Posts Tagged ‘Daniel Day Lewis’
The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 46 – Stop! Or My Podcast Will Shoot
Episode 46 of The Filmdogs Podcast is up! This we cover the awesomeness that is David Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Red Band Trailer and Mr. Will recants his position on a certain supernatural novel that’s currently filming. Then for our Featured Topic of the Week we reveal our Favorite Leading Men. Who will we chose? Listen in to find out.
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Scene Stealer | “In the Name of the Father” The Medal
From 1989 to 1997 Daniel Day-Lewis and director Jim Sheridan crafted three films (My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, and The Boxer) that would challenge viewers and showcase Day-Lewis’ unbelievable range as an actor.
In my opinion, In the Name of the Father is their quintessential collaboration and presents their finest attributes as artists. Continue on for a scene that holds some of the best acting of the last twenty years. Read the rest of this entry »
The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 30 – The Podcast Down Under
It’s The Filmdogs Podcast’s 30th Episode and just in time for your Thanksgiving break. We discuss the casting of Daniel-Day Lewis in Spielberg’s Lincoln, and Mark Walberg in David O’ Russel’s Uncharted, then talk about Jeremy Renner taking over the Mission Impossible Franchise in the News. Next we offer up some quick thoughts on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One before moving into our Featured Topic of the Week, our favorite Animated Movies. Finally, to close it out we have a One-Liner from a classic Disney animated film. It’s an episode so stuffed you’ll think you just ate Thanksgiving Dinner.
Email us with you podcast feedback or segment suggestions at filmdogspodcast@gmail.com. Subscribe to the podcast here, or listen in you browser. Also, you may download an enhanced AAC feed with chapter markers and artwork from iTunes on your computer or straight to your iPhone/iPod touches now! If you like what you hear be sure to write a quick review on iTunes as well. It helps us out. Thanks!
Scene Stealer | Collateral “Ready Steady Go”
I like my Cruise crazy.
Director Michael Mann is known for writing memorable characters and putting them in amazing set pieces. Who could forget the epic meet-up of Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in Heat, or the equally romantic parting of Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeleine Stow in The Last of the Mochicans. Scenes like those make you wonder if Mann starts his writing process with an idea for a sequence and builds the movie from there. Something Hitchcock was known to do on many occasion.
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Under the Radar | Merchant Ivory Films
This is a column that will focus on little known films, directors, writers, and actors. The column does not exist to tell you what to watch, but to simply help raise interest in the great art and talent that goes unseen year by year. So let’s begin. In this edition I will be spotlighting the films of Merchant Ivory.
There is a large section of the film geek culture that is completely unfamiliar or completely rejects the films of Merchant Ivory. Producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory have together crafted some of the most prestigious and beautiful films to come out of British cinema in the past thirty years. Their films do however have the reputation of being extremely high brow and at times cold and alienating. Merchant Ivory Productions usually focus on British aristocrats in Edwardian times and their struggles with relationships, customs, and societies ever changing rules. My goal with this article is to hopefully persuade a few film fans to check out Ismail Merchant and James Ivory’s work, by recommending three of their most popular and critically acclaimed pictures.
Your Poster Is Cool | 2010 Rolling Roadshow Tour
The famous Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is presenting the 2010 Rolling Roadshow Tour, in which they will be showing “free screening of famous movies in famous places.” To coincide, graphic designer Olly Moss has created nine fantastic posters for the films being shown. Continue on to check out the posters and to find out the movie showtimes and locations. Read the rest of this entry »
Scene Stealer | “The Last of the Mohicans” I Will Find You
Every film buff has a special group of select movies that help pave the way to complete obsession. For me one of those films was Michael Mann’s 1992 epic, The Last of the Mohicans. Based on James Fenimore Cooper’s novel and inspired by George Seitz 1936 film, Mann creates a historical saga charged with emotion and feeling. At the center of this vast story of the French and Indian War, is the blossoming love affair between Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis) and Cora Munro (Madeleine Stowe). They are two vastly different souls searching for a place in a world that is as Cora puts it “… on fire”. The two share many memorable scenes together, but the most memorable is the, often quoted, Waterfall Scene. Read the rest of this entry »
Al Pacino and De Niro in Scorsese’s Sinatra?
The only musical biopic I like is Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. I find the tropes of this particular sub-genre tired. Why should I care about characters who are generally unlikeable? I’d rather just stick to concert films. However, when Martin Scorsese says he wants to do a biopic about Frank Sinatra I listen. Esspecially after his fine work on The Aviator. Well, word on the street is that the cinematic legend wants both Al Pacino and Robert De Niro to play older versions of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin in his planned Sinatra biopic.
My list of ten favorite filmmakers is constantly changing. There are, however, a handful of directors that will always stay put, and Michael Mann is in this category. Although he is mainly known as the “crime filmmaker”, his style is vibrantly unique using imagery and music in ways that create beautiful atmosphere and breathtaking drama. I find it to be a cinematic gift when Michael Mann gives even the slightest glimpse into his creative process, and that is one of the many reasons Fox’s newly released Blu Ray for The Last of the Mohicans is a worthy upgrade for fans. Read the rest of this entry »