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Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun

2008-09-06 15:52:00 by The Sly Fox in The Sly Fox Film Reviews
 
...Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening September 12, 2008 BIG BUDGET FILMS Burn after Reading (R for sexuality, violence and pervasive profanity) Coen Brothers crime caper about a personal trainer (Brad Pitt) and a gym owner (Frances McDormand) who try to blackmail the CIA Agent (John Malkovich) whose computer disk they find. Ensemble...
 
Tags: profanity, pervasive profanity, family, incestuous family secrets, kam, black upperclassman, black, cast includes annette, drama teacher
 
 
 
 
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Metropolis: A Film Far Ahead of its Time

2007-12-20 11:59:54 by Gautam in Broken Projector
 
...film made claiming that it would still apply to the present times of 100 years from now, I would point to the nearest copy of Metropolis and say it has already been done Metropolis was the worlds first ever science fiction film; It was made in 1927 by master German filmmaker Fritz Lang. The gigantic silent film ran at a full length of 3 and...
 
Tags: film, metropolis, workers move, workers, science fiction film, gigantic silent film, workers labour, workers city, conversation freder throws
 
 
 
 
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Film Festival Frenzy

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2007-11-09 23:22:00 by Brian in Hell on Frisco Bay
...film festivals. But this November is the busiest month for them in my memory. It's enough to make a body want to throw up its hands and stay away from even thinking about them all. Which, given the quietness here at Hell On Frisco Bay, may appear to be just what I've done. It's not true though. I have other excuses. But for now, let me just...
 
Tags: film, hollywood silent film, silent film festival, film screenings, frisco bay, frisco, war film, film genghis khan, french film
 
 
 
 
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Adam Hartzell's Silent Film Festival Preview

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2007-07-13 00:40:00 by Brian in Hell on Frisco Bay
...Film Festival opens tonight with Ernst Lubitsch's MGM extravaganza starring Norma Shearer and Ramon Novarro, the Student Prince in Old Heidelberg , with other films like Camille and the Godless Girl playing throughout the weekend. I've already mentioned here that I had the privilege of being part of the festival's research committee this...
 
Tags: film, silent film festival, silent film, film stocks, festival, british film, miss lulu bett, miss, silent films
 
 
 
 
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Slow Film Festival

2007-07-28 13:48:00 by HarryTuttle in Unspoken Cinema
 
...Film-Philosophy salon ( newsletter , subscription required), Alan Fair from the UK suggested a slow film festival which relates pretty well with the topic of our blog Hi all I wonder sometimes if Sokurov is trying this single shot in revolt against the fragmentation of time and space implicit in what Bordwell has called, if I remember...
 
Tags: slow film festival, slow film, film festival, film, film discourse, slow, dialogue film festival, call slow cinema, slow cinema
 
 
 
 
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Short Film Week, Day 5: Four short films

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2007-12-06 23:58:00 by Ed Howard in Only The Cinema
...Film blog-a-thon being hosted right here at Only The Cinema , in association with Culture Snob Georges Franju's first film, Blood of the Beasts , is a documentary set in a pair of Paris slaughterhouses and their surrounding neighborhoods, contrasting the traditional poetic, romanticized depiction of Paris against the casually administered...
 
Tags: film, documentary film, film delves, film remains, short film blog-a-thon, energetic film, film reflects, film gathers, document warhol
 
 
 
 
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Short Film Week, Day 6: Six Chuck Jones Cartoons

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2007-12-07 18:25:00 by Ed Howard in Only The Cinema
...Film blog-a-thon being hosted right here at Only The Cinema , in association with Culture Snob Tonight, I was inspired by Matt Zoller Seitz's great review of Chuck Jones' classic cartoon What's Opera, Doc? , to make my own night a miniature Looney Tunes extravaganza, revisiting some favorite Jones shorts and a few that are new to me. As for...
 
Tags: jones, short, short takes, short takes advantage, film, cartoons, possibly jones, jones cartoons, jones accomplishes
 
 
 
 
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Short Film Week, Day 1: Five short films

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2007-12-02 23:36:00 by Ed Howard in Only The Cinema
...Film blog-a-thon being hosted right here at Only The Cinema , in association with Culture Snob Todd Haynes' first film was the controversial Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story , his mock-documentary account of the Carpenters lead singer's rise to stardom, battles with anorexia, and untimely death, with reenactments performed by a cast of...
 
Tags: short film, film, short film blog-a-thon, film consists, film condenses, film moves, original film, white soviet film, film aficionado
 
 
 
 
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Short Film Week, Day 3: Three short films by Hiroshi Teshigahara

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2007-12-04 18:23:00 by Ed Howard in Only The Cinema
...Film blog-a-thon being hosted right here at Only The Cinema , in association with Culture Snob For my third blog-a-thon entry, I decided to spend the night with some short films by a favorite director, Hiroshi Teshigahara. His first film, Hokusai , focuses on the 18th and 19th Century Japanese painter Katsushika Hokusai, with the bulk of the...
 
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Short Film Week, Day 4: Haynes, Melville, Saul Levine

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