Word on Martin Scorsese’s new 1950s insane-asylum thriller is mixed; some are hailing it as the best of his career, while others found that he had trouble balancing the twisty plot with the lush visual detours. Here’s some of the…
Claustrophobic corridors that make your chest tighten just thinking about them. Eerie needles dripping with mysterious medicine. Smiling nurses clad in too-white, perfectly-buttoned uniforms. When it comes to insane asylums, Hollywood’s got the formula down. Whether it’s the corrupt hierarchy…
Each decade seems to bring more and more films classified under the genre of thriller, especially as people now interpret them as erotic thrillers, psychological thrillers, and disaster thrillers. So there’s no way that I could peg every single one…
What makes someone legendary? Is it based on financial success? Professional ingenuity? Luck? Whatever “legend” is, director Martin Scorsese seems to have captured it. With a directorial career spanning over 40 years, and with the massive critical and commercial success…
Citing economic reasons, Paramount has moved its Martin Scorsese-Leonardo DiCaprio film Shutter Island from its October 2 release date to February 19. Paramount Pictures chairman-CEO Brad Grey issued this statement:
“Our 2009 slate was greenlit in a very different economic…
Inspired by a recent discussion over on Tumblr (shameless plug!) about Hitchcock’s Rope, I thought I’d make a list of some of my favorite long takes in cinema.
A couple of words about the long take: it’s a great director’s…
Anna at Jezebel has written an insightful piece on Judd Apatow and the perceived sexism in his movies, drawing on Apatow’s own intelligent rebuttals to such claims, but also making the argument that he could stand to humanize his female…
Two days after I pondered the links between movie consumption and independence, we have this piece from Guy Lodge at In Contention, asking, “Is the auteur a dying breed?” Lodge and I are in agreement that most filmmakers are constrained…
Even though the first place you envision Michael Jackson is probably the stage, he — or at least his songs — have had a major impact on several recent movies like Men in Black II and Dreamgirls. Moviefone has compiled…
According to this article by Ben Child in the Guardian, there are three–yes, three–upcoming Hollywood remakes of classic Kurosawa films. It’s okay, though, says Child, because one of them is being remade by Martin Scorsese.
Yeah, that’s right! Remember “The…
