Some movies just don’t get the respect they deserve, which cues pushy reviewers to sing their praises. Forget everything you’ve read and give this Roman Polanski picture a chance — it’s the classiest Halloween treat ever, a lavish blend of Hammer horror, slapstick comedy and wistful romance — plus a vampire horde more balefully scary than a carload of zombies. It’s the beloved Sharon Tate’s best picture, and its vampire king is an original apart from Bela Lugosi and Chris Lee’s Draculas — an aristocratic one-percenter on a satanic mission to put all of humanity in a graveyard of the undead. Warners’ Panavision-Metrocolor restoration is drop-dead beautiful. And they’ve even revived Frank Frazetta’s original ‘jolly chase’ poster art.
The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1967 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 107 91 min. / Dance of the Vampires, Your...
The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1967 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 107 91 min. / Dance of the Vampires, Your...
- 10/8/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The special “In Memoriam” segment on the 2018 Emmy Awards ceremony was tearful as beloved television legends Steven Bochco, Anthony Bourdain, Robert Guillaume, Monty Hall, John Mahoney, Jim Nabors, Charlotte Rae, Burt Reynolds, Neil Simon and Craig Zadan were part of the annual tribute.
SEEEmmy winners 2018: Full list of winners and nominees at the 70th Emmy Awards
But who was missing from the memoriam this time? Some of those surprising omissions included:
Marty Allen (actor/comedian)
Peter Baldwin (director)
Brent Briscoe (actor)
Dushon Monique Brown (actor)
Frank Buxton (writer/director)
Joseph Campanella (actor)
Olivia Cole (actor)
Vic Damone (actor/singer)
Bradford Dillman (actor)
Roy Dotrice (actor)
John Dunsworth (actor)
Harlan Ellison (writer)
Nanette Fabray (actor)
Dominic Frontiere (composer)
Michael Gershman (cinematographer)
Billy Graham (host)
Vanessa Greene (producer)
Doug Grindstaff (sound editor)
John Hillerman (actor)
Rance Howard (actor)
Tab Hunter (actor)
Earle Hyman (actor)
Anne Jeffreys (actor)
Margot Kidder (actor)
Louise Latham...
SEEEmmy winners 2018: Full list of winners and nominees at the 70th Emmy Awards
But who was missing from the memoriam this time? Some of those surprising omissions included:
Marty Allen (actor/comedian)
Peter Baldwin (director)
Brent Briscoe (actor)
Dushon Monique Brown (actor)
Frank Buxton (writer/director)
Joseph Campanella (actor)
Olivia Cole (actor)
Vic Damone (actor/singer)
Bradford Dillman (actor)
Roy Dotrice (actor)
John Dunsworth (actor)
Harlan Ellison (writer)
Nanette Fabray (actor)
Dominic Frontiere (composer)
Michael Gershman (cinematographer)
Billy Graham (host)
Vanessa Greene (producer)
Doug Grindstaff (sound editor)
John Hillerman (actor)
Rance Howard (actor)
Tab Hunter (actor)
Earle Hyman (actor)
Anne Jeffreys (actor)
Margot Kidder (actor)
Louise Latham...
- 9/18/2018
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
There’s a powerful scene in the newly released film Chappaquiddick in which an exasperated, wheelchair-bound Joe Kennedy fiercely slaps his son, Ted. The monomaniacal old man is in a rage that Senator Ted, groomed to be the next Kennedy president, now faces ruin for driving his car off a bridge, thus drowning a young girl.
The question is, how many filmgoers will witness this riveting moment; as with most mid-budget dramatic films, Chappaquiddick, though superbly crafted, will battle it out this weekend with John Krasinski’s potential genre sleeper A Quiet Place, the racy comedy Blockers, or the returning Ready Player One. While the movie distributed by Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios relates an important chapter in a great family saga, it lacks the scale and depth (and marketing campaign) required to make a dent in today’s marketplace. At 100 minutes, filmgoers may feel that it plays more like...
The question is, how many filmgoers will witness this riveting moment; as with most mid-budget dramatic films, Chappaquiddick, though superbly crafted, will battle it out this weekend with John Krasinski’s potential genre sleeper A Quiet Place, the racy comedy Blockers, or the returning Ready Player One. While the movie distributed by Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios relates an important chapter in a great family saga, it lacks the scale and depth (and marketing campaign) required to make a dent in today’s marketplace. At 100 minutes, filmgoers may feel that it plays more like...
