Encore Cinema Out Takes

New looks at yesterday’s films - DVD’s and cable re-runs promise eternal life to movies, compressing a century of filmmaking, so that last year’s release sits next to that old one you vaguely recall. See it again, remember those black and white flickers, the stuff that dreams are made of ...

Sunday, November 05, 2006

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Netflix allows for mini-reviews of movies in 300 words or less, and here are some of mine over the past year: Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bu...
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

"The Cotton Club" (1984) - Forgotten Coppola Classic

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Another movie that is as famous for the back story surrounding its making and another movie that tanked commercially and critically at its r...
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...
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