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*FOX FILM NOIR WAVE 9- ROAD HOUSE, BOOMERANG & MOONTIDE in september 2008!*
**20th Century Fox** has announced: *Fox Film Noir - Wave 9*!
Titles include: the perpetually doomed release of *Boomerang* (1947) [Let's hope it's for real this time], *Road House* (1948) and *Moontide* (1942).
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Cinemablend.com
By Rafe Telsch
2008-07-03
*One of the most classic and iconic science fiction films of all time is about to get the extended director?s cut treatment. Fritz Lang?s Metropolis may soon be restored to the director?s original version with a recent museum find: a print of the movie that contains long-lost footage of the movie.*
*The story of Metropolis isn?t that different from today?s movies. Fritz Lang?s movie opened in 1927 to a dismal response. Since the film was the most expensive movie to date, the studio needed to recoup its losses, so it recut the film, removing almost a quarter of Lang?s vision and simplifying the storylines. Unfortunately, the footage the studio cut out was lost and the reduced cut of the film is what film lovers and historians have known since.*
Obviously, a copy of Fritz Lang?s original cut of Metropolis has been a sort of holy grail for movie lovers, but I don?t think many ever expected to see it. Zeit Magazine _Online reports the found cut of the movie has been confirmed by three film experts, leading to an excitement that the movie can now be seen with a new understanding and interpretation. Plans are already underway to restore the newly found footage. Considering a remastered cut of the movie a few years ago led to a short theatrical run for Metropolis, I would expect this newly found edition to give the classic flick another shot at being seen on the big screen._
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Very cool!! I go to meet Celeste Holm at the Denver Jewish Film Festival when she was there to introduce and do a Q&A W./the audience about "Gentleman's Agreement". Nice lady. She signed my DVD copy of "Gentleman's Agreement"!
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I'm soo glad I'm not the only who posted this info!! I also posted this last night in "Hot Topics"!
http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=130891&tstart=0
Here is the article..in-case you don't want to click on the link!
*'Metropolis' footage found in Argentina*
1927 German film bombed at box office
*The cult sci-fi classic, penned by Lang and his wife in 1924, was the most expensive film ever made in Germany when it bowed on Jan. 10, 1927.*
After being poorly received, the UFA studio was eager to recoup some of its costs. It re-edited the film -- cutting 948 meters of footage, around 25% -- and re-released it to great acclaim eight months later.
However, in 1928 Adolfo Z. Wilson, the head of a Buenos Aires distrib named Terra, took a copy of the long version to Argentina.
The film changed hands several times and by 1992 had ended up in a collection at the Museo del Cine.
Earlier this year Paula Felix-Didier became the director of the museum. She discovered that the copy included nearly all of the long-lost scenes -- some 700 meters, 25 minutes -- and contacted Germany's Die Zeit magazine.
"The discovery of the material thought to be lost forever leads to a new understanding of Fritz Lang's masterpiece," said Helmut Possmann, chairman of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Foundation, which holds the rights to the pic.
In an interview with Die Zeit, he said the foundation and the archives in Buenos Aires "feel a responsibility to make the material available to the public."
Lang made the film, considered a classic in part because of its pioneering special effects, at the Babelsberg studios outside Berlin.
Conceived during the heyday of the Weimar Republic, pic is about a futuristic urban dystopia in the year 2026 set against the backdrop of social tension between the working class and capitalist bosses.
"This was one of the most sought-after films ever made," said Anke Wilkening, a film conservator at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Foundation. The segments were said to be in poor condition and partly scratched.
"It's a sensational find," said Rainer Rother, head of the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin and head of the Retrospektive sidebar at the Berlin Film Festival. "Fritz Lang's most famous film can now be seen in a new light."
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Also found this article!
*Lost Metropolis footage could finally make sense of Lang's sprawling classic*
*The new version of Fritz Lang's film could fill vital gaps in the narrative. I can't wait to see it*
The discovery of key scenes from Fritz Lang's 1927 silent sci-fi epic Metropolis is fascinating. Half-an-hour of running time, fully one-fifth of the original movie, was for decades considered hopelessly lost. Now the complete film can be viewed for the first time in 80 years - the first time, in fact, since it was premiered in Weimar Berlin, hissed at by the press, and ignominiously chopped down for foreign distribution. But will the missing 30 minutes "explain" this sprawling and operatic movie? Or just make it more baroque, more mysterious, and more mad than ever?
Lang's flawed Gothic-Futurist masterpiece is set in a 21st-century privatised city state presided over by the cruel autocrat, Joh Fredersen. While the pampered ruling class amuse themselves in nightclubs, an Untermensch race of exploited workers toil underground. To Fredersen's horror, his idealistic son Freder falls in love with the workers' beautiful, insurrectionist leader Maria; but his scientist employee Rotwang has an idea: he has invented a bizarre "gynoid" robot, which he can fashion in Maria's form to provoke cataclysmic disorder among the workers.
New scenes may make more sense of the head-spinning narrative. Fredersen has an enigmatic henchman called Der Schmale, or The Thin Man, who's paid to spy on his son. All his scenes, once cut, have now been restored, which may help us understand Fredersen's voyeuristic control-freakery, and supplement the expressionist, noir-ish menace of the film. The new scenes show more of Worker 11811, with whom Freder exchanges clothes to gain access to the underground: these revived sequences may lubricate the film's passage into the working-class depths. And there are more scenes reportedly showing fights between Fredersen and Rotwang, who is revealed to have been in love with Fredersen's late wife, Freder's mother - these scenes may shed more light on the film's deeply strange, innovative techno-sexual imagery.
Or perhaps it will all just be more fascinatingly strange and perplexing than ever. At any rate, this promises to be an unmissable, and unique "director's cut".
Peter Bradshaw
July 3, 2008
guardian.co.uk,
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Thought I would Pass This Along,.......
When it rose in popularity between the Jazz Age and the advent of rock 'n' roll, big band music was aided by dovetailing nicely with the movies being made at the time.
Turner Classic Movies takes advantage of this for a monthlong, 42-film Wednesday night festival of "*_Big Bands in the Movies_*."
It begins with the 1937 Busby Berkeley-directed "Hollywood Hotel" (8 p.m.) featuring the work of a young Benny Goodman. It's followed by the 1941 "Las Vegas Nights" (10 p.m.) with Tommy Dorsey and the Ann Miller vehicle "Reveille With Beverly" (11:45 p.m.) featuring Duke Ellington.
Late, late offerings include Artie Shaw in "Dancing Co-Ed" (1:30 a.m.), "Best Foot Forward" (3 a.m.) and a series of short films you may want to record: "Jimmie Lunceford and his Dance Orchestra" (4:55 a.m.), "Jammin' the Blues" (5:10 a.m.), "Freddie Rich and his Orchestra in 'Mirrors'" (5:25 a.m.) and "Larry Clinton and Orchestra With Carol Bruce" (5:40 a.m.).
Roger Catlin | TV EYE
July 2, 2008
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Two More *Joan Crawford* Film's!
July 17, 2008
*Susan and God*. 5:00pm. TCM.
July 23, 2008
*_Hollywood Canteen_*. 8:15pm. TCM.
These times are for PT (Arizona) Time.
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*On DVD: Carmen Miranda sizzles*
She was famous for her South American pizzazz - her rapid-fire vocal delivery in broken English, her ever-rhythmic body language, her snappy Latin eyes and a ferocious warmth of personality.
But above all, Carmen Miranda - whose remarkable career is celebrated in a new five-disc DVD collection from Fox Home Entertainment - was famous for her outrageous costumes, and especially her headgear.
There is something curiously endearing about this legendary "*Brazilian Bombshell*" who at times seemed to be spending her entire life wearing assorted fruits and vegetables on her head. But as these newly reissued movie musicals remind us, Miranda went to even more bizarre lengths. In the 1946 _If I'm Lucky_, she was decked out in an all-white plastic dress garnished with plastic bracelets and necklaces, and topped by a four-foot, all-white Christmas tree on her head.
In the 1946 _Doll Face_, based on a play by stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, Miranda helped design a miniature lighthouse for her head with 15 pounds of batteries concealed in her hair. And in Busby Berkeley's The Gang's All Here, the one true classic among these films, Miranda's legendary The Lady In The Tutti-Frutti Hat number was crowned by the spectacle - and that's the only word to describe it - of a turban several times her size stretching to the top of the movie screen and consisting of nothing but fruit.
It's easy to laugh at such images - indeed Miranda herself was a good sport about them - but it's less easy to dismiss her as some kind of ludicrous Hollywood aberration. By 1945, she was the highest-paid woman in America. There was also her influence on American society during the heyday of her career (the years of the Second World War.) Thanks to Miranda, a whole generation of women took to fancy blouses and flaring skirts. They even started wearing turbans.
Still, you didn't look to the Fox studio for memorable musicals during this period. Uncreative blandness tended to be the order of the day. This is certainly true of three films in this collection - _Greenwich Village_, _Something For The Boys_ and _If I'm Lucky_. It is definitely not true of _The Gang's All Here_, which was the final piece of inspired lunacy from Berkeley of 42nd Street fame.
This eccentric stylist had free rein in _The Gang's All Here_, *his first colour movie*, and he exploited Miranda's kinetic personality more adroitly and outrageously than any other director who worked with her.
