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04 Aug

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What we’ve been reading – July 30th through August 4th:

Budd Mishkin talks with Albert Maysles on life at 82.
"By exposing the true nature of the person, getting really a heart to heart kind of exposition, that that's the healthiest thing that the person can do in being filmed," says Maysles. "To open their heart and mind to the viewer, and the best that a camera person can do."
HD-DVD Strikes Back!
Just when Blu-ray thought it had clear sailing, a tempest has risen in the East: China Blue Hi-definition Disk (CBHD). Toshiba has licensed its HD DVD to them and it will be the unit world leader in HD optical technology in just 12 months.
Why Netflix Stinks: A Critic’s Complaint – TIME
Absurd.
Seeing and Writing (And Sewing)
Salon critic STEPHANIE ZACHAREK and Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule's DENNIS COZZALIO sit down for a long chat. Transcribed Script is a great read.

30 Jul

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Bookmarks for July 29th through July 30th

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What we’ve been reading – July 29th through July 30th:

Proof That George Lucas Is an Evil Genius
My kids are smart. Why are they imitating Jar Jar constantly? Aaargh!
Retro Styled T-Shirts Inspired By Your Favourite Movies
I NEED the Die Hard one!
David Husdon is back with the Daily
For the Twitter-Haters, well, this may not be great news, but there are options. David Hudson give the most comprehensive round-ups of cinephile news and articles, and has done this in the past for Greencine and IFC, but now is HQ'd over at The Auteurs.
Is Movie Hopping Acceptable? « FirstShowing.net
Do you still movie screen hop? I do. Is it acceptable? Decriminalized? Or flat out wrong?

29 Jul

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Bookmarks for July 27th through July 29th

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What we’ve been reading – July 27th through July 29th:

Tokyo Fantasy
Artist depictions of a post-apocalyptic Tokyo. Gnarly – if anyone was there to actually appreciate the haunting and decaying beauty of course.
Graphisme
Awesome retro looking posters for any occasion. Non tacky Star Wars posters for your living room "There are several creatures approaching from the southeast!"
Bill Simmons’ Summer Mailbag
Almost Famous: Best movie of the oughts. Associated with recent NBA news. "You'll meet them all again on their long journey to the middle."

27 Jul

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Bookmarks for July 24th through July 27th

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What we’ve been reading – July 24th through July 27th:

Curse of the time bandits
As Blockbuster length increases, Mike Goodridge asks the question if viewers benefit from these lengths in terms of story telling, or is bloated length just a way to imply 'EVENT.' Is the story benefiting from these 2.5+ hour blockbusters?
All I Know Is, This Is Very, Very Wrong – Wtf – Gizmodo
Gizmodo writers and readers are baffled by an image from "Funky Forest: The First Contact." I guess I can't say I blame them, but also pity them.
The Apolitical Stance of The Hurt Locker
I don't see the problem with making a film focused on human nature instead of politics, but David Sterritt sure does.

24 Jul

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What we’ve been reading – July 24th:

Daft Punk to Tour Behind Tron?
Tron Legacy score from Daft Punk might be so awesome that they will take it on tour.
Talking Tetsuo with Shinya Tsukamoto
A Comic-Con Interview with Japanese master of Body Horror, Shinya Tsukamoto. It's a You-Tube, and there are clips of Tetsuo 3 in there. Nice.
Pontypool: Or How I Learned to Start Worrying and Fear the New Zombie
In-depth analysis of the great zombie film no one has seen… Pontypool
Lots More TIFF Titles added
Gaspar "Irreversible" Noe's latest, Todd Solondz, latest, Pedro Alomodovar/Penelope Cruz's latest, Samantha Morton's Directorial Debut, Hipsters – A Russian riff on Grease, Lone Scherfig's An Education, and the proverbial Many More

24 Jul

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Bookmarks for July 20th through July 24th

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What we’ve been reading – July 20th through July 24th:

God Bless Youtube: Black & White Video of Nabokov talking Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov answering questions about his novel Lolita on NBC's Close Up in the mid-1950s.
Sam Rockwell, we love you as an "Almost A-Lister." Please Don’t Change
The filmography of Sam Rockwell, character actor extraordinaire. The authors of this piece noticeably left out Snow Angels. Why, I say, Why?
Zack Snyder: Doofus Morality
Zack Snyder comments on 300 and Watchmen in anticipation of their UNCUT BLU-RAY debuts. Prepare to snort.
/End Snark.

20 Jul

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Bookmarks for July 18th through July 20th

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What we’ve been reading – July 18th through July 20th:

God Bless Youtube: Black & White Video of Nabokov talking Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov answering questions about his novel Lolita on NBC's Close Up in the mid-1950s.
Sam Rockwell, we love you as an "Almost A-Lister." Please Don’t Change
The filmography of Sam Rockwell, character actor extraordinaire. The authors of this piece noticeably left out Snow Angels. Why, I say, Why?
Zack Snyder: Doofus Morality
Zack Snyder comments on 300 and Watchmen in anticipation of their UNCUT BLU-RAY debuts. Prepare to snort. /End Snark.
A Steampunk primer from Onion A.V. Club
Probing one of the stranger and more fun sub-genres of science fiction.
In Which Wes Anderson Breaks Down His Perfect Mixtape
Wes Anderson filmography followed by a short interview in which he talks about some of his favorite tunes and why (or why not) they ended up in one of his films.
Vacillating Voiceovers: A History of Unreliable Narrators
List of 12 films that have been controlled, manipulated, and sometimes illuminated by unreliable narrators. But be warned: if you haven't put your trust in these films yet, reading about them now could spoil their surprises for you in the future.

17 Jul

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Bookmarks for July 16th through July 17th

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What we’ve been reading – July 16th through July 17th:

Underneath the Bottle: "In A Lonely Place" and Alcoholism
Glenn Kenny looks at "In a Lonely Place" as a subtle portrait of Dix Steele's alcholism – I'd never looked at the film quite that way before.
Rio Bravo :: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies
Howard Hawks' sprawling yet tight Western is given the Great Movie treatment.
The House Next Door: This Movie is Trying to Break Your Heart: Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place
The fantastic "In a Lonely Place" is playing at Film Forum in NYC this week, which has prompted multiple post about it around the blogosphere – in this one, Kim Morgan and Matt Zoller Seitz team up with a video essay exploring the film as a heartbreaking noir romance.
Antichrist: a work of genius or the sickest film in the history of cinema?
With its explicit sex and scene of female genital mutilation, Lars von Trier's Antichrist scandalised Cannes this year. Samantha Morton, Gillian Wearing and other women artists and academics give their opinion of the Danish director's provocative new film

16 Jul

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Bookmarks for July 15th through July 16th

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What we’ve been reading – July 15th through July 16th:

Animated Film As Created Through Internet Consensus
Farming out individual shots from the short for folks to do in their spare time. The Result: "LIVE MUSIC" short. This is the SETI distributed computing model on creative steroids.
Particle Acceleration and Why Michael Crichton did not believe in Climate Change
Science and the Movies. Stereotypes and Fallacies are exposed in this thoughtful Salon.com article
Producer Claims He Created Lost in 1977 | WorstPreviews.com
If the similarities are true, you gotta admit that it is a bit suspect. These things have got to be more than just coincidence.

02 Jun

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Directors:Pete Docter, Bob Peterson(Monsters, Inc.)
Writer: Bob Peterson
Producer: Jonas Rivera
Starring: Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, Bob Peterson
MPAA Rating: PG
Running time: 96 min

Synopsis:
Continuing Pixar’s streak of unconventional yet populist animated features, Up follows 75 year old Carl Fredricksen as he floats his house, via thousands of helium balloons, from America to Venezuela in an effort to fulfill a promise he made to his recently deceased wife. A young boyscout tags along for the ride.

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