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I generally try to ignore film opinion pieces I think are fundamentally misguided — à chacun son goût and all that, plus the fact that fighting one mind is generally more trouble than it’s worth — but Ben Walsh’s idle article in The Independent today on the supposed demise of the movie soundtrack does such […]
In praise of the modern movie soundtrack
Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:41 am · August 5th, 2011
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‘Dark Knight Rises’ trailer attached to final ‘Harry Potter’
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:14 pm · July 8th, 2011
Nothing much going on today, so why not toss up a good ole’ fashioned SEO-baiting post? Those of you planning to take in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” next weekend (which I imagine is most of you), you’ll be delighted to know that, according to Superhero Hype, Warner Bros. will attach the […]
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“I got beaten out by Fellini!”
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:16 pm · January 25th, 2011
Chad passed this along. I actually hadn’t seen it in a while. I wonder if Nolan’s support system blew their stack a la this crowd:
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35 years later…
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:05 am · June 20th, 2010
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THE LISTS: Top 10 Oscar nominee fields
Posted by Guy Lodge · 12:47 pm · January 26th, 2010
In exactly one week’s time, we’ll have a brand new list of Oscar nominations to pore over, pick apart and eventually file away in our subconscious with the other 81 editions of this annual collective. For Oscar geeks, nomination day is in many ways more exciting than the ceremony itself, celebrating a broader spectrum of […]
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Counting to ten
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:17 am · July 2nd, 2009
Since the Academy announced the new ten-lane track for the Best Picture race, any number of bloggers have projected which extra films might have made the cut under this format in the last few years, a process that, for many, retrospectively hands hypothetical nods to everything from “Doubt” to “Memoirs of a Geisha” to “My […]
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THE LISTS: Top 10 movies I watched with Dad
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:23 am · June 16th, 2009
In case you’re like me and you happen to forget these things throughout the year, let today’s edition of The Lists serve as a reminder: Father’s Day is this weekend! With that in mind, and as a personal tribute of sorts to my pops, who turns 56 today in addition to celebrating his 28th Father’s […]
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Your ranked list of the 10 most influential films of all time
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:43 am · June 10th, 2009
And with that, our poll series comes to a screeching halt. I’ve already offered some thoughts on how all of this turned out. I hope readers unfamiliar with some of the films I’ve been harping on will take that to heart and at least seek them out. You owe it to yourself as a film […]
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On TCM now…
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 6:29 pm · June 5th, 2009
Richard Schickel’s documentary “Spielberg on Spielberg.” Just finished talking about “Duel” (what I maintain to be a top five Spielberg effort to this day) and “Jaws.” Ths is critical viewing to anyone interested in filmmaking. It’s a treat to hear the director talking at length about his own work. This is a guy who has […]
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POLL: the most influential films of all time, round one, part six
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:23 pm · May 20th, 2009
Alright, we’re at the end of round one with a final set of 10 films. For background on this series, click here. By the way, “Jaws,” “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and “Toy Story” were the survivors from the last round. Have your say in the left sidebar by picking up to three films […]
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TCM’s top 15 most influential classic movies
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:33 pm · April 13th, 2009
Well, here’s something I guess. Rope of Silicon points us to TCM’s list of the top 15 most influential “classic” films of all time. I actually started working up such a list for the site a while back but abandoned it for whatever reason. It was going to include all comers, though, not just classic […]
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THE LISTS: In Contention’s top 20 horror films of all time
Posted by In Contention Staff · 1:11 pm · October 28th, 2008
Yes, how trite. Another list of the “best” horror films of all time. But this really is the most subjective of genres, is it not? What is scary to us all has slipped out of the realm of the universal and become much more of a personal thing. Certain films are inarguable, as our list […]
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Spielberg and blockbusters
Posted by John Foote · 7:26 am · April 25th, 2008
Can he do it? After becoming (in his own eyes) a serious filmmaker with “Schindler’s List,” “Amistad,” “Saving Private Ryan,” “A.I.” and “Munich,” is Steven Spielberg able to re-create the magic he almost always brought to his pure entertainment blockbusters? It takes a look at his journey as an artist to even attempt a reasoned […]
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