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It’s Raining Remakes. Trade Roughage 7/18/08

Hallelujah?

Cyd Charisse Dies at 86

Why didn’t Cyd Charisse––who died in Los Angeles on Tuesday at the age of 86––ever fully become the Ginger Rogers to Gene Kelly’s Fred Astaire? To compare Charisse directly to Rogers would be unfair; the former was an athletic show-stopper who regularly held down solos seemingly designed to draw attention to their own difficulty, while [...]

Fred Astaire’s Smooth Criminal Collapses Space Time Continuum

Dance mashups have a way of making fifty years of history seem meaningless.

I Am A Fugitive in Cannes: Trade Roughage 05/08/08

The Cannes Film Festival will show a classic Warner Brothers film every night of the fest, including I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang and Dirty Harry, as part of a tribute to the studio’s 85th anniversary. Also on tap: film critic Richard Schickel’s doc, You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story.
John Waters [...]

BlogNosh 02/20/08

Lots of Oscar prognostication and listage. Also: Lena Horne.

BlogNosh 02/07/08

The Underwire points to Barackula, “a short political horror rock musical about young Barack Obama having to stave off a secret society of vampires at Harvard when he was inducted into presidency at the Harvard Law Review in 1990.” The ten minute film is not online yet, but we’ll be first in line for its [...]

Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness in NY

A low budget musical, highly improvised, shot on consumer video and blown up to film? I’m there. I’ve been wanting to see Laurin Federlein’s Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness since reading write-ups of its premiere at Rotterdam a year ago, followed by a number of conflicted but non necessarily dismissive reviews from LAFF. I’m [...]

Trade Roughage 12/27/07

Why the studios have no immediate incentive to end the strike. Plus: Will Smith doesn’t really sympathize with Hitler, silly!

Making Busby Berkeley Sick

In my first week as a SpoutBlogger, I linked to Kevin Lee’s video essay on Dario Argento’s Inferno. Twelve weeks later (putting us at last weekend), I met Kevin for the first time in Real Life, and he told me that the next installment of his project has going to investigate one of my favorite [...]

Mamma Mia! That’s a Musical Trailer Done Right

See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing Streep.