- BULLSEYE 9/3: ‘Machete,’ ‘The American,’ ‘Distance,’ ‘The Town,’ more3 September 2010, 1:17 am
Fox's action-comedy "Machete" and Warner Bros.' romantic comedy "Going the Distance" square off at the box office over the Sept. 3 Labor Day weekend. George Clooney got a head start Wednesday with his hitman thriller from Focus, "The American," which grossed $1.7 million in its opening day. [...]...
- TELLURIDE: Newmarket picks up Peter Weir’s ‘The Way Back’ on eve of fest2 September 2010, 10:58 pm
Just 24 hours before his new film "The Way Back" is set to have its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, Peter Weir and Newmarket Films have announced that the indie distributor has acquired rights to the World War II adventure drama for U.S. audiences. Newmarket will release the film Jan. 21. Produced by Exclusive [...]... - TELLURIDE: Weir, Romanek, Morris and Boyle headlining 37th Telluride fest2 September 2010, 5:35 pm
Peter Weir, Danny Boyle, Mark Romanek and Errol Morris will be headlining this year’s Telluride Film Festival, which kicks off Friday. The Colorado mountain fest, now in its 37th year, officially announced its program Thursday, and festival directors Tom Luddy, Gary Meyer and Julie Huntsinger have stocked the high-altitude event with a typical mix of the [...]... - Lindsay Lohan’s Ill-Timed ‘Comeback’ Role1 September 2010, 10:00 am
Poor Lindsay. She can’t catch a break. Released early from rehab and suddenly free again to pursue personal and professional rehabilitation, Lindsay Lohan has an opportunity to re-enter the public consciousness with the seriousness of a newly clean starlet intent on sobriety. And then here comes “Machete” (check out the review here). When Robert Rodriguez’s Mexploitation flick [...]... - Screenwriters Lisa Addario & Joe Syracuse go frugal for Fox (exclusive)1 September 2010, 3:00 am
Fox wants to find the funny in saving money. Scribes Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse (pictured) have been hired to write the screenplay for an untitled family event movie based on journalist W. Hodding Carter’s various writings about his drastic real-life efforts to scale down his family’s spending. The studio is aiming to hit the zeitgeist [...]... - Post-production powerhouse Stefan Sonnenfeld inks producing deal with Paramount31 August 2010, 8:01 pm
Company 3 founder Stefan Sonnenfeld has signed a first-look producing deal at Paramount. Paramount Film Group president Adam Goodman made the announcement Tuesday. A fixture of the post-production field, Sonnenfeld has worked on a number of Paramount tentpoles, including the “Transformers” films, “Star Trek,” "Watchmen" and “Cloverfield," plus films such as “Alice In Wonderland,” the “Pirates [...]... - BULLSEYE 8/27 Follow-Up: ‘Takers’ and ‘Exorcism’ bloody the box office30 August 2010, 8:57 pm
What a surprising weekend! Moviegoers didn't abandon the late-summer offerings as I thought they would. Screen Gems' "Takers" and Lionsgate's "The Last Exorcism" both performed much better than expected. And while Monday's preliminary box office results put the spooker ahead with $21.3 million to "Takers'" $21.0 million, I'm not convinced the final numbers will shake out [...]... - Ryan Reynolds & Bradley Cooper to do ride-along in Sheldon Turner’s original actioner30 August 2010, 3:00 am
Ryan Reynolds and Bradley Cooper are signing up for take-your-dads-to-work day. The busy actors are attached to star in an untitled original action-comedy written by Sheldon Turner (“Up in the Air”), who snagged north of seven figures for the gig. The story follows two friends, who are also San Francisco cops, whose fathers were once partners [...]... - BULLSEYE 8/27: Forecast for ‘Takers,’ ‘Exorcism,’ ‘Avatar,’ ‘Devil,’ more27 August 2010, 11:59 pm
I'm way late on this week's Bullseye for the weekend of Aug. 27, but we're right in the middle of the end-of-summer dead spot, so there's not a lot going on anyway.. There are a few wide openers, though, that are set to stir up decent bank. The heist thriller "Takers" from Screen Gems and the [...]... - Dennis Miller calls out James Cameron27 August 2010, 8:37 pm
Talk about speaking truth to power. TV and radio personality Dennis Miller has been doing something few others in Hollywood would ever do: publicly ridiculing the world's most successful filmmaker. For context, we need to back up five months to when James Cameron, director of the eco-friendly blockbuster “Avatar,” passionately challenged to debate the forces who [...]...
