Tag: Alfred Hitchcock
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Video: 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‘Carnage’ slaughters dialogue with theatrics
Two of cinema’s key advantages as a medium are its mastery of space and time, and its impression of reality. These two traits are not necessarily related: after all, in reality we often find...
Feb 14, 2012 / 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. ArmstrongTMA’s 100 Greatest Movies of All Time
You will not like something about this list. In your mind, undeserving inclusions and unthinkable omissions probably abound. That is as it should be. Film, for all the scholarship, expertise and...
Nov 13, 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. 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. ArmstrongRevered and Reviled: D.W. Griffith’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’
“We do not fear censorship, for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the...
Feb 26, 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. Armstrong‘Waterfront’ Writer, Budd Schulberg, Dies at 95
Elia Kazan’s breathtaking “On the Waterfront” is a transcendent work of cinema that cuts to the core of the human condition — it also features perhaps Marlon Brando’s greatest performance. But it...
Aug 6, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongMoon (2009)
Considering David Bowie’s longstanding and highly lucrative infatuation with all things celestial, e.g. Space Oddity (1969), The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972),...
Jul 20, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongTMA FilmCast #6 – Fast & Furious, Five Mintues of Heaven, King of California
This week Eric and Scott review Justin Lin’s “Fast & Furious,” along with a couple of indie films you may have missed. This week’s filmcast also features our top five list of ideas for the inevitable...
Apr 23, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongTMA FilmCast #1 – Coraline, Lionheart, Encino Man
Welcome to The Moving Arts’ first ever film podcast! This week, we review Henry Sellick’s Coraline , as well as the Jean Claude Van Damme Film Lionheart , and the ’92 high school caveman classic,...
Feb 26, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongTop Ten Movies of 2007
Last year was an excellent year for American cinema. A phrase rarely uttered, but entirely deserved by the year of 2007. There were at least four or five films that each could have taken Best Picture...
Sep 8, 2008 / Eric M. ArmstrongRecent Articles
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