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Paris, je t’aime
Paris I love You
This kind of compilation has always been for me difficult to watch. This movie worked I think because each (18) story is about the same length as a short info commercial, with each segment acted, produced and directed as if it was the only story being told. There is a lot of leeway with...
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
I am most likely the last person to see this movie and seeing it last night moved me. The story was so familiar to me, as if it were a story about my neighborhood, friends and the strain of transforming yourself from a kid to an adult.
What grabbed me most was the feeling of being trapped in what is...
Posted by Sandy in Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Directors, Exhibits, Movies, Museums on 02 17th, 2010 | No Comments
Tim Burton at MOMA
The Museum of Modern Art, NYC presents a retrospective of artist and film maker Tim Burton.
The program is a celebration of the gifted and often bizarre and controversial director of such movies as “Sweeney Todd”, “The Nightmare Before Christmas”, “Ed Wood” and “The Corpse Bride”....
Temple Grandin
Claire Danes and Julia Ormond
Being different is to be gifted. I’ve never been more certain of this after listening to interviews with Dr. Temple Grandin,who sees and understands the world in an extraordinary way. The HBO movie about Temple Grandin which first aired this past Sunday (Super Bowl...
Posted by Sandy in Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Film, Movies on 02 11th, 2010 | No Comments
Oscar Winners on DVD
Columbia Best Pictures Collection
Columbia Pictures has assembled a DVD box set of their Best Picture Academy Award winners from 1934, ‘It Happened One Night” to 1982, “Gandhi”.
The movies included in this 14 DVD set:
1934 It Happened One Night
1938 You Can’t Take It with You
1949 All...
Up In The Air
Vera Farmiga
This film turned out to be more then I expected. I expected grown up humor, well acted, well written and directed movie about road worries, consultants who spend their lives someplace other then home. I was expecting an expansion of the films trailer. The film is much better then the trailer...
DVD Corner: Roberto Rossellini
Italian Neorealist Director Roberto Rossellini, (1906-1977), made a series of films just after World War II labeled the “War Trilogy”. They have been issued as a DVD box set :
“Rome Open City, (1945)” “Paisan” (1946) and “Germany Year Zero” (1948)
Acclaimed...
Photo Exhibit-Gordon Parks at the Toledo Museum of Art
Oddly, the press release on this exhibit of Parks’ photos describes him as being best known as the director of “Shaft” (org 1971).I would think that his work as a photographer, fashion and journalism, is how he is best remembered. The exhibit at the Toledo Museum is titled “Bare...
DVD Corner: Films About Darfur
2 film options to learn more about the situation in Darfur, the western region of Sudan, Africa.
“The Devil Came on Horseback”, 2007 – The “Save Darfur Coalition” is an alliance of over 180 faith-based, advocacy and human rights organizations whose mission is to raise public awareness...
Los Abrazos Rotos
Pedro Almodóvar has a delightful way of telling a story.
Lluís Homar
Without discussing the plot, Broken Embraces (Los Abrazos Rotos) is reminiscent of Hitchcock both in the telling of the story and visuals. There is something sinister going on and the audience is intrigued and charmed.
Blanca Portillo
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