David Anspaugh's 1986 sports drama "Hoosiers" has gone down in history as one of the most influential sports dramas ever made. Partly inspired by the real-life story of the 1954 Indiana state champions Milan High School, "Hoosiers" focuses on formerly-disgraced basketball coach Norman Dale (Gene Hackman), who gets a rare second chance to prove his mettle at Indiana's Hickory High School. The rather tight-knit town of Hickory seems a little too unforgiving towards Norman due to his sketchy past, but redemption finds its way to him via a David vs. Goliath situation that soon transforms into a classic underdog tale about dreaming big and achieving the impossible.
Some of the more saccharine themes in "Hoosiers" might feel a tad corny at times, but it is a film that brandishes sincere authenticity when it comes to the magic of unexpected second chances and the highs and lows of small-town sports. Moreover, a...
Some of the more saccharine themes in "Hoosiers" might feel a tad corny at times, but it is a film that brandishes sincere authenticity when it comes to the magic of unexpected second chances and the highs and lows of small-town sports. Moreover, a...
- 4/13/2024
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
When you think of the great directors in cinema history – Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock, etc. – chances are the first films that come to mind are Goodfellas, Jaws and Vertigo. But every brilliant filmmaker has their duds. Now, Rolling Stone – you know, the publication that doesn’t think Roseanne and Bill Cosby had historic shows just because of their wrongdoings – has put out a list of the 50 worst movies by some of the most renowned directors…And yes, they have missed the mark considerably.
In the list, titled “50 Terrible Movies by Great Directors”, there are plenty of bottom-barrel films, those that are absolutely anomalies in otherwise remarkable careers. We wouldn’t argue that man-child family comedy Jack (#1) isn’t Francis Ford Coppola’s worst movie or that Rob Reiner’s North (#2) wasn’t worthy of Roger Ebert’s famed “hated, hated, hated, hated, hated” review. Those guys didn’t...
In the list, titled “50 Terrible Movies by Great Directors”, there are plenty of bottom-barrel films, those that are absolutely anomalies in otherwise remarkable careers. We wouldn’t argue that man-child family comedy Jack (#1) isn’t Francis Ford Coppola’s worst movie or that Rob Reiner’s North (#2) wasn’t worthy of Roger Ebert’s famed “hated, hated, hated, hated, hated” review. Those guys didn’t...
- 3/27/2024
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
Martin Scorsese has long been interested in crime stories. His second feature film, 1972's "Boxcar Bertha," involves a group of bank thieves and freewheeling fugitives. His most recent feature, "Killers of the Flower Moon," made 51 years later, is about the very real organized murders of multiple Osage millionaires at the instruction of William King Hale in Oklahoma in the 1920s. Those who are only passingly familiar with Scorsese's work tend to describe him as a maker of gangster pictures, which isn't accurate. More than anything, when it comes to his crime stories, Scorsese seems interested in ethics-free outliers. He is interested in the kinds of people who have blithely detached from conventional morality, and whose bloody-minded drive toward law-flouting, cruelty, and murder became so widespread they came to color the character of America.
In short, Scorsese is drawn to tales of sociopaths because, as he tells it, sociopaths shaped the nation.
In short, Scorsese is drawn to tales of sociopaths because, as he tells it, sociopaths shaped the nation.
- 11/12/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
With the three and a half hour Killers of the Flower Moon pulling in solid numbers this weekend, we wanted to know what movie in the iconic filmmaker’s filmography has been your favorite. Not necessarily the best, just your favorite. So if the extended music video for Michael Jackson’s Bad is the one you can watch over and over again, by all means click that button! We didn’t include any of his documentaries such as The Last Waltz or Shine a Light but if those are your favorites, click the “Other” button and let us know in the comments why you love them so much.
Favorite Martin Scorsese Directed FilmWho's That Knocking at My Door (1967)Boxcar Bertha (1972)Mean Streets (1973)Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)Taxi Driver (1976)New York, New York (1977)Raging Bull (1980)The King of Comedy (1982)After Hours (1985)The Color of Money (1986)Bad (Michael Jackson Music Video...
Favorite Martin Scorsese Directed FilmWho's That Knocking at My Door (1967)Boxcar Bertha (1972)Mean Streets (1973)Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)Taxi Driver (1976)New York, New York (1977)Raging Bull (1980)The King of Comedy (1982)After Hours (1985)The Color of Money (1986)Bad (Michael Jackson Music Video...
- 10/22/2023
- by Brad Hamerly
- JoBlo.com
Martin Scorsese is back in theaters, but once again, the cinema legend has teamed with a streamer to get it done. Previously, Scorsese teamed with Netflix for “The Irishman” and now, he’s teamed with Apple Original Films for his historical crime epic “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
So does that mean you can watch “Killers of the Flower Moon” on AppleTV+ right now? Not quite — Apple is giving the film a full theatrical run first.
And it’s easy to see why. The film got a rapturous reception when it debuted at Cannes and stars an A-list cast including Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone. Based on the celebrated book of the same name, the film tells the story of the murders of multiple Osage people in Oklahoma in the 1920s after oil was discovered on tribal land.
Critics are celebrating the film as one of Scorsese...
So does that mean you can watch “Killers of the Flower Moon” on AppleTV+ right now? Not quite — Apple is giving the film a full theatrical run first.
And it’s easy to see why. The film got a rapturous reception when it debuted at Cannes and stars an A-list cast including Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone. Based on the celebrated book of the same name, the film tells the story of the murders of multiple Osage people in Oklahoma in the 1920s after oil was discovered on tribal land.
Critics are celebrating the film as one of Scorsese...
- 10/20/2023
- by Haleigh Foutch
- The Wrap
As “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Paramount) debuts in theaters ahead of streaming on Apple, critics are ranking their favorite Scorsese movies. Looking at the auteur’s 26 films by their adjusted box-office gross, it’s a very different outcome.
“Flower Moon” will probably not make Scorsese’s top 10. It’s expected to place in the middle third of the director’s films with a domestic gross projected at up to $100 million. To be one of his 10 highest, it would need to surpass $104 million.
Five of the director’s seven biggest hits came in this century, the most recent being 2013’s “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Four of his top five star Leonardo DiCaprio including “The Departed,” the director’s biggest hit (both adjusted and unadjusted) as well as his sole Best Picture winner.
Adjusted, here is the box-office order for Scorsese’s 26 feature releases. (Excluded are his two concert documentaries.
“Flower Moon” will probably not make Scorsese’s top 10. It’s expected to place in the middle third of the director’s films with a domestic gross projected at up to $100 million. To be one of his 10 highest, it would need to surpass $104 million.
Five of the director’s seven biggest hits came in this century, the most recent being 2013’s “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Four of his top five star Leonardo DiCaprio including “The Departed,” the director’s biggest hit (both adjusted and unadjusted) as well as his sole Best Picture winner.
Adjusted, here is the box-office order for Scorsese’s 26 feature releases. (Excluded are his two concert documentaries.
