Posts Tagged ‘Robert Zemeckis’
The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 36 – Exit Through the Podcast Shop
Episode 36 of the Filmdogs Podcast is here and just in time for awards season! This week in the News we discuss the recent casting/character announcements for The Dark Knight Rises with Anne Hathaway as Catwoman, and Tom Hardy as Bane. We also try to decipher if Kevin Smith has truly gone off the deep end with his recent controversy at Sundance. In both our In Defense of and One Liner of the Week segments we chat up the underrated?, sequel Back to the Future: Part III. Plus, in our Featured Topic we weed through the recent Oscar Nominations and issue verdicts as to what the Academy got right and what they got terribly wrong. To not listen in could have grave effects on the space time continuum. Heavy.
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The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 32 – It’s a Wonderful Podcast
Ho Ho Ho! The Filmdogs Podcast is here to make your Holiday bright with it’s very first Christmas episode, in which the gang offers up some of our personal seasonal favorites to you the listener. Some of the topics discussed in addition to Christmas movies past are: “How much Christmas makes a Christmas movie?” (Samples: Die Hard, Lethal Weapon), Why you should never make a sequel to a Christmas film (Samples: Home Alone 2, The Santa Clause Sequels), and why you should NEVER cast Steven Tyler as an Elf… It’s a tightly packed 50 minute episode that is sure to make a great stocking stuffer. Merry Christmas folks!
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Score Your Week | Back to the Future
In honor of the upcoming Back to the Future Blu-Ray release on the 26th this Score Your Week is going where we don’t need roads. Alan Silvestri’s score for the Back to the Future Trilogy is simply iconic, and it features one of the most hummable main themes out there. It’s mysterious, emotional, majestic, and when listened to today feels like the type of classical score that we don’t hear much anymore.
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Geek Round Up | First Footage of Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly Released!
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Slang.
1. A person with a devotion to something in a way that places him or her outside the mainstream. This could be due to the intensity, depth, or subject of their interest.
2. a peculiar or otherwise dislikable person, esp. one who is perceived to be overly intellectual.
3. A carnival performer who performs sensationally morbid or disgusting acts, as biting off the head of a live chicken.
From THR comes a minute of footage from the upcoming Back to the Future Blu-Ray that features the original Marty McFly, actor Eric Stoltz in action. In the behind the scenes clip director Robert Zemeckis, producer Bob Gale, and Steven Speilberg discuss how they shot five weeks with Stoltz before realizing he didn’t quite fit the tone of the film. I can’t imagine how hard having to make that decision must have been for everyone involved, especially Stoltz. My heart goes out him after seeing this. Read the rest of this entry »
The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 19 – School’s Out
The 19th Episode of The Filmdogs Podcast is threaded and ready to roll. This week we chat about new projects from Chris Pine, Gulliermo Del Toro, Robert Rodziguez, and Spielberg in the News. Then we discuss the bearded ones’ 1991 film Hook for In Defense of. It’s our 5 favorite screenplays in our Featured Topic, and to close it out we have a famous convo from Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction in our The One Liner of the Week.
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Back to the Future Coming Soon to Blu-Ray!!
One more holy trilogy finally makes it’s way to the beautiful high-def format. To mark the 25th anniversary of the classic film Universal is releasing the box set on Blu-ray October 26th with special features that didn’t make it onto the last edition. Producer Bob Gale praised the quality of the transfers saying:
They actually look better than they did in the theater because of the incredible job that was done on dirt clean-up. And the film grain is preserved, so they still look like movies should look.
