A 31-year-old woman was accused in the Tuesday shooting death of her 66-year-old father in South Carolina.
Brittany Simpson, who was charged with murder and possession of a firearm during a violent crime, was denied bond on Thursday, according to Wcbd News 2.
The murder suspect had been staying at her parents’ house without paying rent, according to court reports obtained by The Post and Courier, though she had allegedly helped cover the utility costs until March, when her mother allegedly sought her eviction.
Simpson had allegedly first implicated an intruder in father Robert Simpson’s shooting death, which allegedly occurred early Tuesday,...
Brittany Simpson, who was charged with murder and possession of a firearm during a violent crime, was denied bond on Thursday, according to Wcbd News 2.
The murder suspect had been staying at her parents’ house without paying rent, according to court reports obtained by The Post and Courier, though she had allegedly helped cover the utility costs until March, when her mother allegedly sought her eviction.
Simpson had allegedly first implicated an intruder in father Robert Simpson’s shooting death, which allegedly occurred early Tuesday,...
- 5/13/2017
- by Katherine Richter
- PEOPLE.com
A big, loud, lusty western battle movie with sexy stars and zero brains, this was a big hit back in ’69, just before The Wild Bunch rebooted the entire genre. Jim Brown, Raquel Welch and Burt Reynolds burn up the screen with action, even though the actual acting is on the weak side.
100 Rifles
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1969 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 110 min. / Street Date November 29, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring Jim Brown, Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds, Fernando Lamas, Dan O’Herlihy, Eric Braeden, Michael Forest, Aldo Sambrell, Soledad Miranda.
Cinematography Cecilio Paniagua
Film Editor Robert Simpson
Original Music Jerry Goldsmith
Second Unit Director Chuck Roberson
Written by Clair Huffaker, Tom Gries from a novel by Robert MacLeod
Produced by Marvin Schwartz
Directed by Tom Gries
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
The Italian western phenomenon hit Europe in 1964 with Sergio Leone’s first blockbuster, but the wave didn’t strike America for several years,...
100 Rifles
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1969 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 110 min. / Street Date November 29, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring Jim Brown, Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds, Fernando Lamas, Dan O’Herlihy, Eric Braeden, Michael Forest, Aldo Sambrell, Soledad Miranda.
Cinematography Cecilio Paniagua
Film Editor Robert Simpson
Original Music Jerry Goldsmith
Second Unit Director Chuck Roberson
Written by Clair Huffaker, Tom Gries from a novel by Robert MacLeod
Produced by Marvin Schwartz
Directed by Tom Gries
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
The Italian western phenomenon hit Europe in 1964 with Sergio Leone’s first blockbuster, but the wave didn’t strike America for several years,...
- 12/13/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The New Issue of Murania Press’ Blood ‘N’ Thunder issue #38 will be available Labor Day Weekend. A few highlights from the upcoming issue:
This issue’s outstanding feature is a lengthy excerpt from Nathan Madison’s recently published book, Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books, 1920-1960. In this richly detailed, extensively illustrated piece Nathan explores “Yellow Peril” fiction from the pulps. His exhaustive study complements Bill Maynard’s celebration of Fu Manchu’s centennial from our last issue.
Another book published earlier this year, Will Murray’s Skull Island, pitted Doc Savage against King Kong and aroused much interest not only among the Bronze Man’s fans in general but devotees of Philip José Farmer’s Wold Newton Universe in particular. BnT contributor and Wold Newton adherent Rick Lai examines Skull Island and catalogs its deviations from the Universe in an unusually absorbing work of scholarship. In a...
This issue’s outstanding feature is a lengthy excerpt from Nathan Madison’s recently published book, Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books, 1920-1960. In this richly detailed, extensively illustrated piece Nathan explores “Yellow Peril” fiction from the pulps. His exhaustive study complements Bill Maynard’s celebration of Fu Manchu’s centennial from our last issue.
