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Come on, you know I had to post this one! Thankfully, it looks beautifully composed, dark, and edgy with that Neil Gaiman meets “City of Lost Children” meets “Dark City” vibe. According to the trailer website: Franklyn is set between the parallel worlds of contemporary London and the futuristic metropolis of Meanwhile City, and weaves [...]
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I was introduced to Thomas Pynchon as a young literary lad at the University of Santa Cruz. My friend and housemate, a Political Theory student and TA, recommended “Crying of Lot 49″ to me and it got it’s hooks into me – deep. After reading that short little book, I’d cruise around campus and see [...]
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The animation style is languid, drawing attention only to single actions. It’s an effect that is difficult to achieve in film and rarely achieved in animation. Looks interesting. [via Coudal]
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Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut features Philip Seymour Hoffman and an all-star cast in a film which looks labyrinthine and quirky. High hopes I tell you. High hopes. According to imdb.com, It looks like we’ll have a limited US release of the film October 24th. And, just as a friendly literary reminder, here is the definition [...]
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I know it’s a ways off (july 25th) but I find myself irresistibly drawn to this reminder of what it was like to be in High School.
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So color me impressed, a bit excited, and perhaps slightly concerned. Scarlett Johansson’s debut EP, a collaboration with Dave Situ of “TV on the Radio” and a collection of assorted other music heavies, is a set of 10 Tom Waits covers and 1 original song. Whoa. You can check out the samples of the tracks [...]
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Other than intellectual slothfulness, is there any reason for these two trailers to be so identical? “Batman” was released in 1989. “The Dark Knight” is scheduled for July of this year. Overall though, who’s the sucker? I’m totally going to see “The Dark Knight” anyways. I want that nostalgia. It was good the first time. [...]
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The trailer for the new documentary “Taxi to the Darkside” looks like it will be another fantastic documentary from the same director that made “The Smartest Guys in the Room.” A documentary tracing the unexplained detention and death of an Afghani taxi driver. Check out the website to view the trailer. It’s worth it.
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“The Bank Job” starring Jason Statham looks outstanding. The film chronicles an unsolved 1971 London bank robbery known as the “walkie-talkie bank job.” What’s compelling about this story is that the British government issued a gag order suppressing public news of the robbery within days of the heist. A modern day “Deep Throat” informer acted [...]
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