Five years after igniting the original slasher craze, Sean S. Cunningham returned with another harrowing tale of young people in danger. And similar to Friday the 13th, this 1985 movie concerns unlucky teens on the receiving end of someone’s revenge. The only difference here, though, is this threat hits much closer to home. The New Kids draws from another prevalent Hollywood trend — violent street gangs and the communities they terrorize — and tells a unique coming-of-age story.
The New Kids starts with Tom Atkins’ character dragging his two teenage children, Loren (Shannon Presby) and Abby McWilliams, out of bed for an early-morning workout on the army base. He indeed jokes about his son being too tired from “whacking off” and he comments on his daughter’s “sexy little bod,” but after previously playing an abusive father in Creepshow, this role is relatively wholesome for Atkins. Sadly, Loren and Abby’s father...
The New Kids starts with Tom Atkins’ character dragging his two teenage children, Loren (Shannon Presby) and Abby McWilliams, out of bed for an early-morning workout on the army base. He indeed jokes about his son being too tired from “whacking off” and he comments on his daughter’s “sexy little bod,” but after previously playing an abusive father in Creepshow, this role is relatively wholesome for Atkins. Sadly, Loren and Abby’s father...
- 11/29/2022
- by Paul Lê
- bloody-disgusting.com
Our 75th guest! The legendary filmmaker John Sayles joins Josh and Joe to explore some of his favorite movies.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Ulzana’s Raid (1972)
Django (1966)
The Birth Of A Nation (1915)
City Of Hope (1991)
Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980)
The Challenge (1982)
Avalanche (1978)
Eight Men Out (1988)
Piranha (1978)
The Howling (1981)
The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
The Killers (1964)
The King And I (1956)
Time Without Pity (1957)
The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)
Ben-Hur (1957)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Two Women (1960)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Spartacus (1960)
Fixed Bayonets! (1951)
The Steel Helmet (1951)
Merrill’s Marauders (1962)
Targets (1968)
Touch Of Evil (1958)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Woodstock (1970)
Crime In The Streets (1956)
The Bad Seed (1956)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Fedora (1978)
Dune (1984)
The Cotton Club (1984)
Choose Me (1984)
Raising Arizona (1987)
El Norte (1983)
Yellow Sky (1948)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Irishman (2019)
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood (2019)
The Thing (1982)
Chinatown (1974)
Manhattan (1979)
Duck Amuck (1953)
Goodfellas (1990)
Humanoids Of The Deep (1980)
Cockfighter (1974)
Dynamite Women a.k.a. The Great Texas Dynamite Chase...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Ulzana’s Raid (1972)
Django (1966)
The Birth Of A Nation (1915)
City Of Hope (1991)
Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980)
The Challenge (1982)
Avalanche (1978)
Eight Men Out (1988)
Piranha (1978)
The Howling (1981)
The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
The Killers (1964)
The King And I (1956)
Time Without Pity (1957)
The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)
Ben-Hur (1957)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Two Women (1960)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Spartacus (1960)
Fixed Bayonets! (1951)
The Steel Helmet (1951)
Merrill’s Marauders (1962)
Targets (1968)
Touch Of Evil (1958)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Woodstock (1970)
Crime In The Streets (1956)
The Bad Seed (1956)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Fedora (1978)
Dune (1984)
The Cotton Club (1984)
Choose Me (1984)
Raising Arizona (1987)
El Norte (1983)
Yellow Sky (1948)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Irishman (2019)
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood (2019)
The Thing (1982)
Chinatown (1974)
Manhattan (1979)
Duck Amuck (1953)
Goodfellas (1990)
Humanoids Of The Deep (1980)
Cockfighter (1974)
Dynamite Women a.k.a. The Great Texas Dynamite Chase...
- 4/7/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
An eccentric Southern tale that feels like a Harry Crews-scripted edition of Storage Wars, Finders Keepers tells the story of two men battling — in courts of law and public opinion — over the ownership of a severed foot. The foot belonged once to John Wood, amputated following a small plane crash that also killed Wood’s father. When Wood failed to make payments to his storage unit, it became the property of local North Carolina huckster Shannon Whisnant, who parlays his contested ownership of the foot into a roadside tourist attraction. Directed by Bryan Carberry and Clay Tweel, collaborating for […]...
- 1/27/2015
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
An eccentric Southern tale that feels like a Harry Crews-scripted edition of Storage Wars, Finders Keepers tells the story of two men battling — in courts of law and public opinion — over the ownership of a severed foot. The foot belonged once to John Wood, amputated following a small plane crash that also killed Wood’s father. When Wood failed to make payments to his storage unit, it became the property of local North Carolina huckster Shannon Whisnant, who parlays his contested ownership of the foot into a roadside tourist attraction. Directed by Bryan Carberry and Clay Tweel, collaborating for […]...
- 1/27/2015
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Next week, crime writer Michael Connelly’s 18th Harry Bosch book, “The Black Box,” comes out, telling the story of a female photojournalist who is found shot, execution style, amid the mayhem of the 1992 La Riots. Twenty years later, Bosch tries to solve the cold case as Lapd higher-ups, recalcitrant witnesses, and time all conspire against him. Before Michael Connelly sold 45 million books about Bosch and other Los Angeles characters, he was a student at the University of Florida, where...
- 11/24/2012
- by Stefanie Cohen
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Harry Crews, who died Wednesday at the age of 76 after a battle with neuropathy, was the unofficial poet laureate of bare-knuckled, white-trash culture. Crews, who taught Creative Writing at the University of Florida from 1968 until 1997, wasn't your typical tenured academic writer, but a larger-than-life figure whose own rowdy, emotionally messy, kinetically charged fiction rewrote the book on Southern Gothic lit. As both an artist and a cult icon, he merged the images of the self-destructive, hard-drinking bruiser and the self-made man of letters. (Summing up that dichotomy, he had a line from an e. e. cummings ...
- 3/30/2012
- avclub.com
"When I wrote 120 Malay Movies I tried to watch all of the 34 movies that P Ramlee directed. I almost succeeded." Amir Muhammad (The Last Communist, Malaysian Gods) would eventually see 33; Sitora Harimau Jadian (1964) seems to have been lost. He tells us the story of how he came upon what amounts to P Ramlee's own novelization of Sitora Harimau Jadian, "describing what happens in his movie, scene by scene. The book is slim, only 124 pages, and I'm glad it was also fleshed out with pictures from the movie (which might be the only chance we will ever get to 'see' it)." He gives us a sample and then announces that he's republishing the book, which will be out next month and already has a fan page.
Another book. Today's review of Geoff Dyer's Zona comes from Nathan Rogers-Hancock at Cinespect.
Reading. Alex Ross Perry (The Color Wheel) once managed a...
Another book. Today's review of Geoff Dyer's Zona comes from Nathan Rogers-Hancock at Cinespect.
Reading. Alex Ross Perry (The Color Wheel) once managed a...
- 3/30/2012
- MUBI
- Hawks are not easy to domesticate. Some of them refuse to “break”. They would rather starve themselves to death before giving up their freedom. Julian Goldberger, the director of ‘The Hawk Is Dying’ isn’t ready to be domesticated either. Hopefully he will never be. He became one of the most acclaimed new young directors in 1998 with his feature film debut Trans, an almost experimental but unforgettable movie that opened at the Toronto Film Festival and quickly became a cult pic. The low-budget movie, about a teenager trying to find his place in the world, became a favorite of the festival circuit, traveling from Sundance to Berlin winning awards and hype for this author. Trans caught the eye of Ted Hope, one of the biggest names of the so called ‘independent circuit’, who offered to produce his next project. Almost eight years later, on the eve of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival,
- 4/5/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
PARK CITY - Based on a 1973 novel by Southern writer Harry Crews, "The Hawk Is Dying" hopefully made more sense as a book than it does as a movie. Loaded with obtuse symbolism, the film is not only hard to understand, it isn't much fun trying to figure it out. Aside from devotees of the novel, commercial prospects for this literary effort are very slim.
Strong cast, top-lined by Paul Giamatti, is largely wasted on questionable material, written and directed by Julian Goldberger. Giamatti plays George Gattling, a Gainesville, Fla. owner of a car upholstery shop whose passion in life is capturing hawks in the wild and training them. Unfortunately, he hasn't had much luck and his earlier birds have died on him.
George lives with his obese sister (Ann Wedgeworth) and his mentally challenged nephew Fred Michael Pitt). With Fred's help, George traps a unique red-tailed hawk in a last ditch attempt to save his manhood and redeem himself, or something like that. But more misfortune befalls him when Fred drowns in his waterbed. This is tragic, not funny, and George goes on a rampage trying to train the bird.
Also involved in this mess is his sometime girlfriend Betty (Michelle Williams), who may or may not have been responsible for Fred's death. It's all murky and fraught with angst. In any case, George goes on a fast until he can get the hawk to eat, and as you might imagine, he has some pretty strange visions after going five days without food. Fred appears and tells him cryptically, "You never have", to which George responds, "No, I never have". And if you can make head or tale of that, this is your kind of movie.
The film, nicely shot by Bobby Bukowski, does have its moments of visual splendor in the fields of Florida, and some of the bird behavior is fascinating. And it is interesting to watch a huffing and puffing Giamatti work in high gear-to a point. Williams does her usual stellar work, as well, if only her character were not so enigmatic. Presumably, this all worked better on the page than it does on the screen.
THE HAWK IS DYING
Antidote Films
This Is That Productions
Credits:
Director: Julian Goldberger, based on the novel by Harry Crews
Writer: Goldberger
Producers: Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, Mary Jane Skalski
Executive producers: Ted Hope, Corbin Day, Jeanne Levy-Hinte
Director of photography: Bobby Bukowski
Production designer: Judy Becker
Music: Jonathan Goldberger
Costume designer: April Napier
Editor: Affonso Goncalves.
