Mashup: Boogie Nights vs. Star Wars
Mashup: Boogie Nights vs Star Wars [via kottke]
Mashup: Boogie Nights vs Star Wars [via kottke]
Why I won't see Pirates 3 (Actually, Pirates 2 is why I won't see Pirates 3.)
For T.S.: Edward Gorey coming to the Big Screen
Star Wars in 30 seconds. With bunnies. [via Andrew P.]
Criterion Collection: Rushmore — a review of one of the favorite formats of one of my favorite films
Jedi are evil. A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope [via Rich]
The 2006 Oscar Nominations have been announced. How the hell did Little Miss Sunshine get nominated for best picture. This film's popularity baffles me. The Queen is worthy. We've yet to see Babel, Letters from Iwo Jima, or The Departed.
Children of Men trailer — I remember discussing this book with Kris, Nory, and Todd many years ago. Now it's being made into a film.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix teaser trailer [via Rob, of course]
Lynn says that the sing-along Mary Poppins is "the most fun EVER!" I'm waiting for the sing-along West Side Story myself...
Insultingly stupid movie physics, sent to me by Dave after hearing me complain about Galaxy Quest
The biology of B-movie monsters is great fun and it's science.
For Kris: Jitterbug — a deleted scene from The Wizard of Oz
Frykitty points to a trailer for The Prestige, a film that looks quite good (and perhaps a little Jonathan Strange-esque?)
This groovy Bollywood clip has to be seen to be believed: Solla Solla Enna Perumai [via waxy]
YouTube: Big Lebowski — the fucking short version: two minutes containing every use of the word fuck in one of my favorite films. (Not for everyone, obviously.) [via waxy, whom I finally met briefly this afternoon]
I've been taking some heat in comic book forums because I think the first Superman film (from 1978) is awful. (I just rewatched it on Sunday.) Pauline Kael's review says a lot of what I wanted to say, only better.
Roger Ebert's review of An Inconvenient Truth
It's the meme that's sweeping the nation! Ten Thing I Hate About Commandments. This is really very funny (but be warned that there is a rather nasty word at the end which might bother some of you).
Pauline Kael's 1975 essay on Carey Grant, a famous piece of journalism.
For the Star Wars fans: Darth Vader calls the Emperor. Hee-larious. [via vbb]
Does the next Bond film look awesome or what?
Superman Returns — I'm excited about this film and I don't even like Superman!
Looney Tunes hidden gags [via frykitty, and sure to appear soon on my comics blog]
Titanic II: The Sequel. Fan-made trailers are pretty funny, and this is no exception, but the amateurish bits are, well, amateurish. Check out the glaring typo near the end of this one: "FOZEN MAN". [via waxy]
Awesome film re-enactments. A single guy performing classic scenes from The Shining, Willy Wonka, and more. This Princess Bride Battle of Wits scene is amazing.
Apocalypse Now? Apocalypse Pooh! Disney's Winnie the Pooh with dialogue dubbed into Coppola's war masterpiece. [via lane]
The Muppet Matrix [via geistweg]
SXSW to MPAA: STFU — the battle over copyrights is in full-swing and there's a huge cognitive disconnect between consumers and the multimedia behemoths that own most of the work
Roger Ebert's excellent commentary on the idiotic rantings of those who think Brokeback Mountain lost Best Picture because Crash was "safe". "Crash was a better film." (I checked imdb yesterday: Crash had a rating of 8.4, Brokeback had a rating of 8.0.) Both were good films, but the sour grapes attitude of the Brokeback camp is asinine.
Oscarlicious, the best Oscar party ever!
Trailer for the upcoming Robert Altman film, A Prairie Home Companion (in wide release 09 June 2006). Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan, Virginia Madsen, John C. Reilly, Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, and Garrison Keillor himself. Am I there? You betcha.
Oscar nominees you didn't see — In watching a film before the hype, critics get a very different picture [via kottke]
Oh yeah: I forgot to mention that this year, the biggest Oscar travesty was that the mundane March of the Penguins beat out much worthier opponents (such as Murderball) for Best Documentary. Puh-lease.
Holy cats! Crash won best picture! Crash won best picture! You should have seen the Roth-Gates household erupt in shock. We'd written it off as Brokeback Mountain all the way. Kris sat up and gasped. I whipped around in my chair, stunned. All the nominees were great (though we haven't seen Munich yet), but we liked Crash an awful lot.
It's asinine that the Oscar acceptance speeches are trimmed to near nothingness. They're not what causes the show to run long. It's all the stupid montages. It's the constant commercial breaks. Let the winners speak! I wanted to hear the South Africa guy...
This is a fun site — a list of scenes cut from Star Wars films (link is to page for original film)
Theatrically released feature films with
major characters who are Mormons — because everyone wants to know. [via lookit]
Brad Pitt to star in film adaptation of Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow? I'm not sure this is a good idea.
Yet another respected critic raves about V for Vendetta. Dare I get my hopes up? The source material for this film is from the greatest comics writer of our generation. It's directed by the same people who brought us The Matrix. I want to love it, but I'm afraid it'll suck.
Coming this summer: another Philip K. Dick film adaptation: A Scanner Darkly. [via frykitty]
The top ten sci-fi films that never existed is actually a fairly decent rant (though filled with l33t hyperbole) on the state of modern science fiction films. [via mefi]
Update on the status of the new Logan's Run: Bryan Singer still writing and directing, planned for release in 2008 [via Kris, of all people]
Read this long article criticizing another article that cricized the Oscar nominations. It's fascinating stuff.
Wow! I love The Numbers, which is apparently a weblog devoted to detailed numbers regarding the film industry.
Ten movies every photographer should see (I've seen half of them)
Turner Classic Movies' Hiyao Miyazaki film festival begins tonight and runs every Thursday in January. If you haven't seen his films before, tonight is a great time to start. Spirited Away is magical.
Harry Knowles raves about The New World. Should I find this re-assuring or should I find it worrisome?
A couple of rave reviews for Steven Spielberg's Munich, which is also seeing some negative reaction. Ebert loves it, calling it "an act of courage and conscience". I want to see it, and I warrant it will be up for Best Picture come February.
Roger Ebert's ten best films of 2005 — no surprise that King Kong is #8: Ebert has a long history of being a sucker for films with flashy visual effects
Pocohantas saves John Smith: a short clip from The New World, the film I'm most looking forward to this season
Reminder to self: King Kong (1933) is on this afternoon
Three minutes from King Kong. Any surprise that Peter Jackson has once again created a film filled with unbelievable (as in "impossible to believe") CGI action? I'm torn. Yes, this will probably be fun to watch, but god I hate Jackson's CGI masturbation.
The Handpuppet Move Theater presents: Serenity
MIT to stage Star Wars musical — this sounds hilarious...I wonder if there's any way to get footage of a performance
Teaser trailer for The Fountain, the latest from Darren Aronofsky (of Pi and Requiem for a Dream fame)
The top twenty children's films — this list is well-thought and filled with great recommendations.
Top flotch: if you're Star Wars fan (and especially if you hated the prequels), then this is a must-see: