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Everybody hates it when they don't explain everything that happened by the time the movie is over. What we need at the end is not open-endedness but clarity, loose-end tying-up, closure. We need more movies like "Psycho" (unfortunately Simon...
The Panic Manual (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Concert attended and reviewed by Karen I ‘ve never been to a Billy Bragg concert before. In fact I couldn’t name you one song that he sings. My best friend Louise however has been a huge Billy fan for a very long time and has seen him six times so I went along with her to [...] Related posts: Concert Review: Manic Street Preachers, The Phoenix, Oct 4, 2009 Toronto – What a show. What...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Anchovies like orgies. Garden snails are sadomasochists. Earthworms are hermaphrodites who make babies by mating with everybody. There's a lot of hot sex underwater and in the dirt if you know where to look, according to actor and model Isabella Rossellini,...
<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) : She is best remembered for her role as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca (1942), a World War II spy drama co-starring Humphrey Bogart . ... A few of her other starring roles besides Casablanca included the films For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Gaslight (1944), Alfred Hitchcock 's Spellbound (1945), Notorious (1946), and Under Capricorn (1949), and the...
Hell on Frisco Bay (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The Roxie Theater has announced a number of its Fall and Winter bookings. In reverse chronological order, let me run them down. The venue will close out its centennial year of existence (it opened in 1909 as the C.H. Brown Theater) with a Christmas Day through New Year's Eve booking of the neorealist classic Bicycle Thieves a.k.a. the Bicycle Thief (the latter being a less-precise translation of the...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Two's company, but three? When it comes to romantic equations, that usually equals higher stakes and added drama. In honor of ...
The Life and Times of a Problem Child (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Back at a time when my brain cells weren't properly nourished, I attempted on reading Albert Camus' The Stranger. You know that très pretentieux kind of demeanour wherein you say you like it when en fait, you really have a...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Big Picture There's not enough movies in the world to support Nicolas Cage's $$$ habits Antagony... Introducing... Ingrid Bergman Movies Kick Ass is excited about Gwyneth Paltrow joining Nicole Kidman in The Danish Girl . I never believe these casting dealios until movies actually start filming. I mean, what will become of GOOP if Gwynnie decides to make movies again? Cinematical appreciates the grace...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Today's Birthdays 11/09 1869 Marie Dressler is awesome. She gave one of the most aggressive Best Actress winning performances evah. If you haven't seen Min & Bill (1933), you must. You must, you must , you must . 1883 Edna May Oliver feisty character actress 1886 Ed Wynn Uncle Albert from Mary Poppins . He loves to laugh... long and loud and clear. Audiences were always ready to laugh along with...
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight The day after I returned to the Bay Area, I saw the new PFA film calendar online and tweeted twice ( 1 , 2 ) about it. But that doesn't quite do justice to how cool a "Welcome Home!" these next two, final months of 2009 promise to be in my backyard cinematheque. A year ago I had quite a time covering the PFA, indulging in almost everything available by Jia Zhang-ke...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
" We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we'd lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night ." So famously said Humphrey Bogart to Ingrid Bergman in the marvelous conclusion of one of the greatest films of all time, "Casablanca." On Wednesday, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell shamelessly used a version of this line on White House advisor David Axelrod. During her interview...
Londonist (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
There are nights in the theatre for which you gladly queue round the block months in advance, secure in the knowledge that the magnitude of the screen star you hope to see outweighs any reservations about the play, the director or the ticket price. It was such considerations paved our way to Ingrid Bergman in Waters of the Moon at the Haymarket in the 70s, to Elizabeth Taylor in The Little Foxes at...
Extra Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
"Extra" brings you AFI's 100 Best Movie Quotes of all time! From "The Wizard of Oz" to "Taxi Driver," see if your favorites made the list! AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes Gone with the Wind (1939) “Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.” —Said by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler to Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara. The Godfather (1972) “I’m...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
In the 1930s, that glorious first decade after the movies learned how to talk, Hollywood was the sum of its studios, each with its own distinct brand and personality. MGM, the glossiest of them all, boasted that it had "more stars than there are in the heavens," which hardly seemed an exaggeration.
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imagine lifestyles | 10/14/2009
If you are going to get naughty, you may as well take a tip from David Letterman and lock lips in a luxury car. If anything, the expensive car will distract from whom you are kissing, just in case it isn’t your significant other. So without further ado, our top ten exotic cars that we deem acceptable to get caught kissing in are as follows: 1. Ferrari 612 Scaglietti 2. Aston Martin DB9 Volante 3. Rolls-Royce...
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