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Between Walt Disney animator Ollie Johnstonl, Charlton Heston, & Richard Widmark, we are losing alot of "Old" Hollywood!!
Very Sad!
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ALL TIMES EASTERN:
April 25, 2008
The Gorgeous Hussy. 4:30pm.
Torch Song. 6:15pm.
April 28, 2008
Dancing Lady. Midnight.
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May 4, 2008
Torch Song. 10am.
May 11, 2008
Mildred Pierce. 1:30pm.
May 21, 2008
No More Ladies. 6:30pm.
May 29, 2008
Forsaking All Others. 9am.
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June 12, 2008
The Women. 3:30pm.
June 23, 2008
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney. 2:15am.
June 29, 2008
Rain. 4:30am.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Ollie Johnston, the last of the "Nine Old Men" who animated "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Fantasia," "Bambi" and other classic Walt Disney films has died. He was 95.
Johnston died of natural causes Monday at a long-term care facility in Sequim, Wash., Walt Disney Studios Vice President Howard E. Green said Tuesday.
"Ollie was part of an amazing generation of artists, one of the real pioneers of our art, one of the major participants in the blossoming of animation into the art form we know today," Roy E. Disney, nephew of Walt Disney and director emeritus of the Walt Disney Co., said in a statement.
Walt Disney lightheartedly dubbed his team of crack animators his "Nine Old Men," borrowing the phrase from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's description of the U.S. Supreme Court's members, who had angered the president by quashing many of his Depression-era New Deal programs.
Although most of Disney's men were in their 20s at the time, the name stuck with them for the rest of their lives.
Perhaps the two most accomplished of the nine were Johnston and his close friend Frank Thomas, who died in 2004 at age 92. The pair, who met as art students at Stanford University in the 1930s, were hired by Disney for $17 a week at a time when he was expanding the studio to produce full-length feature films. Both worked on the first of those features, 1937's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
Johnston and Thomas and their families became next-door neighbors in the Los Angeles suburb of Flintridge, and during their 45-minute drive to the Disney Studios each day, they would devise fresh ideas for work.
Johnston worked as an assistant animator on "Snow White," became an animation supervisor on "Fantasia" and "Bambi" and animator on "Pinocchio."
He was especially proud of his work on "Bambi" and its classic scenes, including one depicting the heartbreaking death of Bambi's mother at the hands of a hunter. That scene has brought tears to the eyes of generations of young and old viewers.
"The mother's death showed how convincing we could be at presenting really strong emotion," he remarked in 1999.
Johnston's other credits included "Cinderella," "Alice in Wonderland," "Peter Pan" "Lady and the Tramp," "Sleeping Beauty," "101 Dalmatians," "Mary Poppins," "The Jungle Book," "The Aristocats," "Robin Hood" and "The Rescuers."
"(People) know his work. They know his characters. They've seen him act without realizing it," said film historian Leonard Maltin. "He was one of the pillars, one of the key contributors to the golden age of Disney animation."
After Johnston and Thomas retired in 1978, they lectured at schools and film festivals in the United States and Europe and co-authored the books "Bambi; the Story and the Film," "Too Funny for Words," "The Disney Villains" and the epic "Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life." They were also the subjects of the 1995 documentary "Frank and Ollie," produced by Thomas' son Ted.
The pair's guide to animation is considered "the bible" among animators, said John Lasseter, chief creative officer for Walt Disney and Pixar animation studios and Johnston's longtime friend.
Oliver Martin Johnston Jr. was born on Oct. 31, 1912, in Palo Alto, Calif., where his father was a professor at Stanford. He once noted that he and Thomas "were bound to be thrown together" at the university, as they were two of only six students in its art department at the time. When not in class, they painted landscapes and sold them at a local speakeasy for meal money.
Johnston had planned on becoming a magazine illustrator but fell in love with animation.
"I wanted to paint pictures full of emotion that would make people want to read the stories," he once said. "But I found that here (in animation) was something that was full of life and movement and action, and it showed all those feelings."
Johnston was honored with a Disney Legends Award in 1989 and, in 2005, he was the first animator honored with the National Medal of Arts at a White House ceremony.
He was also a major train enthusiast. The backyard of his Flintridge home boasted a hand-built miniature railroad, and Johnston restored and ran a full-size antique locomotive at a former vacation home in Julian, Calif.
