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The world has lost a great director with Eric Rohmer’s passing at the age of 89. One of the leading lights of the Nouvelle Vague, he made restrained, unassuming films, often about young people looking for love or somehow sorting out their lives through talking and wandering. They also were as much about what didn’t [...]
Check out Harold Ramis’ take on the issue at FORA TV: (Length 3:57 min.)
The poster for the upcoming Mr. Bjarnfredarson (see ICN story here) is that rare thing; an Icelandic movie poster that not only really works, but goes beyond that and into the realm of the excellent. Capturing beautifully the essence of the film’s story – a man having to face the monster he’s become – it [...]
Quoting an Indiewire post: “This film is music,” Martin Scorsese said on Tuesday night at the DGA theater in New York, introducing a screening of the film, “It’s cinema as music.” “I don’t mean a musical—musical is a genre that I love,” Scorsese said of “The Red Shoes,” “[But] this is a film that I [...]
I’m about to dive into Louis Malle a little. Here’s a teaser: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mgf8JVAPe8
Revisited that 007 movie Die Another Day recently. By some reason it has got a rather bad rap. Beats me why, it’s solid Bond stuff. Brosnan is super-cool, Halle Berry is just fine and dandy, the fencing scene is fantastic and John Cleese is a hoot as Q. The baddie is a bit of a [...]
As any filmmaker worth his salt knows, titles are everything. Here’s an excellent site on this very important subject.
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