Another book published earlier this year, Will Murray’s Skull Island, pitted Doc Savage against King Kong and aroused much interest not only among the Bronze Man’s fans in general but devotees of Philip José Farmer’s Wold Newton Universe in particular. BnT contributor and Wold Newton adherent Rick Lai examines Skull Island and catalogs its deviations from the Universe in an unusually absorbing work of scholarship. In a...
- 9/4/2013
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
#10: The Cabin in the Woods (107 points)
Written by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard
Directed by Drew Goddard
USA, 2012
Like Scream, it’s a self-aware slasher film, but where Scream was happy simply to turn the genre’s bloody glove inside out and examine the stitching, The Cabin in the Woods has more complicated ambitions. If Scream is a bloody glove turned inside out, then The Cabin in the Woods is a Russian nesting doll described by H. P. Lovecraft and carved by M. C. Escher. Like Hitchcock’s Psycho and Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom, The Cabin of the Woods isn’t just about killing, it is about watching (and filming) killing. Our sympathies are torn between the victims being watched and the watchers, including an action sequence modelled loosely on the Psycho car burial. What is perhaps most horrifying is that the watchers are almost bored, like a...
Written by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard
Directed by Drew Goddard
USA, 2012
Like Scream, it’s a self-aware slasher film, but where Scream was happy simply to turn the genre’s bloody glove inside out and examine the stitching, The Cabin in the Woods has more complicated ambitions. If Scream is a bloody glove turned inside out, then The Cabin in the Woods is a Russian nesting doll described by H. P. Lovecraft and carved by M. C. Escher. Like Hitchcock’s Psycho and Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom, The Cabin of the Woods isn’t just about killing, it is about watching (and filming) killing. Our sympathies are torn between the victims being watched and the watchers, including an action sequence modelled loosely on the Psycho car burial. What is perhaps most horrifying is that the watchers are almost bored, like a...
- 12/29/2012
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
First things first, apologies for the delay with the latest iteration of this article detailing the best of the Korean New Wave. Let’s get back into this Korean article. In which we look at the Korean new wave, from the nastier and more misogynistic movies from Korea’s provocative director Kim Ki-Duk to musicals, Korean musicals are something of a unreal proposition. Now without any further preamble or distractions, here is part two of the look into the work of Joon Ho-Bong.
The Host
Directed by Joon-ho Bong
Written by Joon-Ho Bong, Jun-Won Hah and Chul-Hyun Baek
2006, South Korea
The Monster Movie was a huge icon of the 1950s and 1960s, now not so much. Most movies of this distinction have been distilled into pure horror films, more interested in the violence and the gore in the man vs. nature situation than anything subversive that the lost genre was renowned for.
The Host
Directed by Joon-ho Bong
Written by Joon-Ho Bong, Jun-Won Hah and Chul-Hyun Baek
2006, South Korea
The Monster Movie was a huge icon of the 1950s and 1960s, now not so much. Most movies of this distinction have been distilled into pure horror films, more interested in the violence and the gore in the man vs. nature situation than anything subversive that the lost genre was renowned for.
- 11/14/2012
- by Rob Simpson
- SoundOnSight
The Best of Korean Cinema is a running series of articles that comes out every two weeks, in which I take a look at the best 21st century Korea has to offer, cinematically speaking, whether that means big names like Park Chan Wook and Kim Jee Woon or unknown curios that deserve the coverage. This is the first director-themed entry; the director in question is Joon H0-Bong, whose first two theatrically released features are tackled.
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Barking Dogs Never Bite
Directed by Joon-ho Bong
Written by Joon-ho Bong and Ji-ho Song
2000, South Korea
Director Bong’s debut is a strange film, and an ambitious one at that. The initial set up sees an out of work part-time college lecturer, Ko Yun-Ju (Lee Sung-Jae) annoyed by the barking of a nearby dog. He elects radical action, in which he decides to kill the dog, choosing to leave it abandoned and locked...
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Barking Dogs Never Bite
Directed by Joon-ho Bong
Written by Joon-ho Bong and Ji-ho Song
2000, South Korea
Director Bong’s debut is a strange film, and an ambitious one at that. The initial set up sees an out of work part-time college lecturer, Ko Yun-Ju (Lee Sung-Jae) annoyed by the barking of a nearby dog. He elects radical action, in which he decides to kill the dog, choosing to leave it abandoned and locked...
- 10/20/2012
- by Rob Simpson
- SoundOnSight
The Best of Korean Cinema is a running series of articles that comes out every two weeks, in which I take a look at the best 21st century Korea has to offer, cinematically speaking, whether that means big names like Park Chan Wook and Kim Jee Woon or unknown curios that deserve the coverage. Each article will cover two thematically similar films; this time it’s two gangsters films: 2012’s Nameless Gangster, directed by Yun Jong-Bin, and Ha-Yu’s A Dirty Carnival, from 2006.
Nameless Gangster
Directed by Jong-bin Yun
Written by Jong-bin Yun
2012, South Korea
Choi Ik-Hyun (Choi Min-Sik) is a Customs Officer operating in Busan docks, preventing anything untoward, that’s the idea anyway as his department is corrupt. One day there is a shake-up, making all of the internal corruption a death sentence hanging around their necks and because Ik-Hyun has the smallest family it is going to...
Nameless Gangster
Directed by Jong-bin Yun
Written by Jong-bin Yun
2012, South Korea
Choi Ik-Hyun (Choi Min-Sik) is a Customs Officer operating in Busan docks, preventing anything untoward, that’s the idea anyway as his department is corrupt. One day there is a shake-up, making all of the internal corruption a death sentence hanging around their necks and because Ik-Hyun has the smallest family it is going to...
- 10/4/2012
- by Rob Simpson
- SoundOnSight
Justine Smith
Bright Star, Jane Campion
Orlando, Sally Potter
Trouble Every Day, Claire Denis
Cleo 5 a 7, Agnes Varda
A New Leaf, Elaine May
The Night Porter, Liliana Cavani
American Psycho, Mary Harron
Anatomy of Hell, Catherine Breillat
Point Break, Kathryn Bigelow
Everyone Else, Maren Ade
Ricky D
Connection, Shirley Clarke
Wuthering Heights, Andrea Arnold
35 Shots of Rhum, Claire Denis
Meshes of the Afternoon, Maya Derin
Seven Beauties, Lina Wertmuller
The Hitch-Hiker, Ida Lupino
Lina Wertmuller- Swept Away
Meek’s Cutoff, Kelly Reichardt
Headless Woman, Lucrecia Martel
Xxy, Lucía Puenzo
Special mention:
Skyscraper – Shirley Clarke
Wasp – Andrea Arnold
On Dangerous Ground – Ida Lupino (uncredited)
Wanda
Chris Clemente
Little Miss Sunshine, Valerie Faris
American Psycho, Mary Harron
Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola
We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lynne Ramsay
Fish Tank, Andrea Arnold
Monster, Patty Jenkins
A League of Their Own, Penny Marshall
Wayne’s World, Penelope Spheeris
Clueless, Amy Heckerling
Point Break,...
