NEWS: WGA nominates "Avatar" for Best Original Screenplay (01/11/10). NEWS: Second Palindrome Day of new year. (01/11/10) NEWS: Deleted "Avatar" Na'vi sex scene to be restored for DVD release. (12/27/09) "We had it in and we cut it out. So…
The opening credits sequence of "An Education" doesn't seem fully developed to me, but the music -- Floyd Cramer's 1961 Nashville slip-note piano classic, "On the Rebound" -- had me coasting on an endorphin high for half the movie. Here's…
Arthur Penn's "Night Moves" (1975) is one of the great movies of the '70s. As a detective picture about a private eye with flawed vision -- in this case, a small-time independent dick and former football player named Harry Moseby…
The ever-reliable David Hudson tracks the Rohmer tributes at The Auteurs Daily. I recall seeing Rohmer's last film at the Toronto Film Festival in 2007: Eric Rohmer has made a career out of chronicling the rituals of romance (and Romanticism),…
It has been argued that there are some movies you just have to see so that you can have an opinion about them. I have, on occasion, bought this line of reasoning. But after more than 30 years of seeing…
UPDATE (01/19/10): NY Times: "You Saw What in Avatar?": "Some of the ways people are reading it are significant of Cameron's intent, and some are just by-products of what people are thinking about," said Rebecca Keegan, the author of "The…
Do you agree that Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" is a terrific movie? Well, Nile Gardiner of the Daily Telegraph also thinks so. Does that mean you agree with him? He says that it's one of "The Top 10 Conservative…
I was in high school when I picked up a hardback copy of the first edition of Robin Wood's "Hitchcock's Films" (1965) from a remainder table at a depressingly small, sterile, fluorescent-lit Crown Books in an old-fashioned, long-gone outdoor mall…
I made a mistake this week. I followed a link from a discussion among reputable movie critics to a showbiz gossip blog that I usually find too sleazy to visit. There I once again found all manner of bilious items…
The 2008 documentary "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (which I recommend to anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the charges facing him now) documents a public perception of Roman Polanski that blamed him not only for the darkness of…
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