May 2013
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‘The Grandmaster’ Image Gallery →
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A ton of beautiful images from Won Kar Wai’s The Grandmaster
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The Ray Harryhausen Creature List - YouTube →
RIP Ray Harryhausen . Your creations and their inspiration will never die
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April 2013
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The grand irony of Roger Ebert’s career is that he became an icon of the thumb,...
– Must-read: Owen Gleiberman on Roger Ebert. (via entertainmentweekly)
So on this day of reflection I say again, thank you for going on this journey...
– Roger Ebert passed away today. This is last sentence of his last blog post. (via digg)
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I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same...
– Film critic Roger Ebert , may he rest in Peace
So on this day of reflection I say again, thank you for going on this journey...
– The last sentence of Roger Ebert’s last blog post. (via nedhepburn)
R.I.P. (via bbook)
CHICAGO SUN TIMES: Roger Ebert dies at 70 after... →
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March 2013
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CriterionCast: Criterion Collection Easter Eggs →
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Happy Easter everyone! Who needs chocolate eggs when you can dig through your disc collection?
From the CriterionForum thread
Jubilee “There are two Easter Eggs on the Jubilee disc: The disc is divided into 16 titles (one for the film itself, one for the doc, etc.). I haven’t figured out…
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‘Night Fishing’, co-written and co-directed by... →
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‘Night Fishing’, co-written and co-directed by Chan-wook Park
Saturday Shorts
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Kurosawa on Hulu - From the Current - The... →
Celebrate Akira Kurosawa’s birthday with the Criterion Collection as they let you stream his movies free for 24 hours
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Upstream Color | Brattle Theatre →
Festival fave “Upstream Color” will screen Tuesday 3/19 at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge with director Shane Carruth on hand to introduce his follow up to the cult indie hit “Primer”
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WATCH: Sir Michael Caine's Reflections Ahead of... →
Happy Birthday, Michael Caine!
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Watch: Terry Gilliam's Debut 1968 Short Film... →
While the film portion of South by Southwest wraps up and fans and journalists may have already seen shorts by the great film makers of tomorrow, this nugget from the early days of the ever-subversive and stylish Terry Gilliam has just surfaced .
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Tribute to the late Donald Richie →
Midnight Eye, the website dedicated Japanese Cinema has compiled this touching tribute the recently deceased Donald Richie , with several notable writers contributing their thoughts
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De Palma's "Passion" gets June release →
One film that made waves this past festival season was “Passion”, the latest mind-bending thriller from New Hollywood great Brian De Palma. According to fan site De Palma a la Mod, word is that it will finally hit North American screens in June. As a big fan of De Palma’s work , this is one I’m eagerly awaiting and is sure to polarize fans & critics upon release . ...
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Boston Underground Film Festival prepares to... →
This article via twitch.com @twitchfilm gives low-down on the upcoming festival coming to Cambridge’s Brattle Theatre
February 2013
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Whatever we in the West know about Japanese film, and how we know it, we most...
– Filmmaker Paul Schrader on writer Donald Richie who passed away in Tokyo on Tues, Feb. 19
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Stirred, Not Shaken →
Cocktail expert Dale Degroff ( @kingcocktl ) shares his favorite movie themed cocktails for a perfect Oscar night ( via liquor.com @liquor ) . I know I’ll be mixing a few of these come Sunday as this combines 2 of my life’s passions.
December 2012
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[Zero Dark Thirty] creates the strong impression that the enhanced interrogation...
– CIA chief Michael Morell • From a statement released today, regarding Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow’s controversial new film, Zero Dark Thirty, about the lead-up to the raid that ultimately killed Osama bin Laden.The film contains depictions of torture being used in service of the bin Laden...
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Happy Birthday Jean-Luc Godard →
The French New Wave’s original enfant-terrible Jean-Luc Godard celebrates his 82nd birthday today. His string of masterpieces in from Breathless to Weekend seem just as timely and modern as ever and his influence can not be measured.
November 2012
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