- Bryan Fuller explores 'Lotus Caves'12 August 2010, 8:42 pm
Pilot Watch: 'Pushing Daisies' creator co-writing pilot for Syfy -- "Pushing Daisies" and "Dead Like Me" creator Bryan Fuller is supervising a pilot for Syfy.... - Hamburg to develop show at Fox TV11 August 2010, 2:00 am
Pilot Watch: 'I Love You, Man' writer/director gets blind script deal -- Hamburg, the writer/director of last year's Paul Rudd/Jason Segel feature comedy "I Love You, Man," has been given a blind script commitment by 20th.... - NBC goes forth with 'Brave New World'10 August 2010, 9:28 pm
Pilot Watch: Net buys comedy script from Peter Tolan -- NBC has purchased a half-hour comedy script from "Rescue Me" exec producer Peter Tolan.... - Fox, Diablo Cody eye pilot3 August 2010, 11:36 pm
Pilot Watch: Network working with 'Juno' scribe on 'Breadwinners' -- Fox is back in business with Diablo Cody, giving a put pilot commitment to a new project from the "Juno" scribe.... - Alan Ball to helm HBO's 'Death'9 July 2010, 5:20 pm
Pilot Watch: 'True Blood' creator to direct greenlit pilot -- Alan Ball remains dying to stay in business with HBO.... - CBS developing Bertinelli, McManus talk show23 June 2010, 9:04 pm
Pilot Watch: 'Say It Now' recently shot as a pilot -- CBS is developing a new daytime talkshow starring Valerie Bertinelli and Australian TV host Rove McManus.... - Fox drops dough on 'Money'16 June 2010, 10:00 am
Pilot Watch: Net greenlights pilot based on hit gamer -- Fox has greenlighted a pilot based on hit U.K. gamer "The Million Pound Drop."... - Post-upfront tussles lead to 'Chaos'6 June 2010, 7:25 pm
Pilot Watch: Horse trading between studios, nets continues -- After a pilot season relatively devoid of arm-twisting, things have gotten a little more hairy since everyone returned from New York.... - 'Lost' director locks 'Alphas' gig24 May 2010, 12:47 am
Pilot Watch: Bender to join Syfy pilot -- Now that he's off the island, "Lost" director/exec producer Jack Bender has found another gig.... - MTV howls for 'Teen Wolf'20 May 2010, 10:32 pm
Pilot Watch: Cable network greenlights pilot based on 1985 movie -- Cabler has greenlit the pilot to series and ordered 12 hourlong episodes. Production will begin in summer....
- LIXIN FAN, “LAST TRAIN HOME”1 September 2010, 1:45 pm
Not many first-time independent filmmakers land a coveted spot in the Sunday arts section of The New York Times and an interview on The Leonard Lopate Show. But 33-year-old Lixin Fan, a Chinese-born Canadian immigrant who splits his time between Montreal and Beijing, has generated a lot of interest among editors at major dailies and business publications alike for his documentary Last Train Home, a film about the annual New Year’s pilgrimage of 130 million migrant workers from Guangzhou provi... - CLAUDIA LLOSA, “THE MILK OF SORROW”25 August 2010, 3:38 pm
For Claudia Llosa, director of the Berlinale-winning and Academy Award-nominated Peruvian film The Milk of Sorrow, magical realism isn’t a literary genre or filmic device, it’s an element of national identity and consciousness. Her film, easily the most critically-lauded film to emerge from Peru, is set in the rough-hewn mountain settlements on the outskirts of Lima. It concerns a young Peruvian woman (the captivating Magaly Solier) who, having contracted a mysterious disease that i... - DAVID MICHOD, “ANIMAL KINGDOM”11 August 2010, 2:35 pm
Like his stunning short films Netherland Dwarf and Crossbow, David Michod’s terrific and terrifying feature debut, the 2010 Sundance World Dramatic Competition winner Animal Kingdom, is a smoothly photographed, moodily scored tale of a trapped, dim and docile young man who suffers at the hands of a careless and, in this case, criminal family. As in his previous work, Michod relies on an insistent voiceover to provide biting interiority while the unrelentingly grim working-class Melbourne mili... - LOU YE, “SPRING FEVER”4 August 2010, 1:25 pm
