The August Movie: A History -- Vulture -- Entertainment & Culture Blog -- New York Magazine
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Shorts, fests, etc, 7/31.
Published 7/31/2008 at GreenCine Daily
... Jason Gray: Tran Anh Hung (Cyclo, The Scent of Green Papaya and A Vertical Ray of the Sun) is set to direct a Japanese-language adaptation of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood. I agree with Todd: This is a match-up that sounds right.
But back to the dreadful present: "August has arrived, bringing with it the shitty August Movie." Vulture offers "A Theory of Awfulness" and a history of the August Movie.
Continued reading Shorts, fests, etc, 7/31.... ...
Link Time! 7/31
Published 7/31/2008 by BuzzSugar at BuzzSugar -- Entertainment hourly.
... fun.
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Vulture has an exhaustive history of the typically awful August movie releases. ...
Vulture Declares August a Cursed Movie Month
Published 7/31/2008 by Eric Kohn at Cinematical
... Vulture has compiled a list arguing that August movies generally blow. Sifting through the titles from the past fifteen years, it's hard to ignore their point. If ...
New York Magazine Tackles the August Movie Graveyard
Published 8/4/2008 by esreverniuoy (noreply@blogger.com) at Wildcat Wire
... They've got two articles up: one charting the history of terrible films and diamonds in the rough from August 1993 to the present. The other is ...