- 10/20/2023
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
What is the thread that runs through the revered director’s films? Ahead of his latest, Killers of the Flower Moon, a critic watches all of them to find out
In the final scene of Martin Scorsese’s second feature film Boxcar Bertha, the luckless heroine, played by Barbara Hershey, vainly pursues the freight car from which her labour organiser lover (David Carradine) is dangling, having just been crucified by capitalist goons. The sequence foreshadows the scene in his 11th film, The Last Temptation of Christ, where Hershey, now playing the luckless Mary Magdalene, will again see her inamorata crucified. As before, he falls victim to goons.
An unsatisfactory love affair will result in a completely unexpected crucifixion in Gangs of New York – goons again – while crucifixions with no explicitly erotic subtext occur all over the place in Silence. I know all this because I just spent a month watching...
In the final scene of Martin Scorsese’s second feature film Boxcar Bertha, the luckless heroine, played by Barbara Hershey, vainly pursues the freight car from which her labour organiser lover (David Carradine) is dangling, having just been crucified by capitalist goons. The sequence foreshadows the scene in his 11th film, The Last Temptation of Christ, where Hershey, now playing the luckless Mary Magdalene, will again see her inamorata crucified. As before, he falls victim to goons.
An unsatisfactory love affair will result in a completely unexpected crucifixion in Gangs of New York – goons again – while crucifixions with no explicitly erotic subtext occur all over the place in Silence. I know all this because I just spent a month watching...
- 10/20/2023
- by Joe Queenan
- The Guardian - Film News
Clockwise from upper left: The Departed (Warner Bros.), Martin Scorsese accepting his Academy Award for Best Director (Kevin Winter/Getty Images), Raging Bull (United Artists), The Last Temptation Of Christ (Universal)Graphic: Karl Gustafson
To generations of film lovers, it seems as if Martin Scorsese has always been with us,...
To generations of film lovers, it seems as if Martin Scorsese has always been with us,...
- 10/17/2023
- by Mark Keizer, Jen Lennon, and Cindy White
- avclub.com
The 61st New York Film Festival kicks off Sept. 29 with Todd Haynes’ drama “May December” starring Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman. Sofia Coppola’s well-received Venice hit “Priscilla” about Priscilla Presley is the fest’s Centerpiece. Michael Mann’s biopic “Ferrari” with Adam Driver and Penelope Cruz the closing night feature while Bradley Cooper’s portrait of composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein “Maestro,” which had a seven-minute standing ovation in Venice, is the festival’s spotlight gala. Other films screening include Yorgos Lanthimos “Poor Things,” which won the Golden Lion and best actress for Emma Stone at Venice, as well as Andrew Haigh’s “All of us Strangers” and Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest.”
A director came into his own 50 years ago at the New York Film Festival: Martin Scorsese. He’s of cinema’s greatest directors, who has made such landmark films as ‘Taxi Driver,” “Raging Bull,” Goodfellas,...
A director came into his own 50 years ago at the New York Film Festival: Martin Scorsese. He’s of cinema’s greatest directors, who has made such landmark films as ‘Taxi Driver,” “Raging Bull,” Goodfellas,...
- 9/28/2023
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
For seven years, Elvis Presley performed multiple residencies in Las Vegas. The king of rock and roll thrilled concertgoers at the International Hotel twice yearly. Presley performed twice a night in a run of 636 shows. However, the fun didn’t always stop after the curtain fell. The entertainer once admitted jam sessions sometimes ran “until daylight.”
Elvis Presley marquee at the International Hotel in Las Vegas in 1969 | Fotos International/Getty Images Elvis Presley discussed his Las Vegas performances in interview footage for ‘Elvis On Tour’
In 1972, Elvis Presley discussed his Las Vegas performances while filming “Elvis On Tour.” He gave two separate interviews with the directors of the movie, Pierre Adidge, and Robert Abel, during his Madison Square Garden shows in New York City.
In the footage, an unknown person reveals that after Presley completes two shows per evening, he and his band sometimes continue to perform into the wee hours of the morning.
Elvis Presley marquee at the International Hotel in Las Vegas in 1969 | Fotos International/Getty Images Elvis Presley discussed his Las Vegas performances in interview footage for ‘Elvis On Tour’
In 1972, Elvis Presley discussed his Las Vegas performances while filming “Elvis On Tour.” He gave two separate interviews with the directors of the movie, Pierre Adidge, and Robert Abel, during his Madison Square Garden shows in New York City.
In the footage, an unknown person reveals that after Presley completes two shows per evening, he and his band sometimes continue to perform into the wee hours of the morning.
- 5/25/2023
- by Lucille Barilla
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
When Martin Scorsese was just 11 years old, he storyboarded a cinematic epic named “The Eternal City,” which he described as “a fictitious story of Royalty in Ancient Rome.” It was envisioned to film in 75mm CinemaScope and star Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, Virginia Mayo, and Alec Guinness. This remains a fascinating, ambitious artifact that’s been shared far and wide online. But perhaps just as interesting are the storyboards critic Richard Blake describes in his book After Image: The Indelible Catholic Imagination of Six American Filmmakers. According to Blake, Scorsese, aged 10, drew even earlier the Stations of the Cross: images of Jesus Christ’s final days and moments before death.
Many years later, Scorsese would at last film his version of those events in The Last Temptation of Christ, and the result was one of the most controversial films of all time.
Christianity has a deep and enduring impact on Scorsese’s work.
Many years later, Scorsese would at last film his version of those events in The Last Temptation of Christ, and the result was one of the most controversial films of all time.
Christianity has a deep and enduring impact on Scorsese’s work.
- 4/7/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Hulu is gearing up for a solid month of programming this October as the streamer makes way for originals, returning network favorites, and plenty of classic films. With something to satisfy everyone, Hulu’s originals slate includes the Michael Keaton-led drama Dopesick, the documentary Jacinta, the bingeable competition series Baker’s Dozen, and the delectable docuseries The Next Thing You Eat. Below, see the full lineup of what’s coming and going from Hulu this October. Here’s what’s coming to Hulu in October: October 1 Big Sky: Season 2 Premiere (ABC) Cake: Season 5 Premiere (Fxx) Grey’s Anatomy: Season 18 Premiere (ABC) Station 19: Season 5 Premiere (ABC) The Bachelorette: Complete Season 13 (ABC) A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) Air Force One (1997) Ali (2001) Blippi’s Spooky Spells Halloween (2021) Boxcar Bertha (1972) Cedar Rapids (2009) Chasing Papi (2003) Class (1983) Clifford (1994) Clockstoppers (2002) Big Sky (Credit: ABC/Michael Moriatis) Code 46 (2004) Crimson Tide (1995) Date Night (2010) Dead of Winter...
- 9/23/2021
- TV Insider
The writer/director returns to talk about his favorite Blaxploitation movies with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Man Bites Dog (1992)
Trick Baby (1972)
The Exorcist (1973) – Oren Pelli’s trailer commentary
The Untouchables (1987)
Predator (1987)
Purple Rain (1984) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary
The Loved One (1965) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary
Live And Let Die (1973)
Enter The Dragon (1973) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary, Brian Trenchard-Smith’s trailer commentary
The Green Hornet (1974)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) – Darren Bousman’s trailer commentary
The Last Dragon (1985) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary
Dead Presidents (1995)
Hell Up In Harlem (1973) – Larry Cohen’s trailer commentary
Black Caesar (1973) – Larry Cohen’s trailer commentary
Shaft (1971) – Bill Duke’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairing
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)
Coffy (1973) – Jack Hill’s trailer commentary
Midnight Cowboy (1969) – Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review
Taxi Driver (1976) – Rod Lurie’s trailer commentary
Boxcar Bertha (1972) – Julie Corman...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Man Bites Dog (1992)
Trick Baby (1972)
The Exorcist (1973) – Oren Pelli’s trailer commentary
The Untouchables (1987)
Predator (1987)
Purple Rain (1984) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary
The Loved One (1965) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary
Live And Let Die (1973)
Enter The Dragon (1973) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary, Brian Trenchard-Smith’s trailer commentary
The Green Hornet (1974)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) – Darren Bousman’s trailer commentary
The Last Dragon (1985) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary
Dead Presidents (1995)
Hell Up In Harlem (1973) – Larry Cohen’s trailer commentary
Black Caesar (1973) – Larry Cohen’s trailer commentary
Shaft (1971) – Bill Duke’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairing
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)
Coffy (1973) – Jack Hill’s trailer commentary
Midnight Cowboy (1969) – Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review
Taxi Driver (1976) – Rod Lurie’s trailer commentary
Boxcar Bertha (1972) – Julie Corman...
- 8/3/2021
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Martin Scorsese has made 25 narrative feature films, and only eight of them have been about people who live a criminal lifestyle. Yet when we think about his work, we think about the gangsters. Not Alice (who doesn’t live here anymore), not Christ (and his last temptation), but wise guys in slick suits who break the law, look good doing it, and always end up dead, miserable or both.
That’s probably because Scorsese, who grew up in New York City and knows the culture intimately, brings specificity to his crime movies that matches his well-known virtuosity behind a camera. He may have made more films about other subjects than he has about criminals, but he helped define the way we look at criminality on screen. And he keeps coming back to the subject, again and again, to refine his techniques and to approach similar topics from all-new angles.
Let...
That’s probably because Scorsese, who grew up in New York City and knows the culture intimately, brings specificity to his crime movies that matches his well-known virtuosity behind a camera. He may have made more films about other subjects than he has about criminals, but he helped define the way we look at criminality on screen. And he keeps coming back to the subject, again and again, to refine his techniques and to approach similar topics from all-new angles.
Let...
- 9/19/2020
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
David Nichols, a production designer and visual consultant on more than 20 films, such as “Rocky,” “Taxi Driver” and “Groundhog Day,” died on Wednesday in Taos, N.M., Variety has learned. He was 78.
Nichols had a 30-year career in the film industry, serving as a production designer, art director, visual consultant, writer and actor at various times. His work stretched across Hollywood films and on Broadway shows.
As a production designer, he worked on the 1993 hit comedy “Groundhog Day,” starring Bill Murray. His other credits include “Gossip,” “Buddy,” “Mr. Holland’s Opus,” “A Midnight Clear,” “Great Balls of Fire!” “The Serpent and the Rainbow,” “Hoosiers,” “Heartbreakers,” “Found Money,” “Testament,” “Swamp Thing” and “Longshot.”
As a visual consultant in the different art departments, he helped with Sylvester Stallone’s Oscar-winning movie “Rocky” and Robert De Niro’s “Taxi Driver,” which picked up four Oscar nominations. Nichols also appeared as an extra in a...
Nichols had a 30-year career in the film industry, serving as a production designer, art director, visual consultant, writer and actor at various times. His work stretched across Hollywood films and on Broadway shows.
As a production designer, he worked on the 1993 hit comedy “Groundhog Day,” starring Bill Murray. His other credits include “Gossip,” “Buddy,” “Mr. Holland’s Opus,” “A Midnight Clear,” “Great Balls of Fire!” “The Serpent and the Rainbow,” “Hoosiers,” “Heartbreakers,” “Found Money,” “Testament,” “Swamp Thing” and “Longshot.”
As a visual consultant in the different art departments, he helped with Sylvester Stallone’s Oscar-winning movie “Rocky” and Robert De Niro’s “Taxi Driver,” which picked up four Oscar nominations. Nichols also appeared as an extra in a...
- 5/15/2020
- by Jordan Moreau
- Variety Film + TV
Actors sometimes complain about being typecast, but it’s a fact of life for anyone in entertainment. John Ford is usually labeled a director of Westerns, despite “The Grapes of Wrath” and “Mister Roberts.” David Lean is known for his epics, but he also directed “Brief Encounter” and “Summertime.” Vincente Minnelli? The director of musicals, overlooking “The Bad and the Beautiful,” “Lust for Life” and “Some Came Running.”
Martin Scorsese in the past year has often been described as the director of gangster films, even though that genre represents only five of his 25 narrative films, or roughly 15% of his work, if you add in documentaries.
Scorsese is also typecast as one who makes male-oriented films. This ignores that his breakthrough “Mean Streets,” was bookended by two women-driven films: “Boxcar Bertha” (1972) and “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” (1974). The latter film won Ellen Burstyn the Oscar; Scorsese has also directed nine other...
Martin Scorsese in the past year has often been described as the director of gangster films, even though that genre represents only five of his 25 narrative films, or roughly 15% of his work, if you add in documentaries.
Scorsese is also typecast as one who makes male-oriented films. This ignores that his breakthrough “Mean Streets,” was bookended by two women-driven films: “Boxcar Bertha” (1972) and “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” (1974). The latter film won Ellen Burstyn the Oscar; Scorsese has also directed nine other...
- 1/29/2020
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
Robert De Niro was just about to start shooting another film with Martin Scorsese in 2007 when he read a book about a WWII veteran turned Mafia hitman named Frank Sheeran and decided that was really the film he wanted to make: the film that became Netflix’s upcoming awards-bait crime drama “The Irishman.”
“When Bob presented the book to me, I was very strongly attached,” Scorsese recalled at a press conference Friday following the first screening of the 209-minute film ahead of its world premiere at the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center. “We didn’t have to say much.”
The filmmaker and his star had been deep in discussions with Paramount boss Brad Grey about an adaptation of Don Winslow’s crime novel “The Winter of Frankie Machine” — which was close to a greenlight — when the two read Charles Brandt’s nonfiction book about Sheeran, “I Heard You Paint Houses.
“When Bob presented the book to me, I was very strongly attached,” Scorsese recalled at a press conference Friday following the first screening of the 209-minute film ahead of its world premiere at the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center. “We didn’t have to say much.”
The filmmaker and his star had been deep in discussions with Paramount boss Brad Grey about an adaptation of Don Winslow’s crime novel “The Winter of Frankie Machine” — which was close to a greenlight — when the two read Charles Brandt’s nonfiction book about Sheeran, “I Heard You Paint Houses.
- 11/29/2019
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Martin Scorsese Says ‘BlacKKKlansman’ Ending Shows White Supremacy Is “Sanctioned By The Government”
Exclusive: After a screening of Spike Lee’s BlacKKKlansman at New York’s Lincoln Center, Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee reminisced about their days at NYU and broke down their shared influences in a 45-minute conversation that proved catnip for any cinephile.
