ALIEN (1979): INTERVIEW WITH SCREEWRITER DAN O’BANNON – by Bob Martin [Starlog]
In this “Special Preview” Bob Martin interviews Dan O’Bannon, the first screenwriter of Alien.
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: WHIPPED – Review by Pauline Kael
by Pauline Kael The marketing executives are the new high priests of the movie business. It's natural. They’re handling important sums of money. And they dispense the money dramatically, in big campaigns that flood out over the country. It’s not unusual for more to be spent on marketing a picture [...]
RAGING BULL: RELIGIOUS PULP, OR THE INCREDIBLE HULK – Review by Pauline Kael
by Pauline Kael As Jake la Motta, the former middleweight boxing champ, in Raging Bull, Robert De Niro wears scar tissue and a big, bent nose that deform his face. It’s a miracle that he didn't grow them—he grew' everything else. He developed a thick muscled neck and a fighter [...]
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HEYSEL, 29 MAGGIO 1985: OLOCAUSTO
Un gruppo di criminali di Liverpool ha tramutato in tragedia la finalissima fra i «reds» e la Juve bruciando decine di vite sull’altare dello sport
JUVENTUS-LIVERPOOL 1-0: UNA VITTORIA, UN INCUBO
Cabrini, Scirea e Tardelli sono i tre alfieri juventini che hanno vinto tutto ciò che c’era da vincere al mondo. Ma come gioirne oggi?
LOUIS C.K.: OH MY GOD (2013) – Full Transcript
'Oh My God' is the fifth comedy special performed by Louis C.K.. It premiered on HBO on April 13, 2013. Filmed in Phoenix, Arizona at the Celebrity Theatre
KILLING HITLER’S HANGMAN
Reinhard Heydrich's international ‘fame’ rose considerably as a result of his 1942 assassination which quickly became the subject of countless movies and books
LOUIS C.K.: LIVE AT THE COMEDY STORE (2015) – Transcript
The comic puts his trademark hilarious/thought-provoking spin on finding a bat in his kitchen, seeing rats having sex, Boston accents and dead pets.
APOCALYPSE NOW: A CLASH OF TWO CULTURES – INTERVIEW WITH VITTORIO STORARO
Vittorio Storaro recalls the photographic challenges he confronted during the tumultuous production of Francis Ford Coppola's hallucinatory Vietnam War epic 'Apocalypse Now'
SPARTACUS AND THE SECOND PART OF THE SOUL
by Gordon Braden Roman History at the Movies At the end of Ridley Scott’s film Gladiator (2000), the mortally wounded Maximus (Russell Crowe), having killed the psychopathic emperor Commodus in gladiatorial combat in the Colosseum, speaks to the suddenly silent crowd: “There was a dream that was Rome. It shall [...]
BILL HICKS: RELENTLESS (1992) – Transcript
Recorded in 1991 at the Centaur Theatre during the annual Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, Canada
THE GODFATHER – Review by Vincent Canby [The New York Times]
Taking a best-selling novel of more drive than genius (Mario Puzo's The Godfather), about a subject of something less than common experience (the Mafia), involving an isolated portion of one very particular ethnic group (first-generation and second-generation Italian-Americans), Francis Ford Coppola has made one of the most brutal and moving chronicles of American life ever designed within the limits of popular entertainment.