Topic: HOLLYWALD - on September 3, 2008 at 11:52:00 AM CEST
Lebowski Fest San Francisco 2008, With Jeff Dowd aka The Dude
Lebowski Fest San Francisco 2008 kicks off with an Opening Party and Movie Screening at Mezzanine on Friday, September 5th and a Bowling Party at Classic Bowling Center in Daly City on Saturday, September 6th. Jeff Dowd, the real live inspiration for “The Dude”, will be appearing at Lebowski Fest.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on August 23, 2008 at 2:21:00 PM CEST
R.I.P. Star Wars: 1977 - 2008
Friends...Tatooinians...Countrymen - Lend me your Yoda ears. I have not come to praise Star Wars, but to bury it, once and for all.
It’s never fun to bury a friend, especially one you’ve watched wither away and die right before your eyes. Harder still is the realization that, for many, this onetime companion continues to live on, bigger and brighter than ever. Two decades ago, a perfect little trilogy was formed, a series of science fiction films that took the genre into worlds of unbelievable imagination and action-oriented invention. Spawned from this matinee mannered speculation was a fanbase so devoted, so affected by what creator George Lucas had wrought that they supported each and every facet of its growing legacy. Even horrific examples of capitalization like the Wookie-ccentric Christmas Special held a special place in the hearts of the devoted.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on August 13, 2008 at 12:36:00 PM CEST
New Lara Croft squares up for fight
A 23-year-old professional gymnast from south London has been unveiled as the new face of Lara Croft.
Alison Carroll will promote the new Tomb Raider: Underworld game which is due out in November.
Alison told Newsbeat: "It's an amazing opportunity. Lara is strong, athletic, confident and independent so it's a huge responsibility to take on her role."
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on July 27, 2008 at 1:56:15 PM CEST
Happy Birthday, Stanley Kubrick!
Yes, he is a shining light of cinema, but he fits Listening Post like a virtual glove. He would have celebrated his 80th birthday on Sunday, if he had lived to witness the musical evolution of the form he fast-forwarded. His films irrevocably changed the relationship between film and music, from the juxtaposition of spaceship ballets and "The Blue Danube" to the destabilizing pairing of rape and "Singin' in the Rain." Sometimes it hurt to watch, but it was often impossible to turn your eyes, and ears, away from anything Stanley Kubrick made.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on July 23, 2008 at 11:49:17 AM CEST
Golden Girls star Getty dies, 84
Actress Estelle Getty, best known as sarcastic Sicilian octogenarian Sophia Petrillo in US sitcom The Golden Girls, had died at the age of 84.
The star, who had advanced dementia, died on Tuesday morning at her Hollywood Boulevard home.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on July 3, 2008 at 10:11:07 AM CEST
the art of the tracking shot
When Garrett Brown invented the steadicam back in 1976 the world of cinema changed forever. The steadicam allowed the camera to do things it never could have done before on bulky dollies and cranes. Here is a short list of some of the most memorable shots from films old and young that exemplify the beauty of the camera attached to a steadicam.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on June 1, 2008 at 7:26:09 PM CEST
Großbrand in der Traumfabrik von Hollywood
Universal Studios in Los Angeles brannten - Löschzüge und Hubschrauber im Einsatz - Noch keine Berichte über Verletzte
Universal City/USA - Explosionen, Flammen und eine mehrere hundert Meter hohe Rauchsäule: In den Universal Filmstudios bei Los Angeles ist am Sonntag ein Großbrand ausgebrochen. Diesmal war das Feuer echt und kein Filmtrick. Die Fassaden mehrerer Straßenzüge und mindestens ein Gebäude wurden von den Flammen verschlungen. Nach mehreren Stunden brachte die Feuerwehr, die mit über 100 Mann und einem Hubschrauber zu dem Großeinsatz angerückt waren, den Brand unter Kontrolle. Berichte über Verletzte gab es zunächst nicht.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on June 1, 2008 at 7:24:29 PM CEST
Huge fire burns movie sets at Universal Studios
A fire at Universal Studios on Sunday destroyed a set from "Back to the Future," the King Kong exhibit and a video vault containing more than 40,000 videos and reels.
Los Angeles County fire Captain Frank Reynoso says the blaze broke out just before dawn on a backlot stage at the 400-acre property. The fire has been contained.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on May 22, 2008 at 3:52:19 PM CEST
The Secret History of Star Wars
The Secret History of Star Wars is a new full-length e-book exploring the writing and creation of the Star Wars saga. Culled from over 400 sources and filled with quotes from people such as George Lucas, Gary Kurtz and Mark Hamill, The Secret History of Star Wars traces all the way back to 1973 to examine how the first 14-page treatment that began the series came to be and was slowly built, draft by draft, year by year and movie by movie. Covering a period of over four decades, you will discover how George Lucas got his ideas for the original film, how Darth Vader was made into Luke Skywalker's father in 1978 and forever altered the arc of the story, what happened to the infamous third trilogy in the series and how the prequel stories came to be. The book also reveals the style and method of Lucas himself and how his personal life affected and shaped the story, for better and worse. This is a book which challenges many legends surrounding the series and places the films in a new light. For the more casual fan this will be a mesmerising read and for those who think they know everything about the series, prepare to be surprised!
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on April 5, 2008 at 11:05:00 AM CEST
Throwing bones in the air as 2001 turns 40
STANLEY KUBRICK's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY had its world premiere April 2, 1968, at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C. Which would mean that Roger Ebert had been in the Sun-Times pages for just over a year when this review ran: "It was e. e. cummings, the poet, who said he'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance. I imagine cummings would not have enjoyed Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which stars dance but birds do not sing. The fascinating thing about this film is that it fails on the human level but succeeds magnificently on a cosmic scale."
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on April 2, 2008 at 12:07:00 PM CEST
The Outrageous Fortune of Terry Gilliam
A look at the on-set trials and tribulations of maverick director Terry Gilliam, and how he’s managed to roll with the punches that the studio system–and God–has thrown his way.
Film directing is a profession often fraught with impossible challenges. Woody Allen once said being a director meant “the truck of fresh compromises pulls up each day, and by the end of the film you look at the finished print and think unutterable thoughts.” No director in history knows more about compromise than Terry Gilliam. Part and parcel of being a visionary is being constantly told you can’t get the shot. Forces of Darkness conspire to defeat you, often in the form of studio executives, sometimes in the form of Nature herself. Let’s look at some of the roadblocks thrown in Gilliam’s path.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on December 17, 2007 at 12:51:00 PM CET
30 Years of LucasFilm Christmas Cards
I live down the street from LucasFilm, and I’ve even been in the facilities in The Presidio, but I’m not on the LucasFilm Holiday Card List. For the last 30 years, Lucasfilm has created special holiday greeting cards for its employees and business partners.
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