[Last weekend, while en route to Abu Dhabi, my good friend Jeremy swung by my cold-water Chicago flat. After a lengthy Indian-wrestling match, we headed downtown to the AMC River East 21, where we caught a screening of Duncan Jones’s latest film, Source Code. Two hours later, expelled into the brisk April evening, we hunkered [...]
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A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Source Code, Friends, Woody Allen, The Man from London, Sucker Punch, Zardoz, Tron, Willow, and Shoot ‘Em Up
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies, A D Jameson, AMC River East 21, Applebee's, Avatar, Bass/Rankin, Béla Tarr, Chad and Jeremy, Cindy Morgan, cinema, cineplexes, Duncan Jones, Eastern Promises, Elliot Gould, film distribution, films, Fox & Obel, Friends (TV show), Hollywood, James Bell, Jeremy M. Davies, Jim Jarmusch, Joel Schumacher, John Boorman, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Justin, Legend (film), Marshall McLuhan, Monica Bellucci, movies, narrative, Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja, Sherlock Holmes, Shoji Ueda, Shoot ‘Em Up, Sight and Sound, Source Code, Sucker Punch, Television, The Last Unicorn, The Man from London, The NeverEnding Story, Thor, Tilda Swinton, To the Bracken Fields, Tron, Tron Legacy, Warebi no kou, Wendy Carlos, Willow, Woody Allen, Zack Snyder, Zardoz on May 16, 2011 | 16 Comments »
Arthur Penn’s Night Moves
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Robert Altman, Don't Look Now, Nicolas Roeg, Wes Anderson, Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn, Night Moves, Roger Ebert, The Long Goodbye, Point Blank, Days of Heaven, Annie Hall, John Boorman, Gene Hackman, Éric Rohmer, My Night at Maud's, Melanie Griffith, The Conversation, William Wyler, Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder, The New Hollywood, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Ross Macdonald, Francis Ford Coppola on September 30, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Well, Arthur Penn died. He was of course a great director. And of course everyone will be talking about how great Bonnie and Clyde (1967) is—and it is great. It’s one of the most important of American films; along with John Boorman’s Point Blank (1967), it essentially kick-started 1970s cinema, and that decade’s auteur-driven New [...]