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Charlton Heston: Cinematic Atlas

August 28, 2008

Holly Heston, Charlton Heston’s daughter, talks about her father’s career in Hollywood, and tells us what it was like to grow up with Ben Hur and Moses for a dad. Walter Seltzer is one of Heston’s long-time producing partners. Both are in town for the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s celebration of Charlton Heston, “Cinematic Atlas.” It runs Aug. 29-Sept.4; go here for a full schedule of the films in the series.


Modern Blacklist

August 22, 2008

In his new film, “The Blacklist: Volume One,” director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders explores the zeitgeist of black America, and redefines traditional notions of a "blacklist." Former Planned Parenthood president Faye Wattleton is one of the prominent black Americans featured in the film. It begins airing on HBO on Aug. 25 at 9 pm; go here for the full schedule.


I Don’t Want To Grow Up

August 22, 2008

Azazel Jacobs’s new film about the fear of growing up is "Momma’s Man." It’s about a grown man who moves back into his childhood bedroom, and his parents are played by Jacobs’s real-life parents, filmmaker Ken Jacobs and Flo Jacobs. The film opens Aug. 22 at the Angelika Film Center (18 W. Houston St.).


After the Flood in New Orleans

August 20, 2008

Aspiring rap artist Kimberly Roberts and her husband Scott Roberts were trapped by floodwaters in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Now, with community support, they’re trying to start a new life in the face of government indifference. They’re the subjects of a new film, "Trouble the Water," co-directed by Tia Lessin. It opens on Friday Aug. 22 at the IFC Center, and at ImageNation at the Faison Firehouse Theater (124th St. bet. St. Nicholas Avenue & Morningside).


Debra Winger on Life Beyond Hollywood

August 15, 2008

Debra Winger explains how she’s resisted the all-consuming lure of Hollywood and created a life for herself beyond acting. Her new book, Undiscovered, weaves together memories, poetry, stories, and observations.


A Girl Cut in Two

August 15, 2008

French actress Ludivine Sagnier stars as a TV weatherwoman pursued by two very different men in Claude Chabrol’s new film "A Girl Cut in Two." It opens today at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas and the IFC.


Leo Rosenman

Leonard Rosenman

August 15, 2008

Film composer Leonard Rosenman died this past spring at age 83. He won Oscars for his adaptations of existing music for movies such as Barry Lyndon and Bound for Glory, but it was Rosenman’s original scores, says WNYC’s Sara Fishko, that are remembered for their arresting modernism. Here is the next Fishko Files.

-Read more about Leonard Rosenman's career in his own words at Film Score Monthly.

-Watch the famous Mass for the "Divine Bomb" scene from Beyond the Planet of Apes featuring Rosenman's score at YouTube.com.

-Watch the original trailer for Fantastic Voyage featuring Rosenman's score at YouTube.com.


American Teen, Is It 4Real

August 04, 2008

We say good bye to Liza Weisberg, our summer intern today. Before taking off for College we had her review the new movie American Teen. More on the Culture Blog ....


Ernest Borgnine: The Man Behind the Roles

August 12, 2008

Oscar-winner Ernest Borgnine has played more than 190 film and television roles! In his new autobiography, Ernie, he writes about the man behind those roles, and the many changes he’s seen in the movie business over the past six decades.

Event: Ernest Borgnine will be speaking and signing books
Thursday, August 14 at 7:30 pm
Barnes & Noble Lincoln Center
1972 Broadway (at 66th Street)


Elegy

August 08, 2008

The new film “Elegy” is based on a novella by Philip Roth; it’s about a cultural critic whose life is thrown into disarray when he becomes romantically involved with one of his students. Isabel Coixet is the director; Patricia Clarkson co-stars. It opens today at the Angelika and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas.


Musical Landscapes

August 11, 2008

Listen to some finely-textured musical landscapes from film, the concert stage, and the studio on this edition of New Sounds. Kronos Quartet & Mogwai play the Clint Mansell score to the movie “Fountain,” Robert Fripp plays an electric guitar Soundscape from a New Sounds Live concert, and there's "glitch” electronica from Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto. And lots more.


Underreported: Coming to Terms with Pinochet

August 07, 2008

Judge Juan Guzmán had supported General Augusto Pinochet’s 1973 coup that toppled democratically-elected President Salvador Allende and left thousands of others dead or disappeared. But when in 1998 Judge Guzman was assigned the first criminal cases against Pinochet, what he learned about the past changed his mind about the General, and forced him to confront his own role in the tragedy. He joins Leonard, along with Elizabeth Farnsworth, director of a new documentary called "The Judge and the General." It airs on PBS on August 19 at 10 pm.

