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FILM! Stan Robinson, ScreenScene.org
Randy Montgomery, AZ Weekly Film Critic
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Silver Screen Scoop! By Joseph J. Airdo “The Green Hornet” will not hit theaters until January but screenwriter Evan Goldberg says that he has already mapped out a sequel. Director Michel Gondry confirmed this but noted that its fruition all depends on the first entry’s box office. “Live Free or Die Hard” director Len Wiseman is in final negotiations to helm a contemporary remake of the 1990 sci-fi action film “Total Recall,” based on Philip K. Dick’s 1966 novelette “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale.”
by Stan Robinson Image Entertainment has formed a pact with New Films International to exclusively distribute the production company’s theatrical titles, including “Chain Letter,” a potentially terrifying horror flick starring “The Twilight Saga’s” Nikki Reed. Be among the first to get the latest scoop from Joseph J. Airdo at Examiner.com/ Phoenix.
‘Gone With the Pope’, a view of a time long gone…
“Badges?... We don’t need no... stinkin’ badges!” is one of the most frequently quoted, misquoted, and parodied movie quotations in history! The original movie quotation comes from the 1948 film ‘The Treasure of the Sierra Madre’. The Monkees drummer Micky Dolenz says the lines in the TV episode “It’s A Nice Place To Visit,” which aired on September 11, 1967, and the 1974 comedy movie ‘Blazing Saddles’ used it again!
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The suspense thriller ‘The Ghost Writer’ starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan, directed by Roman Polanski; Disney’s ‘James and the Giant Peach’ special edition; for your TV collection ‘Heroes’ Season 4; the complete series of the medical drama ‘Mercy’, and ‘Saturday Night Live’ volume 3 featuring Will Farrell are all available on DVD! For more on these and other DVD’s & Blu-Ray releases, visit www.ScreenScene. org
August 5th, 2010 - August 11th, 2010
Stan Robinson: While in film school in the 70’s, we as students were aware of the ‘Underground’ film communities throughout major cities in the US. ‘Gone With the Pope’ gives a reflection of one of the LA/Las Vegas - West Coast underground filmmakers. The term ‘underground’ is the true use of the term ‘independent film’, made with private money and outside of the studio system, which means, no censors or ‘suits’ to dictate content!
was an issue. Mitchell started shooting in 1975 and with his death in 1981, the movie was ‘in the can’ as we filmmakers call it, filmed but not yet edited, and there it stayed. Oscar® Winner Bob Murawski, Best Film Editing for ‘The Hurt Locker’ (2010), spent the last 15 years in his spare time editing ‘Gone With the Pope’ in between assignments on the movies ‘Spiderman 1, 2, and 3’, ‘Drag Me to Hell’, and ‘The Hurt Locker’. If you have any sensitivities on race, religion, politics, or sexuality, ‘Gone With the Pope’ just could be that ‘magic tonic’ to help one ‘get over them’! Randy Montgomery: The new film Gone With the Pope really isn’t a new release at all. In fact, it’s over thirty years old. While I personally have noticed more grey hair, a few extra pounds and a wardrobe change over my three decades on this planet, real changes have come in society and landscape, which can be evidenced in this late 1970’s exploitation flick. The plot; a mobster and his cronies
kidnap the pope. Yeah, yeah… no one cares. The real attraction to this film is the comedy (which comes at the expense of nearly every race, sex and size of people) and the surprisingly thought-provoking message about life and religion. You will be utterly shocked by the racist nature of some scenes, but today, one can laugh it off as a time gone by. What will stick in your memory though is a sequence involving an actress credited only as “Fat Woman.” For sheer entertainment value, this restored and newly released “classic” would get an A. Had it been released decades ago and being reviewed on DVD, it would probably garner a D. Seeing footage from “old Vegas” and freeways that do not exist anymore in Los Angeles is an added bonus. Starring Bill Boyd, John Bruno, Carl Cocomo, Lorenzo Dardado, Paul DiAmico, Steve DiBiaso, Nola Hand, Jeanne Hibbard, Jim LoBianco, Peter Milo, Duke Mitchell, Jeffrey Mitchell, Zep Mizner, John Murgia, Giorgio Tavolieri, and Joe Virzi.
Richard Corliss
“Smart Entertainment. You’d be a Schmuck to miss it.” Roger Ebert
“Genius.”
The main plot of ‘Gone With the Pope’, Duke Mitchell directs and stars as an ex-con who has a plan to kidnap the Pope in exchange for the ransom of “a dollar from every Catholic in the world.” Along with the main theme, nothing is safe or sacred ground including race, religion, politics, or sexuality!
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