While millions of people saw Bond this weekend, I had an odd little experience of being in an almost empty theater on a Saturday while finally seeing Cloud Atlas. I usually like to see movies during the day to avoid big crowds, but I had figured, being a Saturday, it would be packed and...
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Tags: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Billy Mitchell, Bond, Bong Joon-ho, Brad Pitt, Cloud Atlas, Daniel Day Lewis, Disney's Wreck-It-Ralph, Episode VII, Fix-It-Felix, Flight, Hong Sang-soo, I, In Another Country, Isabelle Huppert, Jena Malone, Ken Burns, Lincoln, Little Miss Sunshine, Lucille Bliss, Medal of Honor: Warfighter, Michael Arndt, Moonrise Kingdom, ParaNorman, Skyfall, Smurfette, Snow Piercer, Star Wars, Steve Wiebe, The Central Park Five, The Impossible, The Origin of Creatures, The Painted Lady, The Wachowskis, Tom Tykwer, toy story 3, World War Z, Yu Jun-sang
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Wikipedia (and others)’s battle against SOPA and PIPA obviously dominated the news this week, with the user-submitted encyclopedia going dark for 24 to the whiny consternation of high school and college students nationwide. I mean, holy shit. You shouldn’t be using Wikipedia for homework. Just as big a news story, I think, was the...
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Tags: Andrew Stanton, Baz Luhrman, Bong Joon-ho, Bridesmaids II, Cannes, Chris Dodd, christian bale, copyright, George Lucas, james franco, Jeff Who Lives at Home, Judd Apatow's Family, Kevin Smith, Kodak, Lana Del Ray, michelle williams, Moguls, MPAA, Nanni Moretti, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Netflix, Oscars, PIPA, Pixar, Red Tails, Retire Marilyn Monroe Photoshoots, Richard Curtis, Slash, SOPA, Stanley Kubrick, Sundance, The City Dark, The Flowers of War, The Great Gatsby 3D, Wikipedia, Yann Tiersen, Zhang Yimou
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The slow demise of the film camera gets top billing this week. As it turns out, ARRI and Panavision stopped producing new film cameras quite a while ago in order to focus on digital. I feel like I’ve had my head in the sand about this, thinking it would never happen despite all available...
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Tags: 3D sucks, American Reunion, Angelica Huston, ARRI Alexa, Attenberg, Best Foreign Language Oscar, Bill Murray, Bong Joon-ho, Elizabeth Olsen, Enzian, Haruki Murakami, Iran Sucks, Jafar Panahi, james cameron, Lost in Austen, Madonna, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Martin Scorsese's Hugo, Marzieh Vafamehr, Norah Ephron, Norwegian Wood, Panavision Phantom, Shane Carruth, The Avengers, The Host, The Royal Tenenbaums, Titanic 3D, Tower Heist, Tran Ahn Hung, W.E., Wes Anderson
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