Johnston's wife of 63 years, Marie Worthey, died in 2005. Johnston is survived by sons Ken and Rick and daughters-in-law Carolyn Johnston and Teya Priest Johnston. The Walt Disney Studios is planning a life celebration for Johnston. Funeral services will be private.
Thaks,
L.A. Times
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UA 90th Anniversary Film Festival
Castro Theatre
429 Castro Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
Sun Apr 13 (2:30p, 7p: Network - 4:55p, 9:20p: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three)
Tue Apr 15 (12:15p, 6p: The Great Escape - 3:30p, 9:15p: The Magnificent Seven)
Wed Apr 16 (2:10p, 7p: Raging Bull - 4:40p, 9:30p: Rocky)
Thu Apr 17 (2p, 7p: Last Tango in Paris - 4:30p, 9:35p: Women in Love)
Fri Apr 18 (2:55p, 7p: A Shot in the Dark - 1p, 5p, 9:05p: The Party)
Sat Apr 19 (3:20p, 7p: Marty - 1:30p, 5:10p, 8:50p: The Night of the Hunter)
Sun Apr 20 (1p, 6:15p: Elmer Gantry - 3:45p, 9p: Inherit the Wind)
Tue Apr 22 (3:10p, 7p: Kiss Me Deadly - 1:30p, 5:15p, 9:05p: The Killing)
Wed Apr 23 (3:05p, 7p: 12 Angry Men - 1:10p, 5p, 9p: The Defiant Ones)
Sun Apr 27 (12:15p, 6p: Judgment at Nuremberg - 3:45p, 9:30p: Witness for the Prosecution)
Tue Apr 29 (3p, 7p: Sweet Smell of Success - 1p, 5p, 9p: The Hospital)
Thu May 1 (2:40p, 7p: A Thousand Clowns - 5p, 9:20p: The Night They Raided Minsky?s)
Sat May 3 (2:10p, 7p: Some Like It Hot - 4:30p, 9:20p: Tom Jones)
Sun May 4 (2:40p, 7p: Midnight Cowboy - 4:55p, 9:15p: The Children?s Hour)
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Larry Pizer (1925-2008) - Cinematographer who shot Brian De Palma's "Phantom of the Paradise" and the director's music video for Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark", James Ivory's "The Europeans", Ismael Merchant's "The Proprietor" and "In Custody", Karl Reisz' "Isadora" and "Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment", as well as "Timerider", "Folks!" and "Mannequin 2: On the Move". He died of cancer February 27, in New York. (Variety)
Iris Burton (1930-2008) - Dancer-turned-agent who appears in "The Ten Commandments" and "Top Banana" and who helped launch the careers of River Phoenix and Henry Thomas. Other child stars she represented include Joaquin Phoenix, Drew Barrymore, Kirk Cameron, the Olsen twins and Fred Savage. She died after suffering from pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease April 5, in Woodland Hills, California. (Variety)
Seaman Jacobs (1912-2008) - Screenwriter who co-wrote: "Oh, God! Book I" and the Elvis musical "It Happened at the World's Fair". He died of cardiac arrest April 8, in Los Angeles. (WGA)
Stanley Kamel (1943-2008) - Actor best known for co-starring as the psychiatrist "Dr. Charles Kroger" on the TV series "Monk". He appears in "Domino", "Star 80", "Making Love" and "Corvette Summer". He died of a heart attack April 8, in Hollywood Hills, California. (Variety)
K?han Kawauchi (1920-2008) - Japanese novelist, lyricist and screenwriter who wrote Seijun Suzuki's gangster classic Tokyo Drifter. He died of bronchial pneumonia April 6, in Hachinohe, Aomori, Japan. (Tokyograph)
Robert Warnes Leach (c.1915-2008) - Journalist and screenwriter who worked as a junior writer for 20th Century Fox, then as a production assistant at MGM and assistant to producer Lawrence Weingarten, working on Cukor's "Adam's Rib" and "Pat and Mike". He died after a long illness March 30, in Laguna Beach, California. (Variety)
Jaren Millard (c.1940s - 2008) - Makeup artist who worked on "Nell" and "Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her". He died after drowning in a hot tub April 5, in Palm Springs, California. (Variety)
Gerrard Verhage (1948-2008) - Dutch filmmaker who co-wrote and directed De Dominee (The Preacher). He died of cancer April 6, in Amsterdam. (de Volkskrant)
Jacqueline Voltaire (1948-2008) - Mexican model, singer and actress who appears in "Under the Same Moon", "Matando Cabos", John Sayles' "Men with Guns", Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain and David Lynch's "Dune". She died of malignant melanoma April 8, in Mexico City. (EX Online)
John Wheeler (1911-2008) - Physicist who helped invent the theory of nuclear fission and coined the term "black hole", without which there would be a different title to Disney's "The Black Hole". He appears in Errol Morris' documentary "A Brief History of Time". He died of pneumonia April 13, in Hightstown, New Jersey. (NY Times)
Thanks,
Cinematical.com
By Christopher Campbell
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So has anyone gone to a film yet..? Can't wait for ours to start here in Phoenix, Arizona!
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Grab your popcorn and celebrate United Artists 90th Anniversary Film Festival. Sit back and enjoy some of the finest motion pictures of all time like Annie Hall, The Apartment, West Side Story, Some Like it Hot, Raging Bull and Rocky! April 22- May 1 at Sunrise Las Olas Riverfront Theatre, 300 SW 1St Ave., Ft. Lauderdale. .
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Sinatra To Be Commemorated In May With:
The Best of Ol? Blue Eyes? Reprise Years, Including An Unreleased Recording Of ?Body And Soul?!
Warner Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Turner Classic Movies,
And The United States Postal Service Join Tribute To Chairman of the Board!!
LOS ANGELES ? As one of the 20th century?s most iconic entertainers, Francis Albert Sinatra made an indelible mark on the world. In the 10 years since his passing, Sinatra?s legacy not only endures but also continues to grow in stature. As the first initiative under the newly established Frank Sinatra Enterprises (FSE), a partnership between the Sinatra Family and Warner Music Group, FSE has partnered with Reprise, Warner Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Turner Classic Movies, and the United States Postal Service to commemorate the Chairman of the Board, whose music and movies have an everlasting impact on popular culture. The month-long celebration will include the release of all-new CD and DVD collections, a television film festival and specials and a commemorative stamp.
On May 13, 2008: Reprise will release NOTHING BUT THE BEST, a single-disc collection from Sinatra?s Reprise Years that features 22 classic cuts remixed and remastered from the original master tapes, plus a previously unreleased recording of ?Body And Soul? featuring a new arrangement. The compilation will be available in physical and digital formats, online at www.franksinatra.com, and in more than 7,000 Post Offices across the country. For a limited time, each CD will contain a collectible, commemorative Sinatra stamp with official USPS first-day issue cancellation. The stamp was unveiled in December 2007 by the U.S. Postal Service and will go on sale May 13.
Warner Home Video will release 22 Frank Sinatra films, in five fan-pleasing Sinatra collections, including 11 all-new-to-DVD titles. THE RAT PACK ULTIMATE COLLECTOR?S EDITION will include Oscar? nominated Robin and the Seven Hoods as well as Ocean?s Eleven, 4 For Texas and first time new-to-DVD MGM?s Sergeant?s 3. The Ultimate Collector?s Edition will also feature rare collectible memorabilia including cool Rat Pack playing cards, which are only available in the UCE.
Two additional collections will contain ten of the all-new-to-DVD films; the five-disc, FRANK SINATRA: THE GOLDEN YEARS features the ever popular The Tender Trap, Some Came Running, None But the Brave, Marriage on the Rocks and The Man with the Golden Arm. The five-disc FRANK SINATRA: THE EARLY YEARS includes the nostalgic It Happened in Brooklyn, Step Lively, The Kissing Bandit, Higher and Higher and Double Dynamite.
Also being released is THE FRANK SINATRA AND GENE KELLY COLLECTION, which will include Oscar? winner Anchors Aweigh as well as On the Town and Take Me Out to the Ball Game. And finally, the Emmy? and Golden Globe? award-winning SINATRA: THE MINISERIES, which documents his incredible life and features his own singing and some astonishing personal revelations. The legend himself collaborated on this miniseries, and it was executive-produced by his daughter, Tina Sinatra.
