Netflix will stream the entire 180-episode library of a TV classic starting October 1, 2021. Seinfeld is as beloved and influential series as I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, M*A*S*H, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and The Simpsons. But why? It doesn’t make us feel better about ourselves and we never come out smarter. Creators Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David never produced a “very special” episode, or tugged at the heart strings. Even its most tear-jerking moment, the loss of George Costanza’s (Jason Alexander) fiancée to cheap postage stamp glue, was merely a setup to a killer punchline. But it did teach a lesson. Don’t skimp on wedding invitations, it could be fatal.
Seinfeld operated on a “no hugging, no learning” edict from its very inception. David commanded no emotional or intellectual growth would be tolerated. Michael Richards’ Cosmo Kramer only really got close to people when wearing the Kavorka jacket.
Seinfeld operated on a “no hugging, no learning” edict from its very inception. David commanded no emotional or intellectual growth would be tolerated. Michael Richards’ Cosmo Kramer only really got close to people when wearing the Kavorka jacket.
- 9/1/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
The parties within its walls were glitzy, the arguments were epic and the scandals provided perfect gossip fuel. If only houses could talk: This one, however, is a battered shadow of its proud Regency past, its interior walls torn apart, trucks parked on its tennis court. Its only occasional visitor is David Zaslav, newly minted king of Hollywood, who comes to commune with its ghosts and summon up plans for its glistening future.
Zaslav needs the house as badly as it needs Zaslav. A fiercely ambitious man with an appetite for the theatrical, Zaslav paid $16 million for the late Bob Evans home in Beverly Hills, originally telling friends he may spend three months a year in Hollywood, creating a livelier aura for his Discovery Channel. That may now stretch to nine months, since Zaslav, having negotiated the $43 billion Discovery-AT&T deal, has now expanded his domain to include Warner Bros,...
Zaslav needs the house as badly as it needs Zaslav. A fiercely ambitious man with an appetite for the theatrical, Zaslav paid $16 million for the late Bob Evans home in Beverly Hills, originally telling friends he may spend three months a year in Hollywood, creating a livelier aura for his Discovery Channel. That may now stretch to nine months, since Zaslav, having negotiated the $43 billion Discovery-AT&T deal, has now expanded his domain to include Warner Bros,...
- 5/27/2021
- by Peter Bart
- Deadline Film + TV
The Balcony
Blu ray
Kino Lorber
1963 / 84 min.
Starring Shelley Winters, Peter Falk
Cinematography by George Folsey
Directed by Joseph Strick
When Jean Genet died in 1986, France’s Minister of Culture proclaimed “Jean Genet has left us and with him, a black sun that enlightened the seamy side of things… Genet was liberty itself, and those who hated and fought him were hypocrites.”
“Liberty” was likely meant as an intentionally ironic description of the artist who spent part of his literary life working from a jail cell. He was an inveterate thief and proud of it; even after his success he manned a bookstall by the Seine stacked with stolen merchandise. During the occupation of France he was once again behind bars, piecing together a novel using a pencil and brown paper. The book was called Our Lady of the Flowers and was published in France in 1943 and in England in 1949. Hailed by Jean Cocteau,...
Blu ray
Kino Lorber
1963 / 84 min.
Starring Shelley Winters, Peter Falk
Cinematography by George Folsey
Directed by Joseph Strick
When Jean Genet died in 1986, France’s Minister of Culture proclaimed “Jean Genet has left us and with him, a black sun that enlightened the seamy side of things… Genet was liberty itself, and those who hated and fought him were hypocrites.”
“Liberty” was likely meant as an intentionally ironic description of the artist who spent part of his literary life working from a jail cell. He was an inveterate thief and proud of it; even after his success he manned a bookstall by the Seine stacked with stolen merchandise. During the occupation of France he was once again behind bars, piecing together a novel using a pencil and brown paper. The book was called Our Lady of the Flowers and was published in France in 1943 and in England in 1949. Hailed by Jean Cocteau,...
- 9/1/2020
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Jim Knipfel Jul 10, 2019
We look back on Rip Torn's career and how the occasional troublemaker turned bit parts into leading roles.
In the summer of 1969, Rip Torn was drunkenly screaming through New York’s West Village on his motorcycle when he slammed it into a police cruiser. Torn broke his leg in the accident but didn’t notice. The next morning, he got up, got on a plane, and flew to Paris where he was set to star in Joseph Strick’s film version of Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. He shot the entire film all hopped up on painkillers for an untreated leg. And you know what? He still gives a remarkable performance. It wasn’t the only time he worked with broken bones either.
For over 60 years, Rip Torn carried on in the proud tradition of John Barrymore, Errol Flynn, Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, and Lawrence Tierney...
We look back on Rip Torn's career and how the occasional troublemaker turned bit parts into leading roles.