Event:
“The Judge and the General” will be screened
Thursday, August 7, at 6:30
at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
W. 65 St., between Broadway and Amsterdam
Tickets and more information is here


Elliott Gould: Star for an Uptight Age

August 07, 2008

When Elliott Gould became a full-fledged movie star in 1970 with the release of “M*A*S*H,” Time magazine christened him “Star for an Uptight Age.” Now the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is hosting a retrospective of Gould’s films; it’s called "Elliott Gould: Star for an Uptight Age." It runs through August 21 and features screenings of “Little Murders” (1971), “The Long Goodbye” (1973), “California Split” (1974), and many others.


Music Heroes Inspire Super Ones

July 31, 2008

Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker in the blockbuster Batman flick The Dark Knight is based on Johnny Rotten. Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack was inspired by Keith Richards. And Frank Sinatra was the basis for the singer Johnny Fontane in The Godfather. We look at why rock characters make such good movie characters with freelance writer and UK Guardian contributor Priya Elan.

Tell us: What musicians have made, or would make, great movie characters?


Film, Food and Fun Celebrate Queens at Socrates Park

July 30, 2008

Maybe a movie from southeast Asia about a mutant lizard sounds like it's been done before, but the 2006 film The Host, by director Bong Joon-ho, is one of the most popular films ever in South Korea....


Hans Zimmer

July 31, 2008

Hans Zimmer joins us in the studio to talk about the score of "The Dark Knight," which he composed alongside James Newton Howard.


Summer of Heroes

July 31, 2008

From the Hulk to Iron Man to Batman, 2008 is the summer of the superhero movie. And each has a distinctive soundtrack to match. Today, we size up these scores with film music historian and Variety writer Jon Burlingame.

Our blog: John Schaefer on soundtracks with super powers


Old Chaplin, New Music

July 29, 2008

Brooklyn-born, UK-based composer Carl Davis joins us to talk about writing scores for three of Charlie Chaplin's greatest shorts: The Rink (1916), The Immigrant (1916), and The Adventurer (1917). The films will be screened as part of the Celebrate Brooklyn festival later this week, and Davis will conduct the chamber orchestra The Knights.

Carl Davis and The Knights will perform "The Charlie Chaplin Mutuals" Friday at the Prospect Park bandshell as part of Celebrate Brooklyn. The show will start at 7:30 p.m.


Musical Wallpaper

July 28, 2008

Meryl Streep is rocking the big screen with Mamma Mia!, the film. Mamma Mia! the musical has been playing to packed houses on Broadway for nearly SEVEN years. And in record stores, Mamma Mia! the album is number three on the charts. Sarah Rodman, pop music critic for the Boston Globe, and Alan Connor, Senior Broadcast Journalist for the BBC, discuss how songs by Abba, and other artists, become "musical wallpaper."

Our blog: Love em or Hate em, they’re back

Weigh in: Why is ABBA still popular?


Sara Fishko

Musicians in Movies

May 23, 2008

The music world has always had a special appeal to filmmakers, who've used musical fact and fiction to great advantage in countless movies. But, as Sara Fishko tells us, its a particular image of the musician that they have created.


Caption should read: Charles Boyer with Ingrid Bergman in "Gaslight" (1944)

Charles Boyer

May 09, 2008

Actor Charles Boyer had a continental flavor that went over big in the U.S. Ten of his most engaging films will be screened in New York this month. Sara Fishko asks why...in this edition of the Fishko Files...

To learn more about Hollywood's studio system of the 1930s, 40s and 50s, and the "manufacture" of star actors and actresses, get a copy of Jeanine Basinger's book "The Star Machine" at amazon.com.

Check out details on the Lincoln Center film series "Charles Boyer and the Art of Seduction", running May 23-27 at Walter Reade Theater.


I Want to Live!

Jazz Soundtrack

April 11, 2008

Jazz has become so treasured as a part of film-scoring that it's the subject of a new Museum of Modern Art exhibit, opening next week. As WNYC's Sara Fishko tells us in this edition of the Fishko Files, the connection between jazz and American film was especially vibrant during one mid-century moment.


Sara Fishko

From the Archives: Miklos Rozsa, Cross-Composer (Originally Aired 4/21/00)

April 04, 2008

Miklos Rozsa was one of Hollywood's most celebrated composers. His work on film noir classics in the 40's and epic films in the 50's was, and still is, well known. But it turns out Rozsa had another composing life.