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True Grit and Canada

publisher — 2012-05-16T16:26:00-05:00

Remember when we said that “True Grit is the latest film to convincingly demonstrate that the fate of humanity lies in the hands of 14-year old homeschooled girls?” Here’s further proof, now with 12-year old girls helping out as well.

A Clockwork Orange / The Parallax View

Mark LeClair — 2012-04-30T02:17:00-05:00

(Read the article)

TIME magazine mock-ups in movies

publisher — 2012-04-27T16:30:00-05:00

In honor of our newest piece by Mark LeClair, here are several other faux covers of TIME magazine that have appeared in cinema over the decades.

The Princess Bride as Grading Rubric

publisher — 2012-03-14T23:42:00-05:00

Inconceivable: Lines from The Princess Bride That Double as Comments on Freshman Composition Papers.

Let’s Hope This Isn’t The Only Way Tree of Life Could Win

publisher — 2012-02-24T16:48:00-05:00

Leaf From Tree of Life Frontrunner for Best Actor Oscar

I’ll take my clothes off, and it will be shameless…

publisher — 2012-01-23T17:35:00-05:00

...Cuz everyone knows, that’s how you get famous.

The Descendants on the Couch

publisher — 2012-01-18T04:07:00-05:00

... of The Last Psychiatrist. You may not be a terrible person, but you may be better able to understand why you liked American Beauty and Indecent Proposal so much.

Cinemetrics

publisher — 2012-01-12T23:31:01-05:00

This is what movies look like in one vibrating, colorized, sliced and diced symbolic image: interesting.

“Nuked the Fridge” is the new “Jumped the Shark”

publisher — 2011-11-16T00:27:01-05:00

Straight from the horse’s mouth.

You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover, but You CAN Judge A Movie By Its Poster

publisher — 2011-11-08T18:01:00-05:00

13 Movie poster patterns and what they tell us about the likelihood of what’s in the film. Unless of course, the film has Tilda Swinton…

These are the movies of The Moviegoer

publisher — 2011-10-15T16:22:00-05:00

In order of their appearance in Walker Percy’s 1961 novel: Stage Coach, The Third Man, Panic in the Streets, It Happened One Night, Red River, Holiday, The Oxbow Incident, All Quiet On the Western Front, Fort Dobbs, Dark Waters, The Young Philadelphians. And this is the conference celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its publication.

Hollywood Star Makes Good

publisher — 2011-10-10T16:07:00-05:00

We love a happy ending: Cinema, the new cathedral, leads one unique soul back to the original Cathedral.

Synecdoche, New York

editor — 2011-09-24T16:09:00-05:00

Metaphilm fan and filmmaker Cody Clarke has some thoughts on Synecdoche, New York as doing what The Social Network failed to do in exploring the metaphysics of Facebook. Thanks, Cody!

Truman Burbank, Call Your Office, STAT

publisher — 2011-09-16T13:54:01-05:00

This is indeed ”an unusual occurrence.”

Brent Plate Gets Even Closer to the Core of The Tree of Life

publisher — 2011-08-23T17:42:00-05:00

Worth your time: S. Brent Plate’s meditations on The Tree of Life. See also this piece.