MGM Home Entertainment will be releasing for the first time on DVD SERGEANTS 3. The 1962 remake of the adventure classic GUNGA DIN features Sinatra and his Rat Pack buddies Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis, and Joey Bishop in a hilarious misadventure to help a freed slave become a cavalryman and play the company bugle. The Western comedy classic was directed by Oscar? nominee John Sturges (The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven).
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will honor Sinatra with a month-long festival of films and specials airing Sundays and Wednesdays throughout the month. The Wednesday presentations will be hosted by his children: Nancy, Tina, and Frank, Jr. Among the films included in the May celebration are From Here to Eternity (1953), featuring Sinatra?s Oscar?-winning performance; the musicals Pal Joey (1957), On the Town (1949), and Anchors Aweigh (1945); the Rat Pack comedies Ocean?s Eleven (1960) and Sergeants 3 (1962); and such powerhouse dramas as The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), which earned him a second Oscar nomination, and The Manchurian Candidate (1962). Also included are four outstanding television specials, including Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music (1965) and Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music Ella Jobim (1967), the latter teaming him up with songstress Ella Fitzgerald and Brazilian songwriter Antonio Carlos Jobim.
A beloved entertainer for six decades, Sinatra achievements earned him three Oscars, two Golden Globes, 10 personal Grammys (and a total of 21 including those for his albums), an Emmy, a Cecile B. DeMille Award, a Peabody, and he was recognized at the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983. A generous charitable contributor, one of his most prestigious awards was the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1971. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1915, the city?s Post Office was renamed in his honor in 2002. He died in Los Angeles in 1998.
NOTHING BUT THE BEST
Track Listing
1. Come Fly With Me
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Way You Look Tonight
4. Luck Be A Lady
5. Bewitched
6. The Good Life
7. The Girl From Ipanema
8. Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)
9. Summer Wind
10. Strangers In The Night
11. Call Me Irresponsible
12. Somethin? Stupid
13. My Kind of Town
14. It Was A Very Good Year
15. That?s Life
16. Moonlight Serenade
17. Nothing But The Best
18. Drinking Again
19. All My Tomorrows
20. My Way
21. Theme From New York, New York
22. Body And Soul ? bonus track w/new arrangement
Thanks
Sinatra Family: Official Web Site
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I saw this article at Cinematical.com & I thought I would pass it along!
Regular readers of online film criticism might know the name D.K. Holm (that's him in the drawing). A Portland native, he's written a handful of books about people like R. Crumb and Quentin Tarantino, and he's a regular contributor to Kevin Smith's Quick Stop Entertainment site (writing a column called "Nocturnal Admissions," tee-hee). D.K. -- or Doug, as his friends call him -- is also the film critic at the Vancouver Voice, an alternative newsmonthly in Vancouver, Wash., just across the river from Portland.
The bad news is that Doug has esophageal cancer. It is treatable, but -- and here's the worse news -- like one-sixth all Americans and most freelance writers, he doesn't have health insurance. He's looking at thousands of dollars in chemotherapy and surgery. It's every uninsured person's worst nightmare.
And so some of his friends are putting together a benefit show, to be held in Portland on April 27. There will be wine, hors d'oeuvres, entertainment by Pink Martini frontman Thomas Lauderdale and others, readings of some of Doug's most vitriolic reviews (and their corresponding hate mail!), and a silent auction. Portland's best independent movie house, Cinema 21, has graciously donated use of its space for the event. All the proceeds will go directly to Doug's medical treatment. Suggested donation at the door is $10, but if you're not in the Portland area and would still like to help, information on how you can do so is here: http://culturepulp.typepad.com/helpdkholm
When I moved to Portland almost three years ago, Doug was one of the first characters I noticed in the local film-critic community. He's colorful, opinionated, friendly, and ridiculously knowledgeable about movies. We're all upset by the cancer news, but we're optimistic about his treatment, and hopeful that we'll be able to raise some funds to help him out.
Cinematical.com
By Eric D. Snider
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I saw this article at Cinematical.com, & I thought I would pass it on!!
