Film Week: Before Big: The Early Films of David Lean
Though best known for his widescreen, epic visions, David Lean and his "smaller," early movies are a the focus of PFA's new season.

Film Week: Before Big: The Early Films of David Lean
Though best known for his widescreen, epic visions, David Lean and his "smaller," early movies are a the focus of PFA's new season.

Film Week: Before Big: The Early Films of David Lean
Though best known for his widescreen, epic visions, David Lean and his "smaller," early movies are a the focus of PFA's new season.

Film Week: Before Big: The Early Films of David Lean
There are reports now that the house in Cleveland, Ohio, where Superman writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster created the Man of Steel in 1932, is in very poor condition and is in serious need of repair. Flashback Oct 04, 2008

Critic’s Choice: New DVDs: Early British Cinema
Two recently issued collections offer strong evidence of life before the work of David Lean and Carol Reed in the British film scene.

Film: David Lean, Perfectionist of Madness
The madness in David Lean’s method is what gives his work its quivering, almost alarming life. His films will be shown at Film Forum’s centennial retrospective.

Christie, Julie - Madam Rosmerta
Image: http://snitchseeker.com/uploads/library/JChristie1.jpg Image: http://snitchseeker.com/uploads/library/JChristie2.jpg *Name:* Julie Frances Christie *Nickname:* Jules *Born:* 14th April 1941 *Where:* Chabua, Assam, India *Height:* 1.57m Julie Christie is one of the most well known British actresses of modern times. She was born in India where she spent her early childhood on her father’s tea plantation; her father a tea farmer and her mother a Welsh painter. Coming of age, Julie was se

David Lean @ Film Forum.
"Naturally, Film Forum's [David] Lean season includes his multiple Oscar-winning epics - The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Dr Zhivago and A Passage to India - films in which the impermanence of human love, life, and scheming are celebrated in wide-screen grandeur," writes Bruce Bennett in the New York Sun. "But the bulk of the two-week retrospective represents the result of a real-life effort to permanently preserve the director's early work, an effort that has been considerably more success

David Lean, perfectionist of madness
The madness in David Lean's method is what gives his work its quivering, almost alarming life. His films will be shown at Film Forum's centennial retrospective.

France forgets giants of British cinema
A prestigious French cinema magazine, arguably the most influential of all cinema magazines, has drawn up a list of the best 100 movies made. Most are American. Many of them are French. None are British. There are German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Indian and Japanese films on the list established by Les Cahiers du Cinema but not a single film made in Britain since the cinema industry began just more than a century ago. There are several mentions for Alfred Hi

Why bad things happen to good movies...
Like life, the Oscar race isn't always fair. It's a lesson that we learn by the end of every awards season yet somehow forget by the beginning of the next: Not all great movies are nominated for or win Oscars, and not all movies that are nominated for or win Oscars are great. Case(s) in point: The annals of history have recorded that disposable junk such as Frank Coraci's "Click" (2006) and Brian Robbins' "Norbit" (2007) were worthy of Oscar nominations, but future classics such as Jason Reitman's "Thank

New ‘Australia’ trailer
I’ve been hearing some good things about Hugh Jackman’s performance all along, but for some reason, he’s never cracked my Best Actor chart.  It’s a crowded field, but anyway, this is a great trailer.  I’m a Baz supporter through and through, and I’ve been told this isn’t the straight-up epic it appears to be from the materials released so far.  It isn’t Baz restraining his vision for the sake of a style of film he hasn’t tackled yet; it is very much a

New Trailer for ‘Australia’
The newest trailer courtesy of MovieWeb. Another masterpiece from Baz has Oscar written all over it. Kidman and Jackman were made for this type of epic movie. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Tagged under | australia, Baz Luhrmann, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website

EXCLUSIVE: Why Baz Luhrmann loves tripping up the derby with wild ponies like 'Moulin Rouge!' and 'Australia'
Seven years after director Baz Luhrmann experienced a crazy romp through the kudos derby riding "Moulin Rouge!" he's back with "Australia. " What does he think of awardsmania? Why does he risk the wrath of gritty film critics to make his wildly romantic movies in the cynical 21st century? Last Wednesday night, Baz and I teamed up to do a Q&A screening chat at the Directors Guild of America theater in New York. We didn't have enough time to cover all key topics, so we hooked up again

It's A Baz Luhrmann Movie, If....
Over the weekend I caught "Australia" and while I definitely liked it more than most critics (or, apparently, audiences), there were a few things I felt were lacking. But at the end of the day it had all the hallmarks of a great Baz Luhrmann movie -- gorgeous cinematography, smoking hot stars, dazzling costumes and a villain with well-sculpted facial hair! Yes, it seems more than spectacular scenery or a lavish love story, a bad guy with a mysterious mustache or skanky soul patch is becoming a must for an

