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By Simon Abrams If we're to believe the military general in Red Cliff 2 who muses, “The times makes the hero,” then somebody ought to tell Magnet Releasing, the American distributors of Red Cliff (John Woo’s records-shattering period war epic set in 208 AD), that they’re the villain. Just like ...
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Red Cliff
John Woo
So there's apparently some vampire movie opening today. Seems as good a time as any to resurrect this. (Hattip: Simon Abrams.) _____________________________________________________ "Link for the Day": Each day (more or less) the House editors post a link to an item that we hope will spark ...
Movies
And so we have the international trailer to Zhang Yimou's Blood Simple remake, The First Gun (aka Amazing Tales: Three Guns ). Hmmm…sure you didn't adapt Raising Arizona by accident, Zhang? _____________________________________________________ "Link for the Day": Each day (more or less) ...
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Zhang Yimou
By Charles Taylor The New Yorker used to be in the habit of sending someone to screenings along with their movie critics for the purposes of fact checking. Anthony Lane's latest piece of cocktail chat—it's Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces he's discussing between sips of his martini this ...
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Pedro Almodovar
Penelope Cruz
Marilyn Monroe
G.I. Joe
Sad news to report with today's Link. Writer Edward Copeland, of Edward Copeland on Film , is putting his blog on semi-permanent hiatus due to health issues. He explains in the full post (excerpt below). If so inclined, head on over to his site and wish him well. I'm sure he'd appreciate it. ...
Movies
By Kevin B. Lee [ Editor's Note: This is the latest entry in House contributor Kevin B. Lee's Shooting Down Pictures , a record of his ongoing quest to see every title on the list of the 1000 Greatest Films compiled by They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? ] _____________________ What is it ...
Movies
Bruce Lee
By Tom Stempel COMING UP IN THIS COLUMN: An Education , Amelia , The Great Locomotive Chase , Bitter Victory , Ride the High Country , Mad Men , A CSI Trilogy, A Couple of New Series, but first: *** FAN MAIL: Well, here’s an example of why I love doing this column: Matt Zoller Seitz ’s ...
Celebrities
By Kevin B. Lee [ Editor's Note: This is the latest entry in House contributor Kevin B. Lee's Shooting Down Pictures , a record of his ongoing quest to see every title on the list of the 1000 Greatest Films compiled by They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? ] _____________________ Eric Rohmer’s ...
Movies
Leonardo DiCaprio
Bruce Lee
House reader Charlie C., a big fan of our coverage of The Wire , sends along this smile-inducing video. _____________________________________________________ "Link for the Day": Each day (more or less) the House editors post a link to an item that we hope will spark discussion. We ...
Television
The Wire
By Simon Abrams Though it looks like a highly polished, quasi-avant garde bit of speculative fiction, contemporary French sci-fi flick Eden Log is really a far-flung descendant of the Heavy Metal comics of the '70s and '80s. That infamous omnibus series, which reached a peak of popularity ...
Movies
By Veronika Ferdman I love horror films; slashers, monsters, the occult, even the occasional torture porn installment—if there’s screaming and stalking, I’m there. But as much as being a huge fan of the genre predisposes me to being more lenient in my unabashed love for all things bumping in ...
Movies
By Kevin B. Lee [ Editor's Note: This is the latest entry in House contributor Kevin B. Lee's Shooting Down Pictures , a record of his ongoing quest to see every title on the list of the 1000 Greatest Films compiled by They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? ] _____________________ One: Is it ...
Movies
Bruce Lee
This morning, a double-dose of links that've been waiting in my inbox, both sent by House contributors. First, N.P. Thompson directs us to Seattle PostGlobe reviewer Bill White's article on the Lisandro Alonso retrospective currently running at Northwest Film Forum. Excerpt: "There is ...
Movies
Vanity Fair
By Matt Zoller Seitz Vilmos Zsigmond and Laszlo Kovacs, whose cinematography would help change the look of American movies in the late 1960s and 1970s, first met in 1953 on a Budapest street corner near the Academy of Drama and Film, where both men were enrolled as cinematography students. ...
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Todd VanDerWerff joins Luke De Smet and Myles McNutt for this special Mad Men season three recap podcast, produced in conjunction with TV on the Internet . The three spend just under an hour talking about the season finale, the season as a whole, their favorite moments of the season and where ...
Television
Mad Men
It's Friday, so that means it's time for a well-meaning montage of footage from other films. Here, courtesy of Videogum , is an amusing montage of characters in movies saying the title of the movie. It works better than it should! "Hey, I love movies. We all do! That's why I put together this ...
Movies
By Ed Howard Claude Chabrol has always been especially interested in the dynamics of class power, examining the nature of class with a dry, caustic wit. In La cérémonie , this examination plays out in a remote small town where the isolated lower-class maid Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire) is hired ...
Movies
Sandrine Bonnaire
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Virginie Ledoyen
By Simon Abrams SPOILER WARNING IN EFFECT “You know, you don’t have to do this,” a concerned sheriff, one of a veritable parade of local police officers, tells Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) at the end of The Hitcher . By that point, after having been worked over thoroughly and completely by ...
Movies
Red Band
J.J. Abrams
By Veronika Ferdman [ The Alain Resnais series is now playing at Berkeley’s BAMPFA. Click here for more information. ] Back in August, when I first heard about the re-envisioning/discontinuation of LACMA ’s film program, I met the news with a heavy heart and resounding guilt. I’d been living ...
Movies
By Simon Abrams As dated as it is, The Keep (1983), Michael Mann's second theatrical release after Thief (1981), remains an intriguing mess of historical provocation. The film answers "Nazisploitation" filmmakers' favorite "What if" question—"If you could go back in time and kill the Nazis, ...
