fat city ( film )
leonard gardner - author of the novel fat city, which was later made into a film directed by john huston .
olivier assayas (france) - 2008 toronto film festival, 2008 new york film festival, 2009 theatrical release * winner, 2009 national society of film critics best foreign film; winner, 2009, los angeles film critics assoc. best foreign film; winner, 2009 new york film critics circle best foreign film
unforgiving monochrome … john huston, right, directs the 1972 film adaptation of fat city, featuring stacy keach and jeff bridges. photograph: ronald grant
derek malcolm picks his 100 greatest movies. this week, number 80: john huston' s fat city
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fat in the city is hell - bent on challenging size hatred b. s through fashion and activism .
several of the sin city comics were turned into an anthology film by director robert rodriguez, simply called sin city, which was released in 2005 .
christian mungiu (romania) - 2007 toronto film festival, 2007 new york film festival, 2008 theatrical release * winner, 2007 cannes palme d' or; winner, 2008 fipresci prize for film of the year; winner, 2008 los angeles film critics assoc. best foreign film, best supporting actor; winner, 2008 new york film critics circle best foreign film; winner, 2008 national society of film critics best foreign film; nominated, 2008 golden globe for best foreign film; nominated, 2008 independent spirit award for best foreign film
john huston decided to direct fat city after he read the novel on which the film is based by writer leonard gardner. producer ray stark gave john huston the novel .
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gail is naked when manute kidnaps her in the big fat kill, but is merely in her underwear in the film .
‘fat’ in the city is a twist on hbo’s award - winning comedy - drama series and film franchise, sex and the city. popularly referred to as sex ‘in’ the city, satc presented a limiting portrayal of beauty. our response? fatinthecity – a lifestyle & fashion blog redefining beauty in the skin we are in. welcome to our city !
alexandria bombach (usa) - 2018 sundance film festival, 2018 sxsw film festival * winner, 2018 sundance film festival directing award for u. s. documentary
door stopper :
big damn sin city
, a compilation of every sin city yarn published to - date .
few films have more straightforward or insightful titles than' fat city'. huston' s stockton, california is a dying place .
olivier assayas (france) - 2010 cannes film festival, 2010 new york film festival, 2010 theatrical release * winner, 2011 national society of film critics best foreign film; winner, 2011 new york film critics circle best foreign film; winner, 2011 los angeles film critics assoc. best foreign film & co - winner best director; winner, 2011 golden globe for best film made for television; nominated, 2011 primetime emmy awards, outstanding directing and outstanding lead actor in a miniseries or movie
dwight appears naked at the start of the original comic the big fat kill, while he' s practically fully clothed in the film .
nia vardalos and john corbett in
my big fat greek wedding 2 .
fat city is most notable for terrific performances all around, especially those of stacy keach, susan tyrell, and a baby - faced jeff bridges .
the sin city film comprised the hard goodbye, the big fat kill and that yellow bastard and was bookended by an adaptation of
the customer is always right
, a short story featured in the booze, broads and bullets collection .
in the the second film, liebowitz goes out of his way to warn johnny to leave the city after he beats roark in a poker game .
and finally, stockton. from they city' s bleak portrayal in the film, its hopelessness mirroring that of the film' s characters, it did not seem possible that it could sink any lower. but appearances deceived. it could. on thursday, the city of stockton filed for bankruptcy .
the last dj: john hartigan, the last honest cop in sin city .
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first published in 1969, and set a decade earlier, fat city is leonard gardner’s only novel. he has written short stories good enough for the paris review – which means very good indeed – as well as scripts for nypd blue. the film adaptation of fat city was directed by john huston, well and faithfully, in 1972. you have the feeling that the anodyne and cliche - packed sequence of rocky films was launched partly to get the sour taste of huston’s film out of hollywood’s mouth .
so what has that have to do with fat city? sarris was not a big fan of john huston, relegating him—a few years before the appearance of fat city —to the
less than meets the eye
category in his classification of american directors (well below the
pantheon
and below even
expressive esoterica
and the
far side of paradise
). in the 1940s, huston had made the maltese falcon and treasure of the sierra madre, two classics. then a prolonged slump had set in, and it is hard to argue with leonard maltin who wrote that fat city was huston' s best picture in two decades. where did a film like fat city come from? it' s hard on this track record to credit its excellences to huston' s directorial style .
signs of disrepair: in at least one instance ◊, a now entering sign is shown outside the city
basin city
with the b and a degraded .
