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Sydney Pollack died yesterday. I'm looking for a good video tribute and will post one here if I can track one down, but in the meantime I thought it might be interesting to look at his all-time Top Ten list, which was published in 2002 (in no specific...
Check this one out, I thought it was oddly entertaining. It's kooky as hell, but it kinda sucked me in. I especially enjoyed the Bono and Joe Cocker cameos. It's way over the top, but it's also really original. The way they tell most of the...
1964's The Fall of the Roman Empire is set at the end of the reign of Emporer Marcus Aurelius and the rise of his son Commodus. Although it was poorly received at the time, it's maintained a lot of interest over the years and it does maintain...
Roy Scheider died Sunday. He was a great actor. Jaws wasn't my favorite film with him, actually. The main roles I remember him for are (envelope please?): 1) Gene Hackman's sidekick in The French Connection -- a sadly overlooked classic these...
I put this one off for ages because from the previews I thought it was "Chocolat 2.0" -- a boring "chick flick" for sure. Holy cow was THAT wrong. In fact it almost defies description, but the closest I can come is "American Psycho"...
I haven't done a new scene deconstruction in a while (I'm working on a couple but haven't had much time), so here's something movie-related to tide us over. It's a little video tribute to the infamous "Wilhelm scream", used...
In this second installment of my new series on favorite movie scenes (the first one may be found here ), we take a look at the movie Jaws, by Steven Spielberg. Jaws was the first of the great modern summer blockbusters, almost single-handedly reinventing...
Not much introduction is needed here, of course. This is not only the most famous scene in Casablanca , it's also one of the most iconic moments in film. The Marseillaise , of course, is the French national anthem, but I'll spare the reader any...
What an interesting casting choice! Jeremy Quinto, who played Sylar on Heroes, has been tapped to play the young Spock in the upcoming JJ Abrams Star Trek movie, which focuses on the earliest adventures of Kirk and Spock. The article I've linked below...
This is an awesome video made by a professor at Bucknell University that uses Disney clips to explain copyright law (demonstrating fair use in the process!). Very funny, too.
Fun stuff. A bit of a parody of the AFI's "100" series, but also a tribute. See if you can identify all the movies. For the record, I've seen 94 of them. ("Docking bay 94....") If you really MUST, the answers are available...
Cool video showing places in LA that have been featured in major movies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXtVZQ6jcZg
HDNet Movies is showing The Searchers in HD on Saturday night at 6pm Eastern time. I'm guessing it uses the new transfer that was done for the 50th anniversary DVD release in 2006. So this is a rare chance to see this classic in all its glory. The...
Run, do NOT walk, to the nearest video store and grab this little gem of a movie. It is a rare, rare classic. It's about a high school kid trying to figure out what's happened to his old girlfriend who called him again out of the blue asking for...
Holy cow what a movie. This may well end up on my list of "perfect films". It's a must-see for any movie buff, for sure. There are three extended-take sequences that are talked about at great length in the movie's Wikipedia article....
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