When officials at the state-controlled Film Bureau levelled a five-year filmmaking ban on Chinese writer-director Lou Ye (Purple Butterfly) in 2006—a harsh reprimand for unveiling his politically charged drama Summer Palace at Cannes that year without their approval—he did what any determined artist would under the circumstances: he went home and made another feature, right under the nose of the censors. It was a brave and headstrong move, considering Lou’s previous encounters with the bu... - BRETT HALEY, “THE NEW YEAR”28 July 2010, 6:36 am
A young woman works at the shoe counter at a Pensacola, Florida bowling alley. Having abandoned the ambitions of her youth, she takes care of her ailing father, who painfully struggles with cancer. With the return of a rival from high school into her long standing social circle, the stillness that has taken over her existence breaks, leaving her to consider the possibility of a new direction, one which seems tantalizingly close and yet ever illusive. This is subject matter than may be right wit... - LUCY WALKER, “COUNTDOWN TO ZERO”21 July 2010, 12:45 pm
Since her widely acclaimed first feature Devil’s Playground debuted at Sundance in 2002, London native Lucy Walker (one of Filmmaker’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film that year) has distinguished herself as a resourceful documentarian with a discerning eye for character detail. A study of Amish adolescents sampling the forbidden fruits of the modern world during “rumspringa,” an elective time spent away from the strictures of their traditional religious community, Playground was an ins... - NICOLAS WINDING REFN, “VALHALLA RISING”14 July 2010, 2:53 pm
Valhalla Rising, which stars Mads Mikkelsen (best known for playing the much more suave devil Le Chiffre in Casino Royale) as a one-eyed, mute, enslaved gladiator who joins a group of Viking Christians on a conquest that turns into an existential journey to hell, is certainly not what one would expect from Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn. And that’s part of the beauty of the film. Before this latest atmospheric mood piece containing echoes of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, Refn hel... - LISA CHOLODENKO, “THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT”7 July 2010, 12:50 pm
It’s been eight years since Lisa Cholodenko’s last feature film (six if you count her TV adaptation of Dorothy Allison’s novel Cavedweller), but for the 46-year-old writer-director of 1998’s High Art (winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance) and 2002’s Laurel Canyon (starring Frances McDormand and Christian Bale) the time has, if anything, only sharpened her wits and powers of empathic observation, not to mention her considerable talent for guiding seasoned actors to ... - ANGELA ISMAILOS, “GREAT DIRECTORS”30 June 2010, 5:03 pm
A curious celebration of cinema and the mix of craft, history and ideology that goes into its making, Angela Ismailos’ Great Directors provides a chance to travel into the minds of ten of the world’s most celebrated film directors. In conversations with Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Liliana Cavani, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles, Ismailos probes these directors for the secrets of their success while re... - SEBASTIAN JUNGER AND TIM HETHERINGTON, “RESTREPO”23 June 2010, 12:00 pm
Most documentary filmmakers attempt to see the world through the lens of the subjects they’re shooting, but few put their lives on the line to do so. That perhaps is what most separates first-time directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington from a few of their colleagues who didn’t take home the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Their award-winning Restrepo is the result of a near yearlong embedment with the Second Platoon, Battle Company i...
