Don’t Knock the Rock continues!
Read More… Heads up, LA! LISZTOMANIA screens this weekend!
Walk in the footsteps of giants; help Roger with his new movie!
Read More… Exclusive Contest: Write a Catchline for Roger Corman!
Read this. Joe goes in depth about his upcoming MOVIE ORGY screenings in Chicago.
Originally, The Movie Orgy was closer to performance art than a completed film. “We would start a movie, and when the movie got boring we would switch projectors,” Dante says, calling from his office in Hollywood. “All told, the show would run seven hours and it would have five or six or seven different movies interspersed with a lot of other detritus.” The presentation, which first assumed its title at NYU, became popular with students. Seizing on that success, Schlitz offered Dante and Davison a promotional tie-in. The two separately toured college campuses, where a company representative would sell Schlitz at screenings and the movie would include since-removed commercials for the beer.
Let this also serve as a reminder: Joe’s in Chicago this weekend, presenting The Hole, Gremlins 2, and The Movie Orgy. More details here.
Lest you worry that we’re only concerned about the past work of Kathryn Bigelow this week, Columbia Pictures has just released the trailer for her next picture. And, it’s a doozy.
Read More… Kathryn Bigelow week: ZERO DARK THIRTY Trailer!
George Sidney’s terrific film adaptation of the popular Broadway musical (derived from Taming of the Shrew) underwent a lot of cleaning up from the Hays Office, which removed numerous suggestive lyrics and risque jokes. Even so, it’s considered one of the most entertaining of the vaunted MGM musicals and still enchants today. Although the cleverly shot 3-D version initially racked up stronger grosses, the film played the majority of its major dates, including Radio City Music Hall, in 2D.
BOTV returns and Randy goes up against the greatest werewolf movie.
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The Latest at TFH: Joe Dante on THE PRIZE
All-star cold war thrills from the writer of North By Northwest set against the colorful background of the Nobel Prize ceremonies in Stockholm. The basic plot gimmick involving dual roles for Edward G. Robinson was later lifted for a Man from U.N.C.L.E. movie, The Spy with My Face. The huge cast is tops. Britt Ekland can be spotted in her first Hollywood movie in a bit part (as a nudist, no less).