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Best Of 2009: Overheard at the Gothams
1 December 2009 2:38 PM, PST
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Not half an hour after The Hurt Locker won the Best Feature prize at last night's Gotham Independent Film Awards, hordes of awardgoers trekked from Cipriani Wall Street to the Kodak/indieWIRE afterparty at the Tribeca Cinemas. Free liquor still being one of life's great social lubricants, even those who headed to the party empty-handed were in pleasant spirits when I asked about their favorite films of 2009—Gothams-related or otherwise:
"Fantastic Mr. Fox was hand-made and the kind of care that goes in with that feels intimate. It's impossible to fake. Wes Anderson always has that ability to bring you into a world that you think you know but don't, and allows you an invitation. I haven't had more fun in the movies in a while."
- Ben Foster, "Breakthrough Actor" nominee for The Messenger
"I want this to read 'Damien Chazelle, over cocktails, said...' I like Two Lovers
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A-z Movie Reviews – C’s
4 November 2009 5:00 AM, PST
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To continue my review of my epic journey to watch all my films from A-z, this is the Third part.
For those that don’t know I am watching all 700+ Dvd/Bluray films from A-z which has so far taken me 2+ years to get to the end of G’s!
I thought I should retrospectively review each letter and give my top 5 films from each alpha block and maybe bring your attention to some films you may not have seen, films you’ve not seen in ages or films you should give another try.
Another letter and another bunch of classics I should own and a selection of ones I’m glad to say I don’t own.
A few to mention are Catwoman, Cannonball Run, Cape Fear, Clash of the titans, Cool running’s, City lights, Chinatown, City of God, Cheerleader Ninjas, Cool as Ice, City on Fire and Casablanca.
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- Gary Phillips
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San Jose Theatre Presents 'Another Night Before Christmas' Nov. 19 - Dec. 20
25 October 2009 11:35 AM, PDT
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City Lights Theater Company of San Jose proudly presents the West Coast Premiere of Another Night Before Christmas - book and lyrics by Sean Grennan, music by Leah Okimoto . The production previews on Thursday, November 19th and Friday, November 20th, 2009, with the Gala Opening Performance on Saturday, November 21st, 2009. A post-show discussion will be held on November 29th. The production is scheduled to run through December 20th, 2009.
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Tiff: ‘The Invention of Lying’ - Good Concept, Poor Execution
16 September 2009 7:48 PM, PDT
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I just don’t get Ricky Gervais.
I don’t find him funny, nor do I think him to be particularly talented. I do not understand his recent success at all, nor do I understand how he has been given a film to direct when thousands of young film students are dying to make a first film. To me he’s a one note comic struggling to stay alive opposite the actors he is working with. In his new film The Invention of Lying he is smarmy and superior to everyone around him, and I guess that is supposed to be funny. Ok, fine, but not to me, and comedy remember is very personal.
So I get that what is funny to you will not be to me and what I like, you may not. I remember showing my wife The Life of Brian years ago, and while I was howling with laughter,
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- John Foote
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HuffPost Review: The Hangover
4 June 2009 6:44 AM, PDT
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We've all had that kind of morning after a night of overindulgence. Your eyes barely open, your brain hardly functions, your memory is a blur (or a blank) - and, perhaps, you have some mysterious scrapes and bruises that weren't there 24 hours earlier.
If you're lucky, however, your experience is nothing like the four guys at the center of The Hangover, the leading contender to be the summer's breakout comedy. This is a cautionary tale - and a hilarious one, at that.
Not that it's original in any sense. The bachelor-party-gone-wrong comedy is a staple, with many forebears (as light as Bachelor Party with Tom Hanks, as dark as Peter Berg's Very Bad Things). As for comedies about overnight amnesia, the line stretches from Charlie Chaplin's City Lights to Dude, Where's My Car? and beyond.
Yet director Todd Phillips, working from a
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- Marshall Fine
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Valentine's Day Screening And Concert At Loews Jersey City
13 February 2009 8:39 AM, PST
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Our favorite movie palace, the Loews Theatre in Jersey City
has continued to thrive with the on-going restoration of this magnificent
showplace. On Valentine's Day, the Loews will show Charles Chaplin's City
Lights, one of the screen's great love stories. The film's final sequence
between the Little Tramp and the once-blind flower girl he adores is among the
most moving sequences ever filmed. The film will be preceded by a forty minute concert of romantic music on the legendary Loews Wonder Morton vintage organ by Ralph Ringstad, Jr. The concert will begin tomorrow night at 7:30 and the film will screen at 8:10. Admission is $7 and popcorn and drinks are still a dollar! On February 27, the Loews will present Roman
Polanski's Chinatown. On the weekend of February 27-28, there will be
some nefarious goings on with screenings of the crime dramas Night and the
City,
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- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
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I'm Not a Huge Charles Chaplin Fan but...
2 February 2009 12:41 AM, PST
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...this moment in Modern Times is near perfection. For those that don't know what's going on in the scene, he had the lyrics to the song he was supposed to sing on his cuffs, which you will notice fly off almost immediately.
One thing interesting about the song Chaplin sings is that it is the first time you hear the Tramp's voice as he sings "Je cherche apres Titine" in French/Italian gibberish but his actions lead the audience to understand what he is supposed to be singing about entirely.
If you are yet to familiarize yourself with Chaplin or are looking for a refresher course on April 16 TCM is set to run 10 Chaplin films in a row including Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914), A Dog's Life (1918), A Day's Pleasure (1919), The Kid (1921), Pay Day (1922), A Woman of Paris (1923), The Gold Rush (1925), Modern Times (1936), The Great Dictator (1940), A King in New York (1957) and
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- Brad Brevet
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