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28 April 2013 8:00 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

It has been a busy week for me, not necessarily in terms of movie watching, but just in general. I have spent the last week-and-a-half moving into a new place and if you were wondering why I didn't post anything after noon on Friday, it's because I spent the rest of Friday and all of Saturday moving, but things should be back to normal 'round these parts now and I'll try and post a few additional items to make up for news lost... First, however, let's share our viewing habits over the last seven days. For me it was Pain & Gain in theaters and I already wrote all about seeing Marcel Carne's Children of Paradise, which you can read right here. The last item I watched this week was the fourth episode of "Hannibal", which I understand isn't exactly doing all that well in the ratings, which is a bit worrisome for me, »

- Brad Brevet

25 April 2013 9:13 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Last night I finally finished watching Marcel Carne's 1945 film Children of Paradise. At just over three hours long it took me a couple sittings, though last night I watched the bulk of it (a little over two hours) and it's one hell of a piece of cinema. Roger Ebert describes the production saying it "was shot in Paris and Nice during the Nazi occupation and released in 1945. Its sets sometimes had to be moved between the two cities. Its designer and composer, Jews sought by the Nazis, worked from hiding. Carne was forced to hire pro-Nazi collaborators as extras; they did not suspect they were working next to resistance fighters. The Nazis banned all films over about 90 minutes in length, so Carne simply made two films, confident he could show them together after the war was over." The film largely focuses on an actor -- Frederick Lema?tre played by »

- Brad Brevet

23 April 2013 2:39 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Time Out has put its heart on its sleeve and shouted its Brief Encounter infatuation from the rooftops. Will you join them in their lovebombing of the 68-year-old classic? Or have your tastes in romantic movies moved on?

Sam played it again, now it's our turn to plug in the turntable and petition you once more for your top romance films of all time. The peg? Time Out's 100 Most Romantic Films of all Time poll, which has been announced today, and which names Brief Encounter as the title most likely to get your heart a-flutter.

But by our reckoning, the Time Out folk are cruising for a bruising; when we came to the same conclusion three years ago, the readers felt we'd done them wrong, and suggested Casablanca was Mr Right when it came to romantic movies.

Do you feel the same? Has your taste for gin joints endured over the past three years? »

21 April 2013 8:00 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

It's been a busy week for me personally as I have been doing what I can to get up at 5 every morning to go to the gym, which was then interrupted as I had to get up at one in the morning to cover the Cannes Film Festival announcement and at the end of the week I started the process of moving to a new house. So... my movie watching took a hit. Yet, I did see Oblivion on Tuesday and Mud on Thursday and also watched the latest episode of "Hannibal" on Saturday night before tapping this week's "What I Watched" out. As for Oblivion you can read my review right here and I discussed Mud a little bit on the Friday edition of the podcast. When it comes to "Hannibal" I felt this week's episode was the weakest of the first three, though it ended with an interesting bit of intrigue, »

- Brad Brevet

10 April 2013 4:28 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

I've mentioned before how several years ago I created a list using Roger Ebert's Great Movies, Oscar Best Picture winners, IMDb's Top 250, etc. and began going through them doing my best to see as many of the films on these lists that I had not seen as I possibly could to up my film I.Q. Well, someone has gone through the exhaustive effort to take all of the films Roger Ebert wrote about in his three "Great Movies" books, all of which are compiled on his website and added them to a Letterbxd list and I've added that list below. I'm not positive every movie on his list is here, but by my count there are 363 different titles listed (more if you count the trilogies, the Up docs and Decalogue) and of those 363, I have personally seen 229 and have added an * next to those I've seen. Clearly I have some work to do, »

- Brad Brevet

10 April 2013 4:28 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

I've mentioned before how several years ago I created a list using Roger Ebert's Great Movies, Oscar Best Picture winners, IMDb's Top 250, etc. and began going through them doing my best to see as many of the films on these lists that I had not seen as I possibly could to up my film I.Q. Well, someone has gone through the exhaustive effort to take all of the films Roger Ebert wrote about in his three "Great Movies" books, all of which are compiled on his website and added them to a Letterbxd list and I've added that list below. I'm not positive every movie on his list is here, but by my count there are 362 different titles listed (more if you count the trilogies and Decalogue) and of those 362, I have personally seen 229 and have added an * next to those I've seen. Clearly I have some work to do, »

- Brad Brevet

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