#The Crow is a 1994 American superhero film | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

aion-rsa · 3 years

Text

How the Saving Private Ryan Cast Launched a New Generation of Stars

https://ift.tt/3azDVUj

This article contains spoilers for Saving Private Ryan.

Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan (1998) is known for a number of things: the gut-wrenching, visceral terror of its battle scenes (especially the opening landing at Omaha Beach), the shocking way in which bodies are torn to pieces during the course of those battles, the attention to period detail, and a powerful performance by Tom Hanks that rates as one of his finest.

But one thing that the film may not be as widely recognized for is the lineup of young actors who played members of Capt. John Miller’s (Hanks) squad, or soldiers they met along the way as they searched throughout Normandy for the missing Pvt. James Francis Ryan. From Matt Damon to Vin Diesel, Spielberg recruited relatively new faces who were all, in one way or another, either launching their careers outright or just starting to make their mark on Hollywood.

Saving Private Ryan is now considered one of the greatest war movies of all time. Part of that is due to its incredible realism, part of that is due to the skilled direction by Spielberg at the top of his game, and no doubt part of it is thanks to the work of its youthful cast. Let’s look back at who those actors were then, and what they went on to accomplish afterward.

cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530", }).render("0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796"); });

DreamWorks

Matt Damon (Private James Francis Ryan)

Matt Damon was largely unknown until around 1996 when he gained some good critical notices for his role in Courage Under Fire. At the same time, he and childhood pal Ben Affleck got to finally see their screenplay Good Will Hunting filmed, with Damon in the title role. The movie was in rehearsals in Boston when Steven Spielberg — who was shooting some scenes for Amistad there — stopped by the set to visit with Robin Williams, who introduced Spielberg to Damon. That led to Damon getting the title role in Saving Private Ryan. He’s the young soldier than Tom Hanks and company are trying to find — and who must “earn” his ticket home.

By the time Ryan came out in mid-1998, Damon had gone from unknown to star thanks to the success of Good Will Hunting (which arrived in December 1997), and his and Affleck’s Oscar win for Best Original Screenplay instantly became the stuff of award season legend. Damon has stayed a superstar ever since, starring in the Bourne and Ocean’s Eleven franchises, along with other hits like The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Departed, True Grit, Contagion, The Martian, and Ford vs. Ferrari. Next up for Damon is in Stillwater and reteams with Affleck as co-writers and stars in Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel, both due out later this year.

DreamWorks

Edward Burns (Private Richard Reiben)

Ed Burns had already garnered some attention before landing the role of the feisty, rebellious Pvt. Reiben, one of the few members of Miller’s squad to survive the film. He wrote, produced, directed, and starred in two independent features, The Brothers McMullen and She’s The One, with McMullen in particular earning acclaim and awards (including an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature).

Reiben was Burns’ first role in a major Hollywood production, and he followed that up with parts in films like 15 Minutes (2001), Confidence (2003), Life or Something Like It (2002, and the notoriously bad sci-fi thriller, A Sound of Thunder (2005). He also continued to make his own pictures, including No Looking Back (1998), Ash Wednesday (2002), Newlyweds (2011) and Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies (2019), while also creating, directing and starring in a TV series called Public Morals (2015) that lasted for one season on TNT. Not exactly a household name, Burns has nevertheless remained active and prolific.

DreamWorks

Vin Diesel (Private Adrian Caparzo)

Before being cast as Pvt. Caparzo — the first member of Miller’s squad to die while searching for Ryan — the only credits Vin Diesel had to his name were a short film called Multi-Facial, an uncredited walk-on as an orderly in 1990’s Awakenings, and the tiny 1997 indie release Strays, a semi-autobiographical piece which Diesel wrote, directed, and starred in himself. He was, for all intents and purposes, a complete unknown when he was gunned down by a German sniper in a memorably tragic scene early on in Saving Private Ryan.

Things happened quickly for Diesel after that, as he landed the title voice in The Iron Giant (1999) and launched two franchises back to back: in 2000 he introduced the world to the space criminal Riddick in Pitch Black while 2001 brought the film The Fast and the Furious, not to mention Diesel’s signature character, Dominic Toretto. While his other films since have had varying degrees of success, the Fast and Furious series has turned into one of the biggest box office behemoths of the past decade, with F9 coming this summer. Diesel has also played in the world of comic book movies, voicing Groot in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and launching his own superhero film venture with last year’s Bloodshot.

DreamWorks

Paul Giamatti (Sergeant William Hill)

The same sequence that features the death of Vin Diesel’s character also introduces the sardonic, war-weary Sgt. William Hill, played by Paul Giamatti, whose inadvertent collapse of a wall leads to a tense standoff with a hidden group of German soldiers. Before Ryan, Giamatti had bounced around in small film and TV parts for the early part of the ’90s, scoring his breakout role in the 1997 Howard Stern biopic, Private Parts, as radio station program director Kenny “Pig Vomit” Rushton.

After Ryan, Giamatti continued to work steadily and garner more acclaim for outstanding performances in films like Man on the Moon, American Splendor, and Sideways, a movie for which we’re still angry that Giamatti did not receive an Academy Award nomination. He did earn one the following year for his supporting role in Cinderella Man and has continued as one of today’s best working actors in movies like Barney’s Version, Win Win, The Ides of March, 12 Years a Slave, and Private Life, along with his exemplary starring work in TV on John Adams and Billions. He even won an Emmy for playing the United States’ second president.

DreamWorks

Nathan Fillion (Private James Frederick Ryan)

He’s only onscreen for a few minutes, but Nathan Fillion makes a distinct impression as the “wrong” Pvt. Ryan, a soldier with nearly the same name whom Miller and his men come across — only to realize that they have to keep looking. The Canadian-born Fillion first scored some attention in the mid-1990s as Joey Buchanan on the daytime soap One Life to Live (he returned briefly in 2007). Aside from an obscure 1994 film called Strange and Rich, Saving Private Ryan was for all intents and purposes his major motion picture debut.

Movies

How Saving Private Ryan’s Best Picture Loss Changed the Oscars Forever

By David Crow

Movies

Saving Private Ryan: The Real History That Inspired the WW2 Movie

By David Crow

Since then, Fillion has worked steadily with his biggest successes coming on TV and in the world of geek culture, where he remains a fan favorite. The Joss Whedon-created sci-fi series Firefly didn’t even last one full season between 2001 and 2002, but has become a cult classic and spawned the movie Serenity (2005). Fillion’s later series, Castle and the currently airing The Rookie, have proven more durable. His other notable film and TV credits include James Gunn’s Slither, Desperate Housewives, Modern Family, Santa Clarita Diet, and Monsters University, while his voice work has also included a recurring role as Green Lantern/Hal Jordan in a number of DC animated films. Next up: more comics-related fun as Floyd Belkin/TDK in Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, and the voice of Wonder Man in Hulu and Marvel’s animated M.O.D.O.K.

DreamWorks

Jeremy Davies (Corporal Timothy Upham)

Jeremy Davies is unforgettable as the terrified, cowardly Cpl. Upham, a nerdy translator who is brought on the mission for his linguistic skills and can only stand paralyzed paralyzed with fear as his fellow soldier Mellish is stabbed to death just up a flight of stairs by a Nazi. Like many of his castmates, Davies kicked around in small acting jobs before garnering acclaim in the 1994 black comedy Spanking the Monkey, which also marked the directing debut of David O. Russell.

Saving Private Ryan was his next big attention-getter and cemented his position as one of the more quirky and compelling character actors in film and TV. Following Ryan, Davies worked in films like Ravenous, Solaris, Secretary, and Rescue Dawn, but has also found success on the small screen in series like Lost, Sleepy Hollow, and Justified. He’s also appeared as Dr. John Deegan in the “Elseworlds” arc of the Arrowverse shows The Flash, Supergirl, and Arrow. We’ll see him next in Scott Derrickson’s The Black Phone, based on a story by Joe Hill.

DreamWorks

Giovanni Ribisi (Medic Irwin Wade)

Acting since he was a young child, Giovanni Ribisi already had a substantial career under his belt before playing the doomed medic Wade in Spielberg’s powerful war epic. He had recurring roles in the late 1980s and early 1990s on shows like My Two Dads and The Wonder Years while guesting on a number of other series as well. In the latter half of the ‘90s, he landed parts in movies like That Thing You Do!, Lost Highway, and The Postman, with Ryan easily his highest-profile big screen effort during that time.

After that, Ribisi continued to do character work in movies like Gone in 60 Seconds, Lost in Translation, Cold Mountain, and Public Enemies, before landing the part of the villainous corporate stooge Parker Selfridge in James Cameron’s massively successful and creatively groundbreaking Avatar (2009). He’ll return in Cameron’s upcoming Avatar sequels and has kept busy on the big and small screens, most recently finishing up a three-season run in the title role of the Amazon series Sneaky Pete (fun fact: Sneaky Pete was co-created by Bryan Cranston, who also has a small role in Ryan as one-armed War Department Col. Bryce).

DreamWorks

Barry Pepper (Private Daniel Jackson)

Hailing like Nathan Fillion from Canada, Barry Pepper had just a handful of small credits to his name when he landed the role of the God-fearing but lethal sniper Jackson in Saving Private Ryan. Jackson is perhaps the deadliest weapon in Capt. Miller’s arsenal, although he is eventually killed along with Miller and most of the others during the film’s climactic defense of the bridge in the shattered town of Ramelle.

Pepper probably remains best known for his portrayal of Jackson, but he scored notable roles soon after that in The Green Mile (1999), the TV movie 61* (2001) as baseball legend Roger Maris, and Spike Lee’s 25th Hour (2002). He also appeared in the starring role of 2000’s disastrous Battlefield Earth with John Travolta. Pepper’s recent film work has included roles in The Maze Runner franchise and the sleeper horror hit Crawl (2019).

DreamWorks

Adam Goldberg (Private Stanley Mellish)

“Juden,” says Pvt. Stanley Mellish, pointing to himself and the Jewish Star of David he wears around his neck as a stream of German POWs is marched past him. It’s a small but powerful moment in Saving Private Ryan for the defiant, wisecracking Mellish, who’s there to wipe out as many Nazis as he can. In the movie’s climactic battle, he bravely and viciously fights hand to hand with a German soldier before the latter sinks a knife slowly into his chest in one of the film’s most intensely horrifying moments.

Adam Goldberg had already appeared in a number of notable films before Ryan, including Billy Crystal’s Mr. Saturday Night (Goldberg’s 1992 debut), Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused (1993), John Singleton’s Higher Learning (1995), and the cult horror classic The Prophecy (1995). Mellish remains perhaps his most famed role, but other standouts like A Beautiful Mind (2001), Déjà Vu (2006), and Zodiac (2007) dot his filmography. He’s guested frequently on TV as well and currently has a regular role as Harry Keshegian opposite Queen Latifah on The Equalizer. He’s also directed three features of his own, recorded four albums of his own music, and has exhibited his work as a photographer.

The post How the Saving Private Ryan Cast Launched a New Generation of Stars appeared first on Den of Geek.

from Den of Geek https://ift.tt/3dC3BkL

#aion-rsa #Den of Geek

1 note · View note

ramajmedia · 5 years

Text

Christian Bale's 10 Best Movies, According To Rotten Tomatoes

Few actors have managed to walk the line between tiny-scale indies and mega-sized blockbusters like Christian Bale has. He’s played a wide range of different roles – from John Connor to Patrick Bateman; Dick Cheney to Batman – working with all kinds of acclaimed, masterful directors, from Inception’s Christopher Nolan to Anchorman’s Adam McKay. Bale also has a longevity that not many movie stars can hope for, starting out as a child actor in Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun and still going strong today. He’s made a ton of movies: some good, some not so good, and a few great. Here are Christian Bale’s 10 Best Movies, According To Rotten Tomatoes.

RELATED: Christian Bale’s 10 Greatest Roles, Ranked

10 The Dark Knight Rises (87%)

There was no way that The Dark Knight Rises would live up to expectations. Tom Hardy’s Bane had to top Heath Ledger’s Joker, the opening IMAX sequence had to top The Dark Knight’s opening bank robbery, and the whole thing had to conclude Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy in a satisfying way. The fact that the movie ended up being praised by fans and critics – albeit acknowledging that it wasn’t as great as its predecessor – is nothing short of a Herculean feat. Nolan cashed in all of his chips, bowing out the trilogy with a gargantuan epic inspired by A Tale of Two Cities.

9 3:10 to Yuma (89%)

Ever since the western genre died out, it’s been tough for Hollywood to turn out a memorable entry in the genre. However, James Mangold managed it with 3:10 to Yuma, his remake of the 1957 movie of the same name that was an adaptation of the Elmore Leonard short story of the same name.

RELATED: Best In the West: Top 10 Western Movies of the 2010s, Ranked

Christian Bale plays a rancher whose livelihood is threatened by a drought. He takes on the difficult task of bringing an outlaw, played by Russell Crowe, to justice. It has the same black-and-white view of good and evil that has given the western genre such longevity.

8 Rescue Dawn (90%)

In this biopic directed by Werner Herzog, Christian Bale plays a German-American pilot named Dieter Dengler, who was shot down over Laos and captured by communist-sympathizing villagers during the Vietnam War. Rescue Dawn may have been a box office bomb, but it’s still a brilliant movie. Herzog’s direction immerses us deep in the jungles of Thailand, where the movie was shot. There’s no mistaking it for a backlot or a forest in California – this is the real deal. Plus, Bale’s performance as Dengler is captivating. He anchors the whole movie. It feels much more raw and honest than your average prisoner-of-war movie.

7 TIE: Little Women (91%)

There’s another film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women in the works from Lady Bird director Greta Gerwig. It’ll star Saoirse Ronan, Meryl Streep, Laura Dern, Emma Watson, and Timothée Chalamet. The last major film adaptation came out in 1994. In the 1994 version, Christian Bale played Laurie, the childhood best friend of Winona Ryder’s character Jo (the lead role to be played by Ronan in the new one) who grows up to fall in love with her. He spends the movie trying to get her to marry him, but she doesn’t want to, so he ends up with her little sister.

