thehousenextdooronline.com - 2/17/2009
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By Jason Bellamy and Ed Howard [ Editor's Note: The Conversations is a monthly feature in which Jason Bellamy and Ed Howard discuss a wide range of cinematic subjects: critical analyses of films, filmmaker overviews, and more. Readers should expect to encounter spoilers. ] ED HOWARD: David ...
filmofilia.com - 2/10/2009
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Opening the 59th Berlin International Film Festival ,
action thriller “ The International ” directed by Tom...
Tykwer (” Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ,” segment in “ Paris, je t’aime ,” “ The Princess and the Warrior “) from an original ...
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The International First 5 Minutes
getthebigpicture.net - 2/11/2009
cinematical.com - 2/20/2009
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cinematical.com —
Okay, really this should be more of a
top 100 list, so these seven are more "off...
the top of my head" than any kind of definitive selection. There are several kinds of Oscar snubs. There are talented actors, artists and filmmakers who have never been ...
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Cinematical Seven: Glaringly Obvious Oscar Omissions
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The Conversations #2: Mulholland Dr.
Only The Cinema —
... when I stumbled outside afterward, into bright daylight, everything looked strange, somehow subtly changed. I'd spent over two hours in Lynch's world, and in the time I'd been lost there it was as though the real world had been infected with Lynch's unsettling aesthetic. It was a unique experience. I can't remember another film that shook me up and destabilized me so thoroughly, and I've returned to it, and to Lynch's work in general, compulsively ever since. Continue reading at The House Next Door
Random Notes #9
Eternal Sunshine Of The Logical Mind —
... 's comments about "Mulholland Dr." in this House Next Door post kinda fits my own general feelings about Hou's latest (in particular the last line): "Did I understand it? Not even close. Subsequent viewings revealed layers of narrative and themes that I hadn't detected the first time. But the sensation of watching the film, the mystery and beauty of its images, the ideas about imagination, fantasy, movies and loss bubbling up through its obscurity, these were all there the first time. The fact that I was compelled to revisit the film a second time—indeed, probably close to a ...
Quiz Time!
Only The Cinema —
... Overall, the author best served by movie adaptations of her or his work. Raymond Chandler's a good enough writer that he doesn't really need the help, but he's had so many good films made from his books that it's hard not to pick him. 35) Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn) or Irene Bullock (Carole Lombard)? I like Lombard, but no one touches Hepburn. 36) Favorite musical cameo in a non-musical movie. Rebekah Del Rio in Mulholland Dr., a scene that nearly brings me to tears every time I see ...
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