Here’s to a terrific 2008.
See you at the movies…
-Craig

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Note: This post assumes you have seen No Country for Old Men and it contains significant spoilers. It’s bad enough you’re missing one of the best movies of the year, don’t compound the tragic error of your ways by ruining it before you see it.
 
When my mom died in 1994, I think the person it was hardest [...]

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You’ve seen what the so-called experts have had to say and now it’s your turn. Presenting the first annual Living in Cinema Readers Top 10. Beginning tonight, I’ll be accepting readers’ submissions for the best movies of 2007. The poll will remain open for at least 2 weeks and probably more. I want to give [...]

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Susan Sarandon gives it her all in Romance and Cigarettes 
If The Honeymooners‘ Ralph and Alice Kramden broke into pop songs to articulate feelings beyond their working class grasp of language, the result might be something like John Turturro’s Romance and Cigarettes. It’s got a certain shaggy quality to it, a little like a drunken night at a karaoke [...]

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As the WGA strike continues, Brad Bird would like you to know that even animation doesn’t get done without writers.
In an interview with Steven Gaydos in Variety, the writer/director of this year’s terrific Ratatouille (as well as Iron Giant and Pixar high-water mark The Incredibles) asserts that “there isn’t a giant difference between animation and [...]

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The National Film Preservation Board, which was established by the US Library of Congress in 1988 to preserve “culturally, historically, or esthetically important” films, has announced the 25 new films to be added to the National Registry for 2007.
The oldest film on the list is Henry King’s Tol’able David (1921) noted for its influence on subsequent films of [...]

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I’m not quite ready to look back and sum up 2007 with a Top 10 list yet. Instead, Hedwig has inspired me to look ahead at 21 movies that are planned for 2008. Many of these don’t even have release dates yet and the ones that do are subject to change, but we don’t like [...]

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From the start, there’s a primal, biblical, form-out-of-chaos feeling to There Will Be Blood, the new film from Paul Thomas Anderson. It begins with a low synthesized moan on the soundtrack that rises to an eerie wail as the camera tilts up to an otherwise ordinary pair of desolate, rocky hills. It’s an ominous opening that [...]

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Don’t worry. Spoiler free. This scene was trimmed from the film.

Charlie Rose and Terry Gross after the jump

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I’m dreaming of an oily Christmas
The Christmas holiday has the movie schedule all ass over tea kettle so we’re hauling out the trusty old Weekend Forecast on Christmas Eve

There Will Be Blood (NY, LA 12/26). Hey, did you hear? One of the best movies of the year opens on Wednesday. Paul Thomas Anderson directs the [...]

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