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What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #10

27 September 2009 1:56 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Two Paul Newman titles from the recently released Paul Newman Tribute Collection (pictured right) I mentioned on Tuesday, a look at a film I watched in preparation for one of last week's screenings and a reminder of a Blu-ray I recently reviewed make up this week's list. On top of everything below, on Saturday I went to a screening of the Toy Story and Toy Story 2 3-D double feature, which ended up being a lot of fun as I am pretty sure it was the first time I actually saw Toy Story 2 on the bigscreen. The 3-D is quite good and the opening moments of Toy Story 2 lend themselves so well to the format it's almost surprising it wasn't originally intended to be released in 3-D. Of course, as with all quality films, the 3-D does nothing for the story. These films were never considered classics for »

- Brad Brevet

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Tiff ‘09: Youth In Revolt

24 September 2009 8:13 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

Youth In Revolt Directed by Miguel Arteta Mean-spirited screwball comedy Youth in Revolt , based on C.D. Payne's 1993 novel, follows Nick Twisp (Michael Cera), a cynical, sex-obsessed 16-year-old who, while on vacation in a trailer park, meets and falls in love with beautiful, intellectual teen rebel Sheeni Saunders (Portia Doubleday). The only things standing in the way of the consummation of  Nick's  first love is Sheeni's poetry-writing ex-boyfriend Trent (Jonathan B. Wright) and her religious zealot parents (M. Emmett Walsh and Mary Kay Place) . It barely needs to be said that Michael Cera has perfected his socially awkward, asexual, nerdy adolescent shtick. For some, it might be tiring to see the same actor in the same role once again trying to lose the same virginity, and Youth in Revolt is more of the same. As Nick, Cera doesn't do much to elevate the material to anything other than a typical coming-of-age story, »

- Ricky

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New on DVD: "30 Rock" rocks, Seth Rogen: Mall Cop and Ol' Blue Eyes is back

23 September 2009 1:19 PM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »

That season of 30 Rock that just won another Emmy? It's on DVD. As are a controversial comedy with Seth Rogen and a lavish box devoted to a mixed bag of Paul Newman movies.

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I can't begin to imagine why any of you aren't already watching this brilliantly hilarious sitcom, but 30 Rock - Season Three is available to those of you who haven't been converted (as well as those who need repeated viewings to catch all of the rapid-fire gags).

This season contains two of my favorite episodes—"Believe in the Stars," in which a prescription-drug–addled Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) shares a flight from Chicago with Oprah Winfrey, and "Reunion," where Liz begrudgingly attends her high-school reunion to discover that she wasn't a picked-on nerd, as she'd remembered, but actually a bully.

Critics were sharply divided (literally, with a 51% at Rotten Tomatoes) over Observe and Report, »

- ADuralde

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Blu-ray Review: Pierrot le fou (Criterion Collection)

23 September 2009 12:20 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

In 1966 Roger Ebert reviewed Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le fou and gave it a 3 1/2 star review, 41 years later he reviewed it again and gave it only 2 1/2 stars quoting his earlier review calling the film "Godard's most virtuoso display of his mastery of Hollywood genres," only to now say he sees "it more as the story of silly characters who have seen too many Hollywood movies." Strangely enough, I have to wonder if Pierrot le fou is really about characters at all. It stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina as Ferdinand and Marianne, but does their "road trip" really serve as anything more than a medium for Godard to lovingly fawn over his then-wife while at the same time speak ill of American culture and the Vietnam War? I recently reviewed Criterion's release of Godard's 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, a film made two years after Pierrot le fou and »

- Brad Brevet

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This Week on DVD: Observe and Report, Lymelife, Star Trek: Tng Motion Picture Collection

22 September 2009 9:52 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

Jody Hill's answer to Paul Blart is out on DVD today as Seth Rogen goes off the deep end in the dark and hilarious Observe and Report. On the flipside, we've also got the Matthew McConaughey rom-com Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, the animated CG adventure Battle for Terra, and the direct-to-dvd Scooby Doo prequel Scooby Doo: The Mystery Begins. Some potential hidden gems include the Sundance hit Lymelife, Clive Barker's Book of Blood, and Rob Zombie's animated sex comedy The Haunted World of El Superbeasto. New releases on Blu-ray include the Criterion release of Monterey Pop, Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, plus whole lot of Star Trek. See anything worth picking up? Observe and Report [1] (DVD, Blu-ray [2]) Ghosts of Girlfriends Past [3] (DVD, Blu-ray [4]) Lymelife [5] (DVD, Blu-ray [6]) Battle for Terra [7] (DVD, Blu-ray [8]) Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins [9] (DVD, Blu-ray [10]) The Haunted World of El Superbeasto [11] (DVD, »

- Sean

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This Week On DVD and Blu-ray: September 22, 2009

