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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 02/27/2010
The Cinematical Movie Club is a new weekly feature where we pick a film, watch it and then discuss it. Feel free to read our introduction for more info. Heathers is near and dear to my heart. It marked the first step towards my adult preferences, as I broke out of the kiddie fare and slowly journeyed into the world of more discerning taste. (My pre-teen self thought Grease 2 was a superior film to...
The Criterion Cast (Free subscription) | 02/23/2010
This is the podcast dedicated to The Criterion Collection. Rudie, Ryan & Travis discuss Criterion News & Rumors and Criterion New Releases, we analyze, discuss & highlight Criterion #326, Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan, along with “Variations On a Theme”. This week’s “Variation on a theme”: Upward Social Mobility in Movies What do you think of [...]
The Criterion Cast (Free subscription) | 02/20/2010
“Disc 2″ episodes are bonus/supplement episodes of The CriterionCast. Rudie, Ryan and Travis ramble on about movies and movie experiences. In “On The Screen” they discuss anything and everything that has been on their screens throughout the week. Anything from TV & movies to music & web [...]
The Criterion Cast (Free subscription) | 02/16/2010
This is the podcast dedicated to The Criterion Collection. Rudie, Ryan & Travis discuss Criterion News & Rumors and Criterion New Releases, we analyze, discuss & highlight Criterion #501, Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas, along with “Variations On a Theme” where they discuss films with a common theme. This week’s theme: Reunions in [...]
Webomatica (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
Synopsis A circle of young, upper East side socialites enter debutante season, and due to a shortage of males, welcome newcomer Edward (Tom Townsend) into their circle.
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 01/29/2010
Whit Stillman has been out of the spot light for a long time. He made a trio of excellent films in the '90s -- "Metropolitan" (1990), "Barcelona" (1994) and, perhaps the most well-known, "The Last Days of Disco" (1998). The three movies form a loose trilogy based in part on the writer/director's life. At the [...]
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 01/28/2010
The film, with its depiction of a group of poetry-quoting young aristocrats, channels some of Whit Stillman's less enjoyable impulses.
Blogging Sundance (Free subscription) | 01/26/2010
Filed under: Sundance , Festival Reports , Cinematical Indie Celebrity Sightings: E! got a pic of Gerard Butler ( Holy Rollers) during his half-day in Park City. And Radar taped a quick interview with Ricky Lake , who was swag browsing. Movieline overheard a security guard at the CAA party telling Sundance jury member Parker Posey , "I'm sorry. This seating is reserved," referring to a row...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 01/24/2010
Somehow I missed the news that Eric Rohmer died earlier this month. Rohmer was a part of that movement of critics-turned-directors that we call the French New Wave, but while most of his Cahiers comrades came from the left, Rohmer was deeply conservative. As Victor Morton writes in National Review , Rohmer is one of the few directors (Whit Stillman is another) who make films about how being "a...
Blogging Sundance (Free subscription) | 01/21/2010
Filed under: Sundance , Festival Reports It's all underway! The YouTube deal might not slip you right into the action yet, but there's live streaming , cities across the U.S. getting in on the festival action, films available at home through Sundance Selects , and of course, Cinematical's reviews, news, and 60 Seconds round-ups to keep you in the loop. Our Coverage: Cinematical is on-hand for two...
Bright Lights After Dark (Free subscription) | 01/11/2010
That Eric Rohmer, who passed away this morning, was both critic and film auteur seems as unsurprisingly organic as the manner in which his movies interpolated text and image, philosophy and drama. In 2006 I quit my first post-college job after suffering a minor breakdown; I spent the following penurious summer on the couch, gathering my wits in the spirited glow of Ray, Ozu, Kiarostami, Sirk, Dreyer...and...
MovingPictureBlog (Free subscription) | 01/11/2010
The great French filmmaker was a sly but sympathetic observer of human folly, forever attentive to the ways intelligent and articulate people tend to over-analyze everything, even their own emotions, and very often wind up talking themselves out of opportunities for happiness. He was at the vanguard of the French New Wave during the late 1950s, alongside Francois Truffaut , Jean-Luc Godard and other...
Chained to the Cinémathèque (Free subscription) | 12/31/2009
The best films I saw for the first time in 2009, in rough order of preference: Up (Pete Docter and Bob Peterson, 2009) To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock, 1955) Two Lovers (James Gray, 2008) Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira, 2009) Che (The Argentine and Guerrilla) (Steven Soderbergh, 2008) Our Daily Bread (King Vidor, 1934) Inextinguishable Fire (Harun Farocki, 1967) The Last...
Tran|script, by Mike Caulfield (Free subscription) | 12/29/2009
Reading Christie’s The Pale Horse and struck again by a couple things in Christie. We think of Christie as chronicling the 30s, and that’s what most of the horrible TV remakes have focussed on. But for Christie it wasn’t nostalgia, it was a real desire to engage and dissect a contemporary world. The Pale Horse continues [...]
92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 12/22/2009
Video: Director Whit Stillman and actor Chris Eigeman in a Q&A at 92Tribeca after the screening of Stillman’s film, Metropolitan The video above comes from Hollywood Elsewhere , where Jeffery Wells wrote: In a certain sense Metropolitan is arguably a more interesting film now than it was in 1989/90. Because it shows more than ever that Stillman is Wes Anderson’s uncle. (Or older brother,...
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