But the talk also featured a dose of Scorsese at his most overtly political. Describing the closing minutes of the Focus Features release, he praised its switch from scripted narrative to documentary footage of the Charlottesville. Without mentioning President Donald Trump by name, Scorsese said it is “chilling” to see the clear line between the events of the 1970s and today via the footage of the lead-up to and aftermath of protester Heather Heyer’s death.
“The picture takes you to a safe place — we’re watching a movie, it’s up on a screen — and suddenly we’re catapulted into now. Right next to you. Because it’s not only real,...
But the talk also featured a dose of Scorsese at his most overtly political. Describing the closing minutes of the Focus Features release, he praised its switch from scripted narrative to documentary footage of the Charlottesville. Without mentioning President Donald Trump by name, Scorsese said it is “chilling” to see the clear line between the events of the 1970s and today via the footage of the lead-up to and aftermath of protester Heather Heyer’s death.
“The picture takes you to a safe place — we’re watching a movie, it’s up on a screen — and suddenly we’re catapulted into now. Right next to you. Because it’s not only real,...
- 12/20/2018
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Martin Scorsese celebrates his 76th birthday on November 17, 2018. While the Oscar-winning director is perhaps best known for his violent and psychologically complex gangster pictures, he’s found success in a variety of other genres as well. In honor of his birthday, let’s take a look back at all 24 of his films, ranked worst to best.
After graduating from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Scorsese directed the independently-financed “Who’s That Knocking at My Door?” (1967), which introduced Harvey Keitel. He became a star director with “Mean Streets” (1973), an intensely personal and brutal examination of the neighborhood he grew up in. The film was the first of many he would make with Robert De Niro, who shot to stardom as the reckless hoodlum Johnny Boy. The two reunited for the nightmarish “Taxi Driver” (1976), the first of several collaborations between the director and screenwriter Paul Schrader.
He scored his first...
After graduating from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Scorsese directed the independently-financed “Who’s That Knocking at My Door?” (1967), which introduced Harvey Keitel. He became a star director with “Mean Streets” (1973), an intensely personal and brutal examination of the neighborhood he grew up in. The film was the first of many he would make with Robert De Niro, who shot to stardom as the reckless hoodlum Johnny Boy. The two reunited for the nightmarish “Taxi Driver” (1976), the first of several collaborations between the director and screenwriter Paul Schrader.
He scored his first...
- 11/17/2018
- by Tom O'Brien, Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Casey’s film credits included Boxcar Bertha, Never Say Never Again, and Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
- 9/21/2017
- by Tolly Wright
- Vulture
Bernie Casey, noted for his memorable roles in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka and Revenge of the Nerds, has died, The Hollywood Reporter reports. He was 78. A rep told THR that the athlete-turned-actor died following a brief illness on Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Casey launched his acting career in 1969 with his debut role in Guns of the Magnificent Seven, the sequel to The Magnificent Seven. Over the past four decades he starred in roles both on television and film, including acting in several Seventies blaxploitation films...
Casey launched his acting career in 1969 with his debut role in Guns of the Magnificent Seven, the sequel to The Magnificent Seven. Over the past four decades he starred in roles both on television and film, including acting in several Seventies blaxploitation films...
- 9/21/2017
- Rollingstone.com
What a great sales hook — a feature film with a Bernard Herrmann music score that we hadn’t heard of. And one of the writers was Martin Scorsese, before Boxcar Bertha and Mean Streets! But wait, it isn’t as simple as that. The new release is more than a little confusing. Its own ad copy first calls this Dutch production ‘obscure,’ and not four sentences later describes it as a ‘classic exploitation film.’
Obsessions
Blu-ray + DVD
Cult Epics
1969 / Color / 1:37 flat full frame (should be widescreen) / 91 min. / Bezeten – Het gat in de muur / Street Date May 9, 2017 / 34.95
Starring: Alexandra Stewart, Dieter Geissler, Tom van Beek, Donald Jones, Elisabeth Versluys, Marijke Boonstra, Vibeke, Michael Krebs, Hasmig Terveen, Fons Rademakers, Victoria Naelin, Adrian Brine, Sara Heyblom.
Cinematography: Frans Bromet, Hubertus Hagen
Film Editor: Henri Rust
Original Music: Bernard Herrmann
Written by Pim de la Parra, Wim Verstappen, Martin Scorsese
Produced by Pim de la Parra,...
Obsessions
Blu-ray + DVD
Cult Epics
1969 / Color / 1:37 flat full frame (should be widescreen) / 91 min. / Bezeten – Het gat in de muur / Street Date May 9, 2017 / 34.95
Starring: Alexandra Stewart, Dieter Geissler, Tom van Beek, Donald Jones, Elisabeth Versluys, Marijke Boonstra, Vibeke, Michael Krebs, Hasmig Terveen, Fons Rademakers, Victoria Naelin, Adrian Brine, Sara Heyblom.
Cinematography: Frans Bromet, Hubertus Hagen
Film Editor: Henri Rust
Original Music: Bernard Herrmann
Written by Pim de la Parra, Wim Verstappen, Martin Scorsese
Produced by Pim de la Parra,...
- 7/15/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
An exclusive video traces from Bonnie and Clyde to Mickey and Mallory and all stops between.
One of the most tried and true tropes in all of movie history is that of lovers on the run. They can be petty thieves, master criminals, wrongfully-accused innocents, chance acquaintances, fleeing victims, or escaping wards, but whatever the impetus they are two lovers, usually young, who take to the open road to get away from whatever unforgiving lives they come from. Films about lovers on the run differ from other duos in similar situations because no matter how wicked said lovers are, the fact that they are in love always generates empathy from an audience, even if we can’t connect to the impulses or decision-making skills of the characters, we can understand their motivation to avoid capture and stay together no matter what: they’re in love. And yes, sometimes that love is an anchor and sometimes it’s...
One of the most tried and true tropes in all of movie history is that of lovers on the run. They can be petty thieves, master criminals, wrongfully-accused innocents, chance acquaintances, fleeing victims, or escaping wards, but whatever the impetus they are two lovers, usually young, who take to the open road to get away from whatever unforgiving lives they come from. Films about lovers on the run differ from other duos in similar situations because no matter how wicked said lovers are, the fact that they are in love always generates empathy from an audience, even if we can’t connect to the impulses or decision-making skills of the characters, we can understand their motivation to avoid capture and stay together no matter what: they’re in love. And yes, sometimes that love is an anchor and sometimes it’s...
- 4/21/2017
- by H. Perry Horton
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
Metrograph
“The Singularity” has a packed weekend with the likes of Steven Spielberg, The Matrix, 2046 and more.
Carne’s Le Quai Des Brumes plays this Saturday.
IFC Center
A David Lynch retrospective has begun.
Tremors and Jurassic Park have midnight showings.
Film Forum
The Brit New Wave is underway, while A Hard Day’s Night screens on Sunday morning.
Metrograph
“The Singularity” has a packed weekend with the likes of Steven Spielberg, The Matrix, 2046 and more.
Carne’s Le Quai Des Brumes plays this Saturday.
IFC Center
A David Lynch retrospective has begun.
Tremors and Jurassic Park have midnight showings.
Film Forum
The Brit New Wave is underway, while A Hard Day’s Night screens on Sunday morning.
- 3/24/2017
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Silent, talking, or making — they all say something.
Talk to most people about director cameos and nearly everyone brings up Alfred Hitchcock, who slipped himself briefly into every film he made. Or maybe they’ll mention M. Night Shyamalan, who gives himself a scene with dialogue in most of his movies. While the former is done quickly and largely tongue-in-cheek, the latter is longer and more serious, more reflective of the actual filmmaker.
Standing between these extremes is Martin Scorsese, who has also popped up in a good chunk of his own films, and in both ways described above. In films like Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, New York Stories, The Color of Money, or even Michael Jackson’s Bad video, the director is a blink-and-you-miss-him element, background art, furniture; while in movies like Boxcar Bertha, Taxi Driver, or Hugo he gives himself more of a presence, even some dialogue on occasion. And...
Talk to most people about director cameos and nearly everyone brings up Alfred Hitchcock, who slipped himself briefly into every film he made. Or maybe they’ll mention M. Night Shyamalan, who gives himself a scene with dialogue in most of his movies. While the former is done quickly and largely tongue-in-cheek, the latter is longer and more serious, more reflective of the actual filmmaker.
Standing between these extremes is Martin Scorsese, who has also popped up in a good chunk of his own films, and in both ways described above. In films like Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, New York Stories, The Color of Money, or even Michael Jackson’s Bad video, the director is a blink-and-you-miss-him element, background art, furniture; while in movies like Boxcar Bertha, Taxi Driver, or Hugo he gives himself more of a presence, even some dialogue on occasion. And...
- 3/16/2017
- by H. Perry Horton
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
By Rich Drees
Roger Corman's work both as a director and a producer has often been characterized as exploitation, quickly and cheaply produced product that promised some cheap thrills – be they violence or sex – for the theater-goers' admission. It was certainly not an accusation he would ever shy away from. But that didn't mean that he didn't ensure that there wasn't at least a certain level of craft to be found in his films. And sometimes, even a bit of art sneaks through the process.
Such is the case with “Boxcar Bertha,” the second feature from filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Corman was looking for something that could serve somewhat as a sequel to his recently released “Bloody Mama” when his wife discovered the fictional account of a woman who rode the rails of the South during the Depression. The story and resultant film had more than a few echoes of...
Roger Corman's work both as a director and a producer has often been characterized as exploitation, quickly and cheaply produced product that promised some cheap thrills – be they violence or sex – for the theater-goers' admission. It was certainly not an accusation he would ever shy away from. But that didn't mean that he didn't ensure that there wasn't at least a certain level of craft to be found in his films. And sometimes, even a bit of art sneaks through the process.
Such is the case with “Boxcar Bertha,” the second feature from filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Corman was looking for something that could serve somewhat as a sequel to his recently released “Bloody Mama” when his wife discovered the fictional account of a woman who rode the rails of the South during the Depression. The story and resultant film had more than a few echoes of...
- 12/16/2016
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Martin Scorsese (Courtesy: Getty Images)
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
It’s a known fact that Martin Scorsese is one of America’s most prolific directors — and one who has proven to be inspired by his birthplace of New York City as well as other places up and down the East Coast on numerous occasions. With Silence set to be released on December 23 (with a wider release in January 2017), will this filmmaker see success with a film leaving behind this iconic backdrop?
Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter’s executive editor of features, questioned in a recent chat with this site’s namesake, Scott Feinberg, whether or not Scorsese — in all his years of making movies — had ever made a great film that had left these settings behind.
Of Scorsese’s lengthy résumé — which, before Silence, contains 23 feature-length movies — the majority have been set in either New York City or somewhere on the East Coast.
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
It’s a known fact that Martin Scorsese is one of America’s most prolific directors — and one who has proven to be inspired by his birthplace of New York City as well as other places up and down the East Coast on numerous occasions. With Silence set to be released on December 23 (with a wider release in January 2017), will this filmmaker see success with a film leaving behind this iconic backdrop?
Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter’s executive editor of features, questioned in a recent chat with this site’s namesake, Scott Feinberg, whether or not Scorsese — in all his years of making movies — had ever made a great film that had left these settings behind.
Of Scorsese’s lengthy résumé — which, before Silence, contains 23 feature-length movies — the majority have been set in either New York City or somewhere on the East Coast.
- 10/31/2016
- by Carson Blackwelder
- Scott Feinberg
Actor Bernie Casey, who appeared in such films as Boxcar Bertha, Never Say Never Again and Revenge of the Nerds after a career as a standout NFL wide receiver, has died. He was 78.
Casey, who also starred in Cleopatra Jones and several other blaxploitation movies of the 1970s, died Tuesday after a brief illness at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his representative told The Hollywood Reporter.
In the Warner Bros. drama Brothers (1977), Casey distinguished himself by portraying a thinly veiled version of George Jackson, a member of the Black Panther Party who was killed in what officials described as...
Casey, who also starred in Cleopatra Jones and several other blaxploitation movies of the 1970s, died Tuesday after a brief illness at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his representative told The Hollywood Reporter.
In the Warner Bros. drama Brothers (1977), Casey distinguished himself by portraying a thinly veiled version of George Jackson, a member of the Black Panther Party who was killed in what officials described as...
- 7/13/2016
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The way a film starts and the way it ends can tell a lot about a movie, as well as the particular style of the director behind the project. Numerous films throughout history have had memorable opening and closing shots that have elevated the feature in question, while also taking on a life of their own as iconic moments in cinema.
Following his first exploration of first and final frames in film, vimeo user Jacob T. Swinney has revisited the topic in a new video, looking at 70 new films and how their opening and closing mirror each other. Swinney had this to say in the episode description.
After numerous requests, I finally decided to create a sequel to “First and Final Frames”. Part II plays the opening and closing shots of 70 films side-by-side. Like the first video, some of the opening shots are strikingly similar to the final shots, while...
Following his first exploration of first and final frames in film, vimeo user Jacob T. Swinney has revisited the topic in a new video, looking at 70 new films and how their opening and closing mirror each other. Swinney had this to say in the episode description.
After numerous requests, I finally decided to create a sequel to “First and Final Frames”. Part II plays the opening and closing shots of 70 films side-by-side. Like the first video, some of the opening shots are strikingly similar to the final shots, while...
- 9/30/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Earlier this year, Martin Scorsese wrapped production on his long-awaited historical drama Silence. Written by Gangs of New York screenwriter Jay Cocks, it's the story of two 17th century priests that travel to Japan, starring Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver. This has been a passion project for the director for quite some time and expectations are very high.
Now we have a question for you: What is Martin Scorsese's greatest film? We're going to count anything that he directed. Feel free to vote for an early work...
Now we have a question for you: What is Martin Scorsese's greatest film? We're going to count anything that he directed. Feel free to vote for an early work...
- 9/11/2015
- Rollingstone.com
With his new movie Me And Earl And The Dying Girl in cinemas soon, we talk to director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon about Glee, Scorsese and more...