Regular readers of online film criticism might know the name D.K. Holm. A Portland native, he's written a handful of books about people like R. Crumb and Quentin Tarantino, and he's a regular contributor to Kevin Smith's Quick Stop Entertainment site (writing a column called "Nocturnal Admissions," tee-hee). D.K. -- or Doug, as his friends call him -- is also the film critic at the Vancouver Voice, an alternative newsmonthly in Vancouver, Wash., just across the river from Portland.
The bad news is that Doug has esophageal cancer. It is treatable, but -- and here's the worse news -- like one-sixth all Americans and most freelance writers, he doesn't have health insurance. He's looking at thousands of dollars in chemotherapy and surgery. It's every uninsured person's worst nightmare.
And so some of his friends are putting together a benefit show, to be held in Portland on April 27. There will be wine, hors d'oeuvres, entertainment by Pink Martini frontman Thomas Lauderdale and others, readings of some of Doug's most vitriolic reviews (and their corresponding hate mail!), and a silent auction. Portland's best independent movie house, Cinema 21, has graciously donated use of its space for the event. All the proceeds will go directly to Doug's medical treatment. Suggested donation at the door is $10.00, but if you're not in the Portland area and would still like to help, information on how you can do so is here: http://culturepulp.typepad.com/helpdkholm
When I moved to Portland almost three years ago, Doug was one of the first characters I noticed in the local film-critic community. He's colorful, opinionated, friendly, and ridiculously knowledgeable about movies. We're all upset by the cancer news, but we're optimistic about his treatment, and hopeful that we'll be able to raise some funds to help him out.
Posted Apr 13th 2008
By Eric D. Snider
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Per Wikipedia (& Other Sources)..
A cult film is a film that has acquired a highly devoted but relatively small group of fans. Often, cult movies have failed to achieve fame outside of the small fanbases, however, there have been exceptions that have managed to gain fame amongst mainstream audiences, including:
"2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968), "A Clockwork Orange" (1971), "The Rocky Horror Picture" Show (1975), Taxi Driver (1976), The Warriors (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Blue Velvet (1986), and "Pulp Fiction" (1994.
Many cult movies have gone on to transcend their original cult status and have become recognized as classics; others are of the "so bad it's good" variety, and are destined to remain in obscurity. Cult films often become the source of a thriving, obsessive, and elaborate subculture of fandom, hence the analogy to cults. However, not every film with a rabid fanbase is necessarily a cult film.
The term cult film is used to describe a film that has had little to no success commercially and critically upon its initial release but has later spawned a small, but devoted and usually obsessive fanbase, however there are various exceptions. One exception is Napoleon Dynamite (2004), which was a success at the box office. This has led to a misconception in Cult classic films that the definition is a film that 'you either love or hate'.
The term was first coined in the early 1980s in the book "Cult Movies", by Danny Peary and is continued to be used to describe the films to this day.
Usually, cult films have limited but very special, noted appeal. Cult films are often known to be eccentric, and do not follow traditional standards of mainstream cinema and usually explore topics not considered in any way mainstream?yet there are examples that are relatively normal. They are often considered controversial because they step outside standard narrative and technical conventions known.
Many films enjoy cult status because they are seen as ridiculously awful, for example: "Plan 9 from Outer Space" (1958). The critic Michael Medved characterized examples of the "so bad it's good" class of low-budget cult film through books such as The Golden Turkey Awards. These films include such financially fruitless and critically scorned films as: "The Lonely Lady", "Mommie Dearest", "Cool as Ice", "Boxing Helena", "Manos: The Hands of Fate", "Fatal Deviation" and "Showgirls", which have become inadvertent comedies to film buffs. Movies have even achieved cult status by successfully imitating the awfulnesses of so-bad-it's-good movies ("The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra" and "Amazon Women on the Moon" being just two examples.)
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Sunday, April 27th, @ 12:00 Noon, Arizona TIme (PT Time Zone)
Houseboat (1958)
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
Cary Grant & Sophia Loren!
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"The Misfits" will be on TCM on Saturday, April 19 2008!
Arizona Time (PT Time Zone)
5:00pm
A sensitive divorcee gets mixed up with modern cowboys roping mustangs in the desert
I love this film!! Marilyn Monroe deserved an Oscar nom for Best Actress!
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United Artists 90th Anniversary Festival Tickets & Prize Package Giveaway!