18. ‘paradise city’ could have ended up being a whole lot less wholesome, too: rather than “take me down to the paradise city / where the grass is green and the girls are pretty”, slash preferred “take me down to the paradise city / where the girls are fat and they’ve got big titties. ” thankfully, he was outvoted .
robert mac is a second generation film maker and writer. his work has been screened at festivals all over the world, including the sundance film festival .
three - times named an all - america city: 1999, 2004, 2015 .
werner herzog (germany / france) - 2011 theatrical release * winner, new york film critics circle best documentary; winner, 2011 los angeles film critics assoc. best documentary; winner, 2011 national society of film critics best documentary
the german episode title is' das fett muss weg', meaning' the fat must go' .
in an october 30, 1984 taping of the family feud, richard dawson comments that fat city is his favorite movie, but he is disappointed that it hadn' t been re - released .
walk down the right back alley in sin city and you can find anything .
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the one consistent theme in all of john huston' s work is perpetual loss - - how it affects, and defines, people. there may not be a more cogent example of this than in his
comeback
film, fat city, an observant and understated study of desperation and marginalization. it' s a shame that stacy keach' s film career never materialized (though he' s had a good run in tv) because he is sensational here. if nothing else, this underrated film is worth seeking out for conrad hall' s cinematography alone. he has done nothing but brilliant work in his career, but fat city may be his finest hour .
at its heart, fat city is not about boxing. it is a universal story of grim realities and toxic delusions. for the people of this novel, boxing is a chance, a glimmer of hope .
hell and back (wallace and his love interest beat the villains and leave sin city) .
genius loci: the general idea is that the city is the main character of the series. it' s not uncommon for characters to talk about the city as if it were alive .
kris kristofferson' s help me make it through the night perfectly illustrates the despair of most of fat city' s characters. i liked a lot the first and the last scene of the film that say the same thing: stacy keach is getting nowhere no matter how hard he tries. highly recommended .
sure does have a thing for prostitutes, and sin city is stretching this so far that there is a part of the city that is run by prostitutes. similarly, count how many times the
in 2008, mr. cohen was executive producer of the film frozen river, which received two oscar nominations and was awarded the 2008 sundance film festival grand jury prize. he also directed and produced a short film, which was the recipient of a kodak movie award .
mad bomber: the psychopathic irish henchman in the big fat kill who only uses bombs and grenades to kill his enemies .
city on fire is hong kong cops and robbers at a high level with an ending of familiarity .
kevin hart celebrates 39th birthday in las vegas... nearly a year after sin city cheating scandal
6: booze, broads and bullets - a collection of short stories from various sources, including back - up strips from the early issues of the big fat kill and stories from the various sin city one - shot specials .
the big fat kill takes place after hell and back, but dwight is seen driving the 1953 cadillac eldorado he took from vito at the end of family values, a story that takes place well after both the big fat kill and hell and back .
this hungarian film is a careful, compassionate and beautifully acted character drama with a social conscience .
earn your happy ending: wallace and esther. they are the only sin city characters to get one .
knights of the city was produced in 1984 under the title cry of the city, but wasn’t released until 1986. presumably, this had more than a little to do with the arrest and trial of the executive producer of the film, michael franzese, a man tom brokaw called “the prince of the mafia”. during the two year gap between production and release, the fat boys would become infinitely fatter and more famous and appear in another movie in a much larger role. but knights of the city is still worth watching for their small appearance .
important note: strictly speaking, film noir is not a genre, but rather the mood, style, point - of - view, or tone of a film. it is also helpful to realize that' film noir' usually refers to a distinct historical period of film history - the decade of film - making after world war ii, similar to the german expressionism or the french new wave periods. however, it was labeled as such only after the classic period - early noir film - makers didn' t even use the film designation (as they would the labels
western
or
musical
), and were not conscious that their films would be labeled noirs .
sin city is an irregular comic book series about the venal basin city (known as
sin city
to the people who live there) and the seedy inhabitants who lurk in its alleys and doorways. it is probably writer / artist frank miller' s best known work (other than the dark knight returns) .
bob, a short, fat man, is played by michael madsen, and the even fatter senator roark played by powers boothe .
nancy does not dance topless in the film due to a no - nudity clause from jessica alba .