- Around-the-World Roundup: 'Expendables,' 'Airbender' Hold Steady...1 September 2010, 7:55 pm
While the numbers remain somewhat inconclusive, The Expendables appears to have held off The Last Airbender to retain the number one spot at the foreign box office over the weekend. Inception, Salt and The Karate Kid continued their strong runs, while Toy Story 3 passed $1 billion and Shrek Forever After gained further ground on its predecessors. The Expendables earned an estimated $21 million over the weekend, which included around $4 million from China, $2 million from the United King...... - MPAA Ratings: 'Let Me In,' 'Hereafter' & More...1 September 2010, 6:24 pm
The Motion Picture Association of America's Classification and Ratings Administration released their weekly ratings bulletin this morning, which included ratings for Let Me In, Hereafter, Love and Other Drugs and a handful of late-year Sony Pictures Classics movies. Horror remake Let Me In received an R rating for "strong bloody horror violence, language and a brief sexual situation." Let the Right One In was also rated R and has thus far grossed over $11 million worldwide. Fe...... - Arthouse Audit: 'Get Low' Rises Higher...31 August 2010, 4:25 pm
After expanding in to a nearly-wide 570 theaters, Get Low easily topped all limited releases for the third straight weekend. Mao's Last Dancer also added a handful of theaters and cruised in to second, while The Girl Who Played with Fire slowed a bit but maintained a solid pace. The top new release this weekend was documentary Nick Saban: Gamechanger, while French gangster movie Mesrine: Killer Instinct also had a fine debut. Get Low was up 130 percent to $1.64 million, making this the ...... - 'Takers,' 'Last Exorcism' Possess Top Two Spots30 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Takers and The Last Exorcism delivered sizable debuts in a near photo finish for the weekend top spot, while Avatar's Special Edtion relaunch yielded modest numbers. Overall weekend business was off eight percent from the same timeframe last year, when The Final Destination led. In Sunday's studio estimates, The Last Exorcism was barely ahead with $21.3 million versus Takers' $21 million, propped up by its $9.4 million Friday. But Takers led on Saturday and gained the overall weekend le...... - 'Toy Story 3' Reaches $1 Billion Worldwide, Tops 'Dark Knight'...30 August 2010, 4:50 am
On Friday, Toy Story 3 officially became the seventh movie ever to reach $1 billion at the worldwide box office. By Sunday, the animated sequel's total rose to $1.012 billion, moving past The Dark Knight to rank sixth on the all-time chart. Domestically, Toy Story 3 ranks ninth with $405.7 million, and, on the foreign-only front, it has climbed to 12th place with $606.4 million. Toy Story 3 stands as the first animated movie ever to pass the $1 billion mark, though its foreign tally sti...... - September Preview29 August 2010, 6:53 am
As the summer winds down to a close, a typically slow September appears to be on the horizon. Bearing in mind that the highest-grossing September on record was in 2007 with $555 million and that no single picture has ever made $100 million during the month, the bar is low for this September's high-profile releases like Resident Evil: Afterlife, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. The first weekend of September sees the release of the last ...... - Friday Report: 'Last Exorcism,' 'Takers' Snare Audiences28 August 2010, 10:47 pm
On Friday, new releases The Last Exorcism and Takers dominated the chart with solid returns, Avatar added a bit more to its coffers with a special edition relaunch, and the holdovers saw largely standard declines. The Last Exorcism grabbed an estimated $9.4 million on approximately 3,500 screens at 2,874 locations (the gross included around $750,000 from its midnight opening). That was better than Exorcist: The Beginning but less than The Exorcism of Emily Rose, which was the last expre...... - Weekend Briefing: 'Last Exorcism,' 'Takers,' 'Avatar' Shoot for Late Summer Action27 August 2010, 11:22 pm
For the penultimate weekend of the summer, The Last Exorcism aims to possess first place with an estimated 3,500 screens at 2,874 locations, while Takers busts in on around 2,600 screens at 2,206 locations. Avatar: Special Edition relaunches at 812 locations, including 125 IMAX venues, and Get Low leaps to a near-nationwide 570 locations. Though relatively unheralded, exorcism (and haunting) movies consistently strike a chord with certain sects of society, and The Last Exorcism is well-...... - Seven-Day Summary: 'Expendables,' 'Eat Pray Love' Repeat Despite Five New Releases27 August 2010, 6:53 pm
Amidst a wealth of unimpressive debuts, The Expendables and Eat Pray Love held on to the top two spots at the box office this week. Vampires Suck had the best showing out of the new releases, while The Other Guys continued to play well. Overall box office was nearly identical to the same timeframe last year, when Inglourious Basterds opened to an impressive $53.7 million. The Expendables dropped 50 percent to $24.1 million for a two-week total of $72.5 million. This decline was about th...... - Around-the-World Roundup: 'Expendables' March to the Top24 August 2010, 11:47 pm
With official numbers slowly trickling in throughout the week, The Expendables appears to have narrowly topped Inception at the foreign box office over the weekend. The Last Airbender had its best weekend thus far, and Toy Story 3 moved even closer to reaching the coveted $1 billion mark. Since The Expendables is being released globally under a lengthy list of different distributors, concrete and timely numbers are hard to come by. Based on the information available, though, it looks li......
