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Clip joint: Shopping malls

23 May 2012 9:12 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Help us sort through the racks for the best examples of shopping malls featured in film

This week's Clip joint is by Martyn Conterio. Think you can do better? If you've got an idea for a future Clip joint, send a message to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk

The shopping mall on screen: where bland commercialism meets high drama. Over the past 40 years, cinema has used this environment for all sorts of strange and unusual scenarios, ranging from Woody Allen comedies to zombie sagas. A major lure for film-makers and producers is the salient matter of dispensing with constructing an expensive set – there's already one there.

That Anywheresville quality to shopping-mall interiors lends various films a universal feel. Don't all malls look basically the same on the inside, dominated by bright lighting, displays, food courts, neat rows of shops, fountains and sculptures? Almost naturally, American movie-makers have utilised the mall for many, »

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Our 9 Favorite Movie Stoners

20 April 2012 8:00 AM, PDT | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »

The numbers 4-20 have tons of significance in both world history and American culture. It's Hitler's birthday and the date of the Columbine massacre, for starters.

But since those two are such buzzkills, we'll focus on what else the date means: high time for stoners everywhere.

Looking back at our favorite stoner films, we notice many actors portray potheads one-dimensionally: eyes glazed, dopey voice, etc. We love the following movie stoners because they're not only funny, but also multidimensional.

Okay, but mostly because they're funny.

9. Brad Pitt, 'True Romance' (1993)

Floyd is the ultimate slacker stoner. Pitt plays the character as being so high he barely forms words outside of mumbling, "Hey! Get some beer and some cleaning products." His scenes provide great comedic relief in an otherwise rough and violent movie.

We relate because we've had nightmarishly lazy roommates like Floyd. The scenes are twice as funny now in hindsight, »

- Ryan McKee

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Femography: Director Deepa Mehta

18 April 2012 5:23 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

Watching many of the major films from Bollywood history, one trend that stands out is the way that the films show a great respect for traditional values while at the same time providing progressive challenges to those values, ultimately earning the support from the keepers of the traditional values. Deepa Mehta, an Indian-Canadian director, takes a much harsher eye to Indian traditions in her most notable films. While she often makes films that, in location or culture, are distinctly Indian, the Western influences are evident. It is likely for this reason that her films have often faced protest and censorship in India.

After a few hard to find films and some work in television, Mehta broke through in 1994 with Camilla, one of the three features directed by Mehta that doesn’t engage with Indian culture. The main focus is on the friendship that develops between a young woman (Bridget Fonda »

- Erik Bondurant

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"Monkeybone" Based On "Dark Town"

21 January 2012 7:59 PM, PST | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »

The Anchor Bay Entertainment re-release of director Henry Selick's 2001 live-action/stop-motion comedy feature "Monkeybone", based on Kaja Blackley's graphic novel "Dark Town", will be available on DVD, January 31, 2012.

"Monkeybone" stars Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, and Whoopi Goldberg with uncredited performances by Thomas Haden Church, Rose McGowan, David Foley, Giancarlo Esposito, Megan Mullally and Chris Kattan :

"...'Stu Miley' (Fraser) is a disillusioned cartoonist whose comic strip features a rascal monkey named 'Monkeybone'. Stu is also in love with sleep institute worker 'Dr. Julie McElroy' (Fonda), who helped him deal with his terrible nightmares by changing his drawing hand.

"One night, Stu crashes his car after accidentally activating an inflatable Monkeybone toy and falls into a coma.

"His spirit ends up in 'Down Town', a limbo-like carnival landscape populated by human beings, mythical creatures and figments of people's imaginations..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Monkeybone"...

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- Michael Stevens

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