Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
MCN's Gurus of Gold, finally up and running, have Up In The Air in the top Best Picture prediction slot, fine, followed by Precious and The Hurt Locker. Wait...they have A Serious Man in tenth place following the unseen Invictus, Nine and The Lovely Bones, and one slot behind Inglourious Basterds? Am I reading this correctly? Jokey-dokey, baseball-bat-and-gloppy-brain-matter Basterds -- a movie costarring...
Travel (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
By Franklin Potter For a long time we have used the video store as one of our main ways to access movies. High speed internet access has now made it possible to download movies right off a movie download site. Below is a sample of some of the movies you can find using movie download sites. Jurassic Park: Billionaire Attenborough asks paleontologists Dem and Neill, and mathematician Goldblum to examine...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Filed under: Video , Exclusive Dressed as a "mystical pirate" and showing off an impressive trumpet impression, Ladyhawke takes us through the making of her latest single, 'Magic,' in Spinner's exclusive behind-the-scenes video. Drawing on old black and white films like Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis,' 'Magic' reverses traditional gender stereotypes as the pirate Ladyhawke rescues her androgynous...
Screenhead (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Digg this story! There’s no shortage of science fiction that predicts a future far too unknown and unexplored to the common man, and usually those kinds of work are initially dismissed, only to become cult classics, no matter what medium they are told in. We’ve compiled a list of ten sci-fi movies that were ahead of [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
To mark its 175th anniversary, the Royal Institute of British Architects is holding a season of films in which buildings – fantastical or factual – take a starring role. Here are my top five From the silent epics of DW Griffiths through Art Deco spectaculars like Busby Berkeley's Gold Diggers of 1933 to Pixar's wonderful WALL-E (2008), the connection between architecture and film has always...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Arriving at the Film Forum on Friday is a new, impressively restored print of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's classic 1948 film The Red Shoes , about a tenacious ballerina torn between a lover and her art. On Tuesday, Red Shoes superfan Martin Scorsese — who oversaw the movie's seven-year restoration process — hosted a screening at the DGA Theater. We spoke with him before the...
Wired: Underwire (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
< previous image | next image >> When we beamed our lists of favorite science fiction movies onto the pages of Wired.com, we knew some of our readers would think we were goofier than Jar Jar Binks. Little did we know that Wired.com readers would fire back with such vehemence, vitriol and — most importantly — sincere [...]
Observations on Film Art (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
One of several posters the Stenberg brothers designed for Miss Mend. We’ve been quite busy in the tail end of October. David sweated over a Bresson essay, started on his online version of Planet Hong Kong, and continued to help out in Lea Jacobs’ seminar on film stylistics. Kristin has started organizing a book about the [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
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Behind the Hype (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
New York is a lovely place. In spite of being, let’s admit it, just a hair overrated, it is a city with the charm and multitudinousness of a Fritz Lang film. That being said, the creators of Paris, Je T’aime, Emmanuel Benbihy and Tristan Carne, seem determined to further their film series on cities to [...]
Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Over at The Auteurs', some reflections on one of the biggest DVD events of the year: Eureka!/Masters of Cinema's epic boxset of all of Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse films. A spectacular achievement, just a top-notch presentation of timeless, ever-galvanic cinema....
SciFi Scanner (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Men in Black 3 has a screenwriter in Tropic Thunder's Ethan Cohen, but no one knows if Will Smith will come back.
RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
On top of the titles listed below I also watch the Criterion Blu-ray for Howards End and the Blu-ray for Warner Home Video's North By Northwest, both of which will be reviewed on Tuesday along with the Criterion Blu-ray for Wings of Desire. On top of that I watched the Blu-ray for Disney/Pixar's Up, which [...]
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Tor.com interviews Scott Westerfeld ( Leviathan ). The Berlin Film Festival will screen Fritz Lang's original cut of Metropolis . Fantasy author Stephen Hunt to guest star at the SFX Weekende The Prisoner 's Village gets a wiki . Original creator Kenneth Johnson happy with the V remake . Meanwhile, Denis Leary's production company, Apostle, has secured the rights to the feature film Gattaca which...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Fritz Lang's Metropolis, arguably Germany's most famous production during the silent-movie era, has been painstakingly restored and will be shown -- all two hours and 23...
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