Cast:
George Gattling: Paul Giamatti
Betty: Michelle Williams
Fred: Michael Pitt
Billy Bob: Robert Wisdom
Precious: Rusty Schwimmer
Ma Gattling: Ann Wedgeworth
No MPAA Rating...
Strong cast, top-lined by Paul Giamatti, is largely wasted on questionable material, written and directed by Julian Goldberger. Giamatti plays George Gattling, a Gainesville, Fla. owner of a car upholstery shop whose passion in life is capturing hawks in the wild and training them. Unfortunately, he hasn't had much luck and his earlier birds have died on him.
George lives with his obese sister (Ann Wedgeworth) and his mentally challenged nephew Fred Michael Pitt). With Fred's help, George traps a unique red-tailed hawk in a last ditch attempt to save his manhood and redeem himself, or something like that. But more misfortune befalls him when Fred drowns in his waterbed. This is tragic, not funny, and George goes on a rampage trying to train the bird.
Also involved in this mess is his sometime girlfriend Betty (Michelle Williams), who may or may not have been responsible for Fred's death. It's all murky and fraught with angst. In any case, George goes on a fast until he can get the hawk to eat, and as you might imagine, he has some pretty strange visions after going five days without food. Fred appears and tells him cryptically, "You never have", to which George responds, "No, I never have". And if you can make head or tale of that, this is your kind of movie.
The film, nicely shot by Bobby Bukowski, does have its moments of visual splendor in the fields of Florida, and some of the bird behavior is fascinating. And it is interesting to watch a huffing and puffing Giamatti work in high gear-to a point. Williams does her usual stellar work, as well, if only her character were not so enigmatic. Presumably, this all worked better on the page than it does on the screen.
THE HAWK IS DYING
Antidote Films
This Is That Productions
Credits:
Director: Julian Goldberger, based on the novel by Harry Crews
Writer: Goldberger
Producers: Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, Mary Jane Skalski
Executive producers: Ted Hope, Corbin Day, Jeanne Levy-Hinte
Director of photography: Bobby Bukowski
Production designer: Judy Becker
Music: Jonathan Goldberger
Costume designer: April Napier
Editor: Affonso Goncalves.
Cast:
George Gattling: Paul Giamatti
Betty: Michelle Williams
Fred: Michael Pitt
Billy Bob: Robert Wisdom
Precious: Rusty Schwimmer
Ma Gattling: Ann Wedgeworth
No MPAA Rating...
- 1/25/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hollywood husband and wife Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis are to star together in a new movie. Depp will play a gypsy and Paradise a dangerous temptress in an $18 million adaptation of Harry Crews novel The Gypsy's Curse. The film, due to start shooting in August, will tell the tale of a disabled man who falls under the spell of Paradis' femme fatale and is warned of his fate by Depp. Only last month, Depp claimed he had no plans to appear on screen with his wife. He said, "If something were to come up, that would be great. But actively looking for it - no. I like keeping things separate - she does her work, I do mine."...
- 5/26/2004
- WENN
Paul Giamatti, Sarah Polley and Michael Pitt will head the cast of The Hawk Is Dying, which Julian Goldberger is directing for Antidote Films and This Is That. Hawk, based on the novel by Harry Crews, focuses on the character of George Gattling (Giamatti), who becomes involved with a young graduate student (Polley) who is searching for a red-tailed hawk. It will mark Goldberger's second feature, following 1998's Trans, which he shot while a student at the AFI.
- 5/24/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CANNES -- Harvey Keitel, French singer-actress Vanessa Paradis and David Toole, a British dancer who has no legs, are to star in an adaptation of The Gypsy's Curse for French independent Davis Films. The film will mark the directing debut of French event designer and choreographer Philippe Decouffle and will be produced by Samuel Hadida, who heads up Davis Films with his brother Victor. Gypsy is based on the eponymous cult pulp fiction novel by Harry Crews. Toole will play Marvin, who is part of a freakish athletic club run by Keitel's character. "It's a powerful love story with a femme fatale (played by Paradis)," Hadida said.
- 5/20/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
He’s dressed in black, of course. Sipping beer and chain-smoking in the bustling barroom of the Groucho Club, a members-only watering hole frequented by London’s literary crowd, the Australian singer, songwriter and first-time novelist Nick Cave looks every inch the stylish career nihilist: coal black three-piece suit, dark silk tie, smart blue dress shirt with white collar. His ink black hair is combed back in a chaotic arc that droops just so whenever he leans over to stub out a cigarette.
The conversation is predictably grim. Mostly it’s about the rapacious lust,...
The conversation is predictably grim. Mostly it’s about the rapacious lust,...
- 1/10/1991
- by David Fricke
- Rollingstone.com
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