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29 June 2011 12:09 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

War Horse is one of the next movies from Steven Spielberg who, believe it or not, hasn.t made anything since Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I say it.s one of the next because he.s making up for his absence by releasing two different movies this year, and almost at the same time. Both the animated movie Tintin and War Horse are being released at virtually the same time, over Christmas. As its title suggests, War Horse is the story of a young man and his horse, sent to the brutal trenches of The Great War. The film.s first trailer has arrived, and if you.re a fan of real horse movies, it.s just about everything you could hope for. Watch: The world needs a good horse movie. I.m not talking about the kinds of horse movies you.re probably used »

21 May 2011 11:57 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

They shall beat their swords into plowshares

and their spears into pruning hooks;

One nation shall not raise the sword against another,

neither shall they learn war any more.

Isaiah 2:4

War is a nation’s ultimate commitment of blood and treasure.  As such, the stories a people tells about its wars – and don’t tell – and the ways it remembers its wars – or chooses to forget them – tells us much about the kind of people they consider themselves to be at different times in their history, as well as the kind of people they really were…and are.

For most of the 20th century, the war film was a Hollywood staple.  From one era to the next, war movies documented the nation’s conflicts, reflected the national consciousness on particular combats as well as on thinking going far beyond any one, particular war.  They’ve been propagandistic and revisionist, »

- Bill Mesce

7 April 2011 7:15 AM, PDT | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »

The portrayal of the working class in cinema has usually gone along with good intention rather than ‘entertainment’. There seems to be compulsion for films portraying its plight to be grim, this being particularly true of the cinema which wears its political inclinations on its sleeve – like the early Soviet films (Eisenstein’s Strike – 1924), the films of Italian Neo-realism (De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves – 1948, Visconti’s Rocco and his Brothers – 1960) or American humanism such as John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath (1940). Barring a few exceptions like the films of Aki Kaurismaki (Ariel, 1988) the general purport is that the lives of the working class, not being exciting in themselves, must be examined out of a sense of duty because art cannot shun its social obligations. A filmmaker to consistently get ‘entertainment’ out of working class situations was Chaplin but the humor in the films tend to depend more on his »

- MK Raghvendra

8 February 2011 9:01 PM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »

James Franco’s performance in 127 Hours was rightly praised, but what of his earlier, less prominent roles? Ti takes a look back…

James Franco has just been nominated for Best Actor for his role as Aron Ralston in 127 Hours, a film for which he is receiving high praise. Not just that, but he's co-hosting the Academy Awards ceremony (alongside Anne Hathaway) and is rapidly becoming Hollywood's leading man of choice, thanks to his comedic and dramatic acting chops.

He will soon be seen in Your Highness ("Handle your shit, Fabius, please.") and Rise Of The Apes, all while finishing a PhD in English Literature at Yale.

Clearly, his star wattage is at its zenith, but it wasn't always so.

Fresh off his success as Harry Osborn in the Spider-man movies, Franco was cast as the lead in a number of films, many of which failed spectacularly at the box office »

19 January 2011 11:57 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter's Golden Globe-winning series Boardwalk Empire is a fascinating look at the birth of Us gangster mythology

Atlantic City, 16 January 1920, and the world is about to change. The great war has ended, prohibition is about to be passed, women are fighting for the right to vote and in this small seaside enclave a battle is brewing for control not just of the city's finances but, more importantly, for its hearts and minds.

While the teeming boardwalk along the beachfront offers all manner of entertainment from showgirls to astrologers, freak shows to drinking dens, inside City Hall, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, the city treasurer, is juggling a desire for power with a belief in trying to do the right thing even as his former protege Jimmy Darmody returns from the battlefields of Europe determined to make his mark, legally or otherwise. This is a place where the »

- Sarah Hughes

19 January 2011 11:57 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter's Golden Globe-winning series Boardwalk Empire is a fascinating look at the birth of Us gangster mythology

Atlantic City, 16 January 1920, and the world is about to change. The great war has ended, prohibition is about to be passed, women are fighting for the right to vote and in this small seaside enclave a battle is brewing for control not just of the city's finances but, more importantly, for its hearts and minds.

While the teeming boardwalk along the beachfront offers all manner of entertainment from showgirls to astrologers, freak shows to drinking dens, inside City Hall, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, the city treasurer, is juggling a desire for power with a belief in trying to do the right thing even as his former protege Jimmy Darmody returns from the battlefields of Europe determined to make his mark, legally or otherwise. This is a place where the »

- Sarah Hughes

14 January 2011 5:43 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »

We at Mubi think that celebrating the films of 2010 should be a celebration of film viewing in 2010.  Since all film and video is "old" one way or another, we present Out of a Past, a small (re-) collection of some of our favorite of 2010's retrospective viewings.

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Bouteille cassée (Father Piet Verstegen M. Afr., 1952)

One morning, TO1..., comrade Möller's phone rang and a young woman with a refreshingly spunky voice said something like, Hi!, I'm that student your friend told you about—the one who's working on a documentary about the White Fathers retirement home. Today I'll have a look at the order's film collection—do you have time to come along? I could need your advise and the monk who takes care of it as well. Of course he had time—and finally the opportunity to see some of the works discussed in a hefty tome he'd bought almost »

7 items from 2011