Interview with Jacques Audiard
Interesting interview with Jacques Audiard, co-writer/director of Un prophète here - http://www.scriptmag.com/interviews/script-q-a-a-prophet.html
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Oscar Flashback: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
From August 28, 2009: Next on my Netflix queue was Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (instantly viewed), for which Ellen Burstyn won the Best Actress Oscar; Diane Ladd was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar; and Robert Getchell was ...
Revisiting Vertigo for the AFI Project
From August 23, 2009: What's the AFI Project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here:http://www.spout.com/blogs/pippin06/archive/2008/3/1/25756.aspx Vertigo is on the following AFI lists: The Original Top 100 (#61) 100 Most Heart-Pounding Movies (#18) ...
Reviews of the Past: Mean Streets is Real, Raw, But Somehow Empty
From August 22, 2009: This film represents the second of five Martin Scorsese films topping my Netflix queue, just in case you were keeping track. Mean Streets is Marty's highly touted review of the life of gangsters in New York ...
Revisiting Raiders of the Lost Ark for the AFI Project
From August 21, 2009: What's the AFI project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here: http://www.spout.com/blogs/pippin06/archive/2008/3/1/25756.aspx Raiders of the Lost Ark is on the following AFI lists: The Original Top 100 (#60) ...
Liebe Libanon
I like war films, and the new kind, which presents war in a realistic and appalling way, with real humans instead of patriotic puppets, even more. Golden Lion in Venice, and positive reviews from criticks and michuk put it on ...
sketchbook Thursday 11. March 2010, 02:52
The mixup. Michuk's review arrived first, I assumed it was ...
El secreto de sus ojos
I was surprised to see that 'Un Prophète didn't win the 2010 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Not because I'd seen all the others, but because it is such a good film. So it was with anticipation that I ...
Anita Loos
Author Anita Loos began selling scplays (for silents) when she was 14. In 1925 she published what's now considered a ...
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (8)
MM & Jane Russell are the gold-digggers in this Howard Hawks version of a sardonic double-entendre. Wickedly funny.
'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' (1953)
Howard Hawks had a sense of humor that let him survive the studio system and its despots. He did mellers, screwballs, westerns, easterns, gangsterns -- you name it. Here's his version of the Anita Loos 'diary' from the '20s that ...