In fact, Berkeley went too far as far as his star's home country of Brazil was concerned. The scandalized Brazilian censors took one look at _The Girl In The Tutti-Frutti Hat_, and especially at the suggestive things the chorus girls were doing with giant bananas, and banned the film outright.
As for the remaining movies, their over-all blandness does not prevent them from being of continuing interest. That's because they offer some famous names at the beginnings of their careers. _Greenwich Village_, _Something For The Boys_, _Doll Face_ and If _I'm Lucky_ star the great Vivian Blaine years before she achieved immortality on stage as the original Miss Adelaide in Guys And Dolls.
A youthful and golden-voice Perry Como lent charm and presence to _Doll Face_ and _If I'm Lucky_.
Comic Phil Silvers had yet to make the big time in the ''40s, but his bespectacled buffoonery is a notable plus factor in If I'm Lucky and Something For The Boys. Then there's trumpet genius Harry James, who also makes a reasonable stab at acting and singing in If I'm Lucky.
Above all, there's that force of nature Miranda. Even at her most outlandish, she's never less than likable. And her story is nothing less than remarkable: totally untrained as a singer or dancer, born with deformed feet, she knew where her talent came from. She would point at her body and say: "Eet was here, dat's all. Eet had to come out."
Still, as an accompanying four-part documentary on her life points out, Miranda's unique personality had to be handled with care: she was a huge star incapable of carrying a movie on her own.
And when she cut herself loose from Fox, her career foundered - but not her drive. The documentary shows her final moments in 1955 as a guest on Jimmy Durante's television show when she suffered on camera the heart attack which led to her death a few hours later.
The image you're left with at this fatal moment is of a remarkable and resilient spirit.
Thanks,
Jamie Portman, Canwest News Service
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
The Vancouver Sun,
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_*'Metropolis'_ footage found in Argentina*
*1927 German film bombed at box office*
large part of the missing footage cut from Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" after it flopped upon opening in 1927 has been found in a museum in Argentina.
The cult sci-fi classic, penned by Lang and his wife in 1924, was the most expensive film ever made in Germany when it bowed on Jan. 10, 1927.
After being poorly received, the UFA studio was eager to recoup some of its costs. It re-edited the film -- cutting 948 meters of footage, around 25% -- and re-released it to great acclaim eight months later.
However, in 1928 Adolfo Z. Wilson, the head of a Buenos Aires distrib named Terra, took a copy of the long version to Argentina.
The film changed hands several times and by 1992 had ended up in a collection at the Museo del Cine.
Earlier this year Paula Felix-Didier became the director of the museum. She discovered that the copy included nearly all of the long-lost scenes -- some 700 meters, 25 minutes -- and contacted Germany's Die Zeit magazine.
"The discovery of the material thought to be lost forever leads to a new understanding of Fritz Lang's masterpiece," said Helmut Possmann, chairman of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Foundation, which holds the rights to the pic.
In an interview with Die Zeit, he said the foundation and the archives in Buenos Aires "feel a responsibility to make the material available to the public."
Lang made the film, considered a classic in part because of its pioneering special effects, at the Babelsberg studios outside Berlin.
Conceived during the heyday of the Weimar Republic, pic is about a futuristic urban dystopia in the year 2026 set against the backdrop of social tension between the working class and capitalist bosses.
"This was one of the most sought-after films ever made," said Anke Wilkening, a film conservator at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Foundation. The segments were said to be in poor condition and partly scratched.
"It's a sensational find," said Rainer Rother, head of the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin and head of the Retrospektive sidebar at the Berlin Film Festival. "Fritz Lang's most famous film can now be seen in a new light."
Thanks
Variety
By ERIK KIRSCHBAUM
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POSTED July 2, 2008
Doug Krentzlin
*_Sabrina_,? TCM, Thursday, July 3, 8 p.m. (EST)*
The original 1954 version of romantic comedy ?Sabrina,? the *first* collaboration between writer/director Billy Wilder and actress Audrey Hepburn, doesn?t quite match the quality of their second film together _?Love in the Afternoon?_ (1957), but it still remains a high point in both careers.
Hepburn plays Sabrina, daughter of Thomas Fairchild (John Williams), chauffer to the wealthy Larrabee family of Long Island. Sabrina has always had a crush on David Larrabee (William Holden), the youngest son, and, when she returns from an extended stay in Paris, he reciprocates her affection.
David?s older brother Linus (Humphrey Bogart) has different plans, however. Hoping to marry off David to the heiress of another wealthy family in order to create a merger between the two dynasties, Linus decides that the only way to derail the romance is to woo Sabrina himself.
The dialogue by Wilder, Ernest Lehman and Samuel Taylor (author of the play the movie is based on) is sharp and sophisticated. The best line goes to veteran character actor Walter Hampden as Larrabee patriarch, Oliver. Admonished to remember that class differences have changed in the 20th century, Hampden responds, ?Twentieth century? Why, I could pull a century out of a hat blindfolded and come up with a better one!?
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*Amazon.com has the book on sale for $37.80 & this item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping.*
*Joan Crawford: The Enduring Star*
*Written by Peter Cowie, Afterword by George Cukor, Foreword by Mick Lasalle*
*Pub Date: February 2009*
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*Win 'The Godfather' Collection: The Coppola Restoration*
Premiere and Paramount Home Entertainment are giving away _The Godfather Collection: The Coppola Restoration_. It includes: _The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and The Godfather Part III, one disc of previously released special features, and one disc of brand new special features._ The frame-by-frame restoration was supervised by Robert A. Harris of the Film Preserve, who has previous restored Lawrence of Arabia, Spartacus, and other classics. It took over a year to complete and was overseen by Coppola and cinematographer Gordon Willis. The new special features include "The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't," "...when the shooting stopped," and much more.
*Five lucky winners will take home a copy of this 5-DVD collection, worth $ 72.99.*
http://www.premiere.com/contests/4637/win-the-godfather-collection-the-coppola-restoration.html
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I found this interesting article ...thought I would pass it along!
Posted: July 1, 2008
Doug Krentzlin
*The Cat?s Paw,? TCM, Wednesday, July 2, 2:15 p.m. (EST)*
Once again, I?m going with a film that I have yet to see, but from its pedigree, it seems to have much to recommend it.
?The Cat?s Paw? (1934) represented a marked departure for silent movie comedian Harold Lloyd from his standard approach to making films. His previous comedies were built around loosely connected comedy routines, but his career had stalled with the coming of sound.
As an experiment, Lloyd decided to concentrate on a strong plot-driven structure. To this end, he based ?The Cat?s Paw? on a short story by Clarence Buddington Kelland, who also wrote the story that Frank Capra?s classic ?Mr. Deeds Goes to Town? was taken from.
Like ?Deeds,? the basic theme of ?The Cat?s Paw? is a decent but na?ve man fighting the forces of urban corruption. Lloyd plays Ezekiel Cobb, a missionary?s son who has just arrived home from China.
Cobb is talked into becoming a candidate for mayor; in truth, he?s being set up as a patsy for a rigged election. He unexpectedly wins, however, and sets out to clean up the town with the help of his friends in the Chinese community.
The supporting cast includes Una Merkel, George Barbier, Nat Pendleton, Alan Dinehart, Grant Mitchell, Warren Hymer and Edwin Maxwell.
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Month-Long Celebration of Hollywood Stars Includes a Fred Astaire/Gene Kelly Dance-Off, Back-to-Back Days Celebrating Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, And 13 Stars Getting their First SUMMER UNDER THE STARS Days
For the sixth consecutive year, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is dedicating all of August to its SUMMER UNDER THE STARS movie festival, in which each of the 31 days showcases a Hollywood legend for an entire 24 hours.
Among the highlights of this year's event are:
*A Fred Astaire/Gene Kelly dance-off (Aug. 16-17); back-to-back days dedicated to Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis (Aug. 26-27) and Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy (Aug. 30-31); and two days dedicated to recently deceased actors Richard Widmark (Aug. 11) and Charlton Heston (Aug. 28).*
*In addition, 13 stars will receive first-time celebrations during SUMMER UNDER THE STARS:*
*Michael Caine (Aug. 1), Marie Dressler (Aug. 4), Claude Rains (Aug. 5), Anne Bancroft (Aug. 6), Fred MacMurray (Aug. 9), Richard Widmark (Aug. 11), Kim Novak (Aug. 12), Peter Lorre (Aug. 13), Greer Garson (Aug. 14), Trevor Howard (Aug. 22), Laurel & Hardy (Aug. 23), Janet Leigh (Aug. 26) and Tony Curtis (Aug. 27).*
*This year's SUMMER UNDER THE STARS also features 22 feature films making their premiere on TCM, along with 15 Laurel & Hardy shorts never shown on the network.*
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The girl who was TV's Gidget and the Flying Nun of our childhoods, enduring star Sally Field, takes a turn this month as Turner Classic Movies guest programmer.
On July 10, she'll explain to us and to host Robert Osborne why she loves *Miracle at Morgan's Creek, The Awful Truth, All About Eve and Love with a Proper Stranger*.
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*Jan Sterling*
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I always thought "Spellbound" was daffy!
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Jun 10 2008
*Birmingham's own queen of horror Hazel Court is to feature on a new stamp to celebrate the Hammer House films.*
The Sutton Coldfield-born actress, who died this year, is pictured on a stamp celebrating one of the studio?s most successful film?s that she starred in ? The Curse of Frankenstein.