6 TIE: The Fighter (91%)

Christian Bale won an Oscar for his turn in The Fighter, David O. Russell’s impeccably crafted biopic of boxer Micky Ward and his half-brother Dicky Eklund. Bale lost a ton of weight to play Eklund, but playing the role required Bale to do more than just impersonate his Boston accent. He has very distinctive mannerisms that Bale had to lock down, and his dedication to the part was unparalleled. His performance is seamless from start to finish. Performances like this are why they hand out Oscars in the first place (even though no one really cares about them anymore) – they need to be recognized.

5 The Big Short (88%)

The mortgage crisis has been used as the basis for a number of movies in the past decade or so since it first happened, but the world of banking just doesn’t look that exciting when it’s portrayed on-screen. Adam McKay made his best effort to pull off an entertaining movie about men in suits looking at numbers on computer screens with celebrities explaining financial jargon in cameo appearances and A-list actors like Ryan Gosling and Steve Carell in the lead roles, but he still fell a little short. Although it’s not a particularly riveting movie, Christian Bale is still fantastic in it.

4 American Hustle (93%)

Years ago, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi set out to make a darkly comic movie about the FBI’s Abscam operation, but it never got off the ground. David O. Russell’s revival of this subject matter is just as darkly comic and star-studded as that movie would’ve been. It takes pretty obvious inspiration from the works of Martin Scorsese – the only downside being that it has Scorsese’s style without his substance. While the plot itself isn’t too compelling in American Hustle, its humor is as hilarious as it can be. One running joke in particular, involving Bradley Cooper trying to guess the end of Louis C.K.’s ice-fishing story, is brilliant (although, unfortunately, it involves Louis C.K.).

3 The Dark Knight (94%)

After 11 years of MCU installments, with a handful of inspired gems and a dozen others following a winning formula, it’s astounding that The Dark Knight still remains undefeated as the greatest superhero movie ever made. Christopher Nolan’s sequel succeeds due to pretty primal elements.

RELATED: 10 Ways The DCEU Would Be Different If It Started With The Dark Knight Trilogy

It builds on the dichotomy of Bruce Wayne and Batman (with a layered performance by Christian Bale to back it up), it presents the quintessential movie villain with a personal connection to the hero (making way for Heath Ledger to win an unprecedented posthumous Oscar), and it’s impeccably made, shot mostly on IMAX to feel genuinely cinematic.

2 TIE: Henry V (100%)

This movie based on William Shakespeare’s play Henry V was directed by Kenneth Branagh, one of the world’s foremost directors of Shakespearean film adaptations, who also wrote the script – retaining the play’s tight five-act structure – and played the lead role. Henry V is widely regarded to be one of the best Shakespearean movies of all time. Christian Bale only had a small role as Robin, the luggage boy, but he was just a child actor at the time, and any child who can keep up with that unwieldy, old-timey Shakespearean dialogue and follow what’s going on is pretty impressive – hell, that’s impressive for an adult.

1 TIE: Ford v Ferrari (100%)

Just two years after helming a beautiful, Oscar-nominated send-off for Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine with 2017’s Logan, director James Mangold is back with the true-to-life tale of the Ford racing team’s desperate efforts to finally beat the undefeated Ferrari team on the track. Matt Damon stars as the renowned car designer Carroll Shelby, while Christian Bale is playing his British driver, Ken Miles. Ford v Ferrari won’t hit theaters until this November, but it’s already had its world premiere and the critics’ verdict is in. From the film’s rare 100% score, it’s pretty clear that this one isn’t to be missed.

NEXT: Scarlett Johansson's 10 Best Movies, According To Rotten Tomatoes

source https://screenrant.com/rotten-tomatoes-christian-bale-movies/

#screenrant

1 note · View note

emilestrange · 5 years

Text

25 Years Later And Still So Good - The Crow

25 Years Later And Still So Good – The Crow

I was watching The Crow tonight, and was re-hearing all the great music on the film’s soundtrack, so I am going to do a video comp. But first, a little about this cult classic film.

The Crow is a 1994 American superhero film directed by Alex Proyas, written by David J. Schow and John Shirley. The film stars Brandon Lee in his final film appearance. The film is based on James O’Barr‘s comic…

View On WordPress

#Brandon Lee #For Love Not Lisa #Helmet #Jane Siberry #Machines of Loving Grace #Medicine #My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult #Nine Inch Nails #OnOneOnline #Pantera #Rage Against the Machine #Rollins Band #Stone Temple Pilots #The Crow #The Cure #The Jesus and Mary Chain #Thug Core #Videos #Violent Femmes

0 notes

weekendwarriorblog · 5 years

Text

WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND July 19, 2019 – DAVID CROSBY: REMEMBER MY NAME, THE LION KING

Before we get to the big studio release… which I haven’t seen… I’m gonna focus on a new doc opening in New York and L.A. on Friday, DAVID CROSBY: REMEMBER MY NAME (Sony Pictures Classics). Directed by A.J. Eaton and produced by Cameron Crowe, this movie surprised me first and foremost because I never really had much interest in Crosby Stills and Nash, so I wasn’t sure if I’d really care much to hear Crosby’s story. (Granted, one of my favorite bands, Yes, was hugely influenced by CSN.)

Much of the film is made up of interviews with Crosby conducted by Crowe, who first interviewed Crosby when he was a young journalist in the ‘70s. There are some real revelations in the film – similar to the recent Marianne and Leonard– including Crosby admitting that he got a number of girlfriends hooked on drugs. He also lost a girlfriend in a car accident that deeply affected him, although it’s also interesting to hear from some of his bandmates like Graham Nash, who claim that Crosby is not the nice guy some might perceive.

Whether or not you’re interested in Crosby and his life/career, Remember My Name is a fascinating look at a pivotal person from the ‘60s and earliest days of rock, another great doc from Crowe, who should really be doing more about the history of music.

I may have mentioned before that I have practically zero interest in Walt Disney Pictures’ THE LION KING, even though I am a long-time fan of director Jon Favreau’s work… except The Jungle Book, in which I was disappointed. Maybe it’s just because I was such a fan of the original animated movie and Rudyard Kipling’s book, but not having any immediately connection to the 1994 Disney animated movie, nothing has really gotten me excited to see this one.

You can actually read more about The Lion King over at The Beat.

Bleecker Street also hopes to expand Jesse Eisenberg’s dark comedy THE ART OF SELF-DEFENSE nationwide into over 500 theaters, which seems a bit forward, considering that it didn’t fare nearly as well as A24’s The Farewell in limited release last weekend.

LIMITED RELEASES

Before we get to the regular fare, on Wednesday, Trafalgar Releasing is the Trey Anastasio doc Between Me and My Mind in theaters across the nation on Wednesday night. Being a fan of Trey and Phish and having seen this at the Tribeca Film Festival, I can say that it’s a MUST-SEE for anyone who has ever enjoyed Trey’s vast output both with Phish and his solo groups. Besides showing Trey in the writing and production process for his latest solo album, it also shows him and the members of Phish preparing for the 2017 New Year’s Eve run at Madison Square Garden. Director Steven Cantor was given amazing access to Trey, as he also filmed a few personal conversations the singer/guitarist/songwriter has with his parents about their history together. I’m actually going to see it again tonight.. but if you’re in the New York area, go see it at the Alamo Drafthouse, where it’s hosted by the awesome Jordan Hoffman. (6:30pm show is already sold out but they’ve added a 9:20 showing.)

