Thrilling Days of Yesteryear (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
It is with the deepest of regrets that Thrilling Days of Yesteryear must acknowledge the temporarily halt of one of its favorite weblogs, Edward Copeland on Film , which announced yesterday that it was going on “hiatus.” The term is usually used as a television euphemism for “death,” and to use it in an example sentence: “ Community is going on hiatus? I...
Edward Copeland on Film (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
By Edward Copeland It makes me sad to announce that because of the latest developments with my health, I'm being forced to place the blog on an extended hiatus. I hope to return at some point, but I can't be certain if or when. Regardless, circumstances will put a dent in both my ability to be online and to watch movies. Of course, so many projects have been scuttled over the past year...
Edward Copeland on Film (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
By Edward Copeland Maybe it's the fact that Hollywood is in such doldrums that they are so afraid to take chances and think the next big thing is making movies based on toys and board games that makes well-made documentaries so often beat their offerings in quality and appeal. Even the indie market seems to have hit a rut where those filmmakers plow the same crops, even if they are fields...
Edward Copeland on Film (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
By Edward Copeland Whenever I complain about anachronisms or factual inaccuracies in a movie, some people think I shouldn't be taking the film in question so seriously. However, I can't help it. If a feature really has me under its spell, that kind of goof breaks it immediately and it's hard to recapture that spirit in the middle of the movie. Granted, Lymelife wasn't really wowing me...
Edward Copeland on Film (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
By Edward Copeland As documentary filmmaking became more and more interesting, and profitable, in the past few decades, the more old-fashioned "talking head" documentary tend to be a subject of mockery, but that is more or less the form director James Toback uses in his film, though he only has one head and it is a large and recognizable one: Mike Tyson, who is surprisingly...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
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Edward Copeland on Film (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
By Edward Copeland I sure hope the estate of Reginald Rose or whomever owns the rights to 12 Angry Men got some sort of payment from the makers of the Russian film 12, because there is no question that the film is an unequivocal remake. Sure, there are some changes, but most of the story has merely been transplanted to Moscow, even the easy availability of supposedly unique knives. Director...
Edward Copeland on Film (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
By Edward Copeland Something happens to the best filmmakers. Even when they are good, once they delve into their own ethnic or societal upbringing, they achieve a deeper greatness, whether the film in question is explicitly autobiographical or not. Steven Spielberg finally seemed to grow up once he made Schindler's List , even though he'd made great films before that. Martin Scorsese...
Edward Copeland on Film (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
By Edward Copeland Whenever a film hits DVD with the "director's cut," I'm always torn. Should I watch the theatrical version and write about that, since it's what people saw in the theater, or go with the unrated version. With Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell , I toyed with the idea (assuming I liked it) of watching the theatrical version first, which was rated PG-13, and then...
Edward Copeland on Film (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
By Edward Copeland Joe Valdez at This Distracted Globe is having film bloggers across the Internet take an Orwellian look back at the films of 1984. Because I like to do as little work as possible these days, I'm recycling my post from earlier this year marking the 25th anniversary of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension .
