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arresting the moment

Getting drunk with books? - Here is a poem published in Harper's Magazine in April 2013: Untitled Poem (by Hafiz, c. 1320-89; translated by Matthew Rohrer) All I want to do is get...
10 years ago
papermill

Beginning late in the year - I haven't posted here for so long, I'm afraid I don't know how to write anymore - if I knew how to write to begin with. Today I shall reclaim my space. I s...
10 years ago
bolts of lightning

Back online - It’s good to be back online. In late February I was laid off, and you know how that goes. You don’t earn, you have to cut back on many things. Internet acc...
12 years ago
chasing passions

storm and urge - The desire was animal. It was pure and stirred a tornado in her senses. Voices in her head told her it wasn't right, and not worth the trouble of being wro...
13 years ago
duyan sa buwan

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Critic After Dark

Civil War (Alex Garland, 2024) - *This means war* Alex Garland's *Civil War* is set in the near future (from *Max Headroom*: "20 minutes into the future") but traces its roots to the rec...
6 days ago
Sari-Saring Sineng Pinoy

GENIAL, CELEBRATORY - This genial, celebratory interview with Filipino filmmaker Lino Brocka interspersed with movie clips hits a note of excitable cinephilia throughout...
2 weeks ago
PILING PILING PELIKULA

LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT - [image: May be an image of 1 person and lighting] The first half abstracts itself to such a fragmented degree its noir romance becomes slippery to the p...
6 months ago
Lilok Pelikula

Breaking It to You Gently - Dear friends, It’s been a while. You have probably forgotten about this blog. We have all moved on. We have carried on with the more important aspects of o...
4 years ago
The Search For Weng Weng

Singapore International Film Festival 2017! - In November 2017 I was invited to the Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) to take part in their Asian Bonds program. SGIFF flew me from and ba...
5 years ago
AUDITOIRE

Note 4: Nonface, Interlude, Lav Diaz and Time - *The face withheld - a secret.* *1. * *The Nonface in Class Picture1* *[This article was published in Kino Punch (Issue 3), U.P. Cinema's Film Critiqu...
8 years ago
A Girl and A Gun: A Cinematic Blog

Top 20 Films Seen in 2014 - I think this will be my last blog entry in this particular account. If any of you want to read my reviews, you can just follow me on Letterboxd. Thank you....
9 years ago
Lessons From the School of Inattention

Jersey Boys (2014) - *Clint Eastwood's Jersey Boys: From Broadway Blockbuster to Boilerplate Biopic* The road from stage to screen is almost always paved with good, although...
9 years ago
Visual Velocity

Snowpiercer (2013) - Ever wonder what it's like having the entire human race jammed in one cramp, perpetually-running locomotive? Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho shows how cra...
10 years ago
Concentrated Nonsense

Dear Film Development Council of the Philippines - You have the mandate to start the National Film Archive. I have heard that your first priority project in relation to archiving is the digitization of some...
14 years ago

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JonathanRosenbaum.com

Menjadi Paling Unggul di Semua Platform Kini Slot Deposit Dana Menduduki Peringkat Unggul di Asia - Menjadi Paling Unggul di Semua Platform Kini Slot Deposit Dana Menduduki Peringkat Unggul di Asia Salah satu hal menarik dari slot dana adalah kemudahan da...
4 weeks ago
Observations on film art

Gone but far from forgotten - Kristin here: The speed with which the news of David’s death, early on the morning of February 29, 2024, spread has amazed me. I expected many responses: c...
1 month ago
Rightwing Film Geek

Victor writes about STAR WARS (sorta) - Yesterday’s kerfuffle about the director of the latest STAR WARS movie reminded me of this scene from THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS: This clip ends before we g...
3 months ago
Some Came Running

Summer 2023 Blu-ray/4K Ultra Consumer Guide - Equipment: Sony UBP-X800 multi-region 4K player, Sony KD50X690E display, Yamaha RXV-385 A/V receiver. Angel Face (Warner Archive Blu-ray) Of all the amour ...
8 months ago
Thompson on Hollywood

The Academy Tightens Oscar Campaign and International Submission Rules - In the wake of "To Leslie," the Academy is cracking down on Oscar campaigning, restricting celebrity gatherings and social media promos.
11 months ago
The Evening Class

TREEFORT 11 / WINDOW WALK—The Evening Class Profile of Walter Gerald - It’s the Window Walk on First Thursday that, for me, annually launches Treefort where muralists and downtown businesses combine forces to offer Boiseans...
1 year ago
the passionate moviegoer

encore! the film that defines me - *"This film is alive!"* Henry Miller once said, *"And it speaks to me."* Movies have many voices. Some simply entertain us; others instruct. A few make us...
4 years ago
davekehr.com

Nobody home. - There’s nothing here right now.
6 years ago
Mike's Movie Projector

