Before his death in November 2009, director Paul Wendkos put his name on over 180 projects, from the teen surf classic GIDGET to a spate of acclaimed made-for-television movies. His stylish and groundbreaking television movie work from 1967-1977 gave birth to nightmares and a whole generation of young directors. From the off-kilter, Dutch-angled and fish-eyed world he created for THE INVADERS to his DGA-nominated masterpiece THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE BELL, Wendkos is a true craftsman deserving of rediscovery and reevaluation.
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The Next CU:EVENT at the Egyptian Theatre. Thursday, May 6th 7:30PM
CRIMINALLY UNKNOWN: FILM CREWS AMUCK!
CU is proud to present the ultimate FILM CREWS GONE CRAZY double bill. With an ultra rare 35mm double bill of EFFECTS and THE REAL THING aka TEENAGER! With special guests Dusty Nelson, John Harrison, Joseph Pilato, Pasquale Buba, Charles Hoyes from EFFECTS and Gerald Sindell and Sue Bernard from THE REAL THING!
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Tags: American Cinematheque, Charles Hoyes, Dusty Nelson, Effects, Egyptian Theatre, Gerald Sindell, John Harrison, Joseph Pilato, Pasquale Buba, Sue Bernard, Teenager, The Real Thing
Criminally Unknown William Castle Tribute Double Feature
HOLLYWOOD STORY, 1951, Universal, 76 min. Dir. William Castle. Richard Conte plays a wannabe independent producer who buys a vacant studio lot and gets embroiled in the mystery of a film director murdered there many years before.
UNDERTOW, 1949, Universal, 71 min. Director William Castle brings panache to this impoverished B-production, enlivening a fairly routine tale of a framed ex-con (Scott Brady – Lawrence Tierney’s “little” brother) looking for revenge in the Chicago underworld. Hot dishes Dorothy Hart and Peggy Dow complicate matters in time-honored tradition.
Special guest appearance by actress Julie Adams!
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Like Ray Bradbury, H.P. Lovecraft is almost impossible to get right. Stuart Gordon made two decent attempts (Re-Animator and Dagon), fine films, but they don’t really qualify as Lovecraft. The Dunwich Horror comes pretty close at times, but Dean Stockwell’s mustache gets in the way.
In the end it’s Dan O’Bannon’s The Ancestor, an adaptation of Lovecraft’s “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward”, that comes the closest. There are stretches (especially towards the end in the underground laboratory, where it gets amazingly close.), a “feeling” of dread that comes as close as anything has. (oddly, it’s that same feeling Dan managed to bring to the original draft of Alien).
The Ancestor you say..?
Don’t bother heading over to IMDB to look it up. You won’t find it. The film was taken away, re-edited and butchered beyond belief. You can find it a full screen DVD of the butchered film under the title The Resurrected.
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Great article by Lou Lumenick in the New York Post today on Tom Schiller’s Nothing Lasts Forever! My REAL Nothing Lasts Forever article is a few days away, this is just a quick note to let everyone know that tickets are finally on sale for the April 1st screening at the Egyptian. Tom is also bringing a bunch of his 70’s SNL shorts! It’s going to be an amazing night. Get your tickets now at Fandango!
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Watching the film again this afternoon, it’s just beautiful……..magical….. and totally unique…. it’s no wonder Perry kept running out of money … I’m not even sure it’s a film…. it will sit alongside Playtime, Nashville, Husbands and The Rubber Gun as another impossible movie….another black magic deal with the devil, that simply shouldn’t exist… but thanks to David Garonzik it does, and thanks to the American Cinematheque you can see it on the big screen tomorrow :) It’s been a long strange road leading up to tomorrows west coast premiere, you’d have to be crazy to be anywhere else.
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Tags: American Cinematheque, Arthur Gorson, Carl Bradshaw, David Garonzik, Egyptian Theatre, Jamaica, Jimmy Cliff, John Cassavetes, ken loach, No Place Like Home, P.J. Soles, Perry Henzell, Roger Steffen, The Harder They Come, Wayne Jobson
A 15 year labor of love for Sage Stallone, Bob Murawski and Grindhouse Releasing, GONE WITH THE POPE, Duke Mitchell’s long lost follow up to MASSACRE MAFIA STYLE, premieres tonight, March 12th 2010 at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Q&A between films with the cast and crew of GONE WITH THE POPE.
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Tags: American Cinematheque, bob leighton, bob murawski, duke mitchell, Egyptian Theatre, grindhouse releasing, jim lobianco, lorenzo dardado, peter milo, peter santoro, robert florio, sage stallone
The next CU:EVENT at the Egyptian Theatre is a special screening of two Steve Tesich films Arthur Penn’s FOUR FRIENDS and Peter Yates EYEWITNESS. Thursday, March 11 – 7:30 PM CRIMINALLY UNKNOWN: STEVE TESICH
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Tags: Arthur Penn, Christopher Plummer, Craig Wasson, Egyptian Theatre, eric rohmer, four friends, michael huddleston, morgan freeman, nadja tesich, Peter Yates, sigourney weaver, Steve Tesich, Vincent Canby, William Hurt
It’s a sad state of affairs, when the two greatest films ever made by a major American director can still qualify as criminally unknown, but that’s the case with Elia Kazan’s Wild River and America, America.
Years ahead of ...
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Tags: American Cinematheque, Barbara Loden, Egyptian Theatre, Elia Kazan, Ellsworth Fredericks, Frank Wolff, Haskell Wexler, Lee Remick, Lou Antonio, Martin Scorsese, Montgomery Clift, Paul Mann, Stathis Giallelis
In March we have two CU:EVENTS at the Egyptian!
On March 11th it’s two by the late great Steve Tesich. On March 31st it's two by Jeff Burr and Duane Whitaker!
Thursday, March 11 - 7:30 PM CRIMINALLY UNKNOWN STEVE TESICH
Double Feature: FOUR FRIENDS, 1981, MGM Repertory, 114 min. Dir. Arthur Penn. Steve Tesich's largely autobiographical tale ...
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