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54 Microlog entries tagged with ‘movies’
Now and then: How film titles have evolved
The 1950s and ’60s are when things start getting awesome. But they’ve bland-ified in recent years, I feel. Sound & Screen ·
Horror’s Hallowed Grounds: Prince of Darkness
Revisiting the locations of John Carpenter’s unfairly maligned sci-fi/horror hybrid from the mid-1980s. Most are still as they were! Sound & Screen ·
Cin-O-Matic
For keeping track of upcoming cinema and disc/download releases. US-centric, but that shouldn’t matter too much. Sound & Screen ·
Wikipedia’s list of films considered the greatest ever
Tokyo Story is pretty fantastic, far better than Kane. See also: The AV Club’s best films of the ’00s. Sound & Screen ·
The 100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time
It goes without saying that this is Not Safe For Work. Sound & Screen ·
Inception and Gotham
I’m seeing Gotham everywhere now; it’s becoming the new Trajan. Perish the thought. Arts & Culture ·
Wikipedia entry on Neon magazine
Remembering the late, lamented Neon – the original version, that is. One of the best film magazines ever. Posting this here as inspiration for a new project I’m kicking about in my head. Arts & Culture ·
Teal and Orange - Hollywood, Please Stop the Madness
I knew something was off, and now I know why. Sound & Screen ·
New trailer for Cloverfield
So it looks like that’s what it’s officially called now, Cloverfield. Hmm. In any case, it’s shaping up to be a mindlessly fun yet vaguely thoughtful disaster spectacle, and it’ll be out in just two months’ time. Which is nice. Sound & Screen ·
The AV Club interviews documentarian Errol Morris
It might be more than a year old, but it’s still worth posting; I always find the background workings and politics of film production a fascinating read. Sound & Screen ·
The Top 50 Movie Endings of All Time
I love movie spoilers, me [c/o kottke.org]. Sound & Screen ·
Primer timeline
I think I get it now. Or maybe not. Sound & Screen ·
Great Barbelith thread on scary (as distinct from horror) movies
I posted my own choices, then promptly forgot about it for a month — and look what it turned into! A great community they/we’ve got there/here. Sound & Screen ·
How Pink Got So Violent: A guide to Japanese female exploitation films of the ’70s on DVD
Another grindhouse sub-genre gets the reissue treatment — and some socio-cultural context [c/o MetaFilter]. Sound & Screen ·
Movie Genre Primers
If you don’t know your Dogme from your Troma, this is the place for you [c/o kottke.org]. Sound & Screen ·
Talk isn’t cheap
A witty introduction to the world of the voiceover artist. Sound & Screen ·
Jack Black’s Nacho Libre Confessional
Five words: Jack Black as a luchadore. That’s about as high-concept as it gets, ladies and gentlemen. Sound & Screen ·
The Internet Movie Script Database
Filing this for future reference. Sound & Screen ·
Top 10 Reasons Why King Kong Was A Disappointment
I wasn’t blown away either, but not for any of these reasons [c/o Projectionist]. Sound & Screen ·
I find your lack of faith disturbing
The weblog of Josh Friedman, screenwriter. If this doesn’t turn into a book, I’ll eat my left shoe. Sound & Screen ·
The story of Superman V
If you thought Hollywood producers were morons before, just wait till you read this. Sound & Screen ·
The Onion A.V. Club interviews George Carlin and John Carpenter
I’m posting these together, because they look a lot alike. Don’t they? Hmm. Maybe it’s just me. Sound & Screen ·
Hong Kong movie pirate sentenced
What’s worse than this guy going to jail is knowing the movies he went to jail for. Sound & Screen ·
Blue Velvet, analysed frame-by-frame [c/o del.icio.us/kfan]
Check in again in a couple of years when it gets to the scary parts. Sound & Screen ·
In Memoriam: Joe Ranft of Pixar
He was the voice of Heimlich in A Bug’s Life. I loved Heimlich! Sound & Screen ·
Ernest Lehman, Hollywood screenwriter, 1915-2005
As a tribute, here’s Lehman’s working script for a true noir classic, The Sweet Smell of Success (c/o MetaFilter). Sound & Screen ·
Michael Chabon on his attempt to get the scriptwriting gig for Fantastic Four
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If our favorite movies and TV shows are so easy to find, will we still enjoy watching them? [c/o kottke.org]
Some? Definitley. Others? Not so much. Sound & Screen ·
TransFormers finally rolling out
I linked to this two years ago, but now it’s finally happening. Pity we’ve got to wait another two years before we see it. Sound & Screen ·
40 Things That Only Happen in Movies
I’m sure there are a few more. Sound & Screen ·
Salon interviews Bruce Campbell
Some more Brucey love for you. Sound & Screen ·
“As far as Evil Dead (yawn) 4. Sam Raimi is too busy making wheel-barrels of money right now.” [c/o del.icio.us/kfan]
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A 7-year-old questions the continuity of the Star Wars series [c/o plasticbag.org]
Did a better job than me, too. Sound & Screen ·
Somebody out there really hates George Lucas [c/o kottke.org]
Whoa, don’t hold back there, mister. Sound & Screen ·
American cinema chain to advertise ‘actual’ start times
Isn’t this article a bit pointless? I don’t see what the big deal is. When I worked for UCI it wasn’t any secret that the features started 15 minutes after the billed time (that was standard; we had it on our schedules so we’d be ready for cleaning the theatres). All that ‘busy moviegoers’ stuff is crap, anyway: if you’re so bloody busy, why are you going to the fucking movies?? And besides, hasn’t anyone thought that giving an earlier time means stragglers won’t interrupt the start of the movie so much? Didn’t think so. Sound & Screen ·
Roger Ebert’s tribute to the late Russ Meyer
No introduction necessary. Sound & Screen ·
Miyazaki’s Porco Rosso is out now on DVD
Back in the mid-’90s I used to read a magazine called Super Play. If you don’t know it, it was an unofficial magazine for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System; for those who do, I’m sure you remember it fondly. You see, what was different and special about Super Play was its focus on ‘grey market’ Japanese import games, which went hand in hand with regular reports on other facets of Japanese pop culture like manga and anime — those alluring alien ideas that made each issue compulsive reading for me. I was never a big gamer, but the likes of Super Play, and the irreplaceable Digitiser on Teletext, made me feel like a part of the greater gaming world, appreciating my interest regardless of my lack of skill (and boy, was my skill lacking!) and neither was afraid to step away from the console for a while. It was in Super Play that I first read about Porco Rosso, in a context where it wasn’t too weird to discuss a cartoon about a pig flying a warplane. I still miss Super Play. Sound & Screen ·
Kill Bill Vol. 1 — in ASCII [c/o Boing Boing]
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“Filmmaker Sam Raimi is in talks with New Line Cinema about loaning the studio the zombie slayer from his Evil Dead movies to costar in a three-way, big-screen bout, Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash.” [c/o del.icio.us/kfan]
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The Donnie Darko website, step-by-step
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Everything you were afraid to ask about “Donnie Darko” [c/o del.icio.us/merlinmann]
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Evil Dead: The Musical
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Cinema 24: “This blog is intended to chronicle the process of developing, financing, starting, and maintaining a small, independently-owned, art-house theater.”
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David Carradine on David Carradine: “I’m not a rebel. I’m just an iconoclast.”
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Amid layoffs and slipping sales, film companies are struggling to keep the ailing industry alive
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A quasi-review of The Return of the King that misses the point entirely
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Keiko the ‘Free Willy’ whale dies
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Not-bad Guardian piece on the Irish government’s plans to abolish tax breaks for filmmakers (though I’ve never come across the term ‘Shamrock Hollywood’ before)
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The Matrix: Reheated [c/o Antipixel]
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Sledge Hammer: The Movie?
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Curse of the Commentary Tracks of the Damned!!!
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“I feel sexy when I feel really wild. I feel sexy when I’m sweaty and hot in the middle of the jungle, or in the middle of the desert.” (I’m sure you do Angelina, I’m sure you do) [c/o highindustrial.]
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TransFormers rolling out in live-action movie [c/o highindustrial.]
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Guardian Quiz: How well do you know Japanese cinema? (I scored 7/10; not bad for an amateur)
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