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The Chamberlain announces the addition of the movie ratings database and the Netflix queue widget. Please see the Movies page. The Chamberlain also begs forgiveness for this wholly un-called-for weekend post. ~Chamberlain of Content
Untitled Batman Begins Sequel went and got itself a title without telling me. A title and a (somewhat dull) teaser. The Dark Knight is due out on 18 July 2008. Mark your calendars. If you haven’t seen Batman Begins yet, you should look into new real estate. Your current abode under that huge rock isn’t helping you any. Also in sequels that got names recently, Untitled Fourth Indiana Jones Movie is now Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I am cautiously intrigued.
Open letter to TV commercial directors of photography: Shaking the camera will not make what the ad is saying more true. It will only make your viewers seasick. This is especially so on larger screens. No one wants to buy a product whose ad made them barf. It doesn’t make your subject more “real,” or “raw,” or “edgy,” or “relevant.” It’s also such a Commie thing to do. Cinéma vérité, Dogme 95, reality television, documentary filmmaking — all are direct ideological descendants of Soviet agitprop and dialectical materialism. The idea that shaking the camera makes the subject more realistic, by analogue to [ . . . ]
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Alex Trebek asks a contestant, who boasts that she has slept in a hotel room floating on the Kwai river in Thailand, whether the original bridge (of cinema fame) is still there.
The writers of Absolutely Fabulous came up with a perfect line for every situation. Patsy manages to burn down Edina’s kitchen by falling asleep with a cigarette in her mouth. Afterwards, the two are discussing how to redecorate the room. Patsy, commenting on how easy it was for her to achieve the “distressed” look of the kitchen in its burned-out state, makes the following comment. What the hell is the difference between a painting done by a person who chooses to paint like a child and a child’s painting? If anything encapsulates the current state of modern art better than Patsy’s humorous quip, it is this [ . . . ]
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