The British Film Institute didn't "put this together," it was Arrow Films (the UK video distributor). The BFI are just doing a few theatrical screenings to coincide with Arrow's Blu-ray release.
Prof. Irwin Corey is still alive, last time I checked…
Despite running nearly two-and-a-half hours, I Am Not Madame Bovary never really explains why all of the movie’s men (there are very few female Chinese politicians) are terrified of Lian—after all, she’s been suing the government for 10 years, and nothing much seems to have come of it apart from the one initial mass…
Yeah, that was it. It got as far as storyboards, which are included on the various laserdisc/DVD/Blu-ray special editions. Fincher wanted the Mills-shoots-Doe ending (minus the Hemingway epigraph, which was studio-imposed), but apparently it was Pitt who actually clinched it.
And what about the people from this video?
Yoshikawa's novel is largely responsible for the modern image of Musashi, and most Musashi media made since draws heavily if not primarily on it. Mizoguchi's film is a bit unusual in that's it's based on a different source (a series of newspaper articles by Kikuchi Kan) that apparently took a more historically…
2012 was released uncut in China twice (the second time as a 3D re-release) and that's a movie with a fairly sizable subplot involving Tibetan monks who even deliver most of their dialogue in Tibetan. The only conceivable issue I can imagine Chinese censors having with a Tibetan Ancient One is that the character has…
Studio gets about half of the box office and marketing/distribution came to a reported $120 million on top of the $185m it cost to make the movie.
There was talk of a live-action Disney Winnie the Pooh not too long ago, but it was supposed to be some sort of revisionist take about Christopher Robin as an adult. Alex Ross Perry was taking a crack at the script (not kidding).
That Beatles documentary did well enough that a lot of theaters brought it back after its first (limited) run ended, even though it was on Hulu two days after it opened. Maybe Howard to just do documentaries from now on, or realize that boomer nostalgia is a safer bet than nostalgia for shitty early-2000s fiction.
two reference the fact that Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese literature, also introduced Chinese readers to Jules Verne
That makes sense—setting the entire movie in a sewer would be a good way to keep costs down.
The show takes place in the Tommy Westphall Universe?
If you can't appreciate the artistry of this, then you might not actually be human.
I don't think Lennon did, but Paul definitely did the drums on a few tracks from the White Album after Ringo temporarily walked out, plus "The Ballad of John and Yoko" (recorded while both Ringo and George were unavailable).
Saw a new digital restoration of, um, The Dragon Lives Again—you know, the one where Bruce Lee (Leung Siu-lung, whose various talents do not include looking anything like Bruce Lee) goes to the underworld and teams up with Popeye and Caine from Kung Fu to fight Dracula, James Bond, Emmanuelle, a priest called…
Yes, exterior scenes were shot on film and interiors on videotape. Portable video cameras were still relatively new (the first ones didn't appear until the late '60s), the quality was still pretty crap, and video was still a pain in the ass to edit unless you were doing it live in a studio. There's a Monty Python bit…
I really wish Criterion (or somebody) would do an integral release of A Page of Madness with a benshi narration (it did have one, despite so many claims to the contrary) and perhaps with the footage that Kinugasa cut after he rediscovered the film (which apparently comprised a subplot that didn't fit so well with the…
They have USB-C ports, which means you need to spend a couple of bucks on an adapter (or around twenty bucks on a hub) to use traditional USB-A devices. (If Apple isn't already selling their own hub for $50+, I'm sure they'll start eventually.) A lot of ultra-slim notebooks and tablets (including some 2015 Macbooks)…