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Watch This: Movie Titles That Slip Into the Dialogue

5 November 2009 2:32 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Watch a lot of movies, and you'll get conditioned to look for that special moment when it all comes together and someone utters the words that also happen to make up the title of the movie. Sometimes it's inevitable -- if the film is titled after a character's name, or the flick's main theme, then it's going to make its way into the film. A lot. Other times, writers cleverly slip it in as that tongue-in-cheek addition for the audience's amusement.

Having a little fun with movie clips, Videogum has whipped up a mosaic of scenes where characters say the film of the movie in the film. From Katharine Hepburn's distinct voice stating: "Guess who's coming to dinner?" to Dances with Wolves, to things being "gone, baby ... gone" and Sharon Stone writing about "basic instincts," there's a good range of those little pithy and inevitable moments. Most of them are all-too-brief, »

- Monika Bartyzel

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The Forgotten: Gorgeous Lifelike Color By Deluxe

29 October 2009 6:58 AM, PDT | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »

 

Gus Van Sant's Psycho remake is always going to divide opinion, those who see it as a conceptual art statement being able to argue, quite reasonably, that its failure to do the things Hitchcock's original does—create a consistent story world, stylized but credible characters, a sense of doom, suspense—is exactly the proof needed of its success as a conceptual artifact, dramatically redundant yet stubbornly existent.

Would the same people say the same thing for Edward Dmytryk's The Blue Angel, a faithful yet utterly arbitrary remake of Josef Von Sternberg's Der blaue Engel. Sternberg's production, Germany's first sound film, is so iconic and so utterly of its time—it marks the beginning of the Marlene myth, as well as the end of silence—that any kind of remake seems like an exercise in redundancy, like the Coens's joke proposal to re-shoot Stanley Kramer's well-intentioned liberal »

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Chris Rock Finds A Friend

6 October 2009 12:20 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Oprah Winfrey makes her second News appearance this morning with the story that her Harpo Films production company has joined forces with Lionsgate and picked up the rights to Will You Be My Black Friend? as a star vehicle for Chris Rock.Representing part of a mini-trend of films based on magazine articles (along with Darren Aronofsky's Heist), Black Friend stems from a GQ story by Devin Friedman about his dorky attempts to add some colour to his (entirely white) peer group. The main thrust was obviously humorous, but there was a serious point to it about the difficulty of stepping outside your own social demographic once you reach a certain point in your life.This obviously has the potential to be horribly crass, so it'll need to tread carefully. But the idea of a kind of reverse Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is fun, and the presence of »

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