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Prince Caspian Movie Review [Movie News]

post from Film School Rejects on 16 May 2008 11:56:00 AM. © Film School Rejects

The Narnia films seem to have a strange affect on me. I see them a first time, and I like them. However, I don?t consider them best-of-the-year material. However, with the first one, I wanted to watch it again. This alone is a good sign for a film. For someone ...

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Cannes. A Christmas Tale.

post from GreenCine Daily on 16 May 2008 11:46:00 AM. © GreenCine Daily

"'Now that is a movie!' I exclaimed to a friend on exiting this morning's screening of Arnaud Desplechin's Un Conte De Noël (A Christmas Story [site])." Glenn Kenny: "The bourgeois-dysfunctional-family-comes-together-for-a-holiday setup is one of the hoariest in any medium, but...

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Fraggle Rock is coming to the big screen

post from The Reel Ninja on 16 May 2008 11:45:30 AM. © The Reel Ninja

Fraggle Rock, a children’s television series which ran for 5 seasons between January 10, 1983[...]

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UFOs in the News

post from Filmfodder News and Reviews on 16 May 2008 11:24:19 AM. © Filmfodder News and Reviews

What's with all of the UFO news lately?

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SFBFF & NCBW/OBACMiss HIV

post from The Evening Class on 16 May 2008 10:55:00 AM. © The Evening Class

The 10th Annual San Francisco Black Film Festival ("SFBFF"), scheduled to run June 4-8 and recommencing June 11-15, 2008, is primed to compete for festival audiences come June with 100 films over 10 days at 5 venues in San Francisco. Though the program line-up hasn't been officially announced, their website is up.

Anticipating the festival proper, SFBFF and the Coalition of 100 Black Women Oakland Bay Area Chapter Sistahs Getting Real About HIV/AIDS Initiative ("NCBW/OBAC") are co-sponsoring a private screening of Miss HIV on Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 6:00PM at the Museum of the African Diaspora ("MOAD"), 685 Mission Street, San Francisco. Though admission is free, space is limited and reservations are encouraged. You can either make a reservation through Avenue Montague (415/346-0199) or online at the MOAD website.

"Unlike any film you've seen on AIDS, Miss HIV takes you backstage to the Miss HIV pageant and behind the curtain on what is really happening in the war against a virus that is now the leading killer of people under 60 in the world."

Immediately following the film there will be a panel discussion and reception. Panelists will include director Jim Hanon, Cathy Adams (the founding president of NCBW/OBAC), playwright and activist Imani Harrington, and Malcolm John, M.D., M.P.H. from the Division of Infectious Diseases-Dept. of Medicine, and director of 360: The Positive Care Center at UCSF.

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My Father My Lord.

post from GreenCine Daily on 16 May 2008 10:46:00 AM. © GreenCine Daily

"Although profoundly compassionate toward its characters, My Father My Lord is an implicit critique of ultra-Orthodox dogma by a filmmaker who grew up in a Hasidic community but abandoned it when he was 25 to study film," writes Stephen...

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Captain Blood is Off Off Broadway

post from Film Experience Blog on 16 May 2008 10:20:00 AM. © Film Experience Blog

It's rainy days here in Manhattan, so you might want to find indoor events. If you're a movie nut but hanker regularly for live theater only to lament your lack of a Broadway budget --I'm describing myself but surely some of you, too-- I've got a fun suggestion for a night out.

I recently attendant an Off Broadway show called The Accidental Patriot: The Lamentable Tragedy of The Pirate Desmond Connelly, Irish by Birth, English by Blood, and American by Inclination (whew) which is playing at the Milagro Theater downtown. Like most small shows the run is short, there's just two performances left (tonight and tomorrow night, May 17th @ 8 PM). I'm going to be keeping an eye on this theater company Stolen Chair from now on.

I'm not sure where their cinephilia comes from, but love of the cinema snakes its way into their productions with some regularity... and not, if The Accidental Patriot is indication, in the dull copy & paste way it does when Broadway transfers a movie. In past productions they've apparently done stage interpretations of film noirs and silents. This one uses the dead swashbuckler genre as its jumping off point. The Accidental Patriot's primary influence is the Errol Flynn film Captain Blood (1935, but it's had a few movie versions) but it's not a straight adaptation. They've also mixed in some Greek tragedy. It's experimental theater but not self-serious and Jensen (my best friend) and I had a lot of fun watching it.

The thing I hate most about stage versions of movies is the set-changes. Stage plays are not meant to constantly have scene changes but film-to-stage properties often ape that standard movie structure and composition without realizing how awkward it plays in live theater. I worried during the first two set changes that The Accidental Patriot would annoy me in this same way but instead I found that the supporting cast was amusingly and increasingly grumbling about their set-shifting duties. The play was self aware enough to point out the awkward and in so doing, make it comedically entertaining.

Errol Flynn & Olivia DeHavilland in Captain Blood (1935)
The leads in The Accidental Patriot (2008)

My favorite flourish within the production was the continually amusing theatrical interpretation of "close ups" which the female lead in particular handled with go-for-broke humor and pre-method acting aplomb. I'd recommended this to any of you seeking a different sort of entertainment adventure this weekend. It's only a few bucks pricier than a movie ticket and it's freakin' live theater. Support!

pssst. Oscar-watchers take note. I was highly amused to read in the cast bios that one of the actors has his own Oscar prediction page. First time I've ever seen that in a bio. hee.
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Stalked:Gibson,Headey and Clooney

Tyrese Gibson will be showing up in Fast and Furious 4. Lena Heady has finished one film, and has two others lined up. George Clooney is to stare at goats....Visit Filmstalker for the full story. Restricted feeds to protect content.

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Josh Brolin Wants To Nail Bush

post from Starpulse Entertainment News Blog - Movie News on 16 May 2008 10:05:21 AM. © Starpulse Entertainment News Blog - Movie News

Josh Brolin researched his role as George W. Bush by mimicking his walk and making prank calls to hotels in the President's home state. The actor was determined to nail every aspect of Bush[...] Read more!

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Movie Drinking Games: Prince Caspian [Drinking
Games]

So I was feeling a bit guilty about putting together a drinking game for what is being marketed as a family film. Then, while perusing trailers on IMDb.com, I discovered that Disaronno was sponsoring the trailers for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, and I thought... that?s good enough for ...

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