Daily guide to television and radio Oct 3, 2009
Restored version of the Oscar-winning epic set during the Russian Revolution. Omar Sharif. (Boston Globe)
Movies about radicals have not always had a radical effect on viewers Sep 6, 2009
The revolution is once more being screened ... With these two landmark works of agit-art, Jean-Luc Godard announced that narrative was a bourgeois contrivance and the cinema a weapon of revolution ... A revolution is not a dinner party, Mao Zedong famously wrote. (Boston Globe)
Hugh Hudson recuts maligned 'Revolution' Jun 1, 2009
Hugh Hudson recuts maligned 'Revolution ... Hugh Hudson recuts maligned 'Revolution ... But fortune stopped smiling in 1985 when he made "Revolution," a drama about America's war of independence, with Al Pacino as a fur trader dragged into the conflict after his son is drafted by the British. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
'ZABRISKIE POINT' GETS 2ND LIFE ON DVD May 27, 2009
"Zabriskie Point" is being released Tuesday by Warner Home Video as part of its "Director's Showcase" series, along with another notorious flop, Hugh Hudson's "Revolution" (1985), a Revolutionary War adventure featuring one of Al Pacino's worst performances. The director added new narration that somewhat clarifies the plot -- but still doesn't make it anything close to a good movie. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
DVD Report: This week's new releases (May 24) May 24, 2009
in insisting that their failed epic about an apolitical fur trader pulled into the American Revolution was a film that deserved better. This "Revisited" cut expands Pacino's voice-over narration to more fully explore his character, but the problems remain - as much with casting moves like Nastassja Kinski's too exotic war groupie and Richard O'Brien's Riff-Raffish redcoat as with Pacino. (Boston Globe)
That timeless look May 7, 2009
Many of those 60s surfers eventually ended up in the Silicon Valley, where their relaxed clothing style became the de facto work uniform of the dot-com revolution, Arthur said. That prompted a group of business people in Seattle to launch Tommy Bahama, a clothing company built on the image of a fictional Hawaiian shirtman living in a cabana house with no worries, but selling shirts for $100 or more. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Casting director alumna gives start to stars Feb 17, 2009
Dougherty, Class of 1943, who celebrated her 86th birthday Feb. 9th, revolutionized the modern film casting industry by opening the first casting director's office in New York City, Marion Dougherty Associates, in the late 1940s ... A feature film about Dougherty, called Casting By: Revolution in Hollywood, is in production, said Margaret Whitton, executive president and senior producer at Tashtego Films. (Daily Collegian, PA)