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- Ross Video Introduces a Complete Video Production Solution2 September 2010, 12:10 am
Iroquois, ON, Canada – Ross Video presents CrossOver Studio a complete and uncompromising production system that includes Video Switcher, Graphics System and Media Server. “PC based ‘all in one’ production systems have become quite popular these days, but often they... - Telestream to Highlight Workflow, Encoding at IBC2 September 2010, 12:10 am
Telestream, a Nevada City, Calif. based provider of digital media tools and workflow solutions, will feature several new software products at IBC2010 in stand 7.D16. Vantage is Telestream’s major new enterprise class workflow design and automation software solution for video... - Autocue Show They are More Than Just Teleprompting Experts2 September 2010, 12:05 am
London, IBC Stand 11.F50 – Autocue will showcase its first ever broadcast monitors and video servers at IBC 2010.There will be four Grade 2 broadcast monitors in the new range, all ideally suited to both production and post production environments.... - Tiffen Intros New DSLR 4x4 Filters2 September 2010, 12:05 am
New Image Maker Professional Filter Kit Series. Amsterdam, IBC 2010, Stand 11.C40 – The Tiffen Company, a Long Island based leading manufacturer of award winning photographic accessories, and other well respected brand name products in the consumer, video, motion picture... - Roland Systems Group to unveil All-in-One Multi-Format Live Video Switcher2 September 2010, 12:00 am
(Virtual Press Office) Roland Systems Group has just launched the V 1600HD Live Video Switcher ideal for any live event or installation that requires a high channel count and the ability to accept a variety of video input formats out... - Ikegami at IBC -- 3-D Camera-Control for Live 3-D Productions, GFCAM Tapeless HD Camcorder with Fast, File-Based Workflow1 September 2010, 11:50 pm
And full HDTVmulti format companion camera system, wireless format HD camera system, HD LCD monitors, POV cameras, micro ergonomic cameras for medical professional.Affordability and Ultimate HD Picture Quality Dominate Among Ikegami’s Newest Products For High Performance, Multi Format, 3 D... - 3D Broadcasts of US Open Spearheaded by Panasonic and CBS Sports1 September 2010, 3:30 pm
Working with CBS Sports, the United States Tennis Association (USTA) and Panasonic are producing the first 3D broadcasts of the US Open tennis tournament. CBS Sports will produce 3D versions of all the Arthur Ashe Stadium matches that it broadcasts... - Bexel Partners with Panasonic to Provide Cost-Effective 3D Content Creation1 September 2010, 3:00 pm
Bexel, a unit of the Vitec Group's Services Division and a worldwide provider of broadcast services and solutions, and Panasonic announced a multi year partnership designed to make 3D production accessible to an extensive range of professional content producers. ... - Digital Video Expo Expands Educational Program at Upcoming Event, Features Training on Final Cut Pro 7 and Adobe CS51 September 2010, 2:40 pm
Pasadena, CA – NewBay Media, a leading publisher of digital content creation media, today announced that it will once again partner with Weynand Training International, a Gold Level Apple Authorized Training Center located in Los Angeles, to offer hands on... - Video Installation Infiltrates 6000 NYC Taxis1 September 2010, 2:35 pm
In the wake of the recent racist attack on a Muslim cab driver in NYC, I’m particularly interested in the public reaction to the latest project by Tehran born, Big Apple based artist Amir Baradaran. For one week beginning September...