Bright Star, Jane Campion
Orlando, Sally Potter
Trouble Every Day, Claire Denis
Cleo 5 a 7, Agnes Varda
A New Leaf, Elaine May
The Night Porter, Liliana Cavani
American Psycho, Mary Harron
Anatomy of Hell, Catherine Breillat
Point Break, Kathryn Bigelow
Everyone Else, Maren Ade
Ricky D
Connection, Shirley Clarke
Wuthering Heights, Andrea Arnold
35 Shots of Rhum, Claire Denis
Meshes of the Afternoon, Maya Derin
Seven Beauties, Lina Wertmuller
The Hitch-Hiker, Ida Lupino
Lina Wertmuller- Swept Away
Meek’s Cutoff, Kelly Reichardt
Headless Woman, Lucrecia Martel
Xxy, Lucía Puenzo
Special mention:
Skyscraper – Shirley Clarke
Wasp – Andrea Arnold
On Dangerous Ground – Ida Lupino (uncredited)
Wanda
Chris Clemente
Little Miss Sunshine, Valerie Faris
American Psycho, Mary Harron
Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola
We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lynne Ramsay
Fish Tank, Andrea Arnold
Monster, Patty Jenkins
A League of Their Own, Penny Marshall
Wayne’s World, Penelope Spheeris
Clueless, Amy Heckerling
Point Break,...
- 9/26/2012
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
(In Alphabetical order)
Meek’s Cutoff
Directed by Kelly Reichardt
Kelly Reichardt had a stellar if hushed 2000s, and then she commenced the current decade with a film that is already beginning to feel like an unsung modern classic. Meek’s Cutoff is one of those exhilarating instances in which a marriage of disparate styles produces something tricky to imagine, but perfect to behold: a period piece set in mid-1800’s Oregon, shot in academy ratio and classically beautiful for it, but with Reichardt’s signature severe naturalism. The result is so stark and understated that it begins to feel graceful, weirdly epic. A small caravan of settlers (featuring Michelle Williams and a once again devout Paul Dano) hires a guide, big-talking Stephen Meek, to help them navigate the Oregon Trail. As the terrain grows less forgiving and water evermore scarce, the settlers begin to wonder if the route Meek...
Meek’s Cutoff
Directed by Kelly Reichardt
Kelly Reichardt had a stellar if hushed 2000s, and then she commenced the current decade with a film that is already beginning to feel like an unsung modern classic. Meek’s Cutoff is one of those exhilarating instances in which a marriage of disparate styles produces something tricky to imagine, but perfect to behold: a period piece set in mid-1800’s Oregon, shot in academy ratio and classically beautiful for it, but with Reichardt’s signature severe naturalism. The result is so stark and understated that it begins to feel graceful, weirdly epic. A small caravan of settlers (featuring Michelle Williams and a once again devout Paul Dano) hires a guide, big-talking Stephen Meek, to help them navigate the Oregon Trail. As the terrain grows less forgiving and water evermore scarce, the settlers begin to wonder if the route Meek...
- 9/26/2012
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Not too long ago I asked the Sound On Sight staff to choose their ten favourite films of all time. The result led to mixed reactions (both by staff and readers), and some angry feedback. But how could any of us select only ten films from the thousands we’ve seen and walk away happy with the results. The fact is, of all the films which received a vote, it was those more widely available who made the cut. In other words, films such as The Godfather and Pulp Fiction stood a greater chance of receiving more ballots than say, obscure foreign gems.
My biggest disappointment with the picks, although only ten films were spotlighted, was the lack of votes for films directed by women. Could it be that none of us here at Sound On Sight valued great directors such as Claire Denis, Agnès Varda, Chantal Akerman or Lina Wertmüller?...
My biggest disappointment with the picks, although only ten films were spotlighted, was the lack of votes for films directed by women. Could it be that none of us here at Sound On Sight valued great directors such as Claire Denis, Agnès Varda, Chantal Akerman or Lina Wertmüller?...
- 9/26/2012
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Welcome to the second edition of the best of Korean new wave cinema, here on sound of sight. A running series of articles that comes out every two weeks, in it we look at the best 21st century Korea has to offer on cinema screens. Whether that is big names like Park Chan Wook and Kim Jee Woon or unknown curios that deserve the coverage. Each article will cover two thematically similar films, this time its two films from 2011 in Sang-Soo Hong’s The Day he arrives, and Sung-Hyun Yoon’s, Bleak Night.
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The Day He Arrives
Directed by Sang-Soo Hong
Screenplay by Sang-Soo Hong
2011, Korea
The Day He Arrives is a 2011 film by director Sang-Soo Hong about a director who now teaches in the Korean Countryside returning to Seoul for a weekend. At first Sungjoon (Jun-Sang Yu) wanders around town, phoning people and happens upon an actor he worked with,...
****
The Day He Arrives
Directed by Sang-Soo Hong
Screenplay by Sang-Soo Hong
2011, Korea
The Day He Arrives is a 2011 film by director Sang-Soo Hong about a director who now teaches in the Korean Countryside returning to Seoul for a weekend. At first Sungjoon (Jun-Sang Yu) wanders around town, phoning people and happens upon an actor he worked with,...
- 9/20/2012
- by Rob Simpson
- SoundOnSight
Prometheus
Directed by Ridley Scott
Written by Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof
USA, 2012
Noomi Rapace and Logan Marshall-Green are scientists who find a pictograph in the isle of Skye, Scotland; the same pictograph of giant men pointing up to the same constellation of stars as other ancient dead societies. Reading this to be an invitation to discover the origin of the species thanks to the financial support of the Weyland Corporation, they embark on a mission into deep space to investigate the Lv-223 planetoid. Welcome to Prometheus.
Upon arrival, they find a super-structure ready to investigate and it’s there where everything goes wrong. Each film in the Alien franchise has the same dynamic, in that there is an alien species killing off the crew, one by one. As ever, each of these films is sufficiently different from one another for them not to become derivative and boring; Alien was a haunted house in space,...
Directed by Ridley Scott
Written by Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof
USA, 2012
Noomi Rapace and Logan Marshall-Green are scientists who find a pictograph in the isle of Skye, Scotland; the same pictograph of giant men pointing up to the same constellation of stars as other ancient dead societies. Reading this to be an invitation to discover the origin of the species thanks to the financial support of the Weyland Corporation, they embark on a mission into deep space to investigate the Lv-223 planetoid. Welcome to Prometheus.
Upon arrival, they find a super-structure ready to investigate and it’s there where everything goes wrong. Each film in the Alien franchise has the same dynamic, in that there is an alien species killing off the crew, one by one. As ever, each of these films is sufficiently different from one another for them not to become derivative and boring; Alien was a haunted house in space,...
- 6/3/2012
- by Rob Simpson
- SoundOnSight
War of the Arrows
Directed by Han-min Kim
Written by Ham-min Kim
2011, South Korea
Director Han-min Kim’s film The War of the Arrows is something of a rarity in the international image of Korean cinema as its focus lies on the second Manchurian invasion of Korea, the Joseon Kingdom in particular. In layman’s terms, the War of the Arrows is about the second Chinese invasion of Korea.
Personalizing history by focusing on the children of a Korean traitor, we follow Nam Yi (Hae-Il Park, The Host) and Ja-In (Chae Won-Moon). Receiving a family bow and a message for the elder brother to look after his younger sister as he would a daughter, they both barely escape certain execution in Seoul. Fast forward 13 years and Ja-In is getting married despite her older brother doing everything he can to prevent it. As the wedding nears, Nam Yi wanders off and...
Directed by Han-min Kim
Written by Ham-min Kim
2011, South Korea
Director Han-min Kim’s film The War of the Arrows is something of a rarity in the international image of Korean cinema as its focus lies on the second Manchurian invasion of Korea, the Joseon Kingdom in particular. In layman’s terms, the War of the Arrows is about the second Chinese invasion of Korea.
Personalizing history by focusing on the children of a Korean traitor, we follow Nam Yi (Hae-Il Park, The Host) and Ja-In (Chae Won-Moon). Receiving a family bow and a message for the elder brother to look after his younger sister as he would a daughter, they both barely escape certain execution in Seoul. Fast forward 13 years and Ja-In is getting married despite her older brother doing everything he can to prevent it. As the wedding nears, Nam Yi wanders off and...
