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Flickdom Dictum: July 2011
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Sunday, July 31, 2011. 30 Minutes or Less (2011, Ruben Fleischer). Squandering what should have been a breakthrough role, 30 Minutes or Less. Refuses to provide Aziz Ansari his The Hangover. Because director Ruben Fleischer is too in love with a strange oxymoron: like his own genre-ignorant Zombieland. 30 Minutes or Less. Jesse Eisenberg returns as a fake-ass Michael Cera slacker, a character we’re supposed to relate to because he hates his job in pizza delivery. 30 Minutes or Less. One begins to questio...
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Flickdom Dictum: Cinematography as Romantic Catalyst in Woody Allen's Manhattan
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Friday, July 3, 2015. Cinematography as Romantic Catalyst in Woody Allen's Manhattan. Relationships became increasingly complex in the cinematic realm, possibly as a mirror to what film auteurs saw as an increasing societal complexity. Here, seen most clearly in the work of Woody Allen, the camerawork becomes increasingly complicated as the character relationships become increasingly complicated. Allen's 1979 follow-up to Annie Hall. And the less successful Interiors. Or Bringing Up Baby. Takes place in ...
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Flickdom Dictum: My Top 100 Films of the Decade (so far)
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Saturday, February 7, 2015. My Top 100 Films of the Decade (so far). Posted by Tony Pellum. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). BLOGDANOVICH: by Peter Bogdanovich. Hitchcock / Truffaut Tapes. Phillip Karagas: The VHS Graveyard. Michael Chiechi: Never have, never will. Then fuck you, jack: The Life and Art of Vern. David Bordwell: Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema. THE RESULTS ARE IN! Rachel Gordon: Energized Films. 87th Academy Awards – Dream Ballot. The Western as Ethnographic Barometer in Gunsmoke .
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Flickdom Dictum: The Western as Ethnographic Barometer in Gunsmoke and Deadwood
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Monday, February 16, 2015. The Western as Ethnographic Barometer in Gunsmoke and Deadwood. James Arness, the actor who portrays Marshal Matt Dillon in all twenty seasons of Gunsmoke. CBS: 1955-1975), had an interesting take on the ideologies behind the genre’s success. “A cowboy wasn’t tied down to one place or one woman,” he told TV Radio Mirror. If, as John G. Cawelti argues, “the modern Western emerged along with the need to mythicize the new values of mobility, competitiveness, and rugged i...The mos...
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Flickdom Dictum: August 2014
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Friday, August 22, 2014. The Golden Age to the New Hollywood Era: Hollywood post-World War II. Hollywood’s Golden Age—an era bookended by the christening of sound motion pictures and the Supreme Court’s anti-trust verdict in United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. 131) This conspiracy demanded exhibition houses charge minimal admission prices, elevating quantity over quality. Surpassed Gone with the Wind. As the all-time rental leader in 1965, the production costs of Cleopatra. Almost bankrupted the st...
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Flickdom Dictum: Mookie and the Right Thing
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Saturday, July 4, 2015. Mookie and the Right Thing. Spike Lee may "privilege morality over politics" as Douglas Kellner argues in "Aesthetics, Ethics, and Politics in the Films of Spike Lee," but morality is far from black and white in Do The Right Thing. Neither morality, politics or racism is given an easy solution because, Lee would argue, there isn't one. Radio Raheem, in adopting the "love/hate" speech from The Night of the Hunter. As he hurls that can and, with the act, completes the ellipses of Ra...
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Flickdom Dictum: November 2011
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011. What Tricia's Thankful For - 2011. Thanksgiving is supposed to be a day to confess what you feel grateful for. I mean, more than anything it’s about celebrating the greatest of the deadly sins and watching football, but traditionally people express feelings that go beyond the tightness of the belt. Not in my family exactly, but I hear people do it all the time…. This year, I am thankful for…. For helping me save money by putting out complete crap this year. Thank you, NBC fo...
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Flickdom Dictum: July 2015
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Saturday, July 4, 2015. Mookie and the Right Thing. Spike Lee may "privilege morality over politics" as Douglas Kellner argues in "Aesthetics, Ethics, and Politics in the Films of Spike Lee," but morality is far from black and white in Do The Right Thing. Neither morality, politics or racism is given an easy solution because, Lee would argue, there isn't one. Radio Raheem, in adopting the "love/hate" speech from The Night of the Hunter. As he hurls that can and, with the act, completes the ellipses of Ra...
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Flickdom Dictum: January 2015
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Thursday, January 29, 2015. My Thirty(one) Most Anticipated Films of 2015. Hey, have you guys heard they're making a new Star Wars. This Hungarian film opened to mixed reviews at Sundance despite winning the Prize Un Certain Regard at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. It looks like a pretty hokey drama but a pretty sweet B-horror. It'll be interesting to see how the two are reconciled. US limited release: 27 March 2015. 29 Seymour: An Introduction. 28 Mad Max: Fury Road. His first non- Happy Feet. On the he...