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The Tree of Life trailer
l Any time Terrence Malick decides to direct a film, it becomes an event, for film fanatics at least. Every one of his pictures has been called a masterpiece by at least a few prominent critics....
Dec 17, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong‘I Am Love’ opens more than doorways
The month of January is named after Janus, the Roman god of exits and entrances. Janus is most commonly depicted in ancient art as having two faces, one looking backwards while the other looks...
Dec 16, 2010 / Vanessa Graniello‘Thor’ Trailer
Inspired by Norse mythology, Thor was created by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Jack Kirby in 1962. The film follows the hero (Chris Hemsworth), who is a god and lives in a realm called Asgard. His...
Dec 11, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Green Lantern’ Teaser Trailer
The first real teaser trailer for Warner Bros. “Green Lantern” starring Ryan Reynolds has hit the web. Here’s the synopsis: “In a universe as vast as it is mysterious, a small but powerful force has...
Nov 17, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongWes Anderson’s ‘Moon Rise Kingdom’ Attracts Impressive Cast
Wes Anderson has lined up an impressive cast for his upcoming feature, “Moon Rise Kingdom.” Deadline reports that Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton are all...
Nov 11, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongWomen directors, international women’s issues spotlighted
TFA presents two Official Selections from the eighth annual Tallgrass Film Festival for November’s Third Thursday Screening, co-sponsored by WSU’s International Education and Center for Women’s...
Nov 10, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongAna’s Playground (2009)
Children are cinema’s simultaneously fetishized commodity and artless liability. You can’t harm them, yet you can have them perpetrate terrible acts of inhumanity. “Ana’s Playground” cuts through the...
Nov 5, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Sequel In the Cooker
Producer, Mark Burg, already has a new project lined up as an encore to his work on “Saw” as the long-running horror franchise draws to a close. According to Bloody Disgusting he’ll be teaming up...
Nov 1, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongBritish Film Institute 2011: A Programme for a Conservative Era?
To mark the approaching end of the festival, the BFI kindly invited me to a lunch where they presented their programme for 2011. I have to say that there was little there to make me sit up and take...
Oct 29, 2010 / Alison Frank‘How I Ended the Summer’: Inexplicably
Like Werner Herzog’s half-satirical, half awestruck documentary Encounters at the End of the World (2007), Aleksei Popogrebsky’s Kak ya provyol etim letom ( How I Ended the Summer ) offers a...
Oct 26, 2010 / Alison FrankCatfish (2010)
“Catfish” is one of those films that will have as many interpretations as it has viewers. The middle-aged hipster-loathing intellectual will see it as nothing more than an outlet for the filmmakers...
Oct 25, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongFreeze Frame: Two Photography Exhibitions in London
Eadweard Muybridge (Tate Britain, 8 September 2010 – 16 January 2011) Wildlife Photographer of the Year (Natural History Museum, 22 October 2010 – 11 March 2011) The place of photography in the...
Oct 24, 2010 / Alison FrankNew International Trailer ‘King’s Speech’
Colin Firth stars as King George VI in Tim Hooper’s historical drama about a ruler struggling to make the transition into the mass media age by overcoming a speech impediment. Geoffrey Rush, who...
Oct 24, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongThe Tillman Story: A Tale that Needed to be Told
The name might already be familiar to you from news reports during the mid-2000s. Pat Tillman was a young American football player who chose to put his career on hold in order to join the US Army....
Oct 24, 2010 / Alison FrankWes Craven’s ‘Scream 4′ Teaser Trailer
Horror maestro Wes Craven is back with “Scream 4″ which he directs from a script by Kevin Williamson starring Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox Arquette, Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere,...
Oct 20, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongRecent Articles
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- 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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