RIP, continued. - *Anthony Harvey *(1930-2917), aged 87. Harvey directed one of our perennial favourites* THE LION IN WINTER* in 1968, I remember seeing it at the old Odeon...
6 years ago
The Chutry Experiment

10 Fascinating Sports Documentaries - Inspired by the O.J. Made in America documentary from ESPN, here is a quick article I wrote for Mental Floss, “10 Fascinating Sports Documentaries.” They r...
7 years ago
Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy

A Less Hostile View of ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ - Having just seen Disney’s Alice Through the Looking Glass on opening night, with a paying audience at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood, I am late in fil...
7 years ago
Peter Bogdanovich

The King Vidor File – Part Two - This part consists of comments on some of his finest and most popular work, including The Big Parade, The Champ, and Street Scene, as well as one of his mo...
8 years ago
Silly Hats Only

I wish I knew how to quit you, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu. - I'm generally not big on the idea of "giving up" on filmmakers. For one thing, it seems like kind of an empty gesture, like when I was younger and I'd t...
8 years ago
Eclipse

Cemetery of Splendour -
8 years ago
Deep Focus

Inside Llewyn Davis - My Letterboxd review of this one, written while I stood at the corner of 53rd Street and Sixth Avenue, waiting to grab some chicken and rice directly after...
10 years ago
The Big Picture

The Big Move: The Big Picture has a new home - The Big Picture is joining forces with 24 Frames.
12 years ago
Like Anna Karina's Sweater

Ich werde ein Berliner (Or: From Liberty to Victory) - "Berlin ist eine Stadt, verdammt dazu, ewig zu werden, niemals zu sein" ("Berlin is a city condemned forever to becoming and never to being.") -- Karl Sche...
13 years ago
Flickgrrl

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Roger Ebert's Journal

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trailers

cuffs

WITHOUT WANG² » What do Bimby, Zaijian and Jillian have in common?

Kane brown releases Mixtape Vol. 1 - Four times AMA winner Kane Brown released his seven-song collection entitled Mixtape Vol. 1 on RCA Nashville/Zone 4 on Aug. 19. The new EP includes four cr...
3 years ago
Underthefiretree24's Blog

Dreams - Hi there. It’s been two years since I last wrote here. And boy have I discovered so much about life. I can’t wait to write you about it, but since you’re h...
5 years ago
Spring Roll

"FESTING" IN OCTOBER - *We could rant or rave on the movies offered in Cinema One Originals Festival and QCinema Film Festival, which happened one after the other. Without a...
5 years ago
Taga-Ilog Special Presents

Ilang Tala sa mga Paborito Kong Short Film sa 2015 - Paborito kong excuse ang “maling audience” kapag nanonood ako ng mga experimental film sa Pinas. Gusto ko ang mga pelikulang pinapag-isip ako pero hesita...
8 years ago
The Otaku Fridge

Dark Souls - GENRE: Action Role-Playing PLATFORM: PS3/XBox360/Microsoft Windows CREDITS: 2011 FromSoftware/Namco Bandai Games DIRECTOR: Hidetaka Miyazaki COMPOSER: Moto...
8 years ago
Pixelated Popcorn

Favorite Foreign Films of 2014 - *Special Mention:* The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, dir. Isao Takahata 20) The One I Love, dir. Charlie McDowell 19) Labor Day, dir. Jason Reitman 1...
9 years ago
Strange Fruit

Maldives (Day 11) - The last day was a daze. We still did everything as if all was well. We ate breakfast, went to our favorite beach hut to lounge, swam for a bit in the cool...
11 years ago
The World is Yellow

2012 national board of review predix - national board of review (NBR) announces their ten best films selection and winning performances tomorrow. the NBR, NY and LA film critics selections are t...
11 years ago
THE DAM NATION

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JessicarulestheUniverse

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Dianna Agron, but you can call me Charlie.

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Whatever Carl, Whatever

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the arresting officer

lightning catcher: Mandaluyong City, Philippines; male, 29, born December 25.

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Film Experience Blog

Jocelyne LaGarde @100: "Hawaii" - by Cláudio Alves This year, there was much talk about Lily Gladstone as one of the few Native Americans ever nominated at the Oscars. This focus on indig...
10 hours ago
Reel Advice Movie Reviews

A Summer Vacation Turns Deadly in "BLINK TWICE" Starring Channing Tatum and Naomi Ackie - When tech billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum) meets cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) at his fundraising gala, sparks fly. He invites her to joi...
20 hours ago
Video 48

THE 2000s # 14: ROBIN PADILLA, JOLINA MAGDANGAL, WITH EFREN REYES, JR., ROLDAN AQUINO, VIC DIAZ, DINDO ARROYO, BEARWIN MEILY, JR HERRERA, VIA VELOSO IN "TUNAY NA TUNAY, GETS MO? GETS KO!" (2000) - *A criminal, who sidelines as a private detective, hides in Chinatown and meets a young woman who turns out to be the daughter he was tasked to look for....
3 days ago
brainstorms from the shower

