Dialogic Cinephilia - February 23, 2019
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Brunori, David. "Where is the Outrage Over Corporate Welfare?" *Forbes* (March
14, 2014)
Crandall, Chris, Erin Kearns and Muniba Saleem. "The Weight of Our...
Scriptnotes, ep 388: The Clown Stays in the Picture
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The original post for this episode can be found here. John August: Hello
and welcome. My name is John August. And this is Episode 388 of
Scriptnotes, a pod...
Run the Race
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[image: Thumb run race image]
“Run the Race” mostly manages to avoid the problems that plague so many
faith-based films. It has stronger production value...
It’s Luis Buñuel’s Birthday
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Today is Luis Buñuel’s birthday! From Luis Buñuel’s autobiography My Last
Sigh: Connoisseurs who like their martinis very dry suggest simply allowing
a ray...
Red Rock West
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Direct-to-video no longer has the stigma it once did. Back in the heyday of
home video for a film to bypass a theatrical release and go straight to
video...
They Saved Hitler’s Sperm
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Franklin J. Schaffner’s THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL is like MARATHON MAN’s
brain-damaged clone or something. It’s hard to say which is the tackier
take on Nazi wa...
And The Winner Is: 2019 Oscars Preditions
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From climate change to measles to the epidemic of motion-smoothing on TV
sets, I know we have many, many more important things to worry about. But
in the...
FlixChatter Review: Happy Death Day 2U (2019)
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Review by Vitali Gueron One of my favorite comedic slasher movies came out
in mid-October 2017. Happy Death Day, from Blumhouse Productions and
directed by...
Conference roundup Spring 2019
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Spring is the slow season for film studies conferences. Here is my current
list of English-language conferences of interest to those in film studies
(and s...
Hating the Oscars the Right Way
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Hating the Oscars. Hardly an original pursuit—the act itself has a storied
history—though certainly an irresistible one. No less a figure than George
C. S...
Review: The Humanity Bureau
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The Humanity Bureau The Good The acting is actually pretty fun to watch in
a funny way. I know Nicholas Cage has fallen out of style in recent years
but ...
Oscar Predictions 2019
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With the influx of new Academy members and a preferential ballot system
that asks voters to rank their choices rather than vote for their favorite
outright...
So Dark the Night
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Joseph H. Lewis - 1946 Arrow Academy BD Region A For the benefit of those
who may be less familiar with the filmmaker, Joseph H. Lewis was nicknamed
"Wagon...
Best of 2018: The 12 Best Films of the Year
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by Tony Dayoub
As Academy Awards night approaches this Sunday, and for your consideration,
my top films of 2018 followed by the winners of the respectiv...
“Here, You Play It!”
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“Here, You Play It!” Haruki Murakami is probably the best known Japanese
writer worldwide, and one of the most known living writer punto. After a
career as...
EAT & DRINK INTO OUR HEARTS
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Food and beverages play an important part in our love lives. Enjoy a
sampling of Valentine images around food and drink, vintage and current. We
even link ...
Semi-Permanent Sydney 2018 (2018)
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[image: Semi-Permanent Sydney 2018]
Over a few days every year Semi-Permanent is a pixel-pumping,
creativity-boosting, and future-making series of events...
The Great Apple Raid
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Source: Arthur Hopcraft, The Great Apple Raid & other encounters of a tin
chapel tiro (London: Heinemann, 1970), pp. 39-41 Text: The Central Cinema
has an ...
Call Him a Red: Remembering Albert Finney 1936-2019
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I’m going to miss Albert Finney. I’ve spent a good deal of my time watching
the films he made and writing about them. As a result, Finney has become
one of...
Are Temporary Appointments a Threat to Archiving?
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Is the archiving profession threatened by an overuse of temporary
appointments that deprives entrants to the field of long-term career
prospects? Many obse...
Blu-ray Consumer Guide, February 2019
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To Peter Nellhaus, and to the memory of Nick Redman. Equipment: Playstation
3, Sony KD50X690E display, Pioneer Elite VSX-817 AV amplifier/receiver. (As
it ...
NICE GOIN’, KID: DICK MILLER (1928-2019)
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A lot of words have already been written this week, and hopefully a lot
more will be written in the next few weeks, months and years, about the
great an...
Photo Diary - January 2019
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My cameras have been collecting dust for a while, so for 2019 I made a
resolution to take a photo a day .
Since I only shoot on film (the only exception...
Elliott Gould & The Long Goodbye
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From my New Beverly interview with the great Elliott Gould: Talking with
Elliott Gould is a unique, enriching experience. He philosophizes, he
riffs, he fr...
