December 2011
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Best of 2011
Today marks the end of a great and memorable year for film. I’m excited to see what 2012 will hold. Here is what I considered to be the best in film for 2011, and therefore great suggestions if you haven’t seen them, depending on your mood:
Best Film of the Year: Shame The movie that showed the brilliance of the collaboration of Steve McQueen as a director and Michael Fassbender as a...
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Sundance Portraits
2010: Malin Akerman, Josh Radnor, and Kate Mara for happythankyoumoreplease
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Sundance Film Festival: Meet the Artist →
Every year, the Sundance Institute posts videos of filmmakers discussing their films chosen to be screened for the Sundance Film Festival in their “Meet the Artist” series. New videos for the crop of 2012 selected films are making their way online. Check out two from films I will attempt to see at the upcoming festival:
The First Time (starring Britt Robertson): the film follows two...
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The Paperboy (Upcoming film)
I have been so excited lately about the reemergence of great Black filmmakers that I have been following new projects closely. Today, the poster for the upcoming film The Paperboy from Lee Daniels (Precious) hit the internet with a great vintage vibe. This is only Daniels’ third film but he is definitely making a name for himself in the industry, being one of the only Oscar-nominated Black...
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“I’m already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?”
– Juno
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Sundance Portraits
2011: Sterling Brown, Janet Montgomery, Jesse Peretz (director), Paul Rudd, Zooey Deschanel, Elizabeth Banks, and Emily Mortimer for My Idiot Brother
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Edward Burns' Tribeca Film "Newlyweds" & Other NYC... →
I have had the great fortune to attend the last two Tribeca Film festivals and seen Edward Burns and his festival films. This year, Newlyweds was screened at the closing night ceremony which was a great event to attend. I always find Burnsie’s films to be comfortable and satisfying with that great indie vibe. It’s a wonder he can do so much with a small budget. Check out the link to...
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12 Years a Slave (Upcoming Film)
If you have been as impressed with the new super director-actor duo of Steve McQueen and Michael Fassbender (Hunger, Shame) as I have, then you can’t wait until their next project. We won’t have to wait long. Their next collaboration will be 12 Years a Slave, an adaptation of an autobiographical historical text and written work of the former slave Solomon Northrup, which will also star Chiwetel...
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Sundance Portraits
2010: Adam Brody, Josh Duhamel, Elijah Wood, Rebecca Lawrence, Katie Holmes, Jeremy Strong, Malin Akerman, and writer/director Galt Niederhoffer for The Romantics
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“I was in love with the most incredible woman and she put a knife in me.”
– Vicky Cristina Barcelona
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Four Minutes with "The Girl with the Dragon... →
We all can agree that David Fincher is a genius but he isn’t the only one who is instrumental in bringing some of the best films to the screen. Fincher along with his Oscar-winning editing team Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall (The Social Network) discuss how they complied a four minute sequence for the film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
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Film Review: Shame
This weekend I headed over the the theater to see the much-anticipated Shame, the new film from Steve McQueen and Michael Fassbender about a man who has trouble dealing with his sexual urges and whose sister unexpectedly drops by for a visit. As you would think, the film is blatantly sexual and erotic. But what made me uncomfortable the most was not the sexual nature of the film, but the raw...
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Sundance Portraits
2010: Ryan Gosling & Michelle Williams for Blue Valentine
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“People are always asking me if I know Tyler Durden.”
– Fight Club
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Top Five: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Films
I absolutely love Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I love that he loves art for art sake and uses it to connect the world (see: HitRecord.org). I love how he can me laugh and cry all at once with his performances. I love that he appears unassuming but he can kept butt if need be. I love how he is always so excited and hyper like a kid during his interviews. I love that he always seems to give his all to his...
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Loosies & Answers to Nothing (A Tale of Two Films)
This was a productive weekend for me where movie watching was concerned as I decided to started on my Must Watch List of newly released films this winter. I watched the first three on my list - the smaller, relatively unknown independent films Loosies and Answers to Nothing as well as the much buzzed about independent film Shame (review for this one to come).
Don’t see: Answers to...
