May 10, 2008
Voyeurs
Nino Rota's theme from Fellini’s 8½ (YT)
Creating the title sequence for the movie Juno. More from ShadowPlay Studio, the stills from the main title sequence for Thank You For Smoking. (Incidentally, I saw both of those films last week. 'Not Smoking' was blah)...
HBO voyeur à la Rear Window
Re-post: Mon Oncle at Tativille
Anton Chigurh’s coin toss scene - re-tooled
The Films of Woody Allen: The 1970s (YT). Other YouTube compilations by the same barringer82
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March 27, 2008
Andy Warhol on The Love Boat
Re-post: Late Night With Conan O'Brien Picture Archive
If a bad movie has terrific costumes then actually it is a good movie, for obviously the reason the film was made was simply to showcase the outfits. Based on this reasoning, a flick like What a Way to Go is a rousing success.
All New – Featuring the personal websites of Grow-a-brain’s readers! Today – From St. Louis, MO, Jonco’s Bits & Pieces. Submit yours for consideration.
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March 11, 2008
7:35 in the morning
7:35 de la Manana, a short film by Nacho Vigalondo, "the other Amenábar"
Blue Velvet in noodles, by Jason Mecier
I love the rain; It washes memories from the street
Name that film flickr pool
Total Commitment! Watch the complete Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb). "I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids". Many other full-blown comedies at Classic Cinema Online. (From Endless Parade of Excellence)
Also, cultural references to Alien hand syndrome
Comparing the original novel by Jack Finney to the four movie versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. (I only saw the first two films, and I recommend Kaufman's version)
Peter Lorre Library of Sound. (I was watching Casablanca again last night. I didn't realize that they tried to colorize it in the 80's. What a stupid idea)
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February 18, 2008
Audrey Hepburn’s screen test
Lobby cards collected by Leonard Schrader. (From an article at Vanity Fair)
Shirley Temple in Poor Little Rich Girl sings "But Definately". (YT. From Boynton)
The movie poster art of John Alvin, starting with “Blazing Saddles”
The current winner / loser of the IMDb Bottom 100: The Hottie and the Nottie
Re-post: I’m currently watching movies with Hong Kong actor Tony Leung, who I’ve seen first in Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love
Audrey Hepburn’s screen test above from David Cairns’ ShadowPlay
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December 24, 2007
A fistful of Leone
A Sergio Leone tribute (YT)
A Happy 75th Birthday To Russ Yelburton, The Deputy Chief Of The Water Department
…Hundreds of newspaper headlines, TV trailers and episode titles, etc. have played on Soderbergh's first film title, usually in the form sex, lies and something else or “something, something and videotape”…
Fan Tan, a novel by Marlon Brando
My favorite Frank Langella’s rolls: William Paley in “Good Night, and Good Luck”, Clare Quilty in Adrian Lyne’s Lolita (1997), Bob Alexander in Dave (1993) Ostap Bender in “The Twelve Chairs”. What’s yours?
The various WideScreen Systems
Happy Holidays to all
(No time to blog tonight - Sorry. This post was composed a few weeks ago)
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December 08, 2007
The Dialectical Ontology of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Woody Allen on the Writer’s Strike. (From Group News Blog)
From the biography of Joseph Pesce: Compact (5' 4") Italian-American actor born February 9, 1943, in Newark, NJ. First broke into entertainment as a child actor and by the mid-50s was starring on the series "Star Time Kids". In the mid-'60s he released a record under the stage name of "Joe Ritchie" titled "Little Joe Sure Can Sing", and was also playing guitar with several bands, including Joey Dee and The Starliters. He even joined with friend Frank Vincent to start a vaudeville-style comedy act, but met with limited success…
The highest grossing movie of Robert De Nero’s career was Meet The Fockers ($279,261,160). The second highest was Meet the parents ($166,244,045)...
More wikipedia: Bud Cort, who played Harold in Harold & Maude, was a friend with Groucho Marx. As a matter of fact, Groucho had died in his arms...
