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I own a copy (Looooove Marilyn)...that I agree with is the onlyproblem W./Encore is the Pan and Scan...I tried watching "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" and the pan and scan got on my nerves..LOL!!
But still ...at least someone is playing her films!
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Found this thought I would pass it on!
Since other networks haven't been successful with reality shows featuring aspiring Hollywood writers and directors, VH1 has decided to move on to aspiring actresses with a new show called Scream Queens. The Hollywood Reporter tells us Scream Queens will be a new series from Lionsgate that will give 10 unknown actresses the chance to compete for "a major role in a horror movie from Lionsgate Films." Major role, huh? Will she be ... the fourth to die in a cast that includes, say, seven? If so, that's pretty damn major.
The series, which will include challenges (who can scream the loudest?) and acting tips from coach John Homa, will consist of eight hour-long episodes and premieres this fall. I don't know about this one, folks. As much as I love and support aspiring actors and actresses, the talent in horror films isn't exactly top notch these days. Then again, should VH1 hire Flavor Flav to host a segment and dress their contestants in half-naked horror digs, perhaps they'll attract a pretty large audience. The experiment should be a fascinating one to watch, knowing VH1 and their fabulous eye for sluts and drama. Will you tune in?
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Cinematical
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*Dino Risi (1916-2008) -* Writer, Director - Oscar-nominated for his 1974 Italian film "Scent of a Woman" (which was remade in 1992 with Al Pacino). His career spans from the 1940s to the 1990s, and he is credited with being one of the masters of the Commedia all'italiana (Italian Comedy). Other films include Pane, amore e..., which starred Sophia Loren and Vittorio DeSica, Poor, But Handsome, A Difficult Life, The Easy Life and Opiate '67 (aka 15 from Rome). In 2002, the Venice Film Festival honored him with a lifetime achievement Golden Lion. He died June 7 in Rome. (Reuters)
*Bobby Anderson (1933-2008)* - Child Actor - Played Little George Baily (younger version of James Stewart) in "It's a Wonderful Life". He also appears in: "The Bishop's Wife", "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", "Samson and Delilah", "A Place in the Sun" and Raoul Walsh's "Silver River". He died of melanoma June 6, 2008 in Palm Springs, California. (LA Times)
*Saban Bajramovic (1936-2008)* - Singer, Composer, Actor - Legendary singer of Roma music (aka Romani or Gypsy music) and star of the 1997 Macedonian film "Gypsy Magic". He died June 8 in Nis, Serbia. (Javno)
*Harry Bernsen (1925-2008)* - Producer - Associate producer of Andrew V. McLaglen's "Fools' Pride", which starred James Stewart, and "Something Big", which starred Dean Martin. He also produced Take a Hard Ride and Three the Hard Way, both starring Fred Williamson and Jim Brown, as well as a European stage musical based on Mrs. Doubtfire. He was the father of actor Corbin Bernsen. He died May 31 in Woodland Hills, California. (Variety)
*Richard F. Brophy (1945-2008)* - Producer - Line producer for the horror films "House" and "Speak of the Devil" and producer of "The Boneyard". He died May 28 in Hollywood. (IMDB)
*Mark Eiges (c.1949-2008)* - Post-Production Supervisor - Ran a post-production company that services MGM and Sony. He worked as a foley editor on "The Delta Force" and as post-production supervisor on "Soul Survivors" and "Sunset Grill". He died April 8 in Los Angeles. (Variety)
*Rudy "Daboy" Fernandez (1953-2008)* - Actor - Major star of Philippine cinema, he twice won the Filipino Academy Award for Best Actor, for Pasukin si Waway and Victor Corpuz, in which he played the title character. He was nominated another 11 times and in 2007 he received a special memorial award. His popularity was so much that police had to be deployed during his wake to control the crowd of fans. He died of cancer June 7. (ABS-CBN)
*Mel Ferrer (1917-2008)* - Actor, Director, Producer - Appears in The Longest Day, Brannigan, The Sun Also Rises, Lili, The Brave Bulls, Scaramouche, Alligator, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Knights of the Round Table, Sex and the Single Girl, King Vidor's War and Peace, Jean Renoir's Paris Does Funny Things to People, Fritz Lang's Rancho NotoriousTobe Hooper's "Eaten Alive", and Fassbinder's "Lili Marleen". He was married to Audrey Hepburn from 1954 to 1968 and directed her in 1959's Green Mansions. He also produced "Wait Until Dark", for which Hepburn was nominated for an Oscar, as well as L?szl? Bendek's The Night Visitor. Early in his career he was a dialogue coach, working for such productions as A Thousand and One Nights, and was John Ford's assistant on 1947's The Fugitive. He died June 3 in California. (BBC)
*Bill Finegan (1917-2008)* - Composer, Arranger, Conductor - Best known as an arranger for Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey. He wrote original music for Archie Mayo's 1942 musical Orchestra Wives, which featured the Glenn Miller Orchestra. He also arranged the music for that film and 1941's Sun Valley Serenade and 1947's The Fabulous Dorseys. He died of complications from pneumonia June 4 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. (LA Times)
*Jim McKay (1921-2008)* - Sportscaster - Best known for hosting ABC's Wide World of Sports. He also appears in the fiction films "Miracle", "Running" and "The World's Greatest Athlete" and the documentaries: "One Day in September", "Fists of Freedom: The Story of '68" and "Run for Your Life", which recently premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. He died June 7, in Monkton, Maryland. (Variety)
*Robert Nudelman (1956-2008)* - Preservationist - Fought to save many of Hollywood's landmarks, including the El Capitan Theatre and the Cinerama Dome. He died May 3, in Tucson, Arizona. (LA Times)
*Jay Peckos (c.1950-2008)* - Distribution Exec - Worked for (in chronological order) General Cinema Theaters, Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros, MGM, where he oversaw the releases of A Fish Called Wanda, Moonstruck and Rain Man, Orion, where he worked on the releases of "Dances With Wolves" and "Silence of the Lambs", Trimark, Lionsgate, Landmark Theatres and Magnolia Pictures, where he worked on the releases of "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room", "Bubble" and "Capturing the Friedmans". He died May 24 in Los Angeles. (Variety)
*Kelly Schroeder (1956-2008)* - Assistant Director - 1st AD on "Halloween 5", "Cyborg 2, The Perfect Weapon", Night of the Demons and Prince's "Graffiti Bridge", 2nd AD on "My Chauffeur" and production assistant on "Jocks". Died of heart failure May 26, in Santa Monica, California. (IMDb)
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Cinematical
Jun 9th, 2008
By Christopher Campbell
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Bus Stop (1956) Will be shown on Encore Love (ELOVE) on Tuesday, June 10, 2008
@ 12:50 AM (PT) Arizona Time!!!
*A naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana*
Directed By:
Joshua Logan
*Stars:*
*Marilyn Monroe & Don Murray*
Award nominations:
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor - Don Murray
Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Comedy or Musical - Marilyn Monroe
Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
BAFTA for Most Promising Newcomer - Don Murray
DGA for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Motion Picture - Joshua Logan
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You can watch one of the biggest horror classics of all-time in 1080p this September 2008. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre will be released on Blu-Ray on September 30.
No special features details have been released on this disc as of yet.
The film stars Gunnar Hansen, Marilyn Burns and Ed Neal.
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Bright Lights, Big City Comes Back to DVD on September 2nd, 2008!
You can relive a Michael J. Fox classic on DVD this September. Bright Lights, Big City will be released on DVD in a 20th Anniversary Edition on September 2. The film stars Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland and Diane Wiest.
Michael J. Fox "couldn't be better" (Los Angeles Times) as Jamie Conway, an aspiring writer who abandons the wheat fields of Kansas for the skyline of Manhattan - and the city's seductive party subculture. Hitting the clubs night after night, Jamie soon spins out of control, and he risks losing everything - and everyone -- he loves. Co-starrring Kiefer Sutherland, Dianne Wiest, Phoebe Cates and Swoosie Kurtz, and with its pulsating soundtrack from New Order, Depeche Mode and Prince, this "chronicle of wasted days and misplaced nights" (Roger Ebert) is a must-own!
Special Features
- Commentary with Author/Screenwriter Jay McInerney
- Commentary with Cinematographer Gordon Willis
- The Light Within
- Big City Lights
- Photo Gallery
- Trailer Farm
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The Godfather Films to Be Re-Released on DVD in September 2008?
Here's a real offer you can't refuse. According to Blocks and Files, the Godfather DVD Collection trilogy has just recently been restored and plans to re-release the trilogy on DVD and possibly Blu-Ray are under way with a release date set for sometime in September. Here's a snippet from that article:
"The restoration efects are dramatic. The beautifully restored Godfather trilogy will be re-released in September, prompting, no doubt, hundreds of thousands of DVD sales and, hopefully, Blu-ray disk sales as well. Only with Blu-ray will the full richness of tone and detail in Coppola's masterpiece transfer to home screens. Perhaps this will be the Blu-ray offer that home movie screen viewers cannot refuse."
Of course, the re-release of this classic Francis Ford Coppola trilogy has not been officially announced by Paramount as of yet.
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JOURNEY TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE SUN
Coming Jun 24, 2008
When scientists a hundred years in the future discover a "duplicate" Earth on the other side of the sun, they are determined to find out what this new world is like, and set up an expedition to reach the new planet.
