I have reservations about this film. I had. Ever since I saw the trailer, I haven't stopped thinking about it.

NSFW - red band trailer.

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Notes: The Informers is probably going to get actual attention because of Rourke, that guy's shit is gold right now. 2008 seems like the year of comebacks, even though the only two successful Remember-Me-Suckas ( Read more... )

Fans of Helvetica, check out Objectified later this spring:

Gizmodo: The World's Best Gadget Designers Speak in 'Objectified'

More information on the Helvetica film page.


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My favorite character on Mad Men is Roger Sterling. He's professionally clever, and arguably more polished than everybody's-favorite-asshole Don Draper. Roger drops gems like:

"Remember, Don, when God closes a window, He opens a dress."

"What size Cadillac do you take?"

My kind of cad. He's wonderfully despicable too. He's a three-piece suit or ( Read more... )

I love this film.


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I said I hate Top 10 or whatever Lists. I kinda do. But...I cave.

EDIT: January 7, 2008

Favorite Films of 2008

The Dark Knight
Milk
Wall-E
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
Baby Mama
Frost/Nixon
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Pineapple Express
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Wrestler
The Fall
Foot Fist Way

I Kinda Liked It:

Burn After ( Read more... )

I am tripped up. I keep thinking about self-interest, rationalism, love, TV shows, nostalgia and pursuing the New, self-definition. It's muddled.

Scraps of it all:




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Hi, I'm Paul Haggis, and I just wrote Quantum of Solace! Did you _get_ it? I mean, did you get it? I am really subtle. I thought if we made our villain Greene, it tailspin the audience into Wonderment - IS he really "green"? I mean, he is using this environmentally-friendly business as a cover for international fraud! He deals with the rights to ( Read more... )

The other night, drunk on Acacia pinot noir, I asked my boyfriend to impress me. I didn't really - I think he lamented and said, "There's no impressing you!" So in turn, I asked him why he loves Fellini so much. Paraphrased, he said, "Film can capture dreams, and Fellini understood that. All his films were dream-like, and always pushed the limits ( Read more... )