I just found some DVD's for one dollar each at my local dollar store. Quality is very good. All public domain stuff, but for a buck...what the heck?
I picked up....
1. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Peter Lorre)
2. The 39 Steps (Robert Donat)
3. Jack & The Beanstalk (Abbott & Costello)
4. Royal Wedding (Fred Astaire)
5. Nothing Sacred (Carole Lombard)
This was from the DVD bonus material. Apparently Truffaut first wrote the script in French, which was then translated into English.
One crucial pun could not be translated. "Book people" (who memorize books) were originally "homme livre" which sounds like "homme libre" (free people).
Variety is reporting that Dreamworks will be doing a remake of Akira Kurosawa's great 1952 film Ikiru. Jim Sheridan has signed on as the director and "Freedomland" author, Richard Price, will write the script. They are also planning for this to star Tom Hanks.
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, on 8 November 1954. He came to Britain in 1960 when his father began research at the National Institute of Oceanography, and was educated at a grammar school for boys in Surrey. Afterwards he worked as a grouse-beater for the Queen Mother at Balmoral before enrolling at the University of Kent, Canterbury, where he read English and Philosophy.
【海外】キム・ベイジンガー(50)、年を取った女優の仕事不足嘆く【10/18】
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米女優キム・ベイジンガー（５０）が、老化が始まると女優生命は短くなり、ハリウッドは成熟した女性に関する映画への関心がとても少ないという真実を知るのは悲しいとの感想を漏らした。
ベイジンガーは、独紙ウェルト日曜版とのインタビューで、「成熟した女性に向いた脚本が少ないことに失望している」と述べた。
新作「The Door in the Floor」のプロモーションでドイツを訪れたベイジンガーは、希望する役には「年をとりすぎている」と何度言われたか、数えるのを止めたという。
さらに、「この年代の女性は、メリル・ストリープやスーザン・サランドンのように才能のおかげで女優を続けられる人もいるけれど、４０歳以上になって役をもらえなくなった有名女優もたくさんいる」と指摘した。http://www.reuters.co.jp/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=M30XZBXOSCU44CRBAELCFFA?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=6520421
High powered lawyer Claire Kubik finds her world turned upside down when her husband, who she thought was Tom Kubik, is arrested and is revealed to be Ron Chapman. Chapman is on trial for a murder of Latin American villagers while he was in the Marines. Claire soon learns that to navigate the military justice system, she'll need help from the somewhat unconventional Charlie Grimes; meanwhile, Claire's sister, Jackie, is falling in love with wet-behind-the-ears Lieutenant Embry assigned as the official defense lawyer. And most of the eyewitnesses have rather too conveniently died.
Femme fatale—is defined as “an irresistibly attractive woman, especially one who leads men into danger or disaster”. To me the most engaging semblance of a “femme fatale” is the stunning image of Lana Turner, as the camera pans from her ankles upward in that breathtaking shot from “The Postman Always Rings Twice” 1946.
Noir的なスタイルという面もあったのですね。 http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/film_noir/index.html
High Heels on Wet Pavement： Femme fatale and Film Noir...
（確か「L.A.Confidential」の最初の夜（逮捕）のシーンが「路面濡らし」だったが、これは多分に Noir時代の映画へのオマージュのようなものだろう。）
これかな？ わりと良い映画だった。http://imdb.com/title/tt0257756/
High Crimes (2002) Directed by Carl Franklin
Ashley Judd .... Claire Kubik （ちょっと痩せすぎ）
Morgan Freeman .... Charlie Grimes
James Caviezel .... （ Passionで キリスト役の人 ）
http://filmthreat.com/Features.asp?Id=1260
Vote for the biggest Jerry Bruckheimer stinker!
1) National Treasure
2) King Arthur
3) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
4) Con Air
5) Pearl Harbor
6) Armageddon
7) The Rock
8) Bad Boys
9) Days of Thunder
10) Flashdance
1. MICHAEL MOORE
Well, the results of the Presidential election are in and the controversial documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 did not derail a second Bush term. Michael Moore’s box office smash did two things: it mobilized like-minded Americans in a bid to vote a Democrat into office, and it galvanized the opposition in a bid to re-elect Bush. Bush won.
