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Category Archives: Film
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
While in NYC yesterday, my girlfriend and I popped into Bonham’s for a preview of movie memorabilia that was auctioned off today. I mainly wanted to see the auction’s highlight: the Maltese Falcon, but it was at CNN studios that … Continue reading
Spinal Tap – Gimme Some Money (1984)
I’ve been on a Spinal Tap kick lately. I’d forgotten how good their music (all original compositions by the comedians) was. Here’s “early” Tap, with David St. Hubbins doing his best Jagger impression:
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
I’m a big fan of Wes Anderson, so I’m really looking forward to The Grand Budapest Hotel, slated for release on March 7, 2014. Ralph Fiennes, Adrien Brody, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Harvey Keitel… In this … Continue reading
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The Counselor & The Jeweler
While the movie The Counselor is getting clobbered, Cormac McCarthy’s full unadulterated screenplay has been published. Thomas Flynn looks at some of the scripts lengthier scenes which didn’t make it into the movie, or that were truncated on-screen. When the … Continue reading
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Parody of Wes Anderson’s Movies
On a lighter note, here’s a pretty good SNL parody of Wes Anderson movies, featuring Edward Norton as Owen Wilson.
How Wes Anderson Made The Royal Tenenbaums
In “How Wes Anderson Made The Royal Tenenbaums”, an excerpt from a new coffee table book on his films, Wes Anderson discusses his influences in making the film, as well as how key scenes were shot.
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Stranger in a WASP Land
Steve Sailer channels his inner Kevin MacDonald in this insightful analysis of The Graduate (1967): Nichols likes to claim that he hadn’t realized what The Graduate was actually about until he saw it parodied in a juvenile humor magazine in … Continue reading
NecronomiCon
NecronomiCon, a 3-day celebration of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, is taking place this week in Providence, RI, the city Lovecraft was born and died in. From a WaPo article on NecronomiCon: [Lovecraft] was steeped in the past and suspicious of … Continue reading
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The Butler
The Butler is but the latest in Hollywood’s insatiable appetite for magic negro movies. From just the trailers, you can pretty much discern the whole screenplay. So predictable. So hilarious in its moral pretentiousness. Hence, I had to crack up … Continue reading
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