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Tony Scott’s 5 best films
Tony Scott (1944 – 2012) As with any prominent artist’s or entertainer’s passing, it gives us a chance to look back on their body of work in a way we’ve never looked at it before — as completed...
Aug 23, 2012 / Eric M. ArmstrongVideo: Amazing Steadicam work in ‘Hugo’
Martin Scorsese and Larry McConkey are masters of their crafts. The former is arguably the greatest living director. The latter is one of the world’s foremost Steadicam operators. Their...
Jun 3, 2012 / Eric M. Armstrong‘The Artist’: More of the same
I’m getting a little tired of seeing Jean Dujardin’s face. That I can say this about an actor I like so much reflects the degree of media saturation surrounding The Artist . For most of January, the...
Feb 7, 2012 / Alison Frank‘The Artist’: Long on Art, Short on Plot
Have you ever wondered what it was like for spectators watching their first sound film? Michel Haznavicius’ latest feature brings home just how strange it would have been. For the most part, The...
Oct 24, 2011 / Alison Frank‘Cold Fish’: The Aquarium Serial Killer
Cold Fish (Japan, 2010) is the story of serial killer, Murata, who owns a tropical fish shop, and the way in which he forces Shamoto, a mild-mannered family man, to become his accomplice. To read a...
Aug 15, 2011 / Alison FrankSidney Lumet’s 5 Best Films
Peter Finch in "Network" #5. Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007) Lumet’s last film was also one of his best. Following a pair of troublesome brothers who plot to rob their parents’ jewelry...
Apr 16, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongTerrible things have happened here: Reflections and retribution in Holocast Cinema
The theater doors blast open, and Quentin Tarantino’s band of Jewish soldiers bursts in with fury, guns first. Showering the audience—once their oppressors—in a rain of bullets, the gunmen stand...
Jan 19, 2011 / Rod BastanmehrOnline Critics Choose 100 Best First Films
The Online Film Critics Society, of which yours truly is member, released the results of a society-wide poll asking what first (debut) films are the greatest in history. Orson Welles’ masterpiece...
Oct 6, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongTallgrass Film Fest Announces 2010 Lineup, Details
The 8th annual Tallgrass Film Festival will take place in and around downtown Wichita Oct. 22-24, showcasing more than 124 independent films from more than 11 countries around the world, and hosting...
Oct 2, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongDennis Hopper Dead at 74
Hollywood screen legend, Dennis Hopper, known as one of Tinseltown’s most creative and versatile bad boys died Saturday from complications due to prostate cancer, a friend of the actor told Reuters ....
May 29, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongHow ‘The White Ribbon’ Fits Into Michael Haneke’s Moralizing Cinematic Vision
The first images of Michael Haneke’s “The White Ribbon,” a film shot in a delicately lambent palette suggestive of old gelatin silver prints, is of a shrub-ringed meadow, a horse and rider...
May 8, 2010 / Jesse CataldoOrson Welles’ Impressive Career Not Over Yet
Even death can’t stop Orson Welles, arguably the greatest filmmaker of all time, from finding his way onto the big screen. Since Welles died in 1985 you may be wondering just how he’ll be...
Mar 28, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongVideo: How to Watch a Martin Scorsese Film
Martin Scorsese is not only our greatest living director, but is perhaps our greatest living film historian. His movies are not only brilliant probes into the depths of the human condition, but are...
Mar 23, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongHopkins, Bening Join Garcia in ‘Hemingway’
Andy Garcia has coaxed Hollywood royalty, Anthony Hopkins and Annette Bening, to co-star with him in “Hemingway and Fuentes,” which Garcia will also direct. Variety reports that Garcia, along with...
Nov 5, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongTMA’s 25 Greatest Sports Movies of All Time
Sports and movies have much in common. They make us laugh, cry, shout for joy, and smash things uncontrollably (this only happens at really bad movies). So, it’s only natural that they overlap in...
Aug 26, 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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