The Wider Screen
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TMA FilmCast #30 – Date Night, Repo Men
Film is a fickle medium. In any other industry if you take two of the top performers in their respective spheres and put them together you’ve got a hit. Derek Jeter and A-Rod, peanut butter and...
Apr 13, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongPhillip Morris and the Art of the Scam
You may have seen the trailer for the latest Jim Carrey comedy, I Love You Phillip Morris . If so, I’d advise you to quit while you’re ahead. Like most comedy trailers, it cannily includes most of...
Mar 30, 2010 / Alison FrankPoem: The Rainmaker
The Rainmaker -For Burt Lancaster He comes to drought-stricken towns; a saviour dressed in rattlesnake shoes, riding on a pale Pegasus. “There’s something in the air,” he says. “Something in the...
Mar 25, 2010 / Damian BalassoneEric Rohmer: It’s Good to Talk
If you read the newspaper articles that appeared following the death of Eric Rohmer early this year, you will have come across the cliché that his work is ‘talky’: the implicit criticism is that...
Mar 20, 2010 / Alison FrankOscar-winner Christoph Waltz to Direct First Feature
24 Frames reports that Christoph Waltz, who recently joined Hollywood’s A-list after winning the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as the repugnant, ruthless Col. Hans Landa in “Inglourious...
Mar 20, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongIndie Film Pioneer, Richard Glasser, Dies
Independent film pioneer, Richard Glasser, died Tuesday, Feb. 23 in Los Angeles after suffering a stroke days earlier. He was 50. The son of famed film producer Bernard Glasser, Richard began his...
Feb 27, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongTMA FilmCast #27 – Up in the Air, It’s Complicated
What do Peter Sellers’ character in Hal Ashby’s 1979 flick, “Being There” and Jason Reitman’s Oscar-bait movie, “Up in the Air” have in common? More than you might think. Also, can a middle-aged,...
Feb 6, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongUp in the Air (2009)
“How much does your life weigh?” George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a hit man. He doesn’t kill people, well, at least not directly. He’s a corporate hatchet man who fires people for a living — people...
Jan 6, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongTMA FilmCast #25 – Precious, Invictus (Written Reviews)
This week we’re trying something a little different. Scott, my usual co-host, was absent from class during the recording of the show so instead of scrambling to find a temporary replacement I decided...
Jan 5, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongTMA’s 25 Best Films of the Decade (2000-2009)
Lists of this nature rarely serve any meaningful purpose. To include a film means that many more will be excluded. And in a decade’s worth of cinema, to make a list of the “best” at the expense of so...
Dec 16, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongFincher to Adapt ‘House of Cards’
David Fincher, director of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Zodiac,” and “Fight Club,” has teamed with Media Rights Capital to adapt the popular British miniseries, “House of Cards,” for...
Oct 22, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongBad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Trailer
In Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Nicolas Cage plays a rogue detective who is as devoted to his job as he is at scoring drugs — while playing fast and loose with the law....
Oct 11, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongUp In The Air Trailer
George Clooney stars as Ryan Bingham, a corporate hatchet man who loves his life on the road but is forced to fight for his job when his company downsizes its travel budget. He is required to spend...
Oct 5, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongRoman Polanski Arrested On 30-Year-Old Warrant
Famed and acclaimed director, Roman Polanski, was nabbed by Swiss police as he arrived in the country to receive an award at the Zurich Film Festival and will likely face extradition to the United...
Sep 27, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong‘School of Rock’ Director Attached to ‘Liars’
“School of Rock” helmer, Richard Linklater, is in final negotiations to direct “Liars (A-E)” for Scott Rudin and Miramax, according to Variety . Emma Forrest penned the script, a romantic comedy that...
Jul 28, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongRecent Articles
- Review: ‘A War’ explores war’s quiet, forgotten horrors
- TMA FilmCast #33 — Vera Chytilova and the Czech New Wave
- The fantasist: The comic art of Woody Allen
- Tribeca picks up North American rights to ‘Misery Loves Comedy’ at Sundance
- TMA FilmCast #32 — Alison Frank interviews Ana Geislerova
- ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ tops Online Film Critics Awards
- TMA FilmCast #31 — Alison Frank reports from 67th Locarno Film Fest
- 5 ½ hour film dominates awards at Locarno
- Shorts at #Locarno67: meditation vs testing the audience’s patience
- ‘The Fool’: A modern propaganda film
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