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Non-narrative film criticism

2007-12-19 22:33:00 by HarryTuttle in Unspoken Cinema
 
Obscure Objects of Desire: A Jam Session on Non-Narrative By Raymond Durgnat, David Ehrenstein and Jonathan Rosenbaum Film Comment, July-August 1978) available online at Light Sleeper Adrian Martin recommended me this roundtable organised by Jonathan Rosenbaum, 30 years ago, precisely on one of the theme I wanted to expand upon on this...
 
Tags: non-narrative, non-narrative structures, narrative, non-narrative reviews, movement entails narrative, narrative progression, movement, traditional mainstream narrative, film
 
 
 
 
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Cinematical Seven: Non-Holiday Movies to Watch on Christmas

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2007-12-25 00:00:00 by Christopher Campbell in Cinematical
Filed under: Animation , Classics , Comedy , Family Films , Cinematical Seven , Lists , 12 Days of Cinematicalmas , Religious Enough with the same old lists of favorite holiday movies! Every year, I see the same entries, probably because there hasn't been a good Christmas movie in years. At least here at Cinematical we shake things up a bit and...
 
Tags: favorite, favorite non-christmas movies, favorite holiday movies, favorite christmas horror, christmas, favorite christmas action, holiday, reinvent christmas, christmas story
 
 
 
 
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Were There Any Good, Non-Quirky, 80s Films?

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2008-02-01 05:07:00 by RC in Strange Culture
I keep track of every movie I've ever seen, keeping it in a list by year As I've develved further back and tried to develop my movie pallet, my 1980s list are simply depressing You see the problem is, that once I delve past favorites like The Breakfast Club and Back To The Future, I realize that I've yet to see many films that were released in...
 
Tags: films, 80s films, timeless films, 1980s films, 1980s, 1980s list, quirky, movie, movie pallet
 
 
 
 
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Non Canon Review: Black Christmas (1974)

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2007-12-18 21:23:00 by BC in Horror Movie A Day
DECEMBER 18, 2007 GENRE: HOLIDAY , SLASHER SOURCE: THEATRICAL (REVIVAL SCREENING)/ DVD (OWN COLLECTION Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Black Christmas , Horror Movie A Days first dual source movie As I was stuck at work, I missed the first 50 min or so of the films annual screening at the New Beverly. Of course, the two years before I missed it...
 
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Non Canon Review: Tremors

2007-12-09 22:53:00 by BC in Horror Movie A Day
 
DECEMBER 9, 2007 GENRE: COMEDIC , MONSTER SOURCE: THEATRICAL (REVIVAL SCREENING Screening along with American Werewolf was Tremors , one of my favorite movies (hence the "Non Canon" mark). I had never seen it theatrically, like 99.999% of the rest of the world (I was only 10. What the fuck was your excuse?!?!?), so even though I was tired and...
 
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Stallone, Willis, Ford: The Non-Aging Action Star

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2008-02-03 11:52:24 by Variety.com * in Thompson On Hollywood
Think Clint Eastwood. Getting older is OK, guys I suspect that boomer nostalgia plays a role in the phenom of the non-aging action star, which the NYT's Dave Kehr explores with his usual elegance and insight. At a Los Lobos concert at UCLA Friday night, I was amused to recognize the club of which I was clearly a member: the jaunty middle-aged...
 
Tags: action star, dave kehr explores, los lobos concert, boomer nostalgia plays, ucla friday night, clint eastwood, usual elegance, jeans, club
 
 
 
 
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Non Canon Review: Jaws 2

2008-02-03 09:55:00 by BC in Horror Movie A Day
 
FEBRUARY 3, 2008 GENRE: MONSTER SOURCE: THEATRICAL (REVIVAL SCREENING I debated whether or not to count Jaws 2 as my movie for the day. I had never seen the entire thing in one sitting, and some scenes Im sure I had never seen at all (the gala that Brody shows up late to, for example). But I have seen the last hour what seems like a dozen times....
 
Tags: jaws, shark swims thousands, shark, film, car chase movie, movie, slasher film, brody, shark kills
 
 
 
 
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18 Non-Fiction Essays by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers

2008-02-11 00:11:24 by Editor in SF Signal
 
Amazon has had these non-fiction essays available for a while now, but these 18 shorts just popped up in feeds. I didn't realize there were so many, and there are probably more...but for now, here's a list of 18 of them with their descriptions. They are available in full for fifty cents each from Amazon by Robert Silverberg. During my fifty...
 
Tags: fiction, science fiction, science-fiction genre, science fiction community, science, science-fiction writer, natural science, gregory benford, 21st century
 
 
 
 
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Moi non plus...

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2008-02-12 04:35:00 by Joe in Fin de cinema
CultEpics will be releasing Pierre Grimbalt's Slogan on DVD on 20 May. If you haven't heard of the film (as I hadn't), it's historical for being the film in which Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, who would produce a handful of children including Charlotte Gainsbourg and record the classic "Je t'aime, moi non plus" together, met and subsequently...
 
Tags: charlotte gainsbourg, gainsbourg, dvd news, film, dvd, serge gainsbourg, films, pierre grimbalt, xavier gens
 
 
 
 
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Non Canon Review: My Bloody Valentine (1981)

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2008-02-13 19:56:00 by BC in Horror Movie A Day
FEBRUARY 13, 2008 GENRE: HOLIDAY , SLASHER SOURCE: DVD (OWN COLLECTION Fuck you, Paramount. Fuck you in your mountains ass! The atrocity that is the Friday the 13th boxed set is nothing compared to the criminally weak treatment that My Bloody Valentine was given for its DVD release. I hope whoever decided they dont even need the trailer on this...