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Hart gave me my first break in the industry and stood out as a beacon of hope for those who followed

Romaine Hart obituary

Romaine Hart gave me my start in the film business, hiring me as an usher at the Screen on the Green cinema in Islington, London, when I was 18; alongside the programmer Roger Austin she taught me fundamental lessons about cinema management that inspired me through the Other Cinema, Scala and later Palace years.

As a teenager I had witnessed the transformation of my local, the Rex cinema on Upper Street, a downmarket fleapit that was part of a declining chain owned by the Bloom family (Romaine’s maiden name), to the Screen on the Green, with its progressive and clever programming. It showed critically acclaimed, mainly US second-run classics by day (the first double bill I attended as a 15-year-old was The Graduate and The Thomas Crown Affair...

Cinema is a kind of uber-art form that’s made up of a multitude of other forms of art including writing, directing, acting, drawing, design, photography and fashion. As such, film is, as all cinema aficionados know, a highly collaborative venture.

One of the most consistently fascinating collaborations in cinema is that of the director and actor.

This article will examine some of the great director & actor teams. It’s important to note that this piece is not intended as a film history survey detailing all the generally revered collaborations.

There is a wealth of information and study available on such duos as John Ford & John Wayne, Howard Hawks & John Wayne, Elia Kazan & Marlon Brando, Akira Kurosawa & Toshiro Mifune, Alfred Hitchcock & James Stewart, Ingmar Bergman & Max Von Sydow, Federico Fellini & Giulietta Masina/Marcello Mastroianni, Billy Wilder & Jack Lemmon, Francis Ford Coppola & Al Pacino, Woody Allen & Diane Keaton, Martin Scorsese & Robert DeNiro...

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Tonight Andrew McCarthy will appear on the season finale of USA's White Collar. He will reprise his role of Vincent Adler, the mentor who taught Neil Caffrey (Matt Bomer) everything he knows about the art of the con. In a recent conference call interview, we found out ten things that Andrew McCarthy knows about TV, movies, travel and donuts.

1. On The Current State of Television

"When I started acting, 100 years ago, in the early ‘80s, you only did the television show if your movie career was over. Now I’d say most of the best writing is on television. And movies are a different beast entirely. There’s the big blockbusters and then occasionally, there’s some little interesting movies that come along that somehow get made and 12 people are in them. I think it’s a real golden age for television for sure.

By Devin Faraci (from our sister site Badass Digest). The posters below will be available at tonight’s (Feb 8th) screenings of Maniac, Maniac Cop 2, and tomorrow’s (Feb 9th) screening of Vigilante. Director William Lustig will be in attendance at all three shows!

William Lustig has made some of the most interesting exploitation films of all time. He’ll be in Austin this week showing three of them – Maniac, Vigilante and Maniac Cop 2. But he also runs a DVD/Blu-ray company called Blue Underground that preserves and releases cult classics. The latest releases include Lustig’s own Maniac, Quiet Days in Clichy and Salon Kitty. Deep Red is coming up.

I was able to chat with Lustig last week. I talked to him for a half an hour, but that’s not even close to enough time with a guy like this. I hope to be able...

If you grew up in the eighties, then Andrew McCarthy was probably key part of your weekend movie watching, with films like Pretty in Pink, Mannequin, St.Elmo’s Fire and Weekend at Bernie’s.

In recent years, he’s started directing (Gossip Girl) and writing travel columns but he’s never strayed far from acting. He’s now a recurring character on USA’s White Collar playing Victor Adler. This is one of the rare times he’s playing a bad guy and it’s great to watch!

I talked to Andrew on a conference call about his new character, what roles he regrets and how his directing has helped him in front of the camera.

For the full interview, click the audio link above or download from iTunes

White Collar airs Tuesdays at 10/9c

Is there a role that you regret doing or, and is there a role...

Welcome back to Killer Film’s New Release Tuesday for January 25th! Before we get to these releases, let us remind you By ordering through our site, you not only get the best deals around from Amazon, but this one little click will help us out at no extra cost to you! It’s what keeps us killer!

Red

2010 was a great year for action movies, and the highlight just might be this comic adaptation of Red. Great dialogue, pitch-perfect casting/performances, of course, great action, and pure fun. (Formats: Blu-ray/DVD) Jon says: Buy Donny says: Buy

Saw: The Final Chapter

As big of a Saw fan I personally am, I will say that this was the weakest of the seven, which is a huge shame, since Saw VI was near epic. Although, this entry did feature some of the more inventive traps, seeing Tobin Bell in it for like two minutes was sad,...

Your Weekly Source for Blu-Ray and DVD Release News

The Academy Award-winning Spielberg classic The Color Purple makes it’s way to Blu-Ray; Russell Crowe portrays a brilliant, but troubled genius in A Beautiful Mind, based on a true story; venture outside the box with two creative festival favorites — Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet, and Gaspar Noe’s visual tour de force Enter The Void; Criterion Collection adds another volume to it’s library in James L. Brooks’ Broadcast News; get rugby rough with Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman in Clint Eastwood’s Invictus, and take your pick of the entire Stieg Larsson Trilogy boxed set, or just the third installment of The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’S Nest, the final chapter in an extraordinary, critically-acclaimed trio of films from Norway.

Blu-Ray for Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011 The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’S...

DVD Playhouse: January 2011

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Allen Gardner

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (20th Century Fox) Sequel to the seminal 1980s film catches up with a weathered, but still determined Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas, who seems to savor every syllable of Allan Loeb and Stephen Schiff’s screenplay) just out of jail and back on the comeback trail. In attempting to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter (Carey Mulligan), Gekko forges a reluctant alliance with her fiancé (Shia Labeouf), himself an ambitious young turk who finds himself seduced by Gekko’s silver tongue and promise of riches. Lifeless film is further evidence of director Oliver Stone’s decline. Once America’s most exciting filmmaker, Stone hasn’t delivered a film with any teeth since 1995’s Nixon. Labeouf and Mulligan generate no sparks on-screen, and the story feels forced from the protracted opening to the final, Disney-esque denouement. Only a brief cameo by Charlie Sheen,...