TFT 107 – THE FILMS OF 2010 PREVIEW / PRODIGAL SONS / KIM REED INTERVIEWED
This Episode Is Now Members Only – Click Here to Find Out Why DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: PRODIGAL SONS / CLANCY BROWN / WHITE RIBBON / CACHE / DAYBREAKERS / LEGION / EDGE OF DARKNESS / WHEN IN ROME / BEAUTY AND THE BEAST / THE PROPHET / FROZEN / I LOVE YOU PHILIP J. [...]
The Most Cinematic Experiences of the Year
Andrei Rublev Before we get too entrenched in the new year, a recap: 2009 was the richest year for US American movies since 1999, when my imagination was captured by ‘Magnolia’, the anti-war film was reinvented with ‘Three Kings’, Michael Mann made his best film so far in ‘The Insider’, ‘The Matrix’ set the bar [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
TFT 102 – PRECIOUS / FANTASTIC MR. FOX
TFT 102 / MP3 18.2 mb / 38 minutes / DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: PRECIOUS: on IMDB FANTASTIC MR. FOX: on IMDB / on TFT: Antichrist – Mr. Fox Poster Mashup ARMOND WHITE: Pride and Precious OPERATION SAVE THE FILM TALK EVERY NEW MEMBER GETS A MOVIE POSTER COURTESY OF MOVIEGOODS.COM THE AUTEURS ALL LISTENER [...]
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 [...]
The Insatiable Moon: One of the Best Films of Next Year?
I’m going to turn 35 in January, which feels old enough to consider myself a man, inexperienced enough to still feel irresponsible; halfway to still being younger than Warren Beatty, alive enough to reflect on what really matters. And what really matters? Friendship. If, as my amazing friend John O’Donohue often said, our identities are [...]
Orson Welles' 'War of the Worlds' – Streaming Online Tonight!
Sure it’s a gimmick by the folks over at ‘Me and Orson Welles’ – but I’m a big fan of gimmicks, and Orson Welles. Streaming online, on the same date/time as the original broadcast, will be Orson Welle’s magnificent ‘War of the Worlds’: Orson Welle’s ‘War of the Worlds’ – Live 8PM Eastern, October 30th [...]
Marty Scorsese’s 11 Scariest Horror Films of All Time
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.” Shirley Jackson, ‘The Haunting of [...]
Clint Eastwood's Moral Imagination and Why Glenn Beck Should Read More Speeches
It’s that time of year again – you know, when Clint Eastwood releases a trailer for a movie that looks fascinating and completely different from the last thing he did, and your triple reactions run something like this: 1: Hmmm, Clint’s got a movie coming out – didn’t we just see ‘Gran Torino’ five minutes [...]
Is it Wrong to be too Scared to See Paranormal Activity?
So I was up early this morning having slept restlessly after watching the end of ‘Battlestar Galactica’ last night (no spoilers – suffice it to say that fans of Richard Dawkins and Thomas Merton may find themselves both satisfied; I certainly was). Cylons colonised my repose (for some reason the early models, one of whose [...]
'The Room' – Screening at Midnight this Friday and Saturday in Nashville – Is it Right to Laugh at Others Dreams?
Ok, so I couldn’t wait to see ‘The Room’ tonight at The Belcourt right? This bad film to end all bad films is supposed to be a riot, with Midnight audiences across the Country and Europe erupting in peals of laughter at its shoddy writing, one-dimensional acting, multiple plot strands that go nowhere and just [...]
For Tarkovsky Fans
The genuinely fascinating documentary ‘Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky’ by friend of TFT Dmitry Trakovsky (no relation, except in the metaphysical sense) has some Southern California screenings this weekend. Jett & I loved the film, and it should look great on the big screen. There’s a bonus in that Dmitry will be present to meet you and [...]
Cinema is Collapsing? So What Are You Gonna Do About It?
(My thoughts on the below were cross-posted at Current – to read Current readers responses click here) Don’t know about you but I was excited to hear that Francis Ford Coppola thinks cinema is collapsing: “The cinema as we know it is falling apart,” says Francis Ford Coppola. “It’s a period of incredible change,” says [...]
5 Things You Should Do if You Want Your Movie to Last
This post was originally written by us for Filmmaker Magazine. You can see the original post here: Five Things You Should Do if You Want Your Movie to Last. For an ‘additional thing’ to make your film last go this week’s podcast: TFT 96 – Where the Wild Things Are / 5 Ways to Make [...]
Long Thought Lost Hour Long Interview with Alfred Hitchcock
Above – a long thought lost hour long interview with the master, Alfred Hitchcock, (part 1 of 6); [via Metafilter].
Who's the Best Impersonator of Orson Welles?
Inspired by the realisation that there is yet another film that features a fictionalised Orson Welles I’m compelled to ask what may not be the most vital question of our age, but a fun parlour game nevertheless for for a drizzly Nashville morning: In all of Moviedom – who’s the best impersonator of Welles?
Cronenberg's 'The Brood' – This Weekend at The Belcourt
Woke up to a gray, dark day here in Nashville. With this in mind I’ve just said to myself: what better way to spend a few hours during this slightly depressing Saturday than at The Belcourt Theatre watching David Cronenberg’s very David Cronenbergian flick ‘The Brood‘?
TFT 92 – The New York Film Festival – Lebanon / Inferno / Room and a Half
In this week’s episode: In association with our friends at the Film Society of Lincoln Center we delve into the 2009 New York Film Festival – Lebanon / Inferno / Room and a Half Get TFT delivered weekly via iTunes Subscribe to our podcast Subscribe to our blog Follow us on Twitter
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 [...]
'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' – Or Why We Need Our Directors to be Ill
Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison as German Terrorist Oh Fritz Lang, if only you were still around! You would have made a great pic out of the true-life crime epic that is the story of the Red Army Faction. After all, your great subject was crime – and by extension the evil that men do. [...]
