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Poll: Do You Watch the Closing Credits?

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2008-03-18 00:00:00 by Peter Martin in Cinematical
Filed under: Exhibition , Polls Los Angeles-based writer Ellen Alperstein, blogging at LA Observed , digs into the reasons why Angelenos tend to watch the closing credits: "When my out-of-state visitors go to the movies here, they often comment on the locals' habit of sitting all the way through the final credits before getting up to leave." In...
 
 
 
 
 
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Closing Bell, Market Summary: 12/17/2008

2008-12-17 18:48:00 by buyallgifts in Bollywood Movie News
 
12/17/2008 Dows 8,824.34 down 99.80 (1.12%), Nasdaq 1,579.31 down 10.58 (0.67%), S&P 500 904.42 down 8.76 (0.96 The market started the day off in negative territory and by the afternoon managed to gain the loss back and turn positive with the help of materials, energy and consumer-related stocks but the market could not hold on to the gains and...
 
 
 
 
 
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What's Your Favorite Bookstore?

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2009-01-09 00:47:40 by John in SF Signal
It was recently announced that Stacey's Bookstore , the oldest continually-operating bookstore in San Francisco, will be closing its doors in March after 85 years. Many people came forth to discuss how much they loved the store...which leads to me asking Q: What's your favorite bookstore For me, I would have to say Half Price Books, a used...
 
 
 
 
 
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2009 - State of the Vault Address.

2009-01-09 12:56:00 by The Vault Master in The B-Movie Film Vault BLOG!
 
Happy (Belated) New Year b-movie fans! My sincerest apologies for being reclusive lately; I had a ton of stuff planned for the site this past Christmas and New Year's Eve, but things didn't quite pan out, mainly because of that computer virus fiasco that I experienced. (See previous posts for more info on that But now is a new year and as...
 
 
 
 
 
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Credit Where End Credit's Due

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2008-02-25 16:00:00 by Jonathan Lapper in Cinema Styles
The winner of the 2007 Oscar for Best Song went to Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova for Falling Slowly from the film Once. It's perfectly integrated into the film and marks the first moment in the film for the characters where a palpable emotional connection is made between the two characters. As it should be for a Best Song winner it is truly a...
 
 
 
 
 
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Whats the greatest final shot of a feature film?

2008-04-24 19:13:03 by Jeffrey Overstreet in
 
At Arts and Faith, Buckeye Jones asked a distracting question today Whats your all-time favorite closing shot of a movie Here are a few of mine Ill add to this list as they come to mind, but here is the initial rush of closing shots that played like a YouTube montage in my head Raiders of the Lost Ark : The warehouse. Probably my favorite...
 
 
 
 
 
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RIP Huron Marketplace

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2008-08-28 03:45:00 by WesternFilm in Western Film
A co-worker informed me today that the weekly Cineplex e-mail included mention that the Huron Marketplace theatres would be closed as of Sep 2. I don't think anyone will be surprised. That theatre has been in decline for a while. When it was first built it was state of the art and even had two concession stands, one of which is all walled in...
 
 
 
 
 
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SILENT LIGHTTwo Evening Class Questions for Carlos Reygadas

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2007-12-14 10:35:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
Along with the singular pleasure of sharing dim sum with Carlos Reygadas was the added pleasure of reading reactions to Silent Light my favorite film from the 2007 Toronto International Film Festivalfrom two of my favorite Bay Area film writers. SF360 's Max Goldberg explores the film's "stacked spirituality" and draws the line against "churlish...
 
 
 
 
 
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Faith & Suffering in Shadowlands

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2007-11-08 16:09:00 by Damian in Windmills of My Mind
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief Suffering is a part of life. At some point in our time spent on this...
 
 
 
 
 
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Kurosaw-a-Thon November 2007!!!