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Patrick went to NYU film school and knows all the secrets of the Dharma. More of Pat's film writing can be found here and here.
Andrew and Ligature are a glamorous couple straight out of a Woody Allen flick.
Joaquin is a filmmaker, 9 to 5 cubicle fodder and a licensed joyologist.
Aaron is a media connoisseur, pop culture aficionado, and with his friend, "Madame," entertains children of all ages throughout Capitol Hill.
Chad works in film, and really likes 'Super Troopers.'
Dex broods day after day on his cunning plan to get a date with Natalie Portman. His past writing on politics, the environment, and life during the Age of Dubya may be found here.
Pike Bishop can milk a cow, dress a gunshot wound, and saddle a horse. He once punched a bear for sassin' him.
Amber will blind you with science and hit you with technology.
Andrew and Ligature are a glamorous couple straight out of a Woody Allen flick.
Joaquin is a filmmaker, 9 to 5 cubicle fodder and a licensed joyologist.
Aaron is a media connoisseur, pop culture aficionado, and with his friend, "Madame," entertains children of all ages throughout Capitol Hill.
Chad works in film, and really likes 'Super Troopers.'
Dex broods day after day on his cunning plan to get a date with Natalie Portman. His past writing on politics, the environment, and life during the Age of Dubya may be found here.
Pike Bishop can milk a cow, dress a gunshot wound, and saddle a horse. He once punched a bear for sassin' him.
Amber will blind you with science and hit you with technology.
reviews and essays: year of the ox
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: black belly of the tarantula (1971)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: blood beast terror (1968)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: earth vs. the spider (1958)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: empire of the ants (1977)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: green porno (2008-09)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: kiss of the tarantula (1976)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: mesa of lost women (1953)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: phase iv (1974)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: sick girl (2006)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: slither (2006)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: tarantula (1955)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: tarantula - the deadly cargo (1977)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: the beginning of the end (1957)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: the black scorpion (1957)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: the camerman's revenge (1912)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: the deadly bees (1967)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: the deadly mantis (1957)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: the naked jungle (1954)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: the swarm (1978)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: them! (1954)
- dex has the girlfriend experience
- dex on three monkeys, the limits of control, my winnipeg/j.j. abrams' star trek
- dex on woody allen's whatever works, revanche, and moon
- dex's translated accounts: bruno, los bastardos, and atom egoyan's adoration
- dex: how the dead live: savage grace
- dex: live it out: rachel getting married
- dex: puts you there where things are hollow: anvil! the story of anvil and jcvd
- dex: two girls, one suck: martyrs
- patrick: 3 by mizoguchi
- pike and patrick: what?! you haven't seen...alfred hitchcock's marnie?
- pike bishop rounds up the best dvd releases of 2008
- the denver projection booth's fave films of 2008
- the patrick ten: ichii the killer, city lights, judgment at nuremberg, and others
- the patrick ten: motel hell, longtime companion, diabolique, and others
- the patrick ten: slumdog millionaire, the cars that ate paris, orphans of the storm, and more
- the patrick ten: wild in the streets, the last wave, kung fu panda, and others
the denver projection booth's best of 2008
reviews and such: year of the rat
- aaron - jack white and alicia keys drink my bondshake!
- aaron - my blueberry blah
- aaron - take five (08.14.08)
- aaron on cruising (1980)
- aaron on fitzcarraldo
- aaron versus juno
- andrew on long weekend (1978)
- andrew on on the dark knight
- chad versus wes anderson
- dex - are you there, god? it's me, timothy carey: the world's greatest sinner
- dex - blog under punches: day night day night, redbelt, iron man/the incredible hulk
- dex - blogger of tears: stuck, standard operating procedure, machine gun mccain, the apple, mother of tears
- dex - blogging to go: diary of the dead, drawing restraint #9, goya's ghosts
- dex - chick habit: diva, sorry haters, the other boleyn girl, wicked wicked
- dex - he's busy revvin' up the powerful blog 5: speed racer, lynch, mister foe
- dex - i'd say you were in your rights to bite: let the right one in
- dex - my blueberry blogging: my blueberry nights, youth without youth, lust caution
- dex - no one's gonna blog you, not while i'm around: sweeney todd, southland tales, wristcutters
- dex - punk is dead: what we do is secret
- dex - the blog knight: war inc, poultrygeist, encounters at the end of the world
- dex - we can't stop here - this is blog country! : bruiser, inside, gonzo: the life and work of hunter s. thompson
- dex: blogscales: the last winter, hellboy 2: the golden army, zebraman, star wars: the clone wars
- joaquin - Woody Allen goes on vacation to see a famous opera singer, who's contemplating an abortion, in a French Mediterranean village
- joaquin on the flowers of st. francis
- joaquin versus the 2008 academy awards
- patrick - ten (or so) recent reviews (10.06.08)
- patrick - ten recent reviews (2.27.08)
- patrick - ten recent reviews (3.28.08)
- patrick - ten recent reviews (5.5.08)
- patrick - ten recent reviews (6.20.08)
- patrick - ten recent reviews (7.30.08)
- patrick - ten recent reviews (8.16.08)
- patrick - ten recent reviews (9.12.08)
- patrick on les enfants terribles
- patrick reviews three flicks via aaron.
