tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-193888302011-09-19T06:31:31.742-06:00Ramblings both formal and informal about movies etc..Elisabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547699549362865113noreply@blogger.comBlogger1071100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19388830.post-12711308323858959872010-12-23T02:54:00.001-07:002010-12-23T02:54:53.373-07:00

I've been watching more movies again recently. And I keep thinking about picking up this blog again and writing about the movies I see, but it is so hard to find the time and mental clarity to do anything when you're a full-time mom. I think J.K. Rowling must have had a secret nanny or something. Anyway... I'm probably going to be giving up tech for a while soon, but until then, I thought, maybe

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It's difficult these days to make it through an entire movie, so although I made these great proclamations about restarting this blog, I realized that would be near impossible since my littluns don't allow me to sit for 1.5 hours undisturbed until they go to bed.  By then I'm so completely wiped out I have trouble making it through a TV episode without falling asleep, let alone a feature-length

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When I first read about the Karate Kid remake, my only thought was, "Say it ain't so!"  I don't think I will EVER understand Hollywood's need to remake everything.  And seriously?  Jackie Chan as Miyagi and Will Smith's kid as Daniel, I mean, excuse me... Dre.  Come on!  What's he, like 10?  Isn't he a bit young to come of age? Then I saw the trailer. Oh brother.  Why must Hollywood take

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I don't agree with them all.  But there are a few good ones in here. Warning!  The language is uncensored!

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I wonder if it's possible to have not yet heard about the passing of Michael Jackson. Seems as if we have all been shocked by his death. Early reports were spread like a wildfire of rumors on Twitter, Facebook, and other social networking sites, with people holding out and refusing to believe it was true until further confirmation. News and networking sites were overwhelmed by sudden traffic of

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I'm sad that this among all my blogs has been the one to suffer the most neglect as I became a mother with little time to spend on these things. I suppose it's natural though. I mean family blogging came first once my boy arrived, and I ended up with a lot of material for the art blog with all the pictures I've been taking. But I've really missed this blog. I've thought many times about reviving

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Is there anyone still out there?  I miss you!  Have you missed me?  I'm so bad to have let my little pride and joy here drift away into nothingness, but motherhood has been big bite to chew.  I'm aching, ACHING to get back to this blog again and start writing some good shtuff to post, but it may be some time before I can revive this thing completely.  I hope some of you will come back and read

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A few years ago a little movie called The Blair Witch Project busted onto the scene and changed the way we look at independent cinema. You couldn't have had a lower tech, or lower budget, recipe for a an exciting flick: Take three actors, give them a camera and a plot, and have them record and ad lib the rest. Many loved the movie; the unique and literal first-person perspective offered the

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So the movie I worked on in 2005, 10mph, is not only available from Blockbuster, Netflix, and Amazon, (and me), but now you can also download it for free from iTunes if you sign up with Ourstage.com. As a bonus, filmmakers Hunter and Josh get $1 towards finishing their current project. So you're supporting us itty bitty filmmakers following the dream!

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I was checking my daily Blog reads today when I happened upon this article by way of Snarkerati. Seems some 20 years ago, a group of then 12-year-olds decided to make a shot-by-shot home-movie remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark. It was painstaking and took them a whopping 7 years to finish, but after it was finished it was on its way to being forgotten for good. Only friends and friends of

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As of yesterday, it's been two years since I began this little experiment, and I think I can definitely say that I am a full-fledged blogging fanatic. I manage four blogs (not including the now-defunct Blog on Blogging) and they are: a family blog, an art blog, a fitness blog (with other contributors), and this blog. It's also on my to do list to finally contribute to another of which I am a

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I feel like a real reviewer today, because I actually get to review a movie that hasn't been released yet. Last night I saw an advance screening of Love in the Time of Cholera, which opens tomorrow:Love in the Time of Cholera (2007, Newall) A naive Florentino is instantly smitten with a young beauty, Fermina, who has just moved to town (late 19th century Cartagena, Colombia). Their love grows

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Finally! A remake worth watching:EDIT: I guess I should have mentioned that these guys are Filipino prisoners! Gives you a different impression of prison systems over there than the movies usually suggest, huh? Apparently these guys have done remakes of other dance sequences also. So fun!

