December 2011
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joseph gordon levitt ironically called in sick.
adopting typically bleak subject matter and playing it for laughs isn’t often an easy formula to get right, which will count for most of the reason why jonathon levine’s cancer dramedy 50/50 has been garnering such a gracious, surprising reception. based on screenwriter will reiser’s own brush with the disease, 50/50 plucks the set-up of your disease-of-the-week television movie and adds seth...
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mike leigh, anton corbijn, asghar farhadi,... →
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this side of paradise.
for a film that, bar a few shorts (for tv and 2006’s paris, je’taime) represents alexander payne’s only other directorial project in seven years, the descendants offers a surprising sense of tonal and thematic continuity. similarly to that 2004 chef d’oeuvre, the descendants is concerned with the fragility of a very specific middle-aged male mindset. and yet with his...
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tom cruise, proving there are scarier things to...
it may have seemed like an odd choice that acclaimed pixar-miracle worker brad bird’s first foray into live-action filmmaking would be the fourth entry into a frisky franchise still without a cohesive style to call its own. but in truth, it’s probably one of the easier transitions he could make. in fact, it’s through the cartoonish sensibilities and playful visual orchestration that comes so...
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"i draw a line in the sand, and then i move it".
… laments governor mike morris [beguiling the masses above] at one point in george clooney’s latest directorial effort the ides of march, a statement which slyly acts as the crux for the film in its entirety. politics, as a field, works around a series of negotiations and clooney’s picture attacks, not just the shifts in stance and policy that consistently occurs in all...
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one of the tensest onscreen moments of '11? the...
often, the best parallels to dissect the human condition will trace our knotty complexities right back to the simplicity of childhood, with playground politics offering that raw, simple social order of simultaneous freedoms and condemnations –- one which french director céline sciamma is clearly tapping into with her gentle exploration of gender relations tomboy.
masculinity tends to fragment and...
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music from bronson: new order, your silent face.
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hide your kids, hide your yams.
new zealand’s oscar submission this year? a small, quiet tale — told with observant restraint and understated charm — of a small, quiet dwarf, cornered by the pressures of kin and tradition to speak up and defend that which he holds dear; almost akin to a samoan, family-orientated the station agent, which happens to be the only other drama i can recall where a quiet dwarf learns life...
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cinemetrics facebook chat.
B1: its too daunting
B2: todd haynes' safe.
todd solondz's happiness.
B1: ive got todd haynes' safe but i havent seen it
happiness in my quickflix queue
B2: fuck so daunting.
wanna watch CRASH too
the cronenberg one.
B1: not the shit one?
shit, i'm such a 'brokeback lost, waaahhhh' troll
B2: not the "i'm a shit, perverted cunt - wait hold up, i'm a hero and a wonderful person" one
"i'm not a bigot or a racist - wait hold up, just shot a nigga"
B1: i just learnt imovie --- hold up, that was an editing PSYCH!!! didn't actually shoot the hispanic kid
B2: "i'm a total bitch - wait hold up, just fell down the stairs. turns out im quite lonely"
"we are sophisticated, articulate black men, now watch us jack this car"
paul haggis — world's best cliche subverter.
B1: that fucking cunt can kiss my fucking balls
B2: or jake gyllenhaals
B1: him and ron howard should shack up and workshop new ways to protract sappy character arcs
cinderella man can go fuck off
B2: there is always one.
it fucks me off to no end that 'the blind side' even got watched by members of the academy, let alone a best picture nod and a best actress win.
B1: a beautiful mine at the fence of the house of academy award-winning screenwriter akiva goldsman
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we laughed, we cried, we lost our minds and in the... →
head on over to pitchfork for more on reznor/ross’ sonic wizardry (did i just write that?) for the new david fincher film, the girl with the dragon tattoo.
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