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• NEW WAVE WEEK! Day 1: Jean-Luc Godard

  

  Hello everyone and welcome to French New Wave Week. Here at Southern Vision, as you know, I’m a huge fan of foreign film, so I decided to have a special week... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Hanna (8/10)

  

  Hanna (2011)Director: Joe WrightCast: Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana, Tom HollanderMy Rating: 8/10.In Short: Assassins on AcidJoe Wright’s fast-paced... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Battleship Potemkin (10/10)

  

  The Battleship Potemkin (1925)Director: Sergei EisensteinCast: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov, Ivan BobrovMy Rating: 10/10. Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2011 MOVIES

• Source Code (6/10)

  

  Source Code (2011) Director: Duncan Jones Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright My Rating: 6/10. In Short: Flawed but Fun With... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Movie Snapshot Quiz 2

  

  About three and a half weeks ago, I posted a ‘Movie Snapshot Quiz,’ where I gave you closeup images of snapshots from movies and asked you to name the movie.... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ten Great Short Films You Must See

  I make a lot of recommendations to people, and it really can be hard to keep up with them all. So I thought today, instead of promoting some mammoth 3-hour movi... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Paul Thomas Anderson Characters Who Deserve Their Own Movie!

  

  Continuing the series of fun posters where we pretend the characters of a certain director have been given their own spinoff movie are six posters featuring... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ten Memorable Long Takes in Movies

  

  To contrast with yesterday’s post about jump cuts is a larger list about long takes. I was recently reminded by Scott at FRC of something Steven Spielberg once... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• 5 Memorable Jump Cuts in Cinema

  

  When Jean-Luc Godard popularized the jump cut in 1959 when he made his breakthrough movie Breathless, it has since become a useful and intriguing editing tool. Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• My 15 Favourite Moments in Ingmar Bergman Movies

  

  Recently I’ve been revisiting some of my favorite films from legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, whom Woody Allen called the greatest filmmaker of all time.... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Russian Ark (10/10)

  

  Russian Ark (2002)Director: Aleksandr SokurovCast: Sergei Dontsov, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Aleksandr SokurovMy Rating: 10/10 In... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Random Question: The Best DVD You Own

  

  Time for another Random Question. This time I want to know what the best DVD you own is. The one you’re most proud to own. It could be a rare one, maybe a... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Thank You, IndiePosit!!!!

  

  This post is just a quick thank you to IndiePosit, who have been kind enough to make me a Featured Blogger on their site and have warmly welcomed me to their... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• DVD of the Week (2/9)

  

  Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s DVD of the Week, where I take down a DVD from my shelf and ask you, the reader, for your opinions on the film (or, if... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Pretention: A Rant

  

  “pretentious: claiming great importance; ostentatious” – Webster’s Universal Dictionary Something which really annoys me these days is when people label a film... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Festen (The Celebration): Review

  

  This is a movie I’ve been wanting to review for a long time. It reigns supreme among the royalty of independent cinema, not only in its aesthetic and feel, but... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ten Great Indie Dramas You Must See

  

  I’m a great lover of independent movies. I respect and admire them in general a lot more than Hollywood movies. So I thought it fitting to make a list of the te... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Random Question: How Far Would You Drive Just to See One Movie?

  Last Thursday Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life was released here in New Zealand… but only to indie cinemas. And unfortunately, there is no indie cinema in... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Movie Snapshot Quiz

  

  Admittedly, this has been done before. A lot. I show you a closeup image from a movie and you try to guess what the movie is. Odds are, you’ve done one of... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Ten Best Arthouse Movies Ever Made

  

  Arthouse films are a lively, imaginative genre which seems, with the state of Hollywood at the moment, to be the only film genre we can completely rely on.... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES