The Killer to be remade...in 3D

http://www.hollywoodwiretap.com/?module=news&action=story&id=57455

John Woo is producing a 3D remake of his own classic The Killer. How many kinds of wrong is that?
If you haven't seen the original, you need to acquaint yourself with John Woo's pre-US career-the one where he made the two greatest action films of all time: The Killer and Hard Boiled. These two are a perfect yin and yang for each other, for while one has more story and less action the other is opposite. They strike a balance so that your brain can no longer comprehend their beauty.
This one really needs to be stopped. What needs to be done is for the original to finally be restored and made available to the public in a 2011 quality release. even more so, these two films need to be restored to the big screen in a theatrical re-release. Imagine the glory of blazing guns in Cantonese mono and this...on a giant screen in front of your face:


And if they even think of touching Tequila...this is what hell Chow Yun-Fat will bring down on them. At least I would hope so...there were plans for a Hard Boiled 2 a few years back. Now that's what they should be doing!!!

John Barry dead at 77. R.I.P.

Over the weekend, we lost one of the truly great film composers, heck one of the truly great composers period. Only Ennio Morricone and Bernard Herrmann come close. John Barry was able to capture the mood and spirit of a moment in time unlike any other. He also understood pop music and the force a simple beat could have.
His music certainly changed my life and the way I look at scoring. It also makes one reflect on how the film score has become a lost art. His work on eleven of the James Bond films defined the spirit, joy, ecstasy, sadness and rhythms of life.
The haunting moodiness of The Ipcress File, the bombast of From Russia with Love, the dark moody brass of Goldfinger, the wail and murky grace of Thunderball, the stunningly lush strings and melodies of the aching You Only Live Twice, the haunting brass and deep descending bass of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the slinky touch and playfulness of Diamonds Are Forever, the whimsical and eastern The Man With The Golden Gun, the romance and majesty of Moonraker, the classical reassurance of Octopussy, the wailing guitar and composure of A View To a Kill, the dark synths pulsating beats and romantic melodies of The Living Daylights, and the truly immortal James Bond Theme. It may have been ruled that Monty Norman wrote this piece, but it is Barry who made it pulsate and have a soul.
Bring out your Bond compilations, and all your soundtracks. The man deserves a grand sendoff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y952TRNBvDw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxjcN609cm4&feature=related

OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND-Welles's film might finally be released!!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jan/23/orson-welles-last-film-release
Please let this be released!!!!

3D-The reel truth

Thank goodness someone in the technical side of the industry has spoken out against the 3D fad.
Walter Murch, the legendary editor and sound designer of Apocalypse Now (the first film to ever be mixed in surround sound) wrote to Roger Ebert on how the 3D process simply doesn't work.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/01/post_4.html
If it didn't work in the 1980's, why bring it back now? I should ask Disney the same question about Tron.