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Reign Over Me (Binder, 2007) Adam Sandler is still struggling, years after a terrible loss, his entire family in one plane crash, and Don Cheadle hopes he can help him face his grief.A weepy-sad little movie, Reign is like a male-bonding, buddy-movie version of a classic, tear-jerker chick flick. The story is simple and straight-forward, so simple in fact, that it almost seems lacking; a man has

Elisabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547699549362865113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19388830.post-28941919682012630902007-10-26T09:04:00.002-06:002007-10-28T01:24:11.116-06:00

If you are reading this through an RSS reader, go to my actual blog to check out my new look. I'm pretty proud of it. There is a new masthead and a new three-column layout. I'm particularly proud of the three-column layout, since blogger doesn't really allow those, so it's a hack. Yes, I downloaded the hack from someone else, but I actually had to go in an alter the code myself to get it to

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Found by way of Snarkerati:As you can see/hear, the "Wilhelm scream" is a sound effect used in countless movies and TV shows. Thanks to this little video compilation, and getting to hear it repeated over and over again, I can't help but feel like it's a bit on the spoofy side as far as sound effects go. But apparently the sound-bite is used with complete sincerity in all of these scenes. Now

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I've been gone forever. I know. I started the challenge to get me going again, and I stuck to it, watched lots of movies, but couldn't find the time to write about them. I desperately want to revive this blog, but I don't have the time to create all the content I'd like to keep it going. If you're interested in contributing content to Popcorn and a Coke, send an email to PopcornAndACoke At

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Day One -- THURSDAY, JUNE 7thMovie: Various online shortsMy first day on the challenge was somewhat difficult. I had to juggle taking care of my crying babe while trying to squeeze in movie watching which I haven't done much of in a while. Added to that, I didn't have any Netflix or anything on hand. I decided I would start with a series of online shorts. These proved to be a challenge in of

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I need something to get me back into movie mode again. So, I'm thinking another challenge like I did last year. This time, instead of restricting what kind of movies I watch, I think I'm just going to make sure I watch tons of movies. Tons and TONS of movies. So I'm thinking A-Movie-A-Day. Who knows, it may even keep the doctor away. And it's a perfect way for me to spend my time while I'm

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Well, I'm back. I thought I could keep up with this blog even through all the changes going on in my life lately, but I was wrong. I went through my first pregnancy and gave birth to a beautiful boy, I also lost my father-in-law to that nasty villain known as cancer. There has been a lot going on personally and I just haven't been able to keep up with this movie stuff in the meantime. I've

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A "clue" found by a Lost fan.Those of you who follow my blog (and I am wondering how many of you are left after I have been woefully neglecting you all in recent months) probably know about my mild obsession with the show, Lost. I'm not as much of a fanatic as many out there are, but I do love to sit and discuss the possible meanings of certain elements on the show theorize about what's causing

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Well I have been aching to see this film and asking the filmmakers to show it here in Denver, and they finally do, but they show it on Valentine's! And worse.... on Lost night!! Hubby and I have a romantic Lost evening planned, so we won't be attending, but for others who might be interested...Four-Eyed MonstersStarz Film Center900 Auraria Parkway, Denver, CO 80204Wednesday, Feb 14 @ 7:30

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They say that what separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom is art. Well, maybe we aren't as separate as one might think:I have also read about cats that paint. Now, you might not find this to be "good" art, but it still shows the animal's desire to express, no? Back to the full blog...

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So, I'm still on my little 'weather delay' so it doesn't look like I will be doing the rest of this week's scheduled how-to posts before the weekend. Ah well. The schedule was a dream, and dreams are elusive. Anyway, in the meantime, I have some interesting stuff for you to check out about "Net Neutrality." Basically, telephone companies and such want to control our access to the internet

Elisabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547699549362865113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19388830.post-1162933850525735582006-11-07T13:42:00.000-07:002007-10-28T01:25:36.020-06:00

Ok, so I am not much of a fan of this guy's previous work, but I must say I am now a diehard fan of the man himself since his soon to be released Sci-fi flick is completely, 100%, sans CGI. I can't tell you how excited I am to see it. No time now for a big ole write up, but here is an article that was sent to me by fellow movie lover friend, Jeff. The movie opens on November 22nd and here is

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Ok, not really. But the blog is on delay at the moment because of a massive quest for the perfect car. Normally car shopping with me alone would be a one-day, one-lot event followed by the purchase of whatever car was best on the lot. With my husband involved it instead means a laborious search of about 10 car lots followed by endless research on the internet, followed by further test drives

Elisabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547699549362865113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19388830.post-1162839704331026982006-11-06T10:36:00.000-07:002007-10-28T01:26:23.652-06:00

Every time I watch Citizen Kane, it just gets better and better. I am astounded each time by the bold visual style and am swept up in the brilliance of the story. Movies don't get much better than this. Sure it has flaws. No movie (or thing for that matter) is without flaws. But the good far outweighs the bad. If you are interested in some of the background about Citizen Kane, and its

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You might think there isn't much to setting up a shot. You might think it's all about making sure the content is there, and occasionally shooting your subject from a weird angle just because you can. But that's just not the case. Directors and Directors of Photography (Cinematographers) spend hours setting up shots just right so that they fulfill all the needs of a shot (the basic unit of a

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This may be a tad late, but the spirit of the day is really with me. These are some of the movies that I think really best exemplify the essence of Halloween. They frighten, they horrify, and they even make us laugh. If you want an extra little chill tonight to celebrate the season of terror, check one of these out. Just make sure you put the kids to bed first.In alphabetical order...1. 28

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Can you imagine if the world of stupid web videos suddenly had studio or corporate backing? Can you imagine if some of the videomakers were able to get funding or even "distribution deals"? Well it's begun. For the first time ever, a specific viral web video has been paired with specific sponsors and money is being exchanged. Who knew this day would come? And who knew the words "elite

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Last Christmas we took a short trip to Vegas. Not my favorite place in the world, must say, and I had a family loss while I was there, so the trip wasn't as fun as I'd hoped. But there was one thing that stood out as a spectacular experience for me: The fountains at the Bellagio. This is some of the best musical choreography I have seen anywhere! (And I have watched a lot of musicals). When

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Humans are creatures obsessed with vision. We travel the globe to see all the greatest "sights," we go to galleries (both online and brick and mortar) to see images created by other humans, we make sure to take our cameras everywhere so we can capture the visuals of our lives, and when it comes to our nuptials, one of the biggest personal events we experience, we spend small fortunes making sure

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I have come up with a "lesson plan" for the first part of the new how to series on the blog. (See the schedule below for more details.) I will do my best to keep up with this tentative schedule I have created, but I am going to be in and out of town for the next few months, so the schedule is more of a goal than anything. As far as material covered, I am starting out with the visual aspects of

Elisabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547699549362865113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19388830.post-1161631701500713762006-10-23T12:40:00.000-06:002007-10-28T01:27:09.909-06:00

It used to be that if movies were shelved after production finished, because they could not get distribution, that that's exactly where they'd stay. The average moviewatcher was none the wiser. Only the movies we heard about were the ones that existed. (If a tree falls in a forest...) Now things are a little different. There are more outlets than ever for those lesser known projects. There

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I know, I know. I go and make a grand promise to keep up with the blog and finally start my how to articles... and then nothing. Well, I guess at least I can update the reviews. I haven't really been watching many movies lately since we've have been sucked back into TV watching, and now we are full-on obsessed with several shows. I may have to do something similar to the May Movie Diet I did

Elisabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547699549362865113noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19388830.post-1158335520808052282006-09-15T09:39:00.000-06:002007-10-28T01:27:09.910-06:00

I have been noticing a trend in my writing lately: it's getting stinkier and stinkier. I have been so caught up in catching up on old reviews, that I have been really getting lazy with my writing and I am starting to realize that not very many of those reviews I struggled to write are worth reading. It's not that I'm such a terrible writer. I look back on some of my older reviews, or even some

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In my haste to catch up on reviews it looks like I accidentally skipped a couple movies, so I'm adding those to this batch. This time I am covering Something's Gotta Give, The Shining, The Lavender Hill Mob, Soylent Green, Syriana, The Triangle, Spirited Away, Lost, Season 2.Something's Gotta Give (Meyers, 2003)Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson are both involved in May-December romances when what