- 4/6/2018
- by Peter Bart
- Deadline Film + TV
Tony Sokol Jul 29, 2019
Sharon Tate rode into the 1960s on an All-American missile and defined the decade in a perfect frame.
“Honey, let's face it; all I know how to do is take off my clothes,” Jennifer North said in the film Valley of the Dolls, deflating the image of the sexual revolution and one of the decade’s most cinematic sex symbols. But that’s because Sharon Tate, the wife of director Roman Polanski and the hypnotic witch in the under-appreciated cult horror thriller Eye of the Devil, had a deeper knowledge. The actor and model encapsulated both the look and attitudes of ‘60s youth, from her Thea Porter-designed micro-mini dress to her coppertone tan. Even the Malibu Barbie is said to be based on a Sharon Tate character.
Tate would have turned 75 last year had she not died at the age of 26 during the summer of ‘69. While...
Sharon Tate rode into the 1960s on an All-American missile and defined the decade in a perfect frame.
“Honey, let's face it; all I know how to do is take off my clothes,” Jennifer North said in the film Valley of the Dolls, deflating the image of the sexual revolution and one of the decade’s most cinematic sex symbols. But that’s because Sharon Tate, the wife of director Roman Polanski and the hypnotic witch in the under-appreciated cult horror thriller Eye of the Devil, had a deeper knowledge. The actor and model encapsulated both the look and attitudes of ‘60s youth, from her Thea Porter-designed micro-mini dress to her coppertone tan. Even the Malibu Barbie is said to be based on a Sharon Tate character.
Tate would have turned 75 last year had she not died at the age of 26 during the summer of ‘69. While...
- 2/2/2018
- Den of Geek
Producer whose hirings and firings resulted in a string of hit TV shows and films of the 1960s and 70s
Martin Ransohoff, who has died aged 90, was a hands-on film producer, who had to fire directors and actors from time to time. These cruel-to-be-kind executive decisions were justified by his having a string of hits in the 1960s and 70s. Ransohoff is also remembered for having discovered the actor Sharon Tate, whom he introduced to her future husband, the director Roman Polanski.
Tate was 20 and had previously worked in television and magazine advertisements when she met Ransohoff, the chairman of the production company Filmways in 1963. Although she had no acting experience, Ransohoff signed her to a seven-year contract, taking three years to groom her for stardom. In the meantime, he gave her small parts in his company’s television productions of Mister Ed and The Beverly Hillbillies, and walk-on roles...
Martin Ransohoff, who has died aged 90, was a hands-on film producer, who had to fire directors and actors from time to time. These cruel-to-be-kind executive decisions were justified by his having a string of hits in the 1960s and 70s. Ransohoff is also remembered for having discovered the actor Sharon Tate, whom he introduced to her future husband, the director Roman Polanski.
Tate was 20 and had previously worked in television and magazine advertisements when she met Ransohoff, the chairman of the production company Filmways in 1963. Although she had no acting experience, Ransohoff signed her to a seven-year contract, taking three years to groom her for stardom. In the meantime, he gave her small parts in his company’s television productions of Mister Ed and The Beverly Hillbillies, and walk-on roles...
- 12/27/2017
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Episode something or other.... [cue link theme]
• Racked Titanic's necklace almost bankrupted a whole company!
• My New Plaid Pants geeking out over Ms. Laura Dern who spoke to NYC at the Film Society of Lincoln Center recently
• Deadline an interview with the great production designer Santo Loquasto on Wonder Wheel
• Out Ryan Murphy's Boys in the Band Broadway Revival has cast a bunch of its players already and it's basically all the famous gays: Charlie Carver, Matt Bomer, Andrew Rannells, Zachary Quinto some of whom at least have stage experience.
• The Muse talks to Glenn Close who has some interesting things to say about gossip, Harvey Weinstein, and being an older actor in Hollywood
• Indie Wire on the multi-pronged creative casting efforts for The Florida Project
• Vanity Fair interviews Joe Wright of Darkest Hour, Atonement, Pride & Prejudice fame
• Variety the Roseanne reunion sitcom will start airing March 27th. Wheeee
• Mubi on the...
• Racked Titanic's necklace almost bankrupted a whole company!
• My New Plaid Pants geeking out over Ms. Laura Dern who spoke to NYC at the Film Society of Lincoln Center recently
• Deadline an interview with the great production designer Santo Loquasto on Wonder Wheel
• Out Ryan Murphy's Boys in the Band Broadway Revival has cast a bunch of its players already and it's basically all the famous gays: Charlie Carver, Matt Bomer, Andrew Rannells, Zachary Quinto some of whom at least have stage experience.
