| Young again | | Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 2:56:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | In Thursday's Cue, Peter O'Toole's new drama, "Venus," cracked our Associated Press movie critics' list of the best films of 2006. One problem: It hasn't come to Peoria yet. So while we're waiting for the old O'Toole to show up, why not go watch the young O'Toole at Downtown Peoria's Apollo Theatre? At 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, the theater will show the 1962 classic "Lawrence of Arabia" starring O'Toole, at left, in the title role. Tickets are $5, or $4 for students and seniors. Call 673-4343. Wrestle mania I've heard people describe professional wrestling as "a soap opera for men." Perhaps, but that assumes men don't tune in "Days of Our Lives" when no one else is around. (You're not fooling anyone, fellas.) No matter how you describe it, WWE's "Smackdown" and ECW are headed to the Peoria Civic Center's Carver Arena at 6:30 p.m.... | |
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| | | 'Swamy and Bhootnath are little experiments on my part' - Juhi ... | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 12:56:16 PM by Blog57 Team | | From Ishq and Mr and Mrs Khiladi to My Brother Nikhil, Jhankaar Beats and Swamy why has your focus changed from bigger films to small, experimentative cinema? Yes, my focus has changed. Bigger films are more commercial and run of the mill. They have similar story lines, typical situations; the same love stories and family comedies. The ones who make stories, cant afford a star cast and a big-scale production, so they make it smaller. These films are more suitable for me because I get to perform and they are more character driven. Of course, I have done the bigger films now and again, like there is Salaam-E-Ishq now, and earlier I did a Punjabi film Des Hoyaa Pardes, which for the makers, was a very big film. Is this inclination towards experimentative films more so now, because you are established, and in a position to pick and choose? Sure.... | |
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| | | On the hunt for the films that break the chaos | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:06:24 AM by Blog57 Team | | Over the past three months, more than 50 short films made during or in response to the war in Lebanon this past summer have screened publicly in Beirut. They may be fiction or documentary, essay or reportage, rough or unpolished, experimental or unprofessional, emotionally wrought or borderline hysterical. But the appetite for these works has not dissipated. Whether projected in a proper movie theater during an established film festival or thrown onto the screen of a tiny room in a gallery, they have, for the most part, drawn sturdy crowds.The same season has also seen the rollout of a few more fully realized films reflecting back on an earlier episode of Lebanon's tumultuous contemporary history - the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and the rise and fall of the so-called Beirut Spring that followed.... | |
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| | | Ban of PG films trailer from GP movies pushed | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:55:35 PM by Blog57 Team | | ACTING Vice Mayor Leandro Yangot Jr. is pushing for the prohibition of movie trailers with a restricted or parental guidance (PG) classification during the showing of a general patronage films. This, as Yangot observed that there are movie trailers with restricted (R) or with PG ratings being shown before the start of a GP movie. .... | |
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| | | Weekend Forecast for November 3-5, 2006 | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 7:03:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | After weeks of relatively calm box office battles, the first weekend of November brings us an old-fashioned slugfest, with two films going head-to-head and a potential spoiler lurking in the midst. I think it'd be interesting if you brought mid-1990s Tim Allen, flying high on the wings of one of the hottest sitcoms in the land, to 2006, where he's stuck remaking old Dean Jones movies, and seeing if the whiplash would break his brain. I suppose at least he's working. He's got one pretty reliable franchise, though. The Santa Clause sees its third outing hit theaters this weekend. Like the first two films, this movie hits theaters well in advance of Christmas and even Thanksgiving, repeating what has been a winning strategy so far. The first film in the series earned $144 million 12 (count em) years ago, while the second opened to an astounding $29 million four years ago.... | |
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| | | Adult film company porn to rock | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 11:00:32 AM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK (Billboard) - Music and porn have dabbled in each other's worlds before, but Vivid-Alt, an offshoot of adult film company Vivid launched earlier this year, is now scoring its films with original rock, punk, hip-hop and electronica. Its latest film, "Girls Lie," is the first Alt title to package an original CD soundtrack, which includes such bands as Vice Records act the Panthers and Matador Records' Matmos. It hit record stores Oct. 24. Four Alt titles have been released to date, and Vivid estimates that they have reached 3.5 million people through physical sales and rentals, the Internet and video on demand. Nine more films are scheduled for release by the end of 2007 -- all packaged with a CD soundtrack. .... | |
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| | | Peter Falk comes clean in folksy memoir | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 6:55:01 AM by Blog57 Team | | Peter Falk has been in many films and television shows -- more than 150 by a loose count. Chances are, though, that a century from now he'll be remembered largely for his role as a slouching, poorly dressed, head-scratching, cigar-smoking, raincoat-wearing detective who took great interest in people's shoes -- and this was long before O.J. -- and offhand comments that can lead to great truths. .... | |
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| | | 'Father Knows Best' star Jane Wyatt succumbs to old age at 96 | | Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 12:56:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | Father Knows Best star and small screen's favorite mom Jane Wyatt passed away due to natural causes on Saturday at the age of 96, her son Christopher Ward said. The actress, who was known for her portrayal of Robert Young's understanding wife Margaret Anderson in the popular sitcom about an ideal American family, died in her sleep in her house in Bel Air, California. The Father Knows Best role won Wyatt three Emmys in 1958, 1959 and 1960, and became an integral part of her real life. Among her other small screen roles were Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and several others. Active in films, TV and stage, the actress was also noted for her performance in the 1937 film Lost Horizon, in which she played Ronald Coleman's waiflike beloved. Wyatt's other film credits include Oscar-winning Gregory Peck-starrer Gentleman's Agreement, None But The Lonely Heart opposite Cary Grant, Dana Andrew-starrer Boomerang and Great Expectations.... | |
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| | | Top 10 World War II films | | Posted Sunday, October 22, 2006 2:54:23 AM by Blog57 Team | | World War II arguably has been the richest source of cinematic material in history, spawning hundreds of films dealing with actual fighting, or the lead-up to it or aftermath of it. This week director Clint Eastwood, who was 11 years old when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, adds another entry in the genre with "Flags Of Our Fathers, the story of the men who fought and died at Iwo Jima. Assembling a list of the top 10 World War II films of all time is a brutal task, because the definition of such a film can be broad or narrow. There are movies that deal mostly with combat. There are others set in specific areas of the war, like prisoner of war or concentration camps, naval vessels, air bases or boot camps. Still other films take place against the backdrop of the war, either at home or abroad.... | |
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| | | Art Films With Hollywood Production Values | | Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2:55:48 AM by Blog57 Team | | "Superb," "exquisitely funny, sad, rich, gorgeous" and "delightfully open-ended" is how Jessica Dawson, writing in The Post's Galleries column, described two videos by 32-year-old Danish artist Jesper Just that are running in the Hirshhorn Museum's Black Box space. Reading between the lines, I think she liked them almost as much as I did. A new trilogy of short films by Just (pronounced "yoost," rhyming more or less with "juiced"; Jesper is "yesper") is premiering at Perry Rubenstein Gallery in Chelsea. The New York gallery's more lavish projection facilities let us appreciate the Hollywood-level finish of Just's work in a way that's harder in the more modest Hirshhorn setting. The first part of the trilogy, "A Little Fall of Rain," is shot in a fantastical Chinese garden and could pass as a scene from a romantic 1950s musical.... | |
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