Dino De Laurentiis, the prolific Italian film producer and entrepreneur, died Wednesday at his home in Beverly Hills, CA. He was 91. Mr. De Laurentiis is best known for his career-defining work on many central films of the Italian New Wave in the late 1940s and 50s including the international success “Bitter Rice” (1949), and [...]
The Online Film Critics Society, of which yours truly is member, released the results of a society-wide poll asking what first (debut) films are the greatest in history. Orson Welles’ masterpiece landed atop the heap — no surprise there — followed by some other predictable mainstays. Though there were some surprises. Here are the top [...]
Iconoclastic director, David Lynch, the quintessential purveyor of the weird and wonderful, has been hired as the first ever guest artistic director for the upcoming AFI Fest in Hollywood, Ca. Some of his duties will include the creation of artwork to serve as the official image of the 24th annual event, as well as the [...]
Hollywood screen legend, Dennis Hopper, known as one of Tinseltown’s most creative and versatile bad boys died Saturday from complications due to prostate cancer, a friend of the actor told Reuters. Hopper was 74. The rebellious actor, best known for directing and starring in the 1969 cult classic “Easy Rider,” died at his suburban Los [...]
“Journey with our Fearless Explorer into the carnivorous depths of the Feminine Mind! Here is where fantasy becomes reality -and women come easy. But BEWARE! Keeping them is another story. For within the womb of desire lurk MADNESS and the seeds of DREADFUL FOLLIES! Fetish, Fear, & Folly! – all with an undercurrent of unsettled [...]
David Lynch, the eccentric and brilliant director behind such seminal films as “Blue Velvet,” “Inland Empire,” and “Mulholland Dr” has embarked on a new project that has nothing to do with film. “Fox Bat Strategy” is the name of Lynch’s new music album that he describes as ‘modern ’50s’ music,” in an interview with EW, [...]
Justin Theroux, most famous for starring in David Lynch’s “Mulholland Dr” and Mary Harron’s “American Psycho” is set to direct his second feature, “Chief Ron,” for Universal, according to First Showing. After directing Mandy Moore, Tom Wilkinson, and Billy Crudup in the indie drama “Dedication” in 2007, Theroux co-wrote, with Ben Stiller, the mega-hit comedy, [...]
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s strange and unique, “King Shot” is sure to turn heads. The $7.4m film was announced in Cannes last year as a “metaphysical spaghetti western,” and will star Nick Nolte, Udo kier, and Marilyn Manson, says Screen Daily. In addition to the strange cast, the film has an unusually international pedigree with an Italian [...]
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