The Fannings: Little Girls Lost
Kurt here from Your Movie Buddy. In W magazine's recently-released “Movie Issue” (which, as Nathaniel observed, was well worth that rare trip to the newsstand), the fashionable editors rather boldly...
View Article20:10 Strangely Timed Vacation
Three years ago at the original blog, I created a series called 20:07 which became one of the most popular TFE features ever and spawned a slew of imitators 'round the web. Just for fun, let's...
View ArticleDistant Relatives: Solaris and Inception
Robert here, with my series Distant Relatives, where we look at two films, (one classic, one modern) related through a common theme and ask what their similarities and differences can tell us about the...
View ArticleClint Eastwood & Beyoncé. A Match Made In...
This might just be the strangest thing you read all week. Clint Eastwood, currently working on FBI biopic J. Edgar, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Hoover and Armie Hammer as his lover and star employee,...
View ArticleThe Link'll Come Out Tomorrow
Bleeding Cool weird Bond 23 rumor. Red Sky At Night is a possible title.A Socialite's Life shares the dread news that Will Smith is planning to foist his daughter Willow upon the public in a remake of...
View Article20:10 "I feel like there's some subtext here."
Three years ago at the original blog, I created a series called 20:07 which became one of the most popular TFE features ever and spawned a slew of imitators 'round the web. Just for fun, let's...
View Article"It's Showtime" Bob Fosse
I have to ask: Wouldn't a Bob Fosse biopic be better suited to ShowTime than HBO -- just on account of that catchphrase? Think of the cynergy of marketing. Somehow I'd missed (or had forgotten, more...
View ArticleDarren Aronofsky's Familiar Faces: Acting Hierarchy
Black Swan is the fifth feature to come from the lunatic vision of Darren Aronofsky and with his first Oscar nomination pending, let's look back on his career. While Natalie Portman is front and center...
View ArticleEar Candy: Best Sound, Score, Songs of 2010
I really am trying to get a move on with my Film Bitch Awards. If you're new to The Film Experience that's this site's annual awards. We've been doing it for (gulp) 11 years... Each year I promise...
View Article20:10 "Det kommer en ny blomma varje år"
Screenshots from the 20th minute and 10th second of 2010 films as we close out the year through awards season. [I may be a smidge off on this one, timing wise, as my counter was all knullade but...
View ArticleDavid O. Russell ♥ "The Royal Tenenbaums". Rosie Perez ♥ "The Fighter"
When I lived in the northern Brooklyn, I used to hop on the G Train to visit the Museum of Moving Images in Queens with some regularity. I haven't been in years but they've redone the museum and...
View ArticleEye Candy: Visual Effects, Makeup and Animation
It's 2 days and 15 hours or so until Oscar nominations! Late tomorrow we'll do final predictions but until then, the FiLM BiTCH Awards continue wherein I share my own ballot of "best of the year"....
View ArticleLinks Episode #2,011
Tang Wei acting againPop Matters Jane Fonda is here to talk fitness -- not the movies! Though the first question does both. Interesting interview from Matt Mazur.Carpetbagger Sundance has a new 'it'...
View ArticleProducer's Guild Loves Bertie, Disses Zuck
True Blood's Joe Mangianello presents an awardThe PGA (the producers not the golfers) have chosen The King's Speech as the best produced film of 2010. [Dumb joke] No word yet on which film the golfers...
View Article20:10 Truer words were never spoken (by Toys)
Screen capture: 20th minute and 10th second of Toy Story 3 (with the dialogue immediately preceding this image). It's nice. See! The door has a rainbow on it. Tee hee. Love the basic causal evidence...
View ArticleFrank Rich on True Grit & The Social Network
Illustration by Barry BlittThe invaluable Frank Rich has a great op-ed on the success of True Grit in the age of The Social Network. It's beautifully written and interesting in the context of both...
View ArticleBest Actors (Lead and Supporting), My Ballot
As is my annual perogative I went back and forth between lead and supporting designations on several of those "co-lead" roles until I tied myself in knots and could not come undone. I'm more strict...
View ArticleThe Ghost Linker
Filmmaker Magazine a brief video interview with Miranda July (Me and You and Everyone We Know) on her new project about a couple adopting a cat. EEEEeeee. Adopting a cat sounds like an EPIC story for a...
View ArticleFinal Oscar Predictions & Questions
Yes, they'll have reason to celebrateWe're getting down to the wire now and doesn't it seem more confusing now that it did a month ago? So strange. The pink elephant in the room might be that the...
View Article'Happy 50th Nastassja' That's One From Our Hearts
Nastassja Kinsi by Richard Avedon Editors note: For Nastassia Kinski's 50th birthday, I asked Glenn to write up a bit on her appearance in "One From the Heart" since it's a movie I know he loves (even...
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