The 'overnight success' is a familiar enough narrative in the movie business. Actors are plucked from obscurity and set on the road to stardom. Directors offered major movie deals after one of their shorts goes viral on YouTube.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, on the other hand, has worked his way up through the ranks of the film industry, culminating in his latest movie, Me And Earl And The Dying Girl, a moving and very funny drama which won a Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Before that, Gomez-Rejon began as an assistant to the likes of Martin Scorsese and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu before moving up to the role of second unit director on movies including Babel and Argo. His work on TV...
The 'overnight success' is a familiar enough narrative in the movie business. Actors are plucked from obscurity and set on the road to stardom. Directors offered major movie deals after one of their shorts goes viral on YouTube.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, on the other hand, has worked his way up through the ranks of the film industry, culminating in his latest movie, Me And Earl And The Dying Girl, a moving and very funny drama which won a Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Before that, Gomez-Rejon began as an assistant to the likes of Martin Scorsese and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu before moving up to the role of second unit director on movies including Babel and Argo. His work on TV...
- 9/1/2015
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
'The Audition' poster with Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. Martin Scorsese short 'The Audition' pulled from Venice Film Festival No major international film festival is worth its mainstream U.S. media salt unless there's at least one screening featuring the latest work of a major Hollywood name. The Venice Film Festival is surely no exception, especially as it's the year's final internationally renowned European movie fest, held shortly before the fall – i.e., awards – movie season begins. Well, one work by a top Hollywood name will no longer be available at Venice: The Audition, a short film directed by and featuring veteran Martin Scorsese, has been pulled out. "We have just been informed by the production that due to unexpected technical problems the film could not be here in time," festival organizers said in a statement earlier today, Sat., Aug. 29, '15. According to The Hollywood Reporter,...
- 8/30/2015
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
(Martin Scorsese, 1990; Warner Bros, 18)
The gangster movie began in the silent era with Dw Griffith’s primitive The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912), but it was the talkies and their vibrant soundtracks of chattering machine guns, screeching tyres, hardboiled dialogue and thudding fists on yielding flesh that ushered in the first great cycle of gangster flicks. The enforcement of the Hays Office Production Code in 1934 tamed this first wave, but the gradual relaxation of censorship in the 1960s led to a grand revival of the genre focusing on the celebration of crime waves in the past (Bonnie and Clyde) and the criminal underworld of the present (The Godfather).
From the beginning of his film career, Martin Scorsese has been at home with crime both period and contemporary, starting with Boxcar Bertha (1972), a true story of outlaws in the depression, and Mean Streets (1973), which drew on his personal knowledge of Italian-Americans embarking...
The gangster movie began in the silent era with Dw Griffith’s primitive The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912), but it was the talkies and their vibrant soundtracks of chattering machine guns, screeching tyres, hardboiled dialogue and thudding fists on yielding flesh that ushered in the first great cycle of gangster flicks. The enforcement of the Hays Office Production Code in 1934 tamed this first wave, but the gradual relaxation of censorship in the 1960s led to a grand revival of the genre focusing on the celebration of crime waves in the past (Bonnie and Clyde) and the criminal underworld of the present (The Godfather).
From the beginning of his film career, Martin Scorsese has been at home with crime both period and contemporary, starting with Boxcar Bertha (1972), a true story of outlaws in the depression, and Mean Streets (1973), which drew on his personal knowledge of Italian-Americans embarking...
- 5/7/2015
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Honorary Oscars 2014: Hayao Miyazaki, Jean-Claude Carrière, and Maureen O’Hara; Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award goes to Harry Belafonte One good thing about the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Governors Awards — an expedient way to remove the time-consuming presentation of the (nearly) annual Honorary Oscar from the TV ratings-obsessed, increasingly youth-oriented Oscar show — is that each year up to four individuals can be named Honorary Oscar recipients, thus giving a better chance for the Academy to honor film industry veterans while they’re still on Planet Earth. (See at the bottom of this post a partial list of those who have gone to the Great Beyond, without having ever received a single Oscar statuette.) In 2014, the Academy’s Board of Governors has selected a formidable trio of honorees: Japanese artist and filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, 73; French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, 82; and Irish-born Hollywood actress Maureen O’Hara,...
- 8/29/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
We have him to thank for The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), The Trip, Bloody Mama and a half-dozen Poe adaptations. His producer credits include Piranha, Boxcar Bertha, TNT Jackson, Rock 'n' Roll High School and Sharktopus. (Perhaps best to disregard that last one.) He's notorious for shooting movies on little money in less than a week using sets from other films he'd just completed. Actors/filmmakers who worked on their earliest movies with him include Jack Nicholson, Dick Miller (pictured above in A Bucket of Blood), Robert Towne, John Sayles, Francis Ford Coppola, Joe Dante and Martin Scorsese. Roger Corman has 56 director credits and 409 producer credits on IMDb, and he's still producing.
And Austin Film Society programmer Lars Nilsen had to narrow it down to four features -- plus a bonus documentary on Dick Miller -- for the latest Afs Arthouse series: "Films of Roger Corman." The series, screening Fridays and Sundays at the Marchesa,...
And Austin Film Society programmer Lars Nilsen had to narrow it down to four features -- plus a bonus documentary on Dick Miller -- for the latest Afs Arthouse series: "Films of Roger Corman." The series, screening Fridays and Sundays at the Marchesa,...
- 8/4/2014
- by Jette Kernion
- Slackerwood
It has been dismissed over the years as cheesy, cheap and laughable but, as has been the case on many occasions, Hammer Films have had the last laugh. They boast a back-catalogue that is to horror movies what The Rolling Stones’ discography is to rock music. Fifty-nine years after the release of their first horror movie proper (The Quatermass Xperiment), Hammer’s films have survived scrutiny and re-evaluation and have now attained National Treasure status. Moreover, in terms of sheer importance, the Hammer films were some of the most influential of the past half-century. The ripple-effect of their imitators cashing in on their success would beget the careers of some of the biggest names in Hollywood today.
And yet since 1984 Hammer has been a dormant entity, existing only in the memory: a pile of ashes, a cape and a signet ring waiting to be reanimated by the crimson, jugular discharge of some poor,...
And yet since 1984 Hammer has been a dormant entity, existing only in the memory: a pile of ashes, a cape and a signet ring waiting to be reanimated by the crimson, jugular discharge of some poor,...
- 4/8/2014
- by Cai Ross
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
For years, the Oscars and Martin Scorsese just didn't seem to jibe. His films didn't resonate with that crowd. Maybe it was because he was an outsider. Maybe it was because he didn't trade in the breed of films that typically found footing with the Academy. Whatever the case, it became, for decades, a consistent note: How does Martin Scorsese not have an Oscar? Things began to change nearly three decades into his career. Until 2002, a Scorsese film registering with the group was not nearly the consistent occurrence it is today. Yet since "Gangs of New York," four of his last five films Have received Best Picture nominations and he finds himself a perennial fixture on the Oscar circuit, a circuit he has seen change drastically over the course of his career. With Oscar voting drawing to a close, I spoke with Scorsese recently about that very phenomenon, how zealous...