- Two in the Wave: The AMG Review3 September 2010, 4:36 am
There are few names in the history of cinema that provoke reactions as strongly as François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard. In less than ten years, these two movie-obsessed Frenchmen not only changed the course of French cinema, but redefined what a film could be for audiences throughout the world. Two in the Wave, a fascinating [...]... - The Winning Season: The AMG Review3 September 2010, 4:01 am
Take The Bad News Bears, age the kids up five or six years, make them all girls, swap out Little League for high-school basketball, and you’ve got The Winning Season, a thoroughly likable little movie that’s a better retread of Michael Ritchie’s baseball classic than Richard Linklater’s remake. Bill (Sam Rockwell) may not have hit rock [...]... - A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop: The AMG Review3 September 2010, 3:59 am
One could argue that Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1984 Blood Simple qualifies as the most arresting American cinematic debut of its decade. Hip, stylish, tense, and inventive, the sublime low-budget thriller weaves a tale of Texan marital infidelity that spreads into a labyrinthine web of homicide, incomprehension, and grisly double crosses. As first-timers, the Coens [...]... - Machete: The AMG Review2 September 2010, 10:06 pm
While it certainly isn’t for a lack of effort, Machete co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis just can’t maintain the grimy, hack-and-slash momentum that makes the opening scene of their bloody exploitation throwback a mini-masterpiece of cinematic brutality. At 105 minutes, Machete drags on just a bit too long, yet the spirit of exploitation is [...]... - Mesrine: Public Enemy #1: The AMG REview2 September 2010, 9:43 pm
Director Jean-Francois Richet and co-writer Abdel Raouf Dafri’s engrossing two-part crime saga careens to a particularly unsatisfying conclusion with Mesrine: Public Enemy #1. Though the film largely hums along at an even more satisfying pace than its lively predecessor and packs a powerful emotional punch while dealing with issues of family, it’s all for naught [...]... - The American: The AMG Review1 September 2010, 4:10 am
Sometimes the line between deliberate and dull is hard to see, but Anton Corbijn’s The American clearly crosses it too many times. The story begins when hired hitman Jack (George Clooney) arrives in a small Italian town after a mishap on his previous job. While his boss tells him to lay low and wait for orders, [...]... - My Dog Tulip: The AMG Review1 September 2010, 3:58 am
As adapted from the 1956 memoir of the same title by Briton J.R. Ackerley, the independently produced animated feature My Dog Tulip emerged from the joint efforts of an American couple, Paul and Sandra Fierlinger. The U.S. origin of the film itself may surprise audiences, given the apparent effortlessness with which it captures a [...]... - Louis: The AMG Review31 August 2010, 1:33 am
In John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, newspaperman Maxwell Scott famously says, “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” That logic seems to fly in the face of the truth, as if myth is more important than fact, but sometimes a legend can tell us as much as the facts can. [...]... - The Last Exorcism: The AMG Review27 August 2010, 4:00 am
It’s a shame that The Last Exorcism isn’t nearly as terrifying as it strives to be, because, somewhat unusually for a low-budget horror film, the performances stand strong enough to form the sturdy foundation for a chilling little yarn. Plus, the story takes a novel turn that could have been really effective if the pay-off [...]... - Takers: The AMG Review27 August 2010, 3:58 am
What is it about thieves in movies that causes them to lose any sense of practicality? Don’t they ever think about setting up a retirement plan so they don’t have to pull that “last big job” that invariably goes wrong? And when someone offers them a deal that seems to be too good to [...]...
