Tuesday, August 22, 2006

BRICK (2006)

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MEMO TO MDB FROM MPB RE: YOUR SCREENPLAY Just ran dvd of BRICK and it should inspire you. On the commentary, Rian Johnson relates how he wr...
Wednesday, August 16, 2006

ASK THE DUST

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L.A.: Where Dreams Come To Die ASK THE DUST (2005) was not a box office hit. A period movie about L.A. in The Great Depression, with a les...
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Friday, June 09, 2006

GAME 6 - "This could be it."

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Just when you think you’re free from sentimental baseball parables about The Meaning of LIFE, they suck you back into the vortex of sappy me...
Monday, June 05, 2006

MRS. PARKER AND THE VICIOUS CIRCLE

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If you think you and your group of friends are expert at incestuous intrigue, clever put-downs, and collaborations that can produce some ins...
Sunday, May 28, 2006

KING KONG 1933-2005 - who really killed the beast?

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Kong has always been more than a monster to me. Not implacable, mechanical, heartless, like those in ALIEN, JAWS , or THE TERMINATOR . He is...
Tuesday, May 23, 2006

SHOPGIRL - a pop quiz

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1. Steve Martin is either: (a) a first rate artist and thinker who has made the almost impossible jump from lightweight comic to satiric ge...
Monday, May 22, 2006

ALEXANDER - revising the revisionist vision

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As Oliver Stone begins his softening campaign to prepare the world for his 9/11 movie, WORLD TRADE CENTER , I thought it timely to re-evalua...
Saturday, May 20, 2006

BOX OFFICE Q&A

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Movie executives are always looking for catchy titles to insure success. The length of marquees has always been of concern making problems f...
Friday, May 19, 2006

THE NEW WORLD - no hit and all myth

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Part of the mystique of Stanley Kubrick was his meager output (7 films directed in @30 years). Writer / director Terrence Malick is even le...
Monday, May 15, 2006

The Thriller - Its Fall and Rise

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Alfred Hitchcock, we are told, was “the master of suspense.” The plots of his movies were filled with tension and sardonic wit, ironic twist...

THE SQUID AND THE WHALE and BEE SEASON - endangered species

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These two recent films are a matched set. Both depict families in crisis, both setting the blame squarely on the shoulders of the fathers, s...
Friday, May 05, 2006

MATCH POINT - postmod woody allen

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I had just been surfing for “art & morality,” and “postmodern films” and come across an article calling Woody Allen “the quintessent...
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Wednesday, May 03, 2006

THE MISFITS - an accidental pop culture classic

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Some movies are oxymoronically dubbed Instant Classics . The passage of time is required to achieve classic status, in my book. Later critic...