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You Will Link a Tall Dark Stranger
Scott Feinberg points out that Sony Pictures Classics is the first studio out of the gate with Academy screeners. This is a good strategy as I've noted previously. I am anxious to watch Please Give...
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First and Last, The Lawn
the first image from a motion picture and the last...Need another clue? Here's the same thing in dialogue form first: "oh my god oh my god" last: "I know things about pigeons."Can you guess the...
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LFF 2010: A Screaming Man
Craig here, continuing a look at films showing at the 54th BFI London Film Festival.I much admired Chad filmmaker Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's Daratt/Dry Season from 2007 (it took the #4 spot in my year-end...
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Get Away Fom Ripley You Bitches
.JA from MNPP here. If you consider Ridley Scott's 1979 masterpiece Alien a horror film (and you really should consider Ridley Scott's 1979 masterpiece Alien a horror film) (and even more specifically...
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Sam Rockwell and Hilary Swank in "Conviction"
Whether or not you believe the old Hollywood maxim “directing is 90% casting,” you do have to admit that it’s a hefty percentage of the sum of any good film. Tony Goldwyn, who directed the true story...
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Boo You Whore
So... Blogger's image upload function happens to be getting some sort of reboot on the very night we were doing Hit Me With Your Best Shot!Image uploading being the #1 requirement for celebrating our...
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Who's That Girl? (Episode 10)
Can you name the actress and the film in which she appears? Who are these mystery girls?A [Highlight for answer] Tomboy icon Mary Stuart Masterston in Some Kind of Wonderful (1987). Guessed by Kit and...
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LFF 2010: And It Hurts With Every... Cannon
David from Victim of the Time, reporting from the 54th BFI London Film Festival.I've been engrossed in this festival for so long now, it already feels like it's winding down; in fact, there's another...
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Unsung Heroes: Tom Stoppard for Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade
Michael C. here from Serious Film for another episode of Unsung Heroes. This week why don't we hand out some credit for some "uncredited" writing.All directors, no matter how great, have a few blind...
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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Mean Girls
Next Wednesday night is the Season 1 Finale of 'Best Shot". Together we'll look at the 1955 classic Night of the Hunter which --- well, if you've never seen it, you're in for a major film event. It's...
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LFF 2010: Winter Vacation
Craig here with more from the LFF 2010Winter Vacation (Han jia), the acclaimed new film from writer-poet Li Hongqi, arrives at the LFF with prizes from both the Seoul and Locarno film festivals. It...
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Review: "Hereafter"
Clint Eastwood, now 80 years old, has never been more regular. Somewhere between the months of October and December each year, comes a new Eastwood picture for your consideration... or "For Your...
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Linkenstein
What follows is a strange amalgam of old and new links. It's a frankenstein roundup, stitched together over the past four days from aborted link posts that were accidentally unposted... until now....
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The 50 Oldest Living Oscar Nominees
Happy birthday to Best Actress winner Joan Fontaine (Suspicion, 1941), also known as the second Mrs. DeWinter. She turns 93 years young today. What on earth was she thinking about when she won the...
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First and Last, 4.45
the first image in a motion picture, and the last... Can you guess the movie?That's right. It's the very recent hit [highlight for the answer] ZOMBIELAND (2009). *
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Catherine Deneuve and The Terrified Naked Model
Yesterday was the 67th birthday of the one and only Catherine Deneuve. As some of you know, she's one of my top ten actresses of all time. I didn't celebrate because I was too busy tinkering with blog...
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Yes, No, Maybe So: "Rabbit Hole"
I probably need to start covering movies I'm not absolutely drooling for in this yes, no, maybe so trailer series. It gets hard to pick the "no" and "maybe" elements for a film like, say, this one...
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LFF 2010: Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Like Winter Vacation (reviewed yesterday and also showing today), more snowy desolation abounds in Almari Helander’s debut film Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. But this time the setting is a much more...
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You eat that watermelon, Juliette...
Just eat it!I'm totally not crazy about watermelons myself. I don't like anything where I have to spit out seeds. You?This entirely random post has been brought to you by a recent screening of What's...
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