Okay, deep breath now. The movie news marathon that is 65th edition of the Festival de Cannes begins on Wednesday night with a screening of Wes Anderson’s highly anticipated Moonrise Kingdom (which opens here at the Enzian on 6/22). On Thursday morning it’s basically non-stop insanity until the following Sunday when the final films...
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I think I mentioned in the Roundup a few months ago that the Korean Film Archive was working on putting an extensive set of films onto YouTube for free. Last week they finally launched their channel and have 70 films online so far, all with English subtitles. Skimming through a few of the titles,...
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Dear Readers, top five cinematic crimes perpetrated by Tim Burton in the 2000s? Go. Subquestion: is it in fact unfair to criticize a formerly great artist for his latter day sins? Is it better to burn out than to fade away? What to do about Tim Burton, what to do? Dark Shadows. Man. Watching this...
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Woody Allen has called The Purple Rose of Cairo his favorite film, the only one that ever really came out right, the way he envisioned it. It’s a great film, one that takes a natural extension from Buster Keaton’s Sherlock, Jr., where Buster’s character, a projectionist, goes into the frame to solve a mystery....
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So we found out this week that the endgame to studios taking down all of the screenplay websites online was thay that they want to sell annotated scripts as ebooks filled with extras now. WB got the ball rolling this week with Inside the Script, offering annotated screenplay ebooks of classic films like Casablanca...
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For an unassuming Canadian film that the director Phillipe Falardeau probably never expected to gain much traction, this is something: two five star reviews from this paper. The first came two weeks ago, by John Thomason, when it played the Florida Film Festival. I also did one but was hesitant to give it five...
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A bit of a late catch for today’s two screenings, since one is in the middle and another is coming up in a little under 3 hours, but if you’re a keeping a checklist of Oscar winning films or just like silent film on the big screen, the first ever Oscar winner, William Wellman’s...
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Easy Rider, one of the key films to the lunatics (literally in this case) taking over the Hollywood asylum, plays for free this week at Enzian’s Wednesday Night Pitcher Show, with a special theme brew on tap from Terrapin Beer. Looks like a scorcher for Orlando tomorrow, but should dip down to around 70...
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CinemaCon, the yearly convention for film exhibitors and studios to get together and tease us with clips we can’t see and blindside us with awful news, was held this week in Las Vegas and, well, some of the news coming out of it was a bit distressing for fans of traditional film. Film is...
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If love is irrational and makes us stupid, then love’s most irrational, most stupid form is first love, before we know any better. In High Fidelity, Rob Gordon (John Cusak) concludes that every romantic episode in his life has been a scrambled version of his first unsatisfying tryst, and retraces his steps to find...
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