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Ok, so you all have been asking me FOREVER. When are they going to have a screening of 10mph (that movie I worked on last year) in Colorado? Well, ask no more! 10mph has been doing the festival circuit and it hasn't stopped for a breath in forever. But guess what? One of the upcoming festivals that those crazy, Segway-riding boys are stopping at this fall is none other than the Toofy Film

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I'll spare you yet another article about Steve Irwin's death. I think there are plenty out there already. Ok, maybe just one more...Irwin Bringing Websites to a HaultApparently the world is so obsessed with reading every little snippet about dead Croc-Hunter, Steve Irwin, that the increased traffic is overloading some websites. Crikey! Already we've read about his death-by-stingray accident,

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I'm so far behind on the reviews now that the only way I can catch up is either jump ahead to only do my current reviews and therefore skip all the movies from the last couple months, or to do extra-mini reviews. I don't want to skip, so the latter it is! There are too many movies to list them all in the intro here, so let's just get right to those reviews.Pelle the Conqueror (August, 1987)

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Lucas is back in the Doghouse for FansSeems like this guy just can't do anything right by his fans. First he rereleases his beloved original Star Wars trilogy (episodes 4-6) and adds stuff and changes stuff, and doesn't release them in their original condition so fans, up in arms, scream fury and hatred toward the jedi creator. Then he finally acquiesces and releases the original versions on

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So, back in the saddle again, and over a month behind. So let's catch up! Here is the first batch: Da Vinci Code, Memoirs of a Geisha, Dr. Zhivago, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, and Everything is Illuminated.Da Vinci Code (Howard, 2006)On the run as possible murder suspects, Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou solve riddles leading to the answer of a great mystery involving 'the great lie'

Elisabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547699549362865113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19388830.post-1152210008206739842006-07-06T11:58:00.000-06:002007-10-09T15:12:15.075-06:00

It's not like I don't like older movies. Most of my all-time favorites are from several decades ago. But for some reason I just don't watch them very often, now that I don't watch movies (or anything else) on TV anymore, and now that I am no longer in film school. It's not because I don't have the option. Netflix has a wonderful selection of oft-forgot cinema. But we cinephiles often find

Elisabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547699549362865113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19388830.post-1149635401235633502006-06-06T17:09:00.000-06:002006-06-06T17:19:18.066-06:00

Okay, so it's been over a month, but I'm crazy busy, and this is what I have to offer you. It's fun anyway! Courtesy of my sister, Katrin. Enjoy:Back to the full blog...

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Ok, I know I hate Lucas, but he may be redeeming himself a little in my eyes. The big news this week is that he is rereleasing the original trilogy this September in their ORIGINAL FORM!!!! Did you hear that? The original versions -- the ones he vowed never to release because the newer versions were the ones he loved -- will be available to purchase! I know we will be getting a set. And

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You know, I have noticed a pattern going on with my movie watching, because of the way I set up my Netflix queue. Every once in a while, I move all the upcoming releases to the top of my queue so I have first dibs when they come out. Unfortunately this system doesn't really work all that well due to Netflix throttling, but I guess in theory, it may still be working to some extent. My thought

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Well, it's been a while since I posted so I have a lot of movies (and other DVDs) to talk about today. Since the last post I have seen Cronicas, The Squid and the Whale, Fun with Dick and Jane (2005), Lost (Season 1, Bonus Features Disc), Wallace & Gromit in Three Amazing Adventures , Pride And Prejudice (2005), Jarhead, Curb Your Enthusiasm (Season 1), Capote, and Derailed. Gosh that's a

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I have been putting off doing reviews this week since I have seen so few movies. But it's just time now. Oddly enough I watched only Asian stuff this week but from two opposite ends of the spectrum: animation & horror.Howl's Moving Castle (Miyazaki, 2004, English dubbed version)A young girl finds herself under the spell of an evil witch and seeks out help from a wizard name Howl who has a...

