It's the Last Day to Save The Film Talk!
Hey folks – today’s the day – your last chance to become a TFT Member and save The Film Talk! If we don’t make our goal by midnight Nashville time then we’ll have to close shop. But I have faith in you listeners out there – I’ve been so impressed already with the time and [...]
This Christmas Make it a Bad Lieutenant Christmas
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans is the most joyous, life affirming film I’ve seen in ages. What better pic to watch on Christmas Day? If in Nashville you can catch it at The Belcourt till the 31st.
Christmas Day Shocker! Sherlock Holmes Actually Entertains!
Hey there folks – Jett here. Hope everyone out there is having a happy and healthy holidays. Couple of things: I’m assuming the Criterion Collection remark to my left is Gareth’s idea of a joke – I see that he’s put an asterisk at the end of the sentence but does not reference it elsewhere [...]
Beyond Cinema Film Event: Your Invitation
Gaia I’m helping to run what promises to be a remarkable event in a few weeks, in Beverly Hills; and I wanted the TFT audience to be among the first to know the details. If you’re in the neighborhood you’d be most welcome; I’d love to meet you*. You’re invited to Beyond Cinema: Film and [...]
TFT 105 – AVATAR with Glenn Kenny and Armond White
TFT 105 / 35 mb MP3 / 72 minutes / SPECIAL GUESTS: GLENN KENNY / ARMOND WHITE DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: OPERATION SAVE THE FILM TALK AVATAR / JAMES CAMERON / SILENT RUNNING / 3D / ROBERT ZEMECKIS / WALL-E USED CARS / XENOGENESIS / SUMMER HOURS / A SERIOUS MAN / STAR TREK / THIS IS [...]
This Post Is Not About Avatar
Oh, sure I’d like to go all Avatar here - discuss in detail my response to this most Camerony of films – but that’ll have to wait till this weekend’s podcast Dear Reader. Instead I proffer some experiences of the last few days and a some selected gems from this week’s trawling of the webs: First off – [...]
Three Haiku About Avatar
Are you blue? I am. Peaceful, calm, kind. Hurt me, though, And I’ll f*** you up. Life is hard, you know. We need to love each other. Let’s kill some guys first. 3-D, amazing. Writing, not so much. Ethics? Unobtaini-ed. * We’ll be recording our ‘Avatar‘ show tomorrow; and, for the record, let me say [...]
Three of the Most Important Films of the Decade
Ok, so my co-host and I have done our ‘Films of the Decade’ show: TFT 104 – The Films of the Decade but in that ep I talked about my most underrated films of the past 10 years – not the films that were necessarily the most beautiful and moving, or that will be talked about [...]
A Week in the Life of The Film Talk, Part 5
‘Ya gots ta move wid’ da times’ Busy times here at TFT – with me in New Zealand and Jett in the Big Sleepy, we’re separated by what Bram Stoker’s Dracula might call ‘oceans of time’ – I’m in tomorrow, he’s in yesterday, and today hasn’t happened yet. The world is changing… But we have [...]
Arthur's Easy to Like
The Feet of Rawiri Paratene *Continuing Gareth’s posts from the set of ‘The Insatiable Moon’, Auckland, New Zealand. Rawiri (Ra) Paratene is one of the most respected New Zealand actors, known to international audiences as the angry grandfather Koro in ‘Whale Rider’; it’s been a privilege to watch him work on the set of ‘The [...]
TFT 104 – THE FILMS OF THE DECADE
TFT 104 / 28 mb MP3 / 58 minutes / DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: THE FOUNTAIN / AMORES PERROS / QUANTUM OF SOLACE AUSTRALIA / MIAMI VICE / GANGS OF NEW YORK THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA THE VILLAGE / ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Last Day to Get Your Free Movie at The Auteurs!
Hey film fans – today’s the last day to get your free movie from premium streaming movie site The Auteurs: For your free movie click here to go to The Auteurs – and use promo code: thefilmtalk The Auteurs have been great in spreading the word to their members about ‘The Film Talk’ – so [...]
If Theo Can Do It So Can You – Brian Cox Teaches Shakespeare to a Two Year Old
Special thanks to Dave Chen, (who we had on the show here), for pointing me to the lovely clip above. We’re huge fans of Brian Cox here at TFT, (he done the best interpretation of Hannibal Lektor/Lector yet), so it’s nice to see him in this casual, impromptu moment. And remember, if Theo can do it – [...]
Cinematic Reality!
Look – the ‘New Moon’ set’s just like the ‘Insatiable One!” Continuing Gareth’s posts from the New Zealand set of ‘The Insatiable Moon’ I’ve just spent a couple of hours with vampires and werewolves – no, it’s not the annual convention of serious-but-unpaid critics (it takes one to know one), but rather I took the [...]
The Film Talk – Behind the Scenes Action!
Hey there Film Talk listeners, (and hopefully members!), I’ve been very impressed, like you I’m sure, with the good Dr.’s posts of late – blogging from a film set in New Zealand his prose inspires and his musings on the transcendence of our experience on this tiny globe is some of the best writing I [...]
Transcendence and Compassion in Cinema
Mick Innes as ‘John’ in ‘The Insatiable Moon’, Ponsonby, New Zealand, December 2009 *For the next couple of weeks I’m in New Zealand and will be blogging about the production of ‘The Insatiable Moon’, a movie based on Mike Riddell’s novel. I’m in Ponsonby’s red light district – the portable gazebos we’re using for shade [...]
Belcourt Screenwriter Membership Up for Grabs
If ya haven’t listened to this week’s podcast: TFT 104 – EVERYBODY’S FINE / PAPER HEART you may not know that the fine folks at that great repertory cinema The Belcourt Theatre here in Nashville, are offering an absurdly wonderful gift to a new ‘The Film Talk’ Member this week, (it could be you!). As [...]
Frugal Film-making vs. How Not to Do It
I’m writing from New Zealand, where I’m happy to be observing the creation of ‘The Insatiable Moon’, a film based on Mike Riddell’s 1997 novel. It’s eye-opening to see the process that I’ve been criticising for so long – as Jett says, it’s HARD to make a movie. I can see that now :) Some [...]
A Week in the Life of the Film Talk, Part 4:
Jett’s Selection: Most Under-rated Film of the Decade Hey there folks – it’s our fourth weekly newsletter and things have been so busy round here that we’ve only had time for a couple of posts. Our most recent show, Episode 103: Everybody’s Fine/Paper Heart, is now available for your listening pleasure, in which Jett and [...]
TFT 103 – EVERYBODY’S FINE / PAPER HEART
TFT 103 / MP3 16.7 mb / 35 minutes / DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: EVERYBODY’S FINE: on IMDB PAPER HEART: on IMDB OPERATION SAVE THE FILM TALK EVERY NEW MEMBER GETS A MOVIE POSTER COURTESY OF MOVIEGOODS.COM THE AUTEURS ALL LISTENER FILM GIVEAWAY JOIN TFT AT ‘THE FULLER’ LEVEL AND GET A BELCOURT SCREENWRITER MEMBERSHIP [...]
81 Films of the Decade
In the year 2000 I was 25 and single, finishing up a Ph.D., stressed out of my tree, working with a small NGO on peace and non-violence issues, trying figure out what it was that I wanted to be when I grew up. Now as 2010 approaches, I’m a month away from being 35 and [...]
The 10 Most Underrated Films of the Decade
There’s an infinite amount of content out there Dear Reader – too many movies to possibly see – so how do ya find the good ones? Your gut feeling, your friends, reviewers you trust – these folks can steer you. But sometimes your gut is wrong, your friends wouldn’t know a Ti West film from [...]
A Week in the Life of The Film Talk, Part 3
Welcome to the third weekly TFT newsletter; coming to you from Auckland, New Zealand, where I’m observing the unfolding of what promises to be one of the best films of next year, Mike Riddell’s ‘The Insatiable Moon’, based on his novel, and starring Rawiri Paratene of ‘Whale Rider’ as Arthur, a homeless Maori fella with [...]
Hollywood vs. New York
Presented without comment via: Goodie Bag – Four decades of celluloid New York annihilation distilled into one musical montage. – – – Ok, I will comment – you can’t go wrong with ‘Rhapsody in Blue’. In fact I used it in a wee vid four years ago, (cribbing from Woody Allen’s Manhattan of course). The [...]
