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50,000 Movies Are Made Every Year — Is That Too Many?
Most advancements in technology, notably the incredible strides digital video has made in recent years, are hailed as grand steps towards some idealized zenith of uninhibited collectivist creativity....
May 27, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongPostal Failure: Aparna Sen’s ‘The Japanese Wife’ Disappoints
Indian indie favourite Aparna Sen’s new film about love through letters lacks style and diction. The phonetic possibility of her surname Sen makes Indian indie filmmaker Aparna Sen’s films a fine...
May 19, 2010 / Sayandeb ChowdhuryWachowskis Developing Iraq War Film With ‘Hard R’ Gay Love Story
Just when you thought the Wachowskis, the team behind “The Matrix” films, couldn’t get any weirder. Deadline is reporting that the brother/sister duo (sister because Larry is a post-op female now...
May 15, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongIron Man 2 (2010)
John Favreau doing Michael Bay doing Robert Altman doing Dostoyevsky doing Shakespeare. “Iron Man 2” is as elegant as it sounds. After battling a pre-Oscar, double-crossing Jeff Bridges in the first...
May 6, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong29th International Istanbul Film Festival; Marked by Absent Friends
Istanbul is enjoying its year as the European Capital of Culture, with cultural and arts events taking place in the city from one end to the other, inaugurated with a series of ceremonies held in...
Apr 27, 2010 / N. Buket CengizJeunet’s ‘Micmacs’: Racial Stereotypes Overshadow Innovation
At his most successful, Jean-Pierre Jeunet has managed to create films which combine a mainstream approach to storytelling with an artist’s attention to image. Some would argue that “Delicatessen” is...
Apr 23, 2010 / Alison FrankFritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’ Coming to a Big Screen Near You
Kino International announced Monday that Fritz Lang’s 1927 masterpiece, “Metropolis,” will be released theatrically in “all major markets throughout the US and Canada” in May. The version to be...
Apr 8, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongPoem: 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 BalassoneOscar-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. ArmstrongHollywood Films Follow Mathematical Formulas to Match Attention Spans of Viewers
[Click Photo to Enlarge] Do you ever get the feeling that big Hollywood blockbusters are just heartless products following an established formula to maximize profits? Well, that assessment may be...
Feb 24, 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’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. ArmstrongJackson: ‘Hobbit’ Casting to Begin This Week
Bilbo Baggins will soon have a face. Peter Jackson, director of “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, revealed in an interview that casting on the highly anticipated “The Hobbit” would begin this week....
Dec 9, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongHasbro’s ‘Battleship’ Movie Invaded by Aliens
We reported in September that Universal Pictures was developing a live-action movie based on Hasbro’s naval combat board game “Battleship,” to be directed by Peter Berg. Berg explained that the film...
Nov 8, 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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