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VIDEO: 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' Clip and Featurette Show Dazzling Fireworks
In this new clip posted below, we see a stunning night seen from Sundance's breakout film this year, "Beasts of the Southern Wild." In a new featurette, posted on Apple, Behn Zeitlin, the writer and director and writer Lucy Alibar, guides us through a featurette, while the cast explain their charac...
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Trailers from Hell: Jack Hill Explains the Trailer to 'Sorceress'
In today's Trailers from Hell post, Jack Hill guides us through the trailer for the "Sorceress." Here's the TFH write-up...
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Akira Kurosawa and Francis Ford Coppola Whiskey Ads [Video]
IIn the 80s, Akira Kurosawa and Francis Ford Coppola made and starred in a series of whiskey advertisements for Suntory Whiskey, posted below. Not only does the ad include footage of Kurosawa directing a herd of horses and extras while filming "Kagemusha," but we can see the directors guzzling whis...
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VIDEO ESSAY: Ridley Scott's PROMETHEUS Timeline
It’s perplexing to survey the recent surge of excitement from sci-fi movie fans about Ridley Scott. Sure, Scott’s two directorial sci-fi films—"Alien" and "Blade Runner"—set the benchmarks for the sci-fi horror and the sci-fi futuristic thriller, respectively, but Scott hasn’t directed a sci-fi film...
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VIDEO ESSAYS: The Seventh Art on GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO and SON FRERE
This month the online video film magazine The Seventh Art has published two video essays on films: one on David Fincher's remake of The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, and one on Son Frere and depictions of death and dying in cinema.
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Grace Jones Steals The Show At The Queen's Diamond Jubilee
I have to confess that it literally ticks me off whenever I hear anyone praising or making a lot of fuss about Lady Gaga, when, in fact, EVERYTHING she does she stole from Grace Jones. And even worse she does it very badly.
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Watch: 'The Wire: The Musical' with Omar, McNulty, Kima, Stringer Bell & Friends
Miss watching HBO's "The Wire"? The musical is coming courtesy of Funny or Die:
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In His Own Words: Stephen Kessler Shares a Scene From 'Paul Williams: Still Alive'
In the documentary "Paul Williams: Still Alive," filmmaker Stephen Kessler tracks down Academy Award-winning composer (and actor) Paul Williams to find out whatever happened to his idol. The results may surprise you. The film premiered at last year's Toronto International Film Festival and opens in ...
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Sarah Jessica Parker Hosting Dinner for Obama
And one grassroots supporter will get a paid trip to NYC and will have dinner with Parker, the President, the First Lady and probably a bunch of other high profile New Yorkers.
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VIDEO: Sight & Sound Film Poll: Ekkehard Knörer and Michael Baute on UNDER THE BRIDGES
The fifth video in our ongoing series is the first to involve a film on my own top ten list for the Sight & Sound Film Poll. But I'm not one of the commentators on the video. Nor is film on the top ten list of either of the commentators. But somehow the three of us form "an inclusive whole" (to use ...
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