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Eclectic Method - The Tarantino MixTape - High Definition (HD)
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Audio/visual Tarantino mash up by Eclectic Method
The Killing
The movie revolves around a horsetrack heist lending a different shade to the meaning of the title as in a financial killing rather than a murder, which would probably be the first guess for any Noir. This is one of Kubrick's early films, coming after Killer's Kiss, this movie made Hollywood stand up and take notice of him. He was 28. Shot in 1956 with a non-linear structure and synchronic flashbacks it must have been off the beaten track for that period.
By Kubrick standards cinematography does not stand out for me. For one i haven't watched many black and white movies of that period to really judge the goodness. It could probably also be attributed to the less advanced technology or Kubrick was still learning. This absence accentuates the extent to which Kubrick uses colour to maximum effect in all his later movies.
Every notable character in the movie has been well crafted, craving for money is the only common thread that ties them. The meticulous planning of the heist by Johnny Clay, played by Sterling Hayden, reflects Kubrick's own trait of being ultraprecise. This is another novel adaptation written for screen by Kubrick. It is hard to single out a blotchy performance, cameos included, except for Coleen Gray who thankfully does not have a sizeable part. The entire movie is just under 90 mins, in the league of Stand By Me and the 2007 version Sleuth. The movie races from start to finish with a not easy to guess ending. Two things that wont escape your mind while watching the movie are Hitchcock and Tarantino.
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After watching the movie it is easy to guess where Tarantino has derived huge inspiration from. Reservoir dogs is The Killing of the new era. Apart from being reminded of the Hitchcock Quotient you can't escape the comparison with Reservoir Dogs. Though there are many differences, there is a subtle toggle in success and failure. The heist plan succeeds in The Killing while it fails in Reservoir Dogs, no one succeeds in escaping unscathed(including by law) in The Killing while one of them does in Reservoir Dogs. The similarities are endless, the most striking on being the way in which the gang ends themselves in a panicked shootout. Even if anyone did a remake of The Killing there is a slim chance of it coming anywhere close to Reservoir Dogs, a classic by its own right.
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Your Daily Quote From A Great Man...
"You shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize." (Harvey Keitel in Reservoir Dogs)
This started out as Your Daily Bodhi, and no offense to the deceased, but that got a little stale. From here on, I'm mixing in some classics from other high caliber individuals - like the above mentioned Mr. White. Still, to Swayze, rest in peace, compadre. And here are The Muppets doing the diner scene in Reservoir Dogs.
Reservoir Dogs Take Manhattan
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one of the funniest mashups I've seen!
Carl Icahn Invests in Lions Gate Entertainment
As shareholders left Lions Gate Entertainment in droves after miserable fiscal third-quarter results Monday, two funds took the opportunity to load up on shares of the film company. The most prominent buyer, Carl Icahn, is one of the few investors who can make tongues wag as easily as a Hollywood star.
On Tuesday, February 10, 2009. the day after Lions Gate's post-market-close earnings announcement, Icahn bought 1,036,136 shares for $4.7 million, or an average per-share price of $4.53. Mark Rachesky, who runs investment firm MHR Fund Management, also increased his stake after the earnings announcement, buying 1.7 million shares for $7 million from Tuesday through Thursday, upping his stake in the company to about 18%. Rachesky is a former advisor to Icahn. Unlike Icahn, however, Rachesky's filing indicated that his investment in Lions Gate is passive, meaning he is not agitating for changes at the company.
Beyond saying in his Securities and Exchange Commission filings that he thinks the shares are undervalued and has had discussions with the firm's management, Icahn has not tipped his hand on his intentions at Lions Gate. He didn't return a phone call on Friday. Neither Lions Gate nor MHR Fund Management returned phone calls seeking comment. Speculation about Icahn's intentions abounds.
Richard Dorfman, the chief executive officer of financial advisory and investment company Richard Alan, thinks Icahn will try to instigate a sale of the company, or perhaps form a partnership to distribute the company's film library online. Given Icahn's activist position in Yahoo (YHOO), Icahn could even be looking to bring the two companies together, Dorfman says in an interview with Barrons.com. Dorfman owns shares of Lions Gate.
Other observers have pondered whether Icahn will try to shake up management. Analysts tend to think Icahn is simply trying to increase his position in the stock while it's cheap. Changing management at the company would be difficult, says Wunderlich Securities analyst Matthew Harrigan, who downgraded the stock to Hold from Buy after the earnings report.
"He's been pretty supportive of management in the past," Harrigan says. "There's not a lot of good studio management out there. And you'll always have some bumps in changing studio management" as new managers try to change or cut projects mid-stream.
Lions Gate on Monday, February 9, 2009, posted a third-quarter loss of 81 cents per share versus analyst expectations for a loss of 27 cents. The company's problems raising money to finance films and reduced DVD sales have investors and analysts concerned. The stock fell 27% on Tuesday.
"The Lions Gate story is one that performs well during easy-money days," wrote Thomas Weisel Partners analyst Benjamin Mogil in downgrading the stock to Market Weight from Overweight. "We think the challenge now is that with those days now gone, the steady-state is at hand for Lions Gate; with a shrunken film slate and reduced DVD contribution the steady-state is not particularly exciting at this point in time."
Lions Gate's saving grace right now is its film library, which boasts titles such as The Blair Witch Project, Reservoir Dogs and Dirty Dancing, and accounts for more than 80% of its free cash flow, says StreetInsider.com vice president Jason Rasnick. Because the shares are so beaten down Raznick thinks Icahn "may be making a play at a value proposition."
