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Oh how things have changed since I last wrote in this space. In the past four weeks, Tech Support has taken a break, allowing the dust from the festival circuit to settle, and other titles to open. Over the next 10 weeks, we’ll take a second look at each of the crafts categories, finishing in [...]
TECH SUPPORT: Best Art Direction — Volume II
Posted by Gerard Kennedy · 10:56 am · October 7th, 2010
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Guy’s top 50 of the decade: #1-10
Posted by Guy Lodge · 1:29 pm · January 6th, 2010
And then there were ten. Before I wrap up the list that I’ve trickled out over the last five days, I suppose I should write a few words on the decade that was. I entered the 2000s as a 16 year-old boy in Johannesburg who thought he knew a lot about movies. I left it [...]
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The best films of a decade
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:10 am · December 21st, 2009
This column has been the elephant in my living room for months. Putting together a list of the year’s best films is easy. It’s fresh. It’s in your mind. It’s, in many ways, the expected culmination. Putting together a list of the decade’s best films is a different chore altogether. Yearly rankings fly out the [...]
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Movie stingers: do they work?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:39 am · July 8th, 2008
If you saw “Hancock” over the weekend, you probably noticed a brief scene in the middle of the closing credits sequence featuring Mike Epps and meant as a funny punch for your theater exiting pleasure. It got me thinking about inter- and post-credit sequences — called ”stingers” – and whether they ought to be eliminated altogether. I ask this despite [...]
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Battersea featured in ‘Dark Knight?’
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:09 am · June 26th, 2008
This one is a stretch, I know — and many of you could care less. But I can’t escape “Dark Knight” news no matter where I turn. Seriously, I just click on a link to a random news story about the revitalization of London’s Battersea Power Station, and there it is, staring me in the [...]
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‘Blindness’ misses the bullseye, say critics
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:47 pm · May 14th, 2008
Well, in my last post, I said that “Blindness,” with its immaculate credentials, could hardly miss – which of course was issuing an invitation for it to do just that. The latest from red-hot director Fernando Meirelles opened this year’s Cannes Film Festival a few hours ago, to frustratingly mixed reviews. In his review, Kirk [...]
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REVIEW: “Children of Men” (****)
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 6:16 pm · November 22nd, 2006
Alfonso Cuarón’s is one of the most singular voices in the filmmaking community. Along with longtime collaborator, cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, the director has ushered forth textured visions of skewed fairytales for over a decade. With “A Little Princess,” he took audiences into the mind of a little girl and her trying tenure at a miserable [...]
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