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By Matt Zoller Seitz Film criticism as we know it tends to fall into a handful of time-worn categories: an expression of one's personality, politics and taste, with traces of social critique and memoir (Pauline Kael, James Agee); or a kind of performance art on the page, using individual ...
Drama
_____________________________ Clint Eastwood owes a great deal to Sergio Leone, who jump-started the actor's movie career with the Dollars trilogy of “spaghetti westerns.” His collaboration with Leone gave him the seeds of his screen persona. It also foretold many of Eastwood’s obsessions ...
Reality
Clint Eastwood
Kingdom
Revenge
Let's start with the big film news of the day, namely that the Sundance 2010 slate has been announced (the Auteurs rounds up links to the various sections here ) and that James Franco makes for a damn good looking Allen Ginsberg (see above still from Howl ). Second, check out House contributor ...
Drama
House
By Jason Bellamy and Ed Howard [ Editor's Note: The Conversations is a monthly feature in which Jason Bellamy and Ed Howard discuss a wide range of cinematic subjects: critical analyses of films, filmmaker overviews, and more. Readers should expect to encounter spoilers. ] JASON BELLAMY: ...
Drama
Peter Berg
House contributor Andrew Dignan sends along today's link to the movie review site Gone Cinema Poaching . It's well worth your patronage and bookmarking. Speaking of Andrew, he's just published "A Belated Defense of Funny People" at his personal blog Punitive Superego . A great read. And ...
Drama
House
Sally Field
Rage
And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, hand for hand, foot for foot. — Deuteronomy 19:21 _____________________________ Clint Eastwood's long career as both actor and director is a homestead built atop a graveyard. From his breakthrough role as The Man With ...
Reality
Clint Eastwood
Kingdom
Revenge
By Dan Callahan I haven’t seen David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. since it was released in theaters in 2001, but I saw it twice on the big screen then, and I remember it vividly. There are some dead ends in the narrative, and these dead ends are what people seize on when they criticize the film, but ...
Drama
The Best Of
Today's link comes to us from House reader Diego Antico who, with narrator Angel Orlando, has created a video essay comparing and contrasting video games with tentpole blockbusters. Embedded below, and viewable here on YouTube. _______________________________________ "Link for the Day": ...
Drama
House
By Aaron Cutler It’s rarely noted how fundamentally Jewish Jerry Lewis’s humor is. I don’t mean the urbanely intellectual name-dropping of Woody Allen, but rather the sheer raving fear and terror, the sense the world is out to get you, that permeates the fiction of Jewish writers like Franz ...
Drama
Lewis
Jerry Seinfeld
The quote above is from an interview with Umberto Eco at Spiegel Online International . Appropriate in light of the encroaching/already published end-of-the-year roundups. "We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no ...
Drama
House
By Lauren Wissot Russian Film Week, like the Eastern-European films it shows, runs at an absurdly frustrating, devil-may-care pace (at least for this New Yorker). Screenings of sweeping 160-minute epics often begin an hour late, which admittedly comes in handy if you show up at the School of ...
Sci-Fi
Jennifer Hudson
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 ...
Drama
Wayne Brady
House
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 ...
Reality
50 Cent
The Best Of
Mad
Kevin Bacon
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 ...
Comedy
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 ...
Drama
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 ...
Drama
House
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 ...
Other
Robert De Niro
Jason Lee
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 ...
Drama
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), ...
Drama
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 ...