Three new stamps were commissioned by Royal Mail to mark the 50th anniversary of the company?s 1958 classic horror, Dracula. Three more were also released to celebrate 50 years since the first Carry On film, Carry On Sergeant.
The stamps were launched in Birmingham, at the Gothic Highbury Hall, in Moseley.
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*Vancouver producer of Oscar-winning film dies*
*William Vince was an integral part of local film scene*
Yvonne Zacharias, Vancouver Sun
Published: Monday, June 23, 2008
VANCOUVER - *William Vince, producer of the Oscar-award winning movie Capote starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, died on Saturday at his home in West Vancouver after a battle with cancer.*
Vince, who was 44, was a well-known and respected figure not only in Vancouver filmmaking circles but in Hollywood as well. He is widely recognized as the only Vancouver producer to have made an Oscar-winning movie. The producer holds the financial reins and the power in the making of a film.
The West Vancouver native launched the local film production company Infinity Features about eight years ago. Its most notable achievement was the making of Capote which garnered five Oscar nominations, including one for best picture, and an Oscar win for Hoffman as best actor.
Vince was on the ground floor of the Vancouver filmmaking scene, a man who was instrumental in lifting it by the bootstraps from being a cinematic non-entity to a creative centre for the filmmaking arts.
Said Infinity producer and close associate Robert Merilees, "Bill Vince was the most generous person I have met, with his time, his talent and his knowledge of the business. He was an amazing partner and a loyal friend. All of us here at Infinity loved him dearly and will miss him terribly."
Vince was also an enigmatic figure, a man not given to small talk but one who had an eye for recognizing potential in movies that others couldn't readily see.
Capote was a case in point. Hoffman, director Bennett Miller and producer Caroline Baron had spent a year and a half trying to get the movie financed before they found Vince and formed a partnership with Infinity Features and Los Angeles associate Michael Ohoven of Infinity Media.
Vince brought Capote to United Artists, which had previously passed on it.
"That movie, without a doubt, would never have been made without Bill," said his brother Robert. He noted that when Hoffman accepted the Academy Award, he singled one person out for a thank-you. That person was William Vince.
"He was a bright light," said his brother Robert. "Sometimes bright lights don't burn too long."
On the eve of the Oscar win, Vince sat down for lunch with Hollywood royalty, right between Steven Spielberg and George Clooney. It was a measure of just how far he had come from an unpromising start in life.
From childhood, he suffered from severe dyslexia. Vince never finished high school, but with the help of a private tutor and his very supportive mother, he learned to read and write.
Robert Vince said his brother's severe dyslexia gave him incredible compassion for people facing adversity. It is perhaps no accident that as one of the last crowning achievements, he turned the rundown Golden Harvest Movie Theatre in an unsightly part of Main Street, an area hovering on the Downtown Eastside, into a jewel of a boutique theatre for private screenings, lending the perilous stretch a touch of panache and credibility. After pumping $2 million worth of renovations into it, the theatre features red leather club chairs, many with foot stools, a private bar and a high-tech screen and sound system.
"This was very representative of who he was," said Robert Vince. "Only he would take this on."
Vince often credited his dyslexia for having developed a finely tuned sense of intuition and discipline. The world, he once explained in a feature length interview with Vancouver Lifestyles magazine, is not made for dyslexics. "You grow up being disappointed and embarrassed often so your protection goes up."
A talented hockey player, Vince played three seasons with the Western Hockey League, spending his last year with the Brandon Wheat Kings. Longtime friend and fellow filmmaker Tony Pantages said Vince was on track for a career in the NHL but his knees blew out before the draft. "Bill was one of those super tough, sweet-as-pie hockey players who was up at 3 a.m. for hockey practice." He remained an active mentor as a hockey coach after abandoning dreams of a career in the NHL.
He wasn't planning on a film career but fell into it through his brother Robert. The two worked for 10 years for Keystone Pictures. Following the Airbud (Disney's golden retriever) movies, Vince launched Infinity Features. In addition to Capote, Infinity produced Saved!, The Snow Walker and the box-office comedy Just Friends.
Vince was diagnosed with sarcoma about a year and a half ago but the matter was kept private. It began in his leg and spread from there. Robert Vince said his brother battled the cancer with great courage well past the point where most people would have given up. While in treatment, he completed three full-length feature films - Push, Stone of Destiny and Terry Gilliam's adventure fantasy The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, starring the late Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits, Verne Troyer, Lily Cole, Andrew Garfield, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law. He wanted to win his battle against cancer for his children. He always believed he would be the one to beat insurmountable odds. "While Bill never gave up, his physical body could not continue," said a news release announcing his death.
Pantages described Vince as "one of the most determined men I ever knew. He worked harder than anyone I ever knew."
Added Pantages, "He was one of the rare people in the world who believed in others and because of his determination, he was able to realize the dreams of others."
Pantages said Vince passed away far too young but he achieved more than most people could hope to achieve in a lifetime. He said Capote, which had a budget of $7.5 million, was groundbreaking in that it was the first film with a budget of under $10 million to score such major Academy Award winning acclaim.
He is survived by his wife, Cynthia Miles, and his three children, Miles, Michaela and Nathanial who range in age from 11 to 15. He was predeceased by his mother, Elizabeth Anne Larland Vince, but is survived by his father Dennis Vince, his brother Robert and his sisters, Pauline Gibson, Lyn Vince and Janet Richard as well as many nieces and nephews.
His family would like to thank Dr. Richard Gray and Dr. Chris Beauchamp at the Mayo Clinic Scottsdale; Dr. Paul Klimo and nurse Pat Macdonald as well as Dr. Paul Sugar of the Lions Gate Hospital and home care nurse Jesse Serran.
Donations may be made in Vince's name to fund an annual scholarship to be awarded to an aspiring young film producer that has overcome adversity in their life. They can be sent care of Debra Thomas, The Canada Trust Company, P.O. Box 10083, Vancouver, B.C. V7Y 1BC.
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=bda7ee04-1df2-4...
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*RIP: Reel Important People -- June 30, 2008*
*William Vince (1963-2008)* - Producer - Oscar-nominated for producing "Capote". He also produced Saved!, Just Friends, Ripley Under Ground, The Final Cut, The Snow Walker, The 4th Floor, Air Bud, Air Bud: Golden Receiver, Malicious and the upcoming films Push, The Stanford Prison Experiment and Terry Gilliam's "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus", which stars Heath Ledger. He died of sarcoma June 21, in Vancouver. (CBC)
*John Barnes (1920-2008)* - Film Historian - Co-founder of the Barnes Museum of Cinematography, which was in St. Ives, Cornwall, England (it closed in 1986) and author of multiple texts, including the five-volume "The Beginnings of Cinema in England, 1894-1901." He died June 1. (Guardian)
*Robert L. Bendick (c.1917-2008)* - Director, Producer - Co-produced the Oscar-nominated documentary "This is Cinerama" and co-directed a follow-up, "Cinerama Holiday". He died June 22.
*Lilyan Chauvin (1925-2008)* - Actress - Best known for playing Mother Superior in "Silent Night, Bloody Night". She appears in "Predator 2", Catch Me If You Can, The Man Who Wasn't There, Private Benjamin, Funny Lady, North to Alaska, Silk Stockings, Bad Influence and the Elvis flick "Tickle Me". She died June 26.
*Lincoln Dabagia (c.1970-2008)* - Agent - Head of Lincoln Dabagia Agency (aka LDA Talent). He died June 8 in Santa Clarita, California. (Variety)
*Joseph De Marco (1959-2008)* - Studio Executive - VP of business affairs for Fox Searchlight. He died of a complication during surgery June 19, in Los Angeles. (Variety)
*John Furlong (c.1933-2008)* - Actor - Longtime Russ Meyer collaborator. He narrated Meyer's films: "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" and" Mondo Topless" and appears in Mudhoney, Common Law Cabin, Vixen!, Supervixens and Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers!, for which he was also a gaffer. He also dubbed Meyer's voice for all his films, including Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens. Non-Meyer films in which he appears include: "All the President's Men" "Blazing Saddles", "Jagged Edge", Billy Wilder's "The Front Page", Peter Hyams' "Busting", Bob Rafelson's "The Postman Always Rings Twice", Robert Aldrich's "Hustle", John Carpenter's "Vampires", Lawrence Kasdan's "Wyatt Earp", "The Gumball Rally", "The Swarm" and "Suburban Commando". He died June 23. (Entertainment Insiders)
*Edwin Gordon (1925-2008)* - Screenwriter - Adapted Chaim Potok's novel "The Chosen" for the 1981 film directed by Jeremy Kagan. He died June 23 in Los Angeles. (IMDb)
*Klaus-Michael Gr?ber (1941-2008)* - Director of Opera and Stage, Actor - Directed the production of "Othello" that appears in Peter Greenaway's 8? Women. He also acted in Leos Carax's The Lovers on the Bridge. He died June 23 in Belle-Ile-en-Mer, Morbihan, France. (Zeit
Online)
