Opening Night at The 2010 LA Irish Film Festival
Hey there Dear Reader – tonight was opening night at the 2010 LA Irish Film Festival – Gareth and I were there of course, (see photo above of Dr. Higgins looking his sartorial best); over the next few days we’ll be bringing you tweets/posts and a couple of shows direct from the fest – hope [...]
All You Need to Make a Movie is a Gun and a Red Dress – MOTHER'S RED DRESS 4
Hey there folks – as Gareth mentioned on yesterday’s show I’ve been having some fun on the set of new pic MOTHER’S RED DRESS: MOTHER’S RED DRESS 1 MOTHER’S RED DRESS 2 MOTHER’S RED DRESS 3 Thought I’d post some more photos for ya to prove that really, all you need for a movie is [...]
Ticket for One – A Night at the Movies – By Yourself
If you’re like me, you often find yourself alone at the cinema ticket line. Try as you might, you just couldn’t sell your partner or your friends on the Jacques Tati retrospective or the 6 hour Hungarian black and white epic. Of course, your friends blamed a lack of cash, prior commitments, or a head [...]
Episode 145 – NEVER LET ME GO / THE THIN RED LINE
TFT 145 running time: 50 minutes – 24.1mb mp3 – – – Subscribe to the Podcast – Become a TFT Member Follow TFT on Twitter – Follow TFT on Facebook – – – HELP JETT FIND WORK IN LA – CLICK HERE FOR HIS RESUME
The Thin Red Line
Two films released by the Criterion Collection this week focus on men at war. We’ll discuss Terrence Malick’s ‘The Thin Red Line’ on the next episode, and below; later in the week I’ll post a piece on ‘Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence’. These are two of the most compelling films released on DVD this year. When [...]
WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS: The Visible Hand
Good news, everyone: The financial crisis has a happy ending! Let’s go shopping. The business of America is business. Other economic one-liners. If this does not describe your experience, or, indeed, real life, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps may not ring true. Director Oliver Stone’s unsubtle moralizing streak demands happiness for the virtuous (or penitent) [...]
This Week on TFT
[Actress Alexandra Swarens and director Edgar Bravo on the set of MOTHER'S RED DRESS] This week on TFT much action my friends: Tony Youngblood will be writing on that wonderful pastime: Going to the Movies. By yourself. Brandon Nowalk will be reporting back from the experience that was WALL STREET 2: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS. God [...]
I'm Still Here – A Brave, Miscalculated Mess
The problem with talking about I’m Still Here is that we have to discuss something you by all rights shouldn’t know when entering the theater. But every review you come across will pontificate on it. Odds are you already know what I’m talking about. If you don’t, stop here, and go watch the movie. Spoilers [...]
TFT 144 – THE TOWN / I'M STILL HERE
TFT 144 running time: 38 minutes 10 seconds – 17.4mb mp3 THE TOWN starts at 2 minutes 30 seconds I’M STILL HERE starts at 21 minutes seconds – – – Subscribe to the Podcast – Become a TFT Member Follow TFT on Twitter – Follow TFT on Facebook – – – HELP JETT FIND WORK IN [...]
MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE: Sins of the Father
A Werner Herzog film should be an event, but he never gets quite the same buzz as, say, the latest French New Wave auteur-genarian. When he does, it’s for eating shoes or hunting man. Maybe it’s because he’s constantly making movies—they’re not Franzen novels—but so is Clint Eastwood, and we’re constantly told about his “latest [...]
This Week on TFT
Joaquin in/on LA Hey there TFT Fans – here’s what we’ve got coming up in another action packed week o’ The Film Talk: Gareth and I will be doing our ‘all-Affleck’ special with in-depth examinations of THE TOWN and one my favorite films of the year I’M STILL HERE Our Member’s Bonus episode discussing the [...]