) arrives from phoenix (texas in the film) on a train driven by a steam engine .
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24. ‘paradise city’ has a unique distinction on the album: it’s the only track that uses a synthesizer .
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a later - era powerhouse from john huston and i’m sorry i hadn' t seen it sooner. it’s easy to describe this as a more downbeat version of rocky (or rocky a more upbeat version of fat city ?) but that feels cheap .
on wednesday, march 23, dean teri schwartz, in association with the film' s director and ucla tft parent zack snyder, hosted an advanced screening of snyder' s latest film, batman v superman: dawn of justice, for faculty, students, staff and alumni at universal city walk' s imax theater .
i wish buena vista had lavished a little more care on lam' s film; it deserves better .
print courtesy of the reserve film and video collection of the new york public library for the performing arts .
the sense of place is as pervasive as a character in “moss, ” a film by daniel peddle .
so you say to yourself, this fat city is pretty damn realistic, even if you know in your heart that
realistic
and hollywood should not be printed on the same page - otherwise paper ignites. still, you' re marveling at it .
title drop: sin city is mentioned in every story for obvious reasons but even then, the secondary titles are always dropped as well (i. e .
the big fat kill
that yellow bastard
,
blue eyes
, etc. )
it’s not unfair, i think, to describe boxers as a demographic little given to literary entanglement. in general, with exceptions, they prefer movies. although john huston considered fat city some of his finest work, most boxers would probably rather watch rocky for the fifth or 50 th time. they yearn for the tale of redemption and ultimate triumph with plenty of razzle - dazzle. the nitty - gritty is too familiar. but fat city dazzles too: the glint of steel in its perception, the molten glass of its execution .
bad cop / incompetent cop: a sizeable portion of the basin city police, but the rest are as completely honest .
: this is the best kind of ending you' re gonna get in sin city. only on occasion will this be
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donuts aren’t just for fall and apple orchards anymore—savor the many flavors this summer at the first annual glass city donut festival .
however, this paterfamilias sin city story, which kicked off the 2005 film in earnest too, also will have to mark its ending. sure the film tells “the hard goodbye” in one uninterrupted chunk, but marv spent months by his own admission on death row after the death of cardinal roark (rutger hauer). and that is enough time for…
with leonard gardner adapting his own book and john huston sitting in the director' s chair, fat city adheres closer to real life than reel life, painting a portrait of a downtrodden existence not only among the have - nots but among the never - will - haves .
a sequel, sin city: a dame to kill for, was released in august 2014, and at least one more sin city film is planned. originally, the first sequel was planned to include the titular story, along with a brand - new sequel to that yellow bastard and the three blue eyes short stories. the final film drops the blue eyes stories for a second original story and another booze, broads and bullets yarn ,
just another saturday night
.
manute and his men are machine gunned to death with an endless hail of bullets. the story' s called the big fat kill for a reason .
though fat city was written long before cellphones or the internet, its human apparatus is state of the art. with this new edition, new generations of readers and writers will discover it, learn from it, and find both wincing pain and deep pleasure. gardner’s achievement lives on precisely because fat city is not depressing. the tale is dark, but it is charged with energy. it is seductive, engaging, and lit, despite the odds, by a vitality that is in itself a form of hope. we come away from it burnt clean .
according to stacy keach, sixto rodriguez knocked him out during their fight scene and that shot appears in the film .
the academy of motion picture arts and sciences' filmwatch, which gives grants to film - related organizations, has awarded the archive funds for its academy series
what a difference: women and film in the 1970s and 1980s .
low budget caliber action and sound effects blows through the film from start to end. while some of it tends to be a little over the top, it doesn' t feel out of place given the time frame of the film .
