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• For the Love of Park

  

  Universally regarded as one of the greatest Korean directors, Chan-Wook Park has solidified his throne as my favorite. A filmmaker with critic roots, his love o... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Great Composers of the Year – 2011

  

  The lines separating score from sound have been blurred and this has opened up new territories for composers in film and television.  With this list, I want to... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, MUSIC

• Screenshot Saturday: Robert D. Siegel’s Big Fan (2009)

  Have you ever wondered about the sort of people who regularly call in to talk radio? I mean really wondered about the type of person who sits there on hold,... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Jeff Beale’s New Musical Territory in Carnivàle

  

  “Jeff Beal is forever moving into new musical territory.” –LA Times For the HBO show Carnivàle, Jeff Beal was assigned the task of creating a cinematic score... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, TV & VIDEO

• Screenshot Saturday: Ming-liang Tsai’s The Wayward Cloud (2005)

  

  A bizarre mixture of softcore pornography and elaborate musical numbers, The Wayward Cloud was an unconvential landmark for the cinema of Taiwan. Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Death in the Desert: The Hitcher (1986)

  

  “And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.” – Revelation 6:8There are only two types of people... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Impressions of Melancholia (2011)

  

  As I’m sure you probably know, the indie darling movie of the month is the aptly titled Melancholia, from cinema’s bête noire, Lars von Trier. Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Screenshot Saturday: Dušan Makavejev’s WR: Mysteries of the Organism

  Surreal Yugoslavian filmmaker Dušan Makavejev juxtaposes crypto-psychology and communist propaganda in his paean to sexuality, WR: Mysteries of the Organism. WR... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• “That Movie Changed My Life!”

  

  There are some films that change your mind, some films that change your day, and some films that change your life. All of us have at least one film that... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• R.I.P Ken Russell, You Crazy Bastard

  

  Ken Russell, director of Women In Love (1979), Tommy (1975), The Devils (1971), Altered States (1980), The Lair of the White Worm (1988) and Gothic (1986),... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Watch the World Burn: The Dark Knight Soundtrack

  

  A few years ago, while listening to The Dark Knight soundtrack, I discovered an unfamiliar composition deeply in tune with the film’s questions, and yet quite... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Screenshot Saturday: Dario Argento’s Opera (1987)

  

  Dario Argento, Italian-horror king, directed this over the top and gleefully sadistic version of the classic phantom of the opera story, with Cristina Marsillac... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Screenshot Saturday: Jean-Marc Barr’s One To Another

  Based on actual events, One to Another (the French title being To Each the Night) follows five young French friends in a provincial town. Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Bronson (2008): At the Intersection of Art and Violence

  

  It’s always strange to write criticism about something that is linked irrevocably to someone else’s life. Yet Bronson is one of those films that it’s nearly... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• You Just Bought Yourself a Hard Ticket To Hawaii (1987)

  

  “Have you seen the movie where the skateboarder is riding around with the blow-up doll and gets killed by a rocket launcher?”My answer of course, was no. Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Screenshot Saturday: Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982)

  

  You know the old cliché: “The man who needs no introduction . . . ” ? Well, presumably, you don’t need me to explain to you why Blade Runner is a great movie an... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Review of John Carpenter’s “The Thing” (1982) from an Antarctic Employee

  

  “As a whole the subjects became less trusting and more suspicious of others immediately after their year in Antarctica.” –A.J.W. Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Leg Braces and Rape Scenes: An Attempted Apologia for Disturbing Imagery

  

  “They feel betrayed, and tricked, and deceived, and caught in something ugly … I was very happy with the movie, and I knew that it was the way that it should be... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Screenshot Saturday: György Pálfi’s Hukkle (2002)

  

  Nearly wordless, Hukkle (2002) is one of the rare modern films that can be viewed on mute until the very last scene with little lost. Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2011 MOVIES

• Scores That Scare: The 8 Most Frightening Movie Soundtracks

  

  Writing a score for a horror movie is tricky. There are a lot of possibilities depending on the approach of the film and within that are a variety of methods... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES