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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Harold Lloyd: The Other, Other Guy (TCM Marathon Tonight)
Urban ReThink hosts screening of Miss Representation documentary
However, be ready for this powerful film, winner of Outstanding Documentary at the 2012 Gracie Allen Awards, to also surprise, inspire and educate about the misrepresentations of women in the media and how they affect the role of women in positions of power and influence.
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For Reels Sunday Roundup — May 19th, 2013
This week: Cannes, More PR Nonsense from Netflix, Jax and Clay Together Again Bro, and Paris Hilton Cries Delicious Tears.
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Short Film Friday — Leos Carax, Blue Balls and Looking for Love in all the Wrong Intersections
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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For Reels Sunday Roundup — May 12th, 2013
Happy Mother's Day! The Roundup Turns Two Years Old! DISNEY WTF?!
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Five other cultures Disney should try to trademark next
The Big Brains at Disney and Pixar Animation HQ tried recently to trademark the term “Dia de los Muertos” – Day of the Dead – so they could co-opt it for marketing an upcoming Pixar film about the Day of the Dead celebrations. We’re sure it’ll be a completely adorable rendition of the traditional...
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Film Review: From Up on Poppy Hill – Goro Miyazaki (3 stars)
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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Short Film Friday – After School Sex and a Living Nightmare
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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Danny Boyle’s Needless Worry
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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Sunday Film News Roundup — May 5th, 2013
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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