In the summer of 1969, Rip Torn was drunkenly screaming through New York’s West Village on his motorcycle when he slammed it into a police cruiser. Torn broke his leg in the accident but didn’t notice. The next morning, he got up, got on a plane, and flew to Paris where he was set to star in Joseph Strick’s film version of Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. He shot the entire film all hopped up on painkillers for an untreated leg. And you know what? He still gives a remarkable performance. It wasn’t the only time he worked with broken bones either.
For over 60 years, Rip Torn carried on in the proud tradition of John Barrymore, Errol Flynn, Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, and Lawrence Tierney...
- 7/10/2019
- Den of Geek
Tony Sokol Jul 10, 2019
Rip Torn, who played characters from Judas Iscariot to the producer on The Larry Sanders Show, dies at 88.
Respected and versatile character actor Rip Torn died Tuesday in Lakeville, Conn., according to Variety. Publicist Rick Miramontez did not release a cause of death, but said Torn was with his wife, Amy Wright, and two daughters, Katie and Angelica. He was 88.
Torn believed actors should “play drama as comedy and comedy as drama,” according to the statement, and the actor was equally at home both. He starred in comedies like Albert Brooks' Defending Your Life and the Men in Black films, as well as TV comedies 30 Rock, playing General Electric CEO Don Geiss, mentor to Alec Baldwin’s Jack Donaghy, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Torn won an Emmy for his part in HBO's The Larry Sanders Show, and was nominated for a Tony award in...
Rip Torn, who played characters from Judas Iscariot to the producer on The Larry Sanders Show, dies at 88.
Respected and versatile character actor Rip Torn died Tuesday in Lakeville, Conn., according to Variety. Publicist Rick Miramontez did not release a cause of death, but said Torn was with his wife, Amy Wright, and two daughters, Katie and Angelica. He was 88.
Torn believed actors should “play drama as comedy and comedy as drama,” according to the statement, and the actor was equally at home both. He starred in comedies like Albert Brooks' Defending Your Life and the Men in Black films, as well as TV comedies 30 Rock, playing General Electric CEO Don Geiss, mentor to Alec Baldwin’s Jack Donaghy, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Torn won an Emmy for his part in HBO's The Larry Sanders Show, and was nominated for a Tony award in...
- 7/10/2019
- Den of Geek
By Lee Pfeiffer
Actor Rip Torn has died at age 88. He was a volatile figure in the entertainment industry, known for his sometimes bizarre behavior as well as his brilliant performances. A native Texan, he gravitated to New York City in the 1950s where he studied under Lee Strasberg at the legendary Actors Studio. He was championed by director Elia Kazan, who gave Torn high profile roles in his stage and film productions. Torn gained major acclaim with a Tony-nominated performance on Broadway in "Sweet Bird of Youth", a role he would reprise in the 1963 film version. Torn's film career occasionally saw him attain leading man status but he remained a highly acclaimed supporting actor throughout his career. His feature films include "A Face in the Crowd", "Baby Doll", "The Cincinnati Kid", "Pork Chop Hill", "King of Kings", "Beach Red", "Coming Apart", "Tropic of Cancer", "Crazy Joe", "The Man Who Fell to Earth...
Actor Rip Torn has died at age 88. He was a volatile figure in the entertainment industry, known for his sometimes bizarre behavior as well as his brilliant performances. A native Texan, he gravitated to New York City in the 1950s where he studied under Lee Strasberg at the legendary Actors Studio. He was championed by director Elia Kazan, who gave Torn high profile roles in his stage and film productions. Torn gained major acclaim with a Tony-nominated performance on Broadway in "Sweet Bird of Youth", a role he would reprise in the 1963 film version. Torn's film career occasionally saw him attain leading man status but he remained a highly acclaimed supporting actor throughout his career. His feature films include "A Face in the Crowd", "Baby Doll", "The Cincinnati Kid", "Pork Chop Hill", "King of Kings", "Beach Red", "Coming Apart", "Tropic of Cancer", "Crazy Joe", "The Man Who Fell to Earth...
- 7/10/2019
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Actor Rip Torn, who earned Oscar and Tony nominations as well as an Emmy Award and two Obies, has died Tuesday in Lakeville Conn., his representative confirmed. He was 88.
Torn was equally at home in the comedy of the “Men in Black” film series or TV’s “The Larry Sanders Show” (for which he won his Emmy) and in the drama of “Sweet Bird of Youth” or “Anna Christie,” to name two of the numerous classic works of theater in which he appeared.
The actor was nominated for a supporting-actor Oscar in 1984 for his work as a father who confronts tragedy in Martin Ritt’s “Cross Creek,” one of many rural dramas in which he appeared during his career.
He drew a Tony nomination in 1960 for his first performance on Broadway, as the sadistic son of the town boss in Elia Kazan’s original production of Tennessee Williams’ “Sweet Bird of Youth.
