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Trailer for Sofia Coppola’s New Film, ‘Somewhere’

Posted in Film, tagged , , , , , on June 14, 2010 | 4 Comments »

The trailer for Sofia Coppola’s upcoming movie Somewhere made its way around the internet today, and the overall response seems to be positive. Even from people who claim they are not fans of Sofia Coppola. I am incredibly biased, I guess, because I’ve always been a big fan of Coppola. (Don’t even get me started [...]

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‘Who Wrote That?’ A Writer’s Reminder in Antonioni’s ‘La Notte’

Posted in Film, Writing, tagged , , , , , , on June 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »

I first saw Michelangelo Antonioni’s film La Notte my senior year of high school, at an Italian restaurant in Dallas. They were playing it on mute on two small TVs at the bar, but with the subtitles on. Acting as a sort of last addition of a “trilogy” (following L’avventura and L’eclisse), La Notte is [...]

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Woody Allen Defends Polanski, Earth is Round

Posted in Film, Rants, tagged , , , , , on May 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

With exhausted effort, I bring you, ladies and gentlemen, Woody Allen’s defense of Polanski – as given in an interview at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. “It’s something that happened many years ago…. He has suffered,” Allen told French radio station RTL. “He’s an artist, he’s a nice person, he did something wrong and he [...]

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Tweet-Sized Thoughts on Media-Related Things: p1

Posted in Film, Rants, Television/Media, Tweet-Sized Thoughts, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In honor of my recent inability to write anything of length, I felt I had to post something for my own sake. So I think I will take a cue from my friend Britt Julious and her Sunday column idea…Though with this blog, it will just be a collection of my recent tweets on Twitter [...]

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“Remain Silent No Longer”: Rage Against the Polanski

Posted in Film, Rants, Television/Media, tagged , , , , , , , , , on May 3, 2010 | 7 Comments »

I’ve written a lot about Roman Polanski since he was arrested – after 30+ years – for raping a 13-year-old girl back in the 70s. So now that he chose to speak out for the first time this weekend, it just seems right to “Rage Against the Polanski” once again. Because after all, “Polanski” has [...]

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Retrospective Admiration for Monica Vitti

Posted in Film, International, tagged , , , , , , , , , on April 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

It’s not hard to become fascinated with actresses in older, black-and-white films – especially when you’re viewing them for the first time in your college years decades later. There’s something about the mystique of this glamor of the not-so-ancient past: the cigarette smoking before it was publicly deemed life-threatening; the delicate implication of sex instead [...]

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Sunday Brief: On Sweets, ‘Marie Antoinette’

Posted in Film, Rants, tagged , , , on April 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Is Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette partially responsible for the recent “cupcake backlash” and the macaron trend storming in? Regardless, finding pictures of Marie Antoinette-clad Kirsten Dunst surrounded by expensive French sweets has been a casual fascination of mine for quite a few years now…Is that strange?

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Janelle Monae Cover Art Channels 1927 ‘Metropolis’

Posted in Film, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on April 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Clearly, Janelle Monae is a big fan of somewhat-obscure film references. She already tipped us off by referencing a Maya Deren film in her video, “Tightrope.” But how awesome is this? The left is the cover for Monae’s upcoming album (due for release on May 18th), The ArchAndroid; and the right is the promotional image [...]

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Janelle Monae is an Avant-Garde Film Geek (“Tightrope” Video)

Posted in Film, Music Video, tagged , , , , , , , on April 2, 2010 | 6 Comments »

Janelle Monae was already promising to be a distinguishable kind of talent with her 2007 EP and her 60s soul sound with a touch of outer space. And the music video for her new song “Tightrope” (to be released on her upcoming album in May) has given us even more to look forward to. There’s [...]

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Dystopian Sci-Fi Makes for Good Cult Classics

Posted in Examiner.com, Film, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on March 31, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Originally published at Examiner.com on January 3, 2010. Since it’s the beginning of a new year and decade, films about the future come to mind when thinking of cult classics. In particular, there seems to be a trend of dystopia (the opposite of perfect utopia) in these sci-fi, futuristic cult films. Perhaps they are only [...]

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