• The Muse talks to Glenn Close who has some interesting things to say about gossip, Harvey Weinstein, and being an older actor in Hollywood
• Indie Wire on the multi-pronged creative casting efforts for The Florida Project
• Vanity Fair interviews Joe Wright of Darkest Hour, Atonement, Pride & Prejudice fame
• Variety the Roseanne reunion sitcom will start airing March 27th. Wheeee
• Mubi on the...
- 12/16/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Filmways Television co-founder and film/TV producer Martin Ransohoff has died. He was 90 years old and passed away at his home in Bel-Air, according to his family. Ransohoff had a long list of film and TV credits, including The Cincinnati Kid – a film on which he fired director Sam Peckinpah – as well as Save the Tiger, The Sandpiper (with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton), Catch 22, Jagged Edge, The Americanization of Emily, Silver Streak, Ice Station Zebra, and TV…...
- 12/15/2017
- Deadline TV
Filmways Television co-founder and film/TV producer Martin Ransohoff has died. He was 90 years old and passed away at his home in Bel-Air, according to his family. Ransohoff had a long list of film and TV credits, including The Cincinnati Kid – a film on which he fired director Sam Peckinpah – as well as Save the Tiger, The Sandpiper (with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton), Catch 22, Jagged Edge, The Americanization of Emily, Silver Streak, Ice Station Zebra, and TV…...
- 12/15/2017
- Deadline
Roman Polanski and actress Sharon Tate had one of the most infamous and tragic relationships in Hollywood history. Their complicated one-year marriage ended in horror in 1969 when Tate, who was 8½ months pregnant with the couple’s first child, was murdered — along with Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski and Steven Parent — in a horrific stabbing at their Los Angeles-area home by followers of cult leader Charles Manson.
Manson, whose name became synonymous with evil after his arrest in connection with the 1969 murders of Tate and eight others, died of natural causes on Sunday night. He was 83 and serving a life...
Manson, whose name became synonymous with evil after his arrest in connection with the 1969 murders of Tate and eight others, died of natural causes on Sunday night. He was 83 and serving a life...
- 11/20/2017
- by Caroline Redmond
- PEOPLE.com
Sharon Tate was 26 in 1969 and about to begin a new chapter of her life: The successful actress was married to director Roman Polanski and eight-and-a-half months pregnant with their first child.
But that was all cut short when Sharon was killed — along with Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski and Steven Parent — in a horrific stabbing at her Los Angeles-area home by followers of cult leader Charles Manson.
Manson, whose name became synonymous with evil after his arrest in connection with the 1969 murders of Tate and eight others, died of natural causes on Sunday night. He was 83 and serving a...
But that was all cut short when Sharon was killed — along with Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski and Steven Parent — in a horrific stabbing at her Los Angeles-area home by followers of cult leader Charles Manson.
Manson, whose name became synonymous with evil after his arrest in connection with the 1969 murders of Tate and eight others, died of natural causes on Sunday night. He was 83 and serving a...
- 11/20/2017
- by Stephanie Petit
- PEOPLE.com
The Loved One
Blu-ray
Warner Archives
1965 / B&W / 1:85 / / 122 min. / Street Date May 9, 2017
Starring: Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Anjanette Comer.
Cinematography: Haskell Wexler
Film Editor: Hal Ashby, Brian Smedley-Aston
Written by Terry Southern, Christopher Isherwood
Produced by Martin Ransohoff (uncredited), John Calley, Haskell Wexler
Directed by Tony Richardson
Funeral Director: Before you go, I was just wondering… would you be interested in some extras for the loved one?
Next Of Kin: What kind of extras?
Funeral Director: Well, how about a casket?
Mike Nichols and Elaine May – The $65 Dollar Funeral
That routine, a classic example of what was known in the early 60’s as “sick humor”, was nevertheless ubiquitous across mainstream variety shows like Ed Sullivan and Jack Paar. It also popularized the notion of a new boutique industry, the vanity funeral. The novelist Evelyn Waugh, decidedly less mainstream, documented the beginning of that phenomenon over a decade earlier with The Loved One,...
Blu-ray
Warner Archives
1965 / B&W / 1:85 / / 122 min. / Street Date May 9, 2017
Starring: Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Anjanette Comer.
Cinematography: Haskell Wexler
Film Editor: Hal Ashby, Brian Smedley-Aston
Written by Terry Southern, Christopher Isherwood
Produced by Martin Ransohoff (uncredited), John Calley, Haskell Wexler
Directed by Tony Richardson
Funeral Director: Before you go, I was just wondering… would you be interested in some extras for the loved one?
