Lionsgate has released a second trailer for ANGEL HAS FALLEN.
When there is an assassination attempt on U.S. President Allan Trumbull (Morgan Freeman), his trusted confidant, Secret Service Agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler), is wrongfully accused and taken into custody. After escaping from capture, he becomes a man on the run and must evade his own agency and outsmart the FBI in order to find the real threat to the President. Desperate to uncover the truth, Banning turns to unlikely allies to help clear his name, keep his family from harm and save the country from imminent danger.
Also starring Jada Pinkett Smith, Lance Reddick, Tim Blake Nelson, Piper Perabo, with Nick Nolte, and Danny Huston, watch the latest trailer.
ANGEL HAS FALLEN opens in theaters August 23, 2019.
Throw a pigskin a quarter mile then head to the Mad Art Gallery for wolverine-hunting Tenacious Eats style on Sat, August 24th! It’s another Tenacious Eats ‘Movies For Foodies’ Summer Film Series event! This time it’s the all-powerful cult classicNAPOLEON DYNAMITE (2004) starring John Heder and Jon Gries as ‘Uncle Rico’. A Facebook invite for this event can be found HERE. We Are Movie Geeks has two tickets to give away!
All you have to do is leave a message below letting us know who your favorite character in NAPOLEON DYNAMITE is! (mine is Uncle Rico) . It’s so easy!
OFFICIAL RULES:
1. YOU MUST BE IN THE ST. LOUIS AREA THE EVENING OF THE EVENT.
Please contact Tenacious Eats.com with any food restrictions and or dietary needs (such as milk from cows that have NOT wandered into an onion patch!)
This will be such a fun night!:
*Doors open at 5:00PM with a special movie themed Selfie Station, cash bar and multiple rounds of film and music trivia for tons of prizes and tickets to future Tenacious Eats Shows!
*Film begins at 6:00PM along with special Teats Treats! No dress code. Costumes always encouraged and rewarded!
*Film will be paused to introduce each course.
*Talent Skit Selfie Station!
*Trivia
*Visit from Napoleon and Pedro!
Tenacious Eats is… Unexpected! Visceral! Titillating! Brought to you in High Definition Taste-O-Vision! (Special glasses, not required)
By integrating film and food, Movies for Foodies creates an original experience, a feast for the senses, an event that brings food and film, chefs and diners together.
Tenacious Eats only works with locally produced food procured by them and hard-to-find ingredients, imported from places that specialize in them. With each new film, we write a new menu specific to its story. Sometimes the menu is literal and sometimes it is inspired interpretation. In all cases, each dining experience is different because each film is different.
Jon Heder stars as the title character in Napoleon Dynamite. Napoleon is a high-school student in Preston, Idaho who always wears moon boots and likes to draw unicorns and other mythical creatures. He rides the bus to school and is a member of the “Happy Hands” (a sign-language group). His home-life is equally as strange. Napoleon lives with his Grandmother (Sandy Martin), who often leaves home to go on wild adventures, and his older brother, Kip (Aaron Ruell), who claims to be training to be a “cage fighter”, but actually spends most of his time in chat rooms. Things get even weirder when Napoleon’s Uncle Rico (John Gries), a self-involved man who lives in the past, comes to live with them. Meanwhile, Napoleon has befriended a new student named Pedro (Efren Ramirez), and the two of them scheme to get dates to the dance and win the school elections.
In his 2009 Fantastic Fest review of ZOMBIELAND, Travis Keune wrote, “prepare yourself for one helluva undead-head crushing, car door-bashing, baseball bat-wielding, all-out creative zombie-killing party!” And was he ever right!
A decade after ZOMBIELAND became a hit film and a cult classic, the lead cast (Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin, and Emma Stone) have reunited with director Ruben Fleischer (Venom) and the original writers Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick (Deadpool) for Zombieland: Double Tap.
In the sequel, written by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick and Dave Callaham, through comic mayhem that stretches from the White House and through the heartland, these four slayers must face off against the many new kinds of zombies that have evolved since the first movie, as well as some new human survivors. But most of all, they have to face the growing pains of their own snarky, makeshift family.
ZOMBIELAND 2 invades theaters on October 18… and we can’t wait!
