January 2010
45 posts
“Three of the major studios have closed, absorbed or scaled back their various...”
– ”Talking About a Revolution (for a Digital Age)” by Manohla Dargis in the New York Times
Julia →
Quietly ushered into Auckland cinemas, Erick Zonca—whose last major picture was The Dreamlife of Angels more than ten years ago—showcases Tilda Swinton in one of the best performances…
Invictus →
Clint Eastwood’s film about the 1995 Rugby World Cup—and tangentially about the first years of Nelson Mandela’s presidency—provides absolutely no insight on either. Morgan Freeman and…
“Here’s the history of two decades in one sentence: If the past 10 years have...”
– “In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits” by Chris Anderson in WIRED magazine
Bad To The Bone →
Crazy Heart is the same ridiculously predictable ‘heart-warming’ story we’ve seen a million times before, writes Hugh Lilly
In Crazy Heart, which was written, directed and produced…
“back in the day —-let’s say 85, 86….publishing cats would come...”
– ?uestlove on copyright & talk-show walk-on music
“Rushmore is the story of a teenage boy who masquerades as the king of his...”
– “On Wes Anderson’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox” by Stefany Anne Golberg
“A library is an enormous repository of information, entertainment, the best that...”
– “Our Boredom, Ourselves” by Jennifer Schuessler
“How can popular music survive without a mass market, mass platforms or mass...”
– End of the Century by J. Gabriel Boylan in The Nation
“One reason seekers of news are abandoning print newspapers for the Internet has...”
– “Cut This Story!” — Michael Kinsley in The Atlantic
Up in the Air / The Lovely Bones / Fantastic Mr.... →
Up in the Air
Almost as bad as that other aerially-oriented movie where Tom Hanks played a foreign guy stranded in JFK.
Jason Reitman (Juno, Thank You For Smoking) directs George…
“We are a nation dismantling the structures of intellectual property and all...”
– “Final edition: Twilight of the American newspaper“—Richard Rodriguez in Harper’s
“Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its...”
– Vincent Canby, qtd. in Toby Talbot’s “The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies”
“For bringing the latest Hollywood blockbusters into homes, Blu-ray is without...”
– The Ballad of Blu-ray - A Cinephile Takes Stock - NYTimes.com
“The term “real time” has become such a part of English that we have forgotten...”
– Unreal time - The Boston Globe
“The traditional theatrical experience that shaped how viewers looked at film...”
– Manohla Dargis: “In 2000s, Filmgoers Float in the Digital Experience”
