Paradise 1982 Film Ita Torrent
Anja Schofield
Paradise is a 1982 Canadian adventure romance film written and directed by Stuart Gillard (in his directorial debut). It stars Phoebe Cates, Willie Aames, and Tuvia Tavi. The original music score was composed by Paul Hoffert with the theme song written and produced by Joel Diamond and L. Russell Brown and sung by Phoebe Cates.[3]
Producers of the film, Robert Lantos and Stephen J. Roth first selected Aames and later, after a screen test, agreed on Cates for the role of Sarah.[5] The film marked the acting debut of Cates, who was 17 years old at the time of filming. Cates's starring role involved several fully nude scenes. She was also selected to sing the movie's theme song.[6] The film was shot on location at various settings in Israel including Tel Aviv, the Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee.[7][8]
During production, Aames and Cates both decided that the film did not need as much nudity as the script called for.[9] In interviews, Aames and Cates claimed that "the producer (Lantos) went back to Canada and used somebody else in the shots. They weren't in the version of the film they showed us for approval. When I finally got to see the final print months later, I flipped."[9] Lantos responded to this by saying that it was up to himself and the distributor to decide what would be included in the final release, not any of the actors. He furthermore claimed that "99% of it was what Willie and Phoebe shot."[9]
Nevertheless, Aames agreed to promote the film because, as he admitted, "Aside from those parts that bother me, it's a damn good film."[9] Cates felt differently and refused to have anything to do with promotion, such as screenings and parties.[10][9] According to Aames, Cates was "really upset" by the film and was worried it would kill her career.[9]
Writing in The Washington Post, Tom Shales stated that Paradise "amounts to 100 minutes of agonizing tedium seasoned with equal parts excruciating embarrassment". He also criticized the depiction of the Jackal, describing the character as "an offensively stereotyped Arab".[12] Leonard Maltin's annual Movie Guide book describes it this way: "Rating: star and a half. Silly Blue Lagoon ripoff, with Aames and Cates discovering sex while stranded in the desert. Both, however, do look good sans clothes."[13] Upon its release, when reviewed on the show Sneak Previews, Roger Ebert selected it as his "Dog of the Week," the worst film he saw that week, and heavily berated it.[14] In his book Reel Bad Arabs, writer Jack Shaheen criticized Paradise for the character of the Jackal, calling him a "particularly degrading" depiction of an Arab sheikh.[15]
FMC in collaboration with Le Petit Versailles present Mary Bellis' AGENTS OF PARADISE starring Philly Abe. This screening is tribute to these two LES creative spirits. The film is an historic time capsule of the neighborhood, as well as the artists/performers that lived and created the culture on the Lower East Side (John Kelly, Allen Comic, Philly, Stephen Tasjian, Arleen Schloss, Dumas Attack Group). James Oseland plays a talent agent looking at a variety of performance artists, musicians, and a cadre of personalities.
Original Embassy Pictures Insert Poster (14x36) for the Stuart Gillard directed romantic adventure, PARADISE (1982) starring Phoebe Cates and Willie Aames. One could argue that this was a bad knockoff of the more famous film, THE BLUE LAGOON (1976). And one would be right. Willie Aames won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor. This original insert poster is rolled and in very fine condition. MovieArt Austin guarantees that this poster is an authentic U.S. one sheet poster for this film. MovieArt Austin will sell no reproductions.
Phoebe Cates - Actor
Willie Aames - Actor
STUART GILLARD - Director
This was recently recorded off the 8mm film (you can hear it running the entire runtime): www.facebook.com/100041810550291/videos/304284712043880 (Uploaded by Kiyubaru, who is a spokesperson for Kiryukan; Harada's production company, as far as I understand kiryukan.hariko.com/ )
GOODBYE PARADISE. Australia, 1982. Ray Barrett, Robyn Nevin, Guy Doleman, Lex Marinos, Paul Chubb, Janet Scrivener, and Carole Skinner. Written by Bob Ellis and Denny Lawrence. Directed by Carl Schultz. Released on DVD in Australia (Region 0.)
Il film segue la scia dei film per adolescenti ambientati in località esotiche iniziata con Laguna blu nel 1980. Il film portò al successo la giovane Phoebe Cates sia come attrice che come cantante: il brano principale del film, Paradise, rimase a lungo ai vertici delle classifiche in tutto il mondo, diventando uno dei maggiori successi degli anni ottanta e contribuendo alla fama del film.
Willie Aames, che era già noto al grande pubblico per aver preso parte al telefilm La famiglia Bradford, era già stato scelto per la parte di Richard in Laguna blu, ma rifiutò per il fatto di dover recitare nudo, tuttavia due anni dopo firmò il contratto per il ruolo di David in Paradise in cui girò scene di nudo, ruolo per il quale era stato contattato senza successo anche Christopher Atkins che rinunciò per un impegno concomitante. Anche Dayton Ka'ne, che aveva interpretato Uragano nel 1979, era stato contattato per il ruolo del protagonista maschile.
La colonna sonora è composta da Paul Hoffert. Tutte le canzoni sono state scritte da Joel Diamond e Lawrence Russell Brown. Il tema principale del film Paradise è cantato dalla stessa Phoebe Cates.
"Se solo potesse durare per sempre..." ("If Only It Could Have Been Forever... Paradise... No Two People Have Ever Come So Close.") è lo slogan utilizzato per pubblicizzare il film sia in Italia che negli Stati Uniti.[5][6]
La pellicola all'epoca è stata criticata in quanto molto simile al precedente Laguna blu[13]. In entrambi i film, infatti, la storia è quella di un ragazzo e una ragazza che si ritrovano soli in un luogo incontaminato, lontani dalla civiltà, che devono scoprire da soli e senza guida l'amore, il sesso e la maternità, oltre che come sopravvivere. Però, in questo film i due protagonisti sono già in età adolescenziale quando l'avventura ha luogo. Si aggiunga che nel film del 1980 i rischi che dovevano affrontare i protagonisti erano legati solo alla natura, mentre in Paradise c'è un vero e proprio nemico umano. Inoltre la gravidanza di Sarah è solo citata nella parte finale, e non accade alcun parto, col piccolo destinato a nascere nella civiltà. Rispetto alla morigerata Brooke Shields di Laguna blu, Phoebe Cates mostra, senza particolari problemi, le proprie nudità.
After shooting to stardom during the '80s in a string of youth-orientated movies, former model Phoebe Cates hit her stride in the '90s as a featured player in ensemble films. Born Phoebe Belle Katz on July 16, 1963 in New York City, Cates is the daughter of television producer Joseph Cates (The $64,000 Question) and the niece of film director Gilbert Cates (1970's I Never Sang for My Father). Joan Crawford was her godmother. While growing up in Manhattan, Cates attended New York's prestigious Professional Children's School. An exceptional dancer, she studied with the School of American Ballet until a knee injury forced her to quit in 1977. At the suggestion of the family for which she babysat, she began modeling in teen magazines and commercials. A few years later, director Stuart Gillard saw Cates dancing with friends at New York's Studio 54 and offered her the lead role in his Blue Lagoon (1980) knock-off, Paradise (1982). She then gave a standout performance as Jennifer Jason Leigh's sexually mature best friend in Amy Heckerling's Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), before starring in Private School (1983). Besides appearing in the film's infamous "mooning" scene (during which the cast flashes the audience), Cates recorded two songs for Private School's soundtrack, "Just One Touch" and "How Do I Let You Know."
In 1984, with her star on the rise, Cates portrayed a young actress bent on destroying her deadbeat mother in the notoriously tasteless television film Lace (1984). That same year, she signed on to play the love interest in Joe Dante's horror-comedy Gremlins. Written by Chris Columbus and produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, the bizarre, special effects-laden film about a group of strange and violent creatures was a colossal success -- despite premiering only two weeks after Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and on the same day as Ghostbusters (1984). After returning for Lace 2 (1985), Cates appeared as Michael J. Fox's model wife in Bright Lights, Big City (1988) and as a young bride-to-be in the coming-of-age film Shag (1989).
Cates began the '90s at a personal low, starring in the sequel to Gremlins, Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1991), and in Ate de Jong's disastrous Drop Dead Fred (1991). She quickly revived her career opposite Bridget Fonda, Eric Stoltz, and Tim Roth in the Generation X comedy Bodies, Rest & Motion (1993), before earning rave reviews for her performance as the mysterious title character in Princess Caraboo (1994). The film also starred Cates' husband, actor Kevin Kline. The actress appeared as herself in Scratch the Surface (1997), a documentary about teen fashion models in the '80s, and then opted to take a short break from show business in order to care for her children. After a four-year hiatus, Cates returned to the screen in The Anniversary Party (2001), an ensemble film co-written and co-directed by her friend and Fast Times at Ridgemont High co-star Jennifer Jason Leigh and actor Alan Cumming. Acting opposite Kline (who portrayed her fictional husband in the film), Cates played none other than an actress who has left show business to raise a family.
Includes 41 motion pictures and 28 sound recordings, motion pictures produced from 1945 to 1965 by Leslie Stewart (owner of the Ninety-Six Ranch), 2,400 still photographs drawn from the Center's ethnographic field project conducted 1978-1982 and from historic photos dating 1870-1958. Background essays provide historical and cultural context for this distinctive northern Nevada ranching community. Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982 presents documentation of a Nevada cattle-ranching community, with a focus on the family-run Ninety-Six Ranch. The focus was on the work of buckaroos, as cowboys are commonly called in the region.
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