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Cinematographer Style
Re:Cinematographer Style
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"[quote user="Risselada"] Here, below, finally is my review of Cinematographer Style: Spout Mavens review - Cinematographer Style [/quote] Risselada is there a chance to borrow the screener from ya? I'd like to get a chance to see it. "
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Re:Manda Bala
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"Are there any more copies of this available for review? If so I'd like to check it out. "
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Re:The Sidney Poitier Collection
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"[quote user="csprague"] Hola! We have one copy of this, so let me know if you want it. The Sidney Poitier Collection [/quote] Is this still available? I'd love to get a chance to review it. "
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Three Monkeys (Uc Maymun)
Three Monkeys [Review]
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"Nuri Bilge Ceylan has been a name on the international film circuit since 2002 with Distant - a "well-paced" character study - and has continued his success with Climates (2006) and now Three Monkeys (2008). Ceylan is putting Turkish film on the map through unorthodox shots and unconventional story telling techniques. Three Monkeys succeeds on many levels while being quietly devastating. Aesthetically we are presented with images of civilization on the brink. The dark nature of the film’s content and meaning is echoed beautifully in the cinematography. The clouds thicken as the plot does. As Eyüp (Yavuz Bingol) throws a tantrum so does Zeus. The breadth of darkness that cinematographer Gokhan Tiryaki is able to achieve adds a noirish richness to the film. The lingering shots place emphasis on the inner-workings of the characters. The deliberate pace could be mismanaged by lesser actors. Ismail - convincingly acted by Rifat Sungar - is the son. Eyüp, the fa ... "
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"I actually really enjoyed Speed Racer unlike most. My other obvious winners for this year are Slumdog Millionaire and Milk. The Good The Bad and The Weird (played at Telluride, comes out Summer 09 I think) The Dark Knight I enjoyed. I'll come back with more but I think in 2008 I saw more old films than I did new releases.. I thought Nobel Son was lame. "
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Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections
Uncounted [Review]
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"Since 2000 the United States has been up-in-arms about its voting. 2000 was the year of Bush/Gore and the infamous Florida chad - who is not some guy you hung out with on Spring Break. WOO SPRING BREAK!! Director David Earnhardt challenges the electronic voting system and makes some incredible valid points. For one why a company (Diebold) would make a voting machine that gives out no receipts and isn't auditable when they are a company that produces most of the world's ATM machines thats only job is to print out reciepts and be auditable. While the evidence provided to us tends to lean towards showing us the Republican party gained more from the alleged voter fraud the documetary does claim to be non-partisan. Even as a liberal I found this documentary to be too one sided and only focusing on what the Republicans are rumored to be doing rather than spending too much time talking about ACORN and other hot topics of the day. It is difficult to judge this film on what is shown. ... "
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Re:2008 48 Hour Film Project film
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"[quote user="ShaunHuston"] "The Decision", the film produced by the Monmouth Film Collective, my team in the Portland, Oregon 48 Hour Film Project, is now online. We drew "historical fiction" as our genre. The city elements were: character: Jake or Jane Gravenstein, wellness practitioner; line: "Okay, I think I got it straight"; and prop: jumper cables. We set our story in the 1930s and the Great Depression to give ourselves at least a chance of evoking another era. You can read more about the experience here. The film is on YouTube and also on blip.tv in either Flash or Quicktime (the last will take longer to load, but offers the best quality). [/quote] Sounds awesome, I'll look for it. I had a group that participated in the Minneapolis this year and will probably do it again in 09. "
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The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
