thehousenextdooronline.com - 10/21/2008
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By Peter Gelderblom [ Editor's Note: The House Next Door is proud to reissue a series of articles developed at 24LiesASecond, a now-defunct platform for provocative criticism with an underdog bite. The essay below was first published on 07/01/2005, under the editorial guidance of James M. ...
awardsdaily.com - 10/16/2008
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awardsdaily.com —
The most massive collection of movie stats on
the web has mounds of data than can be...
mined to forecast Oscarworthiness. Simply weighing ratings scores against known Oscar history gives us a quick and dirty predictor of nominee likelihood. ...
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IMDb Scores as Oscar Indicators
mysterymanonfilm.blogspot.com - 10/20/2008
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mysterymanonfilm.blogspot.com —
John August has released his Scrippet plugin to
the masses. I loved Unk’s Chasing the Process ....
It occurred to me very recently that I’ve got an addiction. An addiction to the PROCESS of screenwriting. (The graph is hilarious.) Mike ...
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Mystery Man on Film —
... some great performances, great dialogue and strong characters. The major flaws come from a fairly contrived and earnest ending. I personally dislike the Stuart Copeland electronic score. Like most synthesizer scores of the 80's, I find the soundtrack rather empty and insipid. Daryl Hannah is an exception to the performances as many of her dialogue scenes were very obviously overdubbed (adr) and sound forced. Fabulous: Building a Better Bomb: The Alternatives to Suspense Like Carrie, ...
Somewhat Recent Script Reviews
Mystery Man on Film —
... (as quoted in an article called Alternatives to Suspense): "I always thought that you could also have another effect on the audience if you blow the table up suddenly. If you do it suddenly, everything after that is changed a little bit. You won't trust the movie anymore, and you will have doubts about what you think it will do. So you have a different level of suspense." Exactly. Our friend, Joshua James, alluded to this idea when he wrote (in a contribution to my ...
Unproduced Hitch: Complete Series
Mystery Man on Film —
... Made Movies Unproduced Hitch: The Complete List Hitchcock, Cinema's Purist The Derosa Links The Exposition of Rear Window Tension & Suspense Blog-a-thon Elements of Suspense Peet Gelderblom's Alternatives to Suspense Hitchcock Goodies for ...
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A Decade Without Kubrick
sarahfobes.com 3/7/2009 —
Today is the tenth anniversary of the day Stanley Kubrick died. Today I watched Barry Lyndon because it’s the one film of Kubrick’s that I haven’t watched nearly enough, and its the film my mom and dad were watching at the theater when my mom when into labour with ...
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mcnblogs.com 3/9/2009 — Fuck. Simple, declarative, the last word of Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut , which also was the same thing I said when I heard he was dead at 70, ten years ago today. (Not knowing, of course, that was the same breath of his last moment ...
LE VRAI COUPABLE: Two Kinds of Criticism in Godard’s Work
jonathanrosenbaum.com 5/19/2009 — This was originally a lecture given at a conference on Godard held in Cerisy, France on August 20, 1998. It subsequently appeared in a printed form somewhat closer to that found below, in Screen magazine (vol 40, no. 3). in Autumn 1999, as part of a ...
Hitch on the Hump: Vertigo (1958)
thelightningbugslair.com 7/9/2009 — It could have been called Darkling I Listen , or Fear and Trembling , or From Among the Dead , but it wasn’t. Associate producer Herbert Coleman told a tale of the script’s early incarnation in the documentary Obsessed with Vertigo : “He (Maxwell ...
Hitch on the Hump: Psycho (1960)-Part 3: We're All In Our Private Traps
thelightningbugslair.com 10/14/2009 — (Don't forget to check out Part 1:We All Go A Little Mad Sometimes and Part 2: Mother! Oh, God, Mother! Blood! Blood!) If some people thought, as Hitchcock said, that “the people were small, there were no characters in it” then I’m not sure what ...
Hitch on the Hump: Blackmail (1929)
thelightningbugslair.com 7/22/2009 — There are things we take for granted when we go to a movie theater. The floors will inevitably be sticky, the trailers will probably contain at least one remake, and wherever you sit the jerk with a cell phone or a baby (or both) will sit right ...
Hitch's Birds: Happy Birthday Hitchcock
sunsetgun.typepad.com 8/19/2009 —
Today is Alfred Hitchcock's birthday and what better way to celebrate the master's 110th than through his women? His wounded, weird, gorgeous, sexually strange but extraordinarily erotic women -- femmes who'd drive most of us to a state of amour ...
The Hitchcock Extravaganza
paracinemamag.blogspot.com 4/4/2009 — I have developed quite the cinematic preoccupation as of late. Over the last 2 weeks I have only watched Hitchcock films. I think it is doing something to my brain. There are roughly 15 films available for instant watch at netflix and Alfred Hitchcock Presents seasons 1-3. Most recently I have ...
Frenzy
paracinemamag.blogspot.com 4/24/2009 — I have come across many top Hitchcock lists. 1972's Frenzy seems to be a popular choice among fans. I have found myself immersed in his films from the 50's (D ial M For Murder, The Man How Knew Too Much, Vertigo ) and snidely thinking to myself that this 72 flick would have nothing to offer ...
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