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Wednesday, IMDb linked to my " Eleven Worst Ambiguous Movie Endings " post, and the comments from readers unfamiliar with the way we do things 'round here have been hilarious and disturbing. To spare embarrassment for those who seem to have unconsciously gotten the point even if they ...
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When the editors of Publishers Weekly came out with their lists of the best books of 2009 , they divided them into several categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Mystery, Lifestyle (?), Comics, Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror, and so on. Out of 50,000 eligible titles, they chose 100 best ...
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Let us give thanks for Matt Zoller Seitz, who cooked up this luscious banquet -- entitled " Feast " -- for our delectation in this season of gustatory revelry. It is available on the Moving Image Source site in two flavors -- straight up and annotated. Matt writes:
Writer-director ...
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Paul Schrader
Kirby Ferguson of GoodieBag.tv (whom you may remember from " Trajan is the Movie Font ") has composed a spectacular image overture, "Hollywood vs. New York," which he describes as, "Four decades of celluloid New York annihilation distilled into one musical montage." Think of it as the ...
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Woody Allen
This film, " The Knife " by Mario Balducci,ยน was made for Nic Clear 's Unit 15 course, " Crash: Architectures of the Near Future " at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. It consists of four sections, involving re-imagined images from Hitchcock's "North by Northwest": The ...
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blogs.suntimes.com - 9 days ago
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Everybody hates it when they don't explain everything
that happened by the time the movie is over....
What we need at the end is not open-endedness but clarity, loose-end tying-up, closure. We need more movies like "Psycho" (unfortunately Simon ...
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Ten years after its release, there are still plenty of people who will not get David Fincher's "Fight Club" because they refuse to see what is in front of their eyes. They think it's about a cult of men who get together to punch each other, which is like saying "Citizen Kane" is about a ...
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The Ten
Faizon Love
Nobody has ever satisfactorily explained what is supposedly "ambiguous" about the ending of "No Country for Old Men," which has one of the most exquisitely judged denouements in movie history. (" A Serious Man ," too.) So, what is it, precisely, that some folks need explained or ...
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A Serious Man
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Stop by one of the most-loved movie blogs on the Intertubes and give Dennis your best! Several of us already have, as you can see when you get there...
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See more ("Up in the Air," "Little Miss Sunshine," "Madea Goes to Jail") at The Auteurs , where Adrian Curry writes:
Two of my favorite posters of recent years, those for "Margot at the Wedding" (2007) and "Funny Games" U.S. (2008) both used versions of Helvetica to great effect. ...
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Remember last Independence Day when the (then-)governor of Alaska posed for a (psychologically) revealing photo spread in Runner's World Magazine ? (Check out the whole photo spread>series .) I posted the photo above, which has now been recycled as the cover photo for this week's Newsweek ...
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Sarah Connor
(Finding and reposting many video essays lost when iKlipz went under. This one was originally published here .)
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(Finding and reposting many video essays lost when iKlipz went under. This one was originally published , here .)
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AMC's re-do of the classic British TV series " The Prisoner " gets under way Sunday night, following the conclusion of "Mad Men"'s third season last week. The new version stars Jim Caviezel as Number Six and Ian McKellen as Number Two. (The great Leo McKern played Number Two a couple ...
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Ian McKellen
The Town
Without making a big deal of it, New York Times critic A.O. Scott slips several sharp obserations about the role of movie critics into this paragraph from his review of " The Fantastic Mr. Fox ":
Is it is a movie for children? This inevitable question depends on the assumption that ...
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The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Yes it is, I'm afraid. Or almost. Good grief, I know, it's not even Thanksgiving yet and they've already got the festive "Best Of" decorations up in the stores! And I know lots of critics who've been told by their editors to start working on their big '00s lists -- so, reluctantly, I've ...
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Slumdog Millionaire
WGA strike / Antonioni edition. (No dialog, no actors except the quick mug shots of Dylan personae from " I'm Not There .")
(Finding and reposting many video essays lost when iKlipz went under. This one was originally published here .)
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"When in uniform I have to be the exact same as everyone else, I need to look exactly like them."
-- a soldier in "Tattooed Under Fire"
As a person of ink (and I'm not just referring to the stuff that runs through my newspaperman veins, but to my eight tattoos -- so far), I know how ...
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Now engaged in a marathon publicity junket for his new film "Up in the Air," director Jason Reitman ("Juno," "Thank You For Smoking") has been flying around the country doing interviews. Lots of interviews. Gang-bang interviews (as they are known in the trade) and one-on-ones. Through the ...