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"Director Cao Hamburger tells an almost Truffaut-like story of childhood, impossible love, abandonment and ultimately being found. This film reminds me a lot of The 400 Blows as children occupy the main space of this film. The actors give an almost neo-realist performance as characters who could be anyone you know. They are played to perfection and very relatable. The writing is humorous in the right places while choosing to remain classy instead of raunchy. I appreciate the extra effort taken to make this film approachable for all ages while being sophisticated at the same time. The somewhat whimsical story doesn't hold back on dealing with political issues and world events of the 1970s in Brazil. I feel that this is a very powerful tale of finding out that home and family are what you make of it. You could miss what isn't there but then you are just missing what is. Perhaps thats an overly optimistic view of it. If you enjoy films by Francois Truffaut, Roberto Rossellini ... "
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Summer Palace
Summer Palace
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"Summer Palace, which was first shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006, is remarkable for its candor about sex and politics. Predictably its honesty has not been appreciated by Chinese authorities who banned Mr. Lou from making movies for five years after he brought it to Cannes without their permission. The film’s fervent, unsentimental embrace of youthful idealism is likely to strike a chord with anyone who can recall — or imagine — such feelings overtaking his or her own life. Yu Hong (Lei Hao), a young woman, recently arrived at Beijing University from a provincial town. She displays a romantic, sometimes reckless appetite for experience, confiding in her diary a longing to live with maximum intensity. She satisfies this desire, in the movie’s heady, headlong first half, through a series of friendships and flirtations, most of all her fierce, jealous on-and-off relationship with Zhou Wei (Xiaodong Guo) - a skinny, brooding intellectu ... "
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Walkabout
Mother of Mine
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"Mother of Mine is a film that focuses on the unseen impacts of war. Eero [Topi Majaniemi] is a Swedish child sent to live in Denmark after his father dies in the war and his mother gives up on life. He is taken in by a mother who isn't excited to have him and a father who wants nothing more than for Eero to be able to adapt and thrive. He takes Eero to school where they call him the "war child" which is all he knows about his identity anymore. It takes over his life. All he imagines are air raids.Every actor in this film is much more than capable. Personally I think the acting is the biggest strength of the entire film. Klaus Haro mixes the strength of the acting with the natural beauty and depth of the Finnish landscape.I am in the camp of people who believe the flash forwards take away from the film more than they add. I think the story would flow better and perhaps have more impact if it weren't for the disjointed feeling the flash forwards evoke.I thin ... "
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Mother of Mine
Mother of Mine
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"Mother of Mine is a film that focuses on the unseen impacts of war. Eero [Topi Majaniemi] is a Swedish child sent to live in Denmark after his father dies in the war and his mother gives up on life. He is taken in by a mother who isn't excited to have him and a father who wants nothing more than for Eero to be able to adapt and thrive. He takes Eero to school where they call him the "war child" which is all he knows about his identity anymore. It takes over his life. All he imagines are air raids.Every actor in this film is much more than capable. Personally I think the acting is the biggest strength of the entire film. Klaus Haro mixes the strength of the acting with the natural beauty and depth of the Finnish landscape.I am in the camp of people who believe the flash forwards take away from the film more than they add. I think the story would flow better and perhaps have more impact if it weren't for the disjointed feeling the flash forwards evoke.I thin ... "
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Movies 101 with Professor Richard Brown [TV Series]
Movies 101: Leading Ladies
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"NYU Professor Richard Brown interviews Jennifer Anniston, Jennifer Connelly, Julianne Moore and Sigorney Weaver as part of an on-going series dedicated to sharing their experiences with his class. Each interview is about an hour long and focuses on their pre-cinema/television careers as well as previews their upcoming work (most of which was dated by the time I watched it.)The first interview in the set is Jennifer Anniston. I went in without a lot of "respect" for her body of work. No offense to her - I enjoy Friends and I think she is great as Rachel Green. I just never put a lot of faith in her talent. I learned however that at age 11 she had a painting hanging in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. I am obviously not the most well versed person when it comes to her life but I also learned that her dad (John Anniston) is an actor on a Soap Opera and has been for years. I am sure many out there are aware of that nugget of information but I wasn't. I origi ... "
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"Here is my review:http://www.spout.com/bl ogs/jscott/archive/2008/1/2/23 447.aspx "
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