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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Clint Eastwood, what the fuck? I still love him, but what the fuck? News, links, etc: -The Guardian lists their 23 top directors in the world… and it’s one of the worst fucking lists I’ve ever seen in my life. The “world” is basically America, France and Britain. It’s so bad I don’t even...
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Okay, deep breath now. The movie news marathon that is 65th edition of the Festival de Cannes begins on Wednesday night with a screening of Wes Anderson’s highly anticipated Moonrise Kingdom (which opens here at the Enzian on 6/22). On Thursday morning it’s basically non-stop insanity until the following Sunday when the final films...
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I think I mentioned in the Roundup a few months ago that the Korean Film Archive was working on putting an extensive set of films onto YouTube for free. Last week they finally launched their channel and have 70 films online so far, all with English subtitles. Skimming through a few of the titles,...
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Happy Earth Day. We can still get a few more in before we successfully kill the Earth off I think. Unrelated, the Florida Film Festival comes to a close tonight. This edition has been deemed a success, with films like Renee, Eye of the Hurricane, Turn Me On Dammit, and Monsieur Lazhar are getting...
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For most news outlets, the big news stories of the week were Harry Potter shattering basically every screen record ever (while also being pretty damn good), who got snubbed and who was undeserving in the Emmy noms, and the News of the World hacking scandal. Boooooring. The Netflix price hike was the thing that got under...
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