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Give yourself a crash course film school with Criterion Channel
While movie theaters are closed and release dates have been pushed, there’s no better time to catch up on classics you might have missed over the years. And now, with the Criterion Channel (which, like most streaming platforms changes their offerings on a monthly basis), you can! The streaming platform, a sister of the Criterion Collection that has been preserving classic and significant films on home video for decades, is dedicated to film as an art form and cultural legacy.
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I was bored, so I watched the movie that astronauts must view before launch
Sometime Wednesday, perhaps around the time this article is published, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and his two Russian crew mates—Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner—will repair to their quarantine crew quarters for movie night in the Cosmonaut Hotel.
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The Mortal Instruments actor Godfrey Gao dies on set aged 35
Taiwanese-Canadian actor and model Godfrey Gao, the first Asian person to be the face of Louis Vuitton, died while filming a TV show in China on Wednesday. The 35-year-old Gao collapsed in the eastern city of Ningbo while on the set of Chase Me, a competitive sports challenge show on China’s Zhejiang Television. A statement from the network said Gao had slowed and fallen to the ground while running during filming, and that a hospital had confirmed it was a sudden cardiac death.
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Netflix Makes Move Into Nordic Film With Danish, Norwegian, Swedish Projects
Netflix is moving into original movies in the Nordic region for the first time. Action thriller “Red Dot” out of Sweden, and “Cadaver” from Norway were announced as Netflix Films at the Stockholm Film Festival on Thursday. The streaming giant also announced that it had scooped the global rights to Danish feature film “Shadows in My Eyes.”
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Golden Globes: Tom Hanks to Receive Cecil B. DeMille Award
It’s a beautiful day to be Tom Hanks. The Hollywood Foreign Press announced Tuesday that the celebrated actor will receive the Cecil B. deMille Award at the 77th annual Golden Globes in January. …
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Joaquin Phoenix says he lost so much weight to play Joker he started ‘going mad’
Joker star Joaquin Phoenix has said he lost so much weight to play the character that he started to “go mad”. The actor plays the DC supervillain in Todd Phillips’s new film, which received an eight-minute standing ovation at Venice Film Festival over the weekend. Phoenix reportedly lost 52 pounds in the process of his physical transformation for the role, and met with director Phillips six months before shooting to design the character's look and laugh.
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The great Arthur C. Clarke once listed his 12 favourite sci-fi films of all time
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, arguably one of the most prominent early figures in the formation of the science-fiction genre, had a significant role to play in some of the most iconic concepts in history.
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Mortal Kombat movie is R-rated and features fatalities
The new Mortal Kombat movie will be the first to be rated R in North America. And you know what that means: fatalities on the big screen. The most gratuitously violent fighting game is finally getting a gratuitously violent film.
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The pleasures of Pauline Kael
The centenary of her birth provides a good opportunity to look back at the peerless career of a film critic remembered for her acuity, fierceness and idiosyncrasy – a writer whose brilliant insights and withering put-downs inspire loyal adulation and bitter enmity like no other. By Farran Smith Nehme.
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What the VFX people you see while waiting for Marvel post-credits scenes actually do
If you’re one of those audience members who sits through the credits on a Marvel film — and usually there’s every reason to, in order to catch the post-credits tag — you have noticed the largest “blocks” of credits that scroll up the screen: the visual effects artists. VFX is, obviously, a huge component of the making of giant blockbusters. On Avengers: Infinity War, for example, only around 80 shots were untouched by the visual effects team, out of a total of more than 2,500 shots.
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'Avengers: Endgame' Is Now Almost Certain To Top 'Avatar' (Box Office)
Okay, yeah, now I’m pretty comfortable presuming that Avengers: Endgame is going to pass Avatar ($2.788 billion in 2009/2010) at the global box office. The MCU movie earned another $10.7 million in North America (-71% down from its first Monday, but it was never going to catch Force Awakens anyway) to bring its domestic cume to $632 million in 11 days.