- 4/27/2012
- by Rob Simpson
- SoundOnSight
The Avengers
Written by Joss Whedon
Directed by Joss Whedon
USA, 2012
The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 1 & 2, Thor and Captain America; all of these Marvel Studios-produced superhero films were made with their own aspirations and goals, most of which were achieved to varying levels. Alongside each picture’s own aims, Marvel created its own self-sustaining hype machine which fanned the flames of anticipation at the prospect of all these superheroes coming together to fight alongside each other. The massively anticipated The Avengers, written and directed by Joss Whedon, is the end result. Typically such heated anticipation would suffocate most films, which makes it all the more satisfying to confirm that this ensemble blockbuster is everything fans could hope for.
Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., assembles the group of superheroes, almost making those post-credits sequences in the earlier Marvel films redundant, but not quite. Loki (Tom Hiddleston...
Written by Joss Whedon
Directed by Joss Whedon
USA, 2012
The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 1 & 2, Thor and Captain America; all of these Marvel Studios-produced superhero films were made with their own aspirations and goals, most of which were achieved to varying levels. Alongside each picture’s own aims, Marvel created its own self-sustaining hype machine which fanned the flames of anticipation at the prospect of all these superheroes coming together to fight alongside each other. The massively anticipated The Avengers, written and directed by Joss Whedon, is the end result. Typically such heated anticipation would suffocate most films, which makes it all the more satisfying to confirm that this ensemble blockbuster is everything fans could hope for.
Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., assembles the group of superheroes, almost making those post-credits sequences in the earlier Marvel films redundant, but not quite. Loki (Tom Hiddleston...
- 4/20/2012
- by Rob Simpson
- SoundOnSight
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Written by Gideon Defoe
Directed by Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt
UK / USA, 2012
Chicken Run, Curse of the Were-rabbit, The Wrong Trousers; if any of these clay-animated films sound familiar, then Britain’s greatest cinematic exponent, Aardman Studios, will be no mystery. If those titles hold no meaning, please greet with open arms their latest film, an adaptation of the first Gideon Coe Pirate novels, The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists! or, as it is titled in North America, The Pirates! Band of Misfits!.
The plot can be described as nothing other than insane: the pirate crew, led by the charismatic Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) and completed by Pirate with Scarf (Martin Freeman), Albino Pirate (Russell Tovey) and Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate (Ashley Jensen), are a terrible crew, the laughing stock of the high seas and Blood Island. Forever the optimist, Pirate Captain believes that...
Written by Gideon Defoe
Directed by Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt
UK / USA, 2012
Chicken Run, Curse of the Were-rabbit, The Wrong Trousers; if any of these clay-animated films sound familiar, then Britain’s greatest cinematic exponent, Aardman Studios, will be no mystery. If those titles hold no meaning, please greet with open arms their latest film, an adaptation of the first Gideon Coe Pirate novels, The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists! or, as it is titled in North America, The Pirates! Band of Misfits!.
The plot can be described as nothing other than insane: the pirate crew, led by the charismatic Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) and completed by Pirate with Scarf (Martin Freeman), Albino Pirate (Russell Tovey) and Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate (Ashley Jensen), are a terrible crew, the laughing stock of the high seas and Blood Island. Forever the optimist, Pirate Captain believes that...
- 3/29/2012
- by Robert Simpson
- SoundOnSight
Hammer Films has announced that they have selected the Cinema And Television History (Cath) Research Centre to house its archive of over 240 scripts:
The Cinema And Television History (Cath) Research Centre at Leicester De Montfort University is delighted and honored to be the custodian of Hammer’s archive of scripts.
Internationally, Hammer is the most famous of Britain’s film studios, and in the UK it has an impressive heritage. Most recently with The Woman In Black which has since its release taken over £10m in the UK and over $60m worldwide- Hammer is bringing its brand of horror films to a whole new generation.
The Cath Research Centre is proud to be associated with the revival of this classic British brand, and to be entrusted with elements of its historic archive at a time when the company is restoring its classic films for Blu-ray and DVD release. Our agreement...
The Cinema And Television History (Cath) Research Centre at Leicester De Montfort University is delighted and honored to be the custodian of Hammer’s archive of scripts.
Internationally, Hammer is the most famous of Britain’s film studios, and in the UK it has an impressive heritage. Most recently with The Woman In Black which has since its release taken over £10m in the UK and over $60m worldwide- Hammer is bringing its brand of horror films to a whole new generation.
The Cath Research Centre is proud to be associated with the revival of this classic British brand, and to be entrusted with elements of its historic archive at a time when the company is restoring its classic films for Blu-ray and DVD release. Our agreement...
- 2/21/2012
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
The Cinema And Television History (Cath) Research Centre at Leicester De Montfort University is delighted and honored to be the custodian of Hammer’s archive of scripts.
Internationally, Hammer is the most famous of Britain’s film studios, and in the UK it has an impressive heritage. Most recently with The Woman In Black which has since its release taken over £10m in the UK and over $60m worldwide- Hammer is bringing its brand of horror films to a whole new generation.
The Cath Research Centre is proud to be associated with the revival of this classic British brand, and to be entrusted with elements of its historic archive at a time when the company is restoring its classic films for Blu-ray and DVD release. Our agreement with Hammer will involve the cataloguing and curation of the materials, but the intention is also to make them available to scholars in digital form.
Internationally, Hammer is the most famous of Britain’s film studios, and in the UK it has an impressive heritage. Most recently with The Woman In Black which has since its release taken over £10m in the UK and over $60m worldwide- Hammer is bringing its brand of horror films to a whole new generation.
The Cath Research Centre is proud to be associated with the revival of this classic British brand, and to be entrusted with elements of its historic archive at a time when the company is restoring its classic films for Blu-ray and DVD release. Our agreement with Hammer will involve the cataloguing and curation of the materials, but the intention is also to make them available to scholars in digital form.
- 2/21/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Chronicle
Directed by Josh Trank
Screenplay by Max Landis
2012, UK / USA
There’s no more horrifying an idea than one film being both a super hero and found footage vehicle. On their own, they are blights on the release schedule; putting them together in one picture is unutterably disheartening. The unlucky product of this collation is Josh Trank’s debut Chronicle. The issue with any film that uses the character-carried camera as a mode of storytelling needs justification for the tired format to relevant rather than a means to sell a picture which lacks distinction otherwise. Chronicle is one of the only examples of this type of cinema that fully justifies that aspect and is not betrayed by a shot or a scene which shatters the illusion of reality that the form strives for.
The set-up for the camera as a character is disclosed in the opening scene where Andrew...
Directed by Josh Trank
Screenplay by Max Landis
2012, UK / USA
There’s no more horrifying an idea than one film being both a super hero and found footage vehicle. On their own, they are blights on the release schedule; putting them together in one picture is unutterably disheartening. The unlucky product of this collation is Josh Trank’s debut Chronicle. The issue with any film that uses the character-carried camera as a mode of storytelling needs justification for the tired format to relevant rather than a means to sell a picture which lacks distinction otherwise. Chronicle is one of the only examples of this type of cinema that fully justifies that aspect and is not betrayed by a shot or a scene which shatters the illusion of reality that the form strives for.
The set-up for the camera as a character is disclosed in the opening scene where Andrew...