Torn was equally at home in the comedy of the “Men in Black” film series or TV’s “The Larry Sanders Show” (for which he won his Emmy) and in the drama of “Sweet Bird of Youth” or “Anna Christie,” to name two of the numerous classic works of theater in which he appeared.
The actor was nominated for a supporting-actor Oscar in 1984 for his work as a father who confronts tragedy in Martin Ritt’s “Cross Creek,” one of many rural dramas in which he appeared during his career.
He drew a Tony nomination in 1960 for his first performance on Broadway, as the sadistic son of the town boss in Elia Kazan’s original production of Tennessee Williams’ “Sweet Bird of Youth.
- 7/10/2019
- by Carmel Dagan
- Variety Film + TV
As the longest-running member of Cordovas, songwriter Joe Firstman has carried the harmony-heavy, jam-friendly torch of the Grateful Dead’s American Beauty era and the Allman Brothers’ golden years into the world of modern-day Americana. He and his bandmates are cut from old-school rock & roll cloth: a group of pot-smoking, guitar-playing long hairs who live together on the Nashville outskirts, spread across a property that includes a barn rehearsal space, a house and a bedroom-worthy Rv. The band’s new release, That Santa Fe Channel, introduces that sound to a wider audience,...
- 6/3/2019
- by Robert Crawford
- Rollingstone.com
This favorite animal film takes a half-step sideways out of the cute animal subgenre: the delightful Mij is no super-otter, just an ordinary playful garden-variety otter, as an Otter oughta be. (cough) Champion mellow English couple Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers have put together a film guaranteed to lower your blood pressure. But see it first before deciding it’s for your kids, as reality is not sugarcoated in its uplifting, but certainly not sentimentalized, view of our place in a world that still has some animals left alive.
Ring of Bright Water
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1969 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 106 min. / Street Date May 21, 2019 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Peter Jeffrey, Jameson Clark, Helena Gloag.
Cinematography: Wolfgang Suschitsky
Film Editor: Reginald Mills
Original Music: Frank Cordell
Written by Jack Couffer and Bill Travers from a book by Gavin Maxwell
Produced by Joseph Strick
Directed by Jack...
Ring of Bright Water
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1969 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 106 min. / Street Date May 21, 2019 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Peter Jeffrey, Jameson Clark, Helena Gloag.
Cinematography: Wolfgang Suschitsky
Film Editor: Reginald Mills
Original Music: Frank Cordell
Written by Jack Couffer and Bill Travers from a book by Gavin Maxwell
Produced by Joseph Strick
Directed by Jack...
- 5/25/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Ask folks in Hollywood what they think of the Motion Picture Association of America’s Classification & Ratings Administration (Cara), and you’ll get an earful. Filmmakers have become so sophisticated about the vagaries of the ratings board (one F-word per PG-13 movie) that they often manipulate the process by adding footage they’re willing to lose later in order to get what they want into their final cut.
And over the decades, ace marketers have followed the game plan perfected by Miramax’s Harvey Weinstein when he publicized battles with the ratings board just to get exposure for movies like “Scandal,” “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover,” “Clerks,” “Kids,” and “Fahrenheit 9/11.”
But while filmmakers get exorcised over the board’s many myopic decisions over sex and violence and issues like the studios getting away with more than the indies, MPAA president Jack Valenti had valid and urgent...
And over the decades, ace marketers have followed the game plan perfected by Miramax’s Harvey Weinstein when he publicized battles with the ratings board just to get exposure for movies like “Scandal,” “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover,” “Clerks,” “Kids,” and “Fahrenheit 9/11.”
But while filmmakers get exorcised over the board’s many myopic decisions over sex and violence and issues like the studios getting away with more than the indies, MPAA president Jack Valenti had valid and urgent...
- 10/29/2018
- by Anne Thompson, Eric Kohn, Tom Brueggemann, Michael Nordine, Christian Blauvelt and Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
It seems this war with Tavo has reached a turning point.
For that to happen, though, more people had to pay the ultimate price on The Last Ship Season 5 Episode 8.
Rest in peace, Joe Meylan.
At least Admiral Meylan went down heroically, saving the President from Tavo's henchman, Octavio.
Meylan has been there on the periphery for the past three seasons. He never got his command back, but he did his duty without complaining. He did get kicked up to the Joint Chiefs in The Last Ship Season 5, playing an important role in the battle against Tavo's forces.
I suppose if someone at the highest ranks was going to be killed off, Meylan was a natural choice. Gen. DuFine could have been killed, but it wouldn't have had much impact, just like Gen. Kinkaid's death didn't.
Related: The Last Ship Season 5 Episode 7 Review: Somos la Sangre
Tavo's forces being able...
For that to happen, though, more people had to pay the ultimate price on The Last Ship Season 5 Episode 8.
Rest in peace, Joe Meylan.
At least Admiral Meylan went down heroically, saving the President from Tavo's henchman, Octavio.
