.’
“Heaven’s...
- 7/2/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
When adjusted for inflation, the king of the domestic box office is still the classic Gone With the Wind. Whether or not you.ve actually seen the movie or not, everybody knows how it ends. Rhett Butler walks out the door leaving Scarlett O.Hara alone. But, before he does, he says one of the most famous lines in movie history, "Frankly, my dear, I don.t give a damn." The line has become one of the most iconic moments in all of film, but it almost didn.t happen that way. If the censors had their way the line would have been changed, and it would have been terrible. In the 1930.s Hollywood was beholden to the Hayes Code. This was a set of rules which dictated what filmmakers could, and could not, do in movies. One of the rules prohibited swearing of any kind, and while the word...
- 3/2/2016
- cinemablend.com
Seventy-five years after the premiere of "Gone With the Wind" (on December 15, 1939), it seems that nothing -- not the passage of time, not the movie's controversial racial politics, not the film's daunting length, and not even the release of certain James Cameron global blockbusters -- can diminish the romantic Civil War drama's stature as the most popular movie of all time.
The film is certainly a formidable artistic achievement, a cornerstone of movie history, and a highlight of a year so full of landmark films that 1939 has often been called the greatest year in the history of Hollywood filmmaking. Each viewing of the four-hour epic seems to reveal new details. Still, even longtime "Gwtw" fans may not know the behind-the-scenes story of the film, one as lengthy and tumultuous as the on-screen romance between Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) and Rhett Butler (Clark Gable). Producer David O. Selznick spent fortunes, hired...
The film is certainly a formidable artistic achievement, a cornerstone of movie history, and a highlight of a year so full of landmark films that 1939 has often been called the greatest year in the history of Hollywood filmmaking. Each viewing of the four-hour epic seems to reveal new details. Still, even longtime "Gwtw" fans may not know the behind-the-scenes story of the film, one as lengthy and tumultuous as the on-screen romance between Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) and Rhett Butler (Clark Gable). Producer David O. Selznick spent fortunes, hired...
- 12/16/2014
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
It was the first color film to win the Best Picture Oscar and is ranked as one of the greatest movie of all time by the American Film Institute. In its first four years of release the film sold 59.5 million tickets, a number equal to half the population of the United States in 1939 and according to Box Office Mojo it’s the highest grossing film of all time when adjusted for ticket price inflation.
Today, Gone with the Wind celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary as “the most iconic film of all time.”
Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, the story of Southern Belle Scarlett O’Hara and her torrid affair with blockade runner Rhett Butler remains so popular it has motivated legions of fans, called Windies, to gather in period costume in author Margaret Mitchell’s hometown of Atlanta, Georgia.
It even inspired one of the most famous television parodies of all time.
Today, Gone with the Wind celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary as “the most iconic film of all time.”
Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, the story of Southern Belle Scarlett O’Hara and her torrid affair with blockade runner Rhett Butler remains so popular it has motivated legions of fans, called Windies, to gather in period costume in author Margaret Mitchell’s hometown of Atlanta, Georgia.
It even inspired one of the most famous television parodies of all time.
- 12/15/2014
- by Richard Crouse
- Cineplex
20. Love/Chloe in the Afternoon (1972)
Directed by: Éric Rohmer
Originally titled “Love in the Afternoon,” but released in North America as “Chloe in the Afternoon,” this Rohmer film is a tale of possible infidelity, seen through the eyes of a conflicted man. Frédéric (Bernard Verley) is a successful young lawyer who is happily married to a teacher named Hélène (Françoise Verley), who is pregnant with their second child. While Frédéric is in a considerably good place in his life, he still struggles with the loss of excitement he had before he married, when he could sleep with whomever he chose. It wasn’t so much the sex that thrilled him, but the chase itself. Still, he feels that these thoughts and fantasies, paired with his refusal to act upon them, only proves that he is completely dedicated and in love with his own wife. That is, until he meets Chloé...
Directed by: Éric Rohmer
Originally titled “Love in the Afternoon,” but released in North America as “Chloe in the Afternoon,” this Rohmer film is a tale of possible infidelity, seen through the eyes of a conflicted man. Frédéric (Bernard Verley) is a successful young lawyer who is happily married to a teacher named Hélène (Françoise Verley), who is pregnant with their second child. While Frédéric is in a considerably good place in his life, he still struggles with the loss of excitement he had before he married, when he could sleep with whomever he chose. It wasn’t so much the sex that thrilled him, but the chase itself. Still, he feels that these thoughts and fantasies, paired with his refusal to act upon them, only proves that he is completely dedicated and in love with his own wife. That is, until he meets Chloé...
- 12/2/2014
- by Joshua Gaul
- SoundOnSight
In retrospect, it wasn't all that shocking that it took less than a season for "The Originals" to usurp "The Vampire Diaries." "The Originals" wasn't just a spinoff that took one character away from "The Vampire Diaries." For the better part of two season, Joseph Morgan was a menacing force on "Tvd," while Daniel Gillies and Claire Holt supplied both charm and threat. [I'm not going to try pretending that Phoebe Tonkin's Hayley was any particular key cog in the "Vampire Diaries" machine, but y'all know I like Phoebe Tonkin.] Stripped of Morgan, Gillies, Holt and Tonkin, "Vampire Diaries" was left with a fundamental adversarial weakness in its fifth season and the show compensated by doubling and tripling down on doppelgängers and by trying to make viewers care about Travelers, who were scary enough to make you clutch your passport if they sat next to you on a Eurail journey, but nothing more. In only a season, "Vampire Diaries" went from a show that constantly made fans say "Whoa" to a show that mostly left me saying,...
- 10/7/2014
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
This fall, Turner Classic Movies is teaming up with Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Fathom Events and the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin to celebrate the 75th anniversary of one of the most successful and beloved films of all time: the 1939 classic Gone With the Wind. The multi-tiered celebration is set to include a new Blu-ray collection of the movie, screenings at more than 650 movie theaters nationwide, a fascinating exhibit and book on the making of the film and, of course, a special presentation of the movie on Turner Classic Movies.
“TCM’s wide-ranging celebration of Gone With the Wind is a great chance for fans to experience and explore this monumental classic in a variety of ways,” said Dennis Adamovich, senior vice president of digital, affiliate, lifestyle and enterprise commerce for TCM, TBS and TNT.“We’re very excited to be working with our friends at Warner Bros.
