Thanksgiving is upon us once again, and you know what that means: Dinner, and awkward interaction with little-seen family members. And then dessert. Because let’s face it — without food we might as well just call each other and have awkward silences over the phone. And the cinema is no different. So, in honor of the [...]
This week my wife and I watched a marvelous old movie from 1958, " The Inn of the Sixth Happiness " starring Ingrid Bergman. The movie about a female missionary's amazing adventures and heroism in China in the 1930s was trashed by one major media source for not having a believable plot--the critic being unaware that it depicted the true story of a feisty English woman, Gladys Aylward . The...
By Aquil Akhter 3-D computer graphics (CG) art is capable of generating the most eye-catching and incredible effects, and that’s why we love it. The extent to which 3-D CG can replicate human characteristics is simply unbelievable, It can generate graphic details that could easily be mistaken for live photography. For this post, we have looked for [...]
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...