Divine Decadence
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Everything makes sense when you look back on it. The truth was right there
in front of you as you kept waiting, hoping that it would all turn out
otherwi...
SOLEDAD (Volume One) Now Available
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The premiere issue of my brand new arts journal, SOLEDAD, is now available
on Amazon or at Nostalgia Kinky. I’ve been working, mostly in secret, on
this ...
My Literary Year in Review, 2018
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Here’s a look at the books I read in 2018 (as well as the audiobooks I
listened to). Favorites are starred: Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky
(2015) *Th...
Ten Festive Treats from Film Studies For Free!
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1. FATED TO BE MATED: An Architectural Promenade from Catherine Grant on
Vimeo. As discussed in "Screen studies as device?: Working through the
video essa...
Favorite Music Videos, 2018
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Here is a rough list of my favorite music videos for 2018. It was complied
fairly casually, so I may well have forgotten something. As for the order,
the t...
Conversation with Lisandro Alonso
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In the context of a retrospective program dedicated to the work of Lisandro
Alonso (8 – 16 NOVEMBER 2018, Brussels), after a screening of ‘Jauja’
(2014) on...
A Farewell to Ferdy
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By Roderick Heath Long ago, in the dimly-remembered time of legend and
chivalry that was 2006, my friend Marilyn Ferdinand asked me if I wanted to
contribu...
A BREAD FACTORY (2018)—All Feast, No Famine
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"The Bread Factory once made bread, whereas now there are only crumbs; but,
what they make of those crumbs is *miraculous*!!"
A new film by Patrick Wang i...
Cinema in the Digital Age, Revised
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A revised, updated edition of Cinema in the Digital Age (Columbia
University Press) is now alive and kicking in the world.
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/ci...
Links
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So it should be obvious from a cursory look that this site isn't really
updated anymore but I am still writing around the internet so here are
links to my ...
New Reviews at the Lens
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[image: The Final Year]
[image: Phantom Thread]
[image: Call Me by Your Name]
[image: The Shape of Water]
[image: The Disaster Artist]
[image: Justice League...
2017 Manhattan One-Week-Run Premieres
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I've probably seen as many first-run 2017 releases as I'm going to. So here
are my favorite films that played at least one week in Manhattan for the
first ...
The Top 255 Movies Of 2017
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Why pick? Here is everything I saw in 2017. Titles in bold were seen
theatrically. 1. NORTH BY NORTHWEST. Dir. Alfred Hitchock 2. CAMERAPERSON
Dir. Kirsten...
It’s a Roald Dahl World After All
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From Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory to Fantastic Mr. Fox and Matilda
to The Witches, beloved British author Roald Dahl’s tales of eccentrics,
rebels...
End Credits
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Dear Out 1 Film Journal Readers of the Past, Present, and Future,
How have you all been? I write you today what will be the final post here
at Out 1 Fil...
Go Make a Movie
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*The late great Chantal Akerman*
Everything is bad.
The inhumanity of money is killing the world. It is killing the rainforest,
it is killing the Middle ...
A Test of Faith
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Faith is a virtue that can help us get through some difficult times in our
lives. But what happens when our faith seems to come up short in a critical
s...
Screenwriting 101: Wentworth Miller
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“The one question I will ask myself as I’m re-reading a script for the 60th
time is, ‘Am I entertained? Still?’ If the answer is ‘yes,’ I’ll assume
other p...
10 Fascinating Sports Documentaries
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Inspired by the O.J. Made in America documentary from ESPN, here is a quick
article I wrote for Mental Floss, “10 Fascinating Sports Documentaries.”
They r...
Memories of Edward Copeland
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For a time at my home blog, *Thrilling Days of Yesteryear*, I meticulously
documented the passings of people in the entertainment industry in the form
of...
DEMOLITION (#TIFF15 Review)
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The nuances in DEMOLITION allow for it to rise above its overtly symbolic
nature. And Jake Gyllenhaal catches all of that nuance and delivers it to
us with...
Recent Work
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-Here's a book with a chapter I wrote, my first publication of original
research to come from the project on early video games I have been working
on for s...
Goodbye Tativille, Hello OKCMOA Film Blog
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After nine years and three hundred ninety posts, Tativille will be going on
permanent hiatus. Let me extend my sincerest thanks to my exceptionally
loyal ...
The Eyes of March (2014)
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I was traveling when it came time for the sixth edition of the "Eyes of
March."
Fair enough. But I didn't expect it would take me another month to final...
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