film and television producer jerry bruckheimer was honored with a month - long film festival in april that paid tribute to the outstanding contributions he has made throughout his career. the festival took place at ucla' s billy wilder theater in westwood village, presented in association with paramount pictures and ucla film & television archive. top gun, which has been named to the library of congress' national film registry, was the first film to be shown at the festival, on friday, april 1. a q & a with jerry bruckheimer followed the screening; deadline' s peter bart moderated the discussion .
christianity is catholic: the catholic church seems to be a big power player in the city, and crucifixes are a motif throughout the series. the babe wore red also features a nun who is shown in a much more positive light than usual for sin city .
with over 100, 000 trees, stockton was thrice named' best tree city' in the western united states by sunset magazine .
since the film is such a direct adaptation of the comicbooks, listing the tropes separately probably won' t be necessary .
the yellow bastard is naked when torturing nancy near the end of his story. he was given shorts in the film .
anachronic order: the comics were published in anachronic order, and the segments of the film are shown anachronically as well .
the making and authorized distribution of this film supported over 13, 000 jobs and involved hundreds of thousands of work hours .
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drunk driver: jack rafferty drives drunk in
the big fat kill
. he dies that night but it had nothing to do with his state, surprisingly .
james marsh (uk) - 2008 sundance film festival, 2008 theatrical release * winner, 2009 academy award for best documentary; winner, 2009 independent spirit award for best documentary; winner, 2009 national society of film critics best documentary; winner, 2009 los angeles film critics assoc. best documentary; winner, 2009 new york film critics circle best documentary; winner, 2009 national board of review award for best documentary; winner, 2008 ida award for best documentary; winner, 2008 sundance film festival grand jury prize & audience award for world documentary; nominated, 2009 dga award for outstanding directorial achievement in documentary
senator roark is still alive but he lost his son and has to live with the fact that the roark family lineage is now cut. considering this family has lorded over sin city for more than a century, that' s a letdown for him and his one surviving brother. and the film a dame to kill for has nancy killing roark, effectively ending their reign over the city .
a sleeper hit in 2002, the original
my big fat greek wedding
still holds the title of highest grossing romantic comedy of all time. that film earned writer and star nia vardalos an oscar nomination for best original screenplay, and it even spawned a short - lived television series. considering the success the film achieved, it' s shocking that it took this long for a sequel to come along .
i try to catch at least a part of fat city whenever turner classic movies shows it (which is pretty often—i am not one of those who complain about the er, somewhat repetitive nature of the tcm lineup). but when they aired it last week, it was a particularly timely showing .
fat city is no such book. it will not make you feel like taking up boxing; nor, unless you are unusually morbid, will it make you want to watch a fight. “backed into a corner, he was attempting to clinch when a blinding blow crushed his nose, ” etc .
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“fat city” is old slang for prosperity and advantage—the good life. if you’re in fat city, you’re in luck. but the phrase is wry irony as the title of a novel that has stunned and mesmerized successive generations of readers since its publication in 1969. this month new york review books brings out a handsome new paperback edition of leonard gardner’s sole novel, a slim, taut book that has earned its status as a classic by dint of its immaculate, evocative prose, a compassionate but dour view of the human condition, and the absolute credibility of its depiction of the sport of the busted beaks .
grad student merlin camozzi and his short film coeur d' alene were profiled in the vanguard seattle in advance of the film' s appearance in the seattle shorts film festival in mid - november / graduate student screenwriter jeff scott' s (b. a.' 13) coming - of - age sports drama one shot was selected as a second rounder in the 2015 austin film festival screenplay competition. his sports drama best ball was selected as a top finalist in the 2015 emerging screenwriters screenplay competition /
wallace is extremely polite and soft spoken. he' s also probably the deadliest person in sin city... which says something .
in case you forgot who wrote it: the sequel was released as frank miller' s sin city: a dame to kill for .
more an epilogue unto itself than a second half, this conclusion to “the hard goodbye” showcases the end of frank miller’s sin city vision .
prior to its incorporation in 1850, stockton had several names, including' tuleburg',' gas city' and' mudville' .
infamous for its absurdly macho writing, sin city reads like an affectionate parody of film noir turned up to eleven: every hero is a mentally or physically scarred bruiser and every woman is a beautiful dame with a heaving bosom. black and gray morality is predominant .
