DVD Tuesday When Charlton Heston met Orson Welles in praise of Touch of Evil one wild and sleazy ride through the darkness at the edge of border townsWhen you think Charlton Heston you think Ben-Hur Planet of the Apes The Omega Man the nuttier of two precursors to Will Smiths I Am Legend The Ten Commandments and Soylent Green spoiler alert Soylent Green is people But one of my favorite Heston movies is one of his less well-known the thriller Touch of Evil directed by and costarring Orson Welles along with Janet Leigh Marlene Dietrich Joseph Cotten and Zsa Zsa Gabor now thats a cast And it opens with one of the most justly famous tracking shots in movie history a sinuous three-minute and 20-second glide through the crowded streets of seedy Los Robles following behind a white convertible en route to the US border with an ominous tick tick tick always audible through the clamor of ambient noise and Henry Mancinis ominously jazzy
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High School Musical emo-boy Zac Efron will star in Me and Orson Welles, an adaptation of Robert Kaplow's novel about a student who stumbles into a bit part in the 1937 staging of Julius Caesar that launched the big guy's career. Newbie Christian McKay is tackling Welles.... The life of legendary fashion designer Valentino is en route to theaters in the form of the documentary Valentino: The Last Emperor.Related:• Zac Efron Sidelined in Hospital• Zac Efron Makes a Friend, and More Movie News
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Orson Welles Citizen Kane A pop masterpiece that plays like breaking news Send your movie questions to FlickChickSee Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this weeks new flicks in Movie TalkEveryones heard that Citizen Kane 1941 is the best of the best It just topped the AFIs most recent list of the all-time greatest films and critics academics and movie buffs all genuflect before its flawless mix of technical invention and lacerating dissection of the American Dream gone wrong But what sometimes gets lost in the adulation is the fact that its a blast and thats why its this weeks DVD Tuesday pickTell people youre a movie critic and they want to know your favorite movie of all time There are a lot of ways you can go at that one After flailing embarrassingly at the question on more than one occasion I decided to come up with an answer and a rationale So now I say my favorite movie is the one Id take to a desert island if I knew Id be stuck there for years and
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Director Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon) pays tribute to a cinema giant in Turner Classic Movies' Directed by John Ford (premiering tonight at 8 pm/ET), an update of Bogdanovich's 1971 profile with new commentary from such filmmakers as Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood and Martin Scorsese. TV Guide spoke with Bogdanovich about remembering Ford, the state of today's Westerns, and his own fate on
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What if an outbreak of an avian flu actually mutated into a virus transmittable from human to human? That is the very scary proposition explored in the ABC TV-movie Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (premiering tonight at 8 pm/ET). Among the brave hearts attempting to impede the pandemic are Stacy Keach as Collin Reed, Secretary of Health of Human Services. Here, the veteran actor reveals how Fatal Contact came together in such a timely manner, ponders the uncertain fate of his Prison Break warden, and serves up a choice
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