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Saturday, May 10, 2008
Favorites shine at Paramount summer series
We just got our hands on the Paramount Theatre’s 2008 Summer Film Classics calendar, and, just like every year, we’re going crazy circling must-see movies.
It kicks off May 22 with (of course) “Casablanca” and “Key Largo” — a Bogie feast! — and rolls on with golden noirs “Laura,” “Out of the Past” and “Chinatown”; Hal Ashby gems “Harold & Maude” (starring my new best friend Bud Cort), “The Landlord” and “Shampoo”; and, well, we love it all.
Here’s a ticker-tape title tease: “Gimme Shelter,” “California Split,” “Picnic,” “Diva,” “Children of Paradise,” “Frankenstein,” “Blazing Saddles,” “The Red Shoes,” “Vertigo,” “Peeping Tom,” “Repulsion,” “Drums Along the Mohawk,” “Solaris,” “Planet of the Apes,” tons of classic Warner Bros. cartoon shorts and dozens more.
Check out the schedule and ticket info HERE.
‘Last Year at Marienbad’ on the big, big screen — woo-hoo!
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Heather Graham in town shooting
Heather Graham, Amber Heard and Jennifer Coolidge are in Austin filming the indie dark-comedy “Ex-Terminators,” directed by John Inwood, who has several episodes of TV’s “Scrubs” on his CV.
According to a publicist for ABC Pest and Lawn Services (!!), the film is taking advantage of ABC’s pest facilities, because the movie is “about a small pest control company that manages to ‘off’ (people’s) exes — ex-husbands, ex-boyfriends, etc.”
Shooting started this week at the ABC offices in Austin and will roll for several more.
See the film’s IMDB.com page HERE.
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Does the new Indy stink? Ask Harry
Austin’s own Ain’t-It-Cool crew have seen the future of Indiana Jones, and it looks dreary.
Wily spy reviewers for Harry Knowles’ feared movie site caught industry screenings of “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” and they aren’t great, with declarations like: “this is the Indiana Movie that you were dreading” and “Lucas, Spielberg, and Ford are trying far too hard to give everyone what they think that they want.”
Here are links to two of three AIC Indy reviews, which do contain spoilers: Review #1, Review #2.
And SlashFilm.com nicely sums up the AIC reactions with bullet lists and more HERE.
The new Indy pic opens wide May 22
