To get everyone in the mood for his ninth film, director and cult film guru Quentin Tarantino has something special in mind for the Sony Movie Channel. From the 5th of August Tarantino’s ‘Swinging Sixties-a-Movie Marathon’ will showcase nine films which perfectly set the tone for Once Upon a Time …in Hollywood, which comes out in cinemas on the 14th of August.
Each of these films has been specially curated, having influenced the director’s new film, and will play individually or as double features. As always with the director, there are some surprises here. In amongst ’60s classics Easy Rider and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice are secret agent specials, violent Westerns and a little bit of love in all its complicated forms. In short – it’s a masterclass in movie mood – just the thing to dive into before you take a trip back to the...
Each of these films has been specially curated, having influenced the director’s new film, and will play individually or as double features. As always with the director, there are some surprises here. In amongst ’60s classics Easy Rider and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice are secret agent specials, violent Westerns and a little bit of love in all its complicated forms. In short – it’s a masterclass in movie mood – just the thing to dive into before you take a trip back to the...
- 7/17/2019
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Columbia sets Jacques Demy loose on the streets of Los Angeles in the pivotal year of 1968. Although it puts a coda on the French director’s bundle of romantic films, with his special philosophical approach to Love, this starring picture for Anouk Aimée and Gary Lockwood doesn’t quite catch fire in the same way. If our City of the Angels indeed defeated Demy’s unstoppable knack for romantic delirium, we owe him an apology.
Model Shop
Blu-ray
Twilight Time
1969 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 97 min. / Street Date April 17, 2018 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store / 29.95
Starring: Anouk Aimée, Gary Lockwood, Alexandra Hay, Carol Cole, Tom Holland, Severn Darden, Neil Elliot, Mille, Duke Hobbie, Anne Randall, Craig Littler, Hilarie Thompson, Jeanne Sorel, Fred Willard.
Cinematography: Michel Hugo
Film Editor: Walter Thompson
Shirley Ulmer: Script Supervisor!
Original Music: Spirit
Written by Jacques Demy, Carole Eastman
Produced and Directed by Jacques Demy
The...
Model Shop
Blu-ray
Twilight Time
1969 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 97 min. / Street Date April 17, 2018 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store / 29.95
Starring: Anouk Aimée, Gary Lockwood, Alexandra Hay, Carol Cole, Tom Holland, Severn Darden, Neil Elliot, Mille, Duke Hobbie, Anne Randall, Craig Littler, Hilarie Thompson, Jeanne Sorel, Fred Willard.
Cinematography: Michel Hugo
Film Editor: Walter Thompson
Shirley Ulmer: Script Supervisor!
Original Music: Spirit
Written by Jacques Demy, Carole Eastman
Produced and Directed by Jacques Demy
The...
- 5/12/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Skidoo
Written by Doran William Cannon
Directed by Otto Preminger
USA, 1968
Of the nearly 70 films I’ve written about in this column, I would whole-heartedly recommend each without reservation, to not only watch, but to spend good money on. With 1968′s Skidoo, out now on a new Olive Films Blu-ray, I’m breaking that tradition. I wouldn’t suggest anyone purchase this film, though everyone should see it. This is a most unusual, absolutely indefinable, wholly unique motion picture.
I initially viewed Skidoo on the sole basis of its starring Alexandra Hay, who I’ve been smitten with since first seeing her in Jacques Demy’s Model Shop, released the following year. On this point, Skidoo succeeds. Hay is a delightful beauty, charming in a way that is very much of the era. Admittedly unfamiliar with her biography, I can’t imagine why she didn’t have more of a career.
Written by Doran William Cannon
Directed by Otto Preminger
USA, 1968
Of the nearly 70 films I’ve written about in this column, I would whole-heartedly recommend each without reservation, to not only watch, but to spend good money on. With 1968′s Skidoo, out now on a new Olive Films Blu-ray, I’m breaking that tradition. I wouldn’t suggest anyone purchase this film, though everyone should see it. This is a most unusual, absolutely indefinable, wholly unique motion picture.
I initially viewed Skidoo on the sole basis of its starring Alexandra Hay, who I’ve been smitten with since first seeing her in Jacques Demy’s Model Shop, released the following year. On this point, Skidoo succeeds. Hay is a delightful beauty, charming in a way that is very much of the era. Admittedly unfamiliar with her biography, I can’t imagine why she didn’t have more of a career.
- 1/6/2015
- by Jeremy Carr
- SoundOnSight
9 Great Posters for 9 Not-So-Great Movies (that I Haven't Seen) If you missed it, yesterday I explored 11 great posters from 11 not-so-great movies, and I promised today I would take a slightly different angle at the same idea. Yesterday's 11 posters were for films I had seen, today's collection come from nine films I have never seen and I can't take full credit for this list. After I had compiled a list of my own I reached out to a few friends and one of them provided me a Ton of suggestions, several of which I had never seen. David Frank, who used to provide content on a regular basis for me, is a big poster buff and of the nine posters here, he suggested seven of them. As for the other two, well, I'll explain below and perhaps in too much detail on one of them. This list also differs from my...
- 3/15/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The latest vintage Paramount title announced for release on DVD by Olive Films is the psychedelic 1968 comedy movie Skidoo, which will be available on July 19.
Groucho Marx takes a toke as "God" in the 1968 cult favorite Skidoo.
Remastered in high definition from a 35mm archive print and directed by Otto Preminger (Hurry Sundown), the film stars Jackie Gleason (The Hustler) as Tough Tony Banks, a retired gangster who reluctantly comes out of retirement to silence his old friend and squealer (Mickey Rooney, The Fox and The Hound). On the home front, Tony’s suburban haven comes crashing down when his daughter (Alexandra Hay, How Sweet It Is!) takes up with a hippie (John Phillip Law, Hurry Sundown) and his wife (Carol Channing, Thoroughly Modern Millie) gives them permission to move into their house with their hippy friends.
The lore on Skidoo has it that Preminger was experimenting with LSD in the mid-1960s,...
Groucho Marx takes a toke as "God" in the 1968 cult favorite Skidoo.
Remastered in high definition from a 35mm archive print and directed by Otto Preminger (Hurry Sundown), the film stars Jackie Gleason (The Hustler) as Tough Tony Banks, a retired gangster who reluctantly comes out of retirement to silence his old friend and squealer (Mickey Rooney, The Fox and The Hound). On the home front, Tony’s suburban haven comes crashing down when his daughter (Alexandra Hay, How Sweet It Is!) takes up with a hippie (John Phillip Law, Hurry Sundown) and his wife (Carol Channing, Thoroughly Modern Millie) gives them permission to move into their house with their hippy friends.
The lore on Skidoo has it that Preminger was experimenting with LSD in the mid-1960s,...
- 4/13/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
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