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With Thanksgiving coming up, it’s easy to get excited for all of the traditional foods of the season. Naturally, everyone is anticipating the old favorites- dressing, gravy, (s)mashed potatoes, Tofurkey, and the like. But let’s not overlook that classic creation, everyone’s favorite gun-metal ...
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I've been about half a dozen kinds of swamped lately, so I haven't been able to update the blog with new content. That's one of the reasons I've been re-posting the old Movie Moment columns here- the other being that they're difficult to find unless you explicity sniff around the web for them ...
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(Originally posted on 12 October 2007 at The Screengrab. Reprinted by permission.) Since it was first announced, I've been against the idea of remaking Joseph Sargent’s The Taking of Pelham One Two Three , and nothing I've heard since its release has changed my opinion. But at a time when even ...
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(Originally posted on 22 February 2007 at The Screengrab. Reprinted by permission.) Director Frank Tashlin’s background was as an animator at Warner Brothers, and this was reflected in his best work. The principal cast of his film Hollywood or Bust might’ve stepped out of a cartoon -- Dean ...
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Frank Darabont
(Originally posted on 1 March 2007 at The Screengrab. Reprinted by permission.) The Italian Neo-Realist movement began as a reaction to the more lightweight entertainments that usually focused on upper-class protagonists. In contrast, neo-realist directors such as Roberto Rossellini, Luchino ...
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(Originally posted on 8 March 2007 at The
Screengrab. Reprinted by permission.) One of my favorite films...
so far this decade is Francois Ozon’s 8 Women , a highly stylized film that has as many passionate detractors as supporters. A major point of ...
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The Movie Moment Redux: 8 Women (2002, Francois Ozon)
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(Originally posted on 15 March 2007 at The Screengrab. Reprinted with permission.) Ever since my high school years I’ve considered myself a Monty Python fan, and practically every Python fan has a favorite member of the troupe. Mine has always been Michael Palin. Some people I know prefer the ...
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Charles S. Dutton
(Originally posted on 22 March 2007 at The Screengrab. Reprinted with permission.) Since I first saw Nashville , I’ve considered it to be Altman’s greatest achievement. With a career like his, that’s saying something. So what makes Nashville stand out from his other classics, like McCabe & ...
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Robert Altman
(Originally posted on 29 March 2007 at The Screengrab. Reprinted by permission.) For about ten years, my favorite film of all time has been Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour . I must have seen it fifty times so far, and I always find new ways to enjoy it. For one thing, it’s gotten a whole lot funnier ...
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(Originally posted on 5 April 2007 at The Screengrab. Reprinted with permission.) On June 12, 2000, an ex-convict named Sandro de Nascimento hijacked a bus in the middle-class Jardim Botânico neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. For the entire afternoon and into the evening, the hijacking spiraled ...
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(Originally posted on 12 April 2007 at The Screengrab. Reprinted with permission.) Of all the great filmmakers in movie history, Stanley Kubrick was, of course, one of the most revered. Many of his films are considered to be essential classics, and rightly so. But amidst all the attention for ...
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Stanley Kubrick
(Originally posted on 20 April 2007 at The Screengrab. Reprinted with permission.) Brian DePalma has always been one of those directors people either love or hate. I’m not sure I’ve met a movie lover who doesn’t have an opinion on the guy one way or the other, and admittedly I once fell into the ...
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(Originally posted on 3 May 2007 at The Screengrab. Reprinted with permission.) One of the biggest surprises to come out of Hollywood in the 1990s was Babe . While this film has become something of a family classic, it was originally met with some skepticism when it was released in 1995. I admit ...
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George Miller
(Originally posted on 10 May 2007 at The Screengrab. Reprinted with permission.) One of the most important lessons a parent has to learn is that, once the child is born, one’s life ceases to be one’s own. Every decision that may have been made for selfish reasons in the past now must be made ...
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(Originally posted on 17 May 2007 at The Screengrab. Reprinted with permission.) One of the most famous figures in the history of Victorian England was Joseph Merrick, later referred to as John, but best known as the Elephant Man. Merrick, born in 1862, was incurably deformed, with a severely ...
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David Lynch
(Originally posted on 24 May 2007 at The Screengrab. Reprinted with permission.) What is exploitation? In terms of entertainment, the term tends to infer a purely base appeal, with lurid content that’s meant to give viewers a voyeuristic charge. Whether it’s a demolition derby or a peepshow, ...
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(Originally posted on 31 May 2007 at The Screengrab. Reprinted with permission.) (WARNING: BIG TIME SPOILER ALERT! If you have not seen To Live and Die in L.A. and have any intentions to in the future, do not read this piece!) A few weeks ago, a friend of mine asked me how I choose my weekly ...