Danton (1983). - Danton – Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda’s Danton (1983) begins with the titular character, Georges Danton (Gerard Depardieu), one of the most prominent leader...
4 weeks ago
the persistence of vision

Now and then - At the height of the QCinema run in November 2023, my blog partner and cousin, Noli Agbayani Manaig, died due to cancer. I was devastated and forsook watch...
3 months ago
film-otaku

The Unsung Heroes of BL: The Enabling Best Friends - To say that fans of BL (Boys' Love) series watch them for the couples is to state the obvious. After all, BL fans are notorious for being ultra-passionate ...
3 years ago
Another Sani Day

2017: Year in TV - With thousands of TV shows being released every year, it is becoming more and more difficult (and impossible) to track, catch up, and pick your favorites. ...
6 years ago
Kawts Kamote

The Last Post Ever About "Indie" - For the past decade, the so-called Independent scene has been mostly dependent to financing bodies run by almost the same people who almost serve the sam...
7 years ago
Edward Copeland on Film...and more

Memories of Edward Copeland - For a time at my home blog, *Thrilling Days of Yesteryear*, I meticulously documented the passings of people in the entertainment industry in the form of...
8 years ago
James on screenS

April 2015 Film Preview - Summer blockbuster season is just around the corner, but there's no need to wait until then to see a great movie. April brings us a wide variety of women-c...
9 years ago
me likes art

Done with Cinemalaya X - Break muna ako sa latest CinemalayaX scandal. This year has a superb lineup, though I was only able to watch 11 films (the number does not include all th...
9 years ago
A Life In Film

Sydney Film Festival 2014 - *SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL 2014* As the programmer of the Sydney Film Festival Hub, I live in Town Hall during the Festival, and don't get to see many films. Bu...
9 years ago
Visual Velocity

Snowpiercer (2013) - Ever wonder what it's like having the entire human race jammed in one cramp, perpetually-running locomotive? Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho shows how cra...
10 years ago
Once Upon a Time Sinehan

Stroking my Spherical Valentine - Probably the most un-sexual and innocent love pairing ever. In my attempt to overcome my nausea from YCC's recent shaming of a fellow film critic, I decid...
10 years ago
film, eyeballs, brain

Sleepy Hollow: “John Doe” (2013). - “I think routine is a thing of the past for us,” Ichabod Crane says at the start of last week’s episode, “John Doe.” You can say that again. There’s nothin...
10 years ago
BAMBOO GODS AND BIONIC BOYS

SEARCH FOR WENG WENG: Week #2 update! - Dear friends and colleagues, As you may have heard, I'm currently running a crowdfunding campaign to finish my THE SEARCH FOR WENG WENG documentary - ...
11 years ago
Pinoy Film Zealot

- Originally posted on FILIPINO eSCRIBBLES: Citizens, netizens set Oct 2 Day of Action vs. Cybercrime Law Maui Hermitanio Groups opposing Republic Act 10175 o...
11 years ago
Something to Sing About

Ha Ha Ha (South Korea, 2010) - Because last Saturday's drink up was strange. "Drinking down memory lane," a drunken text message, slurred across time (the flooding of memory) and space ...
12 years ago
Will you marry me when you are seventy?

The Hedgehog (2009) - Here it is, my first pick to start off my year of 500 films: *The Hedgehog* is the 2009 film adaptation of Muriel Barbery's 2006 bestseller, *The Elegance ...
13 years ago
Pinoy Direk

I PASSED THE UPCAT 2011! - http://pinoydirek.blogspot.com/2011/01/pinoy-direk-passes-upcat-2011.html LOLFiled under: Uncategorized Tagged: awesome, random, truth
13 years ago
Charlie Koon's Film Review

An Open Letter to the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board - Dear MTRCB, I would like to file a complain regarding the film Paano na Kaya. This is about the classification of the film which is rated General Patronage...
14 years ago
kuto sa sinema

Legion - Chuckie + The Unborn + Night of the Living Dead na may potanginang mahahaba’t nakakaantok na shitty dialogues. Parang sa misang Katoliko, ilang beses akong...
14 years ago
Popcorn Delight

Turin GLBT Film Festival 2009 - Festival Name: 24 Torino GLBT Film Festival Year-date: 2009, 23-30 April Country: Turin, Italy Official Website : Turino GLBT Film Festival This year Tur...
14 years ago
A Capsule of Interweaving Perceptions

Quantum of Solace (2008) - Director: Marc Forster Running time: 106 minutes Analysis In Casino Royale, we saw a gritty, Hard-Boiled style with a certain dash of vulnerability version...
15 years ago
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