They’re talkin’ TV, but who the hell cares what they’re talking about? It’s Harlan Ellison!
One of the great, boisterous voices of fiction writing for the last half-century, Harlan Ellison, is coming to The Cinefamily for a night. He’ll be joined by none other than Tfh guru favorite Josh Olson to talk over Harlan’s long, great career writing various pieces of television. I’d say more, but I don’t want to run the risk of getting an angry email from Mr. Ellison*. Instead, here’s Josh:
On Tuesday, November 15 at 7:30 Pm, I’m going to have the pleasure/honor/nerve-wracking horror of hosting an evening at Cinefamily entitled The Glass Teat: Harlan Ellison on TV. I’ll be talking with Harlan about his career as a TV writer (He wrote The most popular episode of Star Trek, among many others). It’ll be a loud,...
One of the great, boisterous voices of fiction writing for the last half-century, Harlan Ellison, is coming to The Cinefamily for a night. He’ll be joined by none other than Tfh guru favorite Josh Olson to talk over Harlan’s long, great career writing various pieces of television. I’d say more, but I don’t want to run the risk of getting an angry email from Mr. Ellison*. Instead, here’s Josh:
On Tuesday, November 15 at 7:30 Pm, I’m going to have the pleasure/honor/nerve-wracking horror of hosting an evening at Cinefamily entitled The Glass Teat: Harlan Ellison on TV. I’ll be talking with Harlan about his career as a TV writer (He wrote The most popular episode of Star Trek, among many others). It’ll be a loud,...
- 11/1/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
Harlan Ellison is one of my favorite writers. He is not as widely known to the general public as he should be due to his cantankerous penchant for biting the hand that feeds him: He seems to take perverse pleasure in pissing off publishers and antagonizing movie producers. Yet "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman, which first appeared in book form in his 1965 short story collection, Paingod and Other Delusions, is "one of the ten most reprinted stories in the English language." Harlan is a force to be reckoned with. And now, thanks to Netflix Watch Instantly, I can see him rant and rave whenever I want to. The 2008 documentary film is Dreams with Sharp Teeth, written and directed by Erik Nelson. Watching this extraordinary movie is an experience on a par with being grabbed by a friendly lunatic (Robin...
- 4/1/2010
- by Joseph Smigelski
- Huffington Post
Each Tuesday (beginning tomorrow, June 2), Starlog will post information on genre titles being released (or re-released) on DVD and Blu-ray that day. Meanwhile, we’re testing out the idea with this second Videolog News item. So, here’s what came out Last week:
DVD Releases for May 26, 2009
Children Of Men (Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Blu-ray, $29.98): In a dystopian future where humans are infertile, Clive Owen tries to escort the world’s only pregnant woman to safety in Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban director Alfonso Cuarón’s Sf-thriller. Starlog was on the set of this one.
Harlan Ellison: Dreams With Sharp Teeth (New Video Group, $26.95): Erik Nelson’s documentary chronicles the career of the legendary (and curmudgeonly) Sf author. (Check out the review on this site.) See this link.
Land Of The Lost: The Complete Series (Universal, $59.98): Before you see the new movie starring...
DVD Releases for May 26, 2009
Children Of Men (Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Blu-ray, $29.98): In a dystopian future where humans are infertile, Clive Owen tries to escort the world’s only pregnant woman to safety in Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban director Alfonso Cuarón’s Sf-thriller. Starlog was on the set of this one.
Harlan Ellison: Dreams With Sharp Teeth (New Video Group, $26.95): Erik Nelson’s documentary chronicles the career of the legendary (and curmudgeonly) Sf author. (Check out the review on this site.) See this link.
Land Of The Lost: The Complete Series (Universal, $59.98): Before you see the new movie starring...
- 6/2/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (ALLAN DART)
- Starlog
Killshot New in Town (DVD, Blu-ray) Powder Blue (DVD, Blu-ray) The Ramen Girl Forever Strong Know Thy Enemy Carnivorous The Devil’s Tomb Stomp! Shout! Scream! The Legend of Fong Sai-Yuk The Sky Crawlers (DVD, Blu-ray) Falling Down: Deluxe Edition (DVD, Blu-ray) Harlan Ellison: Dreams With Sharp Teeth Land of the Lost: The Complete Series Designing Women: Season One The Closer: Season Four Law & Order Special Victims Unit: Year Nine Mod Squad: Season 2, Volume 2 Children of Men (Blu-ray) Cinderella Man (Blu-ray) Field of Dreams (Blu-ray) Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (Blu-ray) Seabiscuit (Blu-ray) True Romance (Blu-ray)...
