Franco Zeffirelli apprenticed to Luchino Visconti, stage directed operas and directed several movie hits, the biggest of which was this exuberant, attractive Shakespeare adaptation, filmed like an opera with sumptuous sets and sunswept Italian locations. The novelty for 1968 was casting the Bard’s star-crossed young lovers with actual teenagers. Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting are attractive kids directed to give spirited performances; the critics may have had mixed reactions but the public received the film well. If memory serves, Criterion’s new remaster looks better than Paramount’s original release prints.
Romeo and Juliet
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1171
1968 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 138 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date February 14, 2023 / 39.95
Starring: Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, John McEnery, Milo O’Shea, Pat Heywood, Robert Stephens, Michael York, Bruce Robinson, Paul Hardwick, Natasha Parry, Antonio Pierfederici, Esmeralda Ruspoli, Roberto Bisacco, Roy Holder, Keith Skinner, Dyson Lovell, Richard Warwick, Laurence Olivier.
Cinematography: Pasquelino De...
Romeo and Juliet
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1171
1968 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 138 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date February 14, 2023 / 39.95
Starring: Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, John McEnery, Milo O’Shea, Pat Heywood, Robert Stephens, Michael York, Bruce Robinson, Paul Hardwick, Natasha Parry, Antonio Pierfederici, Esmeralda Ruspoli, Roberto Bisacco, Roy Holder, Keith Skinner, Dyson Lovell, Richard Warwick, Laurence Olivier.
Cinematography: Pasquelino De...
- 2/21/2023
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
By Joe Elliott
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the release of Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet. The movie was a sensation when it came out in 1968, spurring ticket sales in the millions and becoming one of the top-grossing features of the decade. One reason the film made so much money was due to the number of people who returned for a second or even fifth viewing. It seemed audiences just couldn’t get enough of the story about those two star-crossed adolescent lovers from old Verona. The movie’s memorable music score, composed by Nino Rota, also became a best seller. The album quickly went gold and was later repackaged in a beautiful deluxe box set that included the entire movie soundtrack, along with two handsomely produced companion booklets.
There was something about the film, for all its shortcomings, that many found almost hypnotic. I’ll fess...
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the release of Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet. The movie was a sensation when it came out in 1968, spurring ticket sales in the millions and becoming one of the top-grossing features of the decade. One reason the film made so much money was due to the number of people who returned for a second or even fifth viewing. It seemed audiences just couldn’t get enough of the story about those two star-crossed adolescent lovers from old Verona. The movie’s memorable music score, composed by Nino Rota, also became a best seller. The album quickly went gold and was later repackaged in a beautiful deluxe box set that included the entire movie soundtrack, along with two handsomely produced companion booklets.
There was something about the film, for all its shortcomings, that many found almost hypnotic. I’ll fess...
- 8/14/2018
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Stars: Daniel Greene, Janet Agren, John Saxon, Claudio Cassinelli, Geroge Eastman, Roberto Bisacco, Andrea Coppola, Donald O’Brien, Amy Werba | Written by Sergio Martino, Elisa Briganti | Directed by Sergio Martino
As someone who grew up reading The Dark Side magazine I was privileged to be made aware of a myriad of genre films that, had I just stuck to the shelves of my local video store, I would never have heard of. Of course this was during a turbulent period in UK cinema history that, much like the video nasties era before it, saw horror films treated with disdain. Which meant that unlike today – where you can walk into HMV and buy former video nasty Anthropophagus on Blu-ray or order films from around the world online – it was a struggle to find a lot of the movies I read about. It’s not that I didn’t try, and thankfully...
As someone who grew up reading The Dark Side magazine I was privileged to be made aware of a myriad of genre films that, had I just stuck to the shelves of my local video store, I would never have heard of. Of course this was during a turbulent period in UK cinema history that, much like the video nasties era before it, saw horror films treated with disdain. Which meant that unlike today – where you can walk into HMV and buy former video nasty Anthropophagus on Blu-ray or order films from around the world online – it was a struggle to find a lot of the movies I read about. It’s not that I didn’t try, and thankfully...
- 1/6/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
"Their greatest adventure... has just begun!" Really? 20th Century Fox has debuted the first full-length teaser trailer for Shawn Levy's Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, the third movie in the adventure-comedy franchise Night at the Museum, which started at the Museum of Natural History some eight years ago. Ben Stiller returns along with the eclectic cast of actors being goofy and playing historical figures, including Robin Williams as Teddy Roosevelt, Owen Wilson as Jedediah, Rami Malek as Ahkmenrah, Mizuo Peck as Sacajawea, Dan Stevens as Sir Lancelot, plus Ben Kingsley, Rebel Wilson and Ricky Gervais. I'm not really sure this looks any good anymore, but if you're still interested fire it up. First teaser trailer for Shawn Levy's Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, in HD via Apple: Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb is directed by Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum,...
