3 month ago
philgyford : BarbicanTalk.com • View topic - Barbican Cinemas 2 and 3 to Close - Due to close early 2010 and re-open two years later in the current Barbican Exhibition Hall. Sounds like a cock-up re guaranteeing Frobisher Crescent developers the current cinemas wouldn't leak noise.
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plasticbag : The Oscar nominations are out with No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood leading the charge - I have a sneaking suspicion that There Will Be Blood will end up being the film with the longest life, but No Country for Old Men astonished me. A truly extraordinary film. I hope it wins.
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27 month ago
plasticbag : I'm loving the reviews for "There Will Be Blood", the new film from PT Anderson (of Magnolia fame) - "There Will Be Blood is, in fact, not a historical saga; rather, it's an absurdist, blackly comic horror film with a very idiosyncratic satanic figure at its core." Sounds awesome!
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27 month ago
Andy Baio : On the overuse of the Trajan typeface in movie posters - the accompanying Flickr pool [via]
nelson : Trajan is the Movie Font - Type criticism can be funny!
plasticbag : Trajan is the Movie Font - Entertaining video that reveals the lack of creativity among designers working in movie posters and DVD covers. Although, you know, if people understand Trajan to mean 'movie' then why confuse them?
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28 month ago
plasticbag : Ridiculous hysteria and computer illiteracy evident in this trailer for "Untraceable" - From the idea of an untraceable website, through to seeing every keystroke because you've got access to someone's wireless network... Bunk! Bunk I tell you! He hacked into my car's computer! Can you hear me rolling my eyes?
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28 month ago
plasticbag : One of my absolute favourite films of recent years, you have to go and see 'No Country for Old Men' - It sounds like a tedious movie. It's anything but. The thriler-like aspects are astonishing, the attention to detail incredible, the creativity and insight astonishing, the cinematography absurdly good. Must see.
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29 month ago
plasticbag : JK Rowling says Dumbledore was gay, and I couldn't be happier about it. I've seen too many gay characters recently in films and theatre and TV that are filthy old stereotypes for an audience to find amusing, like pets... - I saw Stardust yesterday and loved it. But I hated that the gay character in it was obsessed with women's clothes and dancing around. I saw Spamalot and I loved it. I just hated that the weak girly man was gay, and the butch gay man liked disco... Idiots.
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31 month ago
plasticbag : Just watched the 1936 film 'Things to Come' based on HG Well's book - Wow. That was extraordinary. A celebratory song for science and progress that contains some of the most extraordinary and convincing special effects I've ever seen. I'm not kidding. Extraordinary.
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plasticbag : Michael Clayton - George Clooney thriller. Looks intelligent and interesting. Bit suits and eyebrows and slightly raised voices. Don't know what it'll be like.
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31 month ago
plasticbag : I keep walking past adverts for a new George Clooney film, Michael Clayton, but I don't know much about it... - I've watched the trailer and it looks quite interesting, but it's sort of appeared on my horizon without any hype at all. Anyone know what the word on it is?
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35 month ago
plasticbag : Grant Morrison has written a potential film script for We3, and a script review of it has found its way onto the internet... - Any film of this would be heavily CGI, and it might not be an obvious candidate for the transition, given how sad and violent it is. But the comic was really weirdly moving. 21st Century Watership Down?
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38 month ago
plasticbag : Hot Fuzz was probably the most fun movie I've seen in a long time and I can't really recommend it enough... - Go and see it. It rocks. The big question is which of the main characters you most identify with and why.
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41 month ago
plasticbag : 'Brilliant' Bond seduces critics - I'm surprisingly excited about the new Bond film, and am delighted to hear that it's getting generally good reviews, although after my Borat experience I'm not sure whether to trust them...
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41 month ago
plasticbag : According to the MPAA, New York is the city in the world most responsible for in-screen recordings of movies - The most interesting thing about this is that it isn't interesting in the slightest. I can't imagine for a moment why the MPAA should be interested in where piracy occurs given that they can't possibly hope to shut down all recordings of movies...
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41 month ago
plasticbag : Torrentfreak is my new favourite future of media distribution weblog - Obviously BitTorrent is mostly used for piracy, but observing what's going on around BitTorrent seems like a no-brainer way to learn what early-adopters are actually interested in getting from their media consumption...
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41 month ago
plasticbag : Go and see The Departed if you get a chance - It's not a gentle film, it's a bloody brutal film, but it's also a completely fascinating and engrossing film with plot arcs that you don't see coming that are allowed to manifest slowly and elegantly and with fascinating inevitability...
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42 month ago
plasticbag : A Terrifying Message from Al Gore (via Futurama) - "The movie that could make you feel like you should probably do something"
Rod Begbie : YouTube - A Terrifying Message from Al Gore - Trailer for An Inconvenient Truth made by the chaps at Futurama. Your first (and only?) chance to hear Al Gore say the words "hybrid pimpmobile" [via] #
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42 month ago
cameron : The Best: Movies in the Public Domain - Wired editors pick the best movies that are free of charge.
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plasticbag : Netflix are offering $1 million to anyone who can substantially improve their recommendations algorithms - The most interesting thing is that they're opening up a substantial dataset in order to help them work through these issues. I'd be really interested to get my hands on that with a talented data visualiser. Maybe Stamen should have a play?
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43 month ago
plasticbag : Metacritic has the pretty much excoriating condensed versions of reviews for "Another Gay Movie" - Ah, my people. How proud I am. Anyway, it looks terrible, but I'll probably go and see it if only so I can write an outraged weblog post about how gay people are being turned into pets or self-ghettoising or something.
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plasticbag : Salon gushes over Serenity, only pausing to lament that the only thing better than it would be to have Firefly back... - "Joss Whedon's unfairly canceled TV series "Firefly" comes to the big screen -- and marvelously. But for all its wit, it's just not the same."
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45 month ago
plasticbag : Slavoj Zizek's Pervert's Guide to Cinema has been playing on More 4 in the UK - And it's bloody good stuff - I read a lot of his work while I was not completing my doctorate, but the TV series is even better.
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plasticbag : The Transformers Movie website has a trailer up... - I'm actually pretty stunningly excited by the idea of a live action Transformers movie. Apparently the full trailer is due for July 4th?
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45 month ago
Philippe Janvier : Classics On Google Video - "Some old movies have "fallen out of copyright", which means they can be distributed and downloaded for free." [via] #
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50 month ago
Philippe Janvier : Metropolis - "...one of Fritz Lang's other masterpieces available for download on Internet Archive." [via] #
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