…A lengthy title for a film does not always mean that a movie is unwatchable, though generally this is the case…
100 years of cinema loudspeakers
Reading the Dialectical Ontology of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Against the Ontological Monism of Adaptation, by Kirk Boyle (pdf. From Film-Philosophy)
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November 22, 2007
The Singing Duck
Junior Boys Godard Mashup - Junior Boy's "In the morning" & Godard's "Bande à Part" dance scene. (YT)
Gus Visser And His Singing Duck (1925) is a short film which was an early attempt at perfecting a sound-on-film process
Garbo & Balzac The Film that never was
The history of wallpaper in film. (From Quiddity)
A selection of original Japanese "Chirashi" movie posters at Shock Cinema Magazine
Trailers of strange films from the seventies and beyond - Trailer Club 70
American Beauty & 5 other 5 second movie summaries
Around 20 covered bridges were built in Madison County during the late 19th Century. They were covered to protect the roadway, because it was cheaper to replace the boards of the roof and walls, then than the heavy beams of the actual bridge. Today there are 6 bridges, made famous by the Clint Eastwood movie. (Previously blogged on grow-a-brain. I’ve been watching again quite a few movies from the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s & 90’s recently)
Happy 30th Birthday Internet! The Internet is 30 today. Exactly 30 years ago today on November 22, 1977 the first three networks were connected to become the Internet
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October 07, 2007
Finding the earring
Screen caps of film endings on flickr. (From Noisy Decent Graphics)
Zissou's bobsled with wheels, after the bend by the gate, by Jacques Henri Lartigue. The inspiration for the shot of Max Fisher as founder of the Yankee Racers (YT. 2:59 min.)
10 Brilliant Complete Movies Online: Fritz Lang’s M, Dreyer’s Passion of Joan of Arc, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It Happened One Night, Gold Rush, others!
100 Best Non-English Films Ever Made
By the way, I just saw “Sex, Lies & Videotape” for the nth time. I was searching to find some online video of the scene where Andie MacDowell vacuums the bedroom floor and finds her sister’s earring. It’s a minute or longer single close-up of her face, and it’s heartbreakingly beautiful. If you know of a copy I can post here, please email me. Thank you.
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August 07, 2007
There is no solitude greater than the samurai's, unless perhaps it be that of a tiger in the jungle
Ingmar Bergman Before and After. Also there, Max Von Sydow, Liv Ullmann and Gunnar Bjornstrand and Bergman with Chaplin. 13 ways of looking at Bergman
The Internet Movie Firearms Database. For example, a photo guide and description of every gun used in Scarface
Alain Delon in Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samouraï
From Hitchcock's 'Kaleidoscope' to Dreyer's 'Jesus' - The Best Movies Never Made
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July 11, 2007
Some places are like people: some shine and some don't
Actors from the original Star Wars, then and now
100 Movies, 100 Quotes, 100 Numbers. (YouTube)
Director Tod Browning and the cast of Freaks (From Charlie Parker’s They Were Collaborators series)
Dennis Hopper head from "Unspeakable" and other special makeup EFX from Almost Human
Making The Shining - Documentary and Interviews. Shot by Kubrick's daughter, Vivian
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June 12, 2007
Locke’s Death
OOPS, I Falled down - LOLing The 'Rocky Horror Picture Show'
Film-ictionary: One player finds a real (though potentially absurd) synopsis of a movie most people won't have heard of. Other players fabricate synopses based only on the title. The goal is to guess which synopsis is real
Jamie Stuart interviews Kubrick’s actor and associate, Leon Vitali. (Thank you, Jamie)
Clip above is the final 7-minute shot from Antonioni's 1975 film The Passenger. Additional Great Tracking Shots in Cinema. (Some of the YT clips are defunct)
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May 21, 2007
Marilyn Monroe Pixels Illusion
To be able to see this illusion properly, move away from your monitor or cross your eyes until you can see the face of Marilyn Monroe
Etch-a-Sketch Monolith
The first graphic, boring, Bigfoot porn film has been discovered
Belarusian Movie Posters
Movie posters redone Grindhouse style
The Greatest Long Tracking Shots in Cinema
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May 06, 2007
Body Snatchers
Some stills from Don Siegel’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
In a nutshell, The Burgg is kind of like Pictionary, except the category is movies, there's no little scraps of paper, and you have tons of friends all of a sudden. Think of a scene from a movie - any movie - and try to draw it using our powerful in-browser sketchpad. Everyone else will try to guess what the heck you drew
Re-post: Jerry Goldsmith’s Chinatown theme
Michael J. Fox is only ten days younger than Lea Thompson, the actress who plays his mother, and is almost three years older than his on-screen dad, Crispin Glover. More trivia for Back to the Future
Wikipedia's List of films with similar themes and release dates
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March 26, 2007
American Pie Asian watermelon
12 Angry Men, a perfect example of a movie you can listen to
The Howard brothers: Ron and Ron’s brother
"They broke my watch!" The Blues Brothers Chicago movie locations. (From Information Junk)
Wrestelmania 21 Goes Hollywood - Taxi Driver Parody as performed by wrestlers
Papillon d'amour (YouTube). “By subjecting fragments from Kurosawa's Rashomon to a mirror effect, Nicolas Provost creates a hallucinatory scene of a woman's reverse chrysalis into an imploding butterfly”
Must be a Re-post: The strange & wondrous trailer to Tsai Ming-liang’s The Wayward Cloud (Le Saveur de la Pasteque). NSFW! Here is the synopsis
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March 14, 2007
I don’t love you any more
Director: Pierre-Olivier Mornas
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March 01, 2007
(From Jimmy Ruska’s Articles of World Domination)
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February 25, 2007
Glen & Gary & Glen & Ross
The only hope for four men with Tourette's is a doctor who will teach them to speak. Warning: Extra strong David Mamet / Tourette language
(From Trailer Mash)
8 soap commercials by Ingmar Bergman. (From Martin Klasch)
Queer Silents, a directory of silent films and silent-era actors and directors that are all of a gay, lesbian, transgender, or queer nature. (From Tech Space)
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January 22, 2007
The last shots of Cinema Paradiso
Also: Re-post – The last shot of Dr. Strangelove
You get nothing from AccordionGuy
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January 13, 2007
Recommended
Follow up: Top 10 Dystopia Films
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December 25, 2006
150 great documentaries
I just finished reading Kevin Kelly’s latest book, True Film 2.0, and I am blown away. (I mentioned his experimentation with personal book publishing just a few days ago).