In honor of United Artist's 90th Anniversary, TheCinemaSource.com is giving away a boatload of prizes!
1 Grand Prize winner will win:
A pair of passes, good for any screening during the United Artists 90th-Anniversary Film Festival, running five weeks at Film Forum March 28th ? May 1st showing over 50 films including Manhattan, Raging Bull, Midnight Cowboy, Goldfinger, Some Like It Hot, and many more.
A United Artists DVD prize package of 20 classic UA films on DVD including Rocky, Raging Bull, Rain Man, Midnight Cowboy, and many more.
...And 5 First Prize winners will win the DVD prize package!
To enter, all you have to do is send us an e-mail at ZakSantucci@TheCinemaSource.com, with "United Artists Contest" in the subject line, answering this question:
What's your favorite United Artists-produced film of all time, and WHY?
Here are the 20 films at stake to get you thinking:
The Apartment (Collector's Edition)
The Battle of Britain (Collector's Edition)
A Bridge Too Far (Collector's Edition, 2 discs)
Carrie: 25th Anniversary (Special Edition)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Special Edition, 2 discs)
Die Another Day P/S (Special Edition)
Fiddler on the Roof (Decade's Collection)
Fistful of Dollars (Collector's Edition)
For A Few Dollars More (Collector's Edition)
Get Shorty (Collector's Edition, 2 discs)
The Great Escape(Special Edition, 2 discs)
In the Heat of the Night (40th Anniversary Edition)
Invasion of Body Snatchers (Collector's Edition)
Judgment At Nuremberg (Special Edition)
New York, New York (30th Anniversary Edition)
Raging Bull (Collector's Edition, 2 discs)
Rain Man (Special Edition)
Rocky (Collector's Edition)
Some Like It Hot (Collector's Edition)
West Side Story (Special Edition, 2 discs)
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United Artists 90th Anniversary Festival Tickets & Prize Package Giveaway!
In honor of United Artist's 90th Anniversary, TheCinemaSource.com is giving away a boatload of prizes!
1 Grand Prize winner will win:
A pair of passes, good for any screening during the United Artists 90th-Anniversary Film Festival, running five weeks at Film Forum March 28th ? May 1st showing over 50 films including Manhattan, Raging Bull, Midnight Cowboy, Goldfinger, Some Like It Hot, and many more.
A United Artists DVD prize package of 20 classic UA films on DVD including Rocky, Raging Bull, Rain Man, Midnight Cowboy, and many more.
...And 5 First Prize winners will win the DVD prize package!
To enter, all you have to do is send us an e-mail at ZakSantucci@TheCinemaSource.com, with "United Artists Contest" in the subject line, answering this question:
What's your favorite United Artists-produced film of all time, and WHY?
Here are the 20 films at stake to get you thinking:
The Apartment (Collector's Edition)
The Battle of Britain (Collector's Edition)
A Bridge Too Far (Collector's Edition, 2 discs)
Carrie: 25th Anniversary (Special Edition)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Special Edition, 2 discs)
Die Another Day P/S (Special Edition)
Fiddler on the Roof (Decade's Collection)
Fistful of Dollars (Collector's Edition)
For A Few Dollars More (Collector's Edition)
Get Shorty (Collector's Edition, 2 discs)
The Great Escape(Special Edition, 2 discs)
In the Heat of the Night (40th Anniversary Edition)
Invasion of Body Snatchers (Collector's Edition)
Judgment At Nuremberg (Special Edition)
New York, New York (30th Anniversary Edition)
Raging Bull (Collector's Edition, 2 discs)
Rain Man (Special Edition)
Rocky (Collector's Edition)
Some Like It Hot (Collector's Edition)
West Side Story (Special Edition, 2 discs)
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The United Artists 90th Anniversary Film Festival
Castro Theatre
429 Castro (at Market)
San Francisco, CA 94114
415-621-6120
Date/Time: Daily from Thu., April 3 until Sun., May 4
Price: $6-$9
On a February day in 1919, four ****-off heavyweights of the silent era signed a pact. Although the movie industry was still young, businessmen had already figured out how to assert themselves over the talent. The studio heads controlled budgets and distribution, and increasingly wielded creative power. So Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith, determined to reclaim their autonomy, formed United Artists. But the company stumbled out of the gate, went through a couple of mutations, and scored little success until the early 1950s. United Artists thrived for the next three decades, attracting established directors and stars who craved control and chafed under the studio system. The quintessential U.A. figure, Woody Allen, kicks off a 33-title retrospective tonight with mid-1970s touchstones Annie Hall and Love and Death. The series offers a cornucopia of classics worth savoring, especially when one considers the company's subsequent history. The 1980 epic Heaven's Gate ran so far over budget and bombed so extravagantly that U.A.'s corporate parent (Transamerica, the power of the pyramid) pulled the plug. In 2006, the studio was brought back to life Frankenstein-style, with that paragon of cinematic art Tom Cruise and his partner Paula Wagner at the helm. Is U.A. on the verge of another golden age? Sure, and Mary Pickford is planning a comeback.
