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Curio: Mitch Frey's Film Typologies
Alexa here. The German photographers Bernard and Hilla Becher pioneered the art of the typology: grids of images of various examples of a single type of object. The technique was to photograph a series...
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First & Last: Come on, Silly
first and last puzzlesthe first and last images and lines of dialogue from a motion picture. First: When you're finished, see the director.Last: We're getting along fine. Come on, silly. Can you guess...
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Reader Spotlight: Douglas Reese
Douglas gets into the Spring Breakers spiritReader Spotlights continue as we get to know The Film Experience community. This time we're talking to filmmaker Douglas Reese. Hi Douglas! We started...
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Hot Docs '13
Hi everyone! Amir here, to bring you exciting festival news at month's end. Nathaniel is heading to the Nashville Film Festival as a jury member and for the first time at The Film Experience, we’re...
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Podcast: The Place Beyond the Desiring Images of the 90s
Surprise Podcast Attack! For this impromptu conversation, Nick Davis, Joe Reid and Nathaniel R (c'est moi) travel back in time to the 1990s to talk VHS, Jurassic Park, Box Office vs. Lasting Power,...
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Top Ten 1990s
I promised longtime TFE super fan Ryan that I would one day write up a big top ten of the 90s piece although THIS IS NOT IT. This is like those tossed back "shots" of past decades wherein we tell each...
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Visual Index ~ Jurassic Park's Best Shots
Refresh your screen for updates as the shots come in. By now you know the drill. Each week we ask interested bloggers to select one shot they think of as best from the pre-assigned movie and tell us...
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Annette Funicello (RIP)
Tim Brayton here again. With the cinephile world still reeling from the passing of irreplaceable film critic Roger Ebert a few days before, and The Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher’s death the same day...
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Breaking Link
Troublemakers why you couldn't remake The Breakfast Club. Sad but true!Press Play Ali Arikan's "end of message" on corresponding with Roger Ebert over the years David Poland the second part of his...
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Liza Minnelli, Bette Midler and Debbie Reynolds at the premiere of "I'll Eat You Last" on Broadway. Broadway is a wunnerful place. poll by twiigs.com
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First & Last: Our Tradition
first and last puzzlesthe first line of dialogue and the last image from a movie. I think it's our tradition." Can you guess the movie?
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Premature Trailerulation: Tom of Finland
Thanks to reader "Txus" for alerting me to this tease for a new biopic Tom. It's an unusual teaser in that the movie isn't even filming yet and isn't eyeing release plans until 2015. It's a preemie!...
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Reader Spotlight: Joey Moser
We're getting to know the Film Experience community. Today we're talking to Joey from Pittsburgh. He's currently performing in Godspell on stage. If you're in Pittsburgh there's two more shows this...
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Yes, No, Maybe So: "Only God Forgives"
Only God Forgives reunites violence-loving director Nicolas Winding Refn with his Drive star Ryan Gosling for the story of a man (Gosling) whose cold-hearted mama (Thomas) urges him to seek vengeance...
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Link Grams
Today's Must ReadNew Yorker Screenwriter Alan Zweibel on his two run-ins with Roger Ebert (who gave him his worst review) More Links In Contention Melissa Leo's gone Hollywood. Are the new films...
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Posterized: Terrence Malick
Until only very recently Terrence Malick, born in the North but raised in the Southwest, was something like a ghost of the cinema. Gone but not forgotten but still not numbered amongst the living. Or...
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"Kneel Before Zod!"
poll by twiigs.com Man of Steel is just 62 days away. Do you think this'll be a big year for Michael Shannon what with General Zod and The Iceman hitting theaters soon and possibly the creepy...
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I Can't Wait: The Bling Ring
I want to wear this new poster for Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring (2013) in five kinds of ways. Doesn't it make you wonder who your favorite character in the movie will be? (Besides Sofia Coppola's...
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Turn on the Faucet
I was going to skip a year but people keep asking... (what do we smell or something?). April Showers begin again on Tuesday April 16th. Waterworks most nights at 11 PM. (Any requests?)
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"Yes, No, Maybe So" x 4: Elysium, Filth, Rush, Romeo
The trailers have been flying at us so quickly these days that it could only mean one thing: summer movie season approacheth. All the late summer would be blockbusters and early fall Oscar contenders...
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