- 2/2/2012
- by Robert Simpson
- SoundOnSight
It seems that every award season cinemas big and small are assaulted by a glut of biopics. Whether they are a retelling of an inspirational personal triumph al a 127 Hours or whether they retell the stories of life’s heroes and characters. Already in the run-in to 2012’s Oscar Ceremony we have already had Phyllida Lloyd’s the iron lady which had a powerhouse of a performance from Meryl Streep, so at least there was some value if everything else was such a cataclysmic misfire. Other recent and forthcoming biopics include J.Edgar and Albert Nobbs. Instead of looking forward to those films, I will use this opportunity to list some examples of biopics that show how varied this mode of storytelling can be, without that reliance of awards baiting coming into view.
Raging Bull
Once upon a time Robert De Niro was one of the best actors in the...
Raging Bull
Once upon a time Robert De Niro was one of the best actors in the...
- 1/16/2012
- by Robert Simpson
- SoundOnSight
The Iron Lady
Directed by Phyllida Lloyd
Written by Abi Morgan
UK / France, 2012
Margaret Thatcher was one of the most reviled figures in British political history. A globally recognized woman, she was Britain’s first and only (to date) female prime minister and had the longest term of office of any UK politician in the 20th century. As prime minister, she served and stirred up a lot of anger during the most volatile political era of the 20th century outside the two world wars. The Falklands war, the Ira and the ostensibly unending conflicts with the miners & trade unions provide more than enough material for a number of biopics to be made. Of all the directors to front such a project we have Phyllida Lloyd, the director of the immensely successful musical Mamma Mia.
Refusing to focus on one event, writer Abi Morgan (who also co-wrote Shame) decides to briefly...
Directed by Phyllida Lloyd
Written by Abi Morgan
UK / France, 2012
Margaret Thatcher was one of the most reviled figures in British political history. A globally recognized woman, she was Britain’s first and only (to date) female prime minister and had the longest term of office of any UK politician in the 20th century. As prime minister, she served and stirred up a lot of anger during the most volatile political era of the 20th century outside the two world wars. The Falklands war, the Ira and the ostensibly unending conflicts with the miners & trade unions provide more than enough material for a number of biopics to be made. Of all the directors to front such a project we have Phyllida Lloyd, the director of the immensely successful musical Mamma Mia.
Refusing to focus on one event, writer Abi Morgan (who also co-wrote Shame) decides to briefly...
- 1/8/2012
- by Robert Simpson
- SoundOnSight
The Awakening
Directed by Nick Murphy
Written by Stephen Volk and Nick Murphy
2011, UK
The directorial debut of Nick Murphy opens with a quote from Florence Cathcart’s book, Seeing Through Ghosts, which states that in this age wherein endless lives have been claimed by the war and influenza that ‘this is a time for ghosts.’ Set in 1921, supernatural investigator Florence Cathcart believes there is no such thing as ghosts, only people pretending to be ghosts. In any case, she brings equipment and traps to earn the job title of Ghostbuster, all to reveal the hoax behind “hauntings.” She is the archetypal cynic, and with good reason, as illustrated in the opening scene. An emotional Florence (Rebecca Hall) returns home to be met by her history teacher, Robert Mallorey (Dominic West), who believes that his school is haunted by a genuine ghost. After he provides compelling evidence in the form...
Directed by Nick Murphy
Written by Stephen Volk and Nick Murphy
2011, UK
The directorial debut of Nick Murphy opens with a quote from Florence Cathcart’s book, Seeing Through Ghosts, which states that in this age wherein endless lives have been claimed by the war and influenza that ‘this is a time for ghosts.’ Set in 1921, supernatural investigator Florence Cathcart believes there is no such thing as ghosts, only people pretending to be ghosts. In any case, she brings equipment and traps to earn the job title of Ghostbuster, all to reveal the hoax behind “hauntings.” She is the archetypal cynic, and with good reason, as illustrated in the opening scene. An emotional Florence (Rebecca Hall) returns home to be met by her history teacher, Robert Mallorey (Dominic West), who believes that his school is haunted by a genuine ghost. After he provides compelling evidence in the form...
- 11/14/2011
- by Robert Simpson
- SoundOnSight
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