In 1969, the movie business was starting to transition from old, proven formulas to more daring and original films that spoke to a younger demographic. Quentin Tarantino’s ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD sets out capture the spirit of that year and the way the movies and their stars reflected the attitudes of the time.
Here’s a clip from The Jimmy Kimmel show where Quentin talks about the premiere of his new movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, attending a screening with Jimmy, shooting with Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt & Margot Robbie, Inglourious Basterds, naming his own Mad Magazine parody, asking actors to be in his movies, why he is close to ending his filmmaking career. Margot Robbie stops by with an announcement:
There were plenty of great movies made in 1969 celebrating their golden anniversaries this year. Here are 17 of them that the writers here at We Are Movie Geeks recommend watching before you see ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD
ANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS
There are a lot of “guy movies” referenced in Tarantino’s movie but not all 1969 movies were all about the men. It was also a time when women’s roles on screen were starting to change. There are few examples as good as ANNE OF A THOUSAND DAYS. Hollywood has long been fascinated by Henry VIII but had always portrayed his wives as colorless victims. This British costume drama turned around that usual cinematic narrative by focusing on Anne Boleyn rather than the king. An unforgettable Genevieve Bujold upends that stereotype in a groundbreaking performance, playing Anne Boleyn in a more modern, fully-rounded portrayal where she is more than a cipher in Henry’s dynastic ambitions. Bijou’s Anne is a feisty, independent young woman caught up in political maneuvering where her wits are the only thing that might keep her alive.
THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
Taking a break from producing the Harry Palmer and James Bond spy films that put him on the map, Harry Saltzman set his sights on a real life “David and Goliath” story from World War II. BATTLE OF BRITAIN depicts the unbelievable defeat of the Luftwaffe in 1940, just before the Nazis were about to invade England. The aerial shots of dozens of planes in the sky all at once are still dazzling to this day and were even more so in 1969 considering no other film depicted the intensity and accuracy of these battles quite like this before. Guy Hamilton (who went on to direct four James Bond films, including fan-favorite, GOLDFINGER) brought in over a 100 Spitfires used during the War for these sequences, some of which saw these restored planes daringly flying within feet of the ground! The spectacular action is backed by an all-star cast including Laurence Olivier, Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer, and Michael Caine, who would later make a vocal cameo in Christopher Nolan’s DUNKIRK out of respect to this classic film.
BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID
BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID is the blueprint for every buddy movie from the past 50 years. It’s still a beloved film, full of memorable moments: the train robbery with a little too much dynamite, the chase into the rocks (“Who are those guys?”), and the “straight” job working for a mine in Bolivia (and the owner who really loves his tobacco). Robert Redford and Paul Newman were a fantastic double act.
THE COMIC
Filmgoers of that year were in for quite a surprise with this unique Dick Van Dyke feature from the creator of his beloved sitcom, Carl Reiner (he directed and co-wrote it with another TV vet, Aaron Ruben). The tube’s affable Rob Petrie and the big screen’s gleeful Bert the chimney-sweep shared little (aside from the actor) with this flick’s focus, silent movie comedian Billy Bright. With the “nostalgia craze” beginning to hit “high gear” audiences just weren’t ready for a fictionalized “warts and all” look at Hollywood’s “golden age”. Much like the similarly-themed SUNSET BOULEVARD, the story (after a bizarre credit sequence of old Billy wind-up toys falling over each other) is narrated by a corpse, BB at his sparsely attended burial. The plot bounces back nearly 50 years to show how young William Simon (DVD) created the Bright persona, who seems to be a mixture of Stan Laurel (naturally), Buster Keaton (the scandals), and Harry Langdon (that puffy cap). Reiner then recreates scenes from the films, in black and white with ‘speeded-up” motion and “dialogue cards”, proving that Mr. Van Dyke, if he’s been born 20 years earlier, would’ve been a celebrated cinema clown along with Chaplin and Lloyd. Soon we see his sweet romance, and marriage, with leading lady mary (Michele Lee) destroyed by booze, bimbos, and a monstrous ego. Van Dyke hammers home the ugliness of Billy so that we’ve got little sympathy when the “talkies” help to take him down. As the years pass, Van Dyke dons a bald cap (what a comb-over) and gives his voice a gravelly rasp as he spends most of his days reminiscing with old ‘foil” Mickey Rooney as Martin ‘Cockeye’ Van Buren, who has one of the film’s best lines (“When they stopped laughing at my crossed-eyes, they started killing each other”). Van Dyke even plays Billy’s ‘swishy’ estranged son. It’s an incredible comic and dramatic performance in a movie that was truly ahead of its time.