A couple other docs this weekend include Radu Jude’s Romanian dark comedy I Do Not Care If We Go down in History as Barbarians, which opens at the IFC Center. It’s about the dictator Marshal Ion Antonescu, who started a program of ethnic cleansing in the summer of 1941, something that’s recreated in present day by an idealistic theater director, causing controversy. It opens at the IFC Center on Friday.

Also opening at the IFC Center is Tilman Singer’s German horror film Luz (Screen Media), about a young cab driver who has been contending with a possessed woman who can endanger many lives. Lastly and also at the IFC Center, there’s Paddy Breachnach’s Rosie, the story of a mother trying to protect her homeless family, covering their struggle over 36 hours.

Joe Manganiello from Magic Mike and his wife Sofia Vergara from Modern Family star in Raymond De Felitta’s Bottom of the 9th (Saban Films) about a baseball player named Bobby Setano, who ends up in jail at the age of 19 just as his career is taking off. 20 years later, he is tryng to win back everything he lost in this movie from the director of the excellent City Island and Rob the Mob. It’s in select theaters, On Demand and digital platforms.

There are two new docs opening at the Metrograph Friday:

Martin Bell’s Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell is a follow-up to his 1984 film Streetwise (see “Repertory” below), this one following up on that film’s 14-year-old subject “Tiny” and what she’s been through since then, going from drug addiction to poverty, having given birth to ten children. There’s also Marie Losier’sCassandro, the Exotico! (Film Movement) looking at the 47-year-old Saul Armendariz aka Cassandro, the openly gay champion of the Mexican exotico wrestling circuit, which features competitors in drag. The film is shot entirely on 16mm.

I just want to draw special attention to New York’s Village East Cinemas, which really has turned itself around with the variety of films and programs it’s offering, partially to compete with some of the new and revitalized arthouses. This week, it has three new movies, beginning with At War (Cinema Libre Studios), the new film from French filmmaker Stéphane Brizé (The Measure of a Man), once again teaming him with Vincent Lindon as Laurent Amédéo, the spokesman for a company that is going to shut down its factory, putting over a thousand employees out of work.

The Village East is also one of the theaters showing Aaron Harvey’s Into the Ashes (RLJEntertainment), starring Luke Grimes as former criminal Nick Brenner who believe he has escaped his past until his old crew shows up for the money he stole from them, taking Nick’s wife and putting him on a path for revenge.

I know very little Steve Barron’s Supervized except that it’s about four aging superheroes in an Irish retirement home and it stars the likes of Beau Bridges, Louis Gossett Jr., Tom Berenger and Fionnula Flanagan.

LOCAL FESTIVALS

This weekend at the IFC Center is the first-ever 51 Fest, honoring the “female majority on screen” by paying tribute to the women of the world with an amazing line-up of films. The fest opens at the SVA Theater on Thursday night with Kathy Griffin: A Hell of a Story and then continues at the IFC Center with the New York Premieres of Bart Freundlich’s After the Wedding remake starring Julianne Moore, Paul Downs Colaizzo’s terrific Brittany Runs a Marathon (with a QnA hosted by my pal Ophira Eisenberg), Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts’s doc For Sama and more. The fest will also host the World Premiere of Lisa Cholodenko’s episode of the Netflix series Unbelievable with Cholodenko and actors Kaitlyn Dever, Danielle Macdonald and Merritt Weaver appearing in person. In general, this seems like a strong new festival with lots of talent attending, so here’s hoping that this becomes a regular annual thing.

STREAMING AND CABLE

Premiering on Netflix Friday is Peter Sullivan’s suspense thriller SECRET OBSESSION, starring Brenda Song (The Social Network) as a newlywed who is brutally attacked at a rest stop leaving her with amnesia. As her husband (Mike Vogel) takes care of her at home, a detective (Dennis Haysbert) goes looking for her attacker who also might have kidnapped his daughter.

I’m more excited about the return of Jerry Seinfeld’s series “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” with its new season, as it’s one of my favorite Netflix series by far.

REPERTORY

Although there aren’t a ton of limited releases this week, it’s an exciting time for repertory fans for reasons you’ll discover as you go through the entries below.

METROGRAPH (NYC):

To tie-in with the release of Tiny (see above), the Metrograph is also screening of a new restoration of Martin Bell’s 1984 film Streetwise, about the kids who would gather on downtown Seattle’s Pike Street. This weekend’sLate Nites at Metrograph is the movie musical classic, Alan Arkush’s 1979 movie Rock ‘n’ Roll High School starring the Ramones!Playtime: Family Matineesgoes with Disney’s 1979 film The Black Hole on 35mm, and you can bet I’ll be there for that.

THE NEW BEVERLY (L.A.):

As we get closer to the release of Tarantino’s 9thfilm, his rep theater will continues its James Bond series with Thunderball as the Weds. matinee and then both Weds and Thurday night is a grindhouse TRIPLE FEATURE (!!!) of Curtis Hanson’s 1972 film Sweet Kill with 1973’s Soul Hustler (with Larry Bishop in person) and the 1971 film Sweet Saviour. The Friday/Saturday double feature is Mervyn Le Roy’s Gipsy (1962) with Sidney Pollack’s This Property is Condemned (1966), while Sunday and Monday is a Fabian double feature of Ride the Wild Surf (1964) and Thunder Alley (1967), the latter co-starring Annette Funicello. This weekend’s KIDDEE MATINE continues the Love Bug series with Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo from 1977. Tarantino’s own Django Unchained is the Friday midnight movie with something called I Love You, Alice b. Toklas (1968), starring Peter Sellers (!), on Saturday at midnight. Monday’s matinee is the 1995 film The Basketball Diaries, starring a VERY young Leonardo DiCaprio. Tuesday night’s official GRINDHOUSE triple feature is Joe Namath’s CC & Company(1970), along with two Jack Starrett films, The Losers from 1970 and Hollywood Man from 1976. I understand that many of the films being programmed are ones that had an influence on Tarantino’s upcoming film Once Upon a Time in ... Hollywood, which hits American theaters across the country next week.

FILM FORUM (NYC):

Not be outdone by the younger New York “upstart-house” theaters, Film Forum is kicking off a month-long Burt Lancaster seriesbeginning with a week-long 4k restoration of Robert Siodmak’s (1946) The Killers, starring Lancaster and Ava Gardner. The series will then continue with classics like the Sweet Smell of Success and From Here to Eternity starting Friday, July 26, so check back next week for more on this series. Mikhail Kalatozov’s The Cranes are Flying (1957) will end Thursday to make room for above.

EGYPTIAN THEATRE (LA):

On Wednesday, comedian Greg Proops screens the 1971 classic Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factoryas part of his “Greg Proops Film Club.” The “Highballs and Screwballs” series continues Thursday with Humphrey Bogart’s Key Largo (1948) with The Palm Beach Story (1942). On Friday, the Egyptian does a “Mikhail Kalatozov double feature” of The Cranes are Flying (1957) and I Am Cuba (1964), Saturday afternoon is the latest in the “Style of Sin: Pre-Code Film with Kimberly Truhler” series with two starring Kay Francis, Girls about Town (1931) and Jewel Robbery (1933), both in 35mm, while Saturday night is a screening of Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 classic Stalker.

Just a reminder that the AERO is closed for the month of July for “repairs and upgrades” but will be back in August with its own entries in the “Highballs and Screwballs” series.

