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http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/ - On Cinema and other quixotic pursuits, by film writer Glenn Kenny, who's going to send you to Sing Sing, Gettys. Do you hear me? Sing Sing! SING SING!!!!!
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I know, I know; it appears that SCR is devolving—some would call it evolving, actually—into a kind of tony cheesecake site, but I assure you, it's all just a coincidence and the next image to post on this blog is sure to be something with less potential prurient interest. But in case you ...
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Helen Mirren
The lovely folks at The Auteurs' Notebook are hosting a wonderful series of pieces commemorating the publication of the splendid volume of Manny Farber's film writings, Farber on Film . Regular followers of this blog know that I've been doing a retrospective series examining Farber's "best ...
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Earth
The Day the Earth Stood Still
INT., EVENING, THE KENNY LIVING ROOM Glenn and His Lovely Wife Claire relax on the sofa. Glenn is taking in a Seinfeld rerun while Claire writes out and addresses Christmas cards. The Seinfeld rerun goes to a commercial break. Glenn perks up at an ad. ...
Drama
"This is very setup," says [Jess] Weixler, comparing the style of The Lie to her work on [Joe] Swanberg's recent Alexander the Last while sharing a cigarette with Leonard. "It's not so much 'Let's just shoot and see what we get' but 'We have this scene here, and this needs to happen.' It's ...
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Alexander Payne
somecamerunning.typepad.com - 38 hours ago
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So. Variety's Todd McCarthy and Newsweek's David Ansen
have gone ahead and ignored a studio-imposed embargo and...
reviewed Clint Eastwood's Invictus , which opens in less than two weeks. This breach of etiquette—perpetrated by old-media types, who ...
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Text and subtext in Eastwood's "Invictus"
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found this 38 hours agofound this
...a holiday that, despite whatever the meanies at Big Hollywood would have you believe, is frequently enjoyed by counter-culture/"progressive"/leftie types, as the above screen cap from Arthur Penn's 1969 Alice's Restaurant testifies. It's been an...interesting year, and it ain't over yet. ...
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Alice
somecamerunning.typepad.com - 5 days ago
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So, you don't wanna talk about Spencer Tracy
or James Brown? Okay, fine, be that way. I...
see now that the crew over at Time Out New York has posted its Top 50 Movies of the Aughts, so now's the time, as Charlie Parker would put it, when I might ...
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My Seventy Greatest Films Of The Decade
Twelve years after his groundbreaking Apollo performance, 10 years after the TAMI Show, the Godfather of Soul continues to do it to death in 1974, headlining the Zaire '74 Music Festival, conceived as an adjunct to the "Rumble In The Jungle" Ali-Foreman rematch in that country. The fight had ...
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The Godfather
somecamerunning.typepad.com - 3 days ago
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Last week's installment, #5, here . Follow the
links at that post to access the other prior...
films in the series. Farber: "An adroit, scholarly example of sound storytelling that every Message Boy should be made to study as an example of how good ...
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Manny Farber's best films of 1951, #6: "The People ...
This really is a must-see, a terrific piece of cinematic storytelling and a key early Hollywood work from the great Sirk. Dave Kehr gave it a nice write-up in the Times last Sunday, but I was so thoroughly impressed when I sat down to watch it that I began thinking that Dave's praise was ...
Comedy
Michael Douglas
Greil Marcus on Frank Zappa: "Is there any facet of American culture Frank Zappa hasn't pissed on? If so, write and tell him what it is, and he'll get a beer out of the refrigerator and unzip." Forgive Marcus the present tense, as he made the observation, which I'm not entirely sympathetic ...
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Marcus Nispel
Wim Wenders
was a terrible idea, on any number of levels, and I'm sorry I went there. No more blog for a while.
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No, this is not a post about The Blind Side . Which I'm probably not going to see in any event. As I am now only a semi-professional film critic, there are some things you just can't make me do. Seeing Precious is another. Thing you can't make me do, I mean. So there. No. Although some of the ...
Horror
Note: above image not representative. Well, not wholly representative, anyway. I'll get to that in a moment. One of the many salutory features of Warners' new Blu-ray disc of Gone With The Wind is the specific quality of its restoration, which I believe brings it closer to the version David ...
Drama
Gone With The Wind
The cinematic Melvin Belli, both real and fictional, surrounded by Christmas cheer. In Gimme Shelter (Maysles, Maysles and Zwering, 1970), negotiating concert space on behalf of the Rolling Stones, early December, 1969; big shot attorney Melvin started getting Christmas cards early. Or ...
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Zodiac
Stones
Brian Cox
Anthony Edwards
Mark Ruffalo
John Woo's frequently breathtaking Red Cliff opens in the U.S. soon in a 140-minute-or-so "international version" that severely abridges the original two-part, almost five-hour epic. I've seen both, and you, too, can see the grand two-parter if you're got a multi-region DVD player or a ...
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John Woo
Red Cliff
Don't let the juxtaposition of Nicolas Cage and the Virgin Mary seen above fool you: this loose remake of Abel Ferrara's raw 1992 masterpiece doesn't have anything like the spiritual dimension of the first film. If anything, The Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans is an almost-perfect ...
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Nicolas Cage
Werner Herzog
I hope I'm not sounding like I'm damning with faint praise when I point out that the signal quality of Edward Woodward's screen acting was a kind of plainness, a very straight-ahead, "this is what it is" attitude toward performance. Think about it: there aren't many other actors who would ...
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Edward Norton
somecamerunning.typepad.com - 15 days ago
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Last week's installment, including links to previous weeks,
here . Farber: "A tabloid melodrama of sex and...
avarice in suburbia, our of Cain by Joe Losey, featuring almost perfect acting by Evelyn Keyes as a hot, dumb, average American babe who, ...
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Manny Farber's best films of 1951, #5: "The Prowler," ...
I see that my borough president, who was always a great booster of ISSUE Project Room , is declaring this Sunday Suzanne Fiol Day, in honor of the space's much-missed founder, an old and dear friend of myself and so very many others. Good on him. Details here .