Meylan has been there on the periphery for the past three seasons. He never got his command back, but he did his duty without complaining. He did get kicked up to the Joint Chiefs in The Last Ship Season 5, playing an important role in the battle against Tavo's forces.
I suppose if someone at the highest ranks was going to be killed off, Meylan was a natural choice. Gen. DuFine could have been killed, but it wouldn't have had much impact, just like Gen. Kinkaid's death didn't.
Related: The Last Ship Season 5 Episode 7 Review: Somos la Sangre
Tavo's forces being able...
- 10/29/2018
- by Dale McGarrigle
- TVfanatic
Finally, they're acting instead of reacting.
A U.S. military mission worked somewhat as planned on The Last Ship Season 5 Episode 5.
As expected, the action jumped ahead three months this episode. Or rather the inaction.
First off, Alisha Granderson was indeed murdered, as somehow that stick figure she lived with got the jump on a fully trained Naval officer. I figured killing off Doc Rios and Captain Garnett on The Last Ship Season 5 Episode 1 would be enough bloodletting for this season, but apparently not.
Kelsey is somewhat on the Navy's radar right now, as a guilt-plagued Clayton is trying to track her, but with everything else going on, I can't imagine she's much of a priority. Nor can I imagine she would have much intel to offer, even if she got caught.
The war against Tavo's force was basically in a holding pattern at the Tropic of Cancer line. But...
A U.S. military mission worked somewhat as planned on The Last Ship Season 5 Episode 5.
As expected, the action jumped ahead three months this episode. Or rather the inaction.
First off, Alisha Granderson was indeed murdered, as somehow that stick figure she lived with got the jump on a fully trained Naval officer. I figured killing off Doc Rios and Captain Garnett on The Last Ship Season 5 Episode 1 would be enough bloodletting for this season, but apparently not.
Kelsey is somewhat on the Navy's radar right now, as a guilt-plagued Clayton is trying to track her, but with everything else going on, I can't imagine she's much of a priority. Nor can I imagine she would have much intel to offer, even if she got caught.
The war against Tavo's force was basically in a holding pattern at the Tropic of Cancer line. But...
- 10/8/2018
- by Dale McGarrigle
- TVfanatic
The 2017 Academy Awards ceremony was a largely apolitical affair, but Gael Garcia Bernal changed that. Co-presenting the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film, he acknowledged the current tension with the Trump Administration over immigration issues, specifically as they pertained to Mexico. “As a Mexican, as a migrant worker, as a human being, I’m against any form of wall that separates us,” he said.
Over the last 12 years, Bernal has been putting that message of unification to work within the boundaries of his native country, pushing a country marred by reports of a drug war and other problems to find itself at the movies. Along with his close friend and “Y Tu Mama Tambien” co-star Diego Luna and the producer Elena Fortes, Bernal co-founded the Ambulante Documentary Film Festival in 2005. The traveling screening series focuses on non-fiction film that brings its vast programming to cities and rural areas around the...
Over the last 12 years, Bernal has been putting that message of unification to work within the boundaries of his native country, pushing a country marred by reports of a drug war and other problems to find itself at the movies. Along with his close friend and “Y Tu Mama Tambien” co-star Diego Luna and the producer Elena Fortes, Bernal co-founded the Ambulante Documentary Film Festival in 2005. The traveling screening series focuses on non-fiction film that brings its vast programming to cities and rural areas around the...
- 5/10/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Visual consultant Haskell Wexler prior to a screening of “American Graffiti,” presented at Oscars® Outdoors by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday, August 2, 2013. credit: Todd Wawrychuk / ©A.M.P.A.S.
Haskell Wexler, one of Hollywood’s most famous and honored cinematographers and one whose innovative approach helped him win Oscars for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and the Woody Guthrie biopic “Bound for Glory,” died Sunday. He was 93.
From the AP:
Wexler died peacefully in his sleep, his son, Oscar-nominated sound man Jeff Wexler, told The Associated Press.
A liberal activist, Wexler photographed some of the most socially relevant and influential films of the 1960s and 1970s, including the Jane Fonda-Jon Voight anti-war classic, “Coming Home,” the Sidney Poitier-Rod Steiger racial drama “In the Heat of the Night” and the Oscar-winning adaptation of Ken Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Haskell Wexler, one of Hollywood’s most famous and honored cinematographers and one whose innovative approach helped him win Oscars for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and the Woody Guthrie biopic “Bound for Glory,” died Sunday. He was 93.
From the AP:
Wexler died peacefully in his sleep, his son, Oscar-nominated sound man Jeff Wexler, told The Associated Press.
A liberal activist, Wexler photographed some of the most socially relevant and influential films of the 1960s and 1970s, including the Jane Fonda-Jon Voight anti-war classic, “Coming Home,” the Sidney Poitier-Rod Steiger racial drama “In the Heat of the Night” and the Oscar-winning adaptation of Ken Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
- 12/27/2015
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Joan Collins in 'The Bitch': Sex tale based on younger sister Jackie Collins' novel. Author Jackie Collins dead at 77: Surprisingly few film and TV adaptations of her bestselling novels Jackie Collins, best known for a series of bestsellers about the dysfunctional sex lives of the rich and famous and for being the younger sister of film and TV star Joan Collins, died of breast cancer on Sept. 19, '15, in Los Angeles. The London-born (Oct. 4, 1937) Collins was 77. Collins' tawdry, female-centered novels – much like those of Danielle Steel and Judith Krantz – were/are immensely popular. According to her website, they have sold more than 500 million copies in 40 countries. And if the increasingly tabloidy BBC is to be believed (nowadays, Wikipedia has become a key source, apparently), every single one of them – 32 in all – appeared on the New York Times' bestseller list. (Collins' own site claims that a mere 30 were included.) Sex...
- 9/22/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Ellie Goulding's set at Glastonbury attracted the biggest multichannel numbers of the night, according to overnight figures.
The 'Starry Eyed' singer drew an audience of 940k (4.1%) on BBC Three from 9pm, ahead of Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith from 7pm (782k/4%) and Bombay Bicycle Club and The Black Keys from 8pm (662k/3.2%).
BBC Two's Glastonbury coverage from 10pm averaged 623k (5.2%), peaking at the start of Kasabian's headline set with 1.1m (5.2%).
Elsewhere, ITV's coverage of the World Cup match between Costa Rica and Greece averaged 5.22m (29.7%) from 8.30pm. Celebrity Catchphrase preceded it with 3.68m (18.3%).
On BBC One, Countryfile and Antiques Roadshow were watched by 5.27m (26.7%) and 5.75m (27%) respectively.
Besides Glastonbury, BBC Two's primetime programming included Tropic of Cancer (1.17m/6%), The Quest for Bannockburn (1.18m/5.7%) and A Cabbie Abroad (1.62m/7.2%).
Born in the Wild appealed to 671k (3.2%) for Channel 4 in the 8pm hour, before The King's Speech, starring Colin Firth,...
The 'Starry Eyed' singer drew an audience of 940k (4.1%) on BBC Three from 9pm, ahead of Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith from 7pm (782k/4%) and Bombay Bicycle Club and The Black Keys from 8pm (662k/3.2%).
BBC Two's Glastonbury coverage from 10pm averaged 623k (5.2%), peaking at the start of Kasabian's headline set with 1.1m (5.2%).
Elsewhere, ITV's coverage of the World Cup match between Costa Rica and Greece averaged 5.22m (29.7%) from 8.30pm. Celebrity Catchphrase preceded it with 3.68m (18.3%).
On BBC One, Countryfile and Antiques Roadshow were watched by 5.27m (26.7%) and 5.75m (27%) respectively.
Besides Glastonbury, BBC Two's primetime programming included Tropic of Cancer (1.17m/6%), The Quest for Bannockburn (1.18m/5.7%) and A Cabbie Abroad (1.62m/7.2%).
Born in the Wild appealed to 671k (3.2%) for Channel 4 in the 8pm hour, before The King's Speech, starring Colin Firth,...
- 6/30/2014
- Digital Spy
ITV's Soccer Aid coverage was down by around 400,000 viewers from 2012's event on Sunday, according to overnight data.
The four-hour charity match scored 3.9 million (19.7%) on average from 6pm. A further 138k (0.7%) tuned in on +1. It peaked at 6.0m (26.7%) at around 9.30pm (286k/1.9% on +1).
BBC One's F1 coverage attracted an average 4.6m (23.3%) at 6.30pm. Drama Quirke dipped to 3.2m (15.2%) at 9pm.
On BBC Two, Tropic of Cancer brought in 1.1m (5.4%) at 7pm, followed by I Bought a Rainforest with 1.2m (5.6%) at 8pm. Wildfires 2014 interested 1.3m (5.8%) at 9pm, while Qi Xl amused 1.4m (8.2%) at 10pm.
Channel 4's Born in the Wild appealed to 1.2m (5.3%) at 8pm (126k/0.6%), followed by the latest Fargo with 1.2m (5.2%) at 9pm (106k/0.7%).
On Channel 5, Dirty Dancing entertained 1.4m (6.7%) at 7pm (254k/1.1%). Big Brother continued with 1.3m (5.6%) at 9pm (202k/1.2%).
The four-hour charity match scored 3.9 million (19.7%) on average from 6pm. A further 138k (0.7%) tuned in on +1. It peaked at 6.0m (26.7%) at around 9.30pm (286k/1.9% on +1).
BBC One's F1 coverage attracted an average 4.6m (23.3%) at 6.30pm. Drama Quirke dipped to 3.2m (15.2%) at 9pm.
On BBC Two, Tropic of Cancer brought in 1.1m (5.4%) at 7pm, followed by I Bought a Rainforest with 1.2m (5.6%) at 8pm. Wildfires 2014 interested 1.3m (5.8%) at 9pm, while Qi Xl amused 1.4m (8.2%) at 10pm.
