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  • 16 Nov

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    Cinecast Episode 235 – Clint’s Notes

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    Our quickest show in some time: Gamble mangled his ankle and is on the DL and Kurt is suffering from an energy sapping cold. But we soldier on folks, we soldier on. Like good little Cineastes, we check out the yearly offering from Clint Eastwood. This time it is a puffy Leonardo DiCaprio making out with the man in the bad latex, Armie Hammer (sans CGI twin) across the annals of twentieth century America in J. Edgar **SPOILERS**. This segues into our first “VS.” segment, where we debate “Eastwood the Actor” vs. “Eastwood the Director”, and struggle with the thin line in between those distinctions. We also check back in with quality Brit-Creature-Feature Attack The Block **SPOILERS**. In The Watch List we get our music on with Bill Condon’s Dreamgirls and Jean-Marc Vallée’s Café de flore. A little bit of philosophical waxing on the nature of the Space and Time rounds out the show.
     
     

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  • 14 Nov

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    Video Review: J. Edgar

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    Matt Brown gives a succinct overview of the failures of both the J. Edgar Hoover biopic and Clint Eastwood’s post-Unforgiven filmmaking career. Courtesy of our friends at The Substream.

    (Oh, and poor Al Waxman, he once was the King of Kensington!)

  • 06 Dec

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    Dreams Within Dreams (“Inception” in Real Time)

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    While Christopher Nolan’s Inception was a pretty complex web of dreams within dreams and time inconsistencies and the like, most people I know who saw the film found it relatively straight forward and surprisingly easy to follow. Under lesser direction it could easily have become one of the biggest cinematic messes of all time. Still, it’s a tough task to keep everything that is happening in the film wrapped neatly in your mind; especially if you’re not paying close attention. Not anymore.

    The latest viral video flooding inboxes and blogs is a side by side comparison of each of the dream sequences show together in real time. In short, a whole shitload of a helluva a lot can happen during a 4 minute van drive down the street. Check it out.

    Obviously if you’ve not seen the film, this video is a major *SPOILER*. Also, stop reading this and go pre-order the DVD (available tomorrow (12/7)) right now!

     

     

  • 24 Jun

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    More Inception. More Awesomeness.

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    I know there are a lot of you out there resisting all the details and spoiler-y visual opulence of Christopher Nolan’s science fiction blockbuster, Inception. I simply cannot resist looking at how they are slowly easing a multiplex audience into the world they have created. This new trailer focuses on the wonderful cast, and their unusual jobs within the world of the film. It is a great way to show off the star wattage, but still give people some sort of grasp of what the story is going to be . Nonetheless, I have no fear that this movie will be still blowing peoples minds on July 16th, no matter how much they give away in the marketing materials. I wonder if Nolan is a fan of Satoshi Kon’s Paprika as this film does seem to borrow a few of his images.

    Cue deep-voiced man (or check out the character posters):

    Leonardo DiCaprio is The Extractor
    Joseph Gordon-Levitt is The Point Man
    Ellen Page is The Architect
    Tom Hardy is The Forger
    Marion Cotillard is The Shade
    Cillian Murphy is The Mark
    Ken Watanabe is The Tourist

    Trailer is tucked under the seat.

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  • 10 May

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    Science Fiction Orgasm. Inception Trailer #3.

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    Quite Frankly, I am flabbergasted that nobody in these parts, considering how much we love our ‘upscale science fiction blockbusters’ along the lines of The Fountain, Solaris, and District 9, posted the new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Inception. I’m guessing that this was attached in front of Iron Man 2. Perhaps we all skipped that one considering the ho hum reaction to the first film, or perhaps we have all been sold so much on the film that no further peaks are necessary. I am getting a Paprika, The Prestige, Dark City vibe. And wow, expectations are high for this one. Along with Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go it is one of the most anticipated films of the year, (if not THE most anticipated). Bring on the science fiction awesomeness. We demand it.

    Mind Blowing (on screen, literally!) Trailer is tucked under the seat.

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  • 01 Mar

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    Cameron’s Leaked Oscar Acceptance Speech

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    An eternity ago when Cameron won the best picture/director Oscar for his titanic Titanic, we proclaimed he was the king of the world. Going down in Oscar history as quite the prolific and some might argue, pompous, acceptance speeches of all time, Cameron has sat down and prepped out what he’s going to say on the big stage “when” he wins again this year for the even more titanic, Avatar. Luckily, Vanity Fair stole a copy of Cameron’s notes for that upcoming speech and has shared it with the world…

    read the final 3 (yes, 3) pages that I’ve tacked up under the seats:
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  • 25 Feb

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    Cinecast Episode 156 – Metaphorical Make-Up Sex

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    Shutter Island has been a big topic of discussion around here and the whole of the movie-based internet sites over the past week and we’re obliged to continue that discussion as Matt Gamble joins in for a full on spoiler discussion of the movie – including hashing out the continuity errors once and for all! We also saw plenty of other great cinema since last week including a revisiting of Mulholland Drive and escaping back to the original versions of both The Collector and The Crazies. Kurt managed to catch up with the new version of the latter film while Andrew made time for the Oscar nominated (acting) The Last Station as well as the German mountaineering picture, North Face. So lots to get into here as well as some new DVD releases and other tic bits of awesome. It was a great show and we hope you enjoy the listen.

    As always, feel free to leave your own thoughts in the comment section below and again, thanks for listening!

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  • 20 Feb

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    Review: Shutter Island

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    A character, late into the game of Martin Scorsese’s wonderful Shutter Island, comments on insanity, “It was like an insect in my brain, pulling my strings” And there, ladies in gentlemen is how a well seasoned and versatile master-filmmaker can take a simple genre movie and elevate it to one of the premiere film events of 2010. The trailer suggests all kinds of horror (and mental asylum) cliches and pretty much gives away the twist ending right there. But no matter, the pleasure here is in the journey, not the destination, and the director (and his long-time collaborating editor) have no problem stepping off the path of the main story to give loads of detail on the denizens, workings and locations of the titular island-asylum-prison. Those who complain that 138 minutes is way too long for such a basic plot have completely missed the point (and the myriad pleasures) that Shutter Island has on offer.
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  • 19 Jan

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    Scorsese’s Cecil B DeMille Award Montage

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    In case you missed Sunday night’s broadcast of the Golden Globe awards, you didn’t see Martin Scorsese receiving the DeMille Award. Before his acceptace speech, there was quite an awesome montage that included bits from almost all of the films he’s worked on, including some documentaries and his as of yet unreleased, Shutter Island. Someone was awesome enough to get it up on YouTube for us all to check out again. So here it is. Enjoy.

     

  • 23 Dec

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    Christopher Nolan Folds Your Perception (In French)

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    A French dubbed trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Inception has popped up on Youtube. “Whats the most resilient form of parasite? An idea.” This one only continues to intrigue – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets Dark City? (Sold!) The ominous soundtrack makes me swoon.

    Trailer is tucked under the seat.

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  • 15 Dec

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    Poster for Chris Nolan’s Inception Uncovered

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    A big fans of just about everything Christopher Nolan has done, from Following and Memento through The Prestige and the Batman movies, I’m sure we’re all excited about his upcoming non-superhero movie Inception, due in theatres July 16, 2010. A teaser trailer heavy on the tease turned up in August, and now the first poster has been discovered as part of a viral game on the film’s website. Thanks to First Showing for the poster and giving the directions on how to get to it in the game.

    What do you think? Does it make you more excited for Inception? Less? I’m not sure I could get more excited – I love how little information has been released so far. I’m hoping to go in fairly blind and hope I get my mind blown. Click the poster to see a GIANT version.

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  • 08 Dec

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    Remembering a Decade…2008

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    (prologue) As we can begin to hear the death rattle of the oughts, we in the third row decided to start on this continuing series throughout 2009 that will look back at our favorite films of each of the past ten years (2000-2009). This will ultimately culminate in a “ten best/favorites of the oughts” piece sometime in early 2010.

    Well, this is just about it. Until our annual best of the year list arrives in early January that will account for all of the greatness that was 2009, this is pretty much the end of the decade. As we’ve looked back over the past 10 years it’s been fun to reminisce, discuss, bicker and compare. While this was maybe the easiest year in this series for all of the contributors to come to a consensus on, we had a little bit of trouble deciding between which of two films should be our fifth title on this list and which should be left off. In the end we decided that there is no absolute “rule” that says we have to have just five movies when remembering a year. So for our final bit of nostalgia (until our culminated list of top ten of the decade arrives), we give you six films from last year that really took our breath away – or at least gave us something to think about and remember. These six titles are how we remember 2008 taking shape.

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