QUAD CINEMA (NYC):

I’m pretty excited about the second part of the Quad’s Fresh Meat: Giallo Restorations Part II, starting on Friday. I havent’ seen a single one of the movies but with titles like The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion, The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire and Strip Nude for Your Killer, I have to try to see some of these for sure.

FILM OF LINCOLN CENTER (NYC):

FilmLinc’s new summer series is This is Cinema Now: 21st Century Debuts, which is fairly self-explanatory but features fairly new films including Barry Jenkins’ Medicine for Melancholy, screening in a double feature with Damien Chazelle’s Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, Andrew Bujalski’s Funny Ha Hawith Maren Ade’s The Forest for the Trees, Shane Caruth’s Primer with Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko, and many more with many screening twice but a lot only screening once. Some of them are playing as two-for-one double features and if I wasn’t dealing with Comic-Con stuff, I’d totally go see the Damien Chazelle/Barry Jenkins double feature on Saturday night.

BAM CINEMATEK (NYC):

On Friday, BAM begins a series called “Intimate Epics” which includes everything from Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia (1999) to Hu Bo’s very recent Elephant Sitting Still to Kurosawa’s classic Seven Samurai (1954). It runs through the weekend until Tuesday.

IFC CENTER (NYC)

On Friday, IFC Center will present a 60thAnniversary revival of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic North by Northwest in a new 4k restoration. Still no word on when it’s new series will begin but presumably soon.

MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE (NYC):

The Astoria arthouse begins a retrospective called “Barbara Hammer, Superdyke” on Friday, which runs through Sunday, July 28, honoring the late filmmaker with a number of shorts series under the titles “Mediated Sensuality,” “Ecstatic Subjectivity,” “Hall of Mirrors” and more. I really don’t know anything about her films but you can learn more at the link above.

ROXY CINEMA# (NYC)

Weds. and Sunday, the Roxy shows a 35mm print of the 1964 thriller Marnie, while on Thursday, there’s a very rare screening of Roman Polanski’s 1967 dark comedy The Fearless Vampire Killers.

LANDMARK THEATRES NUART (LA):

Friday night’s midnight offering is Gaspar Noé’s Climaxfrom earlier in the year.. so not old enough to be considered “repertory,” huh?

Next week, it’s all about Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood! (Seeing it Monday and I’ll have a review next Tuesday.)

#TheLionKing DavidCrosbyRememberMyName Movies REviews Repertory

0 notes

angelinajolieactress · 5 years

Text

The Most Scandalous Love Affairs Ever

Lorene Porter - Celebrity Gossip - My Hollywood News

The Most Scandalous Love Affairs Ever, Hollywood Celebrity Gossip 2018.

youtube

New Hollywood Celebrities 2019, Pixar Gossip, The Most Scandalous Love Affairs Ever.

New Hollywood Celebrities 2017 Best Gossip Celebrity latest Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is an American media franchise and shared universe that is centered on a series of superhero films, independently produced by Marvel Studios and based on characters that appear in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The franchise has expanded to include comic books, short films, television series, and digital series. The shared universe, much like the original Marvel Universe in comic books, was established by crossing over common plot elements, settings, cast, and characters. Phil Coulson, portrayed by Clark Gregg, is an original character to the MCU and the only character to appear across all the different media of the MCU.

How was Bambi’s dad die?

After the death of Bambi’s mother, the Great Prince finds Bambi and explains to Bambi what happened to her. He calls for Bambi to come along with him, revealing himself to be Bambi’s father. Later, when Bambi is a young adult, Man returns to the forest. After an incident with Man and his dogs, Bambi is shot.

What does Mulan’s name mean?

In the original poem, the heroine’s name is “Mulan.” According to the Chinese- English dictionary, the name means “lily magnolia.” Mulan is often given a last name, “Hua,” which means “flower.” The Chinese pinyin spelling of the name is “Hua Mu-Lan.”

What companies are owned by Hollywood?

Hollywood/ABC Television Group. Hollywood/ABC Television Group operates Hollywood’s broadcast television, cable television and radio businesses. ESPN, Inc. Walt Hollywood Parks & Resorts U.S., Inc. Lucasfilm Ltd. Marvel Entertainment, LLC.

In every Hollywood era, there’s no shortage of headline-making romances. From Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall’s legendary passion, to the birth of Brangelina on the set of an action flick, these are the most scandalous love affairs in entertainment history.

1988’s Dangerous Liaisons may have been the film that forever typecast John Malkovich as a conniving villain, and during production, there were some real-life parallels going on behind the scenes. While Malkovich’s character was trying to seduce Michelle Pfeiffer’s character, the two actors began an affair that would cause the end of Malkovich’s marriage to Glenne Headly. After their split, Headly apparently called Malkovich, quote, “the root of all evil.”

Although Malkovich and Pfeiffer’s affair ended shortly after it started, it was a miracle it even began, according to Malkovich. As he later told Rolling Stone,

“It’s hard to believe Michelle Pfeiffer ever said hello to me. Not that she’s not memorable, God knows. But I sort of blocked it out. What I’m trying to say is, when I think of the other person, I don’t think of me as involved with them. They’re uncorrupted by me. As if they were never troubled by my existence.”

Watch the video for more about The most scandalous love affairs ever!

#AngelinaJolie #BradPitt #JenniferAniston

Hollywood Film Gossip, Hollywood Celebrity Gossip 2018, The Most Scandalous Love Affairs Ever.

Some of Hollywood’s animated family films have drawn fire for being accused of having sexual references hidden in them, among them The Little Mermaid (1989), Aladdin (1992), and The Lion King (1994). Instances of sexual material hidden in some versions of The Rescuers (1977) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) resulted in recalls and modifications of the films to remove such content. Hollywood Celebrity Gossip 2017, The Most Scandalous Love Affairs Ever.

https://www.myhollywoodnews.com/the-most-scandalous-love-affairs-ever/

#CelebrityGossip

#Celebrity Gossip

0 notes

bradpitthollywood · 5 years

Text

The Most Scandalous Love Affairs Ever

Lorene Porter - Celebrity Gossip - My Hollywood News

The Most Scandalous Love Affairs Ever, Hollywood Celebrity Gossip 2018.

youtube

New Hollywood Celebrities 2019, Pixar Gossip, The Most Scandalous Love Affairs Ever.

How was Bambi’s dad die?

What does Mulan’s name mean?

What companies are owned by Hollywood?

Although Malkovich and Pfeiffer’s affair ended shortly after it started, it was a miracle it even began, according to Malkovich. As he later told Rolling Stone,

Watch the video for more about The most scandalous love affairs ever!

#AngelinaJolie #BradPitt #JenniferAniston

Hollywood Film Gossip, Hollywood Celebrity Gossip 2018, The Most Scandalous Love Affairs Ever.

https://www.myhollywoodnews.com/the-most-scandalous-love-affairs-ever/

#CelebrityGossip

#Celebrity Gossip

0 notes

bearsonfilm · 5 years

Text

67 - The Crow

Welcome to Episode 67 of We Watched A Thing!

This week we’re rising from the dead with the help of a magic bird, listening to The Cure, and killing a ton of people, all while discussing 1994’s cult classic ‘The Crow’ as demanded by one of our patreons.