22 September 2009 12:19 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

DVD Links: DVD News | Release Dates | New Dvds | Reviews | RSS Feed The Paul Newman Tribute Collection I just received this box set earlier today so I haven't had a chance to do anything more than open it and peek through the 136-page book, which has details on each film included as well as accompanying images. The movies in the set are The Long, Hot Summer, Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!, From the Terrace, Exodus, The Hustler Collector's Edition, Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man, What a Way to Go!, Hombre, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Collector's Edition, The Towering Inferno Special Edition, Buffalo Bill and the Indians Or Sitting Bull's History Lesson, Quintet and The Verdict Collector's Edition. The set is priced at $62.99 at Amazon, which means you are looking at approximately $4.89 per movie and as you can see you are getting the 2-disc collector's editions of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, »

- Brad Brevet

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Tiff ‘09: Youth In Revolt

17 September 2009 12:21 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

Youth In Revolt Directed by Miguel Arteta Mean-spirited screwball comedy Youth in Revolt , based on C.D. Payne's 1993 novel, follows Nick Twisp (Michael Cera), a cynical, sex-obsessed 16-year-old who, while on vacation in a trailer park, meets and falls in love with beautiful, intellectual teen rebel Sheeni Saunders (Portia Doubleday). The only things standing in the way of the consummation of  Nick's  first love is Sheeni's poetry-writing ex-boyfriend Trent (Jonathan B. Wright) and her religious zealot parents (M. Emmett Walsh and Mary Kay Place) . It barely needs to be said that Michael Cera has perfected his socially awkward, asexual, nerdy adolescent shtick. For some, it might be tiring to see the same actor in the same role once again trying to lose the same virginity, and Youth in Revolt is more of the same. As Nick, Cera doesn't do much to elevate the material to anything other than a typical coming-of-age story, »

- Ricky

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Lamentation for a Grand Romance

21 July 2009 7:33 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

For American cinephiles of a certain age (under 50 or so, babies during the '60s if alive at all), the last year and a half has been a neo-Godardian lavishment -- month after month, there came a new sterling DVDization, or a new rarity screening (like Light Industry's showing of "Far from Vietnam" in Manhattan), or a new biography or brace of incidental footage (The Believer's "Jlg in USA"), or even, as in this past January, a full-fledged American release: 1966's "Made in U.S.A.," only shown at festivals in its day before getting stalled and closeted by the producer's legal woes and messy rights trouble with the Donald Westlake novel it barely references. It's one of the 15 essential rockets Godard launched that made the decade his and his alone, and if you don't find it a privilege to be able to discover it in 2009, you don't care about movies. »

- Michael Atkinson

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Criterion to bring Pierrot le Fou to Blu this September

24 June 2009 3:37 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

That’s right, you can soon set up those ebay auctions for your less than six month old copy of Criterion Collection’s Pierrot le Fou to make way for its high def counterpart. On September 22nd, the acclaimed company will release the sure to be pristine copy of Godard’s classic Pierrot le Fou on Blu-ray. While the original press release for their first wave of Blu discs mentioned the Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt as their first foray into high definition, I can’t really complain much with this news. As far I know, this will be the first film from the famed French director to hit the format.

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- Aaron Fowler

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Love and Marriage

16 June 2009 7:06 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

The new Chinese film "In Love We Trust" has an irresistible premise, one you can easily imagine being sucked up into the Hollywood processing plant and molded into a hectic piece of polystyrene, either hysterically melodramatic or slapstickily comic. Simply: a divorced couple, both now married to others, discover their six-year-old has leukemia (admittedly, not the potentially funny part), and realize that her only chance for survival -- for a bone marrow match -- is for them to have another child together, therein jeopardizing both of their marriages. I don't want to picture either version of the American remake, but Wang Ziaoshuai's film is deliberately temperate, pensive, observational, and of course comes loaded with specifically Chinese contexts: the still-in-effect one-child policy is a barely acknowledged punitive barrier, however it is in conflict (like so many official positions) with the rise of the Chinese urban middle class.

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- Michael Atkinson

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Podcast #106 - Jean Luc Godard

28 May 2009 4:12 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

listen now [1] Download the show in a seperate window [2] In the 1960s, French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard helmed over 20 feature-length films (depending on whether or not you count films made by "collective"), with many of them now hailed as classics by elitist cineastes everywhere. Today on Sound on Sight, we attempt to dig into Godard's massive filmography by looking at three of the films that defined his work in the first half of that decade: 1960's fast-paced romantic thriller "Breathless," 1963's self-reflexive "Contempt." and 1965's dizzying "Pierrot le Fou," which starred his then-wife, Anna Karina. [1] http://www.soundonsight.org/SoundReviews/Episode106.mp3 [2] http://www.soundonsight.org/SoundReviews/Episode106.mp3 »

- Ricky

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2009 | 2007

11 articles from 2009

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