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Revealing behind-the-scenes photos from pioneering Stanley Kubrick film ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
2001: A Space Odyssey, the pioneering 1968 science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, is widely considered one of the greatest films of all time. The screenplay, written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, was so advanced that a novel of the same name and written concurrently with the screenplay was published soon after the film was released.
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Sean Young’s candid Polaroids from behind the scenes of Blade Runner
It would be tiresome for me to list the ways in which Blade Runner is both the best and most played out sci-fi film in recent memory. The Harrison Ford cult-classic has been a favourite of the movie aficionado since it’s release because of its ambiguous plot and apocalyptic nuances. Making it a film which has been endlessly analyzed and re-analyzed, mostly by it’s director Ridley Scott.
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ALIEN (1979) is still a ‘perfect organism’ after 40 years…
A new, post-Star Wars, R-rated science fiction movie was in theatrical release, and it is to my great regret that, as then-12 year old kid, I didn’t see it in those days. Don’t get me wrong; I really really wanted to see it. I eagerly read every article about Ridley Scott’s scary new space monster opus in Starlog magazine (Starlog was the internet before the internet), and I’d read (and re-read) the large paperback “photo-novel” at our local mall’s bookstore, even though I couldn’t quite afford the large softback’s cover price (photo-novels were home video in the pre-home video age…
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Why can’t Hollywood get video game movies right?
With the news of the new Sonic movie everyone’s worried whether it will work, given Hollywood’s track record of making our beloved games into movies. They never seem to get it quite right even though there have been loads from Super Mario Bros. to Silent Hill, Street Fighter, and more. It seems no matter what they turn their hands to the movie is flop, for example Max Payne could have easily worked if just followed the game.
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The 50 best movies of 2018 in the US
Wakanda forever! T’Challa joins the new queen of comedy in jostling for favour with literary hoaxers and female gang bosses, tormented families, childhood heroes, apparatchiks and embattled workers.
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Sony shot an entire Hollywood movie using a full-frame mirrorless camera
A small-budget thriller called The Possession of Hannah Grace is the first Sony Pictures film to be shot on a full-frame mirrorless camera. Sony said that the film was primarily shot on its own A7S II, a consumer camera that costs a mere $2,000. "The smaller camera's ability to see beautiful under low light conditions, the LED lighting technology, and the [eco-friendly] methods we used in set construction made this whole production a case study in how to be efficient and still tell a great story with a fantastic look," said producer Glenn S. Gainor.
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‘Of Fathers And Sons’: “Atheist” Filmmaker Goes Undercover To Reveal Brutal Life Inside Radical Islamist Family
Deep in the credits for the documentary Of Fathers and Sons comes a startling notation—a mention of the firm that supplied kidnapping and ransom insurance. That’s an indication of just how dangerous the project was for director Talal Derki, who risked his life to get inside a radical Islamist family in Northwestern Syria.
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Tom Hardy: 'My favourite 40 minutes of Venom were cut from the film'
Mrvel fans may be looking forward to the release of the new superhero movie Venom – but for its star, Tom Hardy, it will be a bittersweet experience. In an interview with ComicsExplained, Hardy said that all his favourite scenes had ended up on the cutting-room floor. When asked "What was your favourite scene to film?" he said: "Things that aren’t in this movie." The Taboo star continued, in a possibly tongue-in-cheek reply: "There are, like, 30 to 40 minutes' worth of scenes that aren’t in this movie... all of them. Mad puppeteering scenes, dark comedy scenes. You know what I mean? They just never made it in."
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Rumors swirl about Disney rehiring James Gunn
Sources say there has been a growing feeling that Gunn could be reinstated, especially because Marvel and Disney have been unusually radio-silent on who could replace him since the firing. Production is slated to start at the top of 2019, and following Gunn’s removal from the film, it was thought that Marvel and Disney would need to move quickly to replace him, since the replacement would likely have to do some work on the script.
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