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Burning Questions: Can a Bad Sequel Diminish a Classic?
Michael C here. When you tune in to the movie chatter frequency one of unavoidable refrains you hear is that such and such sequel has spoiled a classic film. You know the drill. Part III forever...
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Reader Spotlight: Zé Vozone
We're getting to know The Film Experience community with little spotlights on YOU the readers. Here's Zé from Portugal who you've talked to in the comments section as he's a regular. What's your...
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For Roger Ebert.
Hard to put into words exactly how much this means to the film community in general. Suffice it to say, one of the great film critics, one of the kindest, most influential, most humane since the...
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Secret Messages: A 'Drawring'
secret messages Who drew it, why, and which movie is it from?
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At the Linkies
It's been ages since I had a moment for a link & news roundup so here you go. If you've already read some of these I apologize for my tardiness. If not, enjoy them. Big ScreenHuffington Post I have...
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Four Reasons Why Jurassic Park's Visuals Still Amaze
by Tim Brayton Twenty years ago – an eon in filmmaking years – Jurassic Park was the shiniest new toy on the block. Now it’s getting an anniversary release as a bona-fide classic, having existed for...
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Yes, No, Maybe So: "Carrie 2013"
If you remake Carrie they're all going to laugh at you! the Mean Girls of Thomas Ewen Consolidated High School. Or, if not laugh, than shake their heads in annoyance that you've dared to keep company...
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Oscar Preview Time: The Tentative Release Dates
I was more than a little surprised to read this week that the Weinstein Company had chosen a summer release date for their Sundance pick-up Fruitvale whilst Fox Searchlight went with the Weinstein-like...
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Beauty Break: Herculean Edition
Have you heard that there are two competing Hercules movies next year? I can't imagine many TFE readers list Brett Ratner or Renny Harlin as big "draws" from Tinseltown's director pool, but they've...
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I'm hard at work on the new Oscar charts hence the lack of new posts. Do you like the new color scheme? Banner? Do you have anything to add to that huge list of upcoming movies I posted yesterday....
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Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
Variety recently reported that Rita Moreno had joined the cast of the comedy Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks. It's not uncommon for famous plays to be made into movies but this one affords us the rare...
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Winter Soldier + Black Widow ?
I keep tricking myself into believing that this is a superhero free year but that's only because Iron Man, Supes and Thor haven't hit yet. Captain America, on the other hand, won't be back until 2014....
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Mad Men @ the Movies: From Here To Eternity & A Star is Born
In Mad Men at the Movies we explore the cinematic references of television's finest drama. So good to have the SCDP gang back on our small screen dreaming about their big screens. Naturally mild...
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Curio: Mitch Frey's Film Typologies
Alexa here. The German photographers Bernard and Hilla Becher pioneered the art of the typology: grids of images of various examples of a single type of object. The technique was to photograph a series...
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First & Last: Come on, Silly
first and last puzzlesthe first and last images and lines of dialogue from a motion picture. First: When you're finished, see the director.Last: We're getting along fine. Come on, silly. Can you guess...
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Reader Spotlight: Douglas Reese
Douglas gets into the Spring Breakers spiritReader Spotlights continue as we get to know The Film Experience community. This time we're talking to filmmaker Douglas Reese. Hi Douglas! We started...
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Hot Docs '13
Hi everyone! Amir here, to bring you exciting festival news at month's end. Nathaniel is heading to the Nashville Film Festival as a jury member and for the first time at The Film Experience, we’re...
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Podcast: The Place Beyond the Desiring Images of the 90s
Surprise Podcast Attack! For this impromptu conversation, Nick Davis, Joe Reid and Nathaniel R (c'est moi) travel back in time to the 1990s to talk VHS, Jurassic Park, Box Office vs. Lasting Power,...
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Top Ten 1990s
I promised longtime TFE super fan Ryan that I would one day write up a big top ten of the 90s piece although THIS IS NOT IT. This is like those tossed back "shots" of past decades wherein we tell each...
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Visual Index ~ Jurassic Park's Best Shots
Refresh your screen for updates as the shots come in. By now you know the drill. Each week we ask interested bloggers to select one shot they think of as best from the pre-assigned movie and tell us...
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