Next Of Kin: What kind of extras?
Funeral Director: Well, how about a casket?
Mike Nichols and Elaine May – The $65 Dollar Funeral
That routine, a classic example of what was known in the early 60’s as “sick humor”, was nevertheless ubiquitous across mainstream variety shows like Ed Sullivan and Jack Paar. It also popularized the notion of a new boutique industry, the vanity funeral. The novelist Evelyn Waugh, decidedly less mainstream, documented the beginning of that phenomenon over a decade earlier with The Loved One,...
- 5/8/2017
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Martin Ransohoff, the co-founder of Filmways Television who went on to produce such acclaimed features as The Cincinnati Kid — on which he fired director Sam Peckinpah — Save the Tiger and Jagged Edge, has died. He was 90.
Ransohoff, whose credits also include Arthur Hiller’s The Americanization of Emily (1964) and Silver Streak (1976) and John Sturges’ Ice Station Zebra (1968), died Wednesday morning at his home in Bel-Air, his stepson, Steve Botthof, told The Hollywood Reporter.
The son of a prominent coffee broker, Ransohoff founded Filmways in 1952 with Ed Kasper to make industrial films and TV commercials....
Ransohoff, whose credits also include Arthur Hiller’s The Americanization of Emily (1964) and Silver Streak (1976) and John Sturges’ Ice Station Zebra (1968), died Wednesday morning at his home in Bel-Air, his stepson, Steve Botthof, told The Hollywood Reporter.
The son of a prominent coffee broker, Ransohoff founded Filmways in 1952 with Ed Kasper to make industrial films and TV commercials....
- 7/17/2015
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It's "Twister" at 36,000 feet.
In "Turbulence", Lauren Holly has a particularly bumpy ride as a flight attendant who engages in a battle of wits with a cunning, psychotic killer (Ray Liotta) aboard a storm-battered 747 on Christmas Eve.
The result is a solid actioner charged by taut direction and sharp casting, not to mention terrific sound and visual effects.
While the picture has seen several delays in its arrival time due to, among other things, last year's TWA disaster, its January landing looks ideal as it fills a post-holiday action lull and gets a jump on the upcoming, similarly themed "Con Air".
Marking the feature debut of screenwriter Jonathan Brett, whose short film "The Dutch Master" received an Oscar nomination, the terror-in-the-skies scenario may not exactly be the freshest of concepts, but he's thrown in a few unexpected twists to keep things involving, while veteran TV director Robert Butler ("Hill Street Blues", "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman") knows how to maintain a crisp pace.
Little time is wasted in the set-up: A New York-to-Los Angeles flight is headed into more than just inclement weather as a quartet of federal marshals board the plane with a pair of shackled criminals. One is Stubbs, a grizzly armed robber ("Braveheart"'s Brendan Gleeson) who takes delight in upsetting the passengers. The other is Ryan Weaver (Liotta), a charmer of a murderer who claims to have been framed for his death row sentence by a fame-chasing detective (Hector Elizondo), who was disappointed that the arrest never made "Hard Copy".
Stubbs, meanwhile, makes an in-flight escape attempt that triggers a nasty bloodbath. After the smoke clears, the only principals still left standing are Weaver and flight attendant Teri Halloran (Holly), who engage in a lethal game of cat and mouse as Weaver sheds his "is-he-or-isn't-he" persona in favor of his true psychotic serial-killer self, determined to crash the jumbo jet right smack dab in the middle of downtown L.A.
Although "Turbulence" raises some inevitable questions of plot logic (beginning with that uncharacteristically empty flight, given the Dec. 24 date) and has its share of clunky dialogue, the cast rises to the occasion.
In what effectively serves as the breakout role of her career, Holly ("Dumb and Dumber", "Down Periscope"), sporting a spiffy new hairdo, is pitch-perfect as the gutsy but vulnerable Teri; while Liotta, who's always great at playing the enticing psycho (see "Something Wild", "Unlawful Entry") portrays this particular variation with go-for-broke gusto. Also effective are Elizondo as a not-exactly-by-the-book cop, Catherine Hicks as a shaken senior flight attendant and Ben Cross as a pilot instructor who gives Teri a crash course in emergency landings.
Production values are exceptional, with top marks given to Mayling Cheng's production design that's so authentic you'd swear you could smell the diesel fuel and Mark Vargo's state-of-the-art visual effects. Meanwhile, composer Shirley Walker contributes a chillingly atmospheric score that quietly heightens the visual suspense rather than attempting to match it note for note.
TURBULENCE
MGM/UA
A Rysher Entertainment presentation
A Martin Ransohoff production
A Robert Butler film
Director Robert Butler
Screenwriter Jonathan Brett
Producers Martin Ransohoff, David Valdes
Executive producer Keith Samples
Director of photography Lloyd Ahern II
Production design Mayling Cheng
Editor John Duffy
Visual effects supervisor Mark Vargo
Music Shirley Walker
Costume design Robert Turturice
Casting Phyllis Huffman
Color/stereo
Cast:
Ryan Weaver Ray Liotta
Teri Halloran Lauren Holly
Detective Aldo Hines Hector Elizondo
Stubbs Brendan Gleeson
Capt. Bowen Ben Cross
Rachel Taper Rachel Ticotin
Maggie Catherine Hicks
Running time -- 103 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
In "Turbulence", Lauren Holly has a particularly bumpy ride as a flight attendant who engages in a battle of wits with a cunning, psychotic killer (Ray Liotta) aboard a storm-battered 747 on Christmas Eve.
The result is a solid actioner charged by taut direction and sharp casting, not to mention terrific sound and visual effects.
While the picture has seen several delays in its arrival time due to, among other things, last year's TWA disaster, its January landing looks ideal as it fills a post-holiday action lull and gets a jump on the upcoming, similarly themed "Con Air".
Marking the feature debut of screenwriter Jonathan Brett, whose short film "The Dutch Master" received an Oscar nomination, the terror-in-the-skies scenario may not exactly be the freshest of concepts, but he's thrown in a few unexpected twists to keep things involving, while veteran TV director Robert Butler ("Hill Street Blues", "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman") knows how to maintain a crisp pace.
Little time is wasted in the set-up: A New York-to-Los Angeles flight is headed into more than just inclement weather as a quartet of federal marshals board the plane with a pair of shackled criminals. One is Stubbs, a grizzly armed robber ("Braveheart"'s Brendan Gleeson) who takes delight in upsetting the passengers. The other is Ryan Weaver (Liotta), a charmer of a murderer who claims to have been framed for his death row sentence by a fame-chasing detective (Hector Elizondo), who was disappointed that the arrest never made "Hard Copy".
Stubbs, meanwhile, makes an in-flight escape attempt that triggers a nasty bloodbath. After the smoke clears, the only principals still left standing are Weaver and flight attendant Teri Halloran (Holly), who engage in a lethal game of cat and mouse as Weaver sheds his "is-he-or-isn't-he" persona in favor of his true psychotic serial-killer self, determined to crash the jumbo jet right smack dab in the middle of downtown L.A.
Although "Turbulence" raises some inevitable questions of plot logic (beginning with that uncharacteristically empty flight, given the Dec. 24 date) and has its share of clunky dialogue, the cast rises to the occasion.
In what effectively serves as the breakout role of her career, Holly ("Dumb and Dumber", "Down Periscope"), sporting a spiffy new hairdo, is pitch-perfect as the gutsy but vulnerable Teri; while Liotta, who's always great at playing the enticing psycho (see "Something Wild", "Unlawful Entry") portrays this particular variation with go-for-broke gusto. Also effective are Elizondo as a not-exactly-by-the-book cop, Catherine Hicks as a shaken senior flight attendant and Ben Cross as a pilot instructor who gives Teri a crash course in emergency landings.
Production values are exceptional, with top marks given to Mayling Cheng's production design that's so authentic you'd swear you could smell the diesel fuel and Mark Vargo's state-of-the-art visual effects. Meanwhile, composer Shirley Walker contributes a chillingly atmospheric score that quietly heightens the visual suspense rather than attempting to match it note for note.
TURBULENCE
MGM/UA
A Rysher Entertainment presentation
A Martin Ransohoff production
A Robert Butler film
Director Robert Butler
Screenwriter Jonathan Brett
Producers Martin Ransohoff, David Valdes
Executive producer Keith Samples
Director of photography Lloyd Ahern II
Production design Mayling Cheng
Editor John Duffy
Visual effects supervisor Mark Vargo
Music Shirley Walker
Costume design Robert Turturice
Casting Phyllis Huffman
Color/stereo
Cast:
Ryan Weaver Ray Liotta
Teri Halloran Lauren Holly
Detective Aldo Hines Hector Elizondo
Stubbs Brendan Gleeson
Capt. Bowen Ben Cross
Rachel Taper Rachel Ticotin
Maggie Catherine Hicks
Running time -- 103 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
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