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I can feel the Twilight zeitgeist in the air tonight, perhaps it's because I live across from the cinema and the line around the block is across from me, and I hear them out there, howling. Maybe I'm too sensitive but the liberal arts feminist in me digs it, baby. It's TWIN PEAKS kind of foggy ...
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Twilight
Kristen Stewart
Desire
Robert Pattinson
New Moon
I'm shocked SHOCKED to find the modern masterpiece of 2009, ANTICHRIST, getting such hostile reviews. Why? Call me off the wall but I'm betting a) a lot of critics just don't know much about film history; b) Camille Paglia has fallen from grace in modern academia; c) Many critics never did ...
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AntiChrist
Charlotte Gainsbourg
I just learned, via Peter Nellhaus , of the passing of one of America's most obscure-but-talented directors, Paul Wendkos. Wendkos would be far better known today if his first film, the great low-budget noir, The Burglar (1956), were more readily available. The Burglar , an unabashedly arty ...
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Criss Angel
Every time a new film by the Coen brothers comes out, I dread having to hear from the same old so-and-so's who can't bear to slog through the Coens' peculiar brand of pessimism. The words "bleak" and "cynical" often pepper their reviews rather liberally, along with some gasp of regret that the ...
Movies
A Serious Man
Joel & Ethan Coen
They Caught the Ferry (1948) is a short highway safety film – much like the ones we used to watch in Drivers Ed. - produced by the Danish Film Commission, and directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, the legendary auteur of The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Vampyr (1932), Day of Wrath (1943), ...
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Superheroes with toy franchise tie-ins get a lot of heat... unless critics had a real lively sense of humor they trashed both TRANSFORMERS (as well as WOLVERINE, TERMINATOR SALVATION, etc.) but GI JOE: RISE OF THE COBRA does everything right. AND it gets a lot less things wrong. One can only ...
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G.I. Joe
Michael Bay
Kick Ass
Issue 66 of Bright Lights Film Journal is now online. From the editor Keep watching the lights... Articles Roman Polanski: What's on Trial? By Karin Luisa Badt Looking at Charlie: Modern Times An Occasional Series on the Life and Work of Charlie Chaplin "Buck up! Never say die! We’ll get ...
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Paul Blaisdell (July 21, 1927 - July 10, 1983) was a science fiction illustrator ( The Ant Men, above ), a special effects artisan, and an inspired designer of imaginative costumes and props for a series of low-budget horror, monster, and sci-fi films released by American International ...
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The Invasion
When you believe in things you don’t understand, you suffer. –Stevie Wonder In 1949 Walt Disney Studios produced the last, and arguably the best, of their “package” films – barely-feature length vignette collections made on reduced budgets during World War II for theatrical distribution – ...
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Disney Studios
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When you believe in things you don’t understand,
you suffer. –Stevie Wonder In 1949 Walt Disney Studios
produced the last, and arguably the best, of their “package” films – barely-feature length vignette collections made on reduced budgets during ...
An Athiest's Guide to "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
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It's massively popular, it's ridiculously mopey, yet it's also brooding, purple and relatively un-headache-inducing... in short, it's everything you hate and love about Seattle if you ever tried to move there. TWILIGHT captures the "real" version of the icy self-importance that suffuses the ...
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Twilight
Watching the marvelous Blu-ray edition of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), I was struck by how certain shots foreshadowed the imagery of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941) released by the same studio, RKO, only four years later: the gothic castle at night with its one glowing ...
