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Class Acts Awards

2007-12-31 21:06:27 by Editor in CinemaDave
 
The following individuals were extremely nice and supportive when being interviewed. These Class Acts were Sergio Sanchez Juan Antonio B Cindy Morgan Malcolm McDowell Robert Davi
 
 
 
 
 
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Tell me a story, Act II: Acts

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2008-07-10 19:28:57 by Editor in scanners
...acts" we're accustomed to thinking about. She was inspired by the Society for the Cognitive Study of the Moving Image conference in June at the University of Wisconsin in Madison -- and, boy, does that ever sound like something that would be up my street. (Also: See my post " Tell me a story... or don't Kristin writes
 
 
 
 
 
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Weinsteins Update: Death Defying Acts Opens in Two Theaters

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2008-07-11 09:52:45 by Variety.com * in Thompson On Hollywood
...Acts, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Guy Pearce, which grabbed 60 % fresh reviews on Rotten Tomatoes (here's the LAT review ), give no sign that it's a Weinstein Co. release. Truth is, the company bought the film at the 2007 AFM off a product reel for $5 million, and is dumping it in two theaters in New York and L.A. en route to homevideo....
 
 
 
 
 
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AUGUST FOYEURISM: RANDOM ACTS OF FOYNESS

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2008-08-04 05:57:00 by Editor in B-MOVIE NEWS, REVIEWS, AND OTHER ASSORTED WEIRDNESS FROM THE FOYWONDER
As I state in the opening preamble of this month's Foyeurism, I'm in the process of moving and kind of had to slap together a Foyeurism at the last minute since I ran out of time finishing up the one I originally had in mind. Instead this month I'll review THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR (you might be surprised by how much I didn't hate...
 
 
 
 
 
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A word or two in defense of the "Traitor"

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2008-09-06 09:58:00 by Reel Fanatic in Reel Fanatic
...acts of a devoted terrorist (I would say "jihadist," but to be honest, I'm not entirely sure what that means.) We never learn too much about Brown's background or how exactly he reached this point, just that he's a devout Muslim So, in lesser hands this movie and character would have been yet another noble failure on this subject, but trust...
 
 
 
 
 
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Mister Foe

2008-09-06 15:54:00 by The Sly Fox in The Sly Fox Film Reviews
 
...Acts Out in Dysfunctional Family Drama 17 year-old Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) hasnt been the same since his mother was found floating in a loch on the familys sprawling estate. While her official cause of death was deemed suicide by sleeping pills, Hallam has good reason to suspect otherwise. After all, it was only a matter of months before his...
 
 
 
 
 
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Movie round-up continues...

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2007-12-26 17:43:00 by Sachin G. in Scribbles and Ramblings
...acts. But what was the truth? Who lit the train on fire? I didn't gather much from the news as the investigation was very biased and muddy. Then I luckily came across Rakesh Sharma's eye-opening 4 hour documentary Final Solution in 2004. I had to watch the film in 3 sittings as the documentary was not an easy watch -- the film slowly peeled...
 
 
 
 
 
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Contemplating Babel in many tongues and voices

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2007-01-17 10:25:00 by adrian chan in Reviews and analysis of significant films and movies, on dvd and in theaters
...acts of senseless violence, beauty, or both. Crash , too, and Hustle and Flow , not to mention Capote, each used this theme. So, too, have Michael Haneke's films (though not always involving gun barrels and bullets); the Dardenne brothers , Gus Van Sant's Elephant , and countless other films which, for the past ten or fifteen years, have...
 
 
 
 
 
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FilmFanatix Review: "Crawl Space"

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2007-12-23 19:30:00 by Tony DeFrancisco in Hardcore Film Maniac Reviews and News
...acts the way that its marketed a low budget short horror flick that is wonderfully acted. The flashback begins and it annoys every little bone in my body. If you are going to market a film, market it CORRECTLY. It becomes outrageously stupid to the point that it actually becomes annoying. Why market a film as a horror film when it becomes a...
 
 
 
 
 
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HOLLYWOOD ASIAN: PHILIP AHN AND THE POLITICS OF CROSS-ETHNIC PERFORMANCEThe Evening Class Interview With Hye Seung Chung

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2008-06-10 13:31:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...Acts: Performance and Spectatorship" and the second "Oriental Genres, 1930s to 1950s What grabbed me right off was her position regarding shifting the critical anchoring of ethnic identity away fromas she has written"questions of representation (image as source of meaning) to those of performance (actor as enunciative agent) and Asian...