rodriguez quit the director' s guild to let frank miller take co - director status. even his friend quentin tarantino was given a co - director credit, since he came over on a day of shooting to film a scene. rodriguez shot the film panel - for - panel from the comics, using black and white footage and green screen backgrounds to get the perfect sin city feel .
chow yun - fat is a star. his performance over shadows much of everything else that this film has to offer. danny lee proves to be an integral part of the story when the conclusion comes around. carrie ng, roy cheung, and yueh sun complete a package of supporting characters .
chris hegedus & d. a. pennebaker (us) - 2016 sundance film festival, 2016 theatrical release, 2017 hbo broadcast
there is also davis, the torture expert in the big fat kill, who can inflict pain just by touching people. this character was changed to manute in the movie .
the hard goodbye is the name later given to the first sin city story. raymond chandler wrote a philip marlowe novel called the long goodbye .
at the time of my film forum viewing, fat city was out of print on video in the states, or at least so hard to find and so absent from prestige that it might as well have been. it was one of those modern cult classics that you actually had to make an effort to go out and catch when the chance came: a marlin of a movie, rare in the age of torrents. also at the time of said viewing: stockton remained, as it was on fat city ’s release, one of the poorest, least employed cities in america due to all the under the radar migrant work. a flight of fancy upon seeing the film even had me wanting to go out to stockton and interview its down - and - out for one of those high - paying think pieces about squalor. but hadn’t those folks been through enough without me pointing a microphone down their gullets ?
two men, barely 10 years apart in age, one with a lifetime of emptiness ahead of him, one with an empty lifetime already behind. this is what john huston has to work with in
fat city
and he treats it with a level, unsentimental honesty and makes it into one of his best films .
so this is a theme we find in huston' s work, but rarely does he fit it to characters and a time and place so well as in
fat city .
maybe that' s because huston knows the territory: he was a professional boxer himself for a while, and not a very good one .
comforting the widow: mort, a mostly honest sin city cop, tries to do this with ava lord and ends up tangled in her web .
in the first sin city tale, marv subverted this by actually hurling himself through the windshield of a cop car as opposed to just hanging on .
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“fat city” is also an old nickname for that historic fight town, stockton, california, gardner’s home ground and that of the novel’s central figure. a few years before, billy tully really was in fat city. he was living clean and winning fights. he had a house, a nice car, and a pretty wife. then a bad loss in the ring destroyed his confidence. he quit boxing. he drank too much, couldn’t hold a job, lost the car and the house. his wife left. now he earns just enough as a day laborer in the onion fields of the valley to cover a sleazy room and another night of drinking .
after krush groove was finished, director michael schultz apparently also recognized that the fat boys were the best part of the movie. so, he decided to capitalize on their talent and build an entire film around them. was this the best decision he could have made? in terms of his career, probably not. but i’m personally very glad that he did. i grew up watching the three stooges. i loved the physical humor, the sound effects, and the adversarial / brotherly relationship. judging by the evidence, so did the fat boys. taking all of those elements and then adding in some of the humorous (yet impressive) musical sequences they had perfected in their previous films, the fat boys made their own three stooges film (even down to comparing it to the stooges in the original trailer) .
in the movie, the salesman from
the customer is always right
, which opens the film, reappears in the final scene .
weeks said that the producer' s of black mass did not contact anyone within bulger' s immediate circle to consult on the film .
weeks' comments come after the film was released on friday and made $ 23. 4 million across the us in its opening weekend .
narrative profanity filter: not usually, but in
the big fat kill
dwight says that gail
lets out with a string of curses that' d kill the pope
.
: one of the most significant - if subtle - differences between the comics and film is that dialogue that was shouted in the comic is usually spoken quietly in the film. for example, senator roark never yells at hartigan, and jackie - boy never raises his voice despite his
titles of many film noirs often reflected the nature or tone of the style and content itself: dark passage (1947), the naked city (1948), fear in the night (1947), out of the past (1947), kiss me deadly (1955), etc .
casual high drop :
the big fat kill
. dwight mccarthy jumps from the window of his girlfriend' s apartment and falls several floors to the ground, landing on his feet .
fat city never feels air - conditioned. it is a slim, tough novel (183 pages) published in 1969 by leonard gardner. i am lucky enough to know leonard and to feel the quality of fat city in terms of his experience and his wry, battered, going - deaf kindness and humor. so i am biased, or in his favor, but i can’t help that and plenty of other people swear by the accuracy and bleak eloquence of the novel (dennis johnson and michael ondaatje for two), and treasure the movie. so if you’re serious about this tribute to susan tyrrell, you should get hold of the book and read it before you see the movie .
the film adaptation of marv and manute' s fight actually shows marv ripping out his eye, while the book just showed marv beating him .
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david thomson is the author of the new biographical dictionary of film and the moment of psycho: how alfred hitchcock taught america to love murder .
best short film (animated) nominee sanjay' s super team: erick oh (m. f. a.' 10), animator
now, we travel back in time to 1985. knights of the city had already been filmed, but was on hold as the mafia trial of its executive producer proceeded. during that intervening time, the fat boys got together with run - d. m. c. , kurtis blow, new edition, sheila e. , ll cool j, the beastie boys, and a handful of others to make a film based on the early years of def jam records and the life of russell simmons. if you’re thinking to yourself, “that sounds like the greatest thing ever put on film, ” then you are absolutely correct .
black and gray morality no one in sin city is good. some folks are better than others, but none are good. even the best of them like dwight, hartigan, and wallace are good is not nice. granted though, this isn' t as clear in the first film adaptation .
nazi hunter: the janitor, in
rats
, hunts down a nazi war criminal. this may or may not have taken place in sin city .
↑ city springs elementary / middle and cardinal shehan school students at city springs elementary / middle, students in wyatt oroke & apos; s humanities class helped raise thousands of dollars for hurricane harvey relief. the story got the attention of
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well known in film industry circles in europe and the u. s. for over 30 years, john kochman previously served in senior executive positions at mk2 and studiocanal in france, and as executive director of unifrance usa, headquarters for the promotion of french cinema in the united states. john and his extensive contacts in the international film sector are at the center of cohen media’s busy film rights acquisition and coproduction ventures outside the u. s .
doug sees a picture of carrie' s mother in which she looks really fat. doug tells arthur he never knew she was fat and arthur tells him she wasn' t always like that. but at one point, well, she just started expanding rapidly. now doug is afraid carrie will also get fat and he wants her to lose weight by going on a diet. deacon advises against this because it' ll get him into serious trouble with carrie, but doug thinks it won' t be as bad as that and decides to try and talk carrie into going on a diet .
when i tell people who apparently do not read city paper that i work for city paper and mostly cover art, i often hear in response something like: “that’s good—we need positive press about baltimore. it’s not just murder and drugs here. ” because i rarely have the energy or patience to go down that ...
male gaze: the big fat kill has a deliberate closeup shot of becky' s butt—in skintight leather pants, natch —that takes up a panel, when jackie boy is scoping her in his car .
visiting associate professor lainie kazan spoke with the los angeles times about her career and reprising her role as matriarch maria portokalos in my big fat greek wedding 2, which opened on friday, march 25 .
7: hell and back (a sin city love story) - wallace is an interesting guy: an artist, a war hero, a short order cook and a lightning - quick fighter. his life is pretty dull, though, until he saves a suicidal woman named esther and they begin a tentative relationship. in typical sin city style, however, esther is kidnapped and wallace must pull the city — and the lives of some of its most privileged men — apart to get her back .
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…
hartigan uses a smith & wesson model 29 in the beginning of the film. later on he uses a ruger blackhawk, also a. 44 magnum .
black mass is the second film to be shown in venice that looks at shocking criminality taking place within the close - knit roman catholic communities of boston .
grace lee (m. f. a.' 02) is one of six fellows selected for this year' s sundance women' s initiative. separately, her latest film, off the menu: asian america, aired nationally on pbs in december and early january. she has also made the short film suiting dennis about a terminally ill man who is planning his own green burial with the infinity burial suit. the film can be seen on vimeo .
yep, despite the eight - year gap and placing this portion of the story as the climax of the 2005 sin city film, it would appear that this narrative is the next immediate event to occur in the sin city mythos. this can be deduced for several reasons, but most notably because of the appearance of old bob, who shows up early in this second half of “that yellow bastard” and will appear again in the next adventure in such a way that ensures this came first .
the result gets marv to help her kill roark, but she seems to hate being a stripper by the end of the story and hates this city. hardly the bubbly personality who is still working the stage in “the hard goodbye, ” where she is noticeably younger than in her appearances in sin city: a dame to kill for .
this prologue to the original sin city only earns its nominal “part 1” status because it appears as the first of two bookends featuring hartnett’s salesman cashing the contract checks on fleeing dames. it very well could happen after he visits becky in that elevator during the sin city epilogue and might even be after marv takes a seat on old sparky. since it is just the salesman soothing and then silencing a terrified woman during a dark night in basin city, there is no indication where it takes place in the timeline .
even the settings are familiar, such as dancing zorba' s, the bustling greek restaurant owned and run by toula' s parents. although the story is set in chicago, the film was shot in toronto, continuing that city' s enviable record of being able to stand in for just about every north american metropolis .
now it’s time to say hello to the two most prolific protagonists in the sin city oeuvre: dwight and marv. while marv, who served as the centerpiece for the first ever sin city graphic novel, as well as the first complete story of the 2005 film, appears in nearly every frank miller neo - noir (including “that yellow bastard”), dwight mccarthy has been the lead character in more of them. and it begins here, chronologically speaking, with “a dame to kill for. ”
i would have laughed at anyone who would compare keach to brando... before watching this film that is. while keach might not be regarded as one…
jerk jock: the story just another saturday night has a group of jerk jocks from a fraternity. this being sin city, they don' t stop at just being jerks, though. they like to light homeless people on fire. too bad for them they ran into marv' s who a little higher up on the sin city food chain .
classic film noir developed during and after world war ii, taking advantage of the post - war ambience of anxiety, pessimism, and suspicion. it was a style of black and white american films that first evolved in the 1940s, became prominent in the post - war era, and lasted in a classic
golden age
period until about 1960 (marked by the' last' film of the classic film noir era, orson welles' touch of evil (1958) ) .
during the past two decades, mr. thompson has held executive sales positions with such leading distributors as miramax films, gramercy pictures, lot 47 films and four companies headed by bob berney – newmarket films, picturehouse, apparition and film district. he previously held senior film buying positions with several new york - based exhibition companies, including cinema 5, walter reade, cineplex odeon and city cinemas. mr. thompson most recently was a distribution consultant with indomina releasing, overseeing the national release of leos carax’s acclaimed
susan tyrrell died earlier this month, and the reports say she was sixty - seven. maybe that was so, but if so in fat city, made in 1972, and her great work, she would have been twenty - seven. i find that hard to credit, but every time i see fat city i am asking myself how a woman like this ever got into a movie that was produced by ray stark! the exclamation mark comes from the fact that stark also produced funny girl and the way we were. he liked things nice and glamorous, and there’s nothing wrong with that, especially if you’re a bum or a barfly in the californian central valley where it’s hard enough to scrape together ticket money to get into a movie and enjoy the cool air. if the air conditioning is working .
long before zack snyder got the idea to do a near panel - for - panel recreation of a frank miller comic book, robert rodriguez beat him there by two years with sin city, and made a more mesmerizing and impressive film to boot. yet, in the following 10 years, we also got a sequel... that also was a bit of a prequel. in fact, it is hard to place whether sin city: a dame to kill for either began or ended the 2005 cult classic' s story .
many sources have claimed that director boris ingster' s and rko' s stranger on the third floor (1940) was the first full - featured film noir. the expressionistic film starred peter lorre as the sinister' stranger' (cast due to his creepy performance in m (1931) ), in a story about the nightmarish after - effects of circumstantial testimony during a murder trial. others claim orson welles' masterpiece citizen kane (1941) was also an early and influential pre - film noir .
definitely a great film and the most underrated in john huston' s filmography. so glad that someone brought it to my attention and insisted that i see it asap .
dead person conversation: in the big, fat kill, dwight hallucinates jackie boy is talking to him. he' s fully aware jackie boy is dead and not really talking, but begrudgingly admits he makes some valid points .
