5 articles from 2009
"Masculin féminin": A Film in Several Acts About Youth and Sex
17 December 2009 9:49 PM, PST
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"Not since Dw Griffith was knocking out a weekly two-reeler at the Biograph studio on 14th Street had there been anything to equal the 15-feature run that Jean-Luc Godard began with Breathless (1960) and ended, still accelerating, in the cataclysm of Weekend (1967)," J Hoberman wrote in the Voice back in 2005. "Directed by anyone else, Masculine Feminine - one of three movies that Godard made in his peak year, 1966 - would be a masterpiece. For the young Jlg it's business as usual."
Much of last summer was spent looking back at 1968, forty years on, and of course, the 60s in general. Accordingly, Film Forum ran a series, Godard's 60s, and Masculin féminin, today's feature in the Recyclage de luxe Online Film Festival, was part of the lineup. Click here, scroll way down the film's section and you'll see that you can download a 13-minute introduction to the May 25 screening by Richard Brody,
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Ken Wlaschin obituary
19 November 2009 10:42 AM, PST
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Influential programmer for the Nft and London film festival
Anyone whose love of the cinema was burnished by the National Film Theatre in the 1970s and early 80s owes a considerable debt to Ken Wlaschin, who has died aged 75. He not only programmed the theatre for some 15 years, but also directed the London film festival. During that time, he expanded both indefatigably, often in the teeth of financial constraints.
At first, when the Nft had only a single auditorium, he also edited the monthly programme booklet, writing the notes and cropping the photographs himself. By the time he left, there were two auditoriums, a restaurant and a clubroom, putting the Nft (now called the BFI Southbank) on a par with the famous cinematheques of Paris, Brussels and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The festival was also enlarged to well over 130 films and drew journalists from all over the world.
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- Derek Malcolm
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CinemaSpy's Week-End TV Recap (Nov. 7)
7 November 2009 9:05 PM, PST
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Many television viewers — and pop culture critics — are wondering just what's up with Fox's Fringe. Watchers of the show were caught unaware this past week, not realizing that the network was airing a new episode of the skein until they read about it the next day in various news outlets. Fringe simply wasn't in the listings. People's DVRs didn't pick up the show, because Fox was listed as running Game 7 of the World Series. People believed that the show would be absent one more week.
All of this is raising serious questions about how seriously Fox is treating the show, or indeed, if they're trying to kill it. The Thursday night time slot was their first error in judgment, but lapses in playing to the viewer base by neglecting to promote episodes and air times is something else entirely.
The impression left is that Fox used first-run programming as a backup to a sporting event.
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CinemaSpy's Week-End TV Recap (Nov. 7)
7 November 2009 9:05 PM, PST
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Many television viewers — and pop culture critics — are wondering just what's up with Fox's Fringe. Watchers of the show were caught unaware this past week, not realizing that the network was airing a new episode of the skein until they read about it the next day in various news outlets. Fringe simply wasn't in the listings. People's DVRs didn't pick up the show, because Fox was listed as running Game 7 of the World Series. People believed that the show would be absent one more week.
All of this is raising serious questions about how seriously Fox is treating the show, or indeed, if they're trying to kill it. The Thursday night time slot was their first error in judgment, but lapses in playing to the viewer base by neglecting to promote episodes and air times is something else entirely.
The impression left is that Fox used first-run programming as a backup to a sporting event.
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Pandorum: TV Spots & “Creature Feature” Clip
3 September 2009 9:33 AM, PDT
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For you sci-fi/horror fans out there, there’s a new film up your alley coming out later this month called Pandorum, starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster as two crewmen on a deep space vessel who awaken from cryogenic sleep to find the crew missing and savage beasts terrorizing the ship.
The trailers and posters for Pandorum gave us a good tingly feeling that this film would be Event Horizon meets 28 Days Later and the Pandorum panel at Comic-Con this year only reinforced our anticipation for the flick.
Today we have two TV spots for Pandorum and a clip from the film that features a semi-first look at the deadly creatures roaming the shadows of the ship. If you still need incentive to see this movie, check them out.
We’ll do the TV spots first and then the “creature feature” clip, which some of you may want to
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- Kofi Outlaw
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