The Crow is a 1994 American supernatural superhero film directed by Alex Proyas, written by David J. Schow and John Shirley. The film stars Brandon Lee in his final film appearance. The film is based on James O'Barr's 1989 comic book The Crow, and tells the story of Eric Draven (Lee), a rock musician who is revived from the dead to avenge his own death as well as the rape and murder of his fiancée.

If you like this podcast, or hate it and us and want to tell us so - You can reach us at [email protected]

Or,

Twitter - @WeWatchedAThing

Facebook - @WeWatchedAThing

Instagram - @WeWatchedAThing

and on iTunes and Youtube

If you really like us and think we’re worth at least a dollar, why not check out our patreon at http://patreon.com/wewatchedathing. Every little bit helps, and you can get access to bonus episodes, early releases, and even tell us what movies to watch.

Check out this episode!

#movie #movies #film #films #podcast #podcasters #podern family #funny

0 notes

k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 11 months

Photo

The Crow (1994) directed by Alex Proyas

#the crow #1994 #The Crow (1994)#American superhero film #superhero film #Brandon Lee #Eric Draven #print #movies #90's #90s #90s movies #90's movies

715 notes · View notes

hollywoodages-blog · 7 years

Text

Nicole Kidman Height Weight Measurements

New Post has been published on http://hollywoodages.com/nicole-kidman-height-weight-measurements/

Nicole Kidman Height Weight Measurements

Nicole Kidman Biography

Nicole Mary Kidman was born on 20 June 1967 is an Australian-American performing artist and film maker. Kidman’s achievement parts were in the 1989 element film thriller Dead Calm and TV thriller smaller than expected arrangement Bangkok Hilton. Showing up in a few movies in the mid 1990s, she came to overall acknowledgment for her exhibitions in the stock-auto hustling film Days of Thunder (1990), the sentiment dramatization Far and Away (1992), and the superhero film Batman Forever (1995). Other fruitful movies followed in the late 1990s. Her execution in the musical Moulin Rouge! (2001) earned her a second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and her first designation for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Kidman’s execution as Virginia Woolf in the dramatization film The Hours (2002) got basic praise and earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama and the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival. Kidman’s other outstanding movies incorporate the wrongdoing parody show To Die For (1995), for which she won her first Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, the sensual thriller Eyes Wide Shut (1999), the ghastliness thriller The Others (2001), the epic war dramatization film Cold Mountain (2003), the dramatization Dogville (2003), the political thriller The Interpreter (2005), and the epic recorded sentimental show Australia (2008). Her exhibitions in the show Birth (2004) and the thriller The Paperboy (2012) earned her Golden Globe designations for Best Actress and Supporting Actress separately. Her execution in the 2010 show Rabbit Hole, which she likewise delivered, earned Kidman further honors, including a third assignment for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2012, she earned her first Primetime Emmy Award assignment for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her part in the biopic Hemingway and Gellhorn. Kidman has been a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF since 1994.[6] and for UNIFEM since 2006. In 2006, Kidman was made an Order of Australia,[8] and was the most generously compensated performer in the movie business in that year. As a consequence of being destined to Australian folks in Hawaiʻi, Kidman has double citizenship in Australia and the United States.[10] Kidman established and claims the creation organization Blossom Films.

Nicole Kidman Personal Info.

Full Name: Nicole Mary Kidman

Nick Name: Nic, Nicole Urban

Family: Dr. Anthony David Kidman – (Father) Janelle Ann Glenny Kidman – (Mother) Antonia Kidman – (Sister) Connor Cruise – (son) Isabella Cruise – (daughter) Sunday Rose Urban – (daughter) Faith Margaret Urban – (daughter) Keith Urban (husband) – (singer) Tom Cruise (ex-husband) – (actor)

Education: Nicole Kidman went to Lane Cove Public School and later North Sydney Girls’ High School, Sydney, Australia yet dropped out in 1984 to fill in as a back rub specialist to help her gang. She ,then, went Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Victoria and at the Phillip Street Theater, Sydney. She at last went to Australian Theater for Young People, Sydney, Australia.

Date of Birth: 20 June, 1967

Birthplace: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Religion: Roman Catholic

Ethnicity: White

Nationality: Australian

Profession: Film producer, Spokesperson, Singer, Actress

Measurements: 34-23-36 in or 87-58.5-91.5 cm

Bra Size: 32B

Height: 5′ 11″ (180 cm)

Weight: 128 lbs (58 kg)

Eye Color: Blue

Hair Color: Red

Dress Size: 04

Shoe Size: 09

Friends: Naomi Watts, Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Jim Carrey, Keith Urban, Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker, Iain Glen, Lachlan Murdoch, Sarah O’ Hare, Adrien Brody, Deborra-Lee Furness, Jude Law, Ian Thorpe, Rupert Murdoch, Sydney Pollack, Robbie Williams, Mel Gibson, George Clooney, Anthony Minghella, Ed Harris, Sandra Bullock, Baz Luhrmann, Tobey Maguire, Jack Nicholson, Julianne Moore, Dylan Hartung, Gwen Stefani, Lars Von Trier, Delta Goodrem, Lauren Bacall, Cate Blanchett, John Leguizamo, Stephen Daldry, Meryl Streep, Shirley McLaine, Daniel Craig, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Kenny Chesney, Marlon Holden, Carrie Underwood, Ronnie Dunn, Catherine Martin (nickname – C.M), Sean Penn, Simon Baker, Rebecca Rigg, Trace Adkins, Jerry Flowers, Chris McHugh, Dann Huff, Robin Wright-Penn, Justin Niebank, Jenny McCarthy, Brad Paisley, Kimberley Williams-Paisley, L’Wren Scott

Boyfriend/Dating History:

Tom Cruise (1990-2001) – She wedded Hollywood performing artist Tom Cruise on Christmas Eve 1990 in Telluride, Colorado. Tom and Nicole embraced two kids – one girl “Isabella Jane Cruise” (born 22 December, 1992) and one child “Connor Cruise” (conceived on 17 January, 1995). The couple got authoritatively separated in August 2001.

Keith Urban (2006-Present) – Kidman wedded to New Zealand nation artist Keith Urban on 25 June, 2006 at Manly, New South Wales, Australia. She brought forth her first little girl, Sunday Rose Kidman Urban on 7 July, 2008 in Nashville, USA. On 28 December, 2010, she had her second girl, Faith Margaret Kidman Urban by means of surrogacy at Nashville, USA.

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push();

Known For: Nicole Kidman best known for her movies like, Moulin Rouge! (2001), The Hours (2002), To Die For (1995).