“TCM’s wide-ranging celebration of Gone With the Wind is a great chance for fans to experience and explore this monumental classic in a variety of ways,” said Dennis Adamovich, senior vice president of digital, affiliate, lifestyle and enterprise commerce for TCM, TBS and TNT.“We’re very excited to be working with our friends at Warner Bros.
- 9/3/2014
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Previously on Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Gone With the Wind Pt 1
We return now to wind-swept Georgia and the tale of the most famous southern belle of all time, Scarlett O'Hara Wilkes Kennedy Butler. We've lost a few Best Shot participants this time around (people don't love Part 2 as much I guess - a group which includes me) or they're just running late (which includes me). I'm still debating between a few images and too tired to think any more. I'll decide tomorrow. Tomorrow is another day!
Gone With The Wind Pt 2
Click on any of the Best Shot choices to read the corresponding articles
The marriage of Scarlett and Rhett is its own version of Sherman's march... a path of destruction in their wake.
-The Entertainment Junkie
There is something you love better than me, though you may not know it.
-Ashley Wilkes for The Film...
We return now to wind-swept Georgia and the tale of the most famous southern belle of all time, Scarlett O'Hara Wilkes Kennedy Butler. We've lost a few Best Shot participants this time around (people don't love Part 2 as much I guess - a group which includes me) or they're just running late (which includes me). I'm still debating between a few images and too tired to think any more. I'll decide tomorrow. Tomorrow is another day!
Gone With The Wind Pt 2
Click on any of the Best Shot choices to read the corresponding articles
The marriage of Scarlett and Rhett is its own version of Sherman's march... a path of destruction in their wake.
-The Entertainment Junkie
There is something you love better than me, though you may not know it.
-Ashley Wilkes for The Film...
- 8/27/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The obligatory movie catchphrase…memorable golden dialogue for the cinematic soul. What film fan does not enjoy reciting and repeating their favorite movie quotes? After all, there are countless catchphrases in films–some are famous, some are familiar, some are obscure. Still, paraphrasing movie quips has become an art onto itself?
So what are your all-time movie catchphrases? Perhaps it is Jimmy Cagney’s “You dirt rat…you killed my brother?”. Maybe it is Cary Grant’s “Judy, Judy, Judy”? Or how about Lauren Bacall’s “You know how to whistle, don’t you? Just blow…” Whatever movie catchphrases catches your fancy is fine so long as it brings up memories of the film or film characters tat have made a big impression on your cinema experiences.
The Lip Service: The Top 10 Movie Catchphrases selections are: (in alphabetical order according to film title):
1.) “Fasten your seat belts, it...
So what are your all-time movie catchphrases? Perhaps it is Jimmy Cagney’s “You dirt rat…you killed my brother?”. Maybe it is Cary Grant’s “Judy, Judy, Judy”? Or how about Lauren Bacall’s “You know how to whistle, don’t you? Just blow…” Whatever movie catchphrases catches your fancy is fine so long as it brings up memories of the film or film characters tat have made a big impression on your cinema experiences.
The Lip Service: The Top 10 Movie Catchphrases selections are: (in alphabetical order according to film title):
1.) “Fasten your seat belts, it...
- 7/12/2014
- by Frank Ochieng
- SoundOnSight
Blu-ray Release Date: Sept 30, 2014
Price: Blu-ray $49.99
Studio: Warner Home Video
Classic romance drama Gone With the Wind — perhaps The classic romance drama film — turns 75 and is celebrated with another Ultimate Collector’s Edition, but the set does have some new features.
Limited and numbered with new memorabilia, packaging and special features, the Gone With the Wind 75th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition Blu-ray set includes a replicaof Rhett Butler’s handkerchief and a music box paperweight playing Tara’s theme with an image on top of the Rhett-Scarlett kiss.
Also included is a 36-page companion booklet featuring a look at the timeless style of the film, written by New York fashion designer and Project Runway finalist Austin Scarlett, whose signature look reflects the romantic elegance of the Gone With the Wind era.
The new special features on the Blu-ray disc are:
footage of Clark Gable (It Happened One Night...
Price: Blu-ray $49.99
Studio: Warner Home Video
Classic romance drama Gone With the Wind — perhaps The classic romance drama film — turns 75 and is celebrated with another Ultimate Collector’s Edition, but the set does have some new features.
Limited and numbered with new memorabilia, packaging and special features, the Gone With the Wind 75th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition Blu-ray set includes a replicaof Rhett Butler’s handkerchief and a music box paperweight playing Tara’s theme with an image on top of the Rhett-Scarlett kiss.
Also included is a 36-page companion booklet featuring a look at the timeless style of the film, written by New York fashion designer and Project Runway finalist Austin Scarlett, whose signature look reflects the romantic elegance of the Gone With the Wind era.
The new special features on the Blu-ray disc are:
footage of Clark Gable (It Happened One Night...
- 6/28/2014
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
It is not really difficult in coming up with cinema siblings and assessing their impact on the films they graced with humor, horror or hedonism. Whatever the combination–brother and sister, brother and brother, sister and sister–the big screen has always produced some of the most compelling siblings to entertain or shock us as the lights go dim at the local cinemaplex.
So who do you favor as your all-time favorite movie siblings? Perhaps you wouldn’t mind brothers Michael and Sam from 1987′s The Lost Boys? Or how about sisters Drizella and Anastasia from the 1950 animated film Cinderella? Maybe you could go for the transformation of television’s Brady kids into the film version of 1995′s The Brady Bunch Movie?
In Sibling Rivalry: The Top 10 Fictional Siblings in Film we will take a look at a group of handful brotherly/sisterly personalities in the world of movies...
So who do you favor as your all-time favorite movie siblings? Perhaps you wouldn’t mind brothers Michael and Sam from 1987′s The Lost Boys? Or how about sisters Drizella and Anastasia from the 1950 animated film Cinderella? Maybe you could go for the transformation of television’s Brady kids into the film version of 1995′s The Brady Bunch Movie?
In Sibling Rivalry: The Top 10 Fictional Siblings in Film we will take a look at a group of handful brotherly/sisterly personalities in the world of movies...
- 6/18/2014
- by Frank Ochieng
- SoundOnSight
How the Grinch Stole Christmas - 11am, Film4
Ron Howard directs a typically over-the-top Jim Carrey as the cult children's favourite Grinch from the Dr Seuss story, as the over-sized hairy green bean prepares to ruin Christmas with wacky stunts and madcap antics.
Gone with the Wind - 2pm, 5Usa
It might have been the most expensive movie in 1939, and the most financially successful, and four hours long, but for all its records, this epic Civil War drama has a compelling narrative and romance between Clark Gable's Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh's Scarlett O'Hara.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 3pm, ITV
After Alfonso Cuarón came on board for the third instalment, the Harry Potter films went darker and stepped up a notch, becoming thrilling fantasy adventures, rather than just children's stories set in a boarding school.
Wall-e - 7.30pm, BBC Three
Andrew Stanton, of Finding Nemo fame,...
Ron Howard directs a typically over-the-top Jim Carrey as the cult children's favourite Grinch from the Dr Seuss story, as the over-sized hairy green bean prepares to ruin Christmas with wacky stunts and madcap antics.
Gone with the Wind - 2pm, 5Usa
It might have been the most expensive movie in 1939, and the most financially successful, and four hours long, but for all its records, this epic Civil War drama has a compelling narrative and romance between Clark Gable's Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh's Scarlett O'Hara.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 3pm, ITV
After Alfonso Cuarón came on board for the third instalment, the Harry Potter films went darker and stepped up a notch, becoming thrilling fantasy adventures, rather than just children's stories set in a boarding school.
Wall-e - 7.30pm, BBC Three
Andrew Stanton, of Finding Nemo fame,...
- 4/21/2014
- Digital Spy
How the Grinch Stole Christmas - 11am, Film4
Ron Howard directs a typically over-the-top Jim Carrey as the cult children's favourite Grinch from the Dr Seuss story, as the over-sized hairy green bean prepares to ruin Christmas with wacky stunts and madcap antics.
Gone with the Wind - 2pm, 5Usa
It might have been the most expensive movie in 1939, and the most financially successful, and four hours long, but for all its records, this epic Civil War drama has a compelling narrative and romance between Clark Gable's Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh's Scarlett O'Hara.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 3pm, ITV
After Alfonso Cuarón came on board for the third instalment, the Harry Potter films went darker and stepped up a notch, becoming thrilling fantasy adventures, rather than just children's stories set in a boarding school.
Wall-e - 7.30pm, BBC Three
Andrew Stanton, of Finding Nemo fame,...
Ron Howard directs a typically over-the-top Jim Carrey as the cult children's favourite Grinch from the Dr Seuss story, as the over-sized hairy green bean prepares to ruin Christmas with wacky stunts and madcap antics.
Gone with the Wind - 2pm, 5Usa
It might have been the most expensive movie in 1939, and the most financially successful, and four hours long, but for all its records, this epic Civil War drama has a compelling narrative and romance between Clark Gable's Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh's Scarlett O'Hara.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 3pm, ITV
After Alfonso Cuarón came on board for the third instalment, the Harry Potter films went darker and stepped up a notch, becoming thrilling fantasy adventures, rather than just children's stories set in a boarding school.
Wall-e - 7.30pm, BBC Three
Andrew Stanton, of Finding Nemo fame,...
- 4/21/2014
- Digital Spy
Almost 80 years after the publication of Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel Gone With The Wind, the character we all know as Mammy, is finally getting her own back story - in book form... at least for now. Simon & Schuster imprint Atria, announced today that it will publish Ruth's Journey: The Story of Mammy from Gone with the Wind, a fictional telling of the life of one of the original novel’s central characters - Mammy, who otherwise remains nameless. Donald McCaig, the award-winning author of the Civil War-set Jacob’s Ladder, and who was also chosen by the Margaret Mitchell estate to write Rhett Butler’s People, the authorized sequel...
- 3/27/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
It's the highest-grossing movie of all time, and now "Gone With the Wind" is getting a prequel -- in book form, anyway.
The New York Times reports that a new novel, called "Ruth's Journey," will debut in later this year and tell the story of "Wind"'s Mammy character, played by Oscar winner Hattie McDaniel in the 1939 film adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 book. Mammy was the slave owned by Scarlett O'Hara's family, known for her loyalty and her quick wit.
Author Daniel McCaig, who wrote "Ruth," told the Times that there are "three major characters in 'Gone With the Wind,' but we only think about two of them."
"Scarlett and Rhett are familiars, but when it comes to the third, we don't know where she was born, if she was ever married, if she ever had children," McCaig said. "Indeed, we don't even know her name."
The prequel,...
The New York Times reports that a new novel, called "Ruth's Journey," will debut in later this year and tell the story of "Wind"'s Mammy character, played by Oscar winner Hattie McDaniel in the 1939 film adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 book. Mammy was the slave owned by Scarlett O'Hara's family, known for her loyalty and her quick wit.
Author Daniel McCaig, who wrote "Ruth," told the Times that there are "three major characters in 'Gone With the Wind,' but we only think about two of them."
"Scarlett and Rhett are familiars, but when it comes to the third, we don't know where she was born, if she was ever married, if she ever had children," McCaig said. "Indeed, we don't even know her name."
The prequel,...
- 3/27/2014
- by Katie Roberts
- Moviefone
Atlanta does give a damn about Gone with the Wind – and you can take in the museums, southern homes and hotels that are connected to Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and the film, which celebrates its 75th birthday this year
Margaret Mitchell House
The first port of call for Gone With The Wind fans, thanks to its central location in midtown, the ground floor of this redbrick house is a museum that includes the apartment where Margaret Mitchell wrote most of her novel. Mitchell and her second husband, John Marsh, occupied one of 10 apartments crammed into the Tudor-revival building she nicknamed The Dump. The apartment's two small rooms plus a galley kitchen and bathroom look much as they would have when Mitchell lived there between 1925 and 1932. Further rooms have displays of photographs of Mitchell and there is a half-hourly guided tour, which talks you through her childhood and how...
Margaret Mitchell House
The first port of call for Gone With The Wind fans, thanks to its central location in midtown, the ground floor of this redbrick house is a museum that includes the apartment where Margaret Mitchell wrote most of her novel. Mitchell and her second husband, John Marsh, occupied one of 10 apartments crammed into the Tudor-revival building she nicknamed The Dump. The apartment's two small rooms plus a galley kitchen and bathroom look much as they would have when Mitchell lived there between 1925 and 1932. Further rooms have displays of photographs of Mitchell and there is a half-hourly guided tour, which talks you through her childhood and how...
- 3/19/2014
- by Lee Howard
- The Guardian - Film News
In 2011, Jafar Panahi's This Is Not a Film played at Cannes, after having been smuggled out of Iran on a Usb stick hidden in a cake. The director himself was imprisoned in his home by the government and banned from making movies. Back in 1939, the kissing scenes between Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind were questioned by censors. Twenty years after that, in 1960, the shower scene in Psycho was also censored after being deemed morally unacceptable. These and many other examples show that censorship has been an ever-present obstacle to overcome for both filmmakers and filmgoers. That's the focus of the Censurados Film Festival, one in a long line of fests which have recently sprung up in Peru...
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- 2/11/2014
- Screen Anarchy
‘Gone with the Wind’ actress Alicia Rhett dead at 98; was oldest surviving credited Gwtw cast member Gone with the Wind actress Alicia Rhett, the oldest surviving credited cast member of the 1939 Oscar-winning blockbuster, died on January 3, 2014, at the Bishop Gadsden Episcopal Retirement Community in Charleston, South Carolina, where Rhett had been living since August 2002. Alicia Rhett, born on February 1, 1915, in Savannah, Georgia, was 98. (Photo: Alicia Rhett as India Wilkes in Gone with the Wind.) In Gone with the Wind, the David O. Selznick production made in conjunction with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM head Louis B. Mayer was Selznick’s father-in-law), the stage-trained Alicia Rhett played India Wilkes, the embittered sister of Ashley Wilkes, whom Scarlett O’Hara loves — though Ashley eventually marries Melanie Hamilton (Rhett had auditioned for the role), while Scarlett ends up with Rhett Butler. Based on Margaret Mitchell’s bestseller, Gone with the Wind was (mostly) directed by Victor Fleming...
- 1/5/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
I have a list of movies that is as malleable as a rubber band. Okay, certain movies, such as The Bridge on the River Kwai or The Searchers or The Best Years of Our Lives are always on that list, but their positions- 1, 2, 3, and so on- tumble around in my mind like clothes in a dryer. Other movies appear and disappear like the crew of the Enterprise on the transporter pad.
Gone With the Wind, for instance. This is a movie that hops on and off my list all the time. On the list because of the incredible “brought to full life” performances and spectacle, and off the list because, as a devotee of Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer-winning novel, in which all the characters are given full, rich personalities, I can’t stand the way Scarlett is portrayed in the second half of the movie; this is a product of Victor Fleming’s direction,...
Gone With the Wind, for instance. This is a movie that hops on and off my list all the time. On the list because of the incredible “brought to full life” performances and spectacle, and off the list because, as a devotee of Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer-winning novel, in which all the characters are given full, rich personalities, I can’t stand the way Scarlett is portrayed in the second half of the movie; this is a product of Victor Fleming’s direction,...
- 12/16/2013
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
“The woman I’ve been seeing… Samantha? She’s an operating system.”
Yeah, so Theodore Twombly’s not exactly Rhett Butler. But in Spike Jonze’s Her, which opens in theaters on Dec. 18, Joaquin Phoenix gives a soulful performance as an introverted man who falls for the voice that organizes his hand-held device. Of course, the voice is Scarlett Johansson, so you can perhaps understand the attraction.
The film’s new trailer is accompanied by Arcade Fire’s “Supersymmetry;” the Canadian band scored the film and a version of the song plays over the closing credits. The music and the...
Yeah, so Theodore Twombly’s not exactly Rhett Butler. But in Spike Jonze’s Her, which opens in theaters on Dec. 18, Joaquin Phoenix gives a soulful performance as an introverted man who falls for the voice that organizes his hand-held device. Of course, the voice is Scarlett Johansson, so you can perhaps understand the attraction.
The film’s new trailer is accompanied by Arcade Fire’s “Supersymmetry;” the Canadian band scored the film and a version of the song plays over the closing credits. The music and the...
- 12/4/2013
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
From the Nutcracker to American Psycho, from Mary Poppins to Kurt Vile, our critics pick their must-sees of the festive season
If you wish it could be Christmas every day
Nutcrackers, various
You know it's Christmas in the ballet world by the number of Nutcrackers touring the world's stages. In the UK alone, there are close to a dozen doing the rounds, but the top three remain the Royal Ballet's exquisitely traditional version, the sparky family friendly production by Birmingham Royal Ballet, and English National Ballet's – with the best snow scene of them all. Royal Opera House, London (020-7304 4000), 4 December to 16 January; Birmingham Hippodrome (0844 338 5000), to 12 December; London Coliseum (020-7845 9300), 11 December to 5 January.
Father Christmas
Does Father Christmas use the loo? Does he secretly long for summer? Does he have strong views on the size of chimneys? You bet he does. Raymond Briggs's gorgeous picture book gets a heartwarming makeover for under-sixes.
If you wish it could be Christmas every day
Nutcrackers, various
You know it's Christmas in the ballet world by the number of Nutcrackers touring the world's stages. In the UK alone, there are close to a dozen doing the rounds, but the top three remain the Royal Ballet's exquisitely traditional version, the sparky family friendly production by Birmingham Royal Ballet, and English National Ballet's – with the best snow scene of them all. Royal Opera House, London (020-7304 4000), 4 December to 16 January; Birmingham Hippodrome (0844 338 5000), to 12 December; London Coliseum (020-7845 9300), 11 December to 5 January.
Father Christmas
Does Father Christmas use the loo? Does he secretly long for summer? Does he have strong views on the size of chimneys? You bet he does. Raymond Briggs's gorgeous picture book gets a heartwarming makeover for under-sixes.
- 11/25/2013
- by Lyn Gardner, Michael Billington, Andrew Clements, Alexis Petridis, Judith Mackrell, John Fordham, Brian Logan, Stuart Heritage, Mark Lawson, Jonathan Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
Some elements seem grotesquely dated, but this restoration of the 1939 classic finds the film as powerful and mad as ever
The mother of all event movies returns to the big screen in a glittering new digitally restored print: the story of kittenish belle Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh), a pampered princess of the old south, her love for the doomed and self-consciously gallant gentleman Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard), and the fascination that a certain handsome rogue – Rhett Butler, unforgettably incarnated by Clark Gable – conceives for her. The movie is lenient to the Confederacy, to say the very least of it (its officers are repeatedly called the "cavaliers") and also, incidentally, to the idea of a gentleman's imposition of his conjugal rights. The surtitle at the beginning candidly refers to the lost "civilisation" based on "Master and Slave", for all the world as if we are talking about the ancient Egyptians, rather...
The mother of all event movies returns to the big screen in a glittering new digitally restored print: the story of kittenish belle Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh), a pampered princess of the old south, her love for the doomed and self-consciously gallant gentleman Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard), and the fascination that a certain handsome rogue – Rhett Butler, unforgettably incarnated by Clark Gable – conceives for her. The movie is lenient to the Confederacy, to say the very least of it (its officers are repeatedly called the "cavaliers") and also, incidentally, to the idea of a gentleman's imposition of his conjugal rights. The surtitle at the beginning candidly refers to the lost "civilisation" based on "Master and Slave", for all the world as if we are talking about the ancient Egyptians, rather...
- 11/22/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
It's a Wonderful Life might just escape the belated sequel treatment after all. As further caution, Stuart Heritage unearths some previously long-lost sequels from the archives
The Italian Job: The Rest of the Story
In the vein of the wholly unnecessary planned sequel It's a Wonderful Life: The Rest of the Story, The Italian Job: The Rest of the Story will ignore the main characters and concentrate on fleshing out the original's peripheral figures. In this case, it's Benny Hill's character Professor Simon Peach. The Italian Job only taught us that Peach was a deaf computer expert with a badly-hidden fetish for overweight women. But does he have any hidden layers? Nope. The Italian Job: The Rest of the Story is literally just two hours of Peach inventing the internet so that he can look down girls' tops on it until his glasses get all steamed...
The Italian Job: The Rest of the Story
In the vein of the wholly unnecessary planned sequel It's a Wonderful Life: The Rest of the Story, The Italian Job: The Rest of the Story will ignore the main characters and concentrate on fleshing out the original's peripheral figures. In this case, it's Benny Hill's character Professor Simon Peach. The Italian Job only taught us that Peach was a deaf computer expert with a badly-hidden fetish for overweight women. But does he have any hidden layers? Nope. The Italian Job: The Rest of the Story is literally just two hours of Peach inventing the internet so that he can look down girls' tops on it until his glasses get all steamed...
- 11/21/2013
- by Stuart Heritage
- The Guardian - Film News
Why most films of Hollywood's golden age chose to brush race issues under the carpet
I have to wonder what the motivation is for re-releasing Gone With The Wind just a couple months before 12 Years A Slave, its polar opposite among films dealing with the peculiar institution of American slavery. Are they looking to generate coattail ticket receipts from the controversy attending Steve McQueen's harrowing and violent epic? Do they think some retirement-home demographic of faded southern belles and elderly white racists will emerge, stooped and wrinkled, to reclaim it one last time?
Who knows? But it's interesting, now that a movie is on the market that lingers in detail on the pain, violence, sexual abuse, squalor and pure evil of slavery, to remind ourselves how they dealt with it in the Golden Age of Hollywood (also the Golden Age of Jim Crow). Of course, they typically dealt with...
I have to wonder what the motivation is for re-releasing Gone With The Wind just a couple months before 12 Years A Slave, its polar opposite among films dealing with the peculiar institution of American slavery. Are they looking to generate coattail ticket receipts from the controversy attending Steve McQueen's harrowing and violent epic? Do they think some retirement-home demographic of faded southern belles and elderly white racists will emerge, stooped and wrinkled, to reclaim it one last time?
Who knows? But it's interesting, now that a movie is on the market that lingers in detail on the pain, violence, sexual abuse, squalor and pure evil of slavery, to remind ourselves how they dealt with it in the Golden Age of Hollywood (also the Golden Age of Jim Crow). Of course, they typically dealt with...
- 11/18/2013
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Before geek nation freaked out about Ben Affleck becoming Batman in Zack Snyder's upcoming film, Batman Vs. Superman, there was an uproar when Tom Cruise ("Top Gun") was announced as Lestat in 1994's Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles. Fans of Anne Rices's 1976 vampire novel, which the film is based on, were irate about Cruise playing Lestat. It didn't help that Rice herself publicly knocked the casting choice, saying, "I was particularly stunned by the casting of Cruise, who is no more my vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler." After seeing the film, Rice had a change of heart. She would go on to say, "From the moment he appeared Tom was Lestat for me. He has the immense physical and moral presence; he was defiant and yet never without conscience; the guy was great." Before Tom Cruise won the role, John Malkovich, Peter Weller,...
- 11/16/2013
- ComicBookMovie.com
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has unveiled the first three movies in the lineup for the 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival, including the recently restored Gone with the Wind (1939) and a presentation of The Wizard of Oz (1939) in its stunning new IMAX 3D format. Set to take place in Hollywood April 10-13, the fifth-annual edition of the festival will also include a screening of the Harold Lloyd comedy classic Why Worry? (1923), with legendary silent-film composer Carl Davis conducting the live world premiere performance of his new original score. Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz are each celebrating their 75th anniversaries in 2014.
Passes for the 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival are set to go on sale to the public Thursday, Nov. 14, at noon (Et). Passes can be purchased exclusively through the official festival website: http://www.tcm.com/festival. Descriptions for the first three films on the festival slate are included below.
Passes for the 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival are set to go on sale to the public Thursday, Nov. 14, at noon (Et). Passes can be purchased exclusively through the official festival website: http://www.tcm.com/festival. Descriptions for the first three films on the festival slate are included below.
- 10/29/2013
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
“We’re coming after you — all your clients — every single one we worked to make happy while you swept in at the last minute to take credit. We’re taking them. And then you know what you’ll have? A very nice suite of offices.”
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That, ladies and gentlemen, is the kind of epic, threatening response you get when you poke the designer suit-ed, meticulously coiffed she-bear known as Alicia Florrick. And if you’re anything like me, that flawlessly written and brilliantly...
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That, ladies and gentlemen, is the kind of epic, threatening response you get when you poke the designer suit-ed, meticulously coiffed she-bear known as Alicia Florrick. And if you’re anything like me, that flawlessly written and brilliantly...
- 10/28/2013
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
You can't miss the masochism in Vivien Leigh's screen characters. She excelled at suffering. “Rhett, Rhett, if you go, where shall I go, what shall I do?” her Scarlett O'Hara whimpers at Clark Gable's Rhett Butler toward the end of Gone with the Wind (1939). He demolishes her with one of cinema's most famous one-liners: “Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.”...
- 9/20/2013
- The Independent - Film
So I’d gone over to my cousin’s house to see his new puppy and, as he and I are often wont to do, we got to talking about movies and TV and the like. The conversation drifted around to movies we liked but our kids didn’t.
“I have Blazing Saddles (1974),” he said, nodding at his rack of DVDs. “I don’t show it to the kids.”
I thought of the movie’s fart jokes, gay jokes, horny jokes, race jokes. “Too vulgar?”
He shook his head. “It’s because I don’t think they’ll get it.”
It took me a second, but then I got what he meant, realizing how much of the movie’s humor was built on lampooning clichés entrenched by forty years of Westerns.
Like when Cleavon Little tries to stop his deserting townspeople with the plea, “You’d do it for Randolph Scott!
“I have Blazing Saddles (1974),” he said, nodding at his rack of DVDs. “I don’t show it to the kids.”
I thought of the movie’s fart jokes, gay jokes, horny jokes, race jokes. “Too vulgar?”
He shook his head. “It’s because I don’t think they’ll get it.”
It took me a second, but then I got what he meant, realizing how much of the movie’s humor was built on lampooning clichés entrenched by forty years of Westerns.
Like when Cleavon Little tries to stop his deserting townspeople with the plea, “You’d do it for Randolph Scott!
- 8/18/2013
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
Mk Raghavendra argues why Amour might not be the best film of the year:
Michel Haneke’s Amour was the most eagerly awaited film at the just concluded Iffi 2012. Audiences waited as the lights went down and responded spontaneously when the tiles appeared – not at the name of the film or the director or for the legendary actors starring in it but at the ‘Palme d’Or, Cannes 2012’ which appeared alongside the titles. What the national audience was clapping and whistling for was Cannes as a brand. Since such conduct implies unthinking faith in the judgments of film festival juries, I wondered if the members of the audience would be bold enough to evaluate Amour on their own after they had seen all of it.
Amour (meaning ‘Love’) stars Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert. The narrative focuses on an elderly couple, Anne and Georges, who are retired music...
Michel Haneke’s Amour was the most eagerly awaited film at the just concluded Iffi 2012. Audiences waited as the lights went down and responded spontaneously when the tiles appeared – not at the name of the film or the director or for the legendary actors starring in it but at the ‘Palme d’Or, Cannes 2012’ which appeared alongside the titles. What the national audience was clapping and whistling for was Cannes as a brand. Since such conduct implies unthinking faith in the judgments of film festival juries, I wondered if the members of the audience would be bold enough to evaluate Amour on their own after they had seen all of it.
Amour (meaning ‘Love’) stars Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert. The narrative focuses on an elderly couple, Anne and Georges, who are retired music...
- 12/4/2012
- by MK Raghavendra
- DearCinema.com
Tags: Pretty Little LiarsPretty Little Liars recapsShay MitchellTroian BellisarioAshley BensonLucy HaleLindsey ShawIMDb
Previously on Pretty Little Liars, Hanna flashed back to the time when Alison flashed back to the time when she murdered her twin sister because she was tired of sharing a Barbie Glam Convertible with her. Later, Alison was murdered by everyone in the greater Philadelphia area who possessed the ability to grasp a field hockey stick. Emily fell in love with Paige, who was summarily kidnapped, bound, gagged, re-closeted, and almost knifed to death by Maya's former drug camp stalker, Cousin Nate. But Emily killed him instead, so that score, at least, was settled. Hanna tried to stay away from Caleb because her lot in life is to either hit or be hit with a car once every moon cycle, but his hobo hair is like a siren song, and she continued to crash herself against him.
Previously on Pretty Little Liars, Hanna flashed back to the time when Alison flashed back to the time when she murdered her twin sister because she was tired of sharing a Barbie Glam Convertible with her. Later, Alison was murdered by everyone in the greater Philadelphia area who possessed the ability to grasp a field hockey stick. Emily fell in love with Paige, who was summarily kidnapped, bound, gagged, re-closeted, and almost knifed to death by Maya's former drug camp stalker, Cousin Nate. But Emily killed him instead, so that score, at least, was settled. Hanna tried to stay away from Caleb because her lot in life is to either hit or be hit with a car once every moon cycle, but his hobo hair is like a siren song, and she continued to crash herself against him.
- 10/24/2012
- by stuntdouble
- AfterEllen.com
By Rachel Bennett
Television Editor & Columnist
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Of all the top 10 lists I compiled so far, this one is undoubtedly the most difficult for me.
Choosing the best supporting characters on TV is not an easy task because there are too many fantastic second-hand roles out there. Writers no longer just focus on the lead. Instead, they’re learning to flesh out the supporting players to make series even better, and in several cases, these parts and the actors who fill them steal every scene.
This list, however, is more about the characters than the actors — these roles are already so colorful on the page that you can’t ignore them.
But as I said, I stressed over this list, so I couldn’t limit it to just 10. Here are the 10 best characters on TV right now and the five best from series on hiatus:
The 10 best characters on TV right now:
10. Caroline Forbes,...
Television Editor & Columnist
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Of all the top 10 lists I compiled so far, this one is undoubtedly the most difficult for me.
Choosing the best supporting characters on TV is not an easy task because there are too many fantastic second-hand roles out there. Writers no longer just focus on the lead. Instead, they’re learning to flesh out the supporting players to make series even better, and in several cases, these parts and the actors who fill them steal every scene.
This list, however, is more about the characters than the actors — these roles are already so colorful on the page that you can’t ignore them.
But as I said, I stressed over this list, so I couldn’t limit it to just 10. Here are the 10 best characters on TV right now and the five best from series on hiatus:
The 10 best characters on TV right now:
10. Caroline Forbes,...
- 10/24/2012
- by Rachel Bennett
- Scott Feinberg
Ever heard of Sterek, Stanno, Merthur, or Wincest? These are all portmanteaus to designate popular subtextual male "slash" couples.
Slash fans can be a pretty intense breed, but for film and television projects looking for a dedicated and highly involved fanbase, the kind of audience that will explode a project's social media footprint, the fangirls and fanboys who obsess over slash are a valuable market to court, and Hollywood might just be waking up to slash's potential.
What is slash? Let's start with some definitions. Slash is a subset of "shipping" which is simply a keen interest in the pairing of two characters. Shipping can focus on almost any kind of pairing. Heterosexual, same-sex, platonic, romantic, bromantic, erotic, etc. Fans who engage in this sort of thing are called "shippers" and, let's face it, we're all shippers to some extent. If you pined for Scarlet O'Hara and Rhett Butler to...
Slash fans can be a pretty intense breed, but for film and television projects looking for a dedicated and highly involved fanbase, the kind of audience that will explode a project's social media footprint, the fangirls and fanboys who obsess over slash are a valuable market to court, and Hollywood might just be waking up to slash's potential.
What is slash? Let's start with some definitions. Slash is a subset of "shipping" which is simply a keen interest in the pairing of two characters. Shipping can focus on almost any kind of pairing. Heterosexual, same-sex, platonic, romantic, bromantic, erotic, etc. Fans who engage in this sort of thing are called "shippers" and, let's face it, we're all shippers to some extent. If you pined for Scarlet O'Hara and Rhett Butler to...
- 8/20/2012
- by dennis
- The Backlot
*Exclaimer: Please don’t read this if you haven’t seen Inception, The Empire Strikes Back, Planet of the Apes, The Wizard of Oz, Saw, Gone With the Wind, Casablanca, The Usual Suspects or The Sixth Sense
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As a probable testament to my poor academic acumen, I cannot, in good memory, recall the particulars of the situation I’m about to describe for you. I don’t remember the course, the tutorial leader, or the topic at hand, but I do remember it was an early morning class on a balmy winters day. In my usual bleary-eyed state of apathy, I resigned myself to a self-assigned seat at the back, content to make up the numbers and to pick up my arbitrarily appointed participation marks.
As the class commenced its usual schedule of speculative faff and conjecture, I commenced my own schedule of affairs: looking at people when they...
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As a probable testament to my poor academic acumen, I cannot, in good memory, recall the particulars of the situation I’m about to describe for you. I don’t remember the course, the tutorial leader, or the topic at hand, but I do remember it was an early morning class on a balmy winters day. In my usual bleary-eyed state of apathy, I resigned myself to a self-assigned seat at the back, content to make up the numbers and to pick up my arbitrarily appointed participation marks.
As the class commenced its usual schedule of speculative faff and conjecture, I commenced my own schedule of affairs: looking at people when they...
- 8/7/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
In a July 28 post, (www.soundonsight.org/will-we-ever-see-a-classic-superhero-movie/), my Sound on Sight colleague Deepayan Sengupta pondered the admittedly arguable premise that, for all their entertainment and box office value, the superhero movie has yet to provide a true cinematic classic. Back in March, I came at a vaguely similar idea but from a different angle (www.soundonsight.org/how-serious-can-a-comic-book-movie-be-discuss/). I suspected – as does Sengupta – that the problem could be that there might be some inherent barriers as to how far dramatic substance in the genre could be pushed: “…the form has limits, I think, more so than its printed source…and so does its core audience.”
As it happens, the July 27th issue of Entertainment Weekly offers their annual coverage of the San Diego Comic-Con which took place July 12-15. I think, in that coverage, possibly Sengupta and myself have our answer.
I’m sure most of the people who...
As it happens, the July 27th issue of Entertainment Weekly offers their annual coverage of the San Diego Comic-Con which took place July 12-15. I think, in that coverage, possibly Sengupta and myself have our answer.
I’m sure most of the people who...
- 8/3/2012
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
The title of this article is a variation on the most memorable film quote ever. “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” spoken by Rhett Butler to Scarlet O’Hara in the immortal film, Gone With The Wind is the number one movie quote of all time, according to The American Film Institute.
After over two hours of actual time and years of movie time Rhett had finally had enough of Scarlet being a bitch and let her know how he felt. When Rhett finally let Scarlet know he was sick of her shit she came to a realization that she did indeed love him.
If Rhett and Scarlet were from the hood that conversation would have went a little something like this:
Scarlet: Rhett, don’t go. I love you!
Rhett: Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn…bitch.
That classic movie in so many...
After over two hours of actual time and years of movie time Rhett had finally had enough of Scarlet being a bitch and let her know how he felt. When Rhett finally let Scarlet know he was sick of her shit she came to a realization that she did indeed love him.
If Rhett and Scarlet were from the hood that conversation would have went a little something like this:
Scarlet: Rhett, don’t go. I love you!
Rhett: Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn…bitch.
That classic movie in so many...
- 7/10/2012
- by Michael Davis
- Comicmix.com
For most of the 1990s, Kevin Richardson was “the one with the goatee” in the Backstreet Boys, the oldest, and seen as the adult of the group (although considering the rest of the guys were baby-faced, just a hint of facial hair was enough to take care of that). The Backstreet Boys are back together, reuniting for an album and tour in spring 2013 — which will coincide with their 20th anniversary (now I feel really old). But Richardson has the silver screen on his mind as well. He’s starring in two upcoming films — the first is a vampire musical called...
- 7/4/2012
- by Laura Hertzfeld
- EW.com - PopWatch
This week's clip joint holds on to its hat as we seek out those film scenes marked by stormy weather
This week's Clip joint is by Sophie Monks Kaufman, who also wrote the posts on siren songs and maniacal laughs. She is currently watching a film every day and blogging about it at A Truth a Day. You can follow her on Twitter at @sopharsogood.
Think you can do better than Sophie? If you've got an idea for a future Clip joint, pop and email over to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk
Ah, wind – that word that works as a metaphor for difficulty, opposition and fate. The winds of change and the winds of time are phrases we don't need explained. As well as standing for something bigger and more powerful than we can fully comprehend, in films wind is a useful dynamic force. It can keep characters indoors or...
This week's Clip joint is by Sophie Monks Kaufman, who also wrote the posts on siren songs and maniacal laughs. She is currently watching a film every day and blogging about it at A Truth a Day. You can follow her on Twitter at @sopharsogood.
Think you can do better than Sophie? If you've got an idea for a future Clip joint, pop and email over to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk
Ah, wind – that word that works as a metaphor for difficulty, opposition and fate. The winds of change and the winds of time are phrases we don't need explained. As well as standing for something bigger and more powerful than we can fully comprehend, in films wind is a useful dynamic force. It can keep characters indoors or...
- 6/20/2012
- by Guardian readers
- The Guardian - Film News
While promoting his upcoming turn in the porn-y horror flick "Piranha 3Dd," David Hasselhoff revealed that he has more classical aspirations: starring in a remake of "Gone With the Wind." Apparently, the Hoff's manager is urging him toward more substantial roles, one of which includes a remake of the 1939 classic. Yes, you heard right: David Hasselhoff wants to star in an updated version of "Gone With the Wind." With this unlikely casting choice for Rhett Butler, there's one logical follow-up question: Who will play Scarlett O'Hara? "I think that actress, Rachel Rice …" Hasselhoff told NextMovie. "Do you mean [Oscar winner] Rachel Weisz, from 'The Constant Gardener?'" interviewer Breanne L. Heldman interjected. "Oh, yeah. Oof! I think she's hot," he said. The idea of the "Baywatch" star and "Rachel Rice" starring in a reboot one of the most respected films of the 20th century was a little too good to ignore,...
- 6/1/2012
- by Jessie Heyman
- Moviefone
As if starring in this weekend's "Piranha 3Dd" wasn't a clue, David Hasselhoff hasn't stopped dreaming big.
During our exclusive interview for the horror flick, the "Baywatch" icon kept dropping hints about a yet-to-be-announced remake he's hoping to star in: one of the 1939 classic, "Gone With the Wind."
Hasselhoff began our chat expressing that his manager was less than pleased with him for taking the gig in the campy horror film. "He wants me to do a 'Knight Rider' film or Nick Fury, which I was supposed to do, or a remake of 'Gone With the Wind,'" he explained.
Later, after a laundry list of all the "beautiful" women in his life (his daughters, his girlfriend), he shared, "Hopefully the 'Gone With the Wind' will come, hopefully something great will happen."
Needless to say, we had to ask who he might like to see...
During our exclusive interview for the horror flick, the "Baywatch" icon kept dropping hints about a yet-to-be-announced remake he's hoping to star in: one of the 1939 classic, "Gone With the Wind."
Hasselhoff began our chat expressing that his manager was less than pleased with him for taking the gig in the campy horror film. "He wants me to do a 'Knight Rider' film or Nick Fury, which I was supposed to do, or a remake of 'Gone With the Wind,'" he explained.
Later, after a laundry list of all the "beautiful" women in his life (his daughters, his girlfriend), he shared, "Hopefully the 'Gone With the Wind' will come, hopefully something great will happen."
Needless to say, we had to ask who he might like to see...
- 5/29/2012
- by Breanne L. Heldman
- NextMovie
In Quentin Tarantino's upcoming movie, "Django Unchained," Leonardo DiCaprio plays a dastardly plantation owner who snatches Jamie Foxx's wife, played by Kerry Washington, setting off all sorts of Tarantino-esque violence ably aided by co-star Christoph Waltz ("Inglourious Basterds").
In a new photo posted by EW, DiCaprio -- as deranged plantation owner Calvin Candie -- weilds a hammer and enjoys a little tobacco while his Rhett Butler-esque hair and devilish facial hair give off big-time bad boy (man) vibes. Candie, whose plantation is called "Candie Land," likes to make his slaves fight each other to the death.
The alt-Western centers on Foxx, who struggles to break out of his slave status to go in search of Washington, who has been sold off to another plantation.
Foxx describes his character as, "Richard Roundtree meets Clint Eastwood."...
In a new photo posted by EW, DiCaprio -- as deranged plantation owner Calvin Candie -- weilds a hammer and enjoys a little tobacco while his Rhett Butler-esque hair and devilish facial hair give off big-time bad boy (man) vibes. Candie, whose plantation is called "Candie Land," likes to make his slaves fight each other to the death.
The alt-Western centers on Foxx, who struggles to break out of his slave status to go in search of Washington, who has been sold off to another plantation.
Foxx describes his character as, "Richard Roundtree meets Clint Eastwood."...
- 4/26/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
For some reason, Robert Mitchum's Max Cady in the original "Cape Fear" lands at only No. 28 on the AFI's list of the top 50 on-screen villains of all time. (That's just one notch above Mitchum's Rev. Harry Powell in "Night of the Hunter," a similarly terrifying killer, the one with "L-o-v-e" and "H-a-t-e" tattooed on his knuckles.) Really, Mitchum's Cady ought to be much higher up. After all, there are plenty of stalkers and murderers on the list, but how many also imbue their characters with such a perverse air of sexual menace? Only a handful: Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) in "Blue Velvet," Noah Cross (John Huston) in "Chinatown," Alex De Large (Malcolm McDowell) in "A Clockwork Orange," and Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) in "Psycho." "Psycho" was clearly a touchstone for "Cape Fear," which marks its 50th anniversary this month. Besides a villain with a dark sexual history and twisted tastes,...
- 4/18/2012
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Mike Wallace was one tough s.o.b. -- or so he wanted you to think of him on air. Off camera he could be as charming as Rhett Butler.
We were colleagues during my seven years at CBS News and our offices were on the same floor. He was always polite, attentive, encouraging. Competitive, yes, but not ruthless. Nobody could beat him at quick banter; once, when I produced a series for PBS on the stories of Genesis, he said, "Moyers, you're the only guy still standing who can make money selling the Bible."
But he took a serious interest in the reporting I did for the old Edward R. Murrow documentary series See It Now, and as he had undertaken assignments for that series, too, he would come around and compare notes on different techniques of interviewing. He was kidding, I'm sure, when he said that in another...
We were colleagues during my seven years at CBS News and our offices were on the same floor. He was always polite, attentive, encouraging. Competitive, yes, but not ruthless. Nobody could beat him at quick banter; once, when I produced a series for PBS on the stories of Genesis, he said, "Moyers, you're the only guy still standing who can make money selling the Bible."
But he took a serious interest in the reporting I did for the old Edward R. Murrow documentary series See It Now, and as he had undertaken assignments for that series, too, he would come around and compare notes on different techniques of interviewing. He was kidding, I'm sure, when he said that in another...
- 4/8/2012
- by Bill Moyers
- Aol TV.
Chicago – Every seasoned movie lover can attest to having a favorite shot in Michael Curtiz’s 1942 classic “Casablanca,” a picture practically overflowing with indelible imagery. The first appearance of freedom fighter-turned-café owner Rick (Humphrey Bogart) decked out in a white tux, the tearful letter that turns to literal tears in a rainstorm, the final walk through the fog…all unforgettable.
Yet the shot that remains closest to my heart is the one that lingers on the face of Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), as she becomes hopelessly lost in the evocative notes and lyrics of a song from her past. No actress embodies earthy sensuality and misty-eyed passion quite like Bergman, who was at the peak of her luminous beauty at age 26. Her trancelike state of nostalgic longing never fails to mesmerize me, as her eyes convey what words could only feebly articulate.
Blu-ray Rating: 5.0/5.0
Unlike other landmarks of cinema history, “Casablanca...
Yet the shot that remains closest to my heart is the one that lingers on the face of Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), as she becomes hopelessly lost in the evocative notes and lyrics of a song from her past. No actress embodies earthy sensuality and misty-eyed passion quite like Bergman, who was at the peak of her luminous beauty at age 26. Her trancelike state of nostalgic longing never fails to mesmerize me, as her eyes convey what words could only feebly articulate.
Blu-ray Rating: 5.0/5.0
Unlike other landmarks of cinema history, “Casablanca...
- 3/30/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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