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PopMatters. Godzilla @ 50.

post from GreenCine Daily on 11 May 2008 11:05:00 AM. © GreenCine Daily

"'Godzilla was once, as conventional wisdom would have it, a stand-in for the unspeakable violence of the atom bomb and by extension humanity's perennial, inscrutable drive toward self-destruction,' says PopMatters writer, Mike Ward, "But the history of Godzilla is...

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HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

post from Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule on 11 May 2008 10:33:00 AM. © Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule

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Casual Friday Video

post from MoovyBoovy on 11 May 2008 09:17:00 AM. © MoovyBoovy

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Every Friday Rocketboom runs a video. This week it was a sort of stream-of-consciousness dreamscape scat-singing birds thing.

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Mom Speed

post from MoovyBoovy on 11 May 2008 08:52:00 AM. © MoovyBoovy

Susan Sarandon in Speed Racer

NPR watch: Insight by Susan Sarandon re: Speed Racer and the biz in general (16 min).

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ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST

post from DAILY FILM DOSE: A Daily Film Appreciation and Review Blog on 11 May 2008 08:27:00 AM. © DAILY FILM DOSE: A Daily Film Appreciation and Review Blog

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) dir. Sergio LeoneStarring: Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards****In 1966 Sergio Leone filmed, arguably, the greatest western ever made, ?The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.? What could he[...]

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Marion Ravenwood

post from MoovyBoovy on 11 May 2008 08:23:00 AM. © MoovyBoovy

Karen Allen as Marion Ravenwood

Okay, I'm going out on a limb: there are two reasons 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' was a success. 1) The opening sequence in which Indy judges the weight of the gold trinket and replaces it with the bag of sand, but gets it wrong and ends up trying to outrun a boulder, and 2) The fact that Karen Allen played Marion Ravenwood.

Okay, so I'm biased. I had a huge crush on Marion/Karen -- who wouldn't? Okay, okay, I still have a crush on them/her.

Premiere has some very cool stills from Crystal Skull, including the one above.

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SFIFF Dispatch. 7.

post from GreenCine Daily on 11 May 2008 07:57:00 AM. © GreenCine Daily

David D'Arcy on an award-winning short. One of the discoveries at the San Francisco International Film Festival was an essay on an icon who barely had the 15 minutes of fame to be a shadow on the media record of...

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More Happening

post from MoovyBoovy on 11 May 2008 07:28:00 AM. © MoovyBoovy

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The new trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's 'The Happening' ramps up the creep factor. Problem is, the better his movies look in trailers, the more skeptical I am. I can't help it.

Show me creepy footage of a bunch of people standing still, staring forward, in the street, and I think: what's the catch.

Show me beautiful acting and cinematography and I think: well, that's what Shyamalan does -- but, how stupid will I feel for paying to see this movie.

The twist ending of 'The Village' negates the whole experience and leaves you feeling cheated, and yes, a bit gullible. This idea is something that would have made a good exercise as a short story, and might have been compelling as a stage play (for audiences that like to go to plays), but as a movie it didn't work.

The ending of 'Lady in the Water' doesn't pull the rug out from under you, but it doesn't do anything to justify such a drawn-out affair either. This one suffers from a hokiness factor that accomplishes the same effect -- you feel cheated and a bit gullible for expecting good entertainment.

The same can be said for all of Shyamalan's other movies, excepting of course 'The Sixth Sense'.

Is it too soon to call this the 'Shyamalan Effect'? Does M Night still have any credibility? Is anyone still willing to take a chance on this guy? If the creepiness in 'The Happening' doesn't lead somewhere that's cool and intelligent M Night's street cred will be shot. I love the genre -- the supernatural-psych thriller, light on gore, heavy on atmosphere and suspense -- but M Night has got to come through with some basic, solid storytelling, including an ending that isn't dumb and doesn't make you feel like a fool for having taken the time.

People complain about this -- this is what they're saying. (It's not just me). 'The Sixth Sense' was a long time ago. M Night is flirting with becoming a one-hit wonder, the punch-line of a joke. I'm hoping 'The Happening' is a hit. It could be. All this movie has to do is deliver what its trailer promises, come through with the goods. This looks like an original idea executed with panache. The problem is all of Shymalan's trailers look great -- the movies, however...

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Made of Honor Review

Otherwise known as My Best Friend’s Wedding, starring Julia Roberts and Dylan McDermott.Yes,[...]

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123RD PAGE 5TH SENTENCE

Yes, I am a sick and twisted player. When tagged by Hell on Frisco Bay's Brian Darr to participate in the internet's latest meme, I started to sing, "You charm the husk right off the corn, MEME?." (Boom. Ka-THUMP! Where's a kazoo when you need one?)

I participate only for fear that?should I not?Brian will do something drastic. Ordinarily I hate this sort of thing. Unlike Brian?though initially intrigued by Facebook?I've come to hate email invitations from friends of friends of friends wanting me to be a friend of a friend of a friend in a thoroughly misguided notion of social networking that eschews the face to face encounter or?at the least?a handwritten note in the mailbox and resembles something akin to an amoeba's promiscuous indiscretion. Let it be known here and now that this is the last meme I will ever respond to. And let me strongly suggest that the rest of you follow suit. If not now, when? If not you, who?

So here are the weapons of mass instruction:

1) Pick up the nearest book.
2) Open to page 123.
3) Locate the fifth sentence.
4) Post the next three sentences on your blog and in so doing...
5) Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.

Being that I was in my office when I received Brian's email, I was surrounded by thousands of books, many of which actually do make it to page 123, and some even to a fifth sentence (dependent upon definition). On the desk proper, however?bracing for a Lewton aftershock?was Alexander Nemerov's Icons of Grief: Val Lewton's Home Front Pictures; a volume I have no reservations recommending over and over again.

Here are the requisite three sentences: "In a more limited sense, the slowing down fits the film's conscience-liberal wish to show the gravity and dignity of black people. Yet a deeper force at work in these characters is a fear of forgetting?specifically, a fear that histories of racial violence would be forgotten. The freezing of motion disputes the flow of images that makes a movie frame ephemeral." (Footnote omitted.)

Now here's the part that I find most reprehensible about this meme. The fact that it lays responsibility at the foot of the person who has furthered it (Brian Brian Brian B-R-I-A-N!!! Picture me with the palms of my hands pressed to both sides of my head screaming at the top of my lungs), but likewise incriminates by announced reference the next five. We all know who you are and we will all know if you refuse to participate.

Girish Shambu, because he doesn't have enough to do already.
Darren Hughes, because he doesn't have enough to do already.
Doug Cummings, because he doesn't have enough to do already.
Peter Nellhaus, because he doesn't have enough to do already.
Bob Turnbull, because he doesn't have enough to do already.

Which leads me to my favorite playground quote: "Neener neener neener."

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