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 [...]
Filed In: Uncategorized
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
Jun 14 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:
What do you think about the auteur theory?
Although the auteur theory (the belief that [...]
Filed In: Assignments
Tags: Akira Kurosawa, Andrew Sarris, Ben Hecht, Bernard Hermann, Brigitte Bardot, Casino, Charlie Kaufman, Contempt, David Cronenberg, Francois Truffaut, Frenzy, Goodfellas, His Girl Friday, Howard Hawks, Jean-Luc Godard, Martin Scorsese, Marx Brothers, Pauline Kael, Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, Raging Bull, Roger Corman, Sally Menke, Saul Bass, Sergio Leone, Taxi Driver, Thelma Schoonmaker, Tom Schatz, Woody Allen
May 07 2010
There are few things in this life that I can look forward to, movie-wise. A trip to New York is good, as I know I can return to all of the marvelous theatres in the best cinema town in the US. Terror Tuesday’s upcoming showing of Psycho II is also pretty damn exciting. [...]
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 [...]
Filed In: Assignments
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
Mar 16 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:
What is the most overrated film?
Filed In: Assignments
Tags: Broadway Danny Rose, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Crash, David Fincher, Fight Club, Gone With the Wind, Good Night and Good Luck, Mia Farrow, Munich, Network, Paul Haggis, Radio Days, Rocky, Rosemary's Baby, Sidney Lumet, Star Wars, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The Shawshank Redemption, Woody Allen, Zelig
Mar 01 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:
Are there any actors/directors whose new films you will see regardless of any conditions?
Daniel
I [...]
Filed In: Assignments
Tags: 21 Jump Street, Alice in Wonderland, and Strange Wilderness, Anne Hathaway, Aziz Ansari, Becket, Ben Affleck, Bill Murray, Body of Lies, Breaking and Entering, Brian De Palma, Brick, Bruno, Caligula, Carl Dreyer, Caveh Zahedi, Charlie Kaufman, Chloe Sevigny, Chris Eigeman, Christopher Guest, City of Ember, Coen Brothers, Craig Robinson, Danny Boyle, David Cronenberg, David Fincher, David Lynch, Deception, Drillbit Taylor, Eager to Die, Ethan Hawke, Frank Capra, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Horton Hears a Who!, It's a Wonderful Life, James Spader, Jared Hess, Jason Schwartzman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jim Jarmusch, Jimmy Stewart, Jody Hill, John Lasseter, John Waters, Johnny Depp, Jonah Hill, Jude Law, Julianne Moore, Katharine Hepburn, Kevin Smith, Larry Charles, Lawrence of Arabia, Leonardo DiCaprio, Looper, Luke Wilson, Madagascar, Maid in Manhattan, Man of La Mancha, Mark Wahlberg, Mars Attacks!, Martin Scorsese, Max Payne, Michel Gondry, Michelle Williams, Miss March, My Favorite Year, Next, Nicole Kidman, Nine, Noah Baumbach, Owen Wilson, Panic Room, Paul Thomas Anderson, Pedro Almodovar, Peter O'Toole, Quentin Tarantino, Ratatouille, Rian Johnson, Richard Burton, Richard Linklater, Rob Zombie, Robert Bresson, Robert Englund, Sacha Baron Cohen, Sam Raimi, Scoop, Seth Rogen, Shadow of Fear, Spike Jonze, Spike Lee, State of Play, Steven Soderbergh, Sunshine, Supergirl: The Movie, The Brothers Bloom, The Jacket, The Lion in Winter, The Marc Pease Experience, The Rocker, The Ruling Class, Tim Burton, Troy, Venus, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Werner Herzog, Wes Anderson, What's New Pussycat?, Willem Dafoe, Woody Allen, xXx: State of the Union, Zodiac
Feb 26 2010
Dir. Breck Eisner
Alamo Village, 2/15/10, 11:00am
I really enjoyed this film, a remake of a George Romero film that I started and couldn’t finish this past weekend. In this film, a town is contaminated with a biological weapon and the community is set in quarantine. The result of the outbreak? People become what [...]
Filed In: Reviews
Tags: Alamo Village, Breck Eisner, Danny Boyle, David Cronenberg, Friday the 13th, George Romero, Melinda and Melinda, Radha Mitchell, The Brood, The Crazies, The Road, Woody Allen, [Rec]
Dec 30 2009
Dir. Alain Cavalier
The Brattle Theatre (Cambridge, MA), 12/28/09, 9:30pm
A fairly mediocre French New Wave-ish film directed by a protege of Louis Malle. Cavalier was assistant director on Malle’s Elevator to the Gallows and Les Amants (not bad films to have worked on), and Malle produced this ménage à trois film. If you ask [...]
Filed In: Reviews
Tags: And God Created Woman, Bocaccio '70, Brigitte Bardot, Elevator to the Gallows, French New Wave, Henri Serre, Jeanne Moreau, Jules et Jim, Le combat dans l'île, Les Amants, Louis Malle, Orson Welles, Play it Again Sam, Romy Schneider, The Brattle Theatre, The Trial, Visconti, Woody Allen
Dec 16 2009
Dir. Richard Linklater
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 12/11/09, 4:40pm
Linklater’s new film, which has been delayed a release for quite some time now, is a luscious ’30s set piece about a fictional hang-on to Orson Welles’ historic Fascist Italy Caeser. The lowlife no-talent, played here by real life lowlife no-talent Zac “where’s the K” Efron, [...]
Dec 12 2009
Dir. Lone Scherfig
The Dobie, 12/10/09, 9:45pm
What if the romance in Manhattan was earnest? Might it take the perspective of Tracy, the charming and precocious high school girl? Might the funny bits be played for sincere melodrama? Might the scene where the older man picks up the girl after school be romantic and [...]
