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Come Back To The Five And Dime Sandra Bernhard, Sandra Bernhard
Bright Lights After Dark May 10 09 Once upon a time a strange sassy red head with a big nose cropped up as a pathetic obsessed fan in Martin Scorcese’s heavy-handed satire The King of Comedy.
Speaking of Critic Soul Windows.... Whither MANDINGO?
Bright Lights After Dark May 08 09The 1970s remains the pinnacle for mainstream liberal understanding of slavery and the African American experience.
Window to the (Critic's) Soul
Bright Lights After Dark May 06 09Film Criticism 101: Why You Should Recycle the Promo PacketTo be sure, there are many distinct methods of film criticism that might be employed with equal, and mutually exclusive, success.
Celebrating 40 Years of Anne Heche
Bright Lights After Dark May 06 09All stars are subject to fits of madness, and if you date a daytime TV talkshow host for long enough, who knows what kind of depths of self-confessional martyrdom you can reach? Anne Heche has come a long way, from sizzling rising star to cutting edge public profile gay couple member to childhood sex trauma victim/survivor with tell-all books and so forth.
Bright Lights at Facebook
Bright Lights After Dark May 02 09We're now on Facebook, like everyone else: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Portland-OR/Bright-Lights-Film-Journal/83196391204
Bright Lights 64 now live
Bright Lights After Dark May 01 09Bright Lights Film Journal 64 now live at brightlightsfilm.com.
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Tex Avery: Arch-Radicalizer of the Hollywood Cartoon — "Avery's pics confirm an always-lingering suspicion that the many radical plays with movie syntax and the numerous distancing techniques employed in '60s live-action films, of 'New Wave Cinema' extraction, were, in fact, first invented, and used for purely comic effect, in animated cartoons.
Poster Comparison No. 6 - Two-Headed Transplant
Bright Lights After Dark Apr 30 09Maybe it's just me, but when I first saw this poster - - I was immediately reminded of this one.
Maybe it's the way the maroon scarf playfully tugged by Ms.
My brain thinks bomb-like
Bright Lights After Dark Apr 30 09That's a line from "Hell's around the Corner," from Tricky's 1995 debut, MAXINQUAYE, one of the "key" albums of the then-emerging genre of trip hop.
For Asia Argento Lovers
Bright Lights After Dark Apr 29 09 Come on bring it onCom mon sense / Destroy all that you learnedDo it now / Give me some pleasureNever heard / A talk like this beforeDan ger ous / You're sure you want some moreLive fast die oldI don't wanna dieI just wanna loveBrain less love / That's all I ever gotBlood roulette / Like Christopher WalkenI don't care / If you can come or notSay good bye / It's over now - it's over nowMUNK, according to Wikipedia, is an Italian/German electronica band.
Another Brick in the Bro-hood
Bright Lights After Dark Apr 27 09By now, if you haven’t seen I Love You, Man, you probably aren’t going to. Suffice to say, it’s quite funny—better, in my opinion, than Superbad, and exactly like Superbad in that it ends with two totally hetero dudes, Peter (Paul Rudd) and Sidney (Jason Segal) telling each other, well, “I love you, man.
Jack Cardiff, Cinematographer (1914-2009)
Bright Lights After Dark Apr 23 09So many other bloggers have posted tributes to the late, great, Jack Cardiff that it was difficult to find an image that already hadn't been posted at one of those blogs.
The Branding of THE CHEAT
Bright Lights After Dark Apr 22 09Kicking off the second pre-code set to come out this year, we've got THE CHEAT (1931, another in the "rich ne'er do well offers to 'help' married woman in desperate need of money" genre.
Neurotics Rejoice!
Bright Lights After Dark Apr 21 09Mark Harris at Slate has the word on the Warner Archive Collection. For only $19.95, Warner will burn a DVD just for you, from its “not released on DVD” list.
Now on Twitter
Bright Lights After Dark Apr 21 09To us, Twitter has always seemed like so much psychotic haiku, so of course we had to join in: http://twitter.
J.G. Ballard (November 15, 1930 - April 19, 2009)
Bright Lights After Dark Apr 20 09A young Christian Bale as “Jamie” Ballard confronts the Japanese military in Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun (1987), based on J.
No. 1 ass-kisser this year
Bright Lights After Dark Apr 19 09So far, by far, Sam Rubin, KTLA TV/Los Angeles, who turned in this blurb for Hannah Montana, The Movie:“So far, by far, the best movie of the year.
Shock of the New
Bright Lights After Dark Apr 18 09This weekend, it being lovely and all, why not go to the movies and see OBSERVE AND REPORT? The film needs money.
Maxine Cooper Gomberg (May 12, 1924 - April 4, 2009)
Bright Lights After Dark Apr 15 09Sometimes one role is all it takes - if it's the right role.Blacklisted Dorothy Comingore didn't have much of a film career, but she will always be remembered for having played Susan Alexander in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane - or if not always, for at least as long as film is revered as an artistic medium.
Happy 103rd Birthday, Samuel Beckett (April 13, 1906 – December 22, 1989)
Bright Lights After Dark Apr 13 09
Samuel Beckett’s influence on movies was somewhat oblique, and I think he preferred it that way. The Irish playwright, novelist, and poet, referred to at various times as a modernist, an absurdist, a minimalist, and an existentialist, did, in fact, write one screenplay, the minimally titled, mostly silent Film which provided Buster Keaton one of his final starring roles.
Max Von Sydow's Good Friday
Bright Lights After Dark Apr 10 09It's quite fitting that Max Von Sydow, celebrated Swedish actor, should turn 80 on Good Friday, of all days.
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