Skyfall Omega Advert Released

New Skyfall Stills Released

A new batch of ‘Skyfall’ Stills have been released, showcasing Bond, Silva, Severine, Eve and a some of the more action oriented set pieces in the film.

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Bond at the MoMA

50 years of Eon Bond films also means 50 years of cinema history. Reason enough for the MoMA, NYC to celebrate the golden jubilee with a complete retrospective of all 22 previous Eon films. From 5th – 31st October the MoMA  will show its entire collection of 35mm prints of the Eon productions on their theatre screens. As such this retrospective is unique and fans may not often have the chance to see especially the classics on the big screen often these days.

Thanks to CBn forum member ‘clublos’ for the heads up on this!

This is what MoMA’s site says about the event:

In 1987, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the release of Dr. No (1962), producer Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli donated newly made 35mm prints of all 14 Broccoli-produced James Bond feature films to The Museum of Modern Art. With this extraordinary gift came a promise to provide MoMA with a new 35mm print of each subsequent Bond film. To date, this collection has grown to 22 films—all of the James Bond films produced by Eon Productions—and since his passing in 1996, “Cubby” Broccoli’s daughter Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson have generously continued this tradition.

 

 

Created by novelist Ian Fleming in 1953, the iconic James Bond, 007, is among the few MI6 agents with the “00” grade—a license to kill. In addition to his deadly skills, the sophisticated, suave, and impeccably dressed Bond remains a loner, despite countless romantic encounters with stunning female spies, voluptuous assassins, provocative party-girls, and a charismatic psychopath or two. The alluring aura of danger and self-confidence he exudes is irresistible to women, but none are allowed to get too close.

 

 

Whether portrayed by Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, or Daniel Craig, Bond is forever loyal to Queen and country, possessed of a martini-dry sense of humor, considerably stylish, and eternally enigmatic. When his boss, M, is in need of a formidable agent to quell a globe-spanning espionage crisis, 007 is sent into the field with his trusty Walther PPK, an array of handy spy gadgets, and an unwavering commitment to his mission.

 

 

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Dr. No and the extraordinary open-ended donation from Albert R. Broccoli, Barbara Broccoli, and Michael G. Wilson, MoMA presents all 22 films in its James Bond collection.

New ‘Skyfall’ TV spot airs during Emmys

An exciting new ‘Skyfall’ TV spot aired during the 2012 Emmy Awards.

The spot shows several facets of classic James Bond are making a return, so if you don’t want to know, try and not watch!

LOOK UP! – Jacques Stewart’s 007th Minute in ‘Thunderball’

Image ‘Staines Wargamers THUNDERBALL’ by Kaptain Kobold (c)

Look down!

Look out!

For opinion and highly subjective content in this here now fourth entry, Jacques Stewart’s 007th minute of ‘Thunderball’.

Please feel free to have thoughts on this. Meet other interesting people having thoughts on this here. Share your thoughts and take your chance to spend Christmas in the company of likewise-minded people.

007th minute observed by Jacques Stewart. Italics-piffle as usual added by me.

“Hi”.

 

 

The idea behind all this unnecessariness is “explained” in the Dr No one, and there’s a couple more on From Russia with Love and Goldfinger to subject yourself to as well, if you actually feel you must and don’t have something more fulfilling and pleasurable to do, like drinking the contents of a radiator or molesting ham.

 

So, Thunderball it is. Before I launch into petty abuse and ill-thought-through sexual metaphor that would be doing well to achieve the status of “gratuitous”, let me put on record this one inalienable fact: I love Thunderball. I think it is the definitive James Bond film, exemplifying all the others’ strengths (many) and weaknesses (many) in one ninety-four hour long extravaganza of blueishness and harpoonydom and Conneryality and fish. I accept – I don’t have to like, but I accept – that this is not the chosen opinion of others and that their choices and opinions are valid, like the choice to use public transport, the choice to wear unpleasant hipsters and the choice to look in the mirror in the morning and yet still carry on.

 

We’ve gone all wide in this one, wide and (bm-bm) deep. The previous three had quite a lot of standing or sitting, interior-bound snarling or fighting or rudey bits: this one largely keeps its mouth shut to the absolute bare minimum of plottidom, it’s the most basic of the stories so far, and gets out into the open air, as if the Bond series has had a bit of a frowny conversation with its wee-scrutinising GP about unplugging itself from the sofa and going for a nice brisk walk. Look at all the blue and sunshine and widescreen splendour of it; it gives us a show. They wanted us to see some extraordinary things with a bit of a plot stapled on. Patently this would get way out of hand with the next one but here, Barryhorns blasting over clear blue water, the biggest film star in history gliding through it and the production’s tangible air of total confidence in its task (never expressly tipping into the self-reverential smugness that would come to haunt the series later), this is the paradigm. Visually, it remains a big watery blur of old lovely and is a great watch after three pints of Rioja to just sit there in front of it and let the general (and I would maintain, deliberate) relaxedness wash over one as one slumbers into dreams of Claudine Auger licking plum jam from one’s moobs.

 

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First snippet of ‘Skyfall’ Soundtrack online?

As ‘Skyfall’ gears into action, due for release next month, a german website, showcasing the Coca Cola Tie-in campaign has revealed some very dramatic music to cover the site. Could this be a small teaser of Newman’s ‘Skyfall’ soundtrack? One thing is for sure, it’s definitely a damn good track. Listen here.

New Skyfall Video Blog – Naomie Harris and Bérénice Marlohe

Skyfall Heineken advert debuts online.

Skyfall – TV Spot 2

SFX Magazine ‘Skyfall’/Bond issue 227

If you happen to drop by at your local newsagent’s these days you can’t help but notice the premier of Bond 23 – otherwise known as ‘Skyfall’ – is coming closer at rapid speed. Bond themed covers on everything, from Empire to Entertainment Weekly. One noteworthy title will be on sale from tomorrow, Wednesday 19th September. It’s SFX issue 227, the magazine that helped many a fan over the dry-spell of recent months with its ‘Bond 50’ countdown series of splendid and astute Bond film reviews. Now Bond is back on their cover, and with him a number of intriguing features that come with this title story:

• SKYFALL: Exclusive interviews with Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.

• HOW TO WRITE THE PERFECT BOND FILM: Writing exclusively for SFX, ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ and ‘Moonraker’ screenwriter Christopher Wood shares the secrets of his craft.

• DANNY KLEINMAN: Interview with the Bond title sequence designer, with rare pre-production art from his personal archive.

• THE WORLD ACCORDING TO 007: A double-page illustrated map of James Bond’s globe-hopping adventures, from Jamaica to Vegas, Swizerland to Earth orbit.

• BOND POSTERS: Rare images from the Bond archives (tieing in with the new DK book).

• BOND QUIZ: No Bond-themed issue would be complete without this.

And ‘Skyfall’ and Bond are by far not the only interesting features of this issue. IPad-users will be able to download the issue from 19th onwards here. All others will have to take a walk to their nearest newsagent.