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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

SIFF — Perfect Sense

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Here's one of the two films I saw at yesterday's SIFF press preview screenings. (The other, Paper Birds , I'll get to next.) I ...
Monday, May 16, 2011

For your consideration — "Hues of cobalt and magenta" edition

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Scheduling around here has been bearish lately, but more posts on SIFF films are coming, including, I hope, a few more write-ups on pre-SI...

Shortbus (2006) — Think kink

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In a previous post on movies showing at the Seattle International Film Festival , I observed that if you want to experience movies that thi...
Sunday, May 15, 2011

Pic pick: Catherine Deneuve at Cannes, 1997

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via ana-lee.livejournal.com
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

For your consideration — "That's no ordinary rabbit" edition

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Village Voice: Summer Movie Guide 2011 The Guardian: Cannes Festival Diary Mubi: Cannes digging Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris — C...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

SIFF — Natural Selection

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Among the best reasons for the existence of SIFF (or TIFF , PIFF , CIFF , BIFF , FLIFF , SFIFF , or...) are the opportunities film festival...
Sunday, May 8, 2011

For your consideration — "Hi, mom" edition

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Matt Zoller Sietz (always worth a click): The movies that truly understand motherhood indiewire.com: Two Museums Buy That Really Cool, R...
Thursday, May 5, 2011

SIFF — Submarine

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I made it to another SIFF press preview screening today. Unfortunately, I had only enough time to catch one of today's three films. Fo...
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

SIFF — Kosmos

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Every year about this time, the Seattle International Film Festival pretty much takes over cinephilic Seattle for a month or so. This year...
Sunday, May 1, 2011

History

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At this very moment, hundreds of Hollywood agents, producers, and screenwriters are jockeying to land the megabucks SEAL Team 6 vs. bin Lade...

Springtime is for Berties

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"You were absolutely right about the weather. It is a juicy morning." "Decidedly, sir." "Spring and all that....
Thursday, April 28, 2011

For your consideration — "Abandoned in the midst of infinite possibilities" edition

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Glenn Erickson (a.k.a. DVD Savant and all-around ace fellow) is just one of the bloggers at the TCM Classic Film Fest , which starts today....
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Movie ages

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Click to embiggen: Via XKCD , naturally. "I have measured out my life with ticket stubs." T.S. Eliot (revised)
Monday, April 25, 2011

Fifty films since age 50

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Actor (and soon to be 39th AFI Life Achievement Award recipient) Morgan Freeman talks to students at the AFI Conservatory about his big care...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

Pic pick: Another fine mess (time traveling edition)

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The Doctor makes a stop in 1939 long enough to appear alongside Laurel & Hardy in The Flying Deuces . Where else would he get his new fe...