- 5/27/2009
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
You know it's a slow week for DVD releases when the biggest titles are the Renee Zellweger/Harry Connick Jr. rom-com New In Town plus two essentially direct-to-video releases, Killshot starring Mickey Rourke and Powder Blue starring Jessica Biel. Also hitting stores this week, we have Mamoru Oshii's anime film The Sky Crawlers, a Harlan Ellison documentary, a deluxe edition of Falling Down starring Michael Douglas and the long-awaited Carnivorous starring Dmx! You can also get a head start on the Will Ferrell comedy Land of the Lost by checking out the original '70s TV series. See anything worth picking up? Killshot [1] New in Town [2] (DVD, Blu-ray [3]) Powder Blue [4] (DVD, Blu-ray [5]) The Ramen Girl [6] Forever Strong [7] Know Thy Enemy [8] Carnivorous [9] The Devil's Tomb [10] Stomp! Shout! Scream! [11] The Legend of Fong Sai-Yuk [12] The Sky Crawlers [13] (DVD, Blu-ray [14]) Falling Down: Deluxe Edition [15] (DVD, Blu-ray [16]) Harlan Ellison: Dreams With Sharp Teeth...
- 5/26/2009
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Rob Hunter loves movies. He also loves donating his extremely virile and viable sperm to ladies in need. These two joys come together in the form of cash money payments that he receives every week and immediately uses to buy more DVD's. So join us each week as he takes a look at new DVD releases and gives his highly unqualified opinion as to which titles are worth BUYing, which are better off as RENTals, and which should be AVOIDed at all costs. Click on any of the titles below to magically head over to Amazon.com and pick up the DVD. Children of Men (Blu-ray) Pitch: A beautiful movie about an ugly world. Why Buy? Blu-ray is really Neil Miller's forte, but who the hell knows when we can expect the next edition of his Blu-ray Report? So I'm going to go ahead and recommend this new disc as a Buy. This...
- 5/26/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Erik Nelson's look inside the take-no-prisoners mind of one of science fiction's loudest voices is a viewing opportunity none of you should miss. Harlan Ellison, who of course has written some of my favorite stories ("A Boy and his Dog," "The Deathbird"), is one of the most charismatic and acerbic authors in the world and, whether you agree with some of his views on writing or the entertainment industry or not, it's virtually impossible to stop listening to him.
Ellison is currently making headlines for his legal battle over royalties he claims are still owed to him from a Star Trek episode he wrote back in 1967 called The City on the Edge of Forever. Widely considered one of the best episodes of the original series, it even won the 1968 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
After the break is a fairy typical excerpt / rant from the film in which...
Ellison is currently making headlines for his legal battle over royalties he claims are still owed to him from a Star Trek episode he wrote back in 1967 called The City on the Edge of Forever. Widely considered one of the best episodes of the original series, it even won the 1968 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
After the break is a fairy typical excerpt / rant from the film in which...
- 5/25/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Writer Harlan Ellison's abundant, almost excessive passion for life and art can make him an absolute delight one moment and a holy terror the next. If Ellison likes a young writer's work, he'll advocate for it ferociously, willing to elevate an unknown to his own level. But if that same writer later offends him—intentionally or not—Ellison has been known to turn like month-old milk. Ellison has brawled—sometimes literally—with critics, fans, and Hollywood producers, and he's penned fiction, non-fiction, and teleplays that combine the erudite and the vulgar in a way that his pal Robin Williams describes as "Borsht and Berkeley." Another pal, Neil Gaiman, calls Ellison's eclectic, often controversial career "a huge piece of performance art." Erik Nelson's documentary Dreams With Sharp Teeth: A Film About Harlan Ellison is an idea that's long overdue: a career-spanning conversation with Ellison peppered with clips from TV interviews and public appearances.
- 6/5/2008
- by Noel Murray
- avclub.com
By Neil Pedley
Among this week's offerings: The pregnancy comedy goes pre-natal, the fate of all the jungle rests in the hands of the world's most lethargic endangered species, and Dario Argento has a new film, rendering the rest of this list mostly unnecessary.
