THE THING (1982) in 4k digital and the nature of image quality
Since the beginning of the cinema, whenever we watched movies from the past they have always been in deteriorated forms.
In the earliest days of the medium, nitrate prints of old movies were hauled out of make-shift storage facilities for re-examination. This practice was occasionally done in the silent era, but really picked [...]
GREENBERG (2010) is the first masterpiece of the year
Dir. Noah Baumbach
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 2/19/10, 2:00pm
I am so glad to be able to write about a beautiful film. Most of the time I am mired in mediocrity, forced to view and write about rubbish or moderate achievements (i.e. Hot Tub Time Machine, The Crazies, Saint John of Las Vegas). Greenberg is [...]
COP OUT (2010) backpedals, gives the slip, has an alibi, revokes, uses pretext, welshes, withdraws
Dir. Kevin Smith
Alamo Drafthouse Village, 3/7/10, 5:00pm
Kevin Smith’s most recent film, his first with a script that is not his own, is his best film since Clerks 2. That hilarious statement is much funnier than most of the jokes in this film that is part pastiche, part homage, and all train wreck.
The water’s fine in the HOT TUB TIME MACHINE (2010)
Dir. Steve Pink
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 2/15/10, 7:30pm
There are a few moments in popular cinema history when titles are so perfectly transparent, so ridiculously stupid, and so unpretentious that popular culture recognizes them as genius. The perfect example is the 2006 aviation-thriller Snakes on a Plane, but other recent examples include Harold and Kumar [...]