There are a lot of Democrats out there that would just like to say – thanks a lot! MICHAEL!
And now Michael’s alleged “limousine liberal” ways are being exposed in a new documentary entitled “Michael Moore Hates America.” (Incidentally, “Michael Moore Hates America” received a coveted "Thumbs Up" from Roger Ebert when it was reviewed on his program.) The film (hitting theaters in limited release) features regular schlub Mike Wilson who seeks out Moore in an effort to question the controversial filmmaker’s techniques. All Wilson wants is to interview Michael – and ala “Roger and Me,” Moore completely disses the young filmmaker, evading his request for an interview and berating him at a public event. In one particularly damning sequence, Wilson exposes that in Bowling for Columbine the sequence in which the gun is received from the bank was completely stage-managed. The bank employees reveal how Michael set up the entire scene.
1. MICHAEL MOORE
2. HALLE BERRY
3. MICHAEL EISNER
4. M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN & THE BIG SURPRISE TWIST REDUX
5. BEN STILLER/OWEN WILSON
6. NICOLE KIDMAN
7. REESE WITHERSPOON
8. JIMMY FALLON
9. PARIS HILTON
10. BEN AFFLECK
11. STEPHEN BALDWIN
12. LINDSAY LOHAN
13. WILL SMITH
14. HEATH LEDGER
15. ASHLEY JUDD
Michael Moore’s box office smash did two things: it mobilized like-minded Americans in a bid to vote a Democrat into office, and it galvanized the opposition in a bid to re-elect Bush. Bush won.
Michael Moore’s box office smash did two things: it mobilized like-minded Americans in a bid to vote a Democrat into office, and it galvanized the opposition in a bid to re-elect Bush. Bush won.
「In the Line of Fire」監督のＰｅｔｅｒｓｅｎは器用だし、教科書のようにキチンと撮る人だと思う。 >>97 のように言われてみれば、「路面濡らし」は効果のためだったとも思える。
寒くてgloomyな感じがよく出ていた。ハリウッドでNoir的シーンを撮るのが念願だったのかもしれない。
ＤＶＤの監督解説で路面濡らしについて何か言ってたら紹介します。
余談だが、最近「The 39 Steps」を見た。（「Touch of Evil」と同じく）いまひとつ良さがわからない。
北北西と似てると思った。パレードに紛れて逃げるシーンで、「Fugitive」（Harrison Ford）と同じ構図の場面があった。
Writing credits (WGA) Richard Ben Cramer (documentary The Battle Over Citizen Kane) (in part) and
Thomas Lennon (documentary The Battle Over Citizen Kane) (in part) ... (more)
Plot Summary for RKO 281 (1999) (TV)
Coming to Hollywood as a celebrated boy genius featuring a spectacular career arc in New York including his "War of the Worlds" radio hoax, Orson Welles is stymied on the subject for his first film. After a dinner party at Hearst Castle, during which he has a verbal altercation with Hearst, Welles decides to do a movie about Hearst. It takes him some time to convince co-writer Herman Mankiewicz and the studio, but Welles eventually gets the script and the green light, keeping the subject very hush-hush with the press. When a rough cut is screened, Hearst gets wind of the movie's theme and begins a campaign to see that it is not only never publicly screened, but destroyed.
「ザ・ディレクター」は、96年にアカデミー賞にノミネートされたドキュメンタリー「The Battle Over Citizen Kane」を見て感銘を受けた、「エイリアン」、「ブレードランナー」等で知られる映画監督のリドリー・スコットが映画化権を獲得していたものである。しかし、事実を基にしており、現存する人物が多いため、ハリウッド映画にした場合、著作権やら肖像権等、クリアしなければならない難問が多かった。それもそうだろう、ハーストの圧力に屈し、悪者として描かれることはまず間違いないだろうスタジオのトップの関係者が、映画化を喜ぶとは到底思えない。スタジオから金が出なければ、映画なんて作るのは不可能である。