Get Mortified – Or How You Too Can Tell People You’re a Film Producer
The Armenian Bouncer Hey there Dear Listener – as you know we have a not few in number indie-filmmakers and wannabe filmmakers who listen to The Show – so I thought it’d be relevant to have a guest on to discuss new forms of funding for the micro/budget scene. Am concerned that indie-films could go [...]
Leave Her to Heaven: Hollywood Chauvinism or Feminist Masterpiece?
To discuss John M. Stahl’s 40s Technicolor noir Leave Her to Heaven in any great detail would be to give too much away, and I don’t want to rob you of the film’s many pleasures. I’ll tell you this much: Fiction writer Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde) meets the beautiful and mysterious Ellen Berent (Gene Tierney) [...]
TFT 143 – THE AMERICAN / ZARDOZ
TFT 143 running time: 49 minutes 55 seconds – 24mb mp3 THE AMERICAN starts at 1 minute 57 seconds ZARDOZ starts at 22 minutes 27 seconds – – – Subscribe to the Podcast – Become a TFT Member Follow TFT on Twitter – Follow TFT on Facebook – – – HELP JETT FIND WORK IN LA [...]
NEVER LET ME GO – The Audience Mesmerized
Screened NEVER LET ME GO last night. The audience wes mesmerized – not a sound, not a shifting in the seats till the end credits. Highly recommended.
Late Early Godard: MASCULIN FEMININ, LA CHINOISE, & WEEK END
Has any canonized auteur been met with such furious confusion as Jean-Luc Godard? Even well-studied Godardians disagree on his meanings and periods and politics. Which means there’s no way I’m going to “get” everything on my first viewing, so anxiety-free I finally completed Godard’s New Wave output. I haven’t seen them all in order (Made [...]
This Week on TFT
Exciting week coming up here at TFT – let’s see why shall we? We’ll be recording Episode 143 tomorrow – here’s a sneak preview. Regarding the Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival I wrote what is probably the longest post in ‘The Film Talk’ history – read it if you dare! Our intrepid bloggers will be [...]
BEDROOMS at the Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles or How Sylvester Stallone’s JUDGE DREDD is Responsible for My New Coffee Cup Collection
[Moon Bloodgood in BEDROOMS] Good Day Dear Readers – hope you’re all having an interesting and productive Weekend. Let’s get started shall we?
Clooney vs. Connery
This week’s show – wait for it Dear Reader – yes, it’s hunky George Clooney in the staid, measured or just plain slow THE AMERICAN. And speaking of hunky, what movie netcast worth its salt hasn’t looked back and investigated the John Boorman oft-derided-but-probably-brilliant ZARDOZ? Well we haven’t – but we sure will on Monday’s [...]
Coming soon to Blu-Ray: Ingmar Bergman's The Magician
Ingmar Bergman’s 1958 film The Magician (Ansiktet) is one of the director’s lesser known works. Yet for me, it’s Bergman at his absolute best — an illusive, atmospheric, soulful shadow-show on skepticism and spirituality. On October 12th, the film will be released by Criterion on Blu-Ray and dvd for the first time on either format. [...]
MOTHER'S RED DRESS – 2
Hey there Dear Listener – had a lovely time blogging/tweeting/facebooking (?) on the set of MOTHER’S RED DRESS today, (see the original post here) – had to travel all the way to a Donut Shop in Ontario but it was worth it. Luckily ‘Red Dynamite’ delivered me to the set without too much trouble, though [...]
MOTHER'S RED DRESS
Hey there folks – if you’ve listened to the latest show then you know I’ll be spending the next week doing on-set photography for the new film MOTHER’S RED DRESS featuring the beautiful and talented Illeana Douglas. I’ll try my best to post about the process – I imagine Twitter and Facebook will be a [...]
I'M NOT THERE: Song of Myselves
Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There. is the antibiopic. Who is Bob Dylan? We get six answers, one for each phase in the artist’s life, each “Dylan” played by a different person with a different name, all metaphysically connected. What is Dylan’s life story? It’s America, a freewheelin’ carnival loosely pasted together, impasto textures only roughly [...]
