22:45 Mutual Appreciation
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | yesterday
(2005) Andrew Bujalski's film stars Justin Rice as Alan, an aspiring singer-songwriter who hopes to further his career in New York.
John Cassavetes
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playlist and interview: cosmo vitelli
Fairblog (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Cosmo Vitelli released LPs & singles for Solid , Paris, Virgin, remixed Daft Punk, Cassius, and Scratch Massive among many others, and founded his own label I’m A Cliché (releases by Simian Mobile Disco, Yuksek, Tacteel…) in 2004. He gladly presents us 2 new songs and talks about his Bot’Ox project with Julien Briffaz of [...]
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Famous Firsts: The Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)
Ferdy on Films, etc. (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Famous Firsts Focusing on the debut feature work of famous, and infamous, figures of film The Beast from Haunted Cave (1959) Debut film of: Monte Hellman, director By Roderick Heath It’s harder to judge the quality of a directorial...
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Felon Fest: Television on DVD
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Kid and Hef, two old-timer felons, shame CSI with their collection of crime dramas (which includes a "bitchslapping" Perry Mason)
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Felon Fest: Television on DVD
FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Above: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Murder Case starring John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands read more
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Three Blind Mice
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Film Reviews: An undisciplined yarn about three Sydney sailors about to sail for Iraq, "Three Blind Mice" gets caught in the trap of its John Cassavetes-like aspirations.
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83% The Exiles
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Selected for the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival, The Exiles (1961) is an incredible feature film by Kent MacKenzie chronicling a day in the life of a group of twenty-something Native Americans who left reservation life in the 1950s to live in the district of Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, California.
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The Exiles
BigPictureBigSound.com (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Kent Mackenzie's 1961 foray into the world of reality drama is back, and it is easy to see why so many recall it as a vital part of an important movement in film.
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Guy Ritchie’s real-life fight club role
The First Post (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Speculation about the future of Madonna and her film director husband Guy Ritchie has obscured the fact that Ritchie has actually made a screen appearance himself in a new movie.…
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Two-Minute Warning (R2) in September
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
News: Nouveaux Pictures have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of Two-Minute Warning on 1st September 2008 priced at £15.99. Directed by Larry Peerce and with a cast that includes Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Beau Bridges, David Janssen, Jack Klug...
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"Frownland": A human train wreck waiting to happen
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
"Frownland" could easily be mistaken as a minor classic from the hazy, meandering aesthetic of the independent film movement in the 1960s...
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IN SEARCH OF A MIDNIGHT KISS
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
DRINK enough cups of coffee in Los Angeles - two should do the trick - and you will eventually find yourself sitting beside some self- absorbed poltroon who feels the need to bore the world with his achievements and discontents. Stay another week and he will have turned his story into a no-budget independent movie.
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SIFF '08 lumbers into its final weekend
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
The 34th Seattle International Film Festival enters its closing weekend today, straggling a bit from the exhaustion of the past 22 days but with enough energy to platform 80 more film programs over the next three days.
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The Hold Steady: "Stay Positive" Continued, Plus "Ask Her For Adderall"
Wild Mercury Sound (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
After my first thoughts on “Stay Positive” , we’re continuing to unpick a record that I’m now suspecting is The Hold Steady ’s masterpiece. Allan has been even more dedicated in the pursuit of meaning than I have, assiduously studying John Cassavetes ’ “Opening Night”, since Craig Finn mentioned that it had a critical influence on his lyrics, most explicitly in "Slapped Actress". Read more...
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