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• Illusions of Loneliness: Somewhere to Disappear

  

  Somewhere to Disappear, directed by Laure Flammerion and Arnaud Uyttenhove, is a documentary following renowned photographer Alec Soth as he travels the US in... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Screenshot Saturday: Richard Loncraine’s Richard III (1995)

  

  Far from a simple adaptation of Shakspeare’s bloody play, Loncraine’s Richard III is a complex, alternate-universe retelling of the mad battle for power. Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• In Praise of The Artist

  

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  Posted on 02 February 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Dangerous Method: The Consequences of Repression

  

  Intricately layered and hypnotically complex, David Cronenberg’s brilliant adaptation of Christopher Hampton’s stage play “The Talking Cure” (in turn based on... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Screenshot Saturday: Fred Dekker’s The Monster Squad (1987)

  

  In film, there is art and there is fun. Sometimes they coexist and sometimes they do not. Either way, it is usually the fun that reminds us of falling in love... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Damon Albarn & Michael Nyman Compose My Future on the Coattails of Ravenous

  

  When I was a kid I found the film Ravenous on the shelf of my local video store. Yes, I probably shouldn’t have been allowed to rent it at the time, but the... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2012 MOVIES

• Five Things They Don’t Tell You About the Sundance Film Festival (VWMF Classic)

  

  I attended the Sundance Film Festival last year and it was one of the best uses of $1,000 I could come up with. Anyone who can go, should go, and to celebrate... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Screenshot Saturday: René Laloux’s Fantastic Planet (1973)

  

  Fantastic Planet is a film so alien, yet so frighteningly familiar, that the act of watching it is a kind of transgressive experience. Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Eraserhead, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Nausea

  

  Harry Spencer is a pitiful man. He lives in the boiler room of an abandoned industrial complex. He has a psychotic girlfriend. He is paralyzed by the foul... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Exorcist and My Mother

  

  My mother is one of those people who relished the ability to mold my opinions on the world. One of my earliest memories is being taught to reply to the question... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Screenshot Saturday: Tomm Moore’s The Secret of Kells (2009)

  

  The Secret of Kells marks our first animated Screenshot Saturday ever. A French, Irish, and Belgian made film that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Cutting Sound Visually: Fritz Lang’s M

  

  “I was primarily a visual artist. I never had an ear and I regret it.” –Fritz Lang“To appreciate Lang’s sound, we must key our listening into a more pervasive,... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Why You Need to See Metropolis

  

  It’s difficult to overstate the importance of Metropolis. It was absolutely essential to the creation of science fiction as a whole. Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Screenshot Saturday: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Charisma (1999)

  

  After bemoaning the lack of movies about plants eating people, I was directed by Chris Fletcher over at 10BillionCannons to Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s disillusioned... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Metamorphosis of Time: David Julyan Scoring The Descent

  

  “The acceptance of death is the source of all life.” –John Cage (Juilliard Lecture)“…the revelation takes place now, here, for the first time, but the image tha... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Fifth Element: Luc Besson’s Pessimistic Opus

  

  Luc Besson claims to have never attended the cinema until the age of 16. Likewise, he once threatened to retire after making ten films (a threat not yet followe... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Screenshot Saturday: Koen Mortier’s Ex Drummer (2007)

  

  Koen Mortier’s innovative camerawork (strongly influenced by Gaspar Noé) marks only one of the many unconventional aspects of Ex Drummer. Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Best Film Watched in 2011

  

  Most websites are filled with end of the year “best of 2011″ lists, and we’re not even going to try to throw in our collective voice to that din. Film is... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Sweet Nothing: The Banal Brutality of ‘Little Sweetheart’ (1989)

  

  Sometimes I watch movies that aren’t very good. I’m sure you do this odd thing, too, for one reason or another. I have a particular affinity for John Hurt and... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Screenshot Saturday: Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris (2011)

  Midnight in Paris invites its’ audience to accompany it on an intergenerational journey, filled with literary and artistic legends. Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES