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Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

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2008-09-06 19:00:00 by NATHANIEL R in Film Experience Blog
...movies based on plays are notoriously nervous about appearing "stagy". Little Shop of Horrors mostly avoids this awkwardness and seems delighted to be an odd hybrid of both traditions. The movie version never tries to present reality. The sets come with painted backdrops; pouring rain never once douses the trio of narrators (doo wop girls as...
 
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Golden Lions in the Ring

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2008-09-06 17:40:00 by NATHANIEL R in Film Experience Blog
Could The Wrestler , the new unexpected Darren Aronofsky movie starring Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei have Oscar in its future? It just won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival which is big news indeed . Mickey Rourke is the kind of storied celebrity that could keep the press humming and you need the press for real Oscar runs. As for...
 
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There is Nothing Like a Dame

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2008-09-06 12:05:00 by NATHANIEL R in Film Experience Blog
My street cred is gone Dame Helen Mirren on receiving the honor Dame Maggie Smith. Dame Judi Dench. Dame Agatha Christie. Dame Helen Mirren. Dame Peggy Ashcroft. Dame Eileen Atkins. Dame May Whitty. Dame Edna. Dame Shirley Bassey. Dame Julie Andrews. Dame Gladys Cooper. Dame Edith Evans. Dame Vivienne Westwood. Or Dame Elizabeth Taylor It's...
 
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Stop Making Link

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2008-09-06 09:20:00 by NATHANIEL R in Film Experience Blog
In Contention revisits Chris Nolan's first film Following . With audio Q & A popbytes has been going for 5 years strong today. Congratulations MK Hot Blog David Poland loves Rachel Getting Married . Calls Demme's artistic comeback "a minor masterpiece NewNowNext Alan Ball and the HBO's vampire series True Blood The Big Picture looks at Me and...
 
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"I've got plenty of joy in my life!"

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2008-09-05 21:05:00 by NATHANIEL R in Film Experience Blog
Women Who Lie To Themselves. (circa 1999
 
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Friday's... Pointless Hitchcock Trivia

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2008-09-05 17:55:00 by JA in Film Experience Blog
JA from MNPP here, with a bit of useless knowledge straight from the dregs of IMDb to entertain your computer-less friends with. This is specifically in reference to Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 classic Strangers on a Train , which I gave the murdering-once-over back home at my blog yesterday Did You Know! That when our villain Bruno Anthony, so...
 
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Puny Movies. Streep Smash!

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2008-09-05 08:13:00 by NATHANIEL R in Film Experience Blog
...movies. Pay no attention to those many films behind the curtain (of your short term memory Films that should have been bigger hits A Girl Cut in Two (France) $95,000 in the states / $7.6 million abroad I think it would be fascinating if, for just one year, we who weren't present for the American craze for the foreign film (60s and 70s) could...
 
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Rachel Getting Postered

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2008-09-04 16:20:00 by NATHANIEL R in Film Experience Blog
Let's hope that she's more memorable in motion than in still advertisements. Ho hum I'd be very excited about that "awards calibre" blurb but for that it comes from the keyboard of Peter B.W.* Travers who, if you take his words literally, would like all Oscar categories expanded to include about 50 nominees each year. At least. So free with...
 
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Vampires x 4

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2008-09-04 12:30:00 by NATHANIEL R in Film Experience Blog
Flipping channels in my hotel room it occurred to me that I had HBO and that I could watch True Blood . Sadly, it hasn't yet debuted at this writing. It's been too long since something vampiric caught my eye. I love the bloodsuckers as you know . Herewith, four favorite neck biting things 1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is so easily my all time...
 
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Flashback: Cher Feels Pretty ... Oh So Pretty

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2008-09-04 07:40:00 by NATHANIEL R in Film Experience Blog
 
The Muppet Show moment I had two days back got me thinking about variety shows and their absence from pop culture. The closest thing we've got these days is Saturday Night Live and its copycats (all long past their prime) and maybe shows like 30 Rock or Pushing Daisies (and Ally McBeal before them) that mix surreal out-of-nowhere touches into...
 
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