Rossana Podestà dead at 79: ‘Helen of Troy’ actress later featured in sword-and-sandal spectacles, risqué sex comedies (photo: Jacques Sernas and Rossana Podestà in ‘Helen of Troy’) Rossana Podestà, the sensual star of the 1955 epic Helen of Troy and other sword-and-sandal European productions of the ’50s and ’60s — in addition to a handful of risqué sex comedies of the ’70s — died earlier today, December 10, 2013, in Rome according to several Italian news outlets. Podestà was 79. She was born Carla Dora Podestà on August 20, 1934, in, depending on the source, either Zlitan or Tripoli, in Libya, at the time an Italian colony. According to the IMDb, the renamed Rossana Podestà began her film career in 1950, when she was featured in a small role in Dezsö Ákos Hamza’s Strano appuntamento ("Strange Appointment"). However, according to online reports, she was actually discovered by director Léonide Moguy, who cast her in a small role in...
- 12/10/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Columbia Pictures Philippines has unveiled terrific new international trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s revenge-tinged spaghetti western, Django Unchained with plenty of new footage and character motivations.
Christoph Waltz‘s bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz finally explains just why he teams up with Jamie Foxx‘s Django first and foremost: he’s never known what it’s like to make someone free.
The film which opens December 25th, 2012 also stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Calvin Candie, Kerry Washington as Broomhilda, Samuel L. Jackson as Stephen, Laura Cayouette as Lara Lee Candie-Fitzwilly, Dennis Christopher as Leonide Moguy, Don Johnson as Spence, ‘Big Daddy’ Bennett, M.C. Gainey as Big John Brittle, Tom Savini as Tracker Cheney, Anthony Lapaglia as Jano, James Remar as Ace Speck, Walton Goggins as Billy Crash, Tom Wopat as Marshall Gill Tatum, and Misty Upham as Minnie.
Here’s the new international trailer via The Playlist:
Here’s the synopsis...
Christoph Waltz‘s bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz finally explains just why he teams up with Jamie Foxx‘s Django first and foremost: he’s never known what it’s like to make someone free.
The film which opens December 25th, 2012 also stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Calvin Candie, Kerry Washington as Broomhilda, Samuel L. Jackson as Stephen, Laura Cayouette as Lara Lee Candie-Fitzwilly, Dennis Christopher as Leonide Moguy, Don Johnson as Spence, ‘Big Daddy’ Bennett, M.C. Gainey as Big John Brittle, Tom Savini as Tracker Cheney, Anthony Lapaglia as Jano, James Remar as Ace Speck, Walton Goggins as Billy Crash, Tom Wopat as Marshall Gill Tatum, and Misty Upham as Minnie.
Here’s the new international trailer via The Playlist:
Here’s the synopsis...
- 10/23/2012
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Quentin Tarantino's a talented guy, but he'd be nowhere if he wasn't surrounded by so much talent--and in particular, the husband-wife pair of production designer David Wasco and set decorator Sandy Reynolds-Wasco. Together, the two of them have created some of the most stylish productions of the last fifteen years, including Michael Mann's underrated visual feast, Collateral; both of Wes Andreson's best movies, The Royal Tenenbaums and Rushmore; and Pulp Fiction. It's hard to understate how pitch-perfect--and crucial--their work has been to every film. They teamed up again with Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds, and spoke to Flavorwire about how they pulled off the garish, period look of the film.
Tarantino is famous for being a walking dictionary of film violence; similarly, the Wascos are have an encyclopedic knowledge of film, architecture, and design:
The set for Jack Rabbit Slim's, the nightclub in Pulp Fiction, has been noted in numerous articles about your work.
Tarantino is famous for being a walking dictionary of film violence; similarly, the Wascos are have an encyclopedic knowledge of film, architecture, and design:
The set for Jack Rabbit Slim's, the nightclub in Pulp Fiction, has been noted in numerous articles about your work.
- 8/24/2009
- by Cliff Kuang
- Fast Company
Quentin Tarantino has revealed that he was inspired by foreign filmmakers exiled to the Us during World War II when making Inglourious Basterds. The director told reporters at the press conference for the movie that while he initially thought about "guys on a mission" films like Where Eagles Dare and Dirty Dozen, his true inspiration came from the likes of Jean Renoir, Fritz Lang, Jules Dassin, Douglas Sirk, Leonide Moguy and Ernst Lubitsch. Tarantino said: "What I found so inspirational when I was doing the movie was watching a lot of the movies made in the '40s that people disparagingly call American propaganda movies. "I don't like that term, because I really like those movies. Most of them were really done by foreign directors who were living in Hollywood because they couldn't live in their home countries (more)...
- 8/17/2009
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Inglourious Basterds London Press Conference – Quentin Tarantino, Diane Kruger, Christoph Waltz, Lawrence Bender (Spoilers Ahead)
Inglourious Basterds is the sixth film from Quentin Tarantino (counting Kill Bill as one), and he’s been talking about it since the mid-90s. His World War II picture is an ensemble piece told in five chapters, with a style of knowing comedy and over-the-top violence that bares more comparison to Kill Bill than his earlier work. There are many characters, and many plot strands, but the Basterds of the title are a group of fearless Jewish-Americans (led by Brad Pitt and including Eli Roth, Til Schweiger and Bj Novak from The American Office) who are busy scalping and gouging their way through Nazi troops toward the end of the war. Other key figures include Christoph Waltz, an Austrian actor best known until now for his roles in German television, who steals the show...
Inglourious Basterds is the sixth film from Quentin Tarantino (counting Kill Bill as one), and he’s been talking about it since the mid-90s. His World War II picture is an ensemble piece told in five chapters, with a style of knowing comedy and over-the-top violence that bares more comparison to Kill Bill than his earlier work. There are many characters, and many plot strands, but the Basterds of the title are a group of fearless Jewish-Americans (led by Brad Pitt and including Eli Roth, Til Schweiger and Bj Novak from The American Office) who are busy scalping and gouging their way through Nazi troops toward the end of the war. Other key figures include Christoph Waltz, an Austrian actor best known until now for his roles in German television, who steals the show...
- 8/16/2009
- by Chris Neilan
- Movie-moron.com
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