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Hit Me With Your Best Shot. Pandora's Box (1929)
In this series, we look at movies from all over the cinematic time line and select a shot that particularly resonates with us, be it for aesthetic, thematic or for simple eye candy reasons. Join us!...
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First and Last, Excellent View
first and last images from motion pictures (excluding credit sequences)Can you guess the movie?It was the heavily touted but underwhelming Oscar bait [highlight]... THE SHIPPING NEWS (2001). Did you...
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And I Know That My Comments Will Go On...
Thank you to all commenters! I've had a rough week off blog and I enjoy hearing your thoughts. Spambots are getting smarter. Their latest trick is to copy your actual comments -- the text being totally...
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Unsung Heroes: The Fight Choreography of Rob Roy
Hey, folks. Michael C. here from Serious Film with another overlooked contribution to film greatness. This time out let's look at a favorite of mine going back to my teenage years: the fight...
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TIFF Capsules: Passion Play, Black Swan, 127 Hours and The Conspirator
My friend txt critic is completing his Toronto journey soon but he sent another batch of thoughts for your perusal. He starts by taking an against consensus stand. PASSION PLAYBy far the most loathed...
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Modern Maestros: Alfonso Cuarón
Maestro: Alfonso CuarónKnown For: long takes, intellectual films that are sensuous and sensual.Influences: American Noir, French New Wave, Orson Welles (it's always Orson Welles ain't it?)Masterpieces:...
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First and Last, From the Terrible Movie Files
first and last images from motion pictures.Need another clue? Here's the first and last lines of dialoguefirst~ [shouted order, unintelligible] _________, you Scottish pig!last ~ [applause] Thank you...
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Nathaniel's New York Film Festival: Coming Soon
The New York Film Festival starts officially on September 24th. Critics screenings have already begun but so far I've been in absentia. I have my reasons though the selection committee and certain...
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Yes No Maybe So: The Fighter
Our first glimpse of the highly buzzed David O. Russell boxing picture The Fighter. If it becomes a major player at this year's Oscars I want y'all to remember that I believed it would happen first....
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Links: Cher, Cheyenne, Celestia, Carey and CQueen
Guardian good piece on Anne Heche, her not totally recovered career post-Celestia, and Hollywood's double standards about men and women with troubled souls.After Elton first look at Cheyenne Jackson on...
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Easy A Review
Is it better to blend in or stand out?It's a question everybody must have asked themselves at some point or another, particularly in the (peer) pressure cooker of high school. Easy A is about a good...
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First and Last, 4.27
first and last images from motion pictures (excluding credit sequences)For another clue, the first and last lines of dialogue.first~ "Security has been tightened throughout the country."last ~ "And...
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Day of Rest
Mr. PittWe're not really resting. But behind the scenes things are taking us forever. And we're rapidly running out of stamina.What are your movie plans like this weekend?
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10th Anniversary: MUSIC
Ten years ago today, Madonna's Music (2000), one of her very best records, dropped into record stores. Director Guy Ritchie, to your left, was then her new man. He was advertising -- the record I mean!...
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TIFF: The People Speak.
Unlike many of the A-list festivals, Toronto does not do the big celebrity jury thing to hand out their awards. So it's up to festivalgoers to vote and the Audience Awards result. This is why, roughly...
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The Foreign Film Oscar Race: So Much (International) Drama
But first things first. If German's popular drama When We Leave is nominated and wins, can the actress Sibel Kekilli please -- pretty pretty please -- repeat her barefoot acceptance/sit- in from...
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Flashback: Maggie Cheung and... Sigourney Weaver?
A very happy birthday to the incomparable and elusive Maggie Cheung who turns 46 today. We haven't seen her mysterious mojo onscreen in about six years -- since Clean and 2046 hit and she announced...
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Actress Italian-Style.
Jose here.As I was watching The Story of Adele H. yesterday it struck me how Isabelle Adjani is still one of the few actresses to have been Oscar nominated more than once for performances in a foreign...
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The Master Is Dead! Long Live The Master
.JA from MNPP here. In case you missed the news, it seems that Paul Thomas Anderson's next film The Master - which was to star Phillip Seymour Hoffman as the leader of a new Scientology-like religion...
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NYFF: "Poetry"
Nathaniel, reporting from the New York Film FestivalIn the first shots of Poetry, the latest film from gifted director Lee Chang-dong (Secret Sunshine) an idyllic moment of little kids playing by a...
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