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A visual medium restricted by sound Paramount In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Chazelle categorizes the advent of sound filmmaking as “a disaster scenario.” This became clear to him as he revisited such late silent classics as Murnau’s “Sunrise,” Carl Theodor Dryer’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc,” William A. Wellman’s “Wings.” According to Chazelle: “Comparing some of the last silent films to some of the first sound films, you see right away just how brutal the shift was — that suddenly the open-air freedom and expansiveness and experimentation of silent film gets sandwiched and cloistered onto very confined soundstages where you can barely move because they hadn’t quite figured out yet how to move the camera easily with sound....

Disney Stopped Andrew Scott From Having A Larger Part In Saving Private Ryan Dreamworks Pictures/Paramount Pictures By Marcos Melendez/Oct. 29, 2022 7:00 pm EST “Saving Private Ryan” is known for having a brilliant ensemble cast filled with well-known names, even in the smallest of roles. The Steven Spielberg-directed film housed many young performances from up-and-coming actors as armies of soldiers due to the epic scale captured in the war film. For instance, Vin Diesel’s brief role tends to stand out because of his current status as a movie star....

Don’t Worry Darling’s Costume Designer Felt Odd About Defying Harry Styles’ ‘Incredible Personal Style’ [Exclusive] Warner Bros. By Valerie Ettenhofer/Sept. 23, 2022 4:18 pm EST No matter what your feelings are about “Don’t Worry, Darling” — and everyone and their mother seems to have plenty — it’s obvious that Olivia Wilde’s sophomore feature at the very least has some fantastic visuals and production design. The thriller film’s retro setting in a 1950s town called Victory, California offers up plenty of opportunities for its cast to dress to the nines....

Battling evil in the City of Angels Warner Bros. Pictures Perhaps the most interesting thing about “Evil Dead Rise,” headed into its release, is how different it sounds from other “Evil Dead” films on paper. The movie takes place in a suffocating Los Angeles apartment building where Beth (Lily Sullivan), her sister Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland), and Ellie’s three kids are forced to battle wicked demonic forces after some clown goes messing with a familiar evil-looking book....

‘He can’t be clever’ TriStar Pictures The balance of the two lead characters in “The Fisher King” was more delicate than Gilliam might have first realized. Parry had to be funny and charming, but also a man suffering from mental illness and hallucinations (he envisions a terrifying red knight at moments of stress) which he certainly didn’t want to make light of, and indeed make seem unsettling. Meanwhile, Jack had to be capable of doing and saying horrible things — he was a radio shock jock, after all — but still be appealing enough that both Parry and audiences would want to spend time with him....

How Wes Anderson Found The Perfect Home For The Grand Budapest Hotel By Lee Adams/July 9, 2022 12:04 pm EST I wouldn’t normally order a vodka martini at 11 in the morning, but it’s not every day I’m sitting in the bar of the splendid Grandhotel Pupp in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, better known to movie lovers around the world as the location for “Casino Royale.” They’re really proud of their part in the first adventure of Daniel Craig’s era, so I thought it would be rude not to order 007’s favorite drink....

In Praise Of The Cast Of Belle, And Good Anime Dubbing GKIDS Films By BJ Colangelo/Aug. 11, 2022 8:28 pm EST “Beauty and the Beast” truly is a tale as old as time, and has been retold in countless ways, like the Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton TV series of the same name, the Fran Drescher comedy “The Beautician and the Beast,” the teen rom-drama “Beastly,” or even in an episode of “Hello Kitty’s Furry Tale Theater....

What the future holds Disney+ Until then, if the Bloodstone is in fact a conduit for Chaos Magic, what could this mean for the future of the MCU? It’s possible that the relic could play a part in “Agatha: Coven of Chaos.” Maybe since she herself is a monster, Elsa Bloodstone needs to use her family heirloom to keep a recently freed Agatha under control (since she was likely freed from Wanda’s spell when she died)....

James Stewart Went Blow-For-Blow With Alfred Hitchcock During Rear Window Paramount Pictures Studio Store/Universal Pictures By Shae Sennett/Aug. 7, 2022 5:00 pm EST Jimmy Stewart is remembered for his self-effacing persona, but offscreen he was no shrinking violet. The classic Hollywood actor often played non-threatening characters, from a bumbling statesman in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” to a bedridden journalist in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window.” “Rear Window” was Stewart’s second Hitchcock role, having previously played an ethics professor in “Rope....

Joe Pesci Received Serious Burns From One Of Home Alone 2’s Most Famous Stunts By Witney Seibold/Nov. 29, 2022 7:27 pm EST Chris Columbus’ 1990 comedy film “Home Alone” owes a great deal of its massive success to its brazen, little-kid wish-fulfillment premise. The young Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) lives in a large, expensive home with a retinue of siblings so large that he rarely seems to be acknowledged. Thanks to the chaotic bustle of a large-scale family trip, paired with a brief nighttime power-out, Kevin oversleeps and his entire family makes it onto a plane to Paris without him....

Only Murders In The Building Season 3: Everything We Know So Far Hulu By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Oct. 26, 2022 8:38 am EST Although it may have once appeared to be a one-and-done season, “Only Murders in the Building” has come into its own as a successful multi-season series. Created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman, the mystery comedy-drama recently wrapped up its second season and took us back to the sprawling NYC-based apartment complex of the Arconia where our favorite group of true-crime-obsessed strangers-turned-friends resides....

Our 12 Most Anticipated TIFF 2022 Movies Disney By Chris Evangelista/July 28, 2022 1:00 pm EST It’s the most wonderful time of the year! I’m talking, of course, about festival season. As the year winds down, several major film festivals unleash great movies (and, let’s be honest, not-so-great movies), some of which will go on to awards season glory, some of which will be forgotten forever. My personal favorite fest is TIFF, the Toronto International Film Festival....

Will Bill Skarsgård return? Warner Bros. Reports suggest that Andy Muschietti might direct the pilot of “Welcome to Derry,” and we know for sure that he and Barbara Muschietti will return to produce. Screenwriter Jason Fuchs will serve as showrunner alongside Brad Caleb Kane, a veteran of “Black Sails” and “Fringe.” However, while Kane and Fuchs are talented writers and the Muschiettis are the cogs that helped make “It” go ‘round, the axle that spun the wheel was Bill Skarsgård, who played It’s most common form, Pennywise....

Slash/Back: Release Date, Cast & More Mongrel Media By Erin Brady/Oct. 2, 2022 2:36 pm EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Alien invasion movies have always been rife with political commentary. There is a lot that can be said about the alien invasion and how it serves as a symbol of moral panics, colonialism, and capitalism....

Snakes Weren’t The Only Dangerous Animals On The Set Of Anaconda Sony Pictures Longtime film site Film Scouts shares insights on the production of “Anaconda”; therein, executive producer Susan Ruskin recalls the troublesome creatures that made it a nightmare on the set: “One of these monkeys seemed to find my son to be an attractive playmate and competitor and he got very aggressive with him. He ended up biting him on the ear and I had to get between them....

Superhero Bits: Spoiler-Free Reactions To Black Adam’s Credits Scene, A Juicy MCU Rumor & More Marvel Comics By Ryan Scott/Oct. 21, 2022 5:32 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

After Yang A24 If I were to pick an actor who won 2022, it would be Colin Farrell. Principally, he had “The Banshees of Inisherin,” his latest collaboration with writer/director Martin McDonagh, for which he won the Best Actor prize at the Venice Film Festival. It’s a tender, funny, and beautiful performance that is perhaps the best of the actor’s career. On the other end of the spectrum, he played The Penguin in Matt Reeves’ “The Batman,” done up in mountains of prosthetics and delivers a tremendous amount of life and humor into a picture that desperately needed it....

The Best Cosmic Horror Movies That Will Make You Hate The Unknown Empire Pictures By David Court/July 26, 2022 9:24 pm EST What is cosmic horror? Typically associated with the works of H.P. Lovecraft and his Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft’s collection of tales set in a universe of doomed heroes destined for insanity and terrifying God-like beings), it embodies a nihilistic and pessimistic view of reality. In cosmic horror, humanity is mostly insignificant, and people are surrounded by the terrifying unknown....

The Box Office Flop That Taught Alfred Hitchcock How Important Casting Could Be Baron/Getty Images By Matt Rainis/Sept. 7, 2022 4:21 pm EST There are few directors more universally acclaimed than Alfred Hitchcock. Maybe Orson Welles didn’t like him much, but there were few people Orson Welles didn’t dislike, so we’ll let that slide. With films like “Psycho,”, “Vertigo,” and “The Birds,” Hitchcock produced countless timeless classics, innovating the medium of film itself....

The Controversial ’70s TV Hit That Inspired Little Miss Sunshine By Valerie Ettenhofer/Aug. 13, 2022 11:30 pm EST When “Little Miss Sunshine” arrived on the scene in 2006, nabbing both Academy Awards and the hearts of American audiences, it captured an era of mid-aughts indie filmmaking that was defined by quirky comedic dysfunction. From “Garden State” and “Napoleon Dynamite” before it, to “Juno” and “500 Days of Summer” after, the road trip movie seems like the center point of a very specific movie trend....