Between a lack of interesting non-Cloud Atlas yellow face stories and the giant megastorm lumbering its way slowly over the entire Eastern United states, the roundup is somewhat slight this week. Because of that, I’ll take this time to really encourage you guys to watch the three short films I’ve posted below. If you...
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Tags: Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, All the President's Men, Ashton Kutcher, Bacheloette, Ben Lee, Benjamin Millepied, Catch My Disease, Claire Danes, Cloud Atlas, Dreamworks, Enrico Casarosa, His Girl Friday, Ione Skye, Italo Calvino, Jesse Schmal, John Hawks, La Luna, Midnight in Paris, Naran Ja, PDI, Pixar, Shulamit Serafy, Stacy Peralta, Super Mario Bros, The Bone Brigade, The Distance of the Moon, The Loneliest Planet, The Sessions, Tom Tykwer, Tony Hawk, Wachowskis, Walter Sobchak, William Faulkner, Woody Allen, Wreck-It-Ralph, Zooey Deschanel
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There were two really awful stories in the news this week and neither one of them had anything to do with Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close getting a Best Picture nomination. 1) Bingham Ray died. 2) Theo Angelopoulos died. What the fuck? Bingham Ray’s name might not be as familiar as Angelopoulos’ name, but...
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Tags: 2 Days in NY, Aki Kaurismäki, American Ninja Warrior, Antony Hopkins, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Bingham Ray, Catherine Keener, Charlie Kaufman's Frank or Francis, Claire Danes, Compliance, Eternity and a Day, Gina Carano, Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Haywire, Jason Segel, john hawkes, Julie Delpy, Kate Winslet, Kim Dotcom, Le Havre, Megaupload, Mount Midoriyama, Ninja Warrior, October Films, Pee-Wee Herman, Sam Neil, Sasuka, Sundance, The Hunter, The Surrogate, Theo Angelopoulos, Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, Willem Defoe
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So, yeah, the week was mostly dominated by the death of Apple co-founder and Pixar Studios godfather Steve Jobs. And rightly so. As Bill Maher pointed out on his show on Friday, in this ridiculously divisive world where everyone hates everyone, Jobs was one of the few people liked by both the Left and...
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Tags: Abigail Breslin, Being Elmo, Charlie Kaufman, Charlotte Gainsbourg's boobs, Claire Danes, darren aronofsky, Diablo Cody, Edgar Allan Poe, Emma Watson, Homeland, Janie Jones, Jason Reitman, John Cusack, Katherine Heigl, kirsten dunst, Lars von Trier, Maurice Sendak, Melancholia, michelle williams, Miranda July, Moneyball, My So-Called Life, My Week With Marilyn, Noah, Oktoberfest, Pixar, Primer, Steve Jobs, Steven Spielberg, The Hurt Locker, The Other F Word, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Raven, Tintin, Walter Isaacson, War Horse, Young Adult
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Before it came out in 2005, Shopgirl was poised to be a hit. It starred three name brand actors in Claire Danes, Jason Schwartzman and Steve Martin (who also wrote it), and seemed to have the right pedigree of being based on Martin’s successful novella of the same title. The trailers and stills had...
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Tags: A Simple Twist of Fate, Anand Tucker, Claire Danes, Jason Schwartzman, Saks Fifth Avenue, Shopgirl, Steve Martin, Underrated
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