*Kermit Love (1916-2008)* - Muppet Designer, Costume Designer - Co-created Big Bird, Mr. Snuffleupagus and Oscar the Grouch for TV's Sesame Street and designed characters for The Muppet Show and The Muppet Movie. He also played Willy the hot dog man on Sesame Street and in Follow That Bird, and he created Snuggle Bear, from the Snuggle Fabric Softener ads, and characters on TV's The Great Space Coaster. He died of pneumonia June 21, in Poughkeepsie, New York. (LA Times)
*Ethan Ormsby (1967-2008)* - Lighting Designer, Digital Artist - Lighting technical director at DreamWorks Animation, where he worked on "Bee Movie", "Over the Hedge" and "Flushed Away". He was previously a digital artist at Digital Domain, Sony and Disney, having worked on "Spider-Man", "Dinosaur", "Evolution", "What Lies Beneath", "Apollo 13", "Cast Away", "The Matrix Reloaded", "Bad Boys II", "The Haunted Mansion", "Cursed", "I Spy", "Chain Reaction", "Strange Days", "Matchstick Men" and "Stealth". He also acted in the horror flick "Popcorn". He died of cancer June 12, in Los Angeles. (Variety)
*Mary Taylor Zimbalist (1915-2008)* - Actress - Appears (as Mary Taylor) in "Blossoms in the Dust", Soak the Rich, Shining Victory and "Lady of the Tropics", which was produced by her future husband, Sam Zimbalist. In 1960, she accepted her husband's posthumous Oscar for Ben-Hur on his behalf at the 32nd Academy Awards ceremony. She died June 17 in Ojai, California. (NY Times)
*Rodric Beckham (1914-2008)* - Former U.S. Army-Air Corp. Staff Sergeant who spent much of World War II in a German POW camp. He appears in Billy Wilder's "Stalag 17" along with other WWII POW survivors. He died June 21.
*Howard Brandy (1929-2008)* - Publicist, Producer - Handled PR for "A Hard Days Night", "Help!" and Privilege and was a publicist for the Police Academy movies, The Karate Kid, Part III, Young Frankenstein, The Last Emperor, The Pope of Greenwich Village, The Last Seduction, Things Are Tough All Over, Runaway Train, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man and Gorky Park. He also handled the Academy Awards campaigns for All About My Mother, Sexy Beast and Sweet and Lowdown and produced the 1970s exploitation films Blood from the Mummy's Tomb and The Take. He was apparently the inspiration for the cartoon character Dudley Do-Right, who received his own movie starring Brendan Fraser in 1999. He died June 21 in Los Angeles. (Variety)
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By Christopher Campbell
June 30th, 2008
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_NEW TO DVD ...Tuesday, July 01, 2008:_
*Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters* - Criterion Collection
*Only the Valiant* ~ Gregory Peck, Lon Chaney Jr., Art Baker, and Ward Bond
*Batman: The Movie [blu-ray]* ~ Adam West, Burt Ward, Lee Meriwether, and Cesar Romero
*Batman - The Movie (Special Edition, DVD)* ~ Adam West, Burt Ward, Lee Meriwether, and Cesar Romero
*Serial* (1980) - Martin Mull, Tuesday Weld, Christopher Lee, and Tom Smothers
*Rhubarb* (1951) ~ Ray Milland, Oliver Blake, Harry V. Cheshire, Tristram Coffin, and Hal K. Dawson
*Baby It's You* (1983)~ Caroline Aaron, Rosanna Arquette, Phil Brock, and Liane Alexandra Curtis
*Money From Home* (1953)~ Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Marjie Millar
*French Postcards* (1979)~ Blanche Baker, Christophe Bourseiller, Lynn Carlin, and Miles Chapin.
*Won Ton Ton the Dog Who Saved Hollywood* (1976) ~ Robert Alda, Army Archerd.
*Desperate Characters* (1971) ~ Shirley MacLaine, Robert Bauer, Robert Delbert.
*Heathers - 20th High School Reunion Edition*
*Busy Body* (1967) ~ Norman Bartold, Anne Baxter, Ben Blue, and Don Brodie
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*The Omen Collection Coming to Blu-ray*
*Online retailer DVDEmpire.com has begun taking pre-orders for The Omen: The Collection Blu-ray Disc set from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.*
Early information from the retailer indicates this four-disc set will include all four Omen films: The Omen, Omen II: Damien, Omen III: The Final Conflict, and the 2006 The Omen 666 remake. As of now, there is no indication the original Omen will be released separately, though that could easily change in the coming weeks.
Fox will likely utilize their standard widescreen 1080p transfer and 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio on all four films.
Possible supplemental features have appeared at the Classic Horror Forum and read as follows.
