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  • 30 Dec

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    Hey Man, Nice Shot [2011]

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    Other than year end lists, we’re not much good at recapping the year with images/videos like so many other great sites around the web-o-sphere. Too busy watching movies than to write about them I guess. That’s why we give a huge hero cookie out to our friend Ryan McNeil over at The Matinee for hooking us up with his version of the year in pictures.
    Take it away Ryan…

    As the end of the year approaches, I find myself reflecting on 2011 at the movies. As a guy who sees much of the world through a camera lens – though admittedly not as much as he once did – I find that certain images get burned into my brain. So in no particular order, here are twelve of my favorite shots from the films of 2011…

    What did you think? Please leave comments with your thoughts on some of the best shots of 2011.

  • 17 Oct

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    My Love For Film in a Snapshot #3

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    When it comes to Georges Franju’s brilliant 1960s horror Eyes Without a Face there are literally dozens of images I could have chosen. But in the end I went with the one above of the main character – the daughter of a brilliant surgeon who he tries to “fix” – as she wears the eerily iconic mask to cover up her injury. I love the way the woman is gently tilting up her face to check on her and the way the girl stares blankly back at her wearing that almost inexplicably creepy blank mask. A haunting image from a haunting film.

  • 10 Oct

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    My Love for Film in a Snapshot #2

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    As soon as we started this series, I knew what I wanted to feature. The final shot from Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation (sorry for those who haven’t seen it – and please remedy this soon if so) is so haunting and so perfect a way to end the film. It’s always stayed with me years after the first time I saw it. The only thing this still snapshot loses is the steady panning of the camera, emulating a CCTV camera. Perfection.

  • 05 Oct

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    My Love for Film in a Snapshot #1

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    A bird’s eye view of the bloody carnage in David Slade’s highly enjoyable 2007 vampire flick 30 Days of Night. It’s one of those images which sticks out for me in 21st century horror, the way the blood is splattered on the white snow and the various bodies (some helpless/dead victims, some the vampires themselves) scattered across the frame. Oddly beautiful.

  • 30 Aug

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    Click to Enlarge This

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    From the March edition of Vanity Fair magazine, many of today’s hot young stars… and Robert Duvall.

     

     

    Ryan Reynolds
    Jake Gyllenhaal
    Anne Hathaway
    James Franco
    Jennifer Lawrence
    Anthony Mackie
    Olivia Wilde
    Jesse Eisenberg
    Mila Kunis
    Robert Duvall
    Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    Andrew Garfield
    A Leopard
    Rashida Jones
    Garrett Hedlund
    Noomi Rapace

  • 29 Aug

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    70s Bootleg Movie Posters

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    I never knew that there were illegal, bootleg screenings of Western (Hollywood) films in third world countries. Though I suppose it makes sense. Who’s going to enforce it and who really gives a crap. Apparently in Ghana, nobody. These posters were created by local artists to help promote ticket sales of travelling movie shows. Most of them look like the work of semi-competent 7th graders aspiring to be graphic novelists and some of them don’t even really have imagery that remotely resemble the actual content of the film being advertised. I’ve posted a few on this page, but for the whole gambit of 70 posters, head over to Awesome-Robo.com.

    Do you have a favorite?

     

  • 29 Aug

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    Mondays Suck Less in the Third Row

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    We’ve got our two regular Friday columns, but I realized we never have anything ready to go on Mondays. So since you’re likely back at work or back to school today; or just one of those people who has an irrational dislike of Mondays, we’ve decided to put together this little “welcome back to reality” post.

    This is basically just a series of funny or interesting things we’ve come across over the weekend. They may be movie related or they may not. Either way, hopefully it will be a nice distraction from whatever you’re supposed to be doing right now. Enjoy!

    The Royal Family:

    Stop motion within stop motion:

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  • 17 Aug

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    While You Were Out…

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    The Big Lebowski was finally released on Blu-ray yesterday. The balance of forces between good and evil are finally tipped in the direction of the former. It really ties the room together. And so begins the celebration:

     

    *UPDATE* Well I’ll be damned. You can watch the entire reunion on The Big Lebowski Facebook page:

    http://www.facebook.com/BigLebowskiMovie?sk=app_183835695015178

  • 08 Jun

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    Greatest Compilation of “Behind the Scenes” Photos I’ve Ever Seen

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    Before CGI took over everything and “ruined” special effects (insert grumpy old man comment here) there was something called mechanical set design, models and practical effects that wowed audiences. This is one amazing compilation of images I recommend perusing your way through. Some of these you may have seen before, others maybe not – but honestly even if you’ve seen some of these 100 times, it’s worth another look in my opinion.

    I managed to grab these before the site completely fell apart earlier today, I managed to grab some of these shots for your viewing pleasure. I think my favorite is the one from The Gate and the giant room set only because we’ve posted the Stanley Kubrick self portrait before. It’s a movie I haven’t even seen, but will now. Enjoy…

    most of these are clickable for a larger version

    Ghostbusters.

     
     

    On the set of Faust.

     
     

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  • 05 Jun

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    Your Pointless but Fun Item for Today

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    This guy takes movie stills with guns in them and replaces them with the zapper guns from the old 16-bit Nintendo system. Like I said, pointless but fun.

     

  • 22 May

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    In Other Sunday News… [Almodóvar]

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    No secret that we’re really looking forward to Pedro Almodovar’s newest. Ropes of Silicon have a bunch of new images and three new, very short clips. I’ve embedded one such clip below and you can check out their gallery of images over here. The excitement continues…

     

     

  • 22 Mar

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    Polanski’s “Carnage” Looms Ever Nearer

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    Everyone’s most anticipated film of the year seems to unanimously be Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. While I too can hardly stand the wait, it comes at a distant second to Polanski’s latest, destined to be a classic, Carnage starring Jodi Foster, John C. Reilly, Christoph Waltz and Kate Winslet. How anyone can not be absolutely stoked for that line-up is beyond me. The above image doesn’t give much but at least we see the cast in action.

    The film focuses on two couple coming together to talk about the behavior of their children. As the night wears on, things become quite heated. The story is based off of a Tony Award winning stage play by Yasmina Reza of which I personally know nothing about. Sounds a bit like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe? but is apparently a bit more on the humorous side. The film’s run time is about 105 minutes and all in real time. So 105 sequential minutes of our lives equals 105 sequential minutes of the character’s lives (kind of like “24″).

    Looks like probably a late 2011 release for this one and if Polanski is allowed in Canada there’s a good chance there will be a director Q&A at the very likely screening at TIFF. Which also means Andrew James will be in Toronto that week and shelling out whatever it takes to be there. Here are a couple of more photos…

     
     

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