Channel 4's Born in the Wild appealed to 1.2m (5.3%) at 8pm (126k/0.6%), followed by the latest Fargo with 1.2m (5.2%) at 9pm (106k/0.7%).
On Channel 5, Dirty Dancing entertained 1.4m (6.7%) at 7pm (254k/1.1%). Big Brother continued with 1.3m (5.6%) at 9pm (202k/1.2%).
- 6/9/2014
- Digital Spy
The 2014 British Soap Awards appealed to over 5 million viewers on Sunday night, overnight data reveals.
The annual ceremony attracted 5.15m (24.7%) at 8.15pm on ITV - down around 250,000 viewers from last year. A further 363,700 (2.0%) tuned in on +1.
The final Britain's Got Talent before this series' live shows topped the evening's ratings with 7.76m (38.9%) at 7pm (666k/3.2%), while Perspectives pulled in 1.44m (9.5%) for ITV later on (69.2k/0.7%).
BBC One's new Gabriel Byrne series Quirke was watched by 4.18m (20.2%) at 9pm, while Sunday evening stalwarts Countryfile and Antiques Roadshow interested 4.80m (24.4%) and 4.82m (23.3%) respectively.
BBC Two spoof Harry and Paul's Story of the Twos amused 1.26m (5.9%) at 9pm, followed by an Absolutely Fabulous repeat an hour later with 1.29m (6.7%). Tropic of Cancer had earlier amassed 0.49m (2.5%) at 7pm, and Top Gear 0.91m (4.4%) at 8pm.
Fargo continued on Channel 4 with 0.95m (4.5%) at 9pm (156k/0.9%), and Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass got 0.65m (5.0%) at 10.05pm...
The annual ceremony attracted 5.15m (24.7%) at 8.15pm on ITV - down around 250,000 viewers from last year. A further 363,700 (2.0%) tuned in on +1.
The final Britain's Got Talent before this series' live shows topped the evening's ratings with 7.76m (38.9%) at 7pm (666k/3.2%), while Perspectives pulled in 1.44m (9.5%) for ITV later on (69.2k/0.7%).
BBC One's new Gabriel Byrne series Quirke was watched by 4.18m (20.2%) at 9pm, while Sunday evening stalwarts Countryfile and Antiques Roadshow interested 4.80m (24.4%) and 4.82m (23.3%) respectively.
BBC Two spoof Harry and Paul's Story of the Twos amused 1.26m (5.9%) at 9pm, followed by an Absolutely Fabulous repeat an hour later with 1.29m (6.7%). Tropic of Cancer had earlier amassed 0.49m (2.5%) at 7pm, and Top Gear 0.91m (4.4%) at 8pm.
Fargo continued on Channel 4 with 0.95m (4.5%) at 9pm (156k/0.9%), and Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass got 0.65m (5.0%) at 10.05pm...
- 5/26/2014
- Digital Spy
Have a hankering to watch a group of angsty Beat poets have their worlds rocked by a murder? John Krokidas' Kill Your Darlings will be screening at the Venice Film Festival and Tiff in the next week, taking audiences back to 1944. The film is set during the Beat movement's early days when writers Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Lucien Carr were navigating a new anticonformist way of life. A man in their midst, David Kammerer, becomes infatuated with the charming Carr and winds up dead. The Playlist posted a peek at the crime tale, featuring Daniel Radcliffe as Ginsberg and Dane DeHaan as Lucien Carr. DeHaan won us over with his recitation of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, which has a long history as a banned book — like most things Miller...
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- 9/4/2013
- by Alison Nastasi
- Movies.com
Fact: Allen Ginsberg was once wide-eyed and a little clueless like most young writers. Daniel Radcliffe conveys this naivete without ever speaking a word in this new clip from Kill Your Darlings, the Sundance hit directed by John Krokidas about the grisly beginnings of the Beat movement. If this is to be believed, young Allen witnessed a studly collegian quoting naughty lines from Henry Miller‘s Tropic of Cancer and was titillated by it. I believe it.
October 18! Can’t wait.
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October 18! Can’t wait.
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- 8/28/2013
- by Louis Virtel
- The Backlot
Celebrating the longest, brightest day of the year by… staying inside and staring at a collection of moving pixels? It’s the American way, damnit!
So please enjoy Google’s new, adorable, slightly hypnotic Doodle, which pictures five open-water swimmers in Google-colored caps being lazily buffeted up and down by an ocean wave. The animation commemorates the Summer Solstice, which we’re all currently in the thick of — it technically began today at 1:04 a.m. Et, when the sun rose directly over the Tropic of Cancer, above the Chinese Province of Yunnan (according to New York City’s Hayden...
