andy is a 1965 dramatic film starring norman alden and written and directed by richard c. sarafian .

it was sarafian 's first directing credit for a feature film .

andy ( film )

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o ' pray , michael , editor , andy warhol : the film factory , lon - don , 1989 .
producer : andy warhol ; photographer : andy warhol ; screenplay : andy warhol and ronald tavel ; music : the velvet underground ; production assistant : paul morrissey .
the invitation to the 1965 premiere of andy warhol’s film “empire , ” now being shown in its entirety at the james fuentes gallery .
the writing of the film carried what the cinematography and editing lacked in “one night” . broad daylight scenes were noisy and continuity was found through the film .
ehrenstein , david , in film culture ( new york ) , fall 1966 .
“ breathe , ” the film directed by andy serkis that will premiere next month at the toronto film festival , has been named a centerpiece film at the 2017 hamptons international film festival , which has also announced an initial batch of titles on the slate including alexandre moors’ “ the yellow birds ” with toni collette and jennifer aniston and vincent gagliostro’s “after louie , ” starring alan cumming .
tyler , parker , underground film : a critical history , new york , 1969 .
the contrasts of the couples were represented through the scores and settings of the film .
steller , j . ,
beyond cinema : notes on some films by andy warhol ,
in film quarterly ( berkeley ) , fall 1966 .
chelsea girls issue ,
of film culture ( new york ) , summer 1967 .
larson , r . ,
a retrospective look at the films of d . w . griffith and andy warhol ,
in film journal ( new york ) , fall - winter 1972 .
an interview with writer / director boots riley about his incendiary new film ,
sorry to bother you .
sipping jetstreams by taylor steele - feat . kelly slater , alex gray , andy irons
the 2017 hamptons international film festival runs oct . 5 - 9 , with passes going on sale sept . 5 .
a title has finally been announced for the long - awaited lonely island film project and it ' s expectedly irreverent .
director minhal baig created a visually creative film and written script . a notable theme taken was “same but different . ”
reviewed at venice film festival ( out of competition — nonfiction ) , september 5 , 2017 . running time : 95 min .
gidal , peter , andy warhol ' s films and paintings , london , 1971 , 1991 .
wilcock , john , the autobiography and sex life of andy warhol , new york , 1971 .
koch , stephen , andy warhol ' s world and his friends , new york , 1973 .
yet , the detail in the character’s development is what made this film special . strong writing and acting is what carried the movie .
with the headline : screen : ' andy ' at beekman ; simple tale succeeds at modest level .
elizabeth and andy carried the cast . camp’s performance had one of the strongest on - screen performances .
lugg , andrew ,
on andy warhol ,
in cineaste ( new york ) , winter 1967–68 .
an underground ‘indie’ score followed bea and andy’s relationship while a dramatic score was placed for elizabeth and drew .
tyler , parker ,
dragtime or drugtime : or film a la warhol ,
in evergreen revue ( new york ) , april 1967 .
the world premiere of “one night” explored the beauty and nativity of love oct . 14 during its screening at the 23rd annual austin film festival .
what do you do if you ' re nine and nobody will tell you what
fellatio
means ? when andy ' s uncle and his boyfriend arrive to babysit , andy is not on her best behaviour . armed with a supersoaker and a devious mind , andy corners the men , who can do nothing buy comply .
he also directed “man in the wilderness , ” “the man who loved cat dancing , ” “run wild , run free” and other movies . his first feature film , “andy , ” was the story of a developmentally disabled man scraping by in new york .
the state theatre oct . 14 during the austin film festival . a variety of films were screened in the theater during the duration of the festival .
pratt , alan r . , editor , the critical response to andy warhol , westport , connecticut , 1997 .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice , telling a story of startling cruelty . what a space it opens…
chris smith ' s on - set documentary about jim carrey channeling andy kaufman is a ticklish meditation on comedy and identity .
smith , patrick s . , andy warhol ' s art and films , ann arbor , michi - gan , 1986 .
the beloved prison saga’s big reveal comes when andy dufresne ( tim robbins ) vanishes from his cell . the dastardly warden tears a raquel welch poster off the wall to reveal andy’s tunnel . so who stuck the poster back in place after his escape ?
matters become complicated when norton has andy assist him with some shady dealings , involving andy having to launder the warden ' s money so that nothing gets traced back to either of them . a financial wizard who knows all the loopholes , andy launders everything through a mr . randall stevens : a completely fictional human being who even has his own social security card and birth certificate .
as for andy the talking hedgehog , no release date has been announced . however , its spiritual cousin might be a real film that reisig produced last year , entitled arlo the burping pig . if the trailer is any indication , arlo the burping pig is about a pig that can burp so hard that peoples’ hats fall off . if andy the talking hedgehog is anything like arlo the burping pig , you can pretty much count me in .
what do you do if you ' re nine and nobody will tell you what
fellatio
means ? when andy ' s uncle and his boyfriend arrive to babysit , andy is not on her best behaviour . armed with a . . . see full summary »
koch , stephen , stargazer : andy warhol ' s world and his films , new york , 1973 ; revised edition , 1985 .
cipnic , d . j . ,
andy warhol : iconographer ,
in sight and sound ( london ) , summer 1972 .
obviously , like the rest of the world , i desperately wanted to know the story behind andy the talking hedgehog . although we can rule out the summary as nothing more than internet high jinks , it would appear that the film is real . back in november actress maria wasikowski tweeted a photo from the andy the talking hedgehog set , alongside dean cain and , one month later , tara reid instagrammed a shot of her character , fairy bff .
before andy leaves , he makes red promise that if he ever gets out , he ' ll dig up something in a remote hayfield .
norton
releases the hounds ,
but andy ' s long gone—and was probably too covered in sewage to leave much of a scent anyway .
when tara reid tweeted the poster for her latest film , the internet assumed it was a joke . but the truth is far more peculiar , and shines a light on modern low - budget moviemaking
according to mr . mekas , he and warhol joked during the shoot that with the building’s phallic shape , the whole film might be censored as pornography . but “empire” is more like endless foreplay .
without a happy or sad ending , “one night” left audience members with a story to be told and open for interpretation making the film a movie for everyone not just a ‘rom - com’ niche .
warhol , andy ,
my favourite superstar , notes on my epic , chelsea girls
in arts magazine ( new york ) , february 1967 .
a high school flourishing relationship of bea ( “orphan” isabelle fuhrman ) and andy ( kyle allen ) depict the butterflies in stomach stage of a relationship .
as andy tells red , he was clean as a whistle on the outside ; it took being sent to prison to turn him into a crook .
the indiegogo page was created by joel paul reisig , the film’s director . and it would appear that reisig is the mastermind behind be your own hollywood . he’s a 33 - year - old self - taught michigan native who writes , directs and produces an astonishing number of movies each year . he balances his film - making career with a series of $ 395 two - day seminars on how to write , produce , fund and distribute movies . these workshops might also double as a story - finding scheme , since in 2012 he produced a film called mary’s buttons , which was written by a seminar attendee .
for all of its foibles , “good kids” does manage to hit a few poignant emotional beats . a scene where a baked andy accidentally stumbles into the wrong house while searching for his “tennis” client leads to having a heart - to - heart with one of his bro - y peers , conch ( dayo okeniyi ) . conch opens andy’s eyes to the reality that the quartet were never really outcasts , but rather they isolated themselves from the other kids . it’s one of the few interesting scenes in the film , addressing a grey area as to whether those who view themselves as misfits are actually outsiders , or whether they sub - consciously exclude themselves out of self - preservation . the film’s final scene with andy and nora saying their goodbyes is also surprisingly poignant , evoking a denouement of new lost chances and endings , with the promise of new beginnings on the horizon .
the four main characters are decently portrayed throughout the film . braun acquits himself adequately to the role andy , and most of the film’s antics revolve around this character , in particular his unexpected summer job as a gigolo / tennis instructor and his online relationship with a girl from india , whom his friends think is a catfish . andy’s shenanigans are mildly amusing at best , and include a montage showing how he serves his “tennis” clients , an unexpected nude escape , and subsequent streaking charge . the best gag involves yogurt , and it will make any woman who’s had a uti clap their hands with vindictive glee . for the most part however , the gang comes off as “ american pie ” lite . the romance is also something left to be desired . andy’s supposedly long simmering attraction to nora comes out of nowhere , and it feels rather like a plot point that’s been added because it’s an expected trope of the genre , rather than organically weaved into the story . the worn out shtick of “guy is jealous of female friend’s new relationship , tears down and belittles girl” leaves a sour taste , but thankfully nora calls andy out on his behavior .
andy warhol was a genius , but he could be mean . he loved to make his acolytes squabble . he’d torture visitors by blaring the same pop song over and over .
