The first unfinished movie footage from the Golden Compass has been posted. I teared up a little bit with excitement. The scene of Iorek running without his armor looked really good. The narration in the clip is a mess. It...
Posted 03/26/07 @11:35 AM · Feedback (0/0)
AFI Dallas has a new website up with all the films, venue and ticket information. I've already got about 10 films on my "to see" list from just a cursory glance....
Posted 02/28/07 @04:08 PM · Feedback (0/0)
There is a curious phenomenon running through the DVD market on Amazon these days. At the end of the long tail DVDs with meager popularity demand huge prices. Matinee, that lovable coming of age story set during the Cuban Missile...
Posted 01/16/07 @01:57 PM · Feedback (0/0)
The NY Times has a good story about Netflix and their rental patterns. Netflix sends and receives 700 million DVDs a year. Out of their 60,000 titles 35,000 to 40,000 are out every day. That number is surprisingly diverse. I...
Posted 12/07/06 @03:39 PM · Feedback (0/0)
Julie and I made the trek down to Austin for SXSW Film. Small Town Gay Bar, Shadow Company, LOL, Inner Circle Line and Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon all stand out. But TV Junkie is the one...
Posted 03/16/06 @09:29 PM · Feedback (0/0)
A friend of mine had a print of Michael Winterbottom's new movie, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story so he screened it at the theater after the other movies finished. It was the funniest movie I've seen in...
Posted 12/06/05 @01:26 AM · Feedback (0/0)
I've consumed a lot of Asian films since last Friday. I had stopped really caring about movies since I'd been on a steady diet of weak AFI 100 films and lackluster theatrical releases most of this year. Wong Kar Wai's...
Posted 08/25/05 @10:08 PM · Feedback (0/0)
Save the Green Planet looks more inventive and interesting than the vast majority of Hollywood fare coming out this year...What happened to the Hollywood of the 1930s or the early to mid 1970s? That is except for Universal's Serenity, based...
Posted 04/26/05 @02:31 PM · Feedback (0/0)
I finally got around to seeing Seed of Chucky. While it's no Bride of Chucky it is a worthy addition to the Chucky series. Seed of Chucky fails at exactly what Bride of Chucky did so well. BoC is an...
Posted 11/27/04 @12:04 AM · Feedback (0/0)
I saw a trailer for The Take before P.S.. It's Naomi Klein so I expected a movie with a radical new take on globalization and megacorps. This seems like the latest escalation in leftist documentaries. I've never seen a trailer...
Posted 11/21/04 @12:06 AM · Feedback (0/0)
I went up to Nashville tonight and caught a showing of the latest anime, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence. As the story lines in anime are not very diverse you can probably guess what the movie is about by...
Posted 09/23/04 @11:36 PM · Feedback (0/0)
I was reading the forums for The Wire when I caught this tidbit. Someone else was complaining about the dialogue in the show and the grammar of the phrase "He be late". That garnered this response: Ok, Let me explain....
Posted 07/28/04 @11:34 PM · Feedback (0/0)
I still struggle with my relationship with the American South. I was born in Memphis and grew up in Huntsville, Alabama. I lived in Birmingham for a few years too. Most of that time has been a mixture of awe...
Posted 06/29/04 @10:50 PM · Feedback (0/0)
I watched Sherman's March (1986) tonight. I have no idea how this ended up in my queue. I think it was mentioned in a green cine newsletter. A documentary filmmaker sets out to explore William Tecumseh Sherman, the Union general...
Posted 05/18/04 @12:16 AM · Feedback (0/0)
Had great fun in the 2004 24 Hour Video Race. We got our short in 9 minutes before the midnight deadline. We had to build a 5 minute or less short film around the following four things: (1) Location: Playground...
Posted 05/12/04 @07:53 AM · Feedback (0/0)
Today David and I head to Dallas for the 24 Hour Video Race. I am very much looking forward to seeing old friends. While I'm there I'm adding a new server to my co-located servers. Have fun graduating this weekend...
Posted 05/06/04 @07:46 AM · Feedback (0/0)
I must be getting soft since my favorite movies this year have been love stories: Show Me Love, Mansfield Park and now Millennium Actress directed by Satoshi Kon. I had enjoyed his previous film Perfect Blue with it's clever story...
Posted 04/18/04 @09:21 PM · Feedback (0/0)
I saw Dawn of the Dead tonight. Not quite the fun ride I got from 28 Days Later, and in fact many shots in Dawn of the Dead felt copied from that film. Still it had some funny moments. Sort...
Posted 04/02/04 @01:46 AM · Feedback (0/0)
Today finds me in a much better mood and that's due to some late movie catch-up. I saw Bad Santa and Peter Pan today. Enjoyed both. More on Bad Santa later... I grew up watching the J.M. Barrie derived "Peter...