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Phase IV (1974)
An American science fiction film, made in 1974. It is the only feature-length film directed by the noted title designer Saul Bass. It starred Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy, Lynne Frederick and Helen Horton (who would later provide the voice of "Mother" in Alien).
The film bears some similarity to an earlier film, The Hellstrom Chronicle. Both feature extensive use of close-up photography of actual insects. Both imply that humanity, having failed, must give way to insects, who will now take over from them, in Hellstrom Chronicle insects generally, in Phase IV, ants specifically.
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Burt Lancaster's film "Scorpio" will be shown on Saturday, June 07, 2008 @ 07:45am Arizona Time (PT) on Encore Action!!
It is about a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent, agent Cross (Burt Lancaster) who is suspected of treason. As to have him eliminated, the CIA sends Jean Laurier (Alain Delon) alias "Scorpio", a French assassin, to kill him. Amazingly, a scene of the espionage thriller was filmed at the Watergate Hotel during the day of the break-in that brought about the cover-up which eventually brought down the Nixon presidency.
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Destruction of the copies could affect several upcoming screenings at museums and other sites.
In addition to the ruined "King Kong" attraction and the burned New York street scapes, the Universal Studios Hollywood fire has claimed another casualty: perhaps hundreds of classic 35-millimeter film prints, the studio said Tuesday.
The prints were high-quality copies of decades-old movies, not original masters, which are stored in a Philadelphia vault, the studio said. But the loss of the copies in Universal's scorched vault building, which the studio had not yet quantified, could affect several upcoming screenings of classic films at museums, festivals and repertory theaters.
In addition to the ruined "King Kong" attraction and the burned New York street scapes, the Universal Studios Hollywood fire has claimed another casualty: perhaps hundreds of classic 35-millimeter film prints, the studio said Tuesday.
The prints were high-quality copies of decades-old movies, not original masters, which are stored in a Philadelphia vault, the studio said. But the loss of the copies in Universal's scorched vault building, which the studio had not yet quantified, could affect several upcoming screenings of classic films at museums, festivals and repertory theaters.
By John Horn and Susan King
Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
June 4, 2008
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-universal4-2008jun04,0,5996006.story
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"The Train" W./Burt Lancaster Will shown on Encore "Mystery" on:
Friday, June 06, 2008 @ 04:00am (PT) Arizona Time...Check Local Listings!!
"The Train"
Directed by: John Frankenheimer.
Stars: Burt Lancaster and Paul Scofield.
In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.
Nominated for the 1965 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award for Writing (story and screenplay written directly for the screen).
"Incidentally, I think this is the last big action picture ever made in black and white, and personally I am so grateful that it is in black and white. I think the black and white adds tremendously to the movie."
-- John Frankenheimer on the DVD commentary track for "The Train".
I think it's an absolutely riveting thriller, an American-French co-production, with a great cast, well-written plot and script - and great stuntwork. As with all of John Frankenheimer's work, it's an instantly classic masterpiece!
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BONUES FEATURES ADDED: Fox Horror Classics Vol. 2
-- Bonus features added to previous announcement --
Disc 1: Chandu the Magician:
Commentary by Author Gregory William Mank
Masters of Magic: The World of Chandu
Chandu the Magician Radio Serial Episode
Restoration Comparison
Trailer
Still Gallery
Disc 2: Dr. Renault's Secret:
By The Book: Horror, Suspense, and Literary Inspiration
Restoration Comparison
Trailer
Interactive Pressbook
Still Gallery
Disc 3: Dragonwyck:
A House of Secrets: Exploring Dragonwyck
Dragonwyck Radio Show Performed by Vincent Price and Gene
Tierney - October 7, 1946
Restoration Comparison
Trailer
Interactive Pressbook
Still Gallery
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'Heathers' gets anniversary DVD
Two-disc set features documentary, interviews
The classic teen angst movie "Heathers" is being reissued as a two-disc 20th anniversary DVD July 1, 2008 by Anchor Bay Entertainment, seven years after its last DVD appearance.
The release, with a newly remastered version of the film, includes a new documentary, "Return to Westerburg High," featuring interviews with writer Daniel Waters and director Michael Lehmann.
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Friday, June 06 2008 @ 5:00pm Arizona Time (PT)...
My Favorite Spy (1951)
A comedian poses as an international spy to recover mysterious microfilm.
Stars: Bob Hope & Hedy Lamarr!!
This is another fav film of mine...I laugh evertyime I see it!
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Friday, June 06, 2008 @ 11:30am Arizona (PT)
The Stratton Story (1949)
True story of Monty Stratton, the baseball star who fought to continue his career after losing a leg.
