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Top 6 Chance Relationships in Film

clairedunderman — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:00:25 +0000

Sometimes people meet because they’re in a class together or they happen to work together. Other times, the meet-cute is a little bit more out there, like finding a princess fast asleep on a park bench in Italy. No matter how the two meet, these are the pairs that, despite whether or not they end [...]

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Overlooked Gems: Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)

lesleycoffin — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:00:10 +0000

Before The Great Outdoors, National Lampoons Vacation, or Summer Rental, there was the original summer vacation comedy, 1962’s Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation.

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Top 5 Lost Films

Christina Stewart — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:00:52 +0000

Lost films - those legendary dream movies for which no intact version is known to exist. Here's Christina Stewart's Top 5 Lost Films. And here's to hoping they're one day found again!

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Review: Leni Riefenstahl: Her Dream of Africa

Jeremy Prober — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:00:54 +0000

The synopsis on Mubi for Leni Riefenstahl: Her Dream of Africa reads as follows: “As an actress, photographer, and official filmmaker for the Nazi party, Leni Riefenstahl is a controversial and legendary figure. In the 1970s, she moved to Sudan and lived among the Nuba tribesmen. This documentary records her return to these tribes thirty years [...]

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Top 10 Silent Comedians You’ve Never Heard Of

msdean — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:00:03 +0000

While reading Steve Massa’s fantastic Lame Brains and Lunatics: The Good, The Bad, and The Forgotten of Silent Comedy, I started to feel like film’s silent comedians were clowns packed into a tiny circus car. Just when I thought there couldn’t be more, slapstick aficionado Massa would produce another, another, and another. This list isn’t maybe [...]

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Top 5 Movie Lolitas

msdean — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:00:11 +0000

Stoker, the latest offering from critically acclaimed filmmaker Park Chan-wook, director of the now classic Oldboy, features one of cinema’s favorite tropes – a Lolita. Named for Vladimir Nabovkov’s title characer, Lolita has become the catch-all term for the slightly too-young seductress. The screen is strewn with sexually precocious young girls who seem all innocence on [...]

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Win Stoker on Blu-Ray

msdean — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:00:56 +0000

Stoker, from acclaimed filmmaker Park Chan-wook (Oldboy), hits the shelves on Blu-Ray on June 18, 2013. But you can enter to win a copy of this darkly wicked movie today, courtesy of Pretty Clever Films and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment! Following the tragic death of her father on her eighteenth birthday, India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska) [...]

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Book Review: Lame Brains and Lunatics

msdean — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:00:04 +0000

Silent film fanatics know all about the Holy Trinity of Slapstick Comedy, an entity I like to call Chaplinkeatonlloyd. Hell, even the casual silent movie observer has at least a glancing knowledge of Chaplinkeatonlloyd. But in the earliest years of the movie industry, it was slapstick that drew the crowds and packed the houses. Even the [...]

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Directing Superman: Cinematic approaches to the Man of Steel

Bennett O'Brian — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:00:01 +0000

It’s a very big year for the Man of Steel. On top of a highly anticipated summer blockbuster, 2013 marks seventy-fifth year since DC Comics published the first issue of Action Comics and, since then, the company has printed thousands of Superman comicbooks to the delight of generations of fans. The temperament of audiences has [...]

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A Town Called Panic (2009)

Sam Cooper — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:00:30 +0000

I’ll say this right off the bat: this movie is absolutely bizarre. Not bizarre in a darkly surreal, lady-in-the-radiator kind of way. This is something different, something born of a different breed. Imagine a stripped down Pixar movie, with less flash, less pizazz, and a lot more cows. And no CG. That’s a A Town Called Panic. [...]

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