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Well, I'm back from Vail, and what an awesome time I had!!!Friday, March 31st, 1:30 - 2pm.We arrived in Vail. We thought we were going to be in this huge rush, because for some reason we 1) thought that Vail was going to be a 3 hour drive, and it was less than two hours; and 2) had old info on the schedule, 10mph was at 6:55pm NOT 2:50pm. When we pulled up we immediately saw the slopes, skiers

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Well, tomorrow's the big day. 10mph is showing at the Vail Film Festival, and my husband and I are headed up to check it out. I heard from Hunter & Josh (the filmmakers) that the film's official debut (at the East Lansing Film Festival) went really well. 10mph took the top prize for the documentary competition, and it was very well received. There is lots of buzz about 10mph at Vail too. The

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Oops! Forgot to put my review of Bubble up with the others yesterday. Silly me. Well, here it is.Bubble (Soderbergh, 2006)A new girl stirs things up between factory-worker friends in a small, mid-western town, and shortly thereafter, new girl winds up dead. Who dunnit? And more importantly, who cares?What a disappointment! Stirs things up is really a strong term. This movie was so devoid of

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This week, I saw a decent comedy, a good drama, a fun classic, and a piece of dreck. Check out my reviews for 40 Year Old Virgin, Road to Perdition, The Pink Panther (1963), and Dragonslayer.The 40 Year Old Virgin (Apatow, 2005)A typical coming-of-age, get-laid-or-die comedy, only this guy is coming of age a good 20 - 25 years late.This one has been touted as the one of the best and most

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I just finished watching the preview for Antonio Banderas's new movie, Take the Lead, due in theaters April 7th. Is it just another dance movie? Hard to say. The dancing actually looks pretty good, but it's also heavily edited in the preview at least, so it's hard to tell if they are moving through a series of poses, or really dancing. The thing that's totally apparent from the preview is

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Well, Vail Film Festival is next week. As I mentioned to you before, a film that I worked on is going to be playing at the festival. Just trying to figure out the logistics of getting & staying there now. And it is going to be expensive! Sheesh! When did even the cheapest hotels get to be so expensive?Anyway, I still hope to be going. (I hope that the "cheaper" hotels aren't already booked

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Finally some movies! Full week of movies. I watched The Luzhin Defence, Domino, Yesterday, Gerald McBoing Boing, Walk the Line, and Good Night and Good Luck. And I still haven't written that review for Irreversible, so I thought I would just throw a short review for that in here.The Luzhin Defence (Gorris, 2000)John Turturro is an absent-minded chess genius who is torn between a life with his

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Well, I have finally seen some flicks and feel I am once again slightly overdue for mini reviews. The DVD player is on the fritz, and we are using a backup of crappy quality, so it has curtailed our viewing a bit. Not to mention just a general lack of time, though, for no real reason. This past week I saw The Day After Tomorrow, North Country, and Saw II, and I also watched the final set of

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It's interesting where life's inspirations can take you. A month ago I was crying to my husband that I wasn't an artist anymore. That I didn't have the inclination nor probably the talent to draw or paint. That the half-finished painting I have hanging in the family room that I started almost 5 years ago will probably never be finished. Not only that, but I also felt I no longer had the

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Well, if you happened to be reading the comments in my Netflix Throttling article, you will have noticed that Manuel Villanueva, the guy featured in the CNN article that prompted me to write about the topic, has dropped in for a visit. He says that one of the Netflix sites I cited (as being one of the ones tracking the unethical practices of Netflix) is actually a pro-Netflix site. I checked

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You would have thought all movie records were about the box office or price tags, not so. It seems that there is an Indian filmmaker who has set a record for speed of filmmaking! He was able to make a feature film in a little over 2 hours. Yep, you heard me. He finished making a movie that is a an hour and a half long in two and a quarter hours! Wow!Back to the full blog...

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Spotted on Slashdot was this little tidbit about some predictions Lucas made on Saturday. Considering the lack of box-office success of movies such as King Kong and similar movies in recent times, Lucas feels the future of cinema lies in lower budget flicks that have a better shot at recouping their losses. What he doesn't say is that, due to the increasing availability of cheaper technologies,

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Every year just before Oscar time, I run out to the theater to try to catch the rest of the nominated movies that I haven't yet seen. This year, since we no longer go to the theater, thanks to an awesome home theater, I have seen almost none of the movies, so the usual movie marathon at the theater made no sense. So this is the first year since childhood that I watch the Oscars with little to

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As I just posted on my art blog, I recently found a site with a fun little interactive animation creation tool. Reading further into the website of the Flipbook! creators, I found that they had received an award for their creation from the Japan Media Arts Festival and are going to have a permanent exhibit at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Interesting that such a seemingly silly

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So I came upon the site of an illustrator named Chris Sickels who, instead of drawing or painting his illustrations, creates little 3D models and environments and photographs them. They are quite surreal and beautiful. His work is done under the name of "Red Nose Studio." Also he has begun to dabble with animation a bit too. Check out the animations on the site. Only the first one really has

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Just got word that the movie I worked on, called 10mph, has been accepted into the Vail Film Festival which is happening at the end of March/beginning of April. Other known film fests (so far) that will be showing it are: East Lansing Film Festival in late March, and Longbaugh in Portland in early April. Hopefully there will be local (Denver) screenings to report sometime soon, so you can all

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So last Friday, I dragged the hubby to the Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF) to see the work of one of my favorite professors from CU, Kathleen Man. I am ashamed to say that this is my first time ever to a film festival. It was a wonderful experience; I am so glad I went. I am making a little resolution now to go to as many as I can in the future. If nothing else, at least I have to

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I knew that if I started making videos to post online that this wouldn't be the place to put them. SO I have been thinking about starting another blog when that time comes. In the meantime, I have found myself drawing again after probably a year or more of drawing almost nothing. The reason for my revived creativity is that I found this website that issues a weekly challenge to artists and

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Another set of mini reviews coming at ya! This week: Dark City, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, The Yes Men, Nine Lives, Half Light, and The Constant Gardener. Phew! Better get right to it!Dark City (Proyas, 1998)A man wakes to find he is a murder suspect in a Metropolis-meets-Film Noir-ish environment. Trouble is, he can't remember whether he did it or even who he is.Proyas creates a

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I recently happened upon the site of two filmmakers who have decided to market their film in an entirely new way: video podcasting (or vodcasting, wouldn't vidcasting sound better?). I was blown away at the creative use of this new medium, and I have to say it worked for me. I now very much want to see this film. If these two can make such beautiful and inspired vodcasts, just imagine what

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So there is one downside to having an awesome home theater: You stop going to the theater and are suddenly way behind on water-cooler discussions about movies. OOh What did you think of that new Spielberg movie, or hey didn't you love the one about the gay cowboys? I don't know, check back with me in about six months. I can chat with you about those then, although you'll be on to newer things

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Well it's been well over a week so, my mini reviews are well overdue. This week (and a half) I saw a lovely independent film called Me and You and Everyone We Know, a stylish but disturbing French film called Irreversible, vapid Hollywood dreck (The Wedding Date), and an old classic and a personal favorite of every film lover (myself included), Citizen Kane. A full review of Irreversible will

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Ok, ok, I have been neglecting you all (all 5 of you out there who are reading) lately, but I'm back with a slightly stale piece of news: Netflix is admitting to some sleazy practices.About a year ago, all Netflix users got a notification of a class action lawsuit. Netflix's info on the subject suggested that the plaintiff's beef was that Netflix promises "unlimited" DVDs every month, and this

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From a recent article on CNN.com, with comments from me:About half a million Muslims turned a Beirut religious ceremony into a peaceful protest against cartoons of the Prophet MohammedOk good. Protest is ok. Peaceful protest is good.the crowds chanted with fists raised. "Death to America, Death to Israel.""Death to...."? That doesn't sound terribly peaceful. And why is anger directed at the

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If you are reading the recent comments, you will see one from one of the guys at aqoul.com. Turns out I made an error when referring to them as a muslim blog. The website I found them through referred to them as such. Apologies to all for that inaccuracy. I wrote an email to the guy who commented saying the following:Hey thanks for posting on my blog. And much apologies for my inaccuracies.

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I know some of you are tired of this topic and want me to get back to talking about the movies. Well, this topic is important, so I am bringing you another perspective on it today. But keep your pants on. I watched a good movie last night, and I will be talking about it very soon.Special thanks to the hubby for spotting this on his favorite blog, Stupid Evil Bastard. Blogger ***Dave has this

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I was just on the muslim blog 'Aqoul reading some wonderful discussion of the issue. Apparently (thankfully) not all muslims are chanting death against Danes, apparently those guys, who are so livid over this issue, are in the minority. Still that minority is what the media shows us (because it is more interesting to look at than people peacefully eating dinner and not concerning themselves)

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So I guess there are some outtages on Blogger, and that is presumably the explanation for why my freedom of speech post is not viewable right now. Have patience, if you want to comment, hopefully it will be back up soon. Meanwhile, the latest news is that three embassies have been set ablaze as a result of protests over the cartoons in question. Danish and Norwegian embassies in Syria were set

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The debate over the caracatures of Mohammed printed in the Danish paper rages on on Reem's blog as it does in the world. The Danish government has now stated that they can not and will not apologize "on behalf of a free and independent newspaper" and that the dispute is "between some Muslims and a newspaper." I agree that it is outrageous to print derogatory images of any culture or religion,

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Review time and I actually have some movies to talk about this week! Still not many, though. The hubby and I have started dancing a bit more again over the last couple of weeks. That, coupled with the fact that he's been coming home later (busy work time,) means we've had less time for movies. We still don't have light-blocking curtains so that I can watch movies during the day (the downside

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Interesting topic came up today on Reem's blog. Apparently a Danish newspaper printed a series of satirical cartoons with various depictions of Islamic prophet Mohammed, and has had to issue a major apology after the muslim world has become so angered that the paper, the editor, the cartoonists, and even Denmark have received threats. Apparently the cartoonists have had to go into hiding. And

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How pathetic am I? I didn't watch a single movie this week! I watched some Lost while we were in Miami, some Coupling after we got back. Our four flights were too short for movies to be shown, so we didn't even get anything on the plane. Now it's weekly reviews time, and I have nada! I could write reviews of Lost and Coupling, but I don't know. TV reviewing is just not my thing. I should

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This just in! All 6 cast members of NBC hit show Friends have agreed to return to tape four one-hour specials for a whopping $6.7mill each! I wonder how special they will be. Also on the table are discussions for a new spin-off featuring all the men from the show since Joey bombed. I don't know how well it will ever work to have part of the cast and not the full cast. Plus how will they

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Another little tidbit from USA weekend. Apparently TV show marketers are turning to blogs as the latest way to boost show ratings. They are having their writers (and writer's assistants) create blogs in the voice of characters from whatever show they are promoting.Some such blogs to check out...schrutespace.com (The Office)barneysblog.com (How I Met Your Mother)emeraldcitybar.com (Grey's

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It's always amazing to me the kind of very specific and odd organizations there are out there to whom you can donate your dough. Just finished flipping through USA weekend. Apparently Geena Davis, bored with trying out for olympics teams and winning Oscars, has started a non-profit agency, See Jane, dedicated to promoting the increase of female lead characters in children's shows. She noticed

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Sorry about the sparse posts this week. I am on vacation in Miami and had a major deadline I had to work overtime on before I left. Consequently I have only seen one movie since last week, so only one review to give you. I heard about this movie (an English film) when I lived in England in the 90s. I was there when it came out, saw the previews, and thought, "Wow! This movie looks exciting!"

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I would have watched more this week, but I was watching a bunch of Coupling (season 2) episodes instead. What a great show! So very funny. Highly recommended to all. (Make sure it is the English version you rent, there is an American version that is supposedly crap.) Anyway, this week we had a movie night with a couple of friends who were anxious to try out our home theater. We didn't have

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I just finished reading an article in Time magazine about videos that claim to make babies smarter. You know the ones, Baby Einstein and Baby Einstein ripoffs. The article claims that science has been questioning whether or not these videos do any good and has found compelling evidence to suggest that they may even do harm!Harm? You ask astonished. Yes, harm! Apparently the latest on babies

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Ta da! I have passed the 1500 mark on my Netflix ratings! I wonder if I will ever make the 2000 mark while a member of Netflix. Things to look forward to!Are we ready for the rest of the 5-star list?Moulin Rouge! (Luhrmann, 2001)Satine is a turn-of-the-20th-century parisian showgirl. She doesn't think love is for her until dreamer, Christian, comes along.Music and excess. Beautiful, bold

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A great blonde joke...I know it is against my own rules to post a silly joke. But this blonde joke is just too good not to pass on...Back to the full blog...

