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Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman is dead at 89. The Local calls his work immortal, as did many of his colleagues.
Until now I’ve been misremembering the title of one of his movies as Three Smiles of a Summer Night, a 1955 romantic comedy. I’d say that most of his works I’d seen were depressing and [...]
Scott Smith’s Imperfect Ten too slow for you? Take a look at Nash Edgerton’s Lucky over at Blue Tongue Films. What would you do in 4 minutes 25 seconds? How would you escape?
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The nice folks at Coudal Partners are hosting Scott Smith’s Imperfect Ten, “wherein one man breaks all ten commandments before breakfast.”
It’s Friday (March 10th, even), go watch.
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We’ve all heard it before, but we just can’t get it out of our heads. Today’s movies make us feel dumb. Paulina Borsook joins the chorus and condemns contemporary cinema by praising movies of the 60s and 70s:
They were movies made for adults, even if they had been mainstream movies and/or nominally rated PG. They [...]
This, from Chris Anderson: The Codex is a 20 episode series of machinimas made on Xboxes running Halo 2. The result caught the attention of his six- and eight-year-old children, and then him.
Machinimas are computer animated in real-time, using video games to create the environment, and human “puppeteers” to drive the action. The action [...]
David Edelstein’s review of Werner Herzog’s documentary, Grizzly Man, describes Timothy Treadwell as
…a manic but lovable whack-job who doggedly filmed and obsessively idealized the bears that would ultimately eat him…
The film is made up largely of the bits of the hundreds of hours of video that Treadwell himself shot during his 14 years with the [...]
Within the last wild lands of North America dwells an animal that inspires respect and fear around the world. It is the grizzly bear, a living legend of the wilderness. Grizzlies can sprint thirty five plus miles an hour, smell carrion at nine or more miles, and drag a thousand-pund animal up steep mountains. The [...]
I’ve been a fan of Zhang Yimou’s[1] films since, well, for a while now. But I’m also a huge kung fu fan — Jackie Chan especially — so House of Flying Daggers was quite a treat.
It’s not that I didn’t like Hero, or that Daggers was particularly funny. To the contrary, it’s tale of complex [...]
Steven Soderbergh has done a number of good films, but The Underneath isn’t among them. It’s interesting to see the director working out his moves, but more entertaining to see them in a more mature form, as in Out of Site.
Eh, I’m ready to give the guy a break. My real complaint has nothing to [...]
Phil Joanou’s Entropy isn’t available in the US on DVD, but I found it at Amazon UK. IMDB has this to say:
Stephen Dorff narrates this tale about how his life goes astray as his character attempts to strike a balance between the demands of directing his first film and the pressures of his new romance [...]
