Category Archives: Movies

Holy Motors About To Land On US

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Zac Petrillo

Leos Carax’s new film, Holy Motors, has been playing to perplexed audiences since it first screened at Cannes earlier this year. It currently has a 92% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes and began rolling out to select theaters yesterday. Carax’s … Continue reading →

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Planning Coincidence: The Game (1997)

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Zac Petrillo

The Game is a mind-bending metaphor for the bizarre and dirty side of American life where everything’s coincidence and everything’s destiny. A Titanic-sized ship couldn’t house the newspaper clippings about the corruption through bad business practices that have come to … Continue reading →

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Rosemary and Roman and Mia

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Zac Petrillo

Continuing today’s theme of New York City, Central Park, and, uh, fear… here’s a great photo the Criterion Collection released of Mia Farrow and Roman Polanski on the set of Rosemary’s Baby. The Collection is set to release the first … Continue reading →

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Burns’ Central Park Five Defines New New York

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Zac Petrillo

Let me preface by saying that I haven’t seen Central Park Five yet, so I have no clue whether it actually “defines” one of the major cities on the planet. It’s quite possible this film, like many great documentaries, sets … Continue reading →

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Klosterman Goes To Bat For Room 237

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Zac Petrillo

The best recent film that nobody saw was Jon Foy’s Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles. Room 237, an upcoming documentary that seems to rake strikingly familiar terrain to Foy’s masterpiece, has just gotten a nice write-up by … Continue reading →

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Criterion Gets 3D With Wenders’ Pina

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Zac Petrillo

The Criterion Collection recently announced its grand entrance into the world of 3D Home Entertainment with the release of Wim Wenders’ Pina. The documentary, an Academy Award nominee, took Werner Herzog’s approach of non-fiction as technologically advanced art to another … Continue reading →

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OSCAR FORECAST: Best Cinematography 2013

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Zac Petrillo

Best Cinematography Predictions (10-17-12): Lincoln, Janusz Kaminski Anna Karenina, Seamus McGarvey Argo, Rodrigo Prieto Life of Pi, Claudio Miranda Skyfall, Roger Deakins Of all the tech categories, Cinematography always has the best chance of honoring a work of artistry that … Continue reading →

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Argo’s Realistic Soundscape

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Zac Petrillo

Argo walks such a delicate line between historic realism and Hollywood caper commonalities, that sound design obviously had to play an integral role in creating the world. Yet, the sound was so subtle and precise that I don’t remember it … Continue reading →

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It’s All About The U

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Zac Petrillo

Between the nerve-wracking baseball playoffs and the beginning of the football season, not to mention the uniquely exciting Summer Olympics, sports have been on my brain more than usual lately. Additionally, I’m in the throes of developing a script about … Continue reading →

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See You In The Movies: Argo

Posted on October 14, 2012 by Zac Petrillo

With themes that strike unnervingly close to today’s zeitgeist, Argo smartly takes the path of an old-fashioned thriller to unveil the neverending turmoil of international relations. A movie about the power of movies, Ben Affleck’s third feature uses all the … Continue reading →

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