Introduction70. Kill Bill, Vol. 1Kill Bill, Vol. 2(Quentin Tarantino, 2003-'04, USA)Inglourious Basterds is probably smarter; it's certainly more complex. But dammit, it's just not anywhere near as fun as Tarantino's loving, epic-length tribute to, and parodic indictment of, the trash he grew up watching, the spaghetti Westerns and blaxploitation ...
No film by the chameleon-like director Olivier Assayas met with as much brutal misunderstanding - at least, in the United States; I cannot speak to its reception in Europe - as 2002's demonlover, a stupendously intelligent assault on globalism, e-commerce, the media, corporate culture - oh, and violent pornography, although ...
Filmmaker Miao Wang, a Beijing native now based in Brooklyn, is currently racing to finish her feature doc Beijing Taxi in time for SXSW, where it's scheduled to world premiere. She needs to raise $11,000 to cover post-production expenses and is just under half way there with five days left ...
Press play. It magically provides your soundtrack for this post.Four hundred and twenty-three years ago this very day, Queen Elizabeth had the deed done.Mary Queen of Scots' head would roll. Which in movie-land means that Cate Blanchett (at her most blustery) ordered Samantha Morton right out of her own movie, ...
Most movie-moment montages work an A-B-A structure in which "A" is sentimental uplift. This montage by Paul Proulx goes for something different. (Hat tip: Anne Thompson.)the films of the 2000s from Paul Proulx on Vimeo.
47-year old industryite writes: "At Monkey Bar for Sandy Bullock party-- bringing median age down about 30 years."
This was my third year at the Oxford Film Festival, and I have to say this fest just gets better and better every year. Other small regional fests take note: If you want to grow your small-town-fest-that-could into a small town fest that can and does have a reputation as ...
You know, watching this, I am actually interested in seeing this film... more so than any Kevin Smith movie in a long while, I must say. And what WB is out selling wide... I just can't tell what movie they are trying to tell me it's going to be... ...
Sometimes I find myself covering so many things that I don't write about them right away. A case in point: my weekend trip to Santa Barbara. I'm still writing up the Sandra Bullock tribute and haven't transcribed my writers panel, which went well even without Quentin Tarantino, who did turn ...
Jose here with the Monday Monologue.James Dean would've turned 79 today.The iconic actor left way too early, only showing glimpses of his immense talent in his three legendary performances.As with all people who die young, the shock of the tragedy creates a conflicting image that sometimes benefits or hurts their ...
James Cameron likes to be in control, but Arnold Schwarzenegger took him by surprise during Saturday night’s presentation of the Modern Master Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. I was onstage conducting an evening-long interview with Cameron, interspersed with clips from many of his films. Normally, a presenter ...
If you are among the vast constituency who believes what almost every guru of gold within reach of a laptop has been proclaiming since last summer, then you know: “Inglourious Basterds’ ” Christoph Waltz has the supporting actor statuette all but locked up. With almost mind-numbing constancy, the Austrian actor ...
London, UK – The Works International is delighted to announce the acquisition of Academy Award® nominated documentary THE COVE by Japanese distributor Medallion Media which is planning a tentative release date of April 2010 in Japan. Until now Japanese distributors have shied away from the award-winning documentary ...
The filmmakers may have moved one step closer to their goal of stopping the dolphin slaughter that the documentary depicts.
Vancouver 2010 is upon us! NBC will cover the Winter Olympic Opening Ceremonies February 12 at 6PM ET. If you're not quite ready to get your quadrennial kicks, here are some flicks to get you in the mood for luge (and curling?!) ... Read more Filed under: ...
It can be a crapshoot when TV actors step from the small screen into features; for every George Clooney or Steve Carell, there's a Zach Braff or Katherine Heigl. But a buzzed-about new movie called "Oranges" may be trying exactly that. The project, a dark dramatic comedy about an older ...
What's lovely about this seven-minute montage of films of the 2000s is the way the editor uses music to link images by mood; it's astonishing how haunting a moment can be, from Jack Nicholson in About Schmidt to Haley Joel Osment in A.I. . the films of the 2000s from ...
Get ready for more Pottermania. According to Variety, 'Harry Potter' villain Tom Felton has been cast in the upcoming chiller-thriller 'The Apparation' from newbie writer-director Todd Lincoln. Felton will play a supernatural expert in the ... Read more Filed under: Movie NewsPermalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments ...
This was uploaded a few weeks after Google first uploaded "Parisian Love" in November... Cold. It's by Andrew Bouve, whose "If Famous Directors Shot the Superbowl" appeared last week.
Feb. 11 8:00 p.m. Echo Park Film Center 1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd) Los Angeles, CA Hosted by: Other Cinema San Francisco underground filmmaker Craig Baldwin will attend this special screening of his latest magnum opus, the genuinely epic collage narrative Mock Up on Mu. Mock ...
