Tag: movies
member name: yorgo d.
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August 12, 2006 07:13 PM EDT --
The best kind of movies are the ones that allow you to forget you are watching a movie. The weight of narative confidence and technical competence forces you into the story on its own terms. But as those . . . more
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January 02, 2008 12:43 AM EST --
Forrest Gump operates like a baby boomer, 'best of' clip show, taking us through turbulent times and trying to convince us of some of the lessons it thinks we should've learned by now.
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July 26, 2007 10:51 PM EDT --
If an early review from AICN is any indication, the new film, “Silk, from Canadian director Francoise Girard, not only features multiple nude scenes from Keira Knightley but also features a morose . . . more
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July 21, 2007 09:18 PM EDT --
Anne Boelyn was Henry VIII's second wife and, as history buffs can tell you, she was a major impetus behind Henry's fight with the Pope that eventually led to divorce, the severing of ties with . . . more
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December 30, 2007 12:40 AM EST --
The image of the dreamer is indispensable to the history of Hollywood. Frank Capra, slouched in his director's chair with one leg slung up over the arm rest, is nothing if not . . . more
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May 09, 2008 11:52 PM EDT --
George Lucas drifts further and further from reality and, while it was at first amusing in a flush-your-legacy-and-career-down-the-toilet slapstick kind of way, this summer things are taking a turn for . . . more
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September 30, 2006 11:35 PM EDT --
Sources report that, on location for the sequels to Pirates of the Carribean, Keira Knightly was seen pouring over a script for My Fair Lady. There have been other leads and rumors linking her to a version . . . more
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August 02, 2007 08:03 PM EDT --
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February 16, 2008 06:07 PM EST --
It's a bit early to be thinking about the summer. The snows of January have just turned over, yielding to the snows of February. But time tables are meant to be broken. Especially in the world . . . more
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March 26, 2007 12:07 AM EDT --
What's the first thing you want when planning a movie?
Even before you write a screenplay or plot synopsis, you need to establish your theme.
If what you are aiming for is a successful . . . more
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June 06, 2007 10:46 PM EDT --
--I have a little formula I like to deploy, whenever someone asks me what I think of a Michael Bay movie, "George Lucas + Godzilla = Michael Bay"--
So we've got this director who . . . more
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July 02, 2006 01:30 PM EDT --
Black Narcissus (1947)
Black Narcissus is a terribly garish film to still remain so elusive immediately after viewing. Similar to seeing the radiant Deborah Kerr, who stars in the film, hidden beneath . . . more
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January 19, 2006 12:09 PM EST --
Forrest Gump opperates kind of like a baby boomer, 'best of' clip show, taking us through turbulent times and trying to convince us of some of the lessons it thinks we should've learned . . . more
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January 09, 2007 12:31 PM EST --
Favorite Films (An Incomplete List)
The best kind of movies are the ones that allow you to forget you are watching a movie. The weight of narative confidence and technical competence forces you . . . more
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January 18, 2006 05:00 PM EST --
I think it was Aristotle (and others) who believed that humans see by emiting visionable rays from their eyes, as apposed to collecting external information and processing it internally. . . . more
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June 05, 2006 09:15 PM EDT --
There's a scene in this film where the cool silent hero, with the metal skeleton and sharp tongue, walks into a gale-force psychic storm having chunks of his skin blown off . . . more
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July 08, 2006 11:10 AM EDT --
Full frontal emasculation, gratuitous commitment, scenes of unrealistic cuddling; these are the elements that stand between a decent "chick flick" and full out emotional femme-porn.
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January 15, 2006 03:28 AM EST --
There is a very well established principal at work in both good and bad suspense films. I call it the "All's suspicious that begins well." principal. Not particularly . . . more
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June 05, 2006 07:13 PM EDT --
I think it was Aristotle (and others) who believed that humans see by emiting visionable rays from their eyes, as apposed to collecting external information and processing it internally. He thought that . . . more
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December 29, 2005 02:18 PM EST --
It may well be past time for Hollywood films to stop pretending that they can manage between ninety and a hundred and twenty minutes of narrative baggage. Imagine a car chase movie, . . . more
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