So please enjoy Google’s new, adorable, slightly hypnotic Doodle, which pictures five open-water swimmers in Google-colored caps being lazily buffeted up and down by an ocean wave. The animation commemorates the Summer Solstice, which we’re all currently in the thick of — it technically began today at 1:04 a.m. Et, when the sun rose directly over the Tropic of Cancer, above the Chinese Province of Yunnan (according to New York City’s Hayden...
- 6/21/2013
- by Hillary Busis
- EW.com - PopWatch
Richard Lagravenese’s adaptation of the Ya supernatural romance novel Beautiful Creatures is deliciously overripe; it plays like Twilight with a fat dose of Bell, Book, and Candle (or its high-camp TV analog, Bewitched). In the role of Ethan Wate, the mortal hero, Alden Ehrenreich is a fascinating hybrid; he has Leo DiCaprio’s heavy brow and Jack Nicholson’s vaulting brows, as if the stars had mated on the set of The Departed. This lovelorn joker reads Slaughterhouse-Five, Tropic of Cancer, and other banned books that elicit murmurs of disapproval in a rural South Carolina high school full of Bible-bearing cheerleaders. Then, one day, a dark-haired girl, Lena Duchannes (rhymes with “rain”), arrives reading … wait for it … Charles Bukowski. Instantly you intuit the couple’s destiny: love, marriage, rehab. In the book by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Ethan and Lena’s first car ride is awkward and not particularly auspicious.
- 2/14/2013
- by David Edelstein
- Vulture
The genders have been reversed but the supernatural, star-crossed teen angst remains firmly intact in "Beautiful Creatures," which clearly aims to pick up where the "Twilight" franchise left off.
Writer-director Richard Lagravenese's film, based on the first novel in the young adult series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, oozes Southern Gothic eccentricity and some amusing if inconsistent touches of camp. (A droll, drawling Jeremy Irons sitting at the piano playing Chopin? Margo Martindale in a feathery hairclip, carrying a live peacock? Yes and yes, please.)
But a strong cast of likable and, yes, beautiful actors can only do so much with the formula in which they're forced to work. And, like the "Twilight" movies, the special effects are all-too often distractingly cheesy.
The setup breathes some new life into such familiar material, though, as co-stars Alden Ehrenreich and Alice Englert feel like actual awkward teens enjoying the fraught...
Writer-director Richard Lagravenese's film, based on the first novel in the young adult series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, oozes Southern Gothic eccentricity and some amusing if inconsistent touches of camp. (A droll, drawling Jeremy Irons sitting at the piano playing Chopin? Margo Martindale in a feathery hairclip, carrying a live peacock? Yes and yes, please.)
But a strong cast of likable and, yes, beautiful actors can only do so much with the formula in which they're forced to work. And, like the "Twilight" movies, the special effects are all-too often distractingly cheesy.
The setup breathes some new life into such familiar material, though, as co-stars Alden Ehrenreich and Alice Englert feel like actual awkward teens enjoying the fraught...
- 2/13/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
These days we are endlessly bombarded with lists of 'must-read' articles and books, and reviews of 'must-see' box sets. It all makes me want to sigh: must I?
The pile of books next to my bed has become a Tower of Doom. Last month, I was two-thirds of the way through The Age of Extremes when its author, Eric Hobsbawm, died. Just below it was The Railway Man, the wartime memoir of Eric Lomax. He passed away too. A week after I finished Hunter S Thompson's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, defeated presidential candidate George McGovern, one of its key characters, went. Christopher Hitchens, Nora Ephron, Gore Vidal … My must-read list resembles a kill list.
It reminds me how much I hate those litanies of things to read, see, hear or experience before you die, and the way they turn entertainment into an impossibly epic assignment to be completed before the ultimate,...
The pile of books next to my bed has become a Tower of Doom. Last month, I was two-thirds of the way through The Age of Extremes when its author, Eric Hobsbawm, died. Just below it was The Railway Man, the wartime memoir of Eric Lomax. He passed away too. A week after I finished Hunter S Thompson's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, defeated presidential candidate George McGovern, one of its key characters, went. Christopher Hitchens, Nora Ephron, Gore Vidal … My must-read list resembles a kill list.
It reminds me how much I hate those litanies of things to read, see, hear or experience before you die, and the way they turn entertainment into an impossibly epic assignment to be completed before the ultimate,...
- 10/29/2012
- by Dorian Lynskey
- The Guardian - Film News
I couldn't get away from it. My girlfriends were talking about it; columnists were writing about it; Saturday Night Live was spoofing it. It was all I heard about.
Then I was getting my hair cut in the quiet sanctuary of the salon I go to, but there was an unusual buzz all around me -- and it was unmistakably those same four little words.
"Fifty Shades of Grey..."
What is going on?
Erotica has been alive and throbbing since the days of Ancient Greece and Rome, when someone scrawled those first steamy, toga-ripping words on a piece of papyrus. But in my lifetime, I've never seen a public reaction quiet as breathless (as in panting) as the collective sigh inspired by E.L. James's erotic S&M series. Is it possible for an entire nation to have a simultaneous orgasm? Apparently so: the "Fifty Shades" trilogy now occupies the number one,...
Then I was getting my hair cut in the quiet sanctuary of the salon I go to, but there was an unusual buzz all around me -- and it was unmistakably those same four little words.
"Fifty Shades of Grey..."
What is going on?
Erotica has been alive and throbbing since the days of Ancient Greece and Rome, when someone scrawled those first steamy, toga-ripping words on a piece of papyrus. But in my lifetime, I've never seen a public reaction quiet as breathless (as in panting) as the collective sigh inspired by E.L. James's erotic S&M series. Is it possible for an entire nation to have a simultaneous orgasm? Apparently so: the "Fifty Shades" trilogy now occupies the number one,...
- 5/15/2012
- by Marlo Thomas
- Aol TV.
Raro Video USA's latest Blu-ray offering is another short window DVD upgrade, this time for Ricardo Freda's Murder Obsession, which was just released on home video in December. Murder Obsession is another of those grand genre mish-mashes that Italy was so adept at pasting together in the golden age of exploitation cinema. Not unlike our recently covered Tropic of Cancer, Murder Obsession also features what seems to be a straight giallo storyline that heads into supernatural Weirdsville in the final act. This can seem frustrating and disjointed, but I actually get a charge out of films taking me completely by surprise with left-field revelations, though I concede, it is probably an acquired taste.Murder Obsession is the story of a twenty-something actor returning to his ancestral...
- 5/5/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Giampaolo Lomi and Edoardo Mulargia's Al Tropico del Cancro (Tropic of Cancer/Death in Haiti) is the kind of weird genre mish-mash that could only have come out of the '70s. The film is a combination of the best and worst conventions of mondo movies, gialli, and supernatural horror films from the era, spun together in a very entertaining, though markedly unfocused way. As if the bizarre construction of the film weren't enough to pique one's interest, the story behind the film's production is as interesting as any, given that it was shot in Haiti during the dictatorial reign of Papa Doc Duvalier. All things considered, Tropic of Cancer is a film that manages to transcend its intentions both through its blend of exploitation genres and...
- 5/1/2012
- Screen Anarchy
From John Gall, art director for Vintage and Anchor Books, comes word that legendary publisher and film distributor Barney Rosset has passed away at the age of 89. Gall points us to a lively profile by Louisa Thomas that ran in Newsweek in late 2008: "Rosset's publishing house, Grove Press, was a tiny company operating out of the ground floor of Rosset's brownstone when it published an obscure play called Waiting for Godot in 1954. By the time Beckett had won the Nobel Prize in 1969, Grove had become a force that challenged and changed literature and American culture in deep and lasting ways. Its impact is still evident — from the Che Guevara posters adorning college dorms to the canonical status of the house's once controversial authors. Rosset is less well known — but late in his life he is achieving some wider recognition. Last month, a black-tie crowd gave Rosset a standing ovation...
- 2/24/2012
- MUBI
Cinecity: Brighton Film Festival, Brighton
Just because it's coastal doesn't mean it's coasting. This year's hard-working festival brings in both local and international work, the latter selection including the latest Miyazaki animation, Ponyo, new Mexican hope I'm Gonna Explode, and Until The Light Takes Us, a documentary on Norwegian black metal. And leading the guests, John Hillcoat attends a screening of his adaptation of The Road – perhaps the film's composer, local boy Nick Cave, might even swing by?
Various venues, Thu to 6 Dec, visit cine-city.co.uk
Phelim O'Neill
Tribute To Romy Schneider, London
On the back of her mesmerising appearance in new documentary Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno, eight highlights from Schneider's short but enviable and prolific career, which saw her outgrow her pushy stage mother to become the toast of Austrian cinema. Debuting at 15, Schneider made an indelible impression as the naive Austrian Empress Elisabeth in 1955's Sissi. Also...
Just because it's coastal doesn't mean it's coasting. This year's hard-working festival brings in both local and international work, the latter selection including the latest Miyazaki animation, Ponyo, new Mexican hope I'm Gonna Explode, and Until The Light Takes Us, a documentary on Norwegian black metal. And leading the guests, John Hillcoat attends a screening of his adaptation of The Road – perhaps the film's composer, local boy Nick Cave, might even swing by?
Various venues, Thu to 6 Dec, visit cine-city.co.uk
Phelim O'Neill
Tribute To Romy Schneider, London
On the back of her mesmerising appearance in new documentary Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno, eight highlights from Schneider's short but enviable and prolific career, which saw her outgrow her pushy stage mother to become the toast of Austrian cinema. Debuting at 15, Schneider made an indelible impression as the naive Austrian Empress Elisabeth in 1955's Sissi. Also...
- 11/14/2009
- by Phelim O'Neill, Andrea Hubert
- The Guardian - Film News
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