From The Atlantic:
Kubrick wanted to tell the tale of Dietrich Schulz-Koehn, a swing-loving Luftwaffe officer who wrote about the music scenes in Nazi-occupied cities using the pen name “Dr. Jazz.”
From The Daily Beast:
“You slide down in your seat and make yourself comfortable. On the screen in front of you, the movie image appears—enormous and overwhelming. If the movie is a good one, you allow yourself to be absorbed in its fantasy, and its dreams become part of your memories”
Roger Ebert wrote those words in 1980 for The Atlantic magazine, a love letter to the medium that became his employer: the movies. After a 46-year tenure as film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, several decades hosting a hugely influential television show, a landmark Pulitzer Prize, and countless thumbs in both directions, Ebert died Thursday at age 70.
Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2013 James Ament From The Atlantic:
A decade and a half after its initial release in cinemas, the Coen brothers’ strange cult comedy often gets mined for—and sometimes creates—spiritual meaning.
And there is this from Ann Althouse: If you had to invent a religion based on a movie, what movie would you choose?
Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2013 James Ament From Full Documentary: “Watch free, full length documentaries online”—lots of categories and a long list of choices.
From Vanity Fair, Soul Men: The Making of the Blues Brothers:
The pitch was simple: “John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Blues Brothers, how about it?” But the film The Blues Brothers became a nightmare for Universal Pictures, wildly off schedule and over budget, its fate hanging on the amount of cocaine Belushi consumed. From the 1973 meeting of two young comic geniuses in a Toronto bar through the careening, madcap production of John Landis’s 1980 movie, Ned Zeman chronicles the triumph of an obsession.
Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2013 James Ament From mental_floss…
Well, I haven’t seen it ninety times, but I’ve seen it more than ten times and have always enjoyed the film.
Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2012 James Ament From boston.com:
It’s a 1924 English silent film, “The White Shadow,” which was long thought lost. More accurately, it’s the film’s three first reels, lasting a little more than 40 minutes (the remainder of the film remains missing). The footage was found last year at the New Zealand Film Archive in canisters marked “(Twin Sisters) with Betty Compson.”
Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2012 James Ament From Cinema Blend:
When people look back on the early years of the new millennium they’ll remember it for movies like The Dark Knight and Lord of the Rings. Or they’ll geek out with their friends about the cult classics they discovered together, rewatching copies of the original version of Donnie Darko or spreading around copies of Idiocracy and laughing at its accuracy. Or we’ll remember the prestige movies, the big Oscar winners like No Country For Old Men and Chicago.
But in a better world, maybe we’d remember these movies…Unique and strange, funny and weird, challenging and sexy; they’re the most unfairly overlooked movies of the past decade.
I’ve only seen three of the them, all on cable television; but then, I don’t go to the movie theater very much. And yes, all three were quite good, in their own unique way.
Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2012 James Ament An interesting new site, particularly liking the film noir list.
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