A trip back in time with four Harold Lloyd short subjects.
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Tags: Hal Roach, Harrold Lloyd, Short films, Silent Film
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Silent film star Harold Lloyd is often referred to as "The Third Genius" (behind Chaplin and Keaton -- or Keaton and Chaplin, depending), and you can explore than genius Turner Classic Movies' Harold Lloyd marathon tonight.
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Tags: Babe Ruth, Back to the Future, Criterion Collection, Goodfellas, Hal Roach, harold lloyd, Hugo, martin scorsese, Silent Films, TCM
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This week: Cannes, More PR Nonsense from Netflix, Jax and Clay Together Again Bro, and Paris Hilton Cries Delicious Tears.
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Tags: Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Dance of Reality, Alex Gibney, Alexander Payne, Alexey Balabnov, Angelina Jolie, Ari Folman's The COngress, Bradley Manning, Cannes, Catching Fire, Charlie Hunnam, Charlie Kaufman, Claire Denis, Coen Bros, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Cosmos, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Disney, Donnie Yen, Drew Struzan, Emma Watson, Europe Report, Ghost in the Shell, guillermo del toro, Inside Llewyn Davis, james franco, jean-pierre jeunet, jennifer lawrence, Jeremy Saulnier's Blue Ruin, Jerry Seinfeld, Jia Zhangeke's A Touch of Sin, julian assange, Justin Marks, Katniss Everdeen, Koreeda Hirokazu, Merida, michelle yeoh, Nation Treasure, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Netflix, Pacific Rim, Paris Hilton, Pedro Almodovar's I'm So Excited, Pixar's Brave, Ron Perlman, Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale Station, Sofia Coppola, The Bling Ring, The Catcher in the Rye, The Young and Prodigious Spivet, Toy Story, Un Certain Regard, Wikileaks, Yeun Wo Ping
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This week on Short Film Friday, Eliza Hittman's "Forever's Gonna Start Tonight", Benjamin Garst's "Intersection" and Leos Carax's "Naked Eyes".
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Tags: Brooklyn, Eliza Hittman, Leos Carax, Pixelsmyth, Short films
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Happy Mother's Day! The Roundup Turns Two Years Old! DISNEY WTF?!
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Tags: Adam Yauch, Alfonso, Andrew Bujalski's Computer Chess, August: Osage County, Beastie Boys, Beauty and the Beast, Big Hero 6, Cannes, Captain Philips, Christy Lemire, dia de los muertos, Disney, Disney Princesses, Ender's Game, greta gerwig, If These Knishes Could Talk, Kickstarter, Merida, Orson Welles, Oscilloscope Labs, Pixar's Brave, Sleeping Beauty, Star Wars, The Customized Play, Tom Hanks, Zero Dark Thirty, Zhang Yi Mou
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From Up on Poppy Hill, a high school melodrama set right before the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, is somewhat of a departure from the norm for Studio Ghibli. There are no flying pigs, wolf girls or floating cities. Instead, there is young love – and only young love. Umi and Shun (voiced by Sarah Bolger...
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Tags: From Up on Poppy Hill, Goro Miyazaki, Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli
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Love You More (NSFW) Dir: Sam Taylor-Wood Runtime: 15m I wrote about Sam Taylor-Wood in my blog this week about Danny Boyle’s needless worry about the future of (British) film, and this is specifically the film I was talking about with her. She turned some heads at Cannes with this one a few years...
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Tags: Buzzcocks, Key of E, Orlando Fringe, Sam Taylor-Wood, Short films
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In an interview with Vodkaster last week, Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle lamented the “family-friendly Pixarification” of the mainstream cinema, foreseeing a future cinema that that features less violence, less sex and less brainpower — films so very unlike the hardnosed British films of his punk rock youth. In the interview, he specifically cites the films...
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Tags: batman, British film, charlie chaplin, danny boyle, harry potter, Iron Man, Ken Loach's Kes, Kubrick, mickey mouse, Nicolas Roeg, Pixar, Star Wars
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Between offending Sarah Palin fans, the start of principal photography on House of Cards Season 2 and the supposed Great Purge of titles that hit this week, Netflix had an interesting week. Sarah Palin is not worth talking about — ever, and we know nothing about House of Cards yet. Streamaggedon, as it was called, is...
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Tags: Anette Benning, Badges of Fury, Disney, Emma Watson, Fast Six, Girl Most Likely, Harmony Korine, Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises, House of Cards, Jet Li, John Ford, John Williams, Kiki's Delivery Service, Kristin Wiig, Larry Clark's Kids, Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac, Mark Hamill, mickey mouse, Netflix, Oscars, Quentin Tarantino, Short films, Sofia Coppola, Star Wars, Studio Ghibli, Terrence Malick, The Bling Ring, The Hangover, The Tree of Life, Voyage of Time, Warner Archive Instant, William Friedkin
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Because, as I'm sure we're all accustomed to by now, there is a post-credits scene.
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Tags: avengers, Iron Man 3, Marvel, Thor
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