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20080620 Friday June 20, 2008

Hollywood Goes Shopping

DVD shoppers at HMV in London’s Covent Garden had a bit of a surprise recently when thesps from theatre company Teatro Vivo performed impromptu re-enactments of iconic scenes from movies including Pulp Fiction, Scream, Chicago and Clerks.

 

The stunt was part of a promotion for Miramax, which is reissuing its back catalogue – including the four flicks above – in new packaging. For your info, HMV is running a ‘2 for £10’ offer on all Miramax DVDs until Sunday 6 July.

 

Punters were understandably bemused, bewildered and entertained by the actors’ unexpected renditions of classic moments including the Pulp Fiction diner sequence, Jay and Silent Bob’s stoned banter from Clerks and the opening Drew Barrymore phone-call from Scream. Check out these clips for evidence...


“When you’ve danced with her, you stay danced with...”

...That’s what Fred Astaire had to say of Cyd Charisse – the legendary lassie with the classy chassis and the legs that “went on for days”, who sadly passed away on Tuesday from heart failure at the age of 87. Leaving the Ballet Russes for Hollywood in 1943, Cyd partnered Astaire and the era’s other legendary hoofer, Gene Kelly, bringing her smouldering beauty and show-stoppingly precise performances to golden-age musicals like The Band Wagon, Silk Stockings, It’s Always Fair Weather and, of course, Singin’ In The Rain.

She had the kind of range, style and grace that knocks today's wooden-legged, lumpen-footed losers from Dancing With The Stars into Kelly’s artfully cocked hat. At one point, Cyd’s pins were insured for $5 million, and you can see why. Here she is dancing with John Brascia in Meet Me In Las Vegas – mere words do not do her justice...



Ted Turner is surely rubber-stamping an MGM retrospective DVD boxset as we speak. They don’t make them like this any more, that’s for sure...

Requiem For A Day Off

This is probably the best fake mash-up movie trailer we’ve seen since that guy turned The Shining into a Hallmark Channel feelgood movie, via clever editing and the judicious use of an upbeat Peter Gabriel track. It would seem that, in some warped mirror-universe, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is actually a disturbing Michael Haneke-style psychological thriller. Or at least, that's what it becomes via clever editing and the judicious use of the scary music from Requiem For A Dream...



Just goes to show how utterly misleading trailers can be – real or otherwise...

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Sexual Health Warning - Does She Have Teeth In Her Vagina?

As a general rule it's unacceptable to take photographs when you're in a urinal* but occasionally good manners have to be thrown out the door for the sake of sharing a gag.

*I wasn't actually in the urinal myself. A girl walking into a urinal with a camera is going just that bit too far...

This is an ad for horror-comedy Teeth starring Jess Weixler as good Christian girl Dawn, who's an active member of a chastity group and intent on saving the gift of her virginity for that one special guy, until an act of violence leads her to discover she has... well... fanny fangs. You can catch Teeth in cinemas from today. I've seen it and I really liked it. It makes women giggle and men cross their legs.


Bond on Blu-ray

Bluuuuuuu-fingahhh. He’s the man, the man with the hi-def touch...

Yes, the world’s greatest secret agent, James Bond, is coming to Blu-ray in October...*

Six 007 classics will be hitting the hi-def format for the first time on 20 October. MGM and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment have chosen Dr No, From Russia With Love, Thunderball, Live And Let Die, For Your Eyes Only and Die Another Day for their first batch of Bond back catalogue Blu-ray releases to accompany the opening of Bond 22, Quantum Of Solace, on 31 October.

Daniel Craig’s debut outing as 007, Casino Royale, was the first Bond film to arrive on Blu-ray back in March last year and remains the best selling Blu-ray disc to date in the UK.

The films appearing on Blu-ray were recently digitally restored for the Ultimate Editions DVD collection via the state-of-the-art Lowry process. We are promised ‘special features galore’, but no news on whether there will be any new extras exclusive to the format – or when to expect the remainder of the franchise in HD and in what order.

“With Quantum Of Solace on the horizon, Bond fever is building once again and there is no better time to re-introduce these beloved films featuring the best picture and sound quality available today to the 60 million+ HD-capable households worldwide,” said Eric Doctorow, General Manager Worldwide, MGM Home Entertainment.

 

We'll bring you more discs details as soon as we have them.

 

* But not Goldfinger. We just wanted to do the Shirley Bassey gag...


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