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YouTube user barringer82 has posted several mini-compilations of films of... (kottke.org)
These videos actually do a pretty good job of capturing the feel of these movies. I hate the word auteur (more for the concept than for the french) but when you string the films together this way a commonality is clearly seen.
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Screengrab Predicts: The Top 5 Bombs of Summer 2008 - The Screengrab
I think they underestimate the audience of loyal Sex and the City fans. Granted, I’m not planning on seeing it but to pronounce it a flop on this basis seems short-sighted.
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Recent Film Roundup
recently saw two films via netflix: Lars and the Real Girl and Wristcutters. Some reactions follow:
Lars and the Real Girl:
i’m a sucker for films about community. i’m also a sucker for sentimentality. a northern town in perpetual winter becomes the backdrop for a love story between an introvert and a church girl. small towns in movies are so much more open-minded than i would imagine their red-state conservatism would allow in real life. town rallies around a sex toy in a be kind rewind fashion. basically a story of awkward hipsters falling in love. i loved it. i want to be a part of the world. i’m such a sucker.
Wristcutters:
Tom Waits, an emo love interest in a slacker road movie cross-country with Golgol Bordello. again i want to exist in this world. its unfortunate that you can’t smile in the afterlife but then don’t do much in real life. purgatory for suicide victims is a lot like southern california without cars, hot and desolate. i feel like i’ve been there before, probably have. i love the tough chick who defaces signs for fun. life is as fun after death and just as boring and whimsical. i need an angel like Tom Waits to stumble into.
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“Garth Jennings, the director behind The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the FSR favorite Son of Rambow has announced that his next project will be animated.” (via Garth Jenning’s Gets Animated - Film School Rejects)
