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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