Kelly reviews 150 of his family’s favorite documentaries, educational films, instructional how-to's, and what the British call “factuals”. In short, compelling descriptions he brings those wonderful films alive.
So many great-sounding movies! From the obvious, famous classics to the wondrous & obscure (Chickens and the people who love them). Movies about music & art, nature and history, cruelty, misery, bigotry, human triumph, obsession & loss. Mmmm
Here are a few, random samples from the book:
New York Doll about the unlikely rise, the predictable fall, and the final resurrection of a little-known rock musician
Baraka: “A cinematic poem celebrating the human relation to the eternal. Not a word is spoken, but every person alive in the twenty-four countries this was filmed in would understand it. It’s about Us on Earth Now… The first truly sacred film I’ve seen”
The Cruise: An unforgettable portrait of a truly original human being who happens to give tours of New York City on a double decker bus. The hero is either mentally ill or one of the most profound living poets. Or both. You can't tell. For sure, here is someone who "thinks different"
Hearts of Darkness, about Apocalypse now
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Kelly’s previous book: Asia Grace. One memorable documentary he missed: American Pictures
In the past, I used to see hundreds of movies per year, and many documentaries, but in this millenium, “not so many”… (Maybe I should even get a TV screen again and sign up for Netflix?)
A wonderful read. Buy it online.
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December 21, 2006
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room
Hello?... Uh... Hello D- uh hello Dmitri? Listen uh uh I can't hear too well. Do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little?... Oh-ho, that's much better... yeah... huh... yes... Fine, I can hear you now, Dmitri... Clear and plain and coming through fine... I'm coming through fine, too, eh?... Good, then... well, then, as you say, we're both coming through fine... Good... Well, it's good that you're fine and... and I'm fine... I agree with you, it's great to be fine... a-ha-ha-ha-ha... Now then, Dmitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the Bomb... The *Bomb*, Dmitri... The *hydrogen* bomb!... Well now, what happened is... ahm... one of our base commanders, he had a sort of... well, he went a little funny in the head... you know... just a little... funny. And, ah... he went and did a silly thing... Well, I'll tell you what he did. He ordered his planes... to attack your country... Ah... Well, let me finish, Dmitri... Let me finish, Dmitri... Well listen, how do you think I feel about it?... Can you *imagine* how I feel about it, Dmitri?...
Memorable Quotes from Dr. Strangelove. The Continuity Transcript. “It will not be difficult, Mein Führer..."
Hand Drawn Movie Posters from Ghana. (From Cinematical)
The Fallen Idol, Carol Reed's 1948 thriller based on a Graham Greene story
"I know kung fu." Top 20 Hackers in Film History
List of films with a twist ending
Seen everywhere: Back to the Future timeline
The Guardian panel of critics picks out the The world's 40 best directors
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November 30, 2006
Is it safe?
James Dean & Paul Newman in a screen test for “East of Eden”. (From TickleBooth)
“Is it safe” scene from Marathon Man
"Office Space" Recut
Old fashioned cinema houses from around the world
Actual English subtitles used in films made in Hong Kong
(No time to blog tonight….)
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November 07, 2006
“Too much perfection is a mistake”
Today you are seven years old.
Now you are a man.
