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ENTOURAGE: News, Notes, November Previews

post from Meet In The Lobby on 11 October 2008 11:29:16 PM. © Meet In The Lobby

First, before we get to some minor Entourage spoilers, here’s great news for the series’ fans: Monday, HBO announced the show will be back for Season 6. A few weeks ago, I might’ve thought the boys were overstaying their welcome. But[...]

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Pres. Bush The Thinker

post from Rama's SCREEN on 11 October 2008 11:01:56 PM. © Rama's SCREEN

Via joblo, here’s an advertising image for the upcoming biopic satire W. about our current President George Dubya Bush. It’s clearer now more than ever what director Oliver Stone’s intention has always been by making this movie. I’ve attached to it the image of the sculpture THE THINKER. Have you crapped while wearing your cowboy [...]

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Captain America in THE INCREDIBLE HULK DVD

post from Rama's SCREEN on 11 October 2008 10:48:27 PM. © Rama's SCREEN

I just landed in Baltimore Airport a couple of hours ago and now I’m in a hotel trying to keep up with everything. As you can see, the screenshot image above is via Filmschoolrejects, from both the Blu-ray and regular DVD versions of THE INCREDIBLE HULK released on October 21st, they spotted the shield of [...]

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Tpull's Weekly DC Comics Review Part Two

post from Filmfodder News and Reviews on 11 October 2008 10:07:05 PM. © Filmfodder News and Reviews

Final Crisis: Revelations 3, Secret Six 2, Trinity 19, and Wonder Woman 25

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31 Days of Horror: Day 11 - The Sentinel

post from Row Three on 11 October 2008 09:39:38 PM. © Row Three

It is “good” to know that much like today Hollywood has always grasped onto ideas and[...]

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FCNLife of the Dead (La vie des morts, 1991)

post from The Evening Class on 11 October 2008 07:29:00 PM. © The Evening Class

The French Cinema Now revival screening of Arnaud Desplechin's rarely (if ever) seen first feature film Life of the Dead (La vie des morts, 1991) was a welcome meditation on the presence of the oak in the acorn. It proved to be a perfect companion piece to A Christmas Tale for prefiguring many of the themes and methods expressed more fully in Desplechin's critically-acclaimed recent work, including a family gathering pulled into the gravitational field of the death horizon via an attempted suicide.

Where Life of the Dead differs from A Christmas Tale is that the family has gathered for a death watch, instead of a competitive if not hopeful negotiation to save the life of their matriarch. But the intrafamilial hatred is amusingly familiar in retrospect, including the embittered daughter Pascale (Marianne Denicourt) trying to rule the family brood through sheer animus if not animosity and Emmanuelle Devos as the girlfriend caught unwittingly wide-eyed in the crossfire.

Clocking in at a mere 54 minutes, Life of the Dead sketches characterizations of its immense ensemble but remains attractive for its sheer ambition and Desplechin's creative compulsion towards stylistic density. As Desplechin stated to Dennis Lim in a May 2005 Village Voice interview: "It's a lot of work to have density?to fill the screen with details and small stuff, trying to imagine for each character a past and a future. I think it has to do with a hunger and it goes back to my first film [La Vie des Morts]. I was scared to death that I would never make another one, and I wanted so much to work with actors, so even though it was very low-budget and we only had five days, I wrote more characters than I could really put in: 25 actors in this one-hour film. I was hungry?I just wanted a lot of them, quantity not quality, different actors, different ages." In his earlier review for the Voice, Lim characterized Life of the Dead as "a terse, acrid riposte to The Big Chill."

"La Vie des morts reflects the existential need for reassurance through self-distraction and the conduct of everyday rituals within the collective crisis of imminent death," writes Acquarello at Strictly Film School.

I need to commend the San Francisco Film Society for scoring this archival print for their newly-launched French Cinema Now series. The opportunity to see such a rare film unavailable on DVD is a cinephile's treat and a wonderful way to appreciate how Desplechin's work has developed over the past decade and a half.

Cross-published on Twitch.

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Nick and Norah's National Coming Out Day!

post from Film Experience Blog on 11 October 2008 07:26:00 PM. © Film Experience Blog

And I almost forgot. Last year I typed up a somewhat controversial list of "out" film people. I'm not going to retype but if I did it'd feel so nice to add. And I would've had to. It's so nice to add. See, more and more Hollywood types are rejecting the don't-rock-the-boat myth of Certain Career Doom. Good for them. The way I see it "Coming Out" is a tangible gift to oneself but it's also of abstract benefit to the world. People feel alone and scared and marginalized for lots of reasons, not only sexuality, and if you can make someone else feel less alone merely by being true to yourself? Shazam! The world is a better place... and most of the time you won't even know that someone else was able to borrow from your strength. Which is fine. You don't need credit. At the risk of referencing a bad movie: Pay it forward.

Today I met up with Joe to take in Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and it was sweet and cute and funny (though not really a patch on the director's debut Raising Victor Vargas, which is all of those things too). But since it's National Coming Out Day what I most want to say is that youth-oriented movies have come a long way. In the movie Nick's two best friends are both gay. Miraculously the movie doesn't think this is weird or shameful or anything other than just the way Nick's life is. If anything the movie thinks this makes Nick (a straight romantic lead) even more loveable than he is already is just by being Michael Cera.

Shameless generalizsations coming atcha now! Back in 80s teen movies nobody was gay onscreen. "Gay" was only something the characters didn't want to be called. No characters actually were, you know, that way. If you were a gay kid in the 80s (as I was) there just wasn't much to make you feel less "weird" or marginalized apart from the odd arthouse movie that you snuck into with sympatico friends. In the 90s token gay characters began emerging regularly (like Christian in Clueless) but they were mostly peripheral. In the Aughts the Gay Best Friend is everywhere in mainstream fare. From nonexistent to affectionately and ubiquitously portrayed in just two decades? That's real progress even if some diversity in "types" would be more than welcome. I can't imagine what it's like for gay kids growing up now. And the fact that I can't imagine it means that things have changed a lot. And that, my friends, is a very good thing.

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Frieze. 118.

Duncan Campbell writes the "Life in Film" column for the new issue of frieze: "Firstly, I'd like to pay my dues to John T Davis. Davis was born in Belfast. His first experience of filmmaking came via a chance...

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Shorts, 10/11.

"I come from Portugal, but I have not spoken Portuguese in years. I am proud of this, even though I have never learnt to speak another language properly. I suppose you could say that makes me feel twice as...

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Big Directors Small Films: Christopher Nolans
Doodlebug

This is the first edition of a new regular feature on /Film. In Big Directors Small Films, we will take a look at the short films of Hollywood’s working filmmakers. This week we take a look at The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan’s surreal 1997 short film Doodlebug.“A man waits patiently in his apartment to [...]

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