- pike bishop on the criterion edition of sam fuller's white dog
- pike bishop previews 2008 denver film festival
aaron is the blog whisperer
dex-o-dex
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- deep focus
- denver film society
- diabolik dvd
- elevated voices @ 5280
- esquire's midnight movies
- fangoria
- filmbrain
- girish
- greencine daily
- guardian uk film page
- howard semones' the web pen blog
- internet movie database
- lance mannion
- more than meets the mogwai
- mother jones' riff blog
- movies that make you think
- new york times' movie page
- newcritics
- roger ebert's blog
- self-styled siren
- sergio leone and the infield fly rule
- stuart klawans @ the nation
- unspoken cinema
- wash park prophet
patrick's blogroll
pike bishop's blogroll
fanatics
always blog the right thing
nice to be nominated
audience feedback
box office receipts
9 comments:
Sorry Dex, but I've always felt Soderbergh is highly overrated. I got no love for his Solaris and just a little for The Limey.
A film I absolutely adore with every fiber of my being that most overlook, despise or simply don't understand is Punch-Drunk Love. Why can't anyone else see how incredible it really is? Why?
Hmmm... others off the top of my head include the original Stepford Wives (so smart, yet everyone thinks it's silly) and Infamous (I think Capote sucked a fat one). Hopefully other examples will come to me...
Oh! I almost forgot. Tarantino's Jackie Brown. I'm utterly convinced it's his masterpiece.
are you blogging as satan again, or do you just like to torment me?
i think teh 'punch drunk' is the true mark of an andersonista, like 'miller's crossing' is for true-blue coen fans.
i totally agree on 'jackie brown' - i've got the bridget fonda promo poster up in my apartment. and yes, i think it's his best work, most mature work - i see lots of 'big sleep' lots of fuller, of course - but i'd humbly place 'jackie brown' in the underrated cat.
for the life of me, i can't see why ppl would say 'stepford wives' is silly. that's some good shit.
'infamous' definitely qualifies; i know i haven't been interested at all in seeing it, despite exhortations by friends and loved ones...
Hmmm... let's see - movies that I love that other people hate on incessantly:
Showgirls
- a terrific exploration of male exploitation of females and the reduction of females to objects; and also how females can buy into the trap - and also (ultimately) walk out on it.
Babe: Pig in the City
- it's less that people hate it than they just don't imagine that they (as adults) should possibly take it seriously. One of the best films of the last decade. See it.
all Brian DePalma films
- he's also somewhat drifted from the position of a director that people love to hate into the position of a director that nobody cares about any more. I think he's still provocative, still has interesting things to say in his films, and think that with a few exceptions that are admittedly duds (and even so, duds with interesting moments) he's never stopped making worthwhile films.
As for y'all suggestions, I'm on the fence about Soderbergh, pretty indifferent to PT Anderson, love George Romero, think Stepford Wives is pretty great, haven't seen Infamous and 100% agree that Jackie Brown is Tarantino's finest hour (OK, 143 minutes or whatever). But in all these cases I haven't seen the kind of vitriol that I think qualifies them for hater-dom the way shit's been thrown at Verhoeven and DePalma.
Oh yeah - there's also the recent DVD release of Mandingo a totally intense and realistic and brutal rendering of race relations on a Southern plantation during slavery. Every single person I know who's seen it says something along the lines of "yeah you mean that really trashy movie from the 70's?" It's amazing.
like the 'mandingo' ref. i'd like to know what the scholarship on that's like (paging andrew watson?).
all depalma - awesome.
'pig in the city' - now is that underrated, or are there haters on that?
ohh! i want to add 'batman returns.' brilliant analysis on the superhero phenom and psychosis, tim burton totally off the hook and i'm loving every minute (xmas? you got! tragic love story between orphan and lonely, wide-eyed secretary? check! misunderstood monsters? check and double check! 50s kitsch fused with 1940s architecture by way of late 80s music video and 20s german expressionism? yep!) and my favorite batman flick, now and forever, even if 'the dark knight' is going to be incredible.
Geez, now I must put Babe: Pig in the City at the top of my queue. Do I need to see the first one?
Absolutely agree with Batman Returns. There will never be another Batman movie quite like it.
Joaquin -
It would help to have seen Babe but it's not crucial to enjoying the second film.
Chris - I say above that I don't think people hate it, but there's a lot of people who thought the first film was touching and heartwarming (and it is) but they couldn't get with the "darkness" of Pig in the City. Similarly, most people who talk about Mandingo think it's just trash, sorta like the thing about Showgirls. Whatever.
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