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2011: Simon Baker, Zachary Quinto, Demi Moore, and Penn Badgley for Margin Call
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Django Unchained (Upcoming film)
Are you ready for Quentin Tarantino’s new film project? If you browsed through the recently published Black List, you saw that a Tarantino film entitled “Django Unchained” was smack dab in the middle of the list. Well, it’s a go and in pre-production with the cast already being announced. Already there are alot of heavy hitters attached including Leo Dicaprio, Christoph...
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“I’ve always wanted to have a phone call with somebody who doesn’t...”
– Beginners
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2009: Zooey Deschanel & Joseph Gordon-Levitt for (500) Days of Summer
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SAG Nominations (Commentary)
Okay, so the nominations for the 2011 Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced today. Being the cinephile that I am, I have a couple of comments on the nominations in the movie categories:
1. Best ensemble cast (The Artist, Bridesmaids, The Descendants, The Help, Midnight in Paris): I’ve seen the majority of these films and my money is on Bridesmaids. I didn’t really want to see this...
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Entertainment Weekly's Review of "The Girl with... →
So excited for this I can’t stand it. This is my favorite story in the Millennium trilogy so I’m patiently (or not so patiently) waiting to see David Fincher’s spin on it. I didn’t read the EW review because I want to judge for myself but I did see it got an “A”. Owen Gleiberman of EW is one of the movie critics I trust so I think this will be a great one.
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Recast: Another Earth
Synopsis: Rhoda, a bright young woman accepted into MIT’s astrophysics program, aspires to explore the cosmos. A brilliant composer, John, has just reached the pinnacle of his profession and is about to have a second child with his loving wife. On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth, tragedy strikes and the lives of these strangers become irrevocably intertwined.
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The Black List 2011 →
Hot off the presses, folks. The Black List of 2011 was published today for public consumption. For people unfamiliar, the Black List is a list that has been published every December since 2004 of the year’s most popular unproduced screenplays, created from the suggestions of hundreds of film executives. Some films from this list like “The Social Network” have go on to be...
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“My great shame as a writer is that I’m just this suburban kid with good parents.”
– Happythankyoumoreplease
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American Psycho (Open Letter to the Studio)
Dear Lionsgate, You’re killing me. I hear that you have greenlit a remake of your 2000 film “American Psycho”, starring Christian Bale. Why? Why? Why? I really don’t understand how you feel you can improve on this cult classic that perfectly explored the satire and psychology of a wealthy Wall Street banker who is secretly a deranged killer. Did ‘Occupy Wall...
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50 Greatest Christopher Nolan Moments →
::Pointing at myself:: Huge Christopher Nolan fan over here. This man has seriously provide many hours of film enjoyment for me. I still remember being in NYC the summer of 2001 and seeing an ad for “Memento”. To this day, it is one of my favorite films of all time. Between other movies like “The Prestige”, “Batman Begins”, “The Dark Knight”,...
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“Roses of red. Violets are blue. Fuck you whore.”
– (500) Days of Summer
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First Look: H&M's 'Girl With the Dragon Tattoo'... →
Love this. I’m a fan of the book and the original Swedish film. I will also be one of the first in line to see David Fincher’s film version. The character of Lisbeth certainly was written to have her own style, and I’m glad that the costume designer on the American remake is bringing her fashion vision to H&M. I will surely pick up a few pieces from this collection.
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50/50 (Movie Math)
The sweet, shy guy from the 2009’s rom-com “(500) Days of Summer” (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who is just looking for true love and discovers that he has been in limbo in regards to his life.
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The ultimate bro from 2008’s “The Pineapple Express” (Seth Rogen) who stays with you through thick-and-thin with all the comedy that goes with it....
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High-bro (Pop culture)
Between the newest issues of GQ magazine and Details, there was much fun reading for me on the plane to San Antonio today (side note: it is cold as balls here in San Antonio right now!). Yes, I’m a girl that reads men magazines. Ladies, you should try it sometime. Beautiful pictures of attractive, stylish men and thought-provoking, witty articles. Win, win.
And with that, I always learn...
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Top Five: Ryan Gosling Films
To anyone who will listen, I call him “the best actor of my generation”, and I think it’s fitting. He can be dangerous, he can sport the cool, he can be the heartbreaker, and he can even be that weird, unconventional guy that you can’t help but love. To me, he is the embodiment of the contemporary leading man. Yes, he is very easy on the eyes and oh so dreamy (trust me, I...