- 2/26/2014
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
Martin Scorsese is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. The guy has made a ton of incredible films over the course of his career. Here's a great video tribute for the director that was edited together by Jo Causse.
I've included a full list of the films that Scorsese has directed. What are some of your favorites?
2013 The Wolf of Wall Street
2011 Hugo
2010 Shutter Island
2006 The Departed
2004 The Aviator
2002 Gangs of New York
1999 Bringing Out the Dead
1997 Kundun
1995 Casino
1993 The Age of Innocence
1991 Cape Fear
1990 Goodfellas
1988 The Last Temptation of Christ
1986 The Color of Money
1985 After Hours
1982 The King of Comedy
1980 Raging Bull
1977 New York, New York
1976 Taxi Driver
1974 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1973 Mean Streets
1972 Boxcar Bertha
1967 Who's That Knocking at My Door...
I've included a full list of the films that Scorsese has directed. What are some of your favorites?
2013 The Wolf of Wall Street
2011 Hugo
2010 Shutter Island
2006 The Departed
2004 The Aviator
2002 Gangs of New York
1999 Bringing Out the Dead
1997 Kundun
1995 Casino
1993 The Age of Innocence
1991 Cape Fear
1990 Goodfellas
1988 The Last Temptation of Christ
1986 The Color of Money
1985 After Hours
1982 The King of Comedy
1980 Raging Bull
1977 New York, New York
1976 Taxi Driver
1974 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1973 Mean Streets
1972 Boxcar Bertha
1967 Who's That Knocking at My Door...
- 1/28/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Martin Scorsese's latest movie The Wolf of Wall Street hits the big screen next week, and if you can look past the controversy you'll find a fast, funny and hugely entertaining look into the lives of some very bad men.
Naturally, The Wolf of Wall Street boasts a killer soundtrack with Foo Fighters, Cypress Hill, Devo and Bo Diddly among the many artists backing the stockbroker mayhem.
The heralded filmmaker has always had a keen eye (and ear) for marrying image to music, so with Wolf of Wall Street poised to open on Friday (January 17) in the UK, Digital Spy takes a look at 8 great uses of pop songs in Scorsese's career.
The Ronettes - 'Be My Baby' (Mean Streets)
Mean Streets wasn't the first film Scorsese directed (it followed Who's That Knocking at My Door? and Boxcar Bertha), but for many it signalled his arrival as a top-tier filmmaker.
Naturally, The Wolf of Wall Street boasts a killer soundtrack with Foo Fighters, Cypress Hill, Devo and Bo Diddly among the many artists backing the stockbroker mayhem.
The heralded filmmaker has always had a keen eye (and ear) for marrying image to music, so with Wolf of Wall Street poised to open on Friday (January 17) in the UK, Digital Spy takes a look at 8 great uses of pop songs in Scorsese's career.
The Ronettes - 'Be My Baby' (Mean Streets)
Mean Streets wasn't the first film Scorsese directed (it followed Who's That Knocking at My Door? and Boxcar Bertha), but for many it signalled his arrival as a top-tier filmmaker.
- 1/11/2014
- Digital Spy
It says something about Martin Scorsese’s balls that after the relative commerical underperformance of The King of Comedy and After Hours that he was still willing to push both himself and the cinematic form in a way which almost treats the more business driven aspects of the business with almost complete disdain. While now regarded as firmly being one of the establishment, in the 1980′s Scorsese was a provocative outsider working within the studio system and making films which satisfied him though after The Color of Money, to-date his only sequel and an enteraining if light film, he could have taken a different path. Instead screenwriter Paul Schrader and he revisited the idea of an individual alone in a sea of people, a man tormented by personal demons, nearly losing his mind over doing so while deciding just how he wants to live his life. In the 1970′s their...
- 7/25/2013
- by Ian Loring
- Nerdly
“A small band of efficient, dedicated, highly trained warriors can defeat any number of rabble. That’s my theory of filmmaking.”
—Roger Corman
What sort of creature is 21st century cinema going to be? Two-headed beast or tentacular jellyfish? Branded or brain-dead entertainment? Elitist pastime or popular food for thought? To be on the safe side and remind future generations of the genetic foundations of this untamed living being called cinema, at the venerable age of 87 year-old, Roger Corman has opened his own YouTube channel. From king of the drive-in to elder librarian of the digital cinematheque of Babel, Corman’s protean genius is anything but nostalgic. Instead of mourning the cyclical “death of cinema” the legendary producer keeps injecting new life and ideas into the changing shape of films. While his output has significantly decreased throughout the years his relevance has not, nor, it would appear, has his maverick spirit.
—Roger Corman
What sort of creature is 21st century cinema going to be? Two-headed beast or tentacular jellyfish? Branded or brain-dead entertainment? Elitist pastime or popular food for thought? To be on the safe side and remind future generations of the genetic foundations of this untamed living being called cinema, at the venerable age of 87 year-old, Roger Corman has opened his own YouTube channel. From king of the drive-in to elder librarian of the digital cinematheque of Babel, Corman’s protean genius is anything but nostalgic. Instead of mourning the cyclical “death of cinema” the legendary producer keeps injecting new life and ideas into the changing shape of films. While his output has significantly decreased throughout the years his relevance has not, nor, it would appear, has his maverick spirit.
- 7/2/2013
- by Celluloid Liberation Front
- MUBI
As one of the first major Hollywood filmmakers to launch a paid channel on YouTube, Roger Corman, along with his longtime producer partner Julie Corman, will unveil “Corman’s Drive-In” on YouTube, which reaches more than one billion unique users monthly. Corman’s new channel is part of YouTube’s new platform offering viewers more channels through a paid subscription model.
“Corman’s Drive-In” – set to launch this summer – gives the legendary Oscar winning director the opportunity to take the treasured library of more than 400 classic films directly to his fan base, as well as reach a new millennial audience.
“I have always approached filmmaking with the desire to reach a broad audience, and YouTube is clearly where the viewers are now,” said Roger Corman. “In today’s ever-connected marketplace, I couldn’t think of a better platform on which to unveil “Corman’s Drive-In.”
Under the banner of New Horizons Picture Corp.
“Corman’s Drive-In” – set to launch this summer – gives the legendary Oscar winning director the opportunity to take the treasured library of more than 400 classic films directly to his fan base, as well as reach a new millennial audience.
“I have always approached filmmaking with the desire to reach a broad audience, and YouTube is clearly where the viewers are now,” said Roger Corman. “In today’s ever-connected marketplace, I couldn’t think of a better platform on which to unveil “Corman’s Drive-In.”
Under the banner of New Horizons Picture Corp.
- 5/9/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
I’ve got Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino on my mind these days. It’s a product of the end-of-year hurrahs for Scorsese’s Hugo. The film goes into the Academy Award ceremonies with 11 Oscar nominations – the most of any film this year – including a Best Director nod for Scorsese. Win or lose, Marty’s on a roll having already taken a Golden Globe for his work on the film, and selection as Best Director by the National Board of Review (the Board also named Hugo Best Picture). And that doesn’t include the film’s placing on any number of critic’s Year’s Best lists.
