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Martin McDonagh‘s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri will begin shooting in April and will be distributed by Fox Searchlight, Deadline reports.
Watch a video essay on how Mad Max: Fury Road effectively uses long shots to convey its story:
Movie Mezzanine‘s Jaime N. Christley reflects on Taxi Driver as it turns 40:
A year before the word was spoken by Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness), “force” held Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) transfixed. More accurately, “true force,” followed by a line about “All the king’s horses and all the king’s men,” incoherent ramblings that don’t amount to anything presentable, but exhibit vividly enough the...
Martin McDonagh‘s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri will begin shooting in April and will be distributed by Fox Searchlight, Deadline reports.
Watch a video essay on how Mad Max: Fury Road effectively uses long shots to convey its story:
Movie Mezzanine‘s Jaime N. Christley reflects on Taxi Driver as it turns 40:
A year before the word was spoken by Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness), “force” held Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) transfixed. More accurately, “true force,” followed by a line about “All the king’s horses and all the king’s men,” incoherent ramblings that don’t amount to anything presentable, but exhibit vividly enough the...
- 2/10/2016
- by TFS Staff
- The Film Stage
What's turning me on this week? Justin Nowell's "O" face. And sweaty naked Filipinos. There's a lot of sex in movies these days, and, I'd argue -- even more of it in independent film. Independent and/or arthouse movies have largely championed what I believe to be the paramount intent of the art form that is 'film' -- that is, pushing boundaries, re-framing cultural issues, and using a visual story-telling format to express alternative ways and means of comprehending things close, foreign, and completely inimitable. Truly independent film largely skirts the burden of having to be a marketable piece of cinema, and, as such, can (thankfully) challenge us in several areas -- one being the collective sexual identity of humankind. And that's where I find myself today, finding Sex-as-a-concept dripping all over artful entertainment. In the indie vehicle World's Greatest Dad, the issue of auto-erotic masturbation (one that's cropped up all over the place in the...
- 8/24/2009
- by Bethany Perