• Kevin Kelly digs into the J.J. Abrams “Dark Tower” project. [Cinematical] • In honor of “Julie & Julia,” 10 blogs that could be movies. [Film School Rejects] • Liam Neeson walks his first red carpet since the death of wife Natasha Richardson. [Associated Press]
8/12 Web Round-up
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:32 am · August 12th, 2009
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8/7 Web Round-up
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:54 am · August 7th, 2009
• Patrick Goldstein revisits a collection of filmmakers’ tributes to John Hughes, “the Tolstoy of American teenagers.” [The Big Picture] • The irrepressible Pedro Almodovar talks aging, Cruz and “Broken Embraces.” On a side note, how sweet is the photo to the right? [Daily Telegraph] • Meryl Streep has a problem with male bloggers. Love you […]
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R.I.P. Budd Schulberg
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:17 pm · August 5th, 2009
I just came back from one of the most expertly written films of the year (Guillermo Arriaga’s “The Burning Plain”) to the sad news that one of the great screenwriters of our time, Budd Schulberg, has passed on from this mortal coil. At 95 years old, he seemed to get everything you can possibly get […]
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Revisiting the waterfront
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:24 pm · February 20th, 2009
As Sunday’s Oscars bear down upon us with a measure of both inevitability and indifference, I can’t be the only one fed up of watching, talking or even thinking about certain 2008 nominees — even some of the ones I liked. The sooner we can begin putting some much-needed distance between ourselves and these films, […]
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