November 6, 2007 – 2:19 pm
(photo courtesy Why, That’s Delightful!)
Last week Graham Linehan (above), writer and creator of the nerd-friendly British sitcom The IT Crowd, was pleased to announce that he had made it onto a list of the “Top 100 living geniuses,” landing at number 83. Not surprisingly, Linehan’s writings about the list are hilarious.
I’m fascinated by the fact [...]
November 6, 2007 – 9:46 am
Anne Thompson’s respecting the Beowulf review embargo for the time being, but she can’t resist poking a bit at the flick’s major bait: gold-painted naked Angelina Jolie:
…in one scene when Angelina Jolie rises up out of her cave pool to seduce the mighty Beowulf, who has just killed her only son, Grendel, she walks on [...]
November 2, 2007 – 12:10 pm
Yesterday BoingBoing pointed to an article on The Psychologist Online by Huw Green that argues that David Lynch’s work, particularly Inland Empire, is an accurate depiction of what it’s like for someone with a psychotic illness to encounter reality.
I immediately thought of last week’s episode of FilmCouch, in which I used Lynch, a new documentary [...]
October 30, 2007 – 10:21 am
I’ve recently been enjoying Wholphin DVD magazine issue four. It’s a great collection of short films that would otherwise be pretty hard to see. My favorite so far is Olivo Barbieri’s site specific_LAS VEGAS 05. The film features a montage of partially blurry aerial footage of Las Vegas, with only the center of the image [...]
October 8, 2007 – 4:20 pm
Kevin looks at how recent documentaries hunt for the truth, and gives a list of three things every investigative documentary filmmaker should know.
September 7, 2007 – 10:47 pm
I don’t care how tired of Iraq documentaries you think you are–you need to see Heavy Metal in Baghdad. Executive produced by Spike Jonze in conjunction with VBS.tv (the online video venture of VICE Magazine, of which Jonze is creative director), the film tells the story of four years in the life of Acrassicauda, allegedly [...]
September 1, 2007 – 3:36 pm
Kevin wonders whether the emotional impact of festival films is amped up by the excitement and exhaustion of the viewer.
August 17, 2007 – 7:27 am
Christopher Walken + Prince + Anthony Michael Hall = the dance-off of the century. Well, maybe last century.
August 15, 2007 – 9:39 am
With a five-day tribute to director Vincente Minnelli’s melodramas starting tonight at Anthology Film Archives, I stayed up late last night to watch The Bad and the Beautiful on TCM On Demand.
The Bad and the Beautiful marked Minnelli’s first real success as a director of “serious”, non-musical pictures. It’s less self-assured than Some Came Running [...]
August 13, 2007 – 2:40 pm
IFC has finally unveiled new episodes of “Trapped in the Closet.” But is this still the batshit insane series you know and love?