- My Life as a Blog: Angelina Jolie—When Does a Legend Become?9 August 2010, 6:20 pm
I had just flown back Saturday night from a week swatting mosquitoes on a movie set in Georgia, so I wasn’t over-excited when a guy from my PR company called to tell me I was going to another movie set on Monday. 'What’s it called?' “Hackers. It’s about a group of young computer hackers, trying to stop a virus or something.”... - My Life as a Blog: Sonya Thomas is The Black Widow2 August 2010, 6:09 pm
Years ago, I wanted to make a documentary on the 105-pound competitive eater Sonya Thomas, a.k.a “The Black Widow.” Here was a tiny woman who kept beating all these huge men in contest after contest. Of course, the idea of me actually doing a movie about Sonya was preposterous. Who would ever give me the money to do it? And even if somebody did, I didn’t really want to spend a year or two of my life traipsing around to the world’s eating contests. But I felt there was a really good featu... - I Found It At The Movies: 1933: Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)28 May 2010, 10:01 am
I'll start by saying that of all my top picks, this is absolutely one of the most tenuous. I like this Lang film, but there are probably another seven or eight by him that I like even better (The Big Heat, Metropolis, M, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Moonfleet, The Woman in the Window, You Only Live Once). Anyway, as I remember it, the thing that most impressed me with this film was Lang's extraordinary inventiveness.... - I Found It At The Movies: 1932: La nuit du carrefour (Jean Renoir)26 May 2010, 10:01 am
I have only seen this once, and it was 15 years ago. But it struck me at the time and has stayed with me ever since as perhaps the most atmospheric noir film I've ever seen. I don't mean to frustrate with this choice, as I know most people haven't seen it. I hope, though, that people will seek it out and that eventually, as the years pass, it will no longer be one of these undiscovered Renoir gems.... - My Life as a Blog: 6 Reasons Steve Jobs is Like Kim Jong-il (And Why That Might be a Good Thing)23 May 2010, 10:01 am
... - My Life as a Blog: How I Think “Lost” Will End: Just Like it Began16 May 2010, 10:01 am
It’s hard to believe there have only been 118 hours of “Lost.” Now there are only three-and-a-half hours left, and there will be no more new episodes. As this is my last chance to prognosticate about the show, I’m going to use this blog post to express my current theories.... - I Found It At The Movies: 1931: La chienne (Jean Renoir)12 May 2010, 10:01 am
I hate to admit it, but the first time I saw this I was in my favorite theater in Paris (Le Grand Action), and I fell asleep. I'm sure it was during one of my "three or four films in a day" binges and I just couldn't keep my eyes open any longer. Anyway, I think I finally saw it for the first time in its entirety during the fall of 1996—and it's haunted me ever since.... - I Found It At The Movies: 1930: The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg)6 May 2010, 10:01 am
I first saw The Blue Angel during the Summer of 1996, only a month or two after graduating college, at one of these great theaters on Rue Mouffetard in Paris. I saw it at like noon or maybe even 10 a.m. (a great Parisian quirk, many of the art houses open early). Needless to say, it was a great day.... - I Found It At The Movies: 1928: The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)4 May 2010, 10:01 am
Seeing The Passion of Joan of Arc the first time, the way that I did, remains one of the most memorable cinephile experiences I've ever had (and probably will ever have).... - My Life as a Blog: Raising Arizona Film Festival4 May 2010, 10:01 am
By this point I’m assuming most people are sick of hearing about the new “Show Me Your Papers” law in Arizona, so I thought I would annoy you with it one more time. (If you are just coming back from a long hike in the Adirondacks and don’t know what I’m talking about, you can get a roundup here.) Anyway, I was thinking, why not a Raising Arizona Film Festival dedicated to the best “Show Me Your Papers” movies?...
- Hereafter26 January 2010, 10:49 am
A supernatural thriller centered on three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy... - Baseline25 January 2010, 2:11 pm
Crime drama centred around an East London nightclub bouncer who is plunged into the underworld.... - John Carter Of Mars19 January 2010, 6:14 pm
Civil War vet John Carter is transplanted to Mars, where he discovers a lush, wildly diverse planet.... - My Fair Lady15 January 2010, 3:33 pm
New film version of the musical based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion.... - Summer Coda13 January 2010, 3:59 pm
A romantic drama about the story of Heidi, who meets Michael while returning home to a family she’s never known, and embarks on an unexpected adventure discovering that their secrets and lives are better shared.... - Blame13 January 2010, 3:38 pm
Thriller about a group of young vigilantes seeking revenge for a sexual betrayal fall far from grace. When the truth comes out they find themselves on the dark side of justice.... - Bait 3D13 January 2010, 3:34 pm
When a massive tsunami hits the Australian coastline, a pack of tiger sharks threaten survivors trapped inside a flooded supermarket.... - Burning Man13 January 2010, 3:30 pm
A reckless, romantic, irreverent and ultimately tear-jerkingly beautiful story of a father and son’s struggle to deal with the unimaginable.... - Red Hill13 January 2010, 3:23 pm
A young Melbourne police officer relocates to a small high-country town with his pregnant wife. When news of a prison break in Melbourne sends the local law enforcement officers into a panic, his first day on duty turns nightmarish.... - Facade13 January 2010, 3:04 pm
Drama about a woman with breast cancer and the effect on her family...
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