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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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Let’s Spend the Night Together – Hal Ashby (1982) By the time the Stones launched their Tattoo You stadium tour of America in 1981, the first tour of its kind, Hal Ashby, the New Hollywood director who was as legend for his drug intake as he was for films like Harold and Maude and Shampoo, was...
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Film. Digital. Once, locked in a bitter war and advertised as “film versus digital”, the scrap is barely a fight anymore. Though film keeps hanging on, keeps holding onto devotes, like For Ellen (VOD on 9/19) director of photography Reed Morano, the digital revolution seems cemented in victory at the moment. This “film”, in fact,...
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Instead of a preamble this week, I offer a plea: SUPPORT THIS GUY! Former Creative Screenwriting editor Jeff Goldsmith has a new project out, the bi-monthly iPad screenwriting magazine, Backstory. The first issue, containing full screenplays by Richard Kelly and Rex Pickett, is free. Single issues are $4.99 and yearly subs are $24.99. I...
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Pretty good weekend all around for movegoers. Ted and Magic Mike both cleaned up at the box office with entirely different demographics, and Moonrise Kingdom kicked enough ass at the Enzian to be held over. See it before its too late, seriously, and before the summer starts. The Amazing Spider-man begins its midnight screenings Monday night as...
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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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A little bit of a late start this morning, as I wait for the Palme d’Or to be announced. Cannes has become a weird entity lately, as Twitter and blogging have become so prevalent. You feel like you were there, experiencing it, hearing the gossip and the stories about the rain and the green grocers....
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So, unless you’ve been living under a rock this week you probably already know that the Florida Film Festival is underway. It is, I believe, the biggest edition of the festival yet, and the handful of films I’ve seen while we were going through our reviews were all good. My picks for can’t-miss of...
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The Artist will win this award tomorrow night. Some people will be happy, some people will be livid. Most people will shrug because they haven’t seen it. I will probably shrug even though I have seen it. I liked it as a film. It was fun and whimsical and, most importantly for a gimmick film,...
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Uh… hey. It’s Saturday afternoon. And I’ll admit it, I completely forgot this was due. My  dog ate my homework. Then it was spat out, into a puddle. A puddle of slobber from the mouth of a poodle. A poodle puddle. What was I supposed to do?!?! BEST DIRECTOR: Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) Alexander...
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