EASY RIDER
EASY RIDER is much more than a 60s relic – it’s still a great movie even today. Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda took Roger Corman material and gave it a European- influenced arthouse approach. Combined with breathtaking visuals, a well-chosen rock soundtrack and some classic, stoned, improvised dialogue EASY RIDER is still an impressive movie all these years later. EASY RIDER reinvented the biker movie (or technically created a new subgenre: the “hippy” Biker Film), and things were never quite the same in Hollywood for the rest of the Seventies. The supporting cast is interesting and includes a great role for the underrated Luke Askew as the “Stranger on Highway”, and cameos from the star’s buddies Robert Walker Jr, Luana Anders and Sabrina Scharf, as well as Karen Black and Toni Basil’s New Orleans hookers, Look for Phil Spector’s coke snorting bit part in this 1960s generation-defining counter-culture classic!
FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED
By 1969, Hammer Studios had been making a long series of Dracula and Frankenstein films but FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED turned out to be so very different and a bit more adult than previous Hammer fare. The oddest thing about this film was that there was no monster. Instead of focusing on some ugly beast, the ugly one in the film is Dr. Frankenstein himself. This time he was not a well-meaning man of science but an immoral maniac – a truly depraved man indifferent to the pain of others. So focused on recreating his earlier monstrosities, he blackmails, rapes and murders with little apparent moral compunction. Peter Cushing played Dr. Frankenstein seven times for Hammer, but this was his most fascinating portrayal.
THE LOVE GOD?
Yes, in that last year of the 60s the “times, they were a-changin””. And who got swept up in the sexual revolution? Don Knotts?! Just three years prior he had walked away from TV’s Mayberry to sign a lucrative feature film deal with Universal Studios. Thus began a trilogy of family-friendly flicks with Knotts staying close to his jittery persona (and in a rural setting, especially in the first outing, the classic THE GHOST AND MR. CHICKEN). Now the powers that be decided he should go for the more adult audiences with something edgier, more provocative. Writer/director Nat Hiken (creator of the iconic sitcoms “The Phil Silvers Show” AKA “Sgt. Bilko” and “:Car 54, Where are You?”), cast Knotts as the nerdy ornithologist Abner Peacock, who carries on the family business as editor/publisher of Peacock’s Magazine for bird enthusiasts. All’s well (he’s engaged to his childhood sweetheart) until the arrival of con-man pornographer Osborn Tremaine (Oscar winner Edmund O’Brien at his most bombastic). OT lost his magazine subscription mail permit, so he convinces Abner to go off in search of a rare bird. Then turns the tame all-ages periodical into smut. Just as Abner returns, the guardians of decency swoop in, and the “birdman” must appear to be a “tomcat”. Abner has to live the “Hef” lifestyle, hitting the clubs with a quartet of babes, and wearing the most garish 60s fashions (perhaps this was training for his later TV role as Mr. Furley on “Three’s Company”). Plus he’s got to evade some scary gangsters and deal with the sultry Anne Francis (TV’s “Honey West”) as the mag’s “consultant”. There are some great comic bits here, like a bird-watchers’ anthem complete with Abner providing the squawks and whistles, and a catchy “theme” song (“Mr. Peacock, Mr. Peacock, you’re the man our dreams are made of…”), as part of Vic Mizzy’s bouncy soundtrack. But all these racy “M-rated” hijinks alienated Knotts’ fan base and the flick flopped. After HOW TO FRAME A FIGG two years later, Don was done at Universal, but for a brief moment ole’ Barn’ really swung, baby!
MAROONED
Fraught with an atmosphere filled with claustrophobia, MAROONED is a powerful movie that has no battle with space aliens or ships exploding after a lengthy battle, and yet captured the true perils of space travel. It was released on December 11, 1969 and won an Oscar for Special Visual Effects.Combined with a cast that were big hitters in the 60’s, the film starred Gregory Peck, Gene Hackman, James Franciscus, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, Nancy Novak, Lee Grant and Mariette Hartley. Three U.S. astronauts face a slow death when their rockets fail during a space voyage – its’a thrilling nail-biter that leaves you white-knuckling it to the bitter end. Alfonso Cuarón, director of Gravity (2013), told Wired magazine, “I watched the Gregory Peck movie Marooned over and over as a kid.”Cuarón later included a clip from the movie in his 2018 film ROMA. Watch that HERE.
MIDNIGHT COWBOY
The superb and sad MIDNIGHT
COWBOY deserved the Oscar for Best Picture in 1969 and was the first and only
“X” rated movie to get the prize. Jon Voight’s performance as the
naive Joe Buck made you believe that he believes he can go anywhere. But Dustin
Hoffman’s performance as Ratzo Rizzo, the ‘Pimp with a Limp’, was one for the
ages. Hoffman transformed into a squalid character that is equal parts repulsive
and sympathetic. Bob Balaban and Sylvia Miles were memorable in small roles.
The ending showed that everybody has a dream, but it just might not be in your
reach.
PAINT YOUR WAGON
Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, and Lee Marvin in Paint Your Wagon, 1969.
This Western musical is an often-overlooked gem from 1969, perhaps just because it is so weird. While SWEET CHARITY tried to dilute the facts about the story, PAINT YOUR WAGON takes a comically matter-of-fact approach to this story of a romantic threesome in a Wild West gold mining boom town, where what is scandalous elsewhere is perfectly normal. Paddy Chayefsky adapted the Lerner and Loewe 1951 musical for the screen, which might explain part of its quirky appeal. Jean Seberg plays a respectable woman who unexpectedly finds herself stranded in the gold mining town, and forms a domestic arrangement with two very different men, Lee Marvin’s scruffy hard-drinking old prospector and the more clean-cut, conventional young Clint Eastwood. Ironically, Eastwood would later play characters that more resembled Lee Marvin’s grumbler, although perhaps with less of the humor Marvin inserts in this role. A bonus to this film is you get to hear Lee Marvin’s comic, tone-challenged warbling in his ode to wanderers, “Wand’rin’ Star,” positive proof that he couldn’t sing but could sell a song anyway.
ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE
ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE is considered by many (but not all) hard-core James Bond fans as the best in the series. The producers gave this entry a more broad and epic scope, likely to make up for Sean Connery leaving the series and replaced with an unknown, one-time Bond George Lazenby. It’s a combination of elements that make this one stand out: the best soundtrack of any Bond ever, a particularly nasty villain (Blofeld played by the Telly Savalas), (arguably) the best Bond girl ever in Diana Rigg, a great ally Draco, the best villain organization in the Bonds: SPECTRE, and yes, George Lazenby himself who was an outstanding 007 despite never returning to the series.
SWEET CHARITY
Bob Fosse’s SWEET CHARITY, a poster for which appears briefly in Tarantino’s film, is a kind of trial run for his more fully-realized CABERET, but the film’s near-miss is a good illustration of the changes Hollywood was undergoing as it moved from the era of censors to a new frankness Shirley MacLaine plays a prostitute in this musical but producers were too squeamish fully embrace that, giving the film a sanitized aspect that gives the film a weird dichotomy. Fosse didn’t let that happen again, and audiences reaped the reward for that decision.
THEY SHOOT HORSES DON’T THEY?
THEY SHOOT HORSES DON’T THEY? chronicled a Depression-era dance marathon in Santa Monica in the post-Great. Among the contestants vying for the $1,500 victory are a depressive aspiring actress (Jane Fonda), a wannabe filmmaker-turned-criminal (Michael Sarrazin), another aspiring Hollywood starlet (Susannah York), and a pregnant wife and her husband (Bonnie Bedelia and Bruce Dern). The competition begins to wear on the already- downtrodden contestants, slowly transforming into a series of psychological and physical horrors. Gig Young won the Oscar as the contest’s sadistic emcee. “Yowza! Yowza! Yowza!”
TRUE GRIT
This film was a turning point in John Wayne’s iconic movie character. If the early John Wayne was best represented by his characters in John Ford’s STAGE COACH and THE SEARCHERS, the later Duke was more the craggy bounty hunter in TRUE GRIT. This iconic film is not only an essential Western and example of John Wayne’s later screen persona, but an example of the shift in storytelling that Hollywood was undergoing.
THE VALLEY OF GWANGI
In THE VALLEY OF GWANGI Wild West showmen follow a prehistoric horse to a hidden valley in Spain where they are attacked by dinosaurs. Eventually, the cowboys manage to capture a live Allosaurus, which they turn into the star of their new show. This was a case of high-concept movie-making, old-school style: cowboys vs. dinosaurs (it doesn’t get much more high-concept than that), all brought to life through the use of undeniable charming, cutting-edge movie-magic circa 1969. That would of course be Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion animation in this, one of his best-remembered films.
THE WILD BUNCH
THE WILD BUNCH was a ground-breaking, revisionist western from director Sam Peckinpah, Although violence existed in the cinema before this film, it was Peckinpah’s treatment of violence that opened the gates for every subsequent film-maker to show graphic gunshot wounds, throat-slashing, and the like, with shocking realism. THE WILD BUNCH was beautifully shot by Lucien Ballard and featured memorable performances from William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Warren Oates, and many others.
THE WRECKING CREW
While the Bond series was undergoing a major cast change that year, the first American parody film series wrapped up the last of its quartet of capers (Derek Flint had been retired at Fox two years ago). Dean Martin was back as Donald Hamilton’s swingin’ secret agent Matt Helm in THE WRECKING CREW (also returning was the director of the first Helm THE SILENCERS, Phil Karlson). This time out, Matt was still undercover as a top fashion photog (and if you think a certain “international man of mystery” borrowed this, then BEHAVE, baby), sent out by the US agency I.C.E. to stop the nefarious Count Contini (Nigel Green) from grabbing enough gold to wreck the global economy. There was action (Bruce Lee is credited as the “karate advisor” and a beard-less nearly “baby-faced” Chuck Norris makes his screen debut as a menacing thug) and zany gadgets galore, but the series’ biggest draw, aside from Dino’s easy-goin’ playboy persona, was the bevy of beautiful ladies (sometimes called “Slaymates”). The main fabulous foursome were most spectacular. Representing the earlier part of the decade (and a touch of the late 50s) was blonde bombshell Elke Sommer and radiant redhead Tina Louise (seems the island life agreed with her). The 60s emerging stars were the exotic Nancy Kwan (as “Yu-Rang”…really) and the breathtaking Sharon Tate as Helm’s klutzy aide Freya Carlson. The film ends with the promise that “Matt Helm will return in The Ravagers”, and supposedly Dean wanted to bring back Tate and her character, but, as the new Tarantino flick points out, it was not to be (‘sigh’).
FUNNY GIRL comes to life on the big screen Monday July 29th as part of the ‘Classics on the Loop’ series. Showtimes are 4pm and 7pm. Admission is $7.A Facebook invite can be found HERE
Few film debuts in the 1960s were more auspicious than that of Barbra Streisand in FUNNY GIRL. Already a legit and recording star, she shot to superstardom and nabbed an Oscar for best actress in the bargain. Ms Babs had played musical-comedy star Fanny Brice on Broadway and had the role down pat by the time director William Wyler brought the story to the screen.In the early 1900s in New York City, young Fanny, an ugly duckling with an unstoppable ambition to be a star, is determined to get out of the Lower East Side. Her big break comes when she’s spotted by handsome gambler Nicky Arnstein (Omar Sharif), who helps her catch the eye of Florenz Ziegfeld
The memorable Broadway score was augmented for the screen with several tunes from Brice’s life, including her signature, “My Man.”
The ‘Classics on the Loop’will continue at The Tivoli:
“If you’re going to have a problem with stealing, then you’re not going to like the rest of this conversation. “
The ‘Movies on Art Hill’ Series in St. Louis continues this Friday, July 26th with ANCHORMAN. Admission is FREE and the movie will start about 9pm.A Facebook invite for the event can be found HERE
The We Are Movie Geeks gang always goes to these, so if you wanna hang with the cool kids, you should go too. It’s free and they set up a big screen at the bottom of the hill. There are food trucks and beer and wine for sale. You can even go dine in the museum’s restaurant before the show if you got money to burn. If you’re a museum member, you can show your membership card and get free popcorn and ice cream (I did that last year even though my card was expired!). Of course, you can bring a cooler with your own food and drinks as well. It’s a lot of fun! Bring your dog! The movies start at 9 but get there early! Thousands of people show up, especially if the weather is nice, and close parking is scarce. There’s live pre-show music and the people-watching can be entertaining.
