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This is just too good not to share early. I think the Muppets just pwned Wayne and Garth. Happy Turkey Day, all! _____________________________________________________ "Link for the Day": Each day (more or less) the House editors post a link to an item that we hope will spark discussion. We ...
Movies
My Time Out New York compadres David Fear and Joshua Rothkopf, in addition to 11 other colleagues and friends (Stephen Garrett, Andrew Grant, Aaron Hillis, Kevin B. Lee, Karina Longworth, Maitland McDonagh, Troy Patterson, Nicolas Rapold, Lisa Rosman, Nick Schager and S. James Snyder), have ...
Celebrities
By Jack Patrick Rodgers Unless you’re an executive at NBC, it’s been a great fall season for TV. Despite the many editorials earlier this year heralding Jay Leno’s primetime talk show as the death of scripted television ( some of them quite convincing ), this season has seen a number of new ...
Television
Glee
Veronica Mars
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Our man Steven Boone unleashes another video essay/collage. This one is about wolves. It's a reminder, yes, to be thankful tomorrow, but it's also just angry and sad. I, RWK, think it's stunning. Better let him describe it, as he did at his blog, BIG MEDIA VANDALISM : "Hippy dippy Woodstock ...
Television
The Late Late Show
By Matt Zoller Seitz A celebration of cooking and eating on film. The first version (top) is a straight-up montage with movie titles listed chronologically at the end. The second version is annotated, using onscreen text to identify film clips, music and offscreen dialogue as it appears. To ...
Movies
By Aaron Cutler Andrew Sarris wrote of Elia Kazan in The American Cinema that “his career as a whole reflects an unending struggle between a stable camera and a jittery one.” Historically that’s more or less been the rap on Kazan—a highly-acclaimed filmmaker with many strong titles, but one ...
Celebrities
Tycoon
Robert De Niro
I'm sure most of you noticed that friend and fellow blogger Dennis Cozzalio's site, Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule , recently celebrated its fifth anniversary . Now Dennis turns the thanks back at us in a lengthy post timed to Turkey Week . Yours truly is mentioned within. To answer your ...
Celebrities
The Dennis
By Jeremiah Kipp and Preston Miller [ Editor's Note: The following is the tenth in a series of on-set reports by producer Jeremiah Kipp on God's Land , a feature film written and directed by Preston Miller , whose previous feature, Jones , was covered by The House Next Door here (review), ...
Celebrities
Diary
By Jonathan Pacheco [ Editor's Note: Originally published at Bohemian Cinema . ] A video essay (my first), exploring the similarities between the ending of François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows and the beginning and ending of Jonathan Glazer’s 2004 film, Birth . Based on an old essay of mine, The ...
Movies
Jonathan Glazer
_____________________________________________________ "Link for the Day": Each day (more or less) the House editors post a link to an item that we hope will spark discussion. We encourage our readers to submit candidates for consideration to keithuhlich@gmail.com and to ...
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By Simon Abrams If we're to believe the military general in Red Cliff 2 who muses, “The times makes the hero,” then somebody ought to tell Magnet Releasing, the American distributors of Red Cliff (John Woo’s records-shattering period war epic set in 208 AD), that they’re the villain. Just like ...
Celebrities
Red Cliff
John Woo
So there's apparently some vampire movie opening today. Seems as good a time as any to resurrect this. (Hattip: Simon Abrams.) _____________________________________________________ "Link for the Day": Each day (more or less) the House editors post a link to an item that we hope will spark ...
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And so we have the international trailer to Zhang Yimou's Blood Simple remake, The First Gun (aka Amazing Tales: Three Guns ). Hmmm…sure you didn't adapt Raising Arizona by accident, Zhang? _____________________________________________________ "Link for the Day": Each day (more or less) ...
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Zhang Yimou
By Charles Taylor The New Yorker used to be in the habit of sending someone to screenings along with their movie critics for the purposes of fact checking. Anthony Lane's latest piece of cocktail chat—it's Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces he's discussing between sips of his martini this ...
Movies
Pedro Almodovar
Penelope Cruz
Marilyn Monroe
G.I. Joe
Sad news to report with today's Link. Writer Edward Copeland, of Edward Copeland on Film , is putting his blog on semi-permanent hiatus due to health issues. He explains in the full post (excerpt below). If so inclined, head on over to his site and wish him well. I'm sure he'd appreciate it. ...
Movies
By Kevin B. Lee [ Editor's Note: This is the latest entry in House contributor Kevin B. Lee's Shooting Down Pictures , a record of his ongoing quest to see every title on the list of the 1000 Greatest Films compiled by They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? ] _____________________ What is it ...
Movies
Bruce Lee
By Tom Stempel COMING UP IN THIS COLUMN: An Education , Amelia , The Great Locomotive Chase , Bitter Victory , Ride the High Country , Mad Men , A CSI Trilogy, A Couple of New Series, but first: *** FAN MAIL: Well, here’s an example of why I love doing this column: Matt Zoller Seitz ’s ...
Celebrities
By Kevin B. Lee [ Editor's Note: This is the latest entry in House contributor Kevin B. Lee's Shooting Down Pictures , a record of his ongoing quest to see every title on the list of the 1000 Greatest Films compiled by They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? ] _____________________ Eric Rohmer’s ...
Movies
Leonardo DiCaprio
Bruce Lee
House reader Charlie C., a big fan of our coverage of The Wire , sends along this smile-inducing video. _____________________________________________________ "Link for the Day": Each day (more or less) the House editors post a link to an item that we hope will spark discussion. We ...
Television
The Wire
By Simon Abrams Though it looks like a highly polished, quasi-avant garde bit of speculative fiction, contemporary French sci-fi flick Eden Log is really a far-flung descendant of the Heavy Metal comics of the '70s and '80s. That infamous omnibus series, which reached a peak of popularity ...
