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Well, except it didn't ignite because Vas called Reno a mook. Oh, and I guess neither Reno nor Vas looked or sounded anything like Johnny Boy - Robert De Niro's trouble-making street hood character from Little Italy in NYC.

Roger Corman, memorably dubbed "the Orson Welles of the Z-Movie" and "the Pope of Pop Cinema," never expected the words "Academy Award recipient" would accompany his name.

Some movies you have to watch whenever they're on. One of those, for me, is "The Red Shoes." Like its doomed heroine, I'm pulled inexorably along by the bewitched crimson ballet slippers into a lush, swirling landscape that turns into an inescapable, bloody hell.

Martin Scorsese was the surprise non-journalist guest at last night's book party in the Reuters building for Sir Harry Evans's memoir of his life in newspapers, My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times , which featured a discussion on bygone times so long and rambling it may well have killed print journalism then and there.

Held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in early November, Blu-Con 2.0 took as its theme "Blu-ray Means Business," including additional opportunities for recording studios and post facilities involved in the repurposing of legacy material with multichannel mixes and fully compatible PCM sound elements.

Arriving at the Film Forum on Friday is a new, impressively restored print of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's classic 1948 film The Red Shoes , about a tenacious ballerina torn between a lover and her art.

Martin Scorsese is best known for his films that explore the darker sides of American cities, specifically New York.

When young film student George Lucas came across the work of a guy named Arthur Lipsett in the 1960s, he was so energized that he ran the films repeatedly to figure out how they were put together.

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It's just as well that the couch I'm sitting on is plump and hospitable or I might have fallen off it: Martin Scorsese tells me that the real inspiration for the tone and voice of Goodfellas was not Scarface or Public Enemy , but Kind Hearts and Coronets .

The director of "Michael Jackson's This Is It" - which opens today - is the last in a long line of filmmakers to work with MJ.

Little boys to grown men are wearing Mohawks. Some prefer the simple Mohawk with no designs on the sides and others take the hawk to another level and add designs; whether you have extra additions or not; the Mohawk has become mainstream in media and fashion.

Three of Hollywood's leading men are in the frame to star in Martin Scorsese's forthcoming Frank Sinatra biopic George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio and Johnny Depp are fighting to play Frank Sinatra in a forthcoming biopic.

Martin Scorsese's "The Aviator" explores Howard Hughes' days as a filmmaker, a businessman and an eccentric recluse.

There's something naive about making a movie called New York, I Love You , or maybe it's just redundant.

In The Aviator , Martin Scorsese mythologized Howard Hughes as a 20th-century Icarus who, scorched by the sun, plummeted to earth.

Producer Graham King, whose strong relationships with talent like Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp and Martin Scorsese helped bring films such as "The Departed" and "The Aviator" to the screen, has inked a three-year, multi-film output pact with Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group.

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Robert here, with a new series on the filmmakers who've shaped the past ten years.

Paramount has debuted a second new trailer for Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island today on Apple .