Over at Film of the Month Club, they take a movie a month and a bunch of film fans watch it, then they write about it. The idea is to get a little more in depth commentary and discussion going than might be usual in the blogosphere. For its debut, girish (of the [...]
Dig it — over the years, Bob Dylan has had more identities than Madonna. He’s remade himself time and again, first as a folkie, then a nihilistic rocker, then a cowboy-singer, then a Christian, and then back to his Jewish roots. So what we’ll do — this is cool — what we’ll [...]
So the other day, I walked into my local Movie Gallery, looking for I’m Not There and maybe even The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, both of which I missed because they didn’t play here in the wilds of West Alabama, when what to my wondering eyes should appear but a [...]
Well, it had to happen — several reviews of Indy’s newest outing have hit the fan, and they aren’t all that pretty. The worst one has been posted at Ain’t It Cool News by someone who calls himself (or herself) ShogunMaster:
. . . this is the Indiana Movie that you were dreading. During the [...]
For cinephiles, the news last week from Criterion that they were coming out with thirteen Blu-ray titles was a mixed blessing at best. With four-hundred-some Criterion titles and counting, the question becomes how many titles will come out in the format and how fast? What will the announcement do for sales of their [...]
Just a quick pointer to some of the most innovative stuff I’ve seen in a while. It’s Green Porno, Isabella Rossellini’s series of eight one-minute spots on the Sundance channel. I especially like the earthworm, but it’s all good. And you can watch them all here. Enjoy!
(thanks to Ted Zee at [...]
Note: This is part of the Invitation to the Dance Blogathon at Ferdy on Films.
To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a dance is just a dance . . . but sometimes it’s not. And among the more entertaining celluloid examples of when it’s not are by Federico Fellini. Actually, Freud doesn’t quite fit — [...]
The Invitation to the Dance Blogathon over at Ferdy on Films, etc. is off! All dance, all the time — or at least now through May 10th. This post of mine on Werckmeister Harmonies has been listed, and I’m working on something else for later in the week. Meantime, drop on over [...]
Let’s get this out of the way up front: Iron Man is a kick in the pants, and, that’s about all any summer-blockbuster- wannabe can aspire to, isn’t it? It’s lots of fun, it doesn’t make us think (too much anyway), and it appears to have repeat-business potential. This last is important — for [...]
There’s something I’ve been wanting to get off my chest for a while, but I don’t know where to begin, because it’s kind of embarrassing for somebody who writes — however scratchingly — about movies, and I’m afraid that if I do admit it, Armond White will jump out of my screen and beat me [...]
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