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Oscar Analysis: Cinematography BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Batman Begins – Wally Pfister Think about your experience in a movie theater, as you sit and watch the feature presentation. The lights begin to dim, the popcorn is already half gone, and the background music of the film rises. What if the excitement that the soundtrack to a film brings was the only way the filmmaker could deliver his or her message to you, the audience? It would make for a fairly unique yet completely wasteful theater experience, right? By Neil Miller on February 28, 2006 | View Comments |
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Love is a force of nature. This is a phrase that will long live in infamy due to the overwhelming popularity and hype surrounding our second “Best Picture” nominee of 2005. Brokeback Mountain has been described as a raw, powerful story of two young men, a Wyoming ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 sheepherding in the harsh, high grasslands of contemporary Wyoming. The two men form a bond which is unorthodox, yet life-long, ecstatic, bitter and incredibly conflicted. This is the story of Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist. |
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Release Date: February 28, 2006 |
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Clerks II Release Date Announced We must break for a moment from our Oscar Week coverage and bring you a sweet little tidbit of information: |
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Oscar Analysis: Best Visual Effects BEST VISUAL EFFECTS War of The Worlds – Dennis Muren, Pablo Helman, Randal M. Dutra and Daniel Sudick This list yields a significant amount of contention between the nominees. I will start off with the fact that the judges are fed a fifteen minute clip of the best visual effects the respective film has to offer. So when analyzing these three films, the real question is: |
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The Monday Morning Buzz Machine is hard at work this week, bringing you a recap of Hollywood’s biggest and brightest news from the past weekend, with a little touch of Oscar mixed in for good measure. So without further ado, here is your news, ya savages: Brokeback Shirts sell big: Digital Spy (and everyone else under the sun) is talking about how the shirts from Brokeback Mountain sold at an Auction for more than $100,000. Unless it was Heath Ledger’s real blood, I wouldn’t pay more than $20 for that Canadian tuxedo. Other Buzz: Braff looking for more: /Film is reporting this weekend that Garden State writer/director Zach Braff is working on his next film. It is an adaption of a foreign film. It will most likely be very good, as was his debut. |
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[Editor's Note: This article was written by our very own Tara S. and previously posted here. We found it relevant for our site now, and she said we could post it... Enjoy!] For Best Director: Make a LOT of films and the Academy will eventually award you for your contributions to the arts, especially if you suddenly change genres or film something out of your usual norm. IE: Spielberg for “Saving Private Ryan.” |
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For one to rationalize the life of Truman Capote is a far unachievable goal. One of the great American authors of all time, Capote was the Southern born New York Socialite author who penned the earth shattering novel In Cold Blood. This was his story of the emotional unraveling that led to one of the greatest works of non-fiction that the world has ever beheld. |
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It is an event that astounds us when we are young budding fans of film. It is a chance for Hollywood to show off its glitz and glamour. It is an opportunity to recognize the most prolific performances and feats of filmmaking in the past year. And above all, it is one hell of a party. |
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Here at Film School Rejects, we like to do many things. One is to give you a quick summary every Friday that shows what movies we reviewed and ultimately what we thought. So without further ado, here are our thoughts this week: |
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Our commitment to bringing you the information necessary to go forth and enjoy movies we have decided that even if we don’t get a chance to review a film right away, we should at least give you a heads up. So here it is, the Weekend Warm-up. Here is what you should be going to see this weekend: |
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I Watch Stuff is reporting today that there has been a change announced to who will play Aquaman in the upcoming film set to being shooting later this year. It has gone from underwear model Will Toale to another no named actor: Passions sub-star Justin Hartley. Exactly what comic book fans are looking for, another soap opera comic movie… As IWS says: |
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On the streets of Memphis, DJay’s hustle was second to none. No problems were presented in his day to day of running the working girls from back seat to proverbial back seat, and bringing the hottest grown product to the locals. But DJay’s “mode” had never taken him any further than his day to day hustle, leading into his midlife crisis of questioning and unknown paths. His path, though crooked, crossed with that of an old school acquaintance, Key, a Church music record producer who shows key the difference between talking the talk and walking the walk. With the support of the tender yet resolute Shug and the innocuous and avid Nola, DJay takes on his destiny with vigilance and swagger. He soon realizes that his situation, though, is rooted heavily in the real world and that there is more to walking the walk than just having a dream. His realization is that in order to blaze your own path, you have to possess equal measures of both hustle and flow. |
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Here is a quick hit on Trailers that you should be watching this week (links courtesy of IMDB.com): Superman Returns |
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Julia Jones has never been very lucky in love. In fact, she has not even been close. And the only one who will listen to her woes is her diary, and a three foot tall man named Hitch. With the help of Hitch, Julia is primed and ready to make her way towards her destiny of finding her long lost prince charming, but not without a few bumps along the way. In this buffet to lingerie tale, Julia finds her match in Grant Fonckyerdoder, a doctor whose ability to see that beauty is more than skin deep is a refreshing change for the young maiden. But their love is not supported by everyone, especially Julia’s father and Grant’s delightfully sexy ex-fiance Andy, who will stop at nothing to break up the wedding and steal Grant back for good. In the end Julia and Grant find their way back to each other, but not before running their way through countless date movie parodies and short-witted humor. By Neil Miller on February 22, 2006 | View Comments |
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Terrence Howard is Rick James, bitches! (via I Watch Stuff) |
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Release Date: February 21, 2006 |
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Release Date: February 21, 2006 |
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Release Date: February 21, 2006 |
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Kate Moss, Ang Lee, and lesbians… British celeb-watcher site Digital Spy is reporting that the coked up Kate Moss will make her acting debut in Ang Lee’s biopic about ’60’s soul singer Dusty Springfield. Moss will play a beautiful socialite who breaks the singer’s heart, and supplies her with dubious amounts of narcotics. That’s not all true, I made the last part up. |
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Here is what happened over the weekend in the Box Office: Eight Below ($25 million) Our 2 Cents:Traditional knowledge would say that casting Paul Walker in… well anything would be a tragedy in and of itself, but the folks at Disney seem to have found something with this weekend’s surprise leader Eight Below. Released strategically on President’s Day weekend, a time when families generally flock to movie theaters, Eight Below scored a proverbial touchdown beating out the slapstick comedy of Date Movie and holding off the still strong Pink Panther. Date Movie, coincidentally, performed well even though it was not screened for critics. Go figure. |
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(via Digital Spy) |
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Release Date: January 17th, 2006 |
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The soon to be regular Monday Morning Buzz Machine is hard at work this week, bringing you a recap of Hollywood’s biggest and brightest news from the past weekend. So without further ado, here is your news, ya savages: The Bourne Sequels: Craig’s Movie Blog is talking the future of the Jason Bourne series. Apparently there is more than just one more to come. Brokeback to the Future: Here is a slightly random link that is making a huge buzz in the world of film websites. We didn’t want our few readers to feel left out. |
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Our commitment to bringing you the information necessary to go forth and enjoy movies we have decided that even if we don’t get a chance to review a film right away, we should at least give you a heads up. So here it is, the first official presentation of the Weekend Warm-up. Here is what you should be going to see this weekend: After the jump we preview Freedomland and Eight Below… By Neil Miller on February 17, 2006 | View Comments |
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Here is the first teaser poster for Oliver Stone’s 9/11 flick World Trade Center, set to release in August of this year. It is said to be the story of two Port Authority workers who are trapped beneath the WTC rubble after the horrific attacks on New York in September of 2001. The teaser poster seems to want to offer a sign of hope with the blue sky and white light in the background, but we all know that no matter how compelling the film is, it will be equally tragic and depressing. Oh and did I mention possibly political? But I sincerely hope not. Tags: 9/11, World Trade Center, Oliver Stone By Neil Miller on February 17, 2006 | View Comments |
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(via I Watch Stuff) Sony Pictures has recently released it’s first trailer for Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, starring Will Ferrell. Click the picture above to check it out. Now I am sure that there will be more influential and moving epics of 2006, but this one stands out as the early favorite for the best “wet your pants” funny flick of the year. It is the story of Nascar driver Ricky Bobby, played by Ferrell. Yes, you read that right. His name really is Ricky Bobby. And what Ricky Bobby lacks in the ability to decipher quantum physics he all but makes up for in his ability to drive a race car. Ferrell is directed by fellow Anchorman creator Adam McKay and the film co-stars the immensely talented John C. Reilly. This gives us something more than Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center and Kevin Smith’s Clerks 2 to look forward to in August. |