Throughout the day today, the Los Angeles Film Critic Circle is announcing their year end winners on their Twitter account (Dwight Henry for Best Supporting Actor for Beasts of the Southern Wild was the right call, so they’re 1 for 1 so far), as are the Boston Society of Film Critics on their Twitter account....
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This week was all about Criterion’s beautifully done bluray edition of Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love for me. It is, as far as I can tell, flawless — just like the film itself. The picture is crystal clear without a spec of blocking, artifacting, halo or flutter. The one spot I thought...
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It was a pretty busy week, both in the world of film and the actual world. We finally saw a great speech from John Kerry, and a very great one from Bubba. “Mark Owens’” No Easy Day was released. The claim that the book isn’t political is kind of bullshit. The tail end of the...
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Since it began to air ten weeks ago, I’ve been trying hard to avoid all of the Twitter chatter about The Newsroom. The West Wing aside, Sorkin is a notoriously slow starter, and one of the (many) problems with Studio 60 was that both the viewers and the network had largely written it off...
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In case you either live under a rock or on the rock, Henry Hill, the real life Brooklyn mobster who was the model for Ray Liotta’s character in the film Goodfellas, died this week. People seem to be remembering him more for the later, but let’s not forget the former. He was a mobster...
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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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Over the last couple of years, kind of going back to the beginning of the early aughts, one or sometimes both of the two the screenplay categories has become almost the defacto “Best Arthouse Movie” award. When you look back to 2000, you’ll see the two big “indie” films of the year won, Traffic...
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“Now I have a machine gun. HO – HO – HO.” Wonderful words, aren’t they? They burst at the seams with a jolly, pudding stuffed Christmas spirit perfection. Thanksgiving is gone, finally, and so are all the leftovers. Christmas lights are beginning to go up, and next week so will the tree in Rockefeller Center. It’s...
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So I suppose it would be a three-way tie for “story of the week” this week. Depending on your level of interest, it was either Steve McQueen’s Shame getting an NC-17 rating (what a silly rating), Joss Whedon making a secret movie of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, or, unfortunately, Lindsay Lohan agreeing to...
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Another week, another comic book movie. This time it was Green Lantern’s turn, and things did not go as for old GL as they did for Thor, which is probably why you don’t want to put all of your summer dollar eggs into one basket, which you then give to Ryan Reynolds for safe...
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