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The DVD Report #152 – April 20, 2010
Comedy is seldom rewarded by Oscar, but in 1934 not only did a comedy win Best Picture, but its two closest competitors were also comedies. Frank Capra’s screwball classic, It Happened One Night was the first film to sweep the major Oscars for Best Picture, Actor (Clark Gable), Actress (Claudette Colbert), Director (Capra) and Adapted…
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Film Fun Friday #1 Results
Game: Identify the Poster The results are in and Peter got both right.
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R.I.P. Dede Allen
Film pioneer Dede Allen dies at 86 Editor cut ‘Bonnie and Clyde,’ ‘Reds’ (Variety) – Pioneering film editor Dede Allen, who helped shape classic films including “Bonnie and Clyde,” died Saturday after suffering a stroke. She was 86. Allen, who brought a fresh approach to shaping the look and sound of American movies, was Oscar-nommed…
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Previews: Week Ending April 18, 2010
We have a smaller update today than recent weeks because I’m out of town for most of the day. Enjoy this small glimpse of the future. Poster Highlights: If last week’s poster selection was a bit anemic, this week’s is downright bloodless. The best of the list is the minorly cheesy poster for Malice in…
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Film Fun Friday #1
After the success of last week’s Identify the Poster game, I’ve decided to expand our game selection on Fridays and change the name to Film Fun Friday. The change will mean I can present a wider selection of games for everyone to enjoy. Some will still require the use of SPOILER tags ([.spoiler.][./.spoiler.] without the…
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Cannes Film Festival: Lineup Announced
Opening Film (Out of Competition) Robin Hood (Ridley Scott, USA) In Competition Tournee (Mathieu Almaric) Des Hommes et des Dieux (Xavier Beauvois) Hors la loi (Rachid Bouchareb) Biutiful (Alejandro Gonzales Innaritu) A Screaming Man (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun) Housemaid (Im Sangsoo) Copie Conforme (Abbas Kiarostami) Outrage (Takeshi Kitano) Poetry (Lee Chang-dong) Another Year (Mike Leigh) Fair Game…
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Oscar Predictions: April 2010
Yes, we know the Oscars just broadcast a little over a month ago, but we’re always thinking ahead to the next year, so today we’re posting our first in a monthly series of predictions for the 83rd Academy Awards. Things will undoubtedly change between now and January 2011, but sometimes it’s fun just to see…
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Looking at the Weekend #3: April 16, 2010
Welcome to our third week. We have six new films opening this weekend (at least that we have written comments on). Three are wide releases and three are in limited. Note that the Oscar Chances section for El Secreto de Sus Ojos is missing. Since this film won the Oscar for Foreign Language Film at…
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The DVD Report #151 – April 13, 2010
The eligibility period for the 1932/33 Academy Awards was the longest in Oscar’s history, running from August 1, 1932 through December 31, 1933. Ten films were nominated for Best Picture including Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley’s 42nd Street; Frank Borzage’s A Farewell to Arms; Mervyn LeRoy’s I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang; Frank…
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Identify the Poster: Results
We had several guesses over the weekend and most of them were correct (or easily cheated 😉 ). tarek, lallolupo and Bob all got The Birds while lallolupo, kaytodd and Bob all got Panic in the Streets. At the left is the full, non-negative version of the poster for The Birds. There is not a…
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Previews: Week Ending April 11, 2010
More catching up this week with 20 new trailers and 2 new posters. Poster Highlights: There isn’t a great poster in the bunch. The best of today’s updates is Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky with Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, Blood Into Wine, Daddy Longlegs, Happy Tears, Micmacs and Prince of Persia the next best. Trailer…
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‘Designing Women’ Star Dixie Carter Dead at 70
(CNN) — Actress Dixie Carter, best known for her role as Julia Sugarbaker on the TV show “Designing Women,” has died, her agent said Saturday. She was 70. No other details were provided. Carter was drawn to roles portraying steely Southern women. One of her more recent roles included a guest appearance on the show…
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Identify the Poster
Each week, I will be doing a poster game called Identify the Poster. I will take two posters for films from anywhere between 1915 and 2009 and having a little fun. Although I may change up what type of game each week, here are two posters. One is a negative image with all identifiable words…
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Looking at the Weekend #2: April 9, 2010
In our second week, we adopt a new name for this weekly article: Looking at the Weekend. We’ve made a few layout changes and image changes since our first installment, but this won’t likely be the final change. (Updated: 4/7/10, 4:46p to include Wes’ predictions) DATE NIGHT See the original CinemaSight Trailer & Poster Preview…
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The DVD Report #150 – April 6, 2010
The Academy Awards were still evolving in their fifth year, which honored films released in Los Angeles between August 1, 1931 and July 31, 1932. This year there were twelve competitive categories with eight films nominated for Best Picture but only three nominees each in the remaining categories, including three devoted to short films, split…
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