What’s a film series without the food?
Bring your own picnic.
Food Truck Fest, presented by Sauce Magazine, will run from 6 to 8:30 pm in the parking lot to the west of the Louis IX statue on Art Hill. Food trucks vary each week and lines will close at 8:30 pm sharp each night. Cash, credit, and debit cards accepted. An ATM will be on Art Hill Plaza.
The Museum’s Cafe will be open and serving casual fare including freshly prepared soups, sandwiches, and salads until 9 pm.
Concession stands with snacks and soda will be located at the top of Art Hill. Show your Saint Louis Art Museum membership card and get a free bag of popcorn!
Adult beverages will be available for purchase at the Panorama booth.
Bring your appetite! Before the movie starts, make sure to tap into your creative side. Each week, there will be an Art Lab for adults complete with an instructor and all the materials you need to create your own Film Series masterpiece.
Don’t miss OCEANS EIGHT this Friday. Five years, eight months, 12 days and counting — that’s how long Debbie Ocean has been devising the biggest heist of her life. She knows what it’s going to take — a team of the best people in the field, starting with her partner-in-crime Lou Miller. Together, they recruit a crew of specialists, including jeweler Amita, street con Constance, suburban mom Tammy, hacker Nine Ball, and fashion designer Rose. Their target — a necklace that’s worth more than $150 million.
August 2nd – GOONIES – A Facebook invite can be found HERE
A group of young misfits who call themselves The Goonies discover an ancient map and set out on a quest to find a legendary pirate’s long-lost treasure.
Great news for Clint Eastwood fans! BRONCO BILLY is available on Blu-ray From Warner Archives. Ordering information can be found HERE
Ask Clint Eastwood to select personal favorites from amongst his movies and you might be surprised by one choice. “It’s an old-fashioned theme,” Eastwood says, “but if, as a film director, I ever wanted to say something, you’ll find it in Bronco Billy.” “One of the funniest and most touching films you’ll see this or any year” (Rona Barrett, ABC-TV) casts Eastwood as the ace sharpshooter and head of a modern Wild West tent show. Life’s been hard for Billy and his ragtag troupe. But their luck might change – in the unlikely person of a highfalutin society dame (Sondra Locke). You may already have a favorite Eastwood role. Watch Bronco Billy and, chances are, you’ll have another.
Clint Eastwood was well on the way of his extraordinary journey from screen icon to cinema auteur when he helmed this quirky character drama about a ragtag band of Wild West showmen led by the titular Bronco Billy (Eastwood). A fateful encounter with Antoinette (Sondra Locke), a spectacularly down-on-her-luck heiress, leads to a new member of team and a marked change in their fortunes. Eastwood pokes fun at his screen persona while delivering a moving and heartfelt paean to the power of personal imagination and American re-invention. Reinvigorated on this hue-riffic Blu-ray thanks to a brand new HD master, Bronco Billy arrives with all the shading and grain of proper early Eighties film stock, ready to make a bullseye in your memories. 16×9 Widescreen
An unbelievable, action-packed true story comes home when THE COMMANDarrives on Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital), DVD, and Digital August 6 from Lionsgate.
An unbelievable, action-packed true story comes home when The Command arrives on Blu-ray™ Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital), DVD, and Digital August 6 from Lionsgate. The film is currently available On Demand. Starring Matthias Schoenaerts, Léa Seydoux, and Academy Award® winner Colin Firth (2010, Best Actor, The King’s Speech), don’t miss the riveting story about the 2000 nuclear submarine disaster based on Robert Moore’s book, A Time to Die, directed by award winner Thomas Vinterberg (The Hunt, The Celebration, Far From the Madding Crowd), and written by Robert Rodat. The Command Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD will include the “Human Costs: Making The Command” featurette and will be available for the suggested retail price of $22.99 and $19.98, respectively.