“andy warhol is the most revolutionary of all filmmakers working today , ” jonas mekas , the village voice critic and film pioneer , wrote less than a month after “empire” was shot . last week , over lunch at a bar a few blocks from fuentes , which represents him , mr . mekas , 91 , still voiced the same views on warhol . “he was the avant - garde , ” mr . mekas said .
mockumentary , co - produced by judd apatow , that is cut from the same cloth as spinal tap ; exciting news for those familiar with the comedy trio headed by andy samberg .
richard c . sarafian , a hollywood director best known for the speed - addled saga of squealing brakes and existential angst chronicled in the 1971 cult film “vanishing point , ” died sept . 18 in santa monica , calif . he was 83 .
mr . and mrs . cliadakis , a couple of greek immigrants , live in a poor neighborhood of new york . their son , andy , is in his forties but he has the mental age of a child and his behavior outside the norm is not taken well by the neighbors of the family . andy ' s parents therefore decide to put him in a nursing home . . .
andy dufresne , the young , successful vice president of a major bank , finds his life taking a serious detour after his wife and her lover are murdered and the crime gets pinned on him .
“empire” had its premiere on march 6 , 1965 , and mr . mekas has saved the invitations , which credit the movie to “andy warhol and john palmer . ” we seem to glimpse mr . palmer , as well as mr . mekas , at the beginning of two of the film’s 10 reels , reflected in the time & life building window . there’s also a few seconds’ reflection of a man who must be warhol , taking a look through the camera .
“good kids” is a passible feature film debut from chris mccoy , having only previously directed the short , “ the bicycle . ” the film’s biggest problem lies in the writing . the screenplay is unevenly paced and relies much too heavily on tired teen movie tropes rather than attempting to tell a genuine story . mccoy is good at creating strong emotional moments , as evidenced in his previous short , but he tends to fall back on conventional and tired themes to move the story along . the film’s cinematography , courtesy of jimmy lindsey ( “ limitless , ” “ revolution ” ) is crisp , clear , and utilitarian , featuring beautiful shots of a shore town , easily capturing the beauty of summer . the fight sequence between “the lion” and the cabal of cuckolds is a bit dodgy , but could have been a lot worse .
a personal favorite was a bea and andy dinner scene . the couple found themselves in a higher end hotel restaurant ordering a plate of pancakes with jam and a plate of fries – a beautifully constructed contrast .
warhol shot the skyscraper between about 8 : 10 p . m . and 2 : 30 a . m . on july 25 and 26 , 1964 . this month , in its 50th - anniversary year , the film is being projected by the james fuentes gallery from start to finish .
one of the most magical scenes in steven spielberg’s classic is when e . t . makes elliott and co’s bikes fly . the glowy - fingered alien has telekinetic powers . so why doesn’t he levitate himself at the start of the film and get back on the spaceship before his buddies leave him behind ?
there ' s a glimmer of hope for andy when tommy , a new inmate , arrives at the prison , and it turns out he has information that could exonerate his new friend . the warden learns about it , and is none too keen to release into society someone with so much dirt on him . he has tommy murdered , throws andy into solitary for two months , and only releases him once he agrees to keep doing his dirty work .
the son of armenian immigrants , richard caspar sarafian was born april 28 , 1930 , in new york city . he attended new york university but “was a rotten student , ” he told the armenian reporter in 2008 , until he took a course in film writing and directing : “i got an a ! ”
“my first marriage didn’t work out but i definitely identified with what elizabeth was going through , ” camp said . “i was going through my divorce when we made this film and i wasn’t planning on getting married again when i shot this . it was emotional for me to watch this and to shoot . ”
“man on the moon” remains one of the most misunderstood great movies of the ’90s ( a lot of people just saw it as carrey doing kaufman’s greatest hits ) , because it’s really about how andy kaufman sacrificed his identity to showbiz — and , in doing so , became a herald for the age when entertainment would consume everything in its path , from our dreams to our identities . when kaufman wrestled women , coming on like bobby riggs on steroids and taunting the redneck crowds who turned out to see him , was it a put - on or was it a deep - down reflection of “the real andy” ? actually , it was the real andy pretending to be what he hated , and realizing that he loved being that way , but mostly because of the reaction it provoked .
the warden learns the shocking truth : for almost two decades , andy has been chiseling away at the wall with a rock hammer and hiding his handiwork behind a series of pinup posters procured by red , finally making his escape through the sewer pipes the night before .
“isabelle was actually the one who advocated for ( allen ) , ” baig said . “we let him read and we knew he was our guy but we played it off like ‘yeah he’s alright’ and then went into another room and were like ‘yes he’s ( andy ) ’” .
after another ten years , red does just that . he discovers that andy left him some spending money , as well as instructions on how to find him . the two friends are reunited on the beach in mexico , with one of most yearbook quote - worthy lines ever :
when i saw the film , i became one of its greatest champions ( it wound up being my movie of the year for 1999 ) , and carrey’s extraordinary performance vaulted over all my doubts . in “man on the moon , ” he nailed every nuance of andy kaufman ’s spirit , and he used his own mercurial quality as a comic to tease out the secret of kaufman’s genius , which is that he wasn’t just some dada tv art prankster crafting stunts to mess with your head . and he didn’t just want to make you laugh , either . he wanted to leave you amazed . he was , in that way , the very soul of showbiz .
anyway , he ' s sent to shawshank prison , where he ' s befriended by some total sweethearts , including a convicted murderer named red who eventually becomes his best bud . red ' s a guy who
knows how to get things ,
and andy asks him to get him a rock hammer to collect rocks—he ' s always been an amateur geology fan . red ' s glad to oblige . andy ' s also befriended by some guys who are . . . well , let ' s just say they don ' t want to examine rocks with him .
when reid tweeted the andy the talking hedgehog poster on friday , the internet went nuts . that was partly because the poster featured a hedgehog , two cats , dean cain , tara reid’s twitter profile pic manipulated to look slightly more wholesome and an unattributed quote calling it “a magical good time” . but it was also because the imdb plot summary for the film read “tara reid brings her oscar award - winning prowess to this documentary about a hedgehog that dean cain farted on giving it the ability to talk . it’s a fun - loving family movie that will for sure make you say “wowza . that’s a stinky fart ! ”’ that summary , incidentally , was attributed to scott baio .
the orlando bloom - esque ben winchell stars as max mcgrath , a shy 16 - year - old who’s sick of moving from town to town with his widowed mother , molly ( maria bello , whose mere presence is the only reason this movie gets half a star ) . at the film’s start , the two have just come back to the hometown of his late father ( mike doyle , seen in flashbacks ) , a scientist who died long ago in a mysterious , explosive accident . dad’s former partner , miles ( andy garcia , hamming it up big - time ) , who’s now in charge of the company the two built together , arrives soon afterward to help them get settled .
those glimpses feel especially important as you watch the film . they give a sense of the duration of the shooting of “empire , ” and of real people endlessly gazing out the window at the actual skyscraper — perfect avatars for those of us wallowing in the movie version . it’s the fact of that endless , parallel staring , by the filmmakers and us , that’s the real subject of this art work .
carrey , a jaw - dropping comic trailblazer of his own , grasped all that ; that’s why he captured kaufman so profoundly . but it wasn’t until i saw chris smith ’s ticklish and captivating documentary “ jim & andy : the great beyond — featuring a very special , contractually obligated mention of tony clifton , ” that i realized what the two comedic visionaries actually had in common . andy kaufman’s comedy emerged from his pathological role - playing , which was built around his weak sense of identity and his consuming need to create one . it turns out that jim carrey overlapped him in that department quite a bit .
one summer day in 1964 , he recalled , when he was out on the streets with a young warhol hanger - on named john palmer , they found themselves looking up at the empire state building . “i said to palmer : ‘this is a perfect warhol movie . why don’t you tell this to andy ? ’ and he did . ”
when it was announced in the late ’90s that jim carrey had been chosen to play andy kaufman in a major hollywood biopic , my gut reaction was skepticism . carrey , then at the height of his star power , was a brilliant comedian who had more than proved his acting chops ( in “the truman show” ) , yet both [ … ]
having cleared out the funds set up under randall stevens , andy absconds with over $ 300 , 000 of the warden ' s money , forwards the cooked account books to the local newspaper , and makes a bee line for mexico . the police come for the warden , who takes the coward ' s way out with a bullet to the brain .
that was fine ; she’d spent most of the interview revealing that she’s been the victim of bullying , so it would have felt cruel to directly follow that up with a sneery “hey tara , tell me about your dumb hedgehog movie” . but now andy the talking hedgehog is one of the hottest films on the planet , and i’m kicking myself a little .
in “jim & andy , ” we watch carrey submerge himself in the cantankerous , growly clifton mystique . on the days when they’re shooting tony clifton scenes , he refuses to break character , forcing miloš forman to give direction to this stunted , exhausting man who will not listen to a thing he says . carrey , like andy , revels in taking the joke too far . we see priceless footage of the night that tony showed up at the playboy mansion and partied with hugh hefner , who thought that he was in on the joke ; he presumed that he was hosting jim carrey . and then , after two hours , into the party walks…jim carrey ! hef turns white as a sheet , and tony clifton gets booted out of the party . but at that moment , he lives .
in the film , ex - cop , ex - racer and vietnam vet kowalski , played by barry newman , bets his drug dealer he can deliver a supercharged 1970 dodge challenger to california in 15 hours . the reasons for the wager are unclear , but it triggers 90 minutes worth of screaming police cruisers and an excited , crash - by - crash radio narration by super soul , a blind disc jockey played by cleavon little . kowalski also encounters desert hippies , a rattlesnake wrangler and an alluring , naked blond woman on a motorcycle .
after 20 years at shawshank , andy doesn ' t seem like himself . his buddies are worried , and he asks one of them for a length of rope . he seems to be telling red . . . goodbye . one morning , he doesn ' t make it out of his cell for roll call . red fears the worst , but astonishingly , he isn ' t in there at all .
you’d expect that after hour 3 or 4 of “empire , ” you’d be ready to slit your wrists , but the movie turns out to be gripping . if great works of art can be thought of as machines for thinking , triggering ideas by the dozen , then “empire” is a rolls - royce : it keeps us thinking about what film is and does , what great buildings are all about and even how and why we look at things . jotting down my thoughts minute by minute , i ended up writing more than 5 , 000 words .
the level on which to take
andy ,
a drama of a mentally deficient man , written and directed by richard c . sarafian , which opened at the beekman yesterday , is that of the small , special picture that doesn ' t pretend to the large amenities , but aims to tell only a modest story and to do it sensitively and well . on that level , which view full article in timesmachine »
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with his considerable accounting skills , andy begins helping warden norton and the guards with their taxes and other financial issues , and he ' s suddenly vaulted into the position of teacher ' s pet . he gets shown so much favoritism that the guards end up having his back , even going so far as to , uh , take care of another inmate who doesn ' t seem able to take
no
for an answer .
no journalist likes to admit this , but i recently blew a scoop . last month i had to interview tara reid about sharknado 5 . i’d planned to ask her about some of her upcoming roles – in films with titles such as party bus to hell , united colors of bennett song and andy the talking hedgehog – but before i could get there , reid cut me off with what sounded like a well - practised wrap - up speech .
carrey’s comedy , too , erupted out of him like an alternate personality , and he grew up riddled with insecurities ( like a lot of performers ) . but once he got famous , something inside him snapped . nice , grinning , friendly canadian jim divided off from dark , weird , troubled , who - am - i ? jim . channeling andy kaufman was a catharsis for him , because it put him in touch with his inner split personality .
production : andy warhol films ; black and white and eastmancolor , 16mm ; running time : 195 minutes , other versions are 210 and 205 minutes . released 15 september 1966 ; uncut reels were projected side by side ; in the general release version , the 1st reel appeared screen right , and a few minutes later , the second appeared screen left . filmed 1966 in the chelsea hotel , new york city ; other parts of new york city ; and cambridge , massachusetts .
except that he cherished that reaction more than anything , so maybe it was the real him . or maybe there was no real him . in one of the greatest scenes in “man on the moon , ” carrey , as kaufman , as tony clifton gets up on stage and does his unspeakable rendition of “i’ve gotta be me . ” it’s bottom - of - the - barrel sentimental showbiz hooey , but it’s all built around a conundrum : who , exactly , is me ? “jim & andy : the great beyond” shows you that the answer is a grand illusion .
on the set of “man on the moon , ” he went full daniel day - lewis , staying in character when the cameras were turned off . this meant , much of the time , that he was sweet , mild , tentative andy and therefore easy to deal with . but it also meant that when the salty - tempered professional wrestler jerry lawler showed up to do his scenes , carrey - as - andy would harass him in the same way that kaufman used to — except that as we see , the mockery was even more scathing . in the ’80s , kaufman and lawler went at each other like a blue red / red state nuclear meltdown , but lawler was in on the joke ; off camera , as he explains on the set , kaufman was nice as pie . that’s what he expected from carrey , but instead carrey would push lawler’s buttons , asking him if he’d stolen his bejeweled cape from elvis or saying “once again , proving darwin’s theory…” he kept pushing them , even after he’d crossed the line , provoking lawler to fits of rage . to stay in character , carrey , as kaufman , became a method pest .
the remaining passengers are now waking up—including the captain , inexplicably played by andy garcia ( he has zero lines and perhaps six seconds of screen time . ) after emerging from their pods , they notice the ship has been transformed into a forest of sorts—as jim and aurora have stayed together and planted vegetation and raised animals and lived happily ever after on the ship because love always wins and that a man can get away with being a creep to a woman as long as he saves that woman’s life at least once . and now they’re dead . stockholm syndrome is real , and it is spectacular .
when it was announced in the late ’90s that jim carrey had been chosen to play andy kaufman in a major hollywood biopic , my gut reaction was skepticism . carrey , then at the height of his star power , was a brilliant comedian who had more than proved his acting chops ( in “the truman show” ) , yet both temperamentally and ethnically he seemed wrong for the part : kaufman was a doughy nerdy jewish space cadet , carrey a hypomanic string - bean wasp . i knew that carrey had the talent to “impersonate” anyone , but could he really merge with kaufman’s antic yet morose there - but - not - quite - there quality ?
smith interviews carrey the same way that he did the dystopian journalist michael ruppert in “collapse” — one direct shot , never varying , a kind of errol morris approach — and it works beautifully , since carrey is a hypnotic talker who opens himself up to the camera . he has a stoned zen view of life that’s easy to mock but is , in fact , quite reality - based , and he’s up front about what an immersive toll the kaufman movie took on him . after it wrapped , r . e . m . tried to get carrey to go back into his kaufman guise to shoot the video for “the great beyond , ” and he refused . once he’d disentangled himself from andy , he couldn’t take going back .
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director richard sarafian was best known for 1971’s car - chase thriller “vanishing point . ” ( ap / ap )
mr . sarafian was recovering from a broken back when he contracted pneumonia , family members said .
he directed numerous films and , earlier in his career , tv shows , including episodes of “gunsmoke , ” “the twilight zone” and “batman . ” he also acted , appearing as a hit man named vinnie in the warren beatty satire “bulworth” and as gangster jack dragna in beatty’s “bugsy . ”
in “dr . doolittle 2 , ” mr . sarafian did a comic turn as the voice of the god beaver , who ran the forest like a mafia don with buck teeth .
but it was “vanishing point , ” the story of a tough guy named kowalski and his frenzied road trip from denver to san francisco , that proved to be mr . sarafian’s most enduring work .
“i had absolutely no idea that this thing would survive all these years , ” he told the web site urltoken in 2009 . “we worked hard in the hot sun and we partied at night . you just hope , like everything , that you blow the audience a few kisses and try to fulfill your vision of what it’s about
freedom , an endless road and let the cards fall where they may . ”
in quentin tarantino’s “death proof , ” the director gave mr . sarafian a “special thanks” credit , a bow to the influence of “vanishing point . ”
in 1997 , the scottish rock band primal scream paid tribute to mr . sarafian by naming an album “vanishing point . ”
“it’s always been a favorite of the band , ” leader bobby gillespie explained . “we love the air of paranoia and speed - freak righteousness . ”
“the beauty of ‘vanishing point’ was that i met the challenge to physicalize speed , ” he told turner classic movies .
serving during the korean war as a reporter for an army news service , he was stationed for a time in kansas city , mo . , where he met future hollywood director robert altman .
the two became pals and worked together making industrial films . when altman directed a local play , mr . sarafian acted in it . the director’s sister came bounding backstage after he appeared , her arms opened wide .
they married ( and divorced and remarried ) and had five children . helen joan altman died two years ago .
mr . sarafian got his start in tv as altman’s assistant but quickly established himself as a director . the 1963 ““living doll” episode for “the twilight zone” was one of his more famous efforts .
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the story of a mentally handicapped middle - aged man and how he , and his elderly parents who must take care of him , manage to get along in new york city .
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influential arab diplomat becomes the target of numerous assassination attempts , when he announces his plan to make peace with israel by letting them join the organization of the petroleum exporting countries ( opec ) .
reformed drug addict tim brett is holidaying in italy with his aunt . when she is murdered , he tries to investigate , and soon his whole life is out of control .
in this western , a mexican gunslinger is injured trying to save his son and put into prison . when he ' s released , he ' s got revenge on his mind .
western story about a defiant wife who leaves her husband to take up riding with outlaws .
in the early 1970s , a young woman passing through rural tennessee unintentionally gets caught in a feud between two local neighboring clans , the feathers and the gutshalls .
award : grand prix inter - clubs du cinéma 1966 , france ( tied with kaneto shindo ' s
onibaba
) .
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girl in the bunker : based on a true story ( 2018 ) henry thomas ( e . t . ) moira kelly ( cutting edge )
director : chris smith with : jim carrey . release date : sep 5 , 2017
then , of course , there’s tony clifton . the portly , grunting , stupendously coarse and vulgar lounge lizard , in his pastel tuxedos and sunglasses he never took off , with his lips jutting out , his whole coiffed head bent forward like a broken telescope , was kaufman’s greatest creation . he was an “entertainer” with the personality of a bronx cab driver , an insult comic who hurled insults at people that barely rose to the level of comedy . but that become a loose - cannon id for kaufman , who was liberated by the disguise . there was something so authentic about tony — he was every fourth - rate vegas nightclub host of the ’60s rolled into one seedy ball of non - talent — that he literally took on an identity of his own . kaufman and his partner bob zmuda would take turns putting on the elaborate jowly makeup and playing him , so that tony was more than a walking bad joke about a guy who told bad jokes . he simply…existed . ( which just heightened the joke . )
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crew : director : chris smith . camera ( color , widescreen ) : brantley gutierrez . editor : barry poltermann .
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serkis’ directorial debut “ breathe , ” which will screen in east hampton as the sunday centerpiece of the festival , stars andrew garfield and clarie foy in a story about a man and his wife who defy the medical establishment in order to live life to the fullest after garfield’s character contracts polio at age 28 . serkis is on tap to attend the festival .
also joining hiff’s 25th anniversary lineup is “lbj , ” starring woody harrelson as the titular president and directed by rob reiner , who will participate in the festival’s “a conversation with…” series of live talks . ai weiwei’s immigrant documentary “human flow , ” ruben ostlund’s palme d’or winner “the square” and atsuko hirayanagi’s dramedy “oh lucy ! ” are also among the films on tap .
collette will attend the festival in support of iraq war drama “the yellow birds , ” and cumming will be there with “after louise , ” a drama about a new york artist who survives the city’s aids epidemic .
as previously announced , the 2017 hamptons fest will honor julie andrews in an event that includes a screening of “victor / victoria . ” also presented that weekend is variety’s 10 actors to watch , which this year includes timothee chalamet , daveed diggs and danielle macdonald , among others .
sharknado 5’s tara reid : ‘it can get abusive . there’s a lot of bullying’
a parent’s worst nightmare formed my way into the machinations of be your own hollywood . some light googling revealed both a trailer , introduced by footage of dean cain talking into his phone , and an indiegogo page that successfully funded its $ 10 , 000 target , possibly because it offered the role of “dean cain’s wife” as a reward for donations .
according to imdb , reisig is also a boxer , a member of the libertarian party and he once scored 150 on an iq test . he has not responded to requests for an interview .
aside from puppies and dean cain , the be your own hollywood films all have one thing in common ; they’re cheap genre movies churned out specifically to sell to cable channels and streaming services . they won’t win any awards , but they presumably make money and form reliable work for a number of actors who might otherwise struggle . they’re also produced in a very modern way – financed through crowdfunding , promoted through social media – that would have been unthinkable even a decade ago . reisig saw an opening and went for it , and you can’t deny him that .
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it turns out leonardo dicaprio’s jack dawson didn’t have to die in the atlantic after all . we list some other films that take suspension of disbelief a plot point too far
titanic . . . kate winslet has revealed there was some room on the lifeboat . photograph : allstar picture library
admitted this week that in the climactic scene , her co - star , leonardo dicaprio , could have fitted on that raft after all , meaning his character jack dawson shivered to death in the atlantic unnecessarily . swizz . so in a spirit of cinematic truth - telling , here are 10 more movie plot holes we’d like closure on please…
too busy flirting . . . humphrey bogart and lauren bacall in the big sleep . photograph : courtesy everett collection / rex
who actually dunnit ? amid all the double - crossing and flirty fast - talking of the bogart ’n’ bacall noir , we never learn who killed the chauffeur owen taylor . during filming , director howard hawks wired author raymond chandler , who replied : “damned if i know . ”
a key premise of the pixar action comedy is that square - jawed space ranger buzz lightyear doesn’t believe he’s a toy . so how come he still freezes like the others when a human enters the room ?
time - travelling teen marty mcfly ( michael j fox ) interferes in the events of 1955 to change his family’s future . so why don’t his parents george and lorraine remember “ calvin klein ” , who matchmade them and inspired george’s sci - fi career ? and who also looks exactly like their son ?
a beautiful moment in tim burton’s twisted fairytale comes when heartbroken edward ( johnny depp ) creates spectacular ice sculptures in the attic . where did he get the huge blocks of ice ?
orson welles as charles foster kane in citizen kane . photograph : sportsphoto ltd / allstar
“ rosebud . ” the mysterious final utterance of newspaper tycoon charles foster kane ( orson welles ) sparks a search for its meaning . except kane died alone . so who heard his dying words ?
in the heist flick that hailed quentin tarantino ’s arrival , a mexican standoff sees joe cabot’s gun aimed at mr orange , mr white’s gun aimed at joe and nice guy eddie’s gun aimed at mr white . bang , bang , bang and all fall down . so who shot nice guy eddie ?
in x - men : the last stand ( 2006 ) , phoenix aka jean grey is tearing reality apart . skin rips from wolverine’s body but his trousers remain intact . see also hulk , who bursts out of everything except his slacks . anyone would think comic books were coy about super - penises .
actor ' s failed rap star , named conner4real , who attempts to reform his old cheesy pop boy band .
the musical group are renowned for their comedy songs
like a boss
,
i just had sex
and
d * ck in a box ,
the latter of which featured justin timberlake .
popstar : never stop never stopping will also star sarah silverman , imogen poots and the inbetweeners actor james buckley who ' ll play sponge , a member of connor4real ' s entourage .
he could even be tough on his audiences , especially with his films : he gave fans almost 45 minutes of a painter eating a mushroom , 76 minutes of an actor shaking his rear , more than five hours of a boyfriend sleeping and , to top it all , “empire” — eight hours straight of the empire state building , doing nothing .
on the screening’s first weekend , i showed up prepared : coconut water , sandwiches , an apple and some old christmas cookies — as well as a caffeine - spiked energy drink . only that last item was never called for .
there were dumb moments ( “back from 2 min . bathroom break . what did i miss ? ! ” ) and ones that felt smart at the time ( “the e . s . b . used to be lit as a monument , in honor of its presence and importance as a building . now , covered in leds , it has become like a times square mega - screen , advertising itself , and n . y . c . ” ) but what’s surprising is that , for all its vast length , “empire” doesn’t leave you with that many blank moments .
warhol arranged access to an office on the 41st floor of the time & life building , at 50th street and avenue of the americas . he , mr . mekas and mr . palmer , along with a few others , found themselves in a darkened room , with a rented 16 - millimeter arriflex camera pointing at the world’s tallest building , 16 blocks south .
the shoot lasted about six and a half hours , but warhol always intended his movie — silent , black and white , and filmed at the standard 24 frames a second — to be screened at about three - quarters speed . “he wanted that touch of unreality , to take it out of naturalism , ” mr . mekas said .
at fuentes , the screening , at 18 frames a second , takes just over seven hours , while a 1960s projector would have slowed it to 16 frames a second , taking eight hours . warhol , the working - class boy from pittsburgh , made a movie that asks us to sit for the length of a worker’s shift .
( the longest anyone else sat with me in the gallery screening was seven minutes . you understand as much from viewing such a tiny segment of “empire” as you would from viewing just a postage - stamp patch on the mona lisa . )
when you’re paying attention to more or less nothing , small details start to loom . turns out you can tell the time in the movie by the beacon on top of the met life tower , which flashes with each hour like a tolling church bell . and it seems amazing that a work that’s all about passing time should include such a perfect means of marking it .
warhol , mr . campbell’s soup , was always a master of important triviality , and he gets us to care more about little things , like a flash bulb’s firing from the empire state’s summit , or its floodlights turning on and off at dusk and 2 a . m . , than the great structure itself . in its dependable presence , hour after hour , it ends up having the cozy appeal of a house cat asleep beside us .
“empire” is shown starting at 11 a . m . wednesday through sunday through jan . 26 at the james fuentes gallery , 55 delancey street , between allen and eldridge streets , lower east side ; 212 - 577 - 1201 , jamesfuentes . com .
cast :
the pope ondine story
—ondine ( pope ) ; angelina davis ( pepper ) ; ingrid superstar ; albert rené ricard ; mary might ; international velvet ; ronna .
the duchess
—brigid polk .
the john
— ed hood ( ed ) ; patrick flemming ( patrick ) ; mario montez ( transvestite ) ; angelina
pepper
davis ; international velvet ; mary might ; gerard malanga ; albert rené ricard ; ingrid superstar .
hanoi hanna ( queen of china )
—mary might ( hanoi hanna ) ; international velvet ; ingrid superstar ; angelina
pepper
davis .
the gerard malanga story
—marie menken ( mother ) ; gerard malanga ( son ) ; mary might ( girlfriend ) .
the trip
and
their town ( toby short )
—eric emerson .
afternoon
—edie sedgwick ( edie ) ; ondine ; arthur loeb ; donald lyons ; dorothy dean .
the closet
— nico ; randy borscheidt .
reel 1
—eric emerson ; ari .


the battle of stalingrad ( russian : сталинградская битва ) is a 1949 two-part soviet epic war film about the battle of stalingrad , directed by vladimir petrov .

the script was written by nikolai virta .

the battle of stalingrad ( film )

film / location : taking stalingrad : the battle of stalingrad has been refought in prague by a german film crew and 12 , 000 extras . joanna berry reports
narrator : the battle of stalingrad is known as one of the pivotal actions of world war ii .
film / location : taking stalingrad : the battle of stalingrad has been refought in prague by a german film crew and 12 , 000 extras . joanna berry reports | the independent
the world war 2 battle of stalingrad from the initial attack to the repatriation of the survivors after the war .
movie review : the battle of stalingrad . . . in 3 - d - the boston globe
the wwii pivotal battle of stalingrad is shown through the eyes of the soldiers and officers on both sides of the war .
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a russian and a german sniper play a game of cat - and - mouse during the battle of stalingrad .
germany’s invasion of the soviet union in 1941 was the largest troop offensive in military history . and the battle of stalingrad is arguably the deadliest single battle the world has ever seen .
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soviet storm : world war ii — in the east . ep . 7 . the battle of stalingrad . starmedia
the battle of stalingrad was a titanic clash between two of the world’s most infamous dictators : joseph stalin and adolf hitler .
director fedor bondarchuk tackles the bloodiest battle of world war ii in russia ' s first 3d imax film .
stalingrad is a 1993 war drama film directed by joseph vilsmaier . the movie follows a platoon of world war ii german army soldiers transferred to russia , where they ultimately find themselves fighting in the battle of stalingrad .
the film is the second german movie to portray the battle of stalingrad . it was predated by the 1959 hunde , wollt ihr ewig leben ( stalingrad : dogs , do you want to live forever ? ) .
david glantz : the impact of the battle of stalingrad on the course and outcome of world war two , in particular the soviet - german portion of the war is fundamental . it is fundamental because the battle of stalingrad clearly indicated to all involved that germany was going to lose the war .
kevin farrell : if you had to pick the most important battle of the second world war , stalingrad stands at the top .
teenage civilian katya ( mariya smolnikova ) shares a ruined apartment with a gang of soviet soldiers during the battle of stalingrad in fedor bondarchuk ' s stalingrad . sony pictures hide caption
the film’s producers actually cobbled together the money to make the film largely from russian government sources .
some veterans of the battle depicted in the movie hated its inaccuracies so much they called on russia to ban the film outright .
to rehabilitate that particular era of german film , the festival del film locarno ( august 3 - 13 ) and the german film institute have compiled an extensive retrospective on german postwar film .
film : 70th anniversary of the battle of stalingrad film show : - hurricanes to murmansk ( 2011 , atoll productions for the raf russia association with the support of the raf historical society ) - normandie - niéman ( dir . jean dréville , 1960 , mosfilm studios and alkan film , francolondonfilms )
stalingrad is a film that focuses on the battle of stalingrad that took place from august 23 1942 to february 2 1943 and was one of the worst battles of world war ii in terms of bloodshed . the city of stalingrad was fought for control of by the nazi german forces and fellow axis allies against the soviet union . this battle was one of the most defining moments of the second world war because the german army suffered some of the most severe causalities of the entire war .
film : the battle for moscow , part ii : typhoon ( dir . yuri ozerov , 1985 , ussr )
film : the battle for moscow , part i : aggression ( dir . yuri ozerov , 1985 , ussr )
the battle of stalingrad is known as one of the most pivotal actions of world war ii . for decades after the war , the battle was seen as a victory for stalin , whose carefully executed withdrawal baited hitler ' s army into a battle that slowly decimated the german forces . but now , newly - released archives are revealing a very different picture of the battle that changed the course of history .
if you want details about the battle itself , try
stalingrad : dogs , do you want to live forever ,
but if you ' re simply searching for a great film , try the subtitled version of this film .
beautifully shot and poorly dubbed , this 1993 film follows a group of german soldiers through the famous battle of stalingrad in an episodic format that includes tank battles , factory - storming , and starvation .
when it became clear that the film had become a hit , the film’s producers began something of a victory lap .
on the morning of december 12th , the 6th army heard the distant sounds of battle as manstein’s men approached .
less well known than the 1993
stalingrad ,
this 1958 version traces the changes wrought upon one german lieutenant by the terrible battle .
so on january 31st , 1943 , paulus defied his fuehrer and walked into captivity . the battle for stalingrad was effectively over .
locarno film festival digs up postwar german classics | film | dw | 01 . 08 . 2016
the story follows a group of german soldiers , from their italian r & r ; in the summer of 1942 to the frozen steppes of soviet russia and ending with the battle for stalingrad .
a depiction of the brutal battle of stalingrad , the third reich ' s ' high water mark ' , as seen through the eyes of german officer hans von witzland and his battalion .
pyotr fyodorov and mariya smolnikova ( below ) in a scene from the russian world war ii film “stalingrad . ”
the film was directed by german director joseph vilsmaier and focuses on a group of german soldiers as they deal with the conflicts they endure during and after the battle . each of the germans of the platoon must deal with their actions and how each of them will be affected . throughout the movie , there are also numerous occasions where germans commit heinous acts during and after the battle of stalingrad . the battle of stalingrad was one of the most brutal in all of history and especially wwii in terms of civilian and military casualties and the movie’s depiction of this violence is accurate to some degree .
a scene from fyodr bondarchuk ' s
stalingrad ,
which tells the russian side of the battle against the germans that left more than a million people dead .
the battle has been previously given film adaptations , most notably in the 1993 movie
stalingrad ,
directed by german filmmaker joseph vilsmaier . however , a new effort from director fyodor bondarchuk tells the story of the battle from the perspective of the eventual victors , and the $ 30 million film represents the first fully 3d russian movie and the first non - american movie shot for imax 3d .
narrator : the pivotal battle raged across the ukraine and southern russia during the second half of 1942 . it ended in a bloody war of attrition in - and - around the frozen city of stalingrad .
nevertheless , with actual footage of the battle blended seamlessly into the main film , it ' s still strong stuff and a solid compliment to the color equivalent .
furthermore , whatever stalin ' s sins , there was no question as to the proper attitude of marxists toward defense of the soviet union . they would not have been indifferent as to the outcome of the battle of stalingrad .
stalingrad is far from a perfect war film , but it does add up to an overall gratifying visual experience .
of course , the movie appeals to russian nationalism—russians are deservedly extremely proud of victory at “stalingrad . ”
the film establishes itself as a work of national pride wrapped in the form of a heritage spectacle .
the battle of stalingrad lasted for months and the russian victory in 1943 led the way for the allied victory in world war ii . estimates of casualties on both sides are up to 2 million soldiers and civilians . superlative descriptions like
the bloodiest battle ever fought
or
turning point in the war
would make the battle immediately cinematic if the historical reality was not so intensely brutal .
, feature film , usa , 1962 , dir . rudolph maté , moderated by dr . adam muller ( english / film ) : a colorful action film about the battle of thermopylae in 480 b . c . in which the spartans defend themselves for a persian invasion against overwhelming odds .
the story of the battle of iwo jima between the united states and imperial japan during world war ii , as told from the perspective of the japanese who fought it .
stuntmen dressed as soldiers among the extras set off each explosion to help add to the random chaos of the battle sequences .
fedor bondarchuk ' s bloody battle epic celebrates the excesses of war cinema far more effectively than it does the heroism of his countrymen .
if you ' re only going to see one film about the battle of stalingrad — and there are many — stalingrad would be the wrong choice . russian director fedor bondarchuk ' s treatment of the world war ii turning point is shallow and contrived , if sometimes impressively staged . the movie wins points , however , for sheer wackiness .
in the winter of 1943 , against the background of battle scenes , a young german lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war .
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in 1993 the film won bavarian film awards for best cinematography , best editing and best production . [ 2 ] it was also entered into the 18th moscow international film festival . [ 3 ]
stalingrad . replaced in december 2014 with a new version including lots of archive research .
the contact person for representations of war research cluster is dr . adam muller of the department of english , film & theatre .
david glantz : what’s unique about the battle of stalingrad in terms of source materials today is that we now have ground truth on the battle . i mean the records of those armies and soldiers who participated in the fighting . for example , in the case of the german records we now have daily records of german 6th army , which had been lost for over 50 years .
- the history of stalingrad “stalingrad is the scene of the costliest and most stubborn battle in this war . the battle fought there to its desperate finish may turn out to be among the decisive battles in the long history of war…in the scale of its intensity , its destructiveness , and its horror , stalingrad has no parallel . it engaged the full strength of the two biggest armies in europe and could fit into no lesser framework than that of a life - and death conflict which encompasses the earth” new york times , february 4 , 1943 the battle fought between the soviet red army and the nazi wehrmacht over the “city of stalin” for four long months in the fall and winter of 1942 - 3 stands as not only t . . . [ tags : stalingrad war battles european history essays ]
but the field marshall , whose battle plan had conquered most of western europe , could not break through the soviet ring .
film : generation of conquerors ( dir . vera stroyeva , 1936 , ussr )
film : the fourth year of the war ( dir . g nikolaiyenko , 1983 , ussr )
many movie fans see munich as germany ' s true home of film . with the 2018 munich film festival in full swing , we talked to munich film museum director stefan drössler about great films set in the bavarian capital .
for many german film fans , bavaria is the heart of the german movie industry . still , the region ' s role in film history also draws criticism with strong political echoes . dw takes a look as the munich film festival rolls .
narrator : the battle for stalingrad lasted more than seven months . it resulted in more than 750 , 000 soviet casualties , and more than 850 , 000 from the axis lines .
he added , “we saw in ‘stalingrad’ that very source and were happy that our call to watch the film with our hearts has echoed with the interests of viewers . ”
paulus’s next objective was to capture the land - bridge that let into stalingrad .
on september 13th , 1942 , the 6th army finally attacked in force . the battle for the city was on .
in filming “stalingrad , ” mr . bondarchuk said that the outsize production of the film , especially his demands that it be shot in 3 - d , were an attempt to capture what he called the skaz , something between a tale and a myth , of stalingrad .
nevertheless , it ' s a hugely atmospheric piece with stunning battle scenes and the central plot –focused on a sniper battle between a russian hero and a german officer –is loosely based on real life .
15 minutes of introduction will be followed by the film screening and a public discussion on the film & and its relation to representations of war . open to the public , everybody is welcome .
the tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans . it represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show .
the film is set during the landmark battle in world war ii , which is widely considered the turning point of the war on the eastern front and among the bloodiest battles in history . for six months in 1942 and 1943 , stalin threw the brunt of his army into his namesake city to stop the advance of hitler’s forces in what became “a personal duel by mass proxy” between the two leaders , the historian anthony beevor wrote in his history of the battle , “stalingrad : the fateful siege . ”
the third film from this list set in stalingrad ,
enemy at the gates
was lambasted upon release for historical inaccuracy and a mushy love story .
the russians , however , persevered willing to give a hard fight before dying and enduring amidst most difficult times . some soldiers even described the battleground as ten times worse than hell . the film about the battle directed by fyodor bondarchuk was about the men who dared enter the hell on earth as both sides fought to defend stalingrad for hitler’s army . imax 3d brought to life the characters , scenes and the intense battle with their technology with the objective of bringing the audience to the same battle ground almost 70 years in november 1942 .
sviblova said of the film ,
the tickets will tell us if it is a winner .
stalingrad is an epic look at the battle that turned the tide of world war ii . a band of determined russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless german army , and in the process become deeply connected to two russian women who have been living there . presented in imax 3d , the scale of the battle contrasts dramatically with the human drama of the russian soldiers , the few remaining civilians and their invaders into stalingrad . ( c ) sony worldwide
historically , the battle of stalingrad was one of the worst in terms of civilian and military casualties and was also an iconic turning point in the war . stalingrad is at times both historically accurate and fictionalized to make the movie more appealing . the statistics displayed in the film and the statistics of the actual battle were very similar . the movie stated that over a million people died in the conflict , starved to death , or froze and the actual statistics say that 1 . 7 - 2 million casualties were actually suffered by the axis and the soviets . reasons behind the immense amounts of deaths was because of the close combat situations that w . . .
an american military advisor embraces the samurai culture he was hired to destroy after he is captured in battle .
narrator : the bombing continued for days . the civilian death toll exceeded 200 , 000 . more civilians died in the battle of stalingrad , than in the nuclear attacks on hiroshima and nagasaki combined . the city was reduced to rubble .
in july of 1942 , soviet resistance was crumbling , and hitler’s troops were driving towards stalingrad .
the german film
stalingrad
and sam peckinpah ' s
cross of iron
use many sh trademarks though ( and they are both far superior to
wheels of terror
) .
david glantz : the soviets suffered appalling casualties at the battle of kotluban , both in terms of personnel and in terms of tanks , however , the net effect of this was that paulus’ 6th army now faced the dismal prospect of reducing stalingrad city primarily with infantry since 14th panzer corps’ tanks were tied up elsewhere .
the english subtitles on the print screened at the rome film festival ( out of competition ) often verged on the incomprehensible .
the battle of stalingrad had a different character since most noncombatants were evacuated across the volga before the worst fighting began . therefore , any book on the subject would tend to be focused on the battle itself rather than the texture of everyday life under siege . this is certainly the case with antony beevor ' s
stalingrad , the fateful siege : 1942 - 1943
that was published . although beevor was not sympathetic to the left , his book is a useful introduction to the enormous struggle of the soviet people .
anticipating the impending collapse of the soviet union , hitler modified operation blue . first , he ordered the 6th army to seize stalin’s namesake—the city of stalingrad .
this is an epic look at the battle that turned the tide of world war ii . a band of determined russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless german army , and in the process become deeply connected to two russian women who have been living there . the scale of the battle contrasts dramatically with the human drama of the russian soldiers , the few remaining civilians and their invaders into stalingrad .
at the time of release , the $ 90 million movie was the most expensive foreign - funded film ever made .
stalingrad ( сталинград ) is a 2013 russian world war ii 3d action - romance - drama film by fedor bondarchuk , the son of director sergei bondarchuk . it stars petr fedorov , thomas kretschmann , and alexey barabash . it was billed as being the first russian movie to use imax technology . the movie takes place during the historical battle of stalingrad ( currently known as volgograd ) , and is particularly inspired by the actions of yakov pavlov .
film : the brest fortress ( dir . alexander kott , 2010 , russia )
film : the immortal garrison ( dir . z agranenko , 1956 , ussr )
film : the crucified island ( dir . shota munagadze , 1968 , ussr )
film : the first glove ( dir . a frolov , 1946 , ussr )
. the production value of “stalingrad” is as good as anything in the war - film genre that hollywood majors put out . the most frequently visited parts of the huge bombed - out city on film were a massive constructed set , while the rest of the city was created with very high - quality compositing . moreover , the flamethrower shots in several of the battle scenes are better than any hollywood action film set pieces in recent memory . these are all phenomenal achievements for an industry that lacks the established financing structure and centrality of talent that make possible the two superpowers of big - budget production , los angeles and mumbai .
event : central asian film day - film : you’re not an orphan ( dir . shukhrat abbasov , 1963 , uzbekfilm ) - film : aksuat ( dir . serik aprymov , 1997 , east cinemas ltd , kazakhstan )
an adaptation of homer ' s great epic , the film follows the assault on troy by the united greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved .
the battle for stalingrad was very critical . it was one of the most significant episodes in world war ii . the russians bore witness to the horror of wehrmacht doing the excellent job of destroying everything in its way . the nazi invasion in the 1941 operation barbarossa resulted to the capturing of two million soviet army prisoners . many of them were deliberately starved to death .
olga sviblova , the director of mamm , curated the exhibition of photographs of film production , which she calls
meta - documents ,
said the movie could also serve an educational function . the photo leading into exhibition is emmanuil yevzerikhin ' s iconic shot of 1942 stalingrad , showing a statue of children playing around a crocodile juxtaposed with burning buildings in the background . sviblova has hopes that the attention given to the film will communicate the battle to a new generation — and to those abroad who do not know about russia’s large part in the war — in a language they understand . mamm , which hosted an exhibition of both russian and german photographs from the battle earlier this year , has teamed up with the moscow house of photography and
stalingrad
to show pictures of the actual battle from their archives at museums and theaters in the regions .
people will see the difference between the reality and the cinematic reality ,
sviblova said .
russian directors , this time , steal the spot light with their own version of the war . but while scenes in the movies are directed , rehearsed and artificially simulated , the real war was a real carnage . a woman soldier fancied the war to be a scene of fire , crying children , scampering cats but when she got to stalingrad , the sight was worse . russians consider stalingrad one of the most famous battle in their history . the 3d film inspired by the battle is one of biggest box office hits in the country of all time . with the film , audiences can get to see the war as experienced by the russians . the three dimensional effects do well in making the war scenes including fire fights , close encounters , bombings more real life .
the story of the first major battle of the american phase of the vietnam war , and the soldiers on both sides that fought it , while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news .
inspiration and sources for the final segment of the film came largely from steven pinker ' s the better angels of our nature . buy at amazon
the battle of stalingrad , which cost the lives of at least a million german soldiers , red army troops and soviet civilians , was the bloodiest of the decisive battles in the
war of extermination
which hitler had unleashed . the annihilation of the german sixth army brought home to many germans with a terrible shock the fact that , despite the propaganda which filled their ears , the war would inevitably be lost in the end . for both germany and russia , stalingrad signified the psychological turning point in world war ii . this three - part documentary , employing previously unreleased film footage and brutally frank statements from survivors on both sides , explains exactly how the catastrophe came about and describes the gruesome consequences of the battle for the soldiers and the inhabitants of the city .
the film ' s epilogue gives some stark statistics for the battle for stalingrad . more than a million people were killed in action , starved or froze to death . out of the sixth army ' s 260 , 000 men , 91 , 000 were taken prisoner . out of those , only 6 , 000 returned home years later .
narrator : by late afternoon , the 6th army gazed down upon the volga from stalingrad’s northern suburbs .
this is the first russian production to be presented in imax 3 - d , technology that doesn ' t add much to the film but does distinguish it from the 1989 russian stalingrad ( which starred fedor bondarchuk ) and the 1993 german stalingrad ( which starred thomas kretschmann ) .
secrets of the dead : deadliest battle uncovers the evidence that describes a forced retreat by the russians , not a tactical one , in addition to much fiercer fighting in the countryside than previously thought . and the battle not only changed the course of world war ii , but established the soviet union as a superpower to be reckoned with in the long cold war that lay ahead . more than a half - century later , the full impact of this horrific battle is revealed .
lecture : john riley on the music of prokofiev film : heroes of shipka ( dir . s vasiliev , 1954 , ussr )
in the movie , a group of soviet soldiers protect a young woman while hiding in a house in occupied stalingrad .
in an interview with the march 16 , 2001 minneapolis star tribune , jean - jacques annaud said ,
you ' ll never believe me , but when i started this , i thought to myself , ' what a great little film , '
he added ,
i read this anecdote about two snipers dueling during the battle of stalingrad , and i was struck by this tiny , tiny , tiny story ' s repercussions on the course of history .
and so he proceeded to make a film in which the battle of stalingrad is reduced to a duel between a russian and german sniper , played respectively by jude law and ed harris .
narrator : wuster and his men won that battle , but going after lost tanks was not a repeatable strategy . what had once looked like a cakewalk into stalingrad , had become a titanic struggle .
film : the centre forward ( dir . derevyansky and zemgano , 1946 , ussr )
the
336 pionier - bataillon
was a historical unit that also fought in stalingrad in the
336 . infanterie - division
. the battalion arrived at stalingrad on the 8th of november 1942 . the division was disbanded in 1944 .
it ' s one of the stalin movies , a series of overweening epics that included chiaureli ' s the vow ( 1946 ) and the unforgettable year 1919 ( 1952 ) and vladimir petrov ' s the battle of stalingrad ( 1950 ) . these movies typically received the stalin prize , unsurprisingly , and were seen by millions of moviegoers .
stalingrad is the story of a small group of soviet soldiers marooned in an abandoned apartment complex during the the city’s infamous siege . the movie starts and ends very big—opening with huge crowd shots of
at the factory site , people are milling around waiting for filming to begin . already on set are the cast , crew , director vilsmaier and hans schoenbeck , the film ' s adviser , who was one of the few survivors of the real stalingrad .
if only someone would put the same amount of energy into a sven film that they did with
stalingrad
which was very authentic looking - including the right tanks ( wheels of terror uses some old tractor or something ) .
' few films have been made about stalingrad , yet it was the bloodiest battle in war history , ' says vilsmaier , who , very sensibly , is virtually invisible under a heavy hooded jacket and scarf . ' it was an important battle , the turning point of world war ii . the germans thought they would cut through russia like a knife through butter and move on into india . unfortunately for them , after a three - month siege of the town , stalingrad was the setting for the germans ' first big defeat of the war .
david glantz : if you examine these records , records that weren’t available to previous historians , you can identify certain misconceptions that pertain to how and why the battle was conducted , and the outcome of the battle overall . we can now take these misconceptions and convert them into truths .
kevin farrell : throughout germany once news of the defeat at stalingrad was announced to the german people , that hundreds of thousands of german families that had soldiers engaged in the battle , they knew what that meant . they knew they had lost their sons , they had lost their husbands , that he was not coming home , in a way that no other battle or campaign had touched all of germany at once on such a vast scale .
is the most technically impressive film made on native soil in a decade - long revival of big russian movies .
film : road to life ( dir . nikolai ekk , 1931 , ussr )
film : a mother ' s loyalty ( dir . mark donskoi , ussr )
germans initially chose denial as a way to cope with the horrors of war , which was also reflected in its cinema . however , there were exceptions to that rule :
dogs , do you want to live forever ?
by frank wisbar ( 1959 ) tried to piece together the battle of stalingrad . wisbar ' s film was intended to show the pointlessness and brutality of war .
the scenes from the stalingrad film make the other prior war movies such as gladiator and private ryan look like child’s play . the first few scenes , for example , depicts a city burning in flames when nazis blow up a cluster of giant oil storage tanks in highly vivid detail . the movie might come late . however , the film , as a national pride , shows the sentiment of the russians of the world war ii . president vladimir putin sees the film as a recovery of the nation’s reputation due to the collapse of the soviet union and their defeat in the cold war .
the film was shot in several locations , including finland , italy , and the czechoslovakia , and took much effort to make . director joseph vilsmaier had a german military consultant with him on set . a series entitled
the making of stalingrad
was released , giving a behind - the - scenes look at the film .
film : on the way to berlin ( dir . mikhail yershov , 1969 , ussr )
outside of the realm of vicious action sequences , visual effects and the outdoor production design laid out above , stalingrad is basically an efficiently directed and acted film . though there is not much offensive in the performances , there is not much memorable either .
the apartments as well as ritual persecution of the jews depicted in the movie were also off in the details . the real red army also did not have any forward air control and only a few bombers at stalingrad as opposed to what was shown on film . but while the some details were erroneous , the successful defense of the russians of the city was definitely bold and legendary . it was also a landmark victory against the nazis just like d - day landings and the battle of britain .
finally , as the festival film critics noted , the english subtitles on the print screened at the rome film festival were often incomprehensible . russian filmgoers also found some inconsistencies in the dialogs and messed up historical facts .
event : victory in europe day wreath - laying at the soviet war memorial , london . lecture on the normandy landings and film show on the second front , imperial war museum film : the warmth of your hands ( ussr )
in early autumn the fighting had concentrated in the rubble strewn streets of downtown stalingrad . hitler had vowed not to allow another
verdun
to take place , referring to the most famous and costly trench warfare episode in wwi , but this is exactly what the battle of stalingrad turned into . instead of trenches , soviet soldiers and their nazi counterparts fought from behind shattered buildings , often no more than fifty feet apart .
i first became interested in the battle of stalingrad after reading harrison salisbury ' s masterpiece
the 900 days
which tells the story of the siege of leningrad . in salisbury ' s book , a testimony to the ability of a people to survive the german assault , residual socialist beliefs weigh heavily . despite all of stalin ' s abuses , the ordinary citizens of leningrad believed that their system was worth fighting and dying for .
the cluster started a book and film collection on representations of war that is hosted by the english multimedia lab in university college .
with complete air superiority overhead , paulus’s army broke the early morning silence with the roar of tank engines . the final drive on stalingrad had begun .
narrator : the heavy losses and eventual german success have relegated these battles to the footnotes of history—another soviet failure in the run - up to stalingrad .
a group of italians wait in one corner of a disused factory site , ready to pounce . they are watching a collection of nazi soldiers who huddle around burning oil drums in an effort to keep warm as the temperature drops to - 30c . bodies and torn limbs covered in blood lie in the dirt . then , all of a sudden the italians move in and the battle begins . but this is not a battle of forty years ago on italian or german soil . instead , we are in prague , on the set of a film called stalingrad . the blood on the ground is a mixture of ketchup and flour ( synthetic blood was found to harden in the extreme weather ) and the italians in question are a team of journalists intent on barging past the huddled german and czech actors as they seek out the director of stalingrad , joseph vilsmaier .
anatoly merezhko ( translator ) : at 4 p . m . there appeared an armada of aircrafts , which moved in several tiers toward stalingrad . the bombing of the town had begun . the black puffs of burning fuel were coming up several kilometers into the sky . at night there was the solid glow in stalingrad .
