Aliens, Criminals, and Other Carpenter Tools
www.nysun.com - 5th Sep 2008
John Carpenter:
John Carpenter will forever be associated with "Halloween," his brilliantly original (and profitable) 1978 horror film that helped inaugurate the modern slasher era, a movement that now includes more than a half-dozen uninspired "Halloween" sequels. But while horror is what ultimately gave Mr.
Carpenter the budgetary and artistic freedom to make the films he wanted to make, his imagination has never been one-dimensional. Beginning Monday, the Brooklyn Academy of Music will launch a brief film...
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ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (U.K SE) - Oct 6th
Classic John Carpenter movie finally gets a Region 2 SE release.
Film Series and Movie Listings
Among this weeks film series are a four-pack of John Carpenter, “Mondo Hollywood” and a retrospective of the filmmaker Chris Smith at MoMA.
"Kurt Russell is to the right of Attila the Hun."
Quotes from the interview circuit: "No one seems to mention that the President of the United States in Escape from New York is British! [Laughs] We made up some story about him being the love child of Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. That didn't make it into the movie because Kurt Russell is to the right of Attila the Hun. He actually doesn't think we should have to pay for roads--unbelievable. But we're friends because we respect each other's work ethic. He's a wonderful guy; I love him." &n
Cage, Carpenter may team up for prison film
Nicolas Cage and director John Carpenter are in final negotiations to team up for a prison thriller titled "Scared Straight."
Nu Image/Millennium Films would finance the film and is in negotiations with Contrafilm's Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson along with Randall Emmett and George Furla to produce. Avi Lerner also would produce.
"Straight" follows a troubled youth who's sent to prison off the Scared Straight crime-prevention program, which imprisons delinquent teens for a short period in the hopes of
