Salvatore Cascio and Philippe Noiret in Cinema Paradiso courtesy Miramax Films
A movie about growing up at the movies she-demons vs holy man a time-travel comedy and moreQuestion I love reading your weekly column and know youll be able to help me I cant remember the name of an Italian movie I saw in the late 1980s or early 90s Its about a boy growing up in a small village he spends a lot of time at the cinema and the man who runs it becomes a father figure to him The church requires that the man cut out any kissing scenes before the movies are shown and the boy is always trying to look at the deleted scenes which the man keeps in a box Lots of stuff I dont remember happens in the middle but the boy grows up and I think he becomes a filmmaker When the old man dies the boy now a man returns to the village and finds that the man spliced together all the kissing scenes to create a movie and left it for him I remember it being a very moving story and would like to share it with my friends but I dont remember the title and I did
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Following the recent success of Rob Zombie's Halloween reboot, Dimension Films is resurrecting Clive Barker's Hellraiser, says the Hollywood Reporter.... Burn Notice's Jeffrey Donovan, Colm Feore and John Malkovich have joined Angelina Jolie in Changeling, the Clint Eastwood-directed true-life drama about a woman whose son goes missing in 1920s Los Angeles.... Oscar winner Hilary Swank has signed on for a biopic about (Spoiler alert) ill-fated pilot Amelia Earhart, says Page Six.
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Brad Pitt in The Assassination of Jesse James... courtesy Warner Bros.
Question Theres a new movie with Brad Pitt as Jesse James can you tell me who else has played him and who was the best in the part SeanFlickChick The role of the legendary bad man most recently undertaken by Brad Pitt in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford has traditionally been a favorite of handsome leading men including Colin Farrell in American Outlaws 2001 Rob Lowe in the made-for-cable Frank and Jesse 1994 Tyrone Power in 1939s Jesse James he appears briefly in 1940s highly historically inaccurate sequel The Return of Frank James but Jesses older brother Frank was played by Henry Fonda future TV Superman George Reeves in The Kansan 1943 and Robert Wagner in The True Story of Jesse James 1957 Even James Dean gave it a whirl in the second episode of popular historical reenactment series You Are There 1953-56 hosted by Walter Cronkite But pretty boys dont have a lock on the role Witness Kris Kristofferson in th
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After a two-week holiday hiatus, it felt like home to watch the first glorious blood splats, and that eerie piano in the Masters of Horror opening sequence. It isn't often that horror fiends get their "own" TV series, so I really feel like I'm going through withdrawals when MoH is over, or even on break for a couple of weeks. Now that Dexter has become a favorite series among the horror crowd, it looks like Showtime's really got the goods for my most beloved genre. I've gotta say, once Masters of Horror is over this year, it's going to be a hellish wait for Showtime's horror audience, or at least, for this horror fan. First of all, I haven't heard whether or not a third season is on the books for MoH, and it's probably going to take a good year for season two of Dexter. At least I'll have Battlestar Galatica, Heroes and Lost in the new year, but they can't take things nearly as far as Dex and "The Masters." Ah well. I'll just have to break out the Buffy DVDs for the 200th time (how ...
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Per Variety, Bradley Cooper will topline Clive Barker's Midnight Train, playing a photographer on the trail of a New York City subway-based serial killer.... Jonathan Demme is lensing He Comes in Peace, a documentary about Jimmy Carter, as the former president embarks on a book tour he started last month.... Pedro Almodovar's next film, El Piel Que Habito (The Skin I Live In) will (surprise!) star Penelope Cruz, and "be totally different from my previous 16 [films]," he tells a Spanish daily. "It's a very tough story about revenge."
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Per Variety, Eddie Murphy and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura are at work on Beverly Hills Cop IV. "Axel Foley is one of the great action-comedy characters," says di Bonaventura. "I'm lucky enough to help bring it back".... George Clooney's next two projects: White Jazz, based on the last volume of James Ellroy's "L.A. quartet," and Belmont Boys, about seven racetrack regulars who attempt a major heist.... Meryl Streep has joined the cast, along with Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon, of Rendition, playing a government official.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Clive Barker is developing a thriller centered on teens who unlock a curse associated with the death of Edgar Allan Poe.
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Per Variety, Clive Barker is writing and producing, but not directing, an update of 1987's Hellraiser. Barker, touting this as more than a remake, says, "There are areas where I think we can be a lot more intense and a lot scarier".... Hugh Jackman will produce and star in an adaptation of the Robert Littell novel The Amateur, which 24's Evan Katz will pen.... Eminem hopes to play gunslinger Palladin in Paramount's big-screen take on the 1950s TV Western Have Gun Will Travel.... Russia has banned the release of Borat, citing "material that [may be deemed] offensive to certain nationalities and religions." No, really?
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