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...movie-production company, HandMade Films, which he set up to help his pal Eric Idle finish his Monty Python film Life of Brian. Other HandMade productions included the 1981 fantasy Time Bandits and the 1986 noirish drama Mona Lisa, which launched actor Bob Hoskins. Harrison's cinema dabblings also included a cameo in Idle's faux rockumentary All You Need Is Cash, about the Rutles--the "Prefab Four." According to George, the parody told the Beatles story "much better than the usual boring documentary...
...year-end ornaments, all aspiring to be placed atop the lucrative box office tree. For the film industry knows that the best antidote to those awkward family moments (especially after the first semester of a young elf’s first year at Harvard) is an escape to the cinema, a place where folks can forget about shopping and little Jimmy’s bad grades and get lost with a neurotic Russell Crowe, or Gandalf, Frodo and some pesky rings. This year will prove no different—audiences have the same variety of Oscar hopefuls and escapist blockbusters...
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring December 19 No introduction is required for this giant-budget production of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epochal first installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. New Line Cinema and director Peter Jackson took a huge gamble when they decided to film all three books back-to-back over a grueling 18 months of production, with a rumored $300 million budget and a juicy Christmas release for the films over a period of three years. With no major stars (does anyone remember Elijah Wood?) and a premise that is decidedly...
Visitors to the exhibition hear a deep booming sound, followed by shouting. It emanates from one large room where a cinema-size screen is showing continuously a 1-min., 45-sec. clip of the Bamiyan explosions - the great clouds of smoke and dust when, despite pleas to the Taliban from around the world, the giant Buddhas were blasted on March 11. Monreal says the muffled shouting is mainly Allah Akbar , Allah is Great...
...documentary provides the back story to perhaps the single greatest and most revolutionary piece of cinema ever constructed. A political commentary, a compelling and an extraordinary study in cinematography, Citizen Kane, originally veiled in ignominy, was exalted in subsequent years. The American Film Institute named Citizen Kane the number one American Film of all time, and it has long (but deservedly) been the darling of cinema’s intelligentsia. This relatively no frill treatment has restored the picture to an almost resplendent shine. Press photos, original trailers, advertising campaigns and storyboards abound, but the true treat is the audio...