Posts Tagged ‘Stanley Kubrick’
The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 44 – Song of the Podcast
Episode 44 of The Filmdogs Podcast is here! This week we dissect the teaser for Spielberg’s first motion capture film The Adventures of TinTin, and trailers for the new slate of fall tv shows in the News. Then in our Featured Topic of the Week we discuss our favorite DVDs/Blu-Rays in our collections, and name some films that we long to see released in those formats. Listen in and see if some of your favorites made our lists!
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The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 41 – 2001: A Space Podcast
The 41st Episode of The Filmdogs Podcast is here! This week Mr. Will starts things off by recounting how he got Sucker Punched by Zach Synder‘s latest film, and in the News we discuss The Bourne Legacy casting, and a Justice League film in 2013. For our Featured Topic of the Week it’s Ambitious Films from Ambitious Directors, and to close it out we have a One-Liner of the Week from Christoper Walken in Batman Returns.
Email us with your 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!
Kubrick’s Bane | Review: Fear and Desire
Last Sunday I was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time for a screening of Stanley Kubrick‘s first and extremely rare feature film entitled Fear and Desire. The event was put on by the American Cinematheque and took place at L.A.’s fabled Egyptian Theatre. Why is seeing Fear and Desire such an event? Well, many rumors surround the subject of Kubrick’s debut, such as him having prints of it burned, but the truth is that he felt it was an amateur effort and didn’t want the picture ever shown to the public. It has since never been released on the home market. What was screened Sunday is now the only 35mm print in existence of Fear and Desire, the movie Kubrick called “clumsy, inept, and just plain embarrassing.”
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Trailer for Douglas Trumbull’s new Documentary about the making of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
If the name Douglas Trumbull sounds familiar, it’s because he’s the man behind fx in such classics as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner, and of course 2001: A Space Odyssey. Well, now Trumbull is using his behind the scenes knowledge of that picture for incite into a new documentary about the making of Kubrick’s masterpiece.
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Double Feature | A.I. Artificial Intelligence and Minority Report
Steven Spielberg is and always will be one of my favorite filmmakers. As a child he guided me through the treacheries that is every day life with film such as: Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Jurassic Park, and (dare I say) Hook. From 1997 to 2005, Spielberg hit a creative peak and began to dive into darker and more adult themed material starting with Amistad and ending beautifully with Munich. The double feature I will be recommending is two of his best works in his dark run, the extremely underrated sci fi duo, A.I. Artificial Intelligence and Minority Report. Read the rest of this entry »
Across the Pond | United Kingdom’s “Bronson”
Bronson is the true life tale of England’s most violent prisoner, Michael Peterson “aka” Charles Bronson. He took the name of the famous American movie star because it added a little theatricality to what was otherwise a dull persona. Growing up in 1970s England was tough for a middle class man like himself. Jobs and the celebrity Bronson craved were hard to come by, that was until a petty crime landed him a seven year jail sentence. Bronson had found his stage and the rest was history. Read the rest of this entry »
The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 9 – Podcasts Are Forever
The Pack is Back! In our 9th installment, we discuss Joss Whedon taking the helm for The Avengers movie, the trouble surrounding the next James Bond film and the controversy surrounding Roger Ebert’s Kick Ass review.
For the main topic we discuss satires in film history, including: Dr. Strangelove, American Psycho, M.A.S.H., Network, A Clockwork Orange, American Beauty and many more.
The One-Liner of the week is from the 1985 classic, Back to the Future; make sure to tune in to see just which line it might be.
The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 6 – Podcast Balboa
The sixth episode of The Filmdogs Podcast is here and it’s our zaniest yet. We give our final thoughts on this years slightly underwhelming Oscars, and talk about the possibility of Bill and Ted 3 in the news. It’s a Grindhouse double feature in Vs. as we pit Planet Terror and Death Proof against one another. Our featured topic of the week…A@%hole directors and actors. Then we have an absolute classic one liner of the week from an old Bogart film. No animals were harmed in the making of this podcast, however we did tend to swear a little more than usual. It’s Michael Bay and Brett Ratner’s fault.
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!
Across the Pond | United Kingdom’s “Moon”
Did you hear David Bowie’s son directed a Science Fiction movie? This was the question heard around this time last year as the Duncan Jones film “Moon” began to make it’s way around the festival circuit. We don’t see many quiet Sci-fi movies like “Moon” nowadays. Explosions have replaced ideas as trash like “Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen” have continually shown us. Read the rest of this entry »
Rats in a maze: Review “Shutter Island”
A Martin Scorsese Picture. Those four words have been one of the greatest gift’s to moviegoers for over 40 years. He is our finest living filmmaker, and I dare you to challenge me on this fact. Who is more consistent? Who not only grows with the times, but remains ahead of them? Not Coppola, not De Plama, and surely not Lucas. How does this director continue to enthrall us after all these years? I wish I knew, but the short answer is that it doesn’t matter. All we have to do is sit back and enjoy the show. Read the rest of this entry »
