BART AND GUBER “SHOOT OUT” IN LOS ANGELES
On Tuesday, July 30th, 7:00PM, the Harvard Independent Film Group in Los Angeles will present a discussion with Peter Bart (editor in chief for Variety) and Peter Guber (the founder and head of Mandalay Entertainment) as they talk about their new book Shoot Out and sign copies of it for those in attendance. Shoot Out [...]
Posted on July 29, 2002 by Film Threat Staff
ELVIRA HAUNTS COMIC-CON
Elvira (Cassandra Peterson) will be making an appearance at the San Diego Comic-Con this weekend to present her new movie “Elvira’s Haunted Hills”. Unlike her first film, “Elvira, Mistress of the Dark”, where our horror hostess found herself in a fish out of water tale as the heiress of a mansion in a quiet, little [...]
Posted on July 29, 2002 by Film Threat Staff
NEW SF INDIEFEST MICROCINEMA SCHEDULE
The new SF IndieFest Microcinema schedule of films for the week of July 29th is here…
Posted on July 29, 2002 by Film Threat Staff
THE COUNTRY BEARS
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: G Running Time: 88 minutes |
IN THEATERS! The movie takes place in a strange parallel universe where the presence of anthropomorphic bears is a fact of everyday life, yet for some reason the human adoptive brother of young Beary Barrington is the only one in the world aware that Beary is… a bear…
Posted on July 29, 2002 by Michael Dequina
AUSTIN POWERS IN GOLDMEMBER
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 93 minutes |
IN THEATERS! With “Goldmember,” it is clear that star/co-writer Mike Myers and director Jay Roach are scraping for fresh material, for the movie is less a sequel than a haphazardly assembled collection of greatest hits rehashes. Myers and Roach are running dangerously close to empty as far as new–and genuinely funny–ideas, and they would be best off quitting before they fall any farther behind…
Posted on July 29, 2002 by Michael Dequina
ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS
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  Year Released: 1960 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 127 minutes |
NOW IN LIMITED RELEASE! Long considered a classic piece of neo
realist Italian cinema and a touchstone film for directors including Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola…
Posted on July 29, 2002 by Angelina Sciolla
THE REMOVERS
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Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 22 minutes |
SCREENING AT THE SAN DIEGO COMIC CON, AUGUST 1ST! You won’t know what the hell is going on other than that you’re watching one of the trippiest shorts ever created…
Posted on July 29, 2002 by Eric Campos
EVERYBODY’S DYING HERE
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Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 75 minutes |
More power to Ali Gardoki for not only making a damn fine documentary, but also being a part of one of the best all-female punk bands ever. “Everybody’s Dying Here” takes its viewers on a journey through not only what it’s like to be an underground punk band in Mexico, but what it’s also like to be an all-girl underground punk band in Mexico…
Posted on July 29, 2002 by Eric Campos
THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 97 minutes |
IN THEATERS IN LIMITED RELEASE! Damn, what can you say to adequately describe the charmed life and troubled times of Hollywood producer/gambler/mogul/legend Bob Evans? Describing his influence on American film and culture is like relating Abraham Lincoln’s influence on American history…
Posted on July 29, 2002 by Ron Wells
WARHOL CELEBRATION SPREADS
The American Cinematheque will be hosting a month long series of Warhol cinematic adventures from July 31 – August 28. The series will include “Poor Little Rich Girl”, “Who Killed Teddy Bear”, the Los Angeles premiere of “Andy Warhol” a 1972 produced for BBC documentary on the artist, as well as personal appearances by Louis Waldon and Mary Woronov…
Posted on July 27, 2002 by Film Threat Staff
CHRONOTRIP
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 75 minutes |
SCREENING AT THE SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL! This is where we get to hear sci-fi nerds ramble about the possibilities of actual time travel. Funny thing is, they’re mostly doing it in relation to their favorite “Doctor Who” episodes…
Posted on July 27, 2002 by Eric Campos
DAVID BOWIE’S BIG SECRET
EXCLUSIVE DAVID BOWIE INTERVIEW! David Bowie takes on the title role as a mysterious 400 year-old man who helps a terminally ill teenager discover new meaning in “Mr. Rice’s Secret.” Bowie tells Film Threat, “I have, on the whole, avoided Hollywood like the plague…”
Posted on July 26, 2002 by Phil Hall
ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA: THE TSUI HARK REPORT
“Peking Opera Blues” (‘86) Still the jewel in Tsui’s crown, a big-hearted, wide-eyed action/comedy/melodrama about three diverse heroines riding a wave of upheaval in early 20th century China. Even while weighted down by inept subtitling, “POB” soars so effortlessly that when I recall it, my mind’s eye sees the characters floating with their feet above [...]
Posted on July 26, 2002 by Michael Wells
ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA: THE TSUI HARK REPORT
“The Killer” (’89) Director: John Woo. The ultimate Woo ammo opera and the founding film of the Hong Kong action movie cult in the West. Nobly guilty hitman Chow Yun-fat and nobly world-weary cop Danny Lee find they have a lot in common. For instance, they’re both really, really noble. Killer enshrines men of violence [...]
Posted on July 26, 2002 by Michael Wells
ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA: THE TSUI HARK REPORT
“A Better Tomorrow” (’86) Director: John Woo. I won’t rehash for the 1,000th time the ways in which this blockbuster about estranged brothers on opposite sides of the law impacted East Asian film, as industry and art. This is maybe the most indelible of a number of landmark works on Tsui’s resumé, yet it’s one [...]
Posted on July 26, 2002 by Michael Wells