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
May 23 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 your favorite performance by an actor portraying a real life character
Oftentimes, [...]
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Tags: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Allen Ginsberg, Amadeus, Andy Kaufman, Bob Dylan, Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Cate Blanchett, David Cross, Don't Look Back, Dumb & Dumber, F. Murray Abraham, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Heath Ledger, I'm Not There, Jamie Foxx, Jim Carey, Joaquin Phoenix, John Hughes, Julie & Julia, Liar Liar, Man on the Moon, Marcus Carl Franklin, Meryl Streep, Milos Forman, Peter Shaffer, Ray, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Doors, The Mask, The Truman Show, Todd Haynes, Tom Hulce, Val Kilmer, Walk the Line
Dec 23 2009
I have been thinking about writing a blog post on the cinema year in review. I’d take about the general trends that the year brought, the highs, lows, surprises and upsets of the year. That kind of thing.
As part of that project, I have been thinking about consistent themes of the [...]
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Tags: (500) Days of Summer, 2009, A Christmas Carol, A Serious Man, A Single Man, Antichrist, Away We Go, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Funny People, Halloween II, Julie & Julia, Moon, My Bloody Valentine 3-D, Past, Sell Hard, Survival of the Dead, The Goods: Live Hard, The Haunting in Connecticut, The Lovely Bones, Up, Watchmen