' it has been said our film takes all the cliches from hollywood movies . ' fyodor bondarchuk
the kino fund , a russian state structure that mr . medinsky , the culture minister , instructed to dole out tens of millions of dollars to produce “big , box office successes , ” gave more than $ 13 million to the makers of the film , a representative for the film’s production company said .
film : cavalier of the gold star ( dir . yuri raizman , 1950 , ussr ) lecture : kate clark on experiences of a moscow correspondent in the 1980s
fedor bondarchuk is hardly the first director to bring the legendary battle of stalingrad , one of the bloodiest confrontations in world war ii and a turning point in the war , to the screen . stalingrad in 3d is , however , the most ambitious production to tackle the subject . the first russian film to be entirely shot in 3d and released in the 3d imax format , it is a strange cross - breed between an old - fashioned wwii epic full of genre cliches and a modern update whose meticulous historical recreation is frighteningly real . the cross - over potential of this spectacular - looking $ 30 million piece of entertainment was seen in china , where it soared to rank as the highest - grossing non - u . s . foreign film in its first week of release .
the love story set on the apocalyptic backdrop of the german - soviet battle of stalingrad , which left more than one million dead , is also russia’s most ambitious . with about $ 30 million in financing , nearly the entire budget of the movie was provided in grants and investment by the government and state - backed companies . it was also highly marketed : stills from the making of the movie were exhibited at one of the country’s premier photography galleries and movie theaters gave free tickets to world war ii veterans . even before its release in october , russia’s oscars committee selected “stalingrad” as its nomination for the 2014 academy award for best foreign - language film .
the battle of stalingrad has also inspired two sharply contrasting films in recent years that are both available in home video . german director joseph vilsmaier ' s 1993
stalingrad
is a powerful antiwar film that focuses on the disintegration of the german army under the combined forces of the soviet army and the brutal russian winter . made in 2001 , jean - jacques annaud ' s
enemy at the gates
is much less successful . although annaud is french and his film was made in europe ( with the largest budget in the continent ' s history ) ,
enemy at the gates
represents a hollywoodization of material that would defy such a treatment . instead of focusing on the massive social forces that made the german defeat possible , annaud would have us believe that victory revolved around the feats of an individual sniper . indeed , the film ' s publicity revolved around the slogan
a single bullet can change history
the 6th army was hardest hit . as the men prepared for their assault on stalingrad , the 4th panzer—their supporting tank army—headed to the caucuses .
if you thought saving private ryan needed to be more like 300 , then stalingrad is the movie for you .
rudolph cartier , ‘stalingrad’ , radio times , 28 november 1963 , p . 35 . [ ↩ ]
- review of the film the weather underground the film the weather underground was a great way to educate the population about a part of history not many people know about . the film was a documentary by sam green and bill siegle . the directors used many strategies and elements to make the film effective for the purpose of a documentary , which would be to inform their audience . they used elements like flashbacks of images and news reports , and interviews from now and then along with audio to accomplish their task . . . . [ tags : documentary review weathermen ]
basically . ) it seems to be the only film of sven hassel ' s books so far ( which is strange to a fan - but probably not at all strange to anyone else ) . sh mentions the film producer in the front cover of ' the commissar ' .
in the present days , a russian rescue team is saving lives in japan after a tsunami . they find survivors and their leader calm a youngster down telling the story of his five fathers . in 1942 , a group of russian soldiers hold a strategic building in stalingrad against the german troops to protect the volga river for the crossing of their comrades . they meet the seventeen year - old teenager katya ( mariya smolnikova ) and she becomes the pride and joy of the band . meanshile , the german captain koln ( tomas krechmann ) falls in love with the russian masha ( yanina studilina ) , who resembles his deceased wife . but love in time of war may be tragic . the impressive german war movie
stalingrad
( 1993 ) is one of the best of the genre ever , depicting the bloody battle of stalingrad . the russian
stalingrad
( 2013 ) is not a remake of the german movie but a melodramatic and corny love story in the environment of the devastated city and heroic attitudes of the russian soldiers . the cgi , scenarios and battle scenes are top - notch but part of the dialogs may be lost in translation since there are long sentences in russian that are resumed in one sentence in the subtitle . my vote is six . title ( brazil ) :
stalingrado
(
stalingrad
)
narrator : for decades after the war , the battle was seen as a defining victory for a cunning joseph stalin , whose military strategy stalled the relentless german advance .
animated map showing stalingrad and surrounding area . the narrator announces
the battle for stalingrad .
stalingrad , which lasted from october 1942 to february 1943 , and ended with a german defeat , was the turning point in the war against the ussr . this footage must be from the early days of the battle , when things were going well for the germans . two men , with their backs to the camera . one looks through binoculars into the distance . the narrator says that the germans are firing on an ordnance factory . shots of cannons firing alternate with shots of the city being shelled . stukas flying over the city . germans loading and firing howitzers . german infantry cautiously approaching the destroyed ordnance factory ; a german tank rolls over the rubble . more shots of german soldiers shooting , covering behind hills of rubble and partially destroyed buildings . good semi - close shots of soldiers , with the narration ,
these are the fighters for stalingrad .
the narrator tells of the dangers lurking as the soldiers advance , meter by meter , into the city . lots of good shots of destroyed city , germans advancing . interior of destroyed buildings . columns of soviet pows march down streets and along a road .
“stalingrad’ is loosely based on the defense of pavlov’s house , an apartment building in stalingrad where a soviet rifle platoon led by sergeant yakov pavlov held off a larger german force for 58 days . the heroes of the film , five red army soldiers , spend their time in the besieged building plotting attacks against the germans and looking after katya , a stalingrad native who decides to stay in her apartment rather than flee the nazi advance . a german captain , who seeks escape from the war in the curtained - off bedroom of a local woman , is tasked with breaking the stalemate .
for those who had lost faith after the defeat of the spanish republic or with the signing of the 1939 nazi - soviet pact , the victory at stalingrad brought a sense of renewal . painters , sculptors , novelists and poets found ways to express their admiration for the soviet people , including pablo neruda ' s
nuevo canto de amor a stalingrad .
the dirty dozen & kellys heroes ( comedies ) are rated higher than stalingrad , schindlers list & empire of the sun . a bridge too far & enemy
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since opening in theaters in early october , “stalingrad” has grossed about $ 50 million in russia and eclipsed the former highest - grossing film , “the irony of fate : continuation , ” the 2007 sequel to a beloved soviet comedy that russians watch during the holidays , not unlike america’s “it’s a wonderful life . ” for the country’s producers , directors and bureaucrats , who for years have complained about the russian film industry’s poor production values and anemic receipts , “stalingrad” is the greatest success story yet of an effort to engineer the “socially meaningful blockbuster . ”
the setting and fight scenes really depicted the horrors and brutalities of war . the audience would get the opportunity of witnessing history as if it was their first - hand experience . the director himself showed the realities of war without sparing the bloody and gruesome details . as one soldier wrote in his diary , the street of stalingrad was littered in corpses . even animals would flee from the battleground while only men stayed . many critics and experts claim that some of the details of the movie were wrong . for example , the movie showed a russian commander reprimanding one of the snipers for killing a german who was fetching water . however , the real battle for stalingrad in 1942 spared no life who dared move .
this war film about the battle of stalingrad manages to tell the story in a way that takes creative liberties with the facts , and conjures up a more action oriented , stylized film that is designed more as a popcorn action film than a straight forward history lesson . the film at best has its moments , and i will grant it that , and aesthetically , it ' s a good looking movie , but in terms of plot , it simply doesn ' t have anything going for it despite the fact that it ' s an interesting subject , and that ' s due because it takes creative liberties in order to make a more action packed rollercoaster ride . that ' s exactly what this film is , popcorn entertainment , and it ' s mindless viewing , and that ' s your cup of tea , then give it a shot , you might enjoy it , however to others looking for a bit more authenticity , you ' ll be greatly disappointed . there were times where i thought it was an entertaining picture , but then , it tried to do something completely different . in a way , it ' s an affair that just doesn ' t know exactly what it tries to accomplish . taking the stalingrad battle as a template for an adrenaline soaked action film just seems emotionless because here we are presented with characters that just aren ' t fully fleshed out , and they ' re practically caricatures of what you ' d usually expect from a war film . now , this isn ' t an awful film , but it ' s one that should have been much better as well . for me , the stylized action , with slow motion , just made it too hokey , and that was the film biggest weakness as well , as the lack of effective performances and good dialogue . this film is strictly for viewers who enjoy a mindless two hours of enjoyment , for others , they may want to look elsewhere for a more accurate , better detailed version of the events during the battle of stalingrad . considering that this battle was the first major turning point during the second world war , you ' d expect something truly worthwhile , but this one just offers so little , and it ' s a shame .