after a light week we & apos; re back to over one homicide per day. baltimore has averaged about eight per week lately; the rate of killings is increasing despite city officials & apos; efforts. another of the four men shot on the 3200 block of lyndale avenue during the sept. 26 mass shooting (the city & apos; s sixth ...
the archive helped the berlin international film festival celebrate the 30th anniversary of the teddy award, its groundbreaking lgbt film prize, at the 2016 festival. on sunday, feb. 14, archive director jan - christopher horak presented the world premiere of the archive' s restoration of the censored german silent film directed by richard oswald, different from the others (1919), and was the featured guest at a post - screening q & a. the berlinale also premiered the archive' s new restoration of another landmark lgbt film, director cheryl dunye' s the watermelon woman (1996), and screened an earlier archive restoration of director bill sherwood' s parting glances (1986) .
in
the hard goodbye
, marv says that he loves the rain, because it helps him think. in
the big fat kill
, dwight says he hates the rain, because it makes it hard to think .
non fatal explosions: in the short story
fat man and little boy
, shlubb triggers a bomb planted by their employers to punish them for past failures. they' re frazzled by the explosion, but are okay otherwise .
my big fat greek wedding 2
is exactly the movie you expect (and probably hope) it to be: the type of pleasant, inoffensive film you can take your extended family to, and most everyone will leave happy. in fact, it' s already your grandmother' s favorite movie of the year (it' s a bit perplexing it didn' t open closer to mother' s day). it' s a lively, crowd - pleasing comedy that offers perfect counterprogramming for those with little interest in watching dc' s clashing superhero titans demolish an entire city .
not to be confused with simcity, which is potentially a whole lot nicer. or gta vice city, which is definitely not all that nicer. or las vegas, for that matter .
in the film of a dame to kill for, the way hartigan' s ghost talks to nancy is very reminiscent of bruce willis' s role in the sixth sense .
hartigan' s concluding speeches in the film' s second and penultimate chapters are especially notable, as both close with hartigan getting shot and losing everything so nancy can live .
the primary moods of classic film noir were melancholy, alienation, bleakness, disillusionment, disenchantment, pessimism, ambiguity, moral corruption, evil, guilt, desperation and paranoia .
john huston made some outstanding films, as well as some that were pretty awful. among the best were the maltese falcon, the treasure of the sierra madre, the asphalt jungle, the african queen and the red badge of courage. but best of all, though by no means the most popular because of its downbeat tone, was fat city, the tale of a broken - down boxer, played by stacy keach .
i would argue that the biggest single contributing factor to the film’s success is the fat boys. while the love story and the success of the label are billed as the main plot of the movie (look up the movie on any website and the description will only tell you about that), the fat boys plotline gets just as much focus, if not more. we meet them in a high school where they perform in a stairwell in between classes. we see them prepare for and compete in a talent show. and, most importantly, we watch as they take advantage of an “all you can eat for $ 3. 99” sign .
captain charles m. weber chose to honor commodore robert f. stockton by naming the city in honor of stockton, who was instrumental in the capture of california during the mexican - american war .
the film tells the story of two boxers and their problems. one of them is on the decline of his career while the other one just begins his ascent in this sport.
fat city is a 1972 american neo-noir boxing drama film directed by john huston . the picture stars stacy keach , jeff bridges , and susan tyrrell . one of huston 's later films , it is based on the boxing novel fat city ( 1969 ) by leonard gardner , who also wrote the screenplay . tyrrell received an best supporting actress oscar nomination as the alcoholic , world weary oma . 
fat city is a 1972 american neo-noir boxing drama film directed by john huston. the picture stars stacy keach, jeff bridges, and susan tyrrell. one of huston's later films, it is based on the boxing novel fat city (1969) by leonard gardner, who also wrote the screenplay. tyrrell received an best supporting actress oscar nomination as the alcoholic, world weary oma.
fat city is a 1972 american neo-noir boxing drama film directed by john huston. the picture stars stacy keach, jeff bridges, and susan tyrrell. one of huston's later films, it is based on the boxing novel fat city (1969) by leonard gardner, who also wrote the screenplay. tyrrell received an best supporting actress oscar nomination as the alcoholic, world weary oma.