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EXCERPTS FROM THE PRESS:
Review and Interview with Producer-Director Elaina B. Archer by Dan Lybarger of eFilmCritic.com. (12.5.06) For the film buff, historian or just those who like a good gangster movie, "Bullets Over Hollywood" is fun stuff. Packed with great footage, interviews (Leonard Maltin, Roger Corman and James Caan, among others) and studio archive information, it's a good time and a good trek down memory lane of the studio (and indie.) gangster flick. But seeing is believing: Director Elaina Archer (who produces with Todd Friedrichsen) gives us the faces to make us understand - on some gut level if nothing else - just why movie gangsters still grip us. Executive produced by Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner and narrated by Paul Sorvino. Bullets Over Hollywood features interviews with Godfather vets James Cann and Talia Shire; Chazz Palmintieri, Michael Madsen, real life “Goodfella” Henry Hill and former FBI agent, Joe Pistone. One of the best aspects of Bullets Over Hollywood is a collection of clips showing James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson… Rat-a-tat-tat! Paul Sorvino narrates this lively 2005 documentary exploring the development of the Tinseltown gangster film, starting with clips from D.W.Griffith's ‘The Muskateers of Pig Alley'. Of course, you can't discuss mobster epics without mentioning ‘The Godfather' – hence the interviews with James Caan and Talia Shire. Roger Corman, Angie Dickinson and Michael Madsen also weigh in. For all of us who have a guilty (or maybe nolo contemdere) fascination with Rocco, Scarface, Luca Brasi (fish-sleeper) and other assorted wise guys, “Bullets Over Hollywood” is an offer that can't be refused. It's puree Americana packing heat. The well done documentary gives a unique historical perspective connecting real-life hoods and their on-screen alter-egos There are plenty of fine docs on gangster films. This is one among them. Satellite Direct (Highlights), ON Sat (Specials), New York Times Television, Daily Variety, indieWIRE: on the scene, Entertainment Magazine, Beck/Smit Hollywood Exclusive, Entertainment Weekly (Tonight's Best)… |
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