What does all this have to do with Tarantino? It brings to mind a statement the younger filmmaker had made about Scorsese some years ago.
They’ve always been linked, these two. Tarantino had been anointed by more than a few as “the...
What does all this have to do with Tarantino? It brings to mind a statement the younger filmmaker had made about Scorsese some years ago.
They’ve always been linked, these two. Tarantino had been anointed by more than a few as “the...
- 12/18/2012
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
Tomorrow, November 17th, one Martin Charles Scorsese turns 70. One of the most celebrated American filmmakers in the history of the medium, Scorsese first broke out in the 1970s, coming out of the mentorship of Roger Corman (for whom he made "Boxcar Bertha") to direct the astonishingly confident "Mean Streets." And over the years, the director has made multiple classics, from "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull" to recent awards-laden triumphs like "The Departed" and "Hugo." The director's currently hard at work on his fourth collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio, the financial world drama "The Wolf of Wall Street," but as he enters his eighth decade, we wanted to pay tribute to the master by picking out five of his most underrated movies from across his career. While the aforementioned movies, along with others including "The King of Comedy," "The Last Temptation of Christ,"...
- 11/16/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Roger Corman is one of those distinct Hollywood personalities that everyone has been exposed to in some manner. Whether you are aware of the man’s name or not, odds are you have seen a film he has produced, written or directed.
He has given many big names, from Jack Nicholson to Francis Ford Coppola, their start as part of the “Corman Film School”. His influence is immense in the film industry, and this is the focus of Alex Stapleton’s documentary, Corman’s World.
The film opens with Corman on the set of Dinoshark, doing what the man does best: making a movie! Well into his eighties, Corman is just as hands on as ever on the set of this sci-fi cheapie that was shot in Mexico. Over the next hour and a half (I beg that the film could have easily been twice as long and not suffered for it) Roger Corman,...
He has given many big names, from Jack Nicholson to Francis Ford Coppola, their start as part of the “Corman Film School”. His influence is immense in the film industry, and this is the focus of Alex Stapleton’s documentary, Corman’s World.
The film opens with Corman on the set of Dinoshark, doing what the man does best: making a movie! Well into his eighties, Corman is just as hands on as ever on the set of this sci-fi cheapie that was shot in Mexico. Over the next hour and a half (I beg that the film could have easily been twice as long and not suffered for it) Roger Corman,...
- 3/23/2012
- by Derek Botelho
- DailyDead
Director Alex Stapleton's 2011 feature-length documentary about Us exploitation movie producer, director Roger Corman, titled "Corman's World" will be released by Anchor Bay Entertainment, March 26, 2012 :
"...blue jeans, sock-hops and drive-in movies: the Fifties were America’s age of innocence. But stalking the depths of its post-nuclear bliss, mass paranoia became fuel for Joseph McCarthy’s brand of Red Scare terror propaganda. Bomb shelters were a deluxe feature in every American home, government-sponsored educational reels promised an imminent nuclear threat from across the Atlantic and Hollywood, Babylon of the western world, hung on the brink of collapse.
"It was here, in the last-ditch machinations of a dying juggernaut, that a mild-mannered, civil engineer’s son would become an influential force in modern moviemaking..."
Interviews include Corman alumni Martin Scorsese ("Boxcar Bertha"), Jack Nicholson, Jonathan Demme, Robert Deniro, Peter Fonda ("The Wild Angels") , Bruce Dern, David Carradine ("Death Race") , Pam Grier,...
"...blue jeans, sock-hops and drive-in movies: the Fifties were America’s age of innocence. But stalking the depths of its post-nuclear bliss, mass paranoia became fuel for Joseph McCarthy’s brand of Red Scare terror propaganda. Bomb shelters were a deluxe feature in every American home, government-sponsored educational reels promised an imminent nuclear threat from across the Atlantic and Hollywood, Babylon of the western world, hung on the brink of collapse.
"It was here, in the last-ditch machinations of a dying juggernaut, that a mild-mannered, civil engineer’s son would become an influential force in modern moviemaking..."
Interviews include Corman alumni Martin Scorsese ("Boxcar Bertha"), Jack Nicholson, Jonathan Demme, Robert Deniro, Peter Fonda ("The Wild Angels") , Bruce Dern, David Carradine ("Death Race") , Pam Grier,...
- 3/15/2012
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Many independent directors have come and gone throughout the years, but the one who’s stood out the most over the years is Roger Corman. The “King of B’s” filmmaker has made a flurry of independent sci-fi, action, horror and drama movies throughout the years that include “The Little Shop of Horrors,” “The Intruder,” “The Wild Angels,” “Tales of Terror” and produced many films like “Death Race 2000,” “The Big Doll House,” “Piranha” and “Boxcar Bertha,” just to name a few. He’s always worked outside of the more traditional Hollywood system and has made many films that are more akin to his own tastes, creating a legacy of wonderful, entertaining films...
- 12/12/2011
- by melissa
- ShockYa
I wrote about Project Nim last time (read that here) and since then I have watched six more documentaries, trying to close the gap on the number of documentaries I missed out on seeing over the course of 2011. As a result, I have now seen five of the 15 documentaries shortlisted by the Academy for Oscar consideration and unfortunately I don't have access to the other ten, though I still have the much talked about Senna and Werner Herzog's Into the Abyss yet to watch. Beyond all that, however, I have six documentaries to briefly discuss today so let's no waste anymore time... Undefeated Undefeated is hands-down, without a doubt fantastic. Yet, at the moment, two things piss me off about it. The Weinstein Co. hasn't done anything to promote it. There isn't a clip; there isn't a trailer; and the poster I used to the left is some rush...
- 12/6/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
0:00 - Intro 8:16 - Review: The Descendants 28:00 - Review: Hugo 53:45 - Trailer Trash: Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie 58:00 - Other Stuff We Watched: My Week With Marilyn, Three Amigos, How to Train Your Dragon, Kundun, After Hours, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Italian American, American Boy, Boxcar Bertha, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Super 8, Trigger, Waste Land 1:22:04 - Junk Mail: Informative Commentary Tracks, Good Looking Blu Rays, Movie Memorabilia, Movies That Were in Theatres For a Long Time 1:35:44 - This Week's DVD Releases 1:38:21 - Outro
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- 12/6/2011
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Filed under: Trailers and Clips, Documentaries, Movie News, Coming Soon
Before he became an award-winning and world-renowned director, 'Hugo's' Martin Scorsese had slightly more humble film beginnings. Actually, a lot more humble. One of those early efforts was 'Boxcar Bertha,' a gritty crime exploitation film set along the railroads of Depression-era America. To the young and naive Scorsese, the film was a big deal, but it was just another B-movie in a long list of B-movies for its producer Roger Corman.
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Before he became an award-winning and world-renowned director, 'Hugo's' Martin Scorsese had slightly more humble film beginnings. Actually, a lot more humble. One of those early efforts was 'Boxcar Bertha,' a gritty crime exploitation film set along the railroads of Depression-era America. To the young and naive Scorsese, the film was a big deal, but it was just another B-movie in a long list of B-movies for its producer Roger Corman.
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- 12/2/2011
- by Eric Larnick
- Moviefone
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