Active Year: 1994 (present)

Favorite Food: Chocolate, Pizza

Favorite Drink: Apple Martinis

Favorite Movies: The Wizard Of Oz (1939), Gone With The Wind (1939)

Favorite Bands: Gorillaz

Favorite Singer: Lenny Kravitz

Favorite Books: War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy published in 1869), Portrait Of A Lady (Henry James published in 1881)

Favorite Color: Blue

Favorite Place: Australia

Favorite Sport: Swimming

Favorite Perfume: Angel by Thierry Mugler, Eau du Sud by Annick Goutal

Official Twitter: Twitter Account

Official Facebook: FB Account

Nicole Kidman Filmography:

Filmography

Film

Title Year Bush Christmas 1983 BMX Bandits 1983 Wills & Burke 1984 Windrider 1986 The Bit Part 1987 Emerald City 1988 Dead Calm 1989 Days of Thunder 1990 Flirting 1991 Billy Bathgate 1991 Far and Away 1992 Malice 1993 My Life 1993 Batman Forever 1995 To Die For 1995 The Portrait of a Lady 1996 The Peacemaker 1997 Practical Magic 1998 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Moulin Rouge! 2001 The Others 2001 Birthday Girl 2001 The Hours 2002 Dogville 2003 In the Cut 2003 The Human Stain 2003 Cold Mountain 2003 The Stepford Wives 2004 Birth 2004 No. 5 the Film 2004 The Interpreter 2005 Bewitched 2005 Fur 2006 Happy Feet 2006 The Invasion 2007 Margot at the Wedding 2007 The Golden Compass 2007 Australia 2008 Nine 2009 Rabbit Hole 2010 Just Go with It 2011 Trespass 2011 Monte Carlo 2011 The Paperboy 2012 Stoker 2013 The Railway Man 2013 Grace of Monaco 2014 Before I Go to Sleep 2014 Paddington 2014 Strangerland 2015 Queen of the Desert 2015 The Family Fang 2015 Secret in Their Eyes 2015 Genius 2016 Lion 2016 How to Talk to Girls at Parties 2016

Television

Title Year Skin Deep 1983 Chase Through the Night 1983 Matthew and Son 1984 A Country Practice 1984 Five Mile Creek 1985 Archer 1985 Winners 1985 An Australian in Rome 1987 Vietnam 1987 Watch the Shadows Dance 1987 Bangkok Hilton 1989 Saturday Night Live 1993 Hemingway & Gellhorn 2012 Hello Ladies: The Movie 2014 Big Little Lies 2016

Search Terms:

Nicole Kidman Age. Nicole Kidman And Keith Urban. Nicole Kidman And Husband. Nicole Kidman And Keith. Nicole Kidman And Family. Nicole Kidman Accent. Nicole Kidman Scary Movie. Nicole Kidman Spouse. Nicole Kidman Sister. Nicole Kidman Son. Nicole Kidman Daughters. Nicole Kidman Dad. Nicole Kidman Family. Nicole Kidman Filmography. Nicole Kidman First Movie. Nicole Kidman Facebook. Nicole Kidman First Husband. Nicole Kidman From. Nicole Kidman Friend. Nicole Kidman Gives Birth. Nicole Kidman Height. Nicole Kidman Husband. Nicole Kidman Kids. Nicole Kidman List Of Movies. Nicole Kidman Wedding. Nicole Kidman Education. Nicole Kidman Real Name. Nicole Kidman Twitter. Nicole Kidman Tom Cruise Marriage. Nicole Kidman Y Tom Cruise. Nicole Kidman Upcoming Movies. Nicole Kidman Is Married To. Nicole Kidman Parents. Nicole Kidman Profile. Nicole Kidman Zodiac. Nicole Kidman Bio. Nicole Kidman Birthday. Nicole Kidman Birth. Nicole Kidman Baby. Nicole Kidman Best Friend. Nicole Kidman New Movie. Nicole Kidman Nationality. Nicole Kidman Natural Hair Color. Nicole Kidman Movies. Nicole Kidman Marriages. Nicole Kidman Married. Nicole Kidman Movies List.

0 notes

aion-rsa · 3 years

Text

Best Movies Coming to Netflix in September 2021

https://ift.tt/3jtujPt

Fall is here. Almost. Technically we’re in the last grips of summer’s dog days right now, with Americans gearing up for a three-day weekend by the grill. But Netflix at least isn’t ready to leave the sunniest months alone, as indicated by a number of the major films coming to streaming in the next few weeks, including iconic summer spectacles like Jaws… plus Jaws 2 and all those other seaside sequels.

But there’s more than red dye in the water to enjoy in the below outings for those content to stay home as things continue to stay weird out there. From cult classic science fiction to a Spike Lee masterpiece, here is the best of what to expect from your favorite streaming service.

Blade Runner: The Final Cut (1982)

September 1

Of the many versions floating out there in the ether of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, this is the best one. Only a slight reworking of the director’s cut—complete with new footage being shot to fix a particularly troublesome wig during one stunt—the Final Cut is a refined distillation of the science fiction thriller that increasingly looks like a masterpiece with each new iteration. Dense, evocative, and strangely beautiful in its fatalism, Blade Runner remains the quintessential blending of sci-fi and noir, and a haunting work about what it means to be human.

Harrison Ford plays Deckard in the film, a laconic cop in an apocalyptic and rain soaked Los Angeles. His beat? To hunt down and exterminate replicants (robots) who disobey their programming and go rogue. Yet to the frustration of early 1982 audiences, and the film’s producers, Blade Runner is not a movie particularly concerned with plot. It’s about the mood evoked by its exquisite nightmare of tomorrow, and the realization that our toasters can be more soulful than you or I.

Clear and Present Danger (1994)

September 1

We know what you’re thinking: Isn’t Jack Ryan over on Amazon? That may be true of his current iteration with actor John Krasinski, but if you want to see Tom Clancy’s originally not-so-super spy done right, we recommend this delightfully dated ‘90s action classic. Starring Harrison Ford at the peak of his grumpy dad phase, Clear and Present Danger is the third Jack Ryan movie and arguably the best one after The Hunt for Red October. Like that other Ryan high bar, there is a winsomely nerdy fascination with the technical side of spycraft at the end of the 20th century here, as well as the political undercurrents which can leave even the most well-meaning spooks high and dry.

The ostensible plot is about the then-popular drug war, with Ford’s noble if weary Ryan finding himself swept up in the politics of Colombian drug cartels. However, the film’s real villain in the U.S. president whom Ryan serves, a man who uses the U.S. intelligence and military as his personal hit squad to settle scores, and then leaves them stranded when it becomes politically convenient. In many ways this is a prescient film about the 21st century to come. Which is to say that Clear and Present Danger has just enough brains to make its explosions matter. And yes, there are ‘splosions.

Cold Mountain (2003)

September 1

A movie that it’s hard to imagine folks making today, Cold Mountain is a Civil War epic which eschews the usual trappings of dramas set during that era. The film’s main characters are North Carolinians who find themselves drawn into the Confederate cause of secession (and thereby slavery), although Jude Law’s Inman is no slaveholder. In fact, he has no real reason to be fighting the war, which is why after seeing years of carnage he goes AWOL, embarking on a Homeric quest to return to his Cold Mountain home and the sweetheart waiting there for him, Ada (Nicole Kidman).

Not that things are much better back in the poverty of Appalachia where Ada’s land has fallen on hard times. Living under the tyranny of the home guard, Ada and her own sorrows on the domestic front complement Inman’s, revealing the horrible futility of war from many perspectives. A bit overwrought in places (Cold Mountain was clearly designed to win Oscars), there is nevertheless an earthy authenticity about this yarn which is impossible to ignore.

Do the Right Thing (1989)

September 1

Spike Lee’s seminal masterpiece is as potent 32 years later as the day it was released. A funny, heartbreaking, infuriating, and ultimately thrilling experience, Do the Right Thing proves as elusively complex as its misleadingly optimistic title. It’s also just a blast to watch.