Bury your first toy and your mother's picture
The complete El Topo by Alejandro Jodorowsky! (From Glubibulga). The Sounds of El Topo
Deerhunter Redux. (From Max Cady, no, not this Max Cady)
One of the first movies I ever saw - Albert Lamorisse’s The Red Balloon (1956), now on YouTube
I’m looking for a list of movies that have someone running across a bridge that's collapsing as they're crossing it. Perhaps at the end they make a final leap to safety. Rope, stone, wood, the material doesn't matter…
Martin Scorsese's Next Film To Be Three Hours Of Begging For Oscar
Welcome back, Boing Boing readers. Check out over 100 categories of eclectic subjects in the archives
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October 22, 2006
Worst movie of the year award
Last night I went to see a new movie. Usually, I try not to bring up negative experiences, but this movie was so terrible, that I feel I have to “go public” with it. Actually, I would go so far as to say that this was the worst movie I ever saw...
When I studied cinema in the early eighties, I kept a log of all the movies I watched. During that time I would see over 500 movies a year. But in recent times, I go to the cinema very seldom, maybe once every 4-5 months. (Living in Riverside doesn’t help, being that the city has 3-4 multiplexes which only play the latest Hollywood hits.) One or two more viewing of crap like this, and I’m going to stop going out all together.
Anyway, Barry Levinson directed a few good movies (Diner, Tin Men, Rain man) in the past. Robin Williams was mildly entertaining when he was younger (Cadillac Man and The Fisher King come to mind), and Lewis Black seems to be kind of funny when you watch his spasmodic rants on that Jon Stewart Show. I even linked to the trailer of this movie a couple of months ago, because it kind of looked interesting. What a let down! If you were thinking of spending $10 to see this trite pseudo-political pretense of a movie, please do not. Repeat: Please do not go & see this piece of trash.
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October 20, 2006
You talking to me?
Gustavo "Gus" Sorola of “RoosterTeeth” as De Niro from Taxi Driver. (GooTube). Other “You talking to me?” impersonators
An American Express ad with De Niro. The parody
Jackass: The Movie 2 - It makes you laugh & it makes you think
Famous films recreated using stationery. How many can you identify?
Posters from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema
Refresher: René Laloux’s La Planéte Sauvage (1973). Previously posted: Squealer!
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September 25, 2006
Famous on IMDb
HAL's Comments While Trapped on a Desert Island, and Your Name Is Dave
David Lynch as photographed by Gérard Rancinan
Who was born on 20 April 1889, appeared in over 300 movies as himself, died on 30 April 1945 in a bunker in Berlin and does not have a photo available on IMDb?
Citizen Kong on Uncyclopedia
50 dark movies hidden in a painting (From M&M candy)
Re-post: Drawing Marilyn Monroe on Best of Drawball
"In a world where death can make you dead," comes the preview of The Mother of all Trailers
British phone books, from 1880 to be put online
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August 27, 2006
See you next Wednesday
If you’re a fan of Mr. Spock, check out Quotes From Dr. Spock. (From Amy Nelson-Mile)
Why does the phrase "See you next Wednesday" appear in many of John Landis’s movies? More on Wikipedia
“Just picture, if you will, Chevy Chase being covered by green slime. From someone's nose. If that's sets you guffawing, you won't want to miss "Zoom," an alleged family movie that is nothing of the sort”. Scoring of 0% on “Rotten Tomatoes”
The complete transgender movie / video directory
Re-post: Jim Emerson’s Opening Shots Project
Snakes on a Plane as reviewed by Rick Trembles Motion Picture Purgatory
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August 11, 2006
Silent Bob Highlights
Body Parts Models. Found at a Slate story I Want a Butt Double
Kevin Smith's Career Highlights
25 Cinematic Cliches I never wanna see again, by Robin Bougie. No 17. Chess players are always always brilliant, charming, upper class people, while card players are always sneaky, foul mouthed, and prone to cheating. (From Rash)
The Saddest Movie In Cinematic History Fox cub Helen, about a boy living with no mom, with no friends who finds a deaf, blind and mute fox cub
Interviews with European Film directors
Jodorowsky’s Holy Mountain - Trailer, not as innovative as I (hardly) remember it
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July 22, 2006
My name's Ronald Kornblow. I stop at nothing
The trailer for Brothers of The Head, the story of conjoined twins Tom and Barry Howe who were plucked from obscurity by a 1970s music promoter and groomed into a boy band
An interesting Interview with Thelma Schoonmaker, Martin Scorsese's Editor. (She was married to British director Michael Powell)
Pretty Film Posters. (From DiskoBox)
Chico Marx, as Corbaccio, playing the piano, from "A Night in Casablanca”. (YouTube). Re-post: Groucho Letter to Warner Brothers’s legal department
Portraits by Pino Settanni
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