52:30 - 8 months agoThis is a fantastic and very rare documentary film by Martin Scorsese, and one of the greatest interviews ever recorded. The subject is his friend Steven Prince, best known for his role as “Easy Andy”, the traveling gun salesman in “Taxi Driver”. Prince is a manic raconteur, telling wild stories about his life as an ex-drug addict and a road manager for Neil Diamond. Scorsese intersperses home movies of Prince as a child as he talks about his family. When talking of his years as a heroin addict, Prince tells a story about injecting adrenaline into the heart of a woman who overdosed, with the help of a medical dictionary and a Magic Marker. This story was re-enacted by Quentin Tarantino in “Pulp Fiction” (which he then claimed as a completely original idea, as usual with him). Prince also tells a haunting story about working at a gas station in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night, and being robbed by a large drug crazed man, who Prince ends up shooting several times.
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Just WOW is all I can say for this trailer.
Movie Trailer of the Day: First official trailer for fashion designer Tom Ford’s directorial debut, A Single Man — an adaptation of the Christopher Isherwood novel of the same name.
The film stars Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, and Nicholas Hoult. Its crisp visual style was engineered by Dan Bishop, best known for his work on AMC’s Mad Men.
Limited Release Date: December 11, 2009.
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When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, The Original of Laura. But Nabokov’s wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her husband’s last work, and when she died, the fate of the manuscript fell to her son. Dmitri Nabokov, now seventy-five—the Russian novelist’s only surviving heir, and translator of many of his books—has wrestled for three decades with the decision, and after much agonizing, decided to publish against his father’s wishes. Out 11/17
Home Again.
This is a Edwyn Collins documentary, following his progress to play music again after 2 strokes in February 2005.
Edwyn Collins formed the musical group Nu-Sonics in 1976, which became Orange Juice in 1979. In 1985, Orange Juice disbanded, and Collins has since then pursued a solo career.
Collins is best known for his 1994 single, “A Girl Like You”, which was a hit in both the UK and the U.S.
A very eye opening documentary, If your interested in Edwyn Collins this is a must see. Actually its a must see for any fan of music.
Miramax Films
It seems to me that if I were the owner of the only independent-film distributor the general public has ever noticed or cared about, the company that brought the world “Pulp Fiction,” “The Crying Game,” “sex, lies, and videotape,” “The English Patient,” “Shakespeare in Love,” “Chicago,” “The Queen” and “No Country for Old Men,” I might try to cash in on that brand name in perpetuity by making or selling some really good movies. Fortunately for all concerned, I am not the owner of Miramax Films, and in recent days the once-mighty indie empire founded by Bob and Harvey Weinstein in 1979 has reached the end of the road, or pretty nearly so.
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