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. [...]
TFT 142 – SCOTT PILGRIM / EAT PRAY LOVE / THE NATURAL
TFT 142 running time: 50 minutes 27 seconds – 24.2mb mp3 SCOTT PILGRIM starts at 2 minutes 20 seconds EAT PRAY LOVE starts at 26 minutes 10 seconds THE NATURAL starts at 40 minutes 49 seconds – – – Subscribe to the Podcast – Become a TFT Member Follow TFT on Twitter – Follow TFT [...]
See You Next Week – DragonCon awaits!
I’m typing this while sitting on my hotel room bed in sunny downtown Atlanta, preparing myself for four days of geek debauchery. For this is the weekend of Dragon*Con, the world’s largest culture convention — an everlasting gobstopper of science fiction, fantasy, film, television, literature, costuming, podcasting, science!, and more. And this is my Film [...]
TFT 141 – A Big Thank You / From the Archives: Francis Ford Coppola Interviewed
TFT 141 – A Big Thank You / From the Archives: Francis Ford Coppola Interviewed Running Time: 48 minutes 55 seconds – 22.5mb mp3 Subscribe to the Podcast – Follow TFT on Twitter – Go to the Facebook Page
Piranha 3D: Sloppy, Gory Fun.
A friend of mine accused my last article (Kick Ass & Why I Don’t Like Super Hero Movies) of elitism. As if. Snobbery maybe, but elitism? If I were truly a film elitist, I wouldn’t have enjoyed the skin & blood fest that is Piranha 3D. But for all its faults, I did.
Some Bad News
Hey there TFT fans – some bad news: my wife’s just called and our house in Nashville’s been broken into. Luckily she wasn’t home at the time and is ok – but all of our computers, cameras and many valuables gone, (TFT Archives possibly??). The result of this is that I’m taking the red-eye from Los [...]
TFT 140 – From the Archives: QUANTUM OF SOLACE
TFT 140 running time: 1 hours 1 minute 10 seconds – 28.1mb mp3 Subscribe to the Podcast – Follow TFT on Twitter – Go to the Facebook Page
KICK-ASS and Why I Don’t Like Superhero Movies
Yes, I know it’s been a while since Kick-Ass played the theaters. But I only just caught it on Blu-Ray, and it led me to think long and hard about superhero movies — thoughts I felt worth sharing with you. Here’s why I didn’t like Kick-Ass and why I generally don’t like superhero movies: As [...]
The 48 Hour Film Festival
In 2007, I made a film for the Nashville 48 Film Festival. If you’re not familiar with the fest, teams from around each city must write, shoot, and edit a 4-7 minute film in just 48 hours. The teams are given a line of dialogue, a prop, a character, and a hat-pulled genre. I’d like [...]
Thoughts on Winter's Bone
Winter’s Bone is by far and wide the best reviewed live action American film of the year (beat out on Metacritic only by the Ozu re-release I was Born, But. . ., the brilliant Un Prophete, and Toy Story 3.) The modern day Ozark noir has some of the best performances of recent memory, a [...]
7 Reasons You're Irrationally Clinging to Your DVD Collection
Over the past year, I’ve been gradually selling off my dvd collection on Ebay. Last Sunday, I listed the final stragglers. Once the auctions are paid for and shipped, I will be, in effect, dvd-less for the first time in 10 years. And that fills me with a mixture of loss and freedom. A dvd [...]
TFT 137 – INCEPTION / WINTER’S BONE
TFT 137 – INCEPTION / WINTER’S BONE TFT 137 running time: 54 minutes 06 seconds – 26.1mb mp3 Subscribe to the Podcast for Free on iTunes INCEPTION starts at 1 minutes 35 seconds WINTER’S BONE starts at 39:48 – – – HELP JETT FIND WORK IN LA – CLICK HERE FOR HIS RESUME
First Thoughts on INCEPTION
We’ll be reviewing INCEPTION on episode 137 – in the meantime here’s some early observations, (spoiler free of course): Best big-budget remake of DREAMSCAPE one could hope for If you’re an average 14-year old US male it will be the greatest film you have ever seen Outside of that demographic? Eh, not so much Joseph [...]
Another Brick in the Wall-E and other Movie/Music Mashups
In the late seventies, out of accident or curiosity, some unknown stoner put on Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon while simultaneously watching a muted The Wizard of Oz. Thus begat music/film synchronicity. For The Dark Side of the Rainbow, the quality of effect is directly proportional to the amount of drugs you have [...]
TFT 135 – THE LAST AIRBENDER / THE KILLER INSIDE ME
TFT 135 – THE LAST AIRBENDER / THE KILLER INSIDE ME – – – TFT 135 running time: 48 minutes 41 seconds – 23.5mb mp3 THE LAST AIRBENDER starts at 2 minutes 55 seconds ASK THE FILM TALK starts at 26:18 THE KILLER INSIDE ME starts at 32:58 – – – HELP JETT FIND WORK [...]
Why Did No One Tell Me About This? Orson Welles Did a Talk Show Pilot
Looking for work can be a depressing prospect, (as listeners to the show will know I’m leaving Nashville for other climes), so thank goodness today that I stumbled across this amazing find – the unaired Orson Welles Talk Show Pilot. I love these clips for so many reasons – but the one I’ll highlight is [...]
Youngblood on Film: Kurosawa Centennial at the Belcourt Part 2
The Kurosawa Centennial continues at the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville, Tennessee. Here’s the second part of my preview of the retrospective. (Part one here.)
Youngblood on Film: Interview with Belcourt Programming Director Toby Leonard
Nashville’s Belcourt Theatre has lived a long and fruitful life, first opening in 1925 as the silent movie house The Hillsboro Theatre. Since then, the Belcourt has housed the Grand Ole Opry, The Children’s Theatre of Nashville, the Nashville Community Playhouse, and the Belcourt Cinema. In 1999, the theatre was forced to close, and a [...]
July's Member Bonus Shows
Here’s what we’ve got coming up for the Member’s Bonus shows in July folks: Gareth and I discuss what makes a good ‘men on a mission’ movie – including thoughts on GENTLEMEN BRONCOS and THE PROFESSIONALS; We get into AGUIRRE WRATH OF GOD, (thank you listener Eric for the suggestion); and…I finally break down and [...]