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Well I thought this was interesting and tied in a little with my Winged Migration post a while back. So I thought I would bring it up for discussion here even though, in this case, we are talking about a book not a movie.According to The Smoking Gun, the wildly successful, lucky SOB who's book became Oprah's most recent book club selection has been found to have fibbed a bit in his autobio A

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Just because I have a degree in film doesn't mean I am, by necessity, a film snob. In fact, I can think a movie is one of the smartest films I have ever seen, but unless it was also very entertaining, it won't make this list. One of the most tiring things for me in film school was all the pretentious students who talked about their favorite films as being the kind of stuff we were force-fed in

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Ok, so I am just learning what a meme is, and I have not been "tagged" by anyone to do this, but I am so wanting to do the whole blog thing, so I will pretend I was tagged (when actually I found it in a meme listing.) So the game goes like this: You pick 10 movies, snatch some stills from the movies or online, and get your friends to guess what movies they are from. And no cheating and looking

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I am nearly at 1500 rated films on Netflix!Yep! That's right, I have seen a lot of movies and spent way too much time rating them on Netflix. My current number of ratings is 1496. I think I should have a big party when I hit 1500, which will probably be later this week. Thing is, they aren't all movies. Some of them are music videos, short films, or even TV shows, and there are even probably

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Another week, another list. I was hungry for movies after my holiday dry spell. So I watched almost anything I could! I know you think I watch a crazy amount of movies, but hey, when we got our little home theater, we basically cut ourselves off from TV. So if I am in front of the screen it's to watch a movie -- though sometimes we do rent TV show DVDs. We are really digging Lost Season 1

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I was going to save this topic for a day when I felt I had amassed tons of sources and thought of lots of infinitely brilliant things to say about this topic, but since it already came up in the recent comments on my SW3 post. I suppose we ought to discuss it now.My dream, since I was a little girl drawing floorplans of my fantasy home in crayon, has been to have a real movie theater in my home.

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If you didn't notice the teen-movie craze in the 80s, you just weren't paying attention to the world around you. You probably also missed the shoulder pads and hair bands. No other movie trend took hold in the 80s like the teen movie. In the "me" decade, teens couldn't have fit in better with the idealogy of the time, so catering to them in movies just made sense.Criteria for this list:1. The

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The holidays are always a crazy time. Intense, stressful, busy. It's a wonder there is any time for anything. Especially movies. But what better way to escape the madness of the season than with a few mad flicks? This week: Dr. Strangelove, Elling, Reefer Madness and another Reefer Madness, and The Interpreter.Full week!Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964)I have never liked Kubrick. I was dating

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Just got back yesterday afternoon from trip number 2 of 3 in 2 weeks. Vegas! Seems to me I will have to write something on Vegas and its preoccupation with the visual delights, and indeed voyeurism, but that will have to wait. Owing to the fact that the trip was short and interrupted by a family death, I didn't get to see any of the shows or the 3-D IMAX like I hoped. Next time. I instead

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Dry week for movies this week, I am afraid. As I mentioned in the previous post, I watched Ghostbusters last weekend and now I have been so busy getting ready for this road trip I am on to Omaha, NE, and then for another trip next week to Vegas, that I haven't had hardly any time to devote to my usual movie watching. So, this week's reviews are few and brief.Trainspotting (Boyle, 1996)Ewan

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So I had the awesomest birthday dinner the other night with friends. Most of us being from the generation that had its childhood in the embarrassingly 80s-ish 80s, we ended up talking a lot about the shows and movies we grew up on. Afterwards, we headed into our fabulous home theater to watch some really great movie. Something obscure, classic, interesting, exciting. We were going to have a

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I think that shorter reviews are sometimes more appropriate for some films I see. So I think that I will try to do this about once a week or so to supplement the more in-depth writing I do on the other films.Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Liman, 2005)Brad & Angelina's marriage is on the rocks because they haven't told each other everything, especially that they are both secretly spies!I did enjoy this one

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