Posted 01/11/04 @09:08 PM · Feedback (0/0)
I suppose when I look at something long enough the whole recedes and all I see is the parts. I keep looking. The process repeats itself over and over till the machinery not the machine is all I see. I...
Posted 12/27/03 @10:43 PM · Feedback (0/0)
From http://www.nytimes.com/ref/readersopinions/questions-scott.html Dec. 15 Q. I find it's impossible for me to criticize movies I loved when I was child, even the ones I know are bad. Last summer on TV, for example, I watched "Smokey and the Bandit" for...
Posted 12/22/03 @11:29 PM · Feedback (0/0)
My head hurts today. When will this flu season end? Finally saw The Station Agent last night. Nicely done. Typically those "outsider heals group" movies become sentimental but this did not go there. I think it's because Peter Dinklage's performance...
Posted 12/12/03 @12:46 PM · Feedback (0/0)
The MoMA is hosting a series on The Hidden God: Film and Faith about hidden spirituality in movies. Of course they are showing Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors, Andrei Rublev, Bergman's Winter Light and Carl Dreyer's The Word. However, the...
Posted 12/09/03 @07:27 PM · Feedback (0/0)
I was driving the five minutes it takes to get home and listening to All Things Considered today when this great interview came on. It was about a woman, Liz Yuan, who saw a movie at the Toronto Film Festival...
Posted 12/02/03 @11:55 PM · Feedback (0/0)
An Incomplete Education has an essay comparing and contrasting River's Edge and George Washington. Perhaps Donald Holden will become the next Keanu Reeves. Listening: Ronderlin - Wave Another Day Goodbye...
Posted 11/21/03 @11:24 PM · Feedback (0/0)
Oh me, nobody should have this much fun with a 1MB application. I downloaded iStopMotion tonight. Useless, pointless, FUN exercise number one. I call it Haunted Chair. I plan to get Eddie Murphy to star in Haunted Chair II. That...
Posted 11/21/03 @12:51 AM · Feedback (0/0)
The Guardian seem to be quite prolific and talented at making lists. They have lists of all sorts. The latest list to impress me is the 40 best directors. The list only takes into account working directors so don't get...
Posted 11/15/03 @09:18 PM · Feedback (0/0)
I'm enjoying the commentary on the All the Real Girls DVD. In many ways I think it's better than what they did on the Criterion DVD of George Washington. As the writer/director, David Gordon Green, and the writer/actor, Paul Schneider,...
Posted 08/21/03 @09:17 PM · Feedback (0/0)
Ten movies that played at the Angelika in the past two years but were missed by most folks. The Believer Bully City of God George Washington Hedwig and the Angry Inch The Devil's Backbone L.I.E. Maelstr�m No Man's Land 24...
Posted 06/11/03 @01:33 PM · Feedback (0/0)
I just got back from a preview of 28 Days Later, the new Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Shallow Grave) movie. I went in with few expectations other than "low budget zombie movie." I really enjoyed it. I'd like to see it...
Posted 05/29/03 @01:04 AM · Feedback (0/0)
Finished the 24 hour video race today at 11:41pm. The goal for the race was to make a 5 minute or less movie that used the stranger as a theme, had a location involving a body of water, had an...
Posted 05/11/03 @04:16 AM · Feedback (0/0)
I saw "Cowboy Bebop: The Movie" today. Let me add a small warning. Seeing this on opening day was probably not the best idea. The 99% adolescent male audience had dull, insipid comments to make throughout. They were only mediocre...
Posted 04/04/03 @09:08 PM · Feedback (0/0)
The French are at it again. After recent shockers like "Romance", "Rape Me" and "Fat Girl" Gaspar Noé has taken up the challenge to assault his audience in a whole new way. In a NY Times interview he cites inspiration...
Posted 03/03/03 @06:53 PM · Feedback (0/0)
I'm waiting patiently for David Cronenberg's Spider to come to Dallas. Last year I went and read the book it's based on and was not really that impressed. The fact that the author wrote the screenplay concerns me as well....
Posted 02/28/03 @05:12 PM · Feedback (0/0)
In what has to be a first Huntsville, Alabama is getting a small independent film during its theatrical release. On 5/9/03 the Madison Square 12 is going to be showing it. Has it become the new art house theater in...
Posted 02/28/03 @11:52 AM · Feedback (0/0)
Christian films, specifically the apocalypse features, have never hit it big in the mainstream. The biggest hit in the genre has been The Omega Code at $12 million. Salon has a neat article about Christian apocalypse films. It focuses on...
Posted 09/03/02 @02:05 PM · Feedback (0/0)