- 7/30/2014
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Following on from a brilliant few years, Rebel Wilson is lining up two more projects for her upcoming slate, both of which promise to keep her very much on the map as one of the best-known young actresses in comedy in the years to come.
First up, from Deadline, comes word that Wilson has been set to join the cast for Night at the Museum 3, which sees Shawn Levy return to the helm for the sequel.
Ben Stiller of course returns to lead another brilliant ensemble, with Wilson now also set to star alongside Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Skyler Gisondo, Rachael Harris, Dan Stevens, and no doubt plenty more, and here’s to hoping there’ll be plenty more cameos along the way.
Wilson is set to play the role of a security guard in a British museum here in London, and I’m keen to see if she...
First up, from Deadline, comes word that Wilson has been set to join the cast for Night at the Museum 3, which sees Shawn Levy return to the helm for the sequel.
Ben Stiller of course returns to lead another brilliant ensemble, with Wilson now also set to star alongside Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Skyler Gisondo, Rachael Harris, Dan Stevens, and no doubt plenty more, and here’s to hoping there’ll be plenty more cameos along the way.
Wilson is set to play the role of a security guard in a British museum here in London, and I’m keen to see if she...
- 1/11/2014
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Shawn Levy has long been threatening talking about the idea of revisiting the Night At The Museum franchise, even while straying off in different directions with Real Steel and The Internship more recently. The third film in the series was confirmed back in February, and Robin Williams, one of the key players besides Levy and Ben Stiller, is in talks to return.Williams played former Us president Teddy Roosevelt in the first two films, Night At The Museum and Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian. Most of the details of the new outing are being kept locked in an air-conditioned vault, but we do know that Stiller’s Larry Daley will be off to London for all manner of museum madness.Beyond the fact that Levy wants to kick off filming next February, there’s no word yet on whether any of Williams and Stiller’s co-stars will...
- 10/19/2013
- EmpireOnline
Chris Hardwick is a man in great demand these days. He’s currently the host of several talk shows, including The Nerdist on BBC America and Talking Dead and Talking Bad, both on AMC, and that’s just his television work. Don’t even get me started on YouTube channels and podcasts. The short story here is Hardwick works hard and likely never sleeps. He’s like the Ryan Seacrest of nerd culture. And the world of television hosting isn’t quite done with him yet as Comedy Central is adding a new late-night talk show with Hardwick as its host. Where he finds the time to do all of this I have no idea. Maybe he’s the Twelfth Doctor.
According to Deadline, the currently untitled talk show will be produced by Hardwick and co-produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Funny Or Die. It’ll launch this...
According to Deadline, the currently untitled talk show will be produced by Hardwick and co-produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Funny Or Die. It’ll launch this...
- 5/1/2013
- by Brody Gibson
- Boomtron
The upcoming horror comedy 'Hell Baby', which stars Rob Corddry ('Hot Tub Time Machine') and Leslie Bibb ('7500') trying to escape the clutches of their new demonic baby, has been picked up by Millennium Films for distribution across the Us. They'll be looking to unleash it onto VOD this coming Autumn/Fall and hoping to follow it up with a limited theatrical run thereafter. The movie is co-written and directed by comedy duo Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garan of 'Reno 911' fame who also co-star in the flick as a pair of Vatican squaddies. Rob Huebel ('The Descendants'), Paul Scheer ('Piranha 3Dd'), Riki Lindhome ('The Last House on the Left') and Keegan-Michael Key ('Key and Peele') also star....
- 3/12/2013
- Horror Asylum
Looks like another ghastly tale is forthcoming from the producers of Paranormal Activity, and Insidious. Read on for more: Lionsgate has slated their supernatural thriller Ghosts (previously Jessabelle) to haunt cinemas on January 10, 2014. Kevin Greuter (Saw VI, Saw VII) directs from a script by Robert Ben Garantstars. Sarah Snook, Mark Webber and Joelle Carter. In the film, "After loosing her fiance in a horrific accident, Jessabelle is f…...
- 1/24/2013
- Horrorbid
"Smallville" creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar are set to rewrite The Machine , Deadline reports. The project was announced last year and will star Vin Diesel with a plot officially described as follows: A human-like machine [was] created in secrecy by the Pentagon as the world's first true ultimate weapon. Twenty years after the project was buried and decommissioned for reasons unknown, The Machine is discovered by a kid who befriends him. When the government learns it has been reactivated, the Machine must protect the family harboring him. In addition to starring, Diesel will the produce the project, as he has with several prior films, including Fast and Furious and Fast Five . He previously teamed with the project's original screenwriters Robert Ben...
- 7/18/2012
- Comingsoon.net
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