The Film Talk – Part 86 – Inglourious Basterds / Taking Woodstock
This Episode: Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds / Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock / A preview of Those Crank Guys’ Gamer / Click Here to mail us your entry in our Taking Woodstock Competition Get TFT delivered weekly via iTunes Subscribe to our podcast Subscribe to our blog Follow us on Twitter
Stanley Kubrick in ‘Inglourious Basterds’
On the left, Stanley Kubrick. On the right Denis Menochet from ‘Inglourious Basterds’. Eerie isn’t it? Of course one can’t help but think of the never-made Kubrick World War 2 pic ‘Wartime Lies/Aryan Papers’. What’s Tarantino up to? – – – P.S. Our podcast analysis of ‘Inglorious Basterds’ will be online this in several days [...]
Beautiful Visualisation of Time Travel in Films and TV
Via Charlotte Cook - Sweetly beautiful visualisation of Time Travel in Films and TV – I especially like the paradoxes where the various time travelers bump into each other!: Timelines – Time Travel in Popular Film and TV
‘A Cold Night’s Death’ – The Best Thriller/Chiller Pic from the 70′s That You’ve Never Heard Of
Special thanks to Twitch for alerting us to the presence of ‘A Cold Night’s Death‘: Seldom Seen review | A Cold Night’s Death With our ever-present infomachines spouting media at us constantly it often seems that there’s no surprises left – everything’s been unearthed/no more movie gems out there to find. Imagine my delight Dear [...]
Latest Podcast: District 9, the Avatar Trailer, and an Interview with Slashfilmcast
In our latest show we reflect on District 9, the Avatar trailer, and, as part of our on-going series on the state of film criticism interview David Chen and Devindra Hardawar of the /Filmcast: The Film Talk – Part 85 – District 9 / Avatar / Slashfilmcast Interviewed
The Film Talk – Part 85 – District 9 / Avatar / Slashfilmcast Interviewed
This Episode: District 9, the Avatar trailer, and, as part of our on-going series on the state of film criticism, an interview with David Chen And Devindra Hardawar of the /Filmcast. Get TFT delivered weekly via iTunes Subscribe to our podcast Subscribe to our blog Follow us on Twitter
Latest Podcast: An Interview with Elliott Gould on Natalie Wood and the Films of the '70's
In association with the Film Society of Lincoln Center and their Natalie Wood retrospective Gareth and I interview Elliott Gould on his relationship with Natalie and the films of the 1970′s: The Film Talk – Part 84 – It’s All Now: An Interview with Elliott Gould on Natalie Wood and the Films of the 70′s
The Film Talk – Part 84 – It's All Now: An Interview with Elliott Gould on Natalie Wood and the Films of the 70's
This Episode: In association with the Film Society of Lincoln Center and their Natalie Wood retrospective Gareth and I interview Elliott Gould on his relationship with Natalie and the films of the 1970′s. Get TFT delivered weekly via iTunes Subscribe to our podcast Subscribe to our blog Follow us on Twitter
Films of the Millennium. (Or Not)
I don’t like list journalism. I guess it should follow that therefore I do like anti-list journalism. So the fact that this post is a gentle critique of the purest form of list journalism – the discussion of a public poll – by way of offering an alternative list…well, let’s just say that I like [...]
Latest Podcast: 'In the Loop'
In this latest podcast Gareth and I are amazed and troubled by what is clearly the best political satire since ‘Dr. Strangelove’, ‘In the Loop’: The Film Talk – Part 83 – In the Loop
The Film Talk – Part 83 – In the Loop
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Latest Podcast: The Cove
This week Gareth and I disagree, (vehemently perhaps?), on the new documentary ‘The Cove’. Listen in as we try to learn from each other: The FilmTalk – Part 82 – The Cove
The Film Talk – Part 82 – The Cove
This Episode: The Cove Get TFT delivered weekly via iTunes Subscribe to our podcast Subscribe to our blog Follow us on Twitter
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Is ‘The Good, The Bad and the Ugly’ the greatest film ever made? No, just the most entertaining one. It’s a wonderful depiction of the truism that life is just one damn thing after another. This picaresque adventure of three competing men, zipping and zapping back and forth through a surrealistic Western war zone in [...]
Roger Ebert, Glenn Kenny and A.O. Scott Weigh in on the Collapse of Cinema, Culture and Cinema Culture
UPDATE OCTOBER 21ST: FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA ON CINEMA’S COLLAPSE – – – Much gnashing of teeth of late on the webs re: the collapse of cinema and cinema-going culture. Check out these posts, (and the comments from their Readers), from the always-necessary Roger Ebert, Some Came Running’s Glenn Kenny and and One-Ben Replacement A.O. Scott: [...]
'Let's Get Lost' – Tonight on the Sundance Channel, You Should Watch It if You Can
The most exhilarating experience I had in a cinema last year was when I saw a movie that was made when I was twelve; about a guy who seems to have treated everyone around him very badly indeed; but who managed to produce some of the most elegant and meditative music ever recorded. Chet Baker, [...]
Latest Podcast: Analysis of 'Funny People' and 'The Hurt Locker'
Our latest podcast – an analysis of ‘Funny People’ and ‘The Hurt Locker’ and a preview of ‘G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra: The Film Talk – Part 81 – ‘The Hurt Locker’ / ‘Funny People’
The Film Talk – Part 81 – The Hurt Locker / Funny People
This Episode: Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘The Hurt Locker’, Judd Apatow’s ‘Funny People’ and a preview of ‘G.I. Joe – The Rise of Cobra’ Get TFT delivered weekly via iTunes Subscribe to our podcast Subscribe to our blog Follow us on Twitter
Movie Art House Action!
In the U.S. and don’t know where to find your nearest Art House Cinema?? Use this handy map as a guide!: Art House Theatre Map
John Hugheses I Have Known
1: The girlfriend who watches ‘Some Kind of Wonderful’ over and over again, as if there are hidden treasures within it that will only be discovered by multiple viewings. 2: The nerd who sees Ferris Bueller as some kind of role model; unreachable, superheroically attractive (I mean, singing ‘Twist and Shout’ on top of a [...]
Today's Podcast: An Interview with 2001's Man-Ape, Dan Richter
The bone throwing man-ape of 2001, Dan Richter, is interviewed on what it was like working with Stanley Kubrick, the meaning of 2001 and the counter-culture experiences of the ’60s: The Film Talk – Part 80 – The Man-Ape of 2001 – An Interview with Dan Richter
The Film Talk – Part 80 – My Year with Stanley Kubrick – An Interview with Dan Richter
This Episode: The bone throwing man-ape of 2001, Dan Richter, is interviewed on what it was like working with Stanley Kubrick, the meaning of 2001 and the counter-culture experiences of the ’60s. Get TFT delivered weekly via iTunes Subscribe to our podcast Subscribe to our blog Follow us on Twitter
Budd Schulberg, The Writer of 'On the Waterfront' has Died – What Kind of Man Was He?
I once talked to Budd Schulberg, who died yesterday, on the phone; a mutual friend put us in touch in the Fall of 2003 – I was eager to put on an event to mark the 50th anniversary of ‘On the Waterfront’, and, innocent/enthusiastic/grasping and annoying film fan that I was, figured I should just [...]
'The Hurt Locker' – The Myth of Chaos Into Order Through Violence
Let’s get one thing straight: I have no idea what war is really like. I’ve seen ‘Saving Private Ryan’ and ‘The Thin Red Line’, and I grew up in a place colonised by a long-running civil conflict, and I’ve been to Jerusalem and Bethlehem and all kinds of other places where people inhabit the false [...]