"Dreams With Sharp Teeth"
Author Harlan Ellison is widely regarded as one of the finest writers of the 20th century. He is also, as this documentary readily highlights, abrasive, petulant, egotistical and prone to fits of belligerent rage. Collecting together more than two decades worth of footage and interviews, "Grizzly Man" producer Erik Nelson lifts the dust jacket off one of literature's genuinely larger than life characters and a man who has filed more lawsuits than the Aclu, proving that sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction, even Ellison's sci-fi tales.
Opens in New York.
"The Go-Getter"
On paper, it sounds like the dictionary definition of...
Among this week's offerings: The pregnancy comedy goes pre-natal, the fate of all the jungle rests in the hands of the world's most lethargic endangered species, and Dario Argento has a new film, rendering the rest of this list mostly unnecessary.
"Dreams With Sharp Teeth"
Author Harlan Ellison is widely regarded as one of the finest writers of the 20th century. He is also, as this documentary readily highlights, abrasive, petulant, egotistical and prone to fits of belligerent rage. Collecting together more than two decades worth of footage and interviews, "Grizzly Man" producer Erik Nelson lifts the dust jacket off one of literature's genuinely larger than life characters and a man who has filed more lawsuits than the Aclu, proving that sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction, even Ellison's sci-fi tales.
Opens in New York.
"The Go-Getter"
On paper, it sounds like the dictionary definition of...
- 6/2/2008
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
LONDON -- Errol Morris' Standard Operating Procedure, Chris Waitt's A Complete History of My Sexual Failures and James Marsh's Man on Wire are three of 22 documentaries selected to unspool during this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Nine of the documentaries come from the U.S., organizers said. These include Daniel O'Connor and Neil Ortenberg's Obscene, Ron Davis and Stewart Halpern's Pageant, Margaret Brown's The Order of Myths and C. Karim Chrobog's War Child.
The documentary section also includes Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World, Erik Nelson's Dreams With Sharp Teeth and Peter Geyer's Jesus Christ Savior.
The 19 films in the documentary festival sidebar, along with three docus presented as galas, will compete for the festival's best documentary prize.
This year's festival runs June 18-29, The First Edition not to take place in its traditional August dates.
Nine of the documentaries come from the U.S., organizers said. These include Daniel O'Connor and Neil Ortenberg's Obscene, Ron Davis and Stewart Halpern's Pageant, Margaret Brown's The Order of Myths and C. Karim Chrobog's War Child.
The documentary section also includes Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World, Erik Nelson's Dreams With Sharp Teeth and Peter Geyer's Jesus Christ Savior.
The 19 films in the documentary festival sidebar, along with three docus presented as galas, will compete for the festival's best documentary prize.
This year's festival runs June 18-29, The First Edition not to take place in its traditional August dates.
- 4/21/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Columbia Pictures' fact-based gambling drama "21" starring Kate Bosworth, Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey and Laurence Fishburne will open the 15th annual South by Southwest Film Conference & Festival.
Robert Luketic's feature, tentatively slated to make its debut at the fest, revolves around a group of students who studied card counting and won a small fortune playing blackjack. It's based on Ben Mezrich's 2002 nonfiction book "Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions."
The fest also will unveil two docu world premieres: Steve James and Peter Gilbert's wrongful execution study "At the Death House Door" and "Dreams With Sharp Teeth", Erik Nelson's profile of sci-fi author Harlan Ellison. "Wild Blue Yonder", Celia Maysles' docu portrait of her late documentarian father, David Maysles, will have its North American premiere.
David Schwimmer's Picturehouse comedy "Run, Fatboy, Run" starring Simon Pegg and Michael Radford's period heist film "Flawless" starring Michael Caine and Demi Moore will have their regional premieres at the fest.
Robert Luketic's feature, tentatively slated to make its debut at the fest, revolves around a group of students who studied card counting and won a small fortune playing blackjack. It's based on Ben Mezrich's 2002 nonfiction book "Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions."
The fest also will unveil two docu world premieres: Steve James and Peter Gilbert's wrongful execution study "At the Death House Door" and "Dreams With Sharp Teeth", Erik Nelson's profile of sci-fi author Harlan Ellison. "Wild Blue Yonder", Celia Maysles' docu portrait of her late documentarian father, David Maysles, will have its North American premiere.
David Schwimmer's Picturehouse comedy "Run, Fatboy, Run" starring Simon Pegg and Michael Radford's period heist film "Flawless" starring Michael Caine and Demi Moore will have their regional premieres at the fest.
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