Jun 19 2010
Dir. Nicole Holofcener
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 6/12/10, 9:45
I am hard on the Summer months when maybe I shouldn’t be. Yes, it is the worst part of the year cinematically, with the possible exception of Spring. The saving grace of the March-to-May period is that the tiny independents that premiered during the Winter in [...]
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Tags: (500) Days of Summer, Alamo South Lamar, Amanda Peet, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Annie Hall, Away We Go, Catherine Keener, Cyrus, District 9, Javier Bardem, Julie & Julia, Kirsten Dunst, Knight and Day, Land of the Lost, Manhattan, Meryl Streep, Nicole Holofcener, Oliver Platt, Please Give, Prince of Persia, Rebecca Hall, Reese Witherspoon, Sandra Bullock, Sarah Steele, The Girlfriend Experience, Transformers 2, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Whatever Works, Woody Allen, Year One
Mar 31 2010
Every week, we will be posting a prompt related to cinephilia, and some of our founding members will contribute a short response. Hopefully you, our dear readers, will feel compelled to respond in our comment section as well. This week’s prompt was:
Write about five great Woody Allen films
We actually discussed and divied up the films [...]
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Tags: Amarcord, Annie Hall, Bananas, Casablanca, Coen Brothers, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Deconstructing Harry, Django Reinhardt, Duck Soup, Every Thing You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask, Federico Fellini, Gordon Willis, Humphrey Bogart, Husbands and Wives, Ingmar Bergman, Interiors, Javier Bardem, Love and Death, Manhattan, Marcello Mastroianni, Marx Brothers, Melinda and Melinda, No Country for Old Men, Penelope Cruz, Play it Again Sam, Radio Days, Rebecca Hall, Samantha Morton, Scarlett Johansson, Sleeper, Stardust Memories, Take the Money and Run, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The Sid Caesar Show, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Whatever Works, Wild Strawberries, Woody Allen, Zelig
Jan 21 2010
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar
Regal Arbor, 1/17/10, 3:10pm
I was fairly excited for Almodóvar’s new picture. I consider him to be the most “European Art Cinema”-type auteur still working. His most recent film, Volver, was an alright film (and a beautiful love letter to Penélope Cruz’s finer qualities), and the one before that, La mala educación [...]
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Tags: Almodóvar, Audrey Hepburn, Bigas Luna, Broken Embraces, Hitchcock, Javier Bardem, La Mala Education, Marilyn Monroe, Penelope Cruz, Regal Arbor, Volver