Disc 1: The Omen 666
Commentary by Director John Moore, Producer Glenn Williamson and Editor Dan Zimmerman
Abbey Road Sessions Featurette
Revelations 666 Featurette
Two Extended Scenes
Devil's Footnotes Trivia Track
Disc 2: The Omen
Commentary by Director Richard Donner & Editor Stuart Baird
Commentary by Director Richard Donner & Brian Helgeland (Screenwriter of Man on Fire)
Commentary by Film Historians Lem Dobbs, Nick Redman and Jeff Bond
The Omen Revelations Bonus View with Trivia Track
Introduction by Director Richard Donner from 2006
Deleted Scene-Dog Attack with Comentary by Director Richard Donner and Brian Helgeland
666: The Omen Revealed
Screenwriters Notebook
An Appreciation:Wes Craven on The Omen
The Omen Legacy
Curse or Coincidence
Theatrical Trailer
Still Gallery
Disc 3: Omen 2: Damien
Commentary by Producer Harvey Berhard
Theatrical Trailer
Disc 4: Omen 3: The Final Conflict
Commentary by Director Graham Baker
Theatrical Trailer
This extensive and comprehensive Omen collection on Blu-ray Disc will carry an SRP of $129.98 and be available September 9, 2008. Check back regularly for the official announcement from Fox, high resolution cover art and pre-order information.
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*Risky Business 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition: Tom Cruise?s Breakout Classic Debuts September 16, 2008 On DVD and Blu-ray? Hi-Def*
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On September 16, in celebration of the _25th Anniversary of Risky Business_, Tom Cruise again grabs his air guitar, cranks up Bob Seger?s ?Old Time Rock and Roll? and dances his way back into the hearts of millions in the film that launched him into superstardom. Warner Home Video will be releasing *two* sexy new versions of the _Risky Business 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition_.
Both versions of the Risky Business 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition have been restored and remastered with 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio and boast special bonus content including:
-an all-new 25th anniversary retrospective documentary The Dream is Always the Same: The Story of Risky Business in both standard and high definition formats
-screen tests
-The director?s cut of the final scene.
-An in-depth audio commentary with Tom Cruise, Paul Brickman and Jon Avnet is available on the DVD only.
Also available exclusive to the Blu-ray? Hi-Def Edition is a video commentary with Tom Cruise, Paul Brickman and Jon Avnet and a digital copy of the film compatible with iTunes? and Windows Media devices? which allows consumers a single non-transferable download of the full-length feature to their PC or iPod.
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I found this interesting article ...thought I would pass it along!
June 30, 2008
Doug Krentzlin
*_His Girl Friday_,? TCM, Tuesday, July 1, 8 p.m. (EST)*
*Director Howard Hawks? 1940 classic ?His Girl Friday? is not just one of the funniest screwball comedies ever made, it is also one of the finest film adaptations of a stage play.*
Hawks took Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur?s Broadway hit ?The Front Page,? the best play about newspapers ever written, and, by changing the gender of a major character, turned it into a romantic comedy. The new script was by Hecht (uncredited) and Charles Lederer.
Rosalind Russell plays Hildy Johnson, a former newspaper reporter who wants to get married to insurance agent Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Ballemy) and live a normal respectable life. The main obstacle is Hildy?s editor and ex-husband Walter Burns (Cary Grant giving his best comedy performance). Burns isn?t going to let Hildy get away from him, especially when a hot story involving murder and political corruption is about to break.
*The supporting cast is a Who?s Who of Hollywood character actors.* Hildy?s fellow reporters are played by Cliff Edwards (the voice of Jiminy Cricket in ?Pinocchio?), Porter Hall, Regis Toomey, Ernest Truex, Frank Jenks and Roscoe Karns. Also featured are Gene Lockhart (as the incompetent Sheriff), Clarence Kolb (as the Mayor), John Qualen, Helen Mack, Edwin Maxwell and the hilarious Billy Gilbert.
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Almost two years after its HD-DVD version release, **Warner** has announced an August 26th, 2008 release date for the Blu-Ray debut of The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). A complete list of Bonus Features isn't available, but below we've listed the HD-DVD Bonus Features that Warner will presumably carry over to this release
BONUS FEATURES:
Commentary by film historian Rudy Behlmer
Warner Night at the Movies, 1938 introduced by Leonard Maltin:
Angels with Dirty Faces Trailer
Newsreel
Musical short subject Freddie Rich and His Orchestra
Merrie Melodies Classic Cartoon Katnip Kollege
2 in-depth documentaries
Welcome to Sherwood (2003)
Glorious Technicolor (1998)
Outtakes
Robin Hood Through the Ages featurette
A Journey to Sherwood Forest travelog
Classic Cartoons:
Rabbit Hood
Robin Hood Daffy
Splitting the Arrow: Historical Art, Costume Design, Scene Concept Drawings, Cast & Crew, Publicity & Poster Galleries
Vintage Shorts:
Cavalcade of Archery (1946)
The Cruise of the Zaca (1952)
Breakdowns of 1938: Studio Blooper Reel
Audio only: "The Robin Hood Radio Show" and Korngold piano session
Errol Flynn Trailer Gallery
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