Brave “New World”
Do you love movies? More specifically, do you love deeply felt, authentically authored, micro-budgeted, lived-in, sweated-over, passion project movies? But have you grown somewhat weary of Kickstarter with its Zach Braffs and Veronica Marses and creeping corporate influence? Would you rather support the first breath of a new voice than fatten the coffers of Viacom [...]
ENTER THE VOID – See the Uncut Version Tonight at Midnight – Nuart Los Angeles
This is it folks. Your chance to see the most extraordinary new film I’ve seen in the four years of recording The Film Talk: ENTER THE VOID.
Episode 156 – TRON: LEGACY / TRUE GRIT / The Films of 2010
Here it is – a review of that Apple Store you have to pay to get into, TRON: LEGACY, plus the laugh out loud tragedy of the year TRUE GRIT. All that and our thoughts on the Films of the Year.
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. [...]
TFT 134 – I AM LOVE / CYRUS / Edinburgh Film Festival / Members Bonus Episode: SEX AND THE CITY 2
TFT 134 – I AM LOVE / CYRUS / Edinburgh Film Festival / Members Bonus Episode: SEX AND THE CITY 2 – – – TFT 134 running time: 48 minutes 41 seconds – 23.5mb mp3 I AM LOVE starts at 2 minutes 54 seconds CYRUS starts at 27:15 Edinburgh Film Festival starts at 34 minutes 57 [...]
TFT 131 – PRINCE OF PERSIA / F FOR FAKE / CAT PEOPLE – CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE / [Member Bonus: The Essential Dennis Hopper]
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TFT 131 – PRINCE OF PERSIA / F FOR FAKE / CAT PEOPLE – CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE / [Member Bonus: The Essential Dennis Hopper] – – – TFT 131 running time: 58 minutes 51 seconds – 27mb mp3 PRINCE OF PERSIA starts at 3 minutes F FOR FAKE starts at 32 minutes 50 [...]
TFT DVD/Digital Media/Miscellaneous Delivery Report: Kurosawa Birthday
It’s Akira Kurosawa’s 100th birthday – and to mark the occasion our next episode will feature a discussion with your genial co-hosts about ‘Yojimbo’, what may be his most entertaining film. I took a look at the new Criterion Blu-Ray at the weekend (it’s released today, along with its companion piece ‘Sanjuro’), and was instantly [...]
The Most Over-Rated and Under-Rated Films of the Decade?
The Most Under-Rated Movie of the Last Ten Years? The decade draws to a close, and most of us will be feeling a sense of surreality as we reflect on what we were doing on New Year’s Eve 1999 – I was with four of my dearest friends; we had a gorgeous dinner by the [...]
A Week in the Life of The Film Talk #1/The Film of our Lifetime
We Have a Winner It’s been a momentous week in the life of The Film Talk – we’re crossing the rubicon of a century, with our hundredth episode on-line now. It’s a massive episode, packed to the brim with our reviews of ‘The Messenger‘ (a nominee as Jett’s film of the year) and ‘The Box‘ [...]
Escapism Preview #2: Dr Strangelove, Superman, The Black Hole, Planet of the Apes
The Escapism Festival begins tonight and runs til late on Sunday evening – Jett and I are ensconced and ready for the show. One sentence previews follow: hope you’ll be with us in spirit if not body; and we’ll podcast next week about whether or not the experience renewed Jett’s love of the movies, or [...]
The Only Film That Has Everything?
Tarkovsky’s ‘Andrei Rublev’, anointed weekly by Jett as the ‘best film ever made’ seems to me to be one of the few films guaranteed to be watched centuries from now, if the art form that captured my heart (and so often betrays it – which means that movies are, in the end, very much like [...]
'Andrei Rublev' this Sunday and Monday at the Belcourt
At the start of every week’s show my voice proclaims during the title sequence that Tarkovsky’s ‘Andrei Rublev’ is the best film ever made. That sounds a bit limiting though – I’ll go further and say it’s one of the greatest of all artworks – and feeling the way I do about it I’ll have [...]
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
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 [...]
A Race Waiting to be Born
‘In an infinite and eternal universe, the point is, anything is possible’ – Stanley Kubrick ’2001: A Space Odyssey’ is one of those films that leaves me wondering if there’s any point. To watching, I mean. Well, to watching other films, really; because ’2001′ is such a rich cinematic and theological experience you can’t imagine [...]
Scorsese on 'The Red Shoes': 'Why Do You Want To Dance?'
A nice bit of business in the movie ether today – in The Guardian Mr Scorsese talks to Steve Rose about his love for ‘The Red Shoes’ – one of the most gorgeous-looking and serious-about-human-pathology films ever made, the new print of which he’ll premiere at Cannes tomorrow: ‘Movie directors are desperate people. You’re totally [...]
The Best Film Ever Made
I was walking at high altitudes in New Mexico yesterday with three friends, and the conversation turned to where it inevitably goes when people know that part of what I do for a living is to watch movies. ‘So, what’s the best film ever made?’ It’s an impossible question, of course – I’m not sure [...]