Stars: : James Stewart, June Allyson!
I love this film!!
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PARIS (AFP) ? French fashion's top names, along with President Nicolas Sarkozy and his ex-model wife Carla Bruni, are due to attend the funeral Thursday of one of the country's most legendary designers, Yves Saint Laurent, official sources said.
Several hundred mourners are expected for the 3:30 pm (1330 GMT) funeral at the Saint-Roch church "on an invitation-only basis," Father Roland Letteron, the Roman Catholic priest who will officiate, told AFP.
Saint Laurent, one of the 20th century's greatest couturiers, credited with revolutionising women's wardrobes, died Sunday aged 71 of a brain tumour.
Letteron said the service in one of the city's biggest churches would feature "a lot of music."
The late baroque church is located close to the Louvre museum on one of Paris' most exclusive streets, the Rue Saint-Honore, home to a bevy of top-end designer boutiques.
In homage to Saint Laurent, YSL shops worldwide are to close for two hours from 1330 GMT.
Chief mourner at the ceremony will be Saint Laurent's former lover and longtime business partner Pierre Berge, who founded the iconic YSL fashion house in 1961 with the designer, then only 25.
Also attending will be staff from the YSL empire as well as current designer Stefano Pilati and most of the big names on the Paris fashion scene -- Christian Lacroix, Jean Paul Gaultier, John Galliano, Sonia and Nathalie Rykiel, Kenzo Takada, Valentino and Riccardo Tisci.
Notably absent will be rival Karl Lagerfeld, "away on business," according to Chanel, and Pierre Cardin, also not in Paris.
From the business sector, the head of the world's leading luxury group LVMH, Bernard Arnault is expected, along with the head of Christian Dior couture, Sidney Toledano.
Saint Laurent, who was born August 1, 1936 in the Algerian town of Oran in the pre-independence era, will be cremated and his ashes flown to a botanical garden in Marrakesh, Morocco, bordering a home bought there by Berge and YSL.
The couturier "spent much of his life in Morocco. He will stay there in a country that influenced and marked him greatly," said Berge. "He will end up in the Maghreb where he was born."
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AFP
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Fox** has announced a September 16th release date for Charlie Chan Collection, Vol. 5. The set will include the last seven Chan's from Fox previously unreleased on DVD. The 8 disc set, including a Bonus Disc (Chan - The Fox Years)!
The titles:
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940)
Murder Over New York (1940)
Dead Men Tell (1941)
Charlie Chan In Rio (1941)
Charlie Chan In Panama (1940)
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940)
Castle In The Desert (1942)
BONUS DISC (Chan - The Fox Years)
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Fox has officially announced a September 9th, 2008 release date for Fox Horror Classics, Vol. 2 . The three disc set will include: Chandu the Magician (1932), Dr. Renault's Secret (1942) and Dragonwyck (1946).
Stars include Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Edmund Lowe, Bela Lugosi, Vincent Price, Glenn Langan, J. Carrol Naish and George Zucco. More details to follow
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So far 1 Mel Ferrer film will be shown on TCM...
Sun. June 8, 2008 @ 3:00 PM Arizona Time (PT) "Knights of the Round Table" (1953)!
Mel Ferrer plays..Arthur!
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So far 1 Mel Ferrer film will be shown on TCM...
Sun. June 8, 2008 @ 3:00 PM Arizona Time (PT) "Knights of the Round Table" (1953)!
Mel Ferrer plays..Arthur!
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Sooo many ...
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Clara Blandick was best known for her portrayal of Auntie Em in the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz".
Happy Birthday Clara!
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Lions Gate has announced an August 19th, 2008 release date for "Never Love a Stranger" (1958) W./Steve McQueen.
Per IMBD:
Frankie Kane (John Drew Barrymore) is brought up in a Catholic orphanage and befriends Martin Cabell (Steve[n] McQueen), a Jewish law student whose sister Julie (Lita Milan) becomes Frankie's sweetheart. At sixteen, Frankie learns that he is himself Jewish and therefore has to be moved to a Jewish home. That prospect proves so awful that he runs away - and goes bad. Years later, he returns to the district and gets involved with a crime syndicate that his old pal Martin, now assistant district attorney, has pledged to clean up. Frankie however, bumps in to Julie again and, finding he still loves her, decides to help the straight-shooting Martin smash the syndicate
Boomerang 1947 Dana Andrews what is the deal with this movie
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Per Wikipedia...
DVD release:
This film was scheduled for release on DVD in June of 2006 as part of the Fox Film Noir series. Just prior to release, the DVD was recalled without explanation, though some copies did trickle out on the market. It is not known if it will be released at a future time. There is speculation of a copyright issue as the DVD itself has no flaws or defects.