Just a quick reminder that HBO will be showing a “behind-the-scenes” look at “Flags” today at 9:30pm EST. If you’re in a different timezone, or, won’t be able to catch it today, you can view the entire schedule of this showing here. Let us know what you thought of the show and feel free to post your opinion in our popular forum!
We’ve uploaded some more photos from the film. You can view them here.
Now that we are two weeks away from the film’s release in the USA, you can expect to see new clips and featurettes about “Flags of Our Fathers” on the Internet. IESB.net, an online movie reporting source, has made available eight new flip clips from the film, including two behind-the-scenes features. To see them, click here.
CBS News recently did a nice little segment about the film. It shows director Clint Eastwood talking about Iwo Jima and an incredible landing invasion sequence from the film. Also, interviews with veterans from the war are included. Worth a look. View the clip here.
Youtube has posted the first 1minute film clip. This one shows the main characters (Hayes, Bradley, Gagnon) discussing the first flag that was posted on Iwo Jima during the war. Interesting clip. See it here.
HBO will do a behind-the-scenes look at Flags of Our Fathers starting October 11. The show is scheduled to last about 13minutes and will show several sequences from the film. If you miss the show, you can watch it again on Oct. 12 and additional time slots. To get the full schedule, go to this link.
Milan Entertainment will be releasing the “Flags of Our Fathers” soundtrack on October 17. Two days ago, we provided you with the track list for the soundtrack. Now, Milan is letting us host 6 sample clips from the soundtrack. The soundtrack features an original score by Clint Eastwood, nostalgic standards by Irving Berlin, Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne and John Philip Sousa, as well as original recordings by Dinah Shore and Artie Shaw and His Gramercy Five. Listen to them now!
Milan Entertainment will be releasing the soundtrack to “Flags of Our Fathers” for US markets on October 17th, 2006. For now, Milan was kind enough to send us a listing of the songs available on the soundtrack. Please note that all songs identified with an asterisk(*) are Clint Eastwood original score.
The New York Times has posted a nice article about “Flags of Our Fathers” along with some background on how the film started, why they chose to cast unknown actors, using Iceland as the battleground stage and some insight into Haggis’s (screenwriter) point of view of the current War in Iraq and how it relates to the film. Lots of interesting little tidbits available in this article: “Mr. Haggis said he had made certain in his script to subvert any one-dimensional depiction of the politicians and generals as unfairly exploiting the returning marines. So in a crucial scene, a politician tells the surviving flag-raisers that their crass re-enactments of the flag-raising, however unfaithful to the memories of their fallen comrades, were vital in rallying the nation at a moment when the government was nearly broke.”
More at the New York Times article.
The Hollywood Symphony Orchestra, a world-class orchestra dedicated entirely to symphonic film music, will be performing select pieces of music from Flags of Our Fathers on October 7 at Royce Hall at the University of California at Los Angeles.
