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From: reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Miscellaneous Movie News
Date: 9 Nov 92 17:36:55 GMT
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Originator: reiher@wells.cs.ucla.edu

Here are a bunch of little bits of movie news (from this week's
Variety) that I thought people might be interested in hearing.

1.  Kenneth Branagh has signed to direct and star in a film version
of "Frankenstein" (as the doctor, not the monster).  It will be made
by Tri Star, produced by Francis Coppola, so presumably it will be
a big budget production.

2.  In the category of "my god, why are they remaking a film that
had no business being made, in the first place", there's going to
be a remake of "Finnegans Wake".  Directed by that noted auteur,
Amin Q. Chaudhri, it will star the oddly assorted cast of Lara Flynn
Boyle, F. Murray Abraham, Martin Sheen, Martin Landau, Glenn Ford,
Viveca Lindfors, and Tammy Grimes.  If it ever actually gets made.

3.  Kevin Costner is moving forward in his plans to produce a television
documentary series on the American Indians, to be called "500 Nations".
It will be shown on CBS in 1994, it will be 8 hours long (probably
counting commercials), and Costner will narrate.  Costner also plans
to appear in a film called "Rapa Nui", a medium budget film to be
directed by Kevin Reynolds, who made "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves".

4.  "Hocus Pocus" has started filming for Touchstone.  Bette Midler,
Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy star in a comedy about three
17th century Salem witches who are transported to the present.  Kenny
Ortega directs.

5.  John Sayles next film, "Passion Fish", should receive a limited
release in December, to qualify for the Academy Awards.  It will receive
a general release in February.  Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, and
David Straithern star.

6.  Joe Esterhaz, the extremely rich and somewhat combative screenwriter,
is now richer.  (Whether his combativeness will be affected is hard to
say.)  His 2 page screen treatment, "Jade", has been sold for $2.5
million.  Esterhaz only gets $1.5 million of that, due to previous deals
regarding this property, but he got around $.5 million from those
previous deals.  Not bad for a few hundred words.

7.  Orion Pictures has officially left bankruptcy.  In their reorganized
form, they are not permitted to finance films themselves, but can release
films and participate in film production, provided the financing comes
from other sources.  They still have ten unreleased films that were
completed before they entered bankruptcy.  These will be released in the
upcoming year, most likely.  The first to be released will be "Love Field",
starring Michelle Pfeiffer.

-- 
		Peter Reiher
		reiher@wells.cs.ucla.edu
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From: wallis@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Mindy Wallis)
Subject: Re: Jurassic Park: my cast.
Organization: Institute for the Learning Sciences
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 02:22:09 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.170354.19868@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>,
carlos@spanky.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Carlos Carrion) writes:
> 
> After more than half way through the book, I was thinking of who I would like to see playing the different parts,

> Hammond (the billionaire): Johnny Carson, yeah I know...but that's who I see.

Personally, I always envisioned someone like Ross Perot.  

-------
Mindy
wallis@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu
Institute for the Learning Sciences
Northwestern University
From: rwarren@vax2.concordia.ca (Rosemary A. Warren -- Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Subject: desperate to see this one
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords: Poetic Justice, Jackson  
Organization: Concordia University
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 14:43:00 GMT

hello out there,

does anyone know when the movie "Poetic Justice", starring Janet Jackson
and Keith Washington, is coming out?  i can't wait to see it.

please respond by direct mail -- i do not follow the movie groups as a
rule.

we now return you to regularly scheduled programming.
Rosemary Warren         rwarren@topaz.concordia.ca
Montreal's Favorite Jacksonmaniac !!!

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From: kitchens@austin.ibm.com (Otto Vaughn Kitchens)
Subject: Re: Until the End of the World question
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 21:23:43 GMT
Distribution: na
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.14n by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: kitchens@austin.vnet.ibm.com (Otto Vaughn Kitchens)
Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research

In <5436@daily-planet.concordia.ca> jamesc@cs.concordia.ca (SCHIDLOWSKY james c.) writes:
>
>I was disappointed in general, but there were some great moments, 
>particularly in the last half.  I would like to see the 6 hour version
>(with intermissions!).  Why?  Because I've liked a lot of Wenders' 
>work, especially _Wings of Desire_ and _Paris, Texas_, and I felt that
>the film suffered from the cutting.

