Monthly Archives: June 2012

Farewell, New Yorker: Nora Ephron

Posted on June 27, 2012 by

Through all of Ms. Ephron’s numerous accomplishments – novelist, screenwriter, observer, critic, food lover – I particularly appreciated her attitude toward sad or even tragic situations. She confronted death, love, loss, grief, and profound life changes with her intelligence, humor … Continue reading →

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Happy Pride! B. Ruby Rich to Receive Frameline 36 Award

Posted on June 24, 2012 by

B. Ruby Rich, one of the coolest women in film, will be honored tonight at the Frameline 36 LGBT Film awards in San Francisco. Ms. Rich, a Professor at the Film + Digital Media Department at UC Santa Cruz, has … Continue reading →

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Woody’s Back! (To Rome with Love)

Posted on June 24, 2012 by

In wide release 6 July 2012.

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Coming Soon: Festival Films in Wide/Limited Release

Posted on June 24, 2012 by

Beasts of the Southern Wild dir. Benh Zeitlin Corpo Celeste, dir. Alice Rohrwacher Found Memories, dir. Júlia Murat Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present, dir. Matthew Akers Red Hook Summer, dir. Spike Lee My Sister’s Sister, dir. Lynn Shelton The … Continue reading →

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Andrew Sarris and the Framework of Film

Posted on June 24, 2012 by

I first read Mr. Sarris’ “Notes on Auteur Theory” in college, perhaps one of the first “seminal” essays on film theory I had read. Back then it resonated with me, having been brought up on a steady diet of those … Continue reading →

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Now Playing: Moonrise Kingdom

Posted on June 13, 2012 by

Moonrise Kingdom is one of the most unabashedly romantic films I have seen in a long time. Romance in nature: the cinematography captures the spectacular romance of the New England coast and its rugged coastline, fog, damp verdant trees, mellow … Continue reading →

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A Therapy (for Prada) by Roman Polanski

Posted on June 10, 2012 by

Prada really does some of my most favorite fashion campaigns, blending film (and film stars) with fashion in interesting and witty ways. My favorite though, is still Yang Fudong’s First Spring. I could watch that on loop. Ridley Scott for … Continue reading →

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Trailer Trash: The Great Gatsby

Posted on June 10, 2012 by

Fidelity to Plot: TBD (though from the trailer it sounds like some dialogue was taken directly from the book) Fidelity to Tone: 5/5 Enticement: 5/5 Music Choice: 2/5 Luhrman-esque decadence in the party scenes: 5/5 Thank Goodness for Good Casting: … Continue reading →

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In Hollywood by Joan Didion (1973)

Posted on June 10, 2012 by

Some people who write about film seem so temperamentally at odds with what both Fellini and Truffaut have called the “circus” aspect of making film that there is flatly no question of their ever apprehending the social or emotional reality … Continue reading →

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