Colin Firth stars in the unforgettable true story of the K-141 Kursk, a Russian flagship nuclear powered submarine that sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea in August 2000. As 23 sailors fought for survival aboard the disabled sub, their families desperately battled bureaucratic obstacles and impossible odds to find answers and save them.
BLU-RAY / DVD / DIGITAL SPECIAL FEATURES
“Human Costs: Making The Command” Featurette
CAST Matthias Schoenaerts Rust and Bone, The Danish Girl, Red Sparrow Léa Seydoux Spectre, The Lobster, The Grand Budapest Hotel Colin Firth The King’s Speech, Bridget Jones’s Diary
Experience the 2019 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning coming-of-age drama The Souvenir, arriving on Blu-ray™ and DVD August 6 from Lionsgate. Written and directed by Joanna Hogg (Archipelago, Exhibition) and executive produced by Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Departed), the Rotten Tomatoes Certified Fresh™ film stars Academy Award®winner Tilda Swinton (2007, Best Supporting Actress, Michael Clayton), her daughter Honor Swinton Byrne (The Atlantic calls her “a revelation” in her feature-film debut), and Tom Burke. The SouvenirBlu-ray and DVD will include an audio commentary with writer/director Joanna Hogg in addition to an insightful making-of featurette, and will be available for the suggested retail price of $24.99 and $19.98, respectively.
In this lush, dreamlike story of young adulthood and first love, a shy but ambitious film student (Honor Swinton Byrne) begins to find her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man (Tom Burke). She defies her protective mother (Tilda Swinton) and concerned friends as she slips deeper and deeper into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship that comes dangerously close to destroying her dreams.
BLU-RAY™ / DVD SPECIAL FEATURES
Audio Commentary with Writer-Director Joanna Hogg
“Making of The Souvenir” Featurette
CAST Honor Swinton Byrne Feature-film debut Tom Burke Only God Forgives, TV’s “C.B. Strike,” TV’s “War & Peace” and Tilda Swinton Suspiria, Okja, Doctor Strange
Writer, producer, and director whose credits include “THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND”and “JASMINE” will helm the Hitchcockian thriller KIRKWOOD, to be filmed in St. Louis during the fall and winter of 2019. Read the 2015 WAMG interview with Dax HERE
Los Angeles-based writer/producer/director Dax Phelan (“The Other Side of the Wind”) will return home to St. Louis to direct his sophomore feature film, “Kirkwood,” this fall and winter. The film is a Hitchcockian suspense thriller about former police detective Joe Dolan and his estranged teenage son, Max, who grow closer as they work together to cover up an accidental murder. But, when the family of the deceased hires a ruthless private investigator to re-examine the evidence in the case and the investigator begins to suspect the Dolans, Max’s sanity is pushed to the breaking point and Joe must take extreme measures to keep their secret safe. Phelan wrote the story with his father, Joe Phelan, a former City of St. Louis policeman. Phelan wrote the screenplay and will produce with Stratton Leopold (“Mission: Impossible III”) and Eric M. Klein (“Jasmine”). “Although I’ve made films all over the world, I’ve always dreamed of one day coming home to Missouri to make something personal with my family and friends,” Phelan said. “I’m grateful to the Missouri Film Office, which has been working with me to turn that dream into a reality, and I look forward to teaming up with other local partners.” In 2015, Phelan wrote, produced, and directed his feature directorial debut, “Jasmine.” Shot in Hong Kong, the thriller played in 75 film festivals worldwide and won nearly 100 awards, including 17 for Best Picture, 10 for Best Director, and 5 for Best Screenplay. The film was acquired by Lionsgate and released theatrically on June 16, 2017.
In 2018, Phelan was included in the LA Film Awards’ list of “Thirty Filmmakers to Watch,” a celebration of the “inspiring, creative, and incredibly talented directors who are making indie filmmaking great right now.” Phelan recently co-produced Orson Welles’s final film, “The Other Side of the Wind,” with Frank Marshall. The film had its world premiere at the 75th Venice Film Festival where it opened to strong reviews and was released theatrically by Netflix on November 2, 2018. The National Board of Review honored the film with the prestigious and rarely given William K. Everson Film History Award. It also received the Film Heritage Award from the National Society of Film Critics and appeared on over thirty year-end “Top 10” lists. Phelan grew up in Kirkwood and is a graduate of Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School.
