The Torture Rack – Show 4
In this show I review the movies Bunraku, Dylan Dog: Dead of Night with Brandon Routh and Season of the Witch. And for the comic book review Justice League written by Geoff Johns and drawn by Jim Lee .
What I will be reviewing on the next show.
These are the movies and the comic I will be reviewing on next Torture Rack
(Reviews are subject to change without notice)
Movies:
Bunraku
Dylan Dog: Dead of Night
Season of the Witch
Comic:
Justice League
(Reviews are subject to change without notice)
The 2012 Oscar Nominations
The 83rd Annual Academy Award nominations have been announced with “Hugo” and “The Artist” leading the pack with eleven and ten nominations respectively.
Also faring well were “Moneyball” & “War Horse” with six, “The Descendants” & “Midnight in Paris” with five, “The Help” with four, and “The Tree of Life” & “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” with three.
There were some big surprises. Good ones included Gary Oldman for “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”, pretty much the entire supporting actress category, and several inclusions that haven’t really been mentioned in the race so far like Demian Bichir and Max Von Sydow’s performances.
Those were outweighed by the bad ones though – “Shame” scored no nominations at all including Michael Fassbender’s performance. No Tilda Swinton nod for “We Need To Talk About Kevin”. “Tintin” and “Drive” only scored one nomination each and only in ‘Best Score’ and ‘Sound Editing’ rather than ‘Animated Feature’ and ‘Supporting Actor’ where they were shoe-ins.
Critically maligned films like “Albert Nobbs” and “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” scored several nominations, even the divisive “War Horse” surprised with how well it did.
Here’s the complete list:
BEST PICTURE
“The Artist”
“The Descendants”
“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”
“The Help”
“Hugo”
“Midnight in Paris”
“Moneyball”
“The Tree of Life”
“War Horse”
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Demian Bichir for “A Better Life”
George Clooney for “The Descendants”
Jean DuJardin for “The Artist”
Gary Oldman for “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
Brad Pitt for “Moneyball”
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Glenn Close for “Albert Nobbs”
Viola Davis for “The Help”
Rooney Mara for “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
Meryl Streep for “The Iron Lady”
Michelle Williams for “My Week with Marilyn”
DIRECTING
Michel Hazanavicius for “The Artist”
Alexander Payne for “The Descendants”
Martin Scorsese for “Hugo”
Woody Allen for “Midnight in Paris”
Terrence Malick for “The Tree of Life”
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Kenneth Branagh for “My Week with Marilyn”
Jonah Hill for “Moneyball”
Nick Nolte for “Warrior”
Christopher Plummer for “Beginners”
Max Von Sydow for “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Bernice Bejo for “The Artist”
Jessica Chastain for “The Help”
Melissa McCarthy for “Bridesmaids”
Janet McTeer for “Albert Nobbs”
Octavia Spencer for “The Help”
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
“Bullhead” – Belgium
“Footnote” – Israel
“In Darkness” – Poland
“Monsieur Lazhar” – Canada
“A Separation” – Iran
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
“A Cat in Paris”
“Chico and Rita”
“Kung Fu Panda 2″
“Puss in Boots”
“Rango”
SCREENPLAY (Adapted)
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash for “The Descendants”
John Logan for “Hugo”
George Clooney, Grant Heslov & Beau Willimon for “The Ides of March”
Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin & Stan Chervin for “Moneyball”
Bridget o’Connor & Peter Straughan for “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
SCREENPLAY (Original)
Michel Hazanavicius for “The Artist”
Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig for “Bridesmaids”
J.C. Chandor for “Margin Call”
Woody Allen for “Midnight in Paris”
Asghar farhadi for “A Separation”
ART DIRECTION
“The Artist”
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two”
“Hugo”
“Midnight in Paris”
“War Horse”
CINEMATOGRAPHY
“The Artist”
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
“Hugo”
“The Tree of Life”
“War Horse”
COSTUME DESIGN
“Anonymous”
“The Artist”
“Hugo”
“Jane Eyre”
“W.E.”
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
“Hell and Back Again”
“If a Tree Falls”
“Paradise Lost 3: Purgator”
“Pina”
“Undefeated”
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
“The Barber of Birmingham”
“God is the Bigger Elvis”
“Incident in New Baghdad”
“Saving Face”
“The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom”
FILM EDITING
“The Artist”
“The Descendants”
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
“Hugo”
“Moneyball”
MAKEUP
“Albert Nobbs”
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two”
“The Iron Lady”
MUSIC (SCORE)
John Williams for “The Adventures of Tintin”
Ludovic Bource for “The Artist”
Howard Shore for “Hugo”
Alberto Iglesias for “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
John Williams for “War Horse”
MUSIC (SONG)
‘Man or Muppet’ from “The Muppets”
‘Real in Rio’ from “Rio”
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
“Dimanche/Sunday”
“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore”
“La Luna”
“A Morning Stroll”
“Wild Life”
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
“Pentecost”
“Raju”
“The Shore”
“Time Freak”
“Tuba Atlantic”
SOUND EDITING
“Drive”
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
“Hugo”
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
“War Horse”
SOUND MIXING
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
“Hugo”
“Moneyball”
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
“War Horse”
VISUAL EFFECTS
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two”
“Hugo”
“Real Steel”
“Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
Hammer To Restore Library
Some of the scariest films ever made are about to get a much needed restoration.
Horror studio Hammer is teaming up with Studiocanal, Pinewood and other international players for a worldwide restoration of their film library. More than thirty films will undergo digital restoration and be issued on Blu-Ray and DVD.
Here’s details from the press release:
In a landmark collaboration, Hammer today announced that STUDIOCANAL, Anolis Entertainment (Germany), Pinewood, illuminate Hollywood fka HTV and others are coming together to undertake a major restoration of the iconic Hammer film library. The project will bring over 30 movies into HD format for Blu-ray and new media exploitation in the 21st Century. This represents substantial investment by Hammer and its key partner STUDIOCANAL, and is testimony to the extraordinary regard with which the Hammer legacy is held internationally, with some materials for the project being provided by Hammer’s original US production partners Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures.
Dracula Prince of Darkness is the first title scheduled for release in the global restoration project and will be released in the UK in conjunction with STUDIOCANAL in March 2012. The partnership continues throughout the spring for the releases of The Reptile and The Plague of The Zombies, and will also include The Devil Rides Out, Rasputin the Mad Monk and The Mummy’s Shroud during the course of the year.
Hammer will also release definitive versions of its three hugely-influential original Gothic classics in the UK: The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Mummy.
As well as featuring a fully-restored HD picture and restored sound, the remastered films will boast a host of newly-filmed extras, including interviews with cast members. These documentary extras are being produced by Hammer expert and historian, Marcus Hearn – author of the recent “The Hammer Vault”.
Pinewood Studios carried out the restoration of the first three Studiocanal titles after housing the original negatives for the films, restoring the original UK title sequence to The Plague of The Zombies as well as the UK title cards to Dracula Prince of Darkness.
Recently-discovered footage that was originally cut from the British version of Dracula has been restored by Molinare to the BFI’s 2007 restoration courtesy of The National Film Center at The Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. The Japanese footage features an extended and particularly gruesome death scene for Dracula, as well as a moment considered too erotic by the censors of the day.
Following the discovery and restoration of the Japanese footage to Dracula, Hammer is keen to unearth further “lost” scenes and on-set footage from The Curse of Frankenstein, The Mummy and other titles in their library, and hope that any private collectors with viable unseen elements will contact the company.
In addition, Hammer will regularly be posting to a “Restoration Blog”, which will give a unique insider’s view on the entire process, from material selection right the way through to release. The blog can be followed at: http://blog.hammerfilms.com
Other companies involved in the restoration project include Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging and Thought Equity Motion in the US and Cineimage and Deluxe 142 in the UK.
Simon Oakes, President and CEO of Hammer commented, “Our decision to restore some of Hammer’s most famous titles not only allows existing fans to experience the films again in high definition, but also encourages a new global audience to discover Hammer for the first time – especially as we get ready to release our next exciting new Hammer project The Woman in Black, starring Daniel Radcliffe. We have a busy year ahead but are confident that our Blu-ray plans will ensure that Hammer’s legacy will live on for generations to come.”
John Rodden, General Manager UK Home Entertainment for Studiocanal added, “The great Hammer films are uniquely stylish and ceaselessly entertaining. Like the vampires and other supernatural forces they depict, they appear to be deathless, re-emerging relentlessly to thrill and terrify new generations of film fans. STUDIOCANAL is immensely proud to continue its investment in the best of British cinema both past and present by restoring and re-releasing these films.”
The Torture Rack – Show 3
In this show I review the movies Ong Bak 2 and 3, Brusier with Jason Flemyng and Faces in The Crowd with Milla Jovovich. And for the comic book review Green Arrow 1 to 4.
What I will be reviewing on the next show.
These are the movies and the comic I will be reviewing on next Torture Rack
Movies:
Ong Bak 2
Ong Bak 3
Bunraku
Bruiser
Faces in the Crowd
Comic:
Green Arrow