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New Word....Mustang (Horse)
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willy-nilly ......Hullabaloo
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Saturday, April 19 2008
Arizona Time (PT Time Zone)
5:00pm
The Misfits (1961)
A sensitive divorcee gets mixed up with modern cowboys roping mustangs in the desert.
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New Word............Matinee !
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Hamster..."The Food of the Gods" (1976)!!!
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Shaker Square Cinemas, located at 13116 Shaker Square, Cleveland, OH 44120, will be participating in the first ever traveling United Artist Film Festival presenting eight films shown from 35mm prints from the United Artists? library throughout the month of April as part of a global salute to one of the most historically important film studios. This is a rare chance to see these classic films on the big screen as they were intended.
The films in the Shaker Square series are paired as themed double-features and will play on each Saturday and Sunday in April 2008. Tickets for individual films will be $5.00.
Tickets for double-features will be $8.00!
April 5th & 6th ? The Apartment & Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder films starring Jack Lemmon)
April 12th and 13th ? Night of the Hunter & In the Heat of the Night (classic suspense)
April 19th and 20th ? Dr. No & Goldfinger (Double 007)
April 26th and 27th ? Bananas & The Pink Panther (classic funny men)
www.clevelandcinemas.com
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Shaker Square Cinemas, located at 13116 Shaker Square, Cleveland, OH 44120, will be participating in the first ever traveling United Artist Film Festival presenting eight films shown from 35mm prints from the United Artists? library throughout the month of April as part of a global salute to one of the most historically important film studios. This is a rare chance to see these classic films on the big screen as they were intended.
The films in the Shaker Square series are paired as themed double-features and will play on each Saturday and Sunday in April 2008. Tickets for individual films will be $5.00.
Tickets for double-features will be $8.00!
April 5th & 6th ? The Apartment & Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder films starring Jack Lemmon)
April 12th and 13th ? Night of the Hunter & In the Heat of the Night (classic suspense)
April 19th and 20th ? Dr. No & Goldfinger (Double 007)
April 26th and 27th ? Bananas & The Pink Panther (classic funny men)
www.clevelandcinemas.com
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UA 90th Anniversary Film Festival Mar 14-May 22nd at The Laurelhurst Theater Pub Beer, Pizza and $3.00 admission!
United Artists & Laurelhurst Theater Presents ten classis films
. Here is a chance to see some great film clasics on the big screen for $3
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***West Side Story 3/4-3/20
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***Judgement At Nuremburg 3/21-3/27
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***The Manchurian Candidate 3/28-4/3
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***The Great Escape 4/4-4/10
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***The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 4/11-4/17
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***The Magnificent Seven 4/18-4/24
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***The Raging Bull 4/25-5/1
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Walt Disney animator Ollie Johnston dies at 95!
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Behind every great animated character is a great animator and in the case of some of Disney's best-loved creations, it was Johnston who served as the actor with the pencil. Some examples include Thumper's riotous recitation (in Bambi) about "eating greens" or Pinocchio's nose growing as he lies to the Blue Fairy, and the musical antics of Mowgli and Baloo as they sang "The Bear Necessities" in The Jungle Book. Johnston had his hand in all of these and worked on such other favorites as Brer Rabbit, Mr. Smee, the fairies in Sleeping Beauty, the centaurettes in "Fantasia," Prince John and Sir Hiss ("Robin Hood"), Orville the albatross ("The "Rescuers"), and more than a few of the "101 Dalmatians".