January 2010
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Red Riding: Special Roadshow Edition
Next Friday the IFC Center will be showing the Red Riding trilogy back-to-back-to-back for 1 week only. The critically acclaimed British miniseries centers around the manhunt for the “Yorkshire Ripper”, a serial killer who terrorized England in the 70’s and 80’s. The films, which are based on true events, take place in 1974, 1980, and 1983 and feature a revolving cast...
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LOST: The Final Season
The final season of LOST premieres one week from tonight and I could not be more excited. I’ve been watching this show since I caught up with Season 1 on DVD right before the Season 2 premiere and it has been my obsession ever since. But if my theory holds that LOST is best when presenting questions instead of answering them, how will Season 6 fare when there is so much to wrap up? Time...
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Part 2 in my Albums I Didn’t Listen To Last Year...
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Spoon @ Mercury Lounge 1/21/10
Last night I went to see Spoon at Mercury Lounge which would have been a great show except last night I did not get to see Spoon at Mercury Lounge. The show, which had been announced only a few days ago while I was doing my civic duty waiting around for 2 days to see if I would be picked for jury duty. (I was not picked for jury duty.) So I was not at my desk to hear about the show or buy the...
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I'm Here
A robot-love story by Spike Jonze.
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Tim Burton Exhibit @ MoMA
It’s weird knowing that I grew up thinking Tim Burton was mine. Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns and The Nightmare Before Christmas were all films I saw in the theatre at a very young age. I loved Tim Burton before I knew who Tim Burton was, but that all changed with Batman. From that film onward his films were always a very big...
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I (Still) Love Steven Soderbergh
Recently I’ve been revisiting many films in my Top Films of the Decade list because I haven’t seen them in years and am curious how they hold up. Last night I watched 2002’s Solaris, which might have been the last Steven Soderbergh film I truly loved*. The year before he made Oceans 11 (both great entertainment and the highest grossing film of his career at that point), and...
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Daybreakers
Look, I know better than to see this movie. January and February are a dumping ground for films, where studios clean out their closets with all the shit they wouldn’t dare release any other time of year. These are the months where unmentionables like Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Bride Wars, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans and Hotel For Dogs rule the box office. Once I figured this out I pretty...
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Girls - Lust For Life
Part 1 in my Albums I...
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Angela Lindvall Must Be Cursed
Recently I was rewatching CQ, one of my favorite movies of the decade, and something occured to me. Angela Lindvall must be cursed.
CQ stars Jeremy Davies as a film editor in 1969 Paris working on a science fiction film by day while trying to make a more personal one at night. A mix of 60’s low-budget exploitation films like Barbarella and Danger: Diabolik with European art cinema...
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AVATAR
Like the rest of the world, I saw Avatar (twice!) Unlike most of the world (who had never heard of Avatar a year ago) I have been waiting for this movie for a long time, though there was that moment of doubt. As it turns out, both of me were right! James Cameron’s Avatar is both a landmark film and a huge disappointment. Visually the film is stunning and you’ve never really seen...
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Last Day Dream
Your entire life in 42 seconds. (via xixax)
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Nine | The Road | The Lovely Bones
Trio of disappointment. Every year there are a handful of Oscar hopefuls that end up underwhelming. These films count on critics and awards to bring in audiences and without that support can end up vanishing pretty quickly. After enduring months of the studio manufactured hype there seems to be a sort of resentment built up with the audience, like the promise of an Awards-worthy pedigree has...
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Listomania: My Favorite Films of 2009
1. UP Pixar’s latest is hilarious, affecting, beautiful and also my favorite film of 2009. The film’s biggest achievement is the opening montage of Carl and Ellie growing old together and how in a few wordless minutes the film manages to tell you everything you need to know about their lives. It also manages to make me cry uncontrollably every time I watch it, which seems to be the...
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Listomania: My Most Anticipated Films of 2010
I may still be finalizing my Top 10 List for 2009 but that doesn’t mean I can’t start looking forward to all the films coming out this year. For many of these films, very little is known about them so it’s possible by the time they’re released I’ll be much less/more interested in them, and very disappointed/surprised shortly after. But right now any of these could...
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