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I discuss ‘The Artist’ and the Beauty of Pure Cinema at PJ Lifestyle. It’s a French movie you don’t want to miss, with John Goodman, James Cromwell, and Penelope Ann Miller as supporting cast. But the real treat are the French leads, Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo.
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Short of the Week: L.A. Light, made entirely with time-lapse photos of downtown Los Angeles. You’ll want to play it at fullscreen size. Very beautiful.
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Mexican Drug Cartels and High Culture: The trailer for festival circuit darling Miss Bala.
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Your Moment of Geek: Bob Anderson, Sword-Master, Darth Vader Fighter Dies At 89.
May he rest in peace…
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The Death of Movies: Weekend Box Office drops to 2008 levels. Well, it hasn’t exactly been a great year in terms of Hollywood offerings.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy did pretty good, though (but it’s not exactly Hollywood studio product). We saw it last night. It’s very cerebral and the pacing is quite deliberate, but I never found it boring even though I was already familiar with the story. Fans of the Le Carré novel – such as my wife – may not find it as satisfying as the 1979 BBC miniseries, which stars Alec Guiness and was also pretty damn entertaining. The cast of the movie – led by Gary Oldman – was excellent, however. The art direction, too.
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A 2-part documentary on Woody Allen that you can watch for free on line.
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A Different kind of Toy Story: Definitely one of the best shorts I’ve ever seen.
You know it’s a good movie when you wish it just went on for longer. Terrific work!
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Good deal: Save 48% on a Braveheart/Gladiator Blu-ray Two-Pack.
Two good Blu-ray movies for less than $14. Nice.
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Hollywood’s Favorite Villain: Business. But note new indie release Margin Call: “Unlike most films that view business through the lens of Hollywood, such as 2000′s ‘Boiler Room’and 1987′s ‘Wall Street,’there are no perp-walk scenes or moralistic finger-wags. When offered financing from producers who wanted these elements introduced, the filmmakers turned them down.”
Nice.
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More on the death of movies: Why Do Movies Suck? Ask a Guy Who Makes Them.
Just remember: Nobody knows anything, though this explanation makes a lot of sense…
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Recovery Bummer, Hollywood Edition: Sony to Stop Paying for 3D Glasses in May 2012: “Sony Pictures Entertainment has notified theater owners in a letter that it will no longer pay for 3D glasses, beginning in May 2012, marking a major policy shift that many other studios are likely considering…The price tag for 3D glasses is no laughing matter — studios can spend $5 million to $10 million worldwide for a tentpole (they pay after the fact, based on how many glasses were actually used).”
This can only mean one of two things: either going to the movies is about to become more expensive, or 3D movies as a viable entertainment business are heading for extinction…all over again.
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Hollywood Tries A New Battle Plan: “After years of war movies about conflicted fighters, a new crop of films is shifting focus: to tactics, technology and teamwork.”
Good.
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made’.
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3-D’s Last Stand? Scorsese, Coppola and Spielberg Take On 3-D.
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The Death of Movies: DISNEY EXEC: MOVIEGOERS WANT SPECTACLE, NOT STORY.
Sigh.
More on the death of movies, here.
(Via John Nolte)
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Making ‘The Shining‘: A 30+ minute documentary shot by Kubrick’s then teenage daughter.
Free to play online!
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The 30 Harshest Filmmaker-on-Filmmaker Insults In History.
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A Kubrick movie for people who don’t like Kubrick movies: A Criterion Collection edition of The Killing is coming August 16. On DVD and Blu-ray.
Without a doubt one of the best crime thrillers ever made…
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Ed Driscoll: Everything’s Wrong With Hollywood, But It’s All Fixable.
What if it’s too late?
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Now and Then: Thelma & Louise vs. Hit TNT Series Rizzoli & Isles.
Thelma & Louise is 20 years old? How time flies…
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You can now pre-order the original Star Wars trilogy’s Blu-ray box set for about $40:
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The Top 10 Comic Book Movies Hollywood Still Needs To Make.
Good picks, but this evinces far too much faith in Hollywood, I think…
UPDATE: Last link was bad. Just fixed. Sorry about that!
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The Saddest Movie in the World.
I’ve never seen it, but I remember my parents did – back in the late 70′s. It launched Rick Schroeder’s career!
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Another sign of 3D’s impending demise? I hope so: RealD Shares Collapse to All-Time Low, Lose Nearly 21% of Value.
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Many great movies owe their existence to her. Rest in peace…
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Bad news for the Hollywood studios: Study shows 3D displays cause ‘visual discomfort’.
They needed a study to reach this conclusion?
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Impressive movie poster collection Film on Paper.
These are not for sale. It’s just a gallery representing the items in the collection.
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Now and Then: Hobo With a Shotgun vs. Dirty Harry.
I haven’t seen Hobo yet, but Amazon Instant Video has it for rent for only $3.99
– if you’re interested…
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Incidentally, Dr. Wife and I really liked Salt, which is steeped in Cold War themes. Much better movie than I anticipated (although the main character’s physical prowess stretched credulity a couple of times). I never would have considered it if it wasn’t for reading about it on Libertas.
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BBC”s Mark Kermode finds a way to express his feelings about Transformers 3.
I suppose he was unable to make his point with a series of face-palms.
Why does this all remind me of the Obama administration?
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THR: Splashy Sarah Palin Movie Shuts Out Hollywood.
And who can blame it? It wasn’t just Hollywood that got shut out, though: “Reporters from around the country that have descended upon tiny Pella, Iowa for the premiere of the Sarah Palin documentary The Undefeated on Tuesday night were in for a rude awakening: So scarce are the tickets that there’s no room in the theater for journalists.”
Odds are most of them didn’t really want to be there, anyway.
UPDATE: Related: Anti-Sarah Palin doc promises dishonest hit job.
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Has Hollywood Stopped Trying?
CHUD compares Mr. Popper’s Penguins (June 17) to The Smurfs (July 29), both of which we included in our list of the Summer’s Nine Worst Movie Trailers… Not only does each one look bad on its own, but shot for shot they “appear to be the exact same movie.”
You mean they were trying before this?
UPDATE: Ed Driscoll links with related content, which I’ll soon be filing under ‘Things I Suspected, But Somehow Also Already Knew’. Thanks!
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Awesome gallery here.
Via Kottke.
This is a Brooklyn I’ve only seen on film. I rarely visited Brooklyn while I lived in New York back during my college years, but all those movie memories actually make these photos feel strangely familiar. The shot of the Brooklyn bridge in between two rows of buildings has been used in at least one movie that I can recall: Once Upon A Time In America (if not on its poster and promotional materials).
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Enforcing politeness at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.
This needs to happen more often. Fun video at the link, but NSFW. The ejected texter uses plenty of profanity.
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FSFF: Undead Links to George A. Romero Studies.
…or for the budding zombie movie scholar, too.