Movies

BlacKkKlansman: Spike Lee Explores Racism in Classic Hollywood with New Movie

By David Crow

Movies

Blade Runner: How Its Problems Made It a Better Movie

By Ryan Britt

An ensemble piece, Do the Right Thing primarily focuses on Lee as Mookie, a delivery man for his neighborhood’s pizza joint owned by Sal (Danny Aiello). The relationship between the white business man and the Black employee, and what that means for the predominantly Black Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford–Stuyvesant, is explored from every angle as both men, plus Mookie’s whole community, endure the hottest day of the year. Tensions rise, prejudices are exposed, and an ending involving a young Black man and violent police officers, and a trash can and a window, remains as poignant as ever.

Green Lantern (2011)

September 1

Ah, Green Lantern. Remember when this movie was supposed to be the launching pad for the DC Cinematic Universe or whatever it ended up being called? Following the gritty realism of Christopher Nolan’s first two Batman movies, the loopy cosmic vibe of this would-be epic was just not what audiences were expecting to see. And even with all the visual pyrotechnics, an earnest try from a somewhat miscast Ryan Reynolds in the title role, and a great turn by Mark Strong as anti-hero Sinestro, the movie just came across as uninspired and unfocused.

Part of the problem may have been hiring Casino Royale director Martin Campbell—known for bringing Bond back to Earth—to helm what is essentially an uneasy mix of superhero origin story and space opera. Campbell does his best, as do actors like Reynolds, Strong, Tim Robbins, and Angela Bassett, but the script is too saddled with stuff. The primary villain is a cloud and the secondary villain—Peter Sarsgaard in a puffy head—is chewing the scenery in another movie entirely. We may get a good Green Lantern movie one day, but this one is best enjoyed while cleaning the house or getting drunk.

Mystery Men (1999)

September 1

Made in a time before superhero films became a Hollywood mainstay, Mystery Men is an artifact from a bygone era. The admittedly overstuffed superhero comedy made by “Got Milk?” commercial director Kinka Usher flopped at the box office, despite having an ensemble cast that included Ben Stiller, Hank Azaria, William H. Macy, Greg Kinnear, Janeane Garofalo, Paul Reubens, Lena Olin, Geoffrey Rush, Eddie Izzard, and Claire Forlani. Perhaps 1999 wasn’t ready for a superhero satire about a team of lesser superheroes who are asked to save the day?

Movies

Green Lantern Star Mark Strong Was Excited for Sequel

By Don Kaye

Movies

Blade Runner 2049 and the Role of Joi in a Joyless World

By David Crow

Likely, this concept would do much better today in a pop culture climate where superhero subversions like The Boys and Watchmen have thrived. Sadly, this wasn’t to be the fate for Mystery Men, which made only $33 million at the box office against a budget of $68 million. The cult classic may yet find its time to shine on the Netflix Top Ten and, if not, it will always be able to boast its connection to Smash Mouth’s “All Star” music video, which features characters from the film.

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

September 1

The story behind the last film ever directed by the great Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone is as fascinating as the picture itself. Having made his reputation as the king of spaghetti Westerns—and then transcending the genre with films like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West—Leone set his sights on gangsters in 20th century America. But his nearly four-hour epic was severely truncated down to 139 minutes and rendered almost incomprehensible in America where it failed spectacularly. Meanwhile the original version remained largely unseen until it was restored in 2012.

Leone’s methodical and occasionally dreamlike esthetic might still be a tough sit for some audiences, but we hope that Netflix is indeed showing the full-length version (this is the company that backed The Irishman, for Chrissakes, which probably wouldn’t exist without Leone’s influence). It’s an expansive, truly gripping epic that stretches across a 50-year span, encompassing Prohibition, Italian, and Jewish criminal mobs, plus politics and more in a vast portrait of a corrupt American dream. It’s been called one of the greatest gangster films of all time, and rightly so.

School of Rock (2003)

September 1

Bless the movie gods above for a filmmaker like Richard Linklater. Typically an indie darling known for time-bending cinematic experiments such as the Before Sunrise trilogy and Boyhood, the Dazed and Confused filmmaker can still also do genuinely great mainstream entertainment when he wants to. Hence his partnering with the oft-underrated talent of Jack Black. Together, they made an all-time family classic between them in School of Rock.

Movies

Mob Antipasta: Best Gangster Movie Food Scenes

By Tony Sokol

Movies

Jaws: Why the USS Indianapolis Speech is Steven Spielberg’s Favorite Scene

By David Crow

The plot, if you somehow haven’t seen it, involves Black playing an out-of-work rocker who cons his way into becoming a prestigious private school’s new music teacher—one who’d rather teach his kids about the awesomeness of KISS or Led Zeppelin than Mozart and Beethoven. He even gets the kids to start a rock band! The supreme appeal of the movie, however, is the interest and affection Linklater showers onto Black as well as his entire cast of talented youngsters, who all get to shine and help build this Zoomer touchstone. That includes future iCarly star Miranda Cosgrove as Black’s pint-sized nemesis turned frenemy.

Jaws (1975)

September 16

Arguably the greatest summer blockbuster ever made, there is no debate over the fact that Jaws kickstarted this type of summer spectacle. Which makes returning to it now kind of remarkable when one realizes how grounded and real Steven Spielberg’s primal horror still feels. And we’re not talking about the killer shark; Great Whites do not behave this way, nor do they look like that rubber monstrosity fans affectionately refer to as “Bruce.”

Rather the film’s paradox of being a thriller intended for adults during New Hollywood’s golden age in the 1970s, as well as being the accidental creation of the summer blockbuster, means the film maintains a surprising degree of naturalism and complexity among its three central characters, and their various motives for getting in a boat to do primordial battle with a fish like something out of a Hemingway book. Plus, in addition to the terror of not seeing the shark for most of the movie and Spielberg instead relying on John Williams’ nerve-shattering score, the film’s depiction of politicians who will let their voters get eaten before listening to the scientists hits especially close to home these days.

Jaws 2 (1978)

September 16

The making of Jaws 2, which was inevitable following the unprecedented success of Steven Spielberg’s classic 1975 original, was beset with as many problems as the first film. The first, of course, was that Spielberg did not return to direct; that task fell to John D. Hancock (Let’s Scare Jessica to Death), who was replaced prior to filming by Jeannot Szwarc. The script was constantly revised as well, and star Roy Scheider was apparently unhappy that he was contractually obligated to show up.

In the end, Jaws 2 isn’t a bad film; it’s just a pointless one. The town of Amity is plagued, improbably enough, by a second shark, and once again the mayor (Murray Hamilton, somehow reelected after pulling a Ron DeSantis in the first movie) idiotically refuses to heed Chief Brody’s warnings. The film’s centerpiece is the shark’s relentless attack on a bunch of teens headed out to sea in a small flotilla of boats, and Szwarc generates some real tension and horror even if we see way more of the monster this time. There’s no way Jaws 2 can match the greatness of its predecessor, but considering what came afterward, we’ll take what we can get.

cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530", }).render("0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796"); });

The post Best Movies Coming to Netflix in September 2021 appeared first on Den of Geek.

from Den of Geek https://ift.tt/3DxhE65

#aion-rsa #Den of Geek

0 notes