What to Say When Your Movie Flops, Australia Edition [Didgeridon't]
What do you do when your big sweeping Oscar-hopeful epic that cost $130 million dollars does a shallow swan dive at the box office? You completely change the party line on the entire movie! Well, that's what Fox is doing about Australia—Baz Luhrmann's continental Nicole Kidman/Hugh Jackman period romance—at least. Though the film initially was being thrust at us as Titanic but with Aborigines and a lot more plastic surgery, it's now been shifted (or downgraded) to an artsy "adult" (not that

TECH SUPPORT: Best Sound Mixing — Volume I
Those words from Al Jolson forever changed filmmaking in 1927, ushering in “talkies” and bringing about the beginning of the end of the silent film era. The Academy Award for sound mixing recognizes the artists who fashion a film’s audio side.  It must be distinguished from Best Sound Editing, which is the integration of artificially created sound effects into the mix.  Mixing is the blending of those effects, along with dialogue, music and any other noise captured during filming.  The Oscar a

TECH SUPPORT: Best Costume Design — Volume I
The Academy Award for Best Costume Design recognizes, shock of shocks, the clothes and accessories worn by actors in a film.  Clothing can add to the story and express the nature and situation of the characters who wear them. If a single word could be used to describe this category, it would be “period.”  31 of the 40 nominees here this decade were period pieces.  This is not altogether surprising.  Period clothes automatically draw attention by not being the sort of fashion we see every d

New Trailer for Luhrmann’s Australia
I haven’t seen a good, sweeping romance since 2006’s The Painted Veil and even that seems small potatoes compared to the grandness of Baz Luhrmann sweeping Australia. I’ve already gushed and moaned at how badly I want to see this film and this new trailer only adds to my already heightened level of excitement. Granted, not much new to go on here but it features even more footage from the film and a score that doesn’t really work for me but I’m willing to overlook that one smal

I am not a Baz Luhrman fan and I am not usually a Nicole fan but Australia looks amazing!!
Hugh and NicoleThere are two kinds of people in this world. People who loved Moulin Rouge and people who didn't. I was in the latter category. I don't like movies where I feel like I am tripping on drugs unless I am actually tripping on drugs. However, I think Baz may have calmed down a bit for his newest film, "Australia." Yeah apparently they were affected by World War II also so this is a story about that. Nicole Kidman plays her usual character: rich, gorgeous woman who has to take care of a farm and fa

Australia: A Romantic Wardrobe, Part II
Did you happen to go see Australia this weekend? If my first words with costume designer Catherine Martin didn't pique your interested maybe these will. Some specific items of clothing stood out to me in the film — notably the colors of Lady Ashley's clothes, her belts, and her red Chinosierie dress. Here's what Martin had to say about those standouts. I noticed she wears a lot of blues and browns. The film is so visually arresting how did you factor in the color of the clothes with the beauty of the mov

Baz Luhrmann Ads Propose Australian Tourism as Salve for Shattered American Lives [Untruth In Advertising]
Baz Luhrmann's boundless ambition may have met its match in a new pair of TV spots commissioned by Tourism Australia, an organization still reeling from its failure to entice international visitors two years ago with its bikini-clad representative scolding, "Where the bloody hell are you?" This time around, the tourism board opted for the more cheerful specter of an Aboriginal child whose fistful of fairy dust cures everything from burnout to bipolar disorder, all graphically allayed against the backdrop of

Baz Luhrmann Hates Australia
"Australia, we have enslaved the indigenous population and send them through the night to troubled white people in need of vacations around the world with pouches of magical dream dirt and no shoes." "Australia, you better fuck your husband here or he's going to leave you." "Australia, God's Wellbutrin." "Australia, seriously, about the indigenous population. It's horrible what we've done. Come here!" Posted by Gabe at 2:45 PM in Free Advertising Tags: Australia | Baz Luhrmann «

Monday Morning Link Love #7
Well its another weekend gone by to quickly and a Monday come to fast. But there seems to be great stuff out this past weekend so here we go: Jason Vorhees has been unmasked - The guys over at HorrorBid have a ton of photos of Jason doing his best to scare…

Another Great Australia Trailer
I'm not really into that romantic mumbo jumbo, however I am actually quite looking forward to Baz Luhrmann Australia. The previous trailers and imagery we have seen have been quite something, but this latest trailer has confirmed that I will be seeing this when it is released. The trailer starts off casually, exploring the predictable relationship between Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman, and then BAM! The trailer switches. The epic…