I agree with your take of the movie.  I, too, would like to see the 6 hour
version of the movie--maybe there'll be a director's cut on video someday. 
After I saw the movie, it seemed sort of incomplete to me.  I kept feeling 
like there were gaps in the movie, but then again it could have just been 
me--I kept getting caught up in the music.  The soundtrack was great.

otto vaughn kitchens
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From: braca2@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au (BRAY CHRISTOPHER)
Subject: Re: Blockbusters of 1992/1993?
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 00:41:14 GMT

bgc@research.otc.com.au (Brenden Cooper) writes:
>>No doubt there
>>will be at least one lesser-publicized film that turns out to be excellent,
>>and hits big.  There usually is.  

>Has Strictly Ballroom been released in the US yet?  It's
>done very well here but it's unashamedly Australian so it
>will be interesting to see how it does overseas.

I heard that the film distributer had made its money back just by 
selling copies of the film, before it was even released locally.
Apparantly the Movie Moguls feel that it will do well overseas, maybe
there is hope for the rest of the world ;).

hook
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From: djs@sadtler.com
Subject: Operation Petticoat ( was Re: joke )
Organization: Sadtler Research Laboratories
Distribution: eunet
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 14:45:47 GMT

>In <IGNATIOS.92Nov4135449@cauchy.cs.uni-bonn.de> ignatios@cauchy.cs.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis) writes:

>You're obviously too young... when I was a kid, that movie was on
>German TV a few times... I forgot the title... anyway, they had to
>paint the submarine pink because they hadn't any other paint.
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

As I recall, they did have the proper grey paint, however they used pink as
the undercoat but they came under attack, were unable to put the grey coat on
and hence the boat stayed pink.

-- 
D. Sears                                          Email:  djs@sadtler.com
post += disclaimer;                   Sadtler Research Labs, Philadelphia 
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From: dika@wam.umd.edu (Ting Lin)
Subject: Re: Jackie Chan films
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:58:16 GMT


Ever since he starte doing his own stunts in Dragon's forever he has been hurt
badly in every single move (except for Police Story II and maybe III)

IN Project A when he fell off the Clock Tower he fractured his hip got a
concotion (sorry about the spelling).

In Police Story I he suffered another concoution and a cracked rib.

I have yet to here of any injuries he has suffered from Police Story III since
it's his latest movie to come out.  But I would imagine when he is on the train and got clocked by the low hanging object.

Any way, as for killing himself in Armor of the Gods, He nearly killed himself
in every movie to date since then.

In my previous post about Jet Li,  I found out that Jacki did some of the 
choreography.  He also sang the theme song which was quite good.  Jacki a
singer?


______________________
|I'm still alive . . .|
|stop please . . .    |
----------------------
				Danny

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From: donnell@tuna.micro.umn.edu (BogusMan)
Subject: Re: Bad Musicals <was: "Worst Movie Of All Time, so bad it's bad!>
Organization: none
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:03:09 GMT

In article <1dk1rmINN4ph@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> aj137@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David Jeffries) writes:
>
>I think the most incredible things about the Village People's classic
>"You Can't Stop The Music" (now readily available in the Under $10 bin
>at your video store) are that it runs almost 2 hours (most trash films
>have trouble making it to 90 minutes) and it was directed by Rosie, the
>bounty lady (I forget her real name and I'm not going to get the tape).
>
>My girlfriend watched it together once and it seemed like it was four
>hours long....
>
>-- 
>David Jeffries     aj137@cleveland.freenet.edu
>MERZBOW/MOBY/NEW ORDER/HAFLER TRIO/LAIBACH/SPEEDY J/ANDRE MARROU
>"You give funky love, funky love."------Cathy Dennis

Yeah, I have passed on it several times at local video holes, sometimes
for less than 4 dollars!
And how could I have forgotten that it marked the directorial debut of
Nancy Walker! <Rosie the Bounty lady, Rhoda's Mom, tons of other stuff, 
not to mention the classic, terrible tv show, "Blansky's Beauties">
This marked her as a Bad director to watch, but she hasn't struck again,
far as I know.
Pax
					--Judex--
From: jean.simon@cutting.hou.tx.us (Jean Simon) 
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: worst sequel movie
Date: 5 Nov 92 01:27:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Cutting Edge - Houston, TX - 713-466-1525
Reply-To: jean.simon@cutting.hou.tx.us (Jean Simon) 


Nobody saw "honey, I blew up the kid", that movie was so pathetic !!
I quit during the show, I was so sick !!

... The OFFICIAL tagline of the 1996 Olympics!
--- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10
From: bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Ridley Scott's The Duellists
Date: 6 Nov 92 22:29:40 GMT
Organization: HHMI/Human Genetics, Univ of Pa.

>In article <1992Nov5.111921.44431@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, 
>mouse@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:

> This is one of my all-time favorites!  
Gotta agree...some of the best sword-play ever filmed.

> Really believeable sense of the period
The costumes (uniforms mainly), props, and sets are unbelieveable.

> I counted 8 saber duels.  
There were only two sabre duels.  (Unless you count a single pass on 
horseback as a duel...)  But there were also two rapier duels, and 
one pistol duel (or hunt rather).

Five meetings between the duelists in all.  (one of the rapier duels was
just Feruad and another opponent)

> In the early beautiful prints, you could see sparks flying off the blades.
This was actually because Ridley hooked up small portable generators to 
the men's swords.  I kid you not.  And Harvey Keitel keep getting shocked do
to fighting in that damp cellar...but it was a great effect.
 
Look for (I forget the actor's name, but he was Mercutio in _Romeo and Juliet_
and the duel judge in _Hamlet_, both by Zefferelli) as Feruad's second near 
the end of the film.

> I highly recommend it, but try to see it from a good print, as that
> makes a whole level of difference.
I'd *love* to see a nice print of this in a theater...   *sigh*

Greg Bole                        "Just because General Feruad has occasionally
bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu      tried to kill me, that doesn't give him the 
                                  right to claim my aquaintence."
                                     Kieth Carradine in _The Duellists_
Organization: Junior, English, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:44:19 -0500 
From: "Douglas J. Brook" <db6l+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: New Branagh Film?

Yea.
    Keanu Reaves is going to be in it.  It's Much Ado About Nothing.

djb
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Date: Mon,  9 Nov 1992 23:30:18 -0500 
From: W Darren Prouty <wp11+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: DIE HARD 3 REPLANNED

Just read today in Entertainment Weekly that Die Hard 3 is being
rewritten in a yet undetermined setting, not on the Carribbean
Cruiseship as planned. (seems Under Seige spoiled that one) The article
said that it would definitely be made, but questioned how long the
public will keep buying the plot (I guess Under Seige and Passenger 57
have something to say about that).


***********************************
 W.D.Prouty    wp11@andrew.cmu.edu
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From: gmclain@lonestar.utsa.edu (Glenn A. Mclain)
Subject: Re: STAR WARS
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:36:42 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.113334.6389@nntp.hut.fi> pejulaju@niksula.hut.fi (Pentti Lajunen) writes:
>In article <001201c.33.721427673@ace.acadiau.ca> 001201c@ace.acadiau.ca (NATHANIEL FISHER CRAWFORD) writes:
>
>> I could be way off base on this one, but I HEARD, just HEARD, that Winona
>>Ryder signed on to play Princess Leia in the prequels/sequels. This came
>>from a, er, fairly reliable source.

   You are way off.  According to Lucas, he hasn't even starting writing the
the prequel trilogy.  Also, since the 1st trilogy is to take place 20 to 30
years before Star Wars, why would they even have a Princess Leia, since she
was only an infant?

Glenn............






-- 
Glenn McLain, Vice President Data Information Systems Klub(DISK)
University of Texas at San Antonio
College of Business Student Microcomputer Lab
HB 3.01.04  (512)691-4586
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From: jeff@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jeff Williamson)
Subject: Re: More DieHard 3 Info
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 03:40:56 GMT

In article <0f0OTz_00WBOI8bbMK@andrew.cmu.edu> W Darren Prouty <wp11+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>My latest sources have informed me that the original script for Beverly
>Hills Cop 3 is being rewritten for Bruce Willis in the Die Hard mode, to
>take place in an amusement park. Seems Eddie Murphy wanted out of BHC3
>and since Mr Seagal seems to be riding the waves of success from Under
>Seige, Willis needs a new setting to foil terrorists. Guess this is it.
>Looks like the author of the "...small world" Die Hard scenario may want
>to hire some lawyers...

Hire lawyers? Ehh. Bit too late now; besides, I can't very well copyright
material based on licensed characters (or can I?).  But if anyone in the
film industry wishes to offer me a position as creative consultant or
some such on the film, I would not be...adverse. :)

Remember folks, you saw it here first. See it on the big screen in '94!

(Any independent confirmation or denial of this rumor? I wouldn't be at
all surprised if it were true, but I'll believe it when I see it, eh?)


-- 
Jeff Williamson       ** 
ACNS/Northwestern U.  ** "In every revolution, there is one man
Evanston, Illinois    **  with a vision."
blackmagik@nwu.edu    ** 
Xref: sparky rec.arts.movies:32266 alt.cult-movies:10078
From: pete@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Bad, Big-budget movies.
Date: 6 Nov 92 13:33:15 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

Wayne McDougall (system@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.nz) wrote:
: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller) writes:
: 
: > to do that one?  It's like the time bomb that ALWAYS gets defused with 1
: > second left.
: 
: Not in The Andromeda Strain. The bomb is defused with about 37 seconds 
: left. The dialoguse goes something life:
: 37 seconds? Not even exciting.
: It was getting pretty exciting for us. In order to improve the 
: efficientcy of the bomb, all air is pumped out of the lower levels 30 
: seconds before detonation.
: 
The Andromeda Strain is a marvellous film -- it's so hard, cold and
logical all the way through that when James Olson has to 
*do something adventurous* it comes as a real shock to the system!

I really like the implication that the humans are another
``virus'' in the Wildfire complex... talk about redefining the role of
humanity!!! :-)

Pete
--
*Peter Fenelon -- Research Associate -- Software Safety Assessment Procedures*
Dept. of Computer Science, University of York, York, Y01 5DD (+44/0)904 433388
EMAIL: pete@minster.york.ac.uk `There's no room for enigmas in built up areas'
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Subject: Re: Michael Mann, John Woo, Clint Eastwood
From: ccmk@lure.latrobe.edu.au
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 10:31:07 GMT
Organization: VAX Cluster, Computer Centre, La Trobe University 

In article <1992Nov3.071229.26167@athena.mit.edu>, wildman@athena.mit.edu (Timothy Worsley) writes:
>...
> Peter Reiher asked Joshua Tsui a while ago if he really thought Woo was
> comparable to such canonical masters as Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Fellini, etc.
> (I hope I remembered that thread correctly.)  John Woo fully deserves to be
> compared with these directors, despite his apparent status as an "action"
> filmmaker, a "popular" filmmaker, someone engaged in the production of Low
> Art instead of High Art, a dichotomy which I do not care for.  A BETTER
> TOMORROW goes right up there with 8 1/2, LA DOLCE VITA, KAGEMUSHA, YOJIMBO,
> etc.  MANHUNTER and THIEF are also in that category.  So are many of
> Scorsese's films.

I think you want to be careful about what movie borrows from what.
Scenes that have dramatic similarities in different films can end up
looking similar on film.  After all, there isn't that many ways to show
essentially the same sequence.

Different directors have different trademarks as well.  There is no doubt
Woo is great at the action film and Mann is a visualist.  These traits can
make otherwise ordinary films stand out from the usual fodder, which is
why I would always make time to see a Mann, Eastwood, Scott or Friedkin
film.  Comparing them too closely can be blinding to their idiosyncrasies
and thus some of the fun.

Mark Kosten
(ccmk@latrobe.edu.au)
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From: webb+@CS.CMU.EDU (Jon Webb)
Subject: REVIEW: JENNIFER 8
Reply-To: webb+@CS.CMU.EDU (Jon Webb)
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:15:36 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Summary: r.a.m.r. #01595
Keywords: author=Webb

			      JENNIFER 8
		       A film review by Jon Webb
			Copyright 1992 Jon Webb

     This is an entirely conventional cop thriller, the only twist being
that the beautiful young lady that the cop falls in love with and must
defend is blind (and played quite well by Uma Thurman).  Andy Garcia is
the cop; he has a bad reputation and a past marred by drinking and
divorce (just once I'd like to see a cop thriller where the hero drinks
socially but not too much, has a wife who understands his devotion to
his job because she is devoted to her's as well, and whose children
admire and heroize him though they naturally wish he could spend more
time with them.  In this fantasy cop thriller, I see the hero coming
home late at night; he enters the house, goes to the kitchen, pours
himself some milk, looks through the day's mail, turns out the light,
goes to bed, slightly awakening his wife, and goes to sleep; the next
scene is him back at work the next morning.)

     The second nicest thing (the nicest is Uma Thurman's performance)
about this film is the feeling of dread in almost every scene through
the first half of the film.  The framing is too tight; there are too
many things in the background that someone could be hiding behind; you
constantly feel that something is going to jump out at you.  After
something finally does, the tension relaxes and the movie gets tangled
up trying to tie together the bits of evidence sprinkled through the
movie.

     John Malkovich shows up for a few scenes towards the end; he's
enjoying himself, and he's just a really fine actor, but I got the
impression that he was thrown in simply to make the film seem less like
the conventional piece of work it is.  He probably worked for a day or
two, tops.

     The plot is casually thrown together; there's little motivation for
Garcia's character to become as obsessed as he does; there are important
technical details wrong, such as every camera in existence makes a fair
bit of sound when it winds the film; the ending doesn't really satisfy;
the stupid final scene is as cloying and sentimental as they come; etc.

     Not a film I liked.  I'd suggest you see UNDER SIEGE instead --
although I haven't seen it, it seems to have remarkable staying power.

-- J
From: blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu (Brian L. Johnson)
Subject: REVIEW: PROM NIGHT 4: DELIVER US FROM EVIL
Reply-To: blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu (Brian L. Johnson)
Organization: ?
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 20:35:12 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Summary: r.a.m.r. #01582
Keywords: author=K.Johnson

                    PROM NIGHT 4: DELIVER US FROM EVIL
                       A film review by Ken Johnson
                        Copyright 1992 Ken Johnson

95 min., R, Horror, 1992
Director: Clay Borris
Cast: Nikki de Boer, Alden Kane, Joy Tanner, Alle Ghadban,
      Ken McGregor, Brock Simpson, James Carver

     Not so holy priest James Carver starts killing "loose" girls, along
with their boyfriends in the 1950's.  Carver gets stopped by the church
and is hidden away where he can't do any harm.  In the present day Nikki
de Boer, Alden Kane, Joy Tanner, and Alle Ghadban are all graduating
from high school and they skip their senior prom.  Instead they go off
to a secluded house, which, just by chance, happens to be the church
where Carver was during his killings so many years ago.  Carver gets
away from his prison and he goes back to the church and finds the four
there.   He proceeds to try to kill all four.

     PROM NIGHT 4: DELIVER US FROM EVIL is the sequel to PROM NIGHT 3:
THE LAST KISS, which is obvious from the title, but not from the content
of the film.  Other than a brief mention of Jamie Lee Curtis in PROM
NIGHT, this film has nothing to do with the earlier three, which makes
one wonder where the title came from.  On a scale of zero to five, I
give PROM NIGHT 4: DELIVER US FROM EVIL a zero.  PROM NIGHT 4 is rated R
for explicit language, adult situations, violence, and brief female
nudity.

     PROM NIGHT 4 is a completely unoriginal, uninventive slasher film,
which falls into all the cliches of poor slasher films.   The characters
in the film do completely ludicrous things and have moronic lines.  The
gore isn't done very well and there aren't any really good effects.  The
ending has been done so many times before that I could see it coming
from half way through the film.

     The actors in this film do a horrible job.  They are completely
unconvincing, at points to the extent of being funny.   The writing for
this film isn't very well done.  The plot has been done before so many
times, and so much better, that this film just falls flat.  The premise
is rather senseless, although the priest's gasoline holy water is cute.

     Do yourself a favor and don't rent this film, it isn't worth any
price.  Instead watch, or rewatch, the earlier PROM NIGHT films (PROM
NIGHT, HELLO MARY LOU: PROM NIGHT 2, and PROM NIGHT 3: THE LAST KISS).

--------
Ken Johnson
blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu

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