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Robert Downey, Jr. Set to Star in Remake of Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’

Heads are spinning at the prospect of a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1958 film, Vertigo. As first reported by Deadline, Robert Downey Jr. will be starring in the new film for Paramount Pictures. He’s producing the project via his Team Downey entity (which also including his wife Susan Downey) in conjunction with John Davis…

‘Kim’s Video,’ A Documentary Dedicated To Doing Justice To Film

For two decades, cinema lovers of the Big Apple found their Mecca in St Mark’s Place, in the treasure trove of rare motion pictures known as Kim’s Video. This rental shop amassed 55,000 titles, but in 2008 with the advent of the digital era people no longer rented videos and the destiny of this venerable…

Kevin Williamson To Develop Four TV Series for Universal, Including ‘Rear Window’ and ‘The Game’

© 1954 – Paramount Pictures Kevin Williamson and his Outerbanks Entertainment group will be developing four TV series as part of a new deal with Universal Television. Two of them will be reboots of classic thriller films: Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954) and David Fincher’s The Game (1997). According to Deadline, which broke the news this…

Dario Argento Panico : Simone Scafidi Probes the Psyche of a Legendary Filmmaker

@The Courtesy of IFC Films  Dario Argento Panico is a documentary about the legendary Italian director of horror and slasher films who has been a master of the horror/slasher genre for half a century. Now in his eighty-fourth year, Dario Argento has always preferred to write his scripts in hotel rooms, which here provide a familiar…

FLC Announces 49th Chaplin Award Gala Honoring Jeff Bridges

@Photo courtesy of John Russo Film at Lincoln Center announces that Academy Award-winning actor Jeff Bridges is the recipient of the 49th Chaplin Award. He will be honored at a gala evening at Lincoln Center on April 29, 2024. An acclaimed actor, producer, and musician, Jeff Bridges has created a range of memorable characters over a rich and varied film career…

‘Merchant Ivory,’ The Panoptic About The Formidable Film Team

© Modenist | Film and Stephen Soucy Productions The documentary directed by Stephen Soucy retraces one of the longest partnerships in the history of film. Merchant Ivory delves deep into the audacious company formed by Ismail Merchant as producer, James Ivory as director, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala as screenwriter and Richard Robbins as composer. Merchant Ivory…

William Friedkin Dies at 87: Iconic Director of ‘The French Connection’ and ‘The Exorcist’

William Friedkin, who directed such iconic 1970s films as The French Connection and The Exorcist, has died in Los Angeles of heart failure and pneumonia. He was 87. Friedkin was part of a new generation of directors who came to prominence in the Seventies, a list that included Hal Ashby, Peter Bogdanovich, and Francis Ford…

“Asteroid City” : Q&A with Actor Bryan Cranston on Working with Wes Anderson and His Retirement Plan

Synopsis : The itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention (organized to bring together students and parents from across the country for fellowship and scholarly competition) is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events. Rating: PG-13 (Some Suggestive Material|Smoking|Brief Graphic Nudity) Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance Original Language: English Director: Wes Anderson Producer: Wes Anderson, Steve Rales, Jeremy Dawson Writer: Wes…

Exclusive Interview With Serge Toubiana About The Friendship Between François Truffaut and Helen Scott

Serge Toubiana is the doyen of cinephiles. The film critic who was born in Tunisia and grew up in France, is one of the most prominent cinema journalists worldwide who was appointed Commander of Order of Arts and bestowed with the highest order of merits in France, the Legion of Honour. Serge Toubiana was at…

Shailene Woodley to Star in the Biopic ‘The Murderous Miss Highsmith’

@Patricia Highsmith A biopic is in the works about Patricia Highsmith, the troubled author of The Talented Mr. Ripley and a host of other psychological thrillers. To be titled The Murderous Miss Highsmith, the film is being produced by Killer Films, which also produced Carol, based on another of Highsmith’s stories. Shailene Woodley will play…