Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
The nominations for Film Independent’s Spirit Awards were announced this morning with Lance Hammer’s Ballast, Courtney Hunt’s Frozen River and Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married tying with six nominations each including Best Feature. The other Best Feature nominees include Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler and Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy and Lucy.
I haven’t seen The Wrestler yet, but [...]
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Posted on November 28th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Ok, this isn’t the scene with the eating of the chicken (is it REALLY a chicken???) but Eraserhead has been on my mind since the gluttonous excess of the American Thanksgiving holiday. If you’ve seen David Lynch’s first film, you know what I’m talking about. If you don’t…well I can’t help you now.
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Posted on November 27th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
My current bloated state puts me in the mind of Mr. Creosote in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.
I hope everyone had a good one.
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Posted on November 26th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Posted on November 4th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
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LiC steps outside of the movie theater for a few moments tonight to drink in history.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008:
“If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still [...]
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Posted on October 29th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Benicio Del Toro in Che
Hey there LA area LiC readers. How’d you like to see the sold out Gala presentation of Steven Soderbergh’s Che at the historic Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood at 6pm on Saturday, November 1, 2008?
I’ll make it easy on you. Send an email with “Che Ticket” in the subject line to: craig@livingincinema.com [...]
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Posted on September 4th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Dev Patel and Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire
I’m not sure if the Slumdog Millionaire clip at the film’s official website is new or not, but it’s the first one I’ve seen of the recently buzzed Danny Boyle film. Based on the synopsis, I wasn’t expecting the action element, but then maybe I should have considering the [...]
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Posted on August 5th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
The occasionally snobby (in a good way) Dave Kehr takes a surprisingly sober stab at Enzo G. Castellari’s The Inglorious Bastards recently come to 3-disc DVD set.
“A product of that brief, heady period when Italian genre movies challenged Hollywood for dominance of the Western world’s drive-ins and grindhouses, “The Inglorious Bastards” is a slapdash but [...]
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Posted on August 5th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
NY Mag’s Vulture notices that the viral Tropic Thunder website for Simple Jack has disappeared. They suggest that concern from disabled rights advocacy groups may have convinced DreamWorks to take the site down.
I still think the website was mocking Hollywood, but as Vulture notes, the movie’s tagline “Once upon a time…there was a retard” crosses [...]
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Posted on August 5th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Four dudes stand around a table looking worried in The Counterfeiters
If it’s Tuesday, it must be DVD day. Here are a few more titles you may have missed that are now available for home viewing. It turns out I missed them all myself, but I aim to correct that.
The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher). Austria’s winner of [...]
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Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
In the spirit of those awkward local news segues where they jump from a tragedy to a tacky local interest puff piece without batting an eyelash, this seems like a perfectly horrible time to point out a supremely crass (and excellent) fake website [UPDATE: Perhaps bowing to pressure from advocacy groups for the disabled, DreamWorks has killed Simple Jack.] [...]
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Posted on August 3rd, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
I’m not Batman
Here I am talking about box office again.
The buzz among box office types this morning is that, despite coming in #2 on Friday, The Dark Knight edged ahead of The Mummy: Tomb of Dragon Emperor in the final stretch to claim the #1 spot for the third weekend in a row, $44.8 million [...]
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Posted on July 31st, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
François Cluzet in Tell No One
We’re not talking about an arthouse success on the order of The Visitor ($9 million and counting at the box office), but THR’s Steven Zeitchik reports that Guillaume Canet’s French thriller Tell No One has quietly pulled in nearly $1.7 million in just under 4 weeks from only 77 theaters. [...]
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Posted on July 31st, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
The original Tron - annoyingly squeezed
Last week I passed along the Comic-Yawn report about footage to a sequel to Tron that I had never heard anything about. You didn’t care, but after thinking about it a little, the 5th grader inside of me got a bit excited, especially over word Jeff Bridges was in the [...]
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Posted on July 31st, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Every balanced cinematic diet can use a little junk food…
Enzo G. Castellari’s The Inglorious Bastards, aka Counterfeit Commandos, aka Deadly Mission, aka Hell’s Heroes, aka G.I Bro (!!), isn’t likely to show up on any respected critic’s top 10 list, but it also offers more amusement per dollar budgeted than any children’s cartoon, high-concept comedy or [...]
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