23 February 2012

Oscars post

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The Oscars are this Sunday. Here's my will win/should win list: Best Picture "The Artist" Thomas Langmann, Producer "The...
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22 February 2012

Top Ten of 2011

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I think we can all agree that 2011 was a pretty shitty year for movies. Here are ten good ones: 13 Assassins A Separation Bridesmaids Conta...
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13 January 2012

WGA 101 BEST SCREENPLAY LIST RECAP

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Here are 15 things I learned from watching and writing about these 101 movies: 1. There is a specific structure to great movies. That stru...
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12 January 2012

1. CASABLANCA

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Story is change. In this case, we have a character who changes throughout the course of the film for the better, for the greater good, agai...
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3. CHINATOWN

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Lies. This movie is all about lies. The story concerns LA private detective Jake Gittes, who takes a case from Evelyn Mulwray, who thinks h...
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11 January 2012

My movie year 2011

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Here are all the movies -- plus a few other things -- that I watched in 2011: Get Him to the Greek The Hurt Locker The Usual Suspects True G...
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4. CITIZEN KANE

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It's about the search for love. Kane is sent off from his mother, "for his own good", to live with a rich guardian. He runs ...
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5. ALL ABOUT EVE

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This should have been a play. It is really simple: a movie must be primarily visual. This film relies too much on dialogue to move the sto...
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6. ANNIE HALL

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Three things come to mind when thinking about ANNIE HALL: 1) The unity of theme in the movie. The working title of the film was ANHEDONIA ,...
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22 December 2011

7. SUNSET BOULEVARD

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A dead body in a pool. Intrigue immediately. -- compare this with SOME LIKE IT HOT, which starts off with a car chase, or DOUBLE INDEMNITY,...
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21 December 2011

10. THE GODFATHER PART 2

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This is not a great movie, nor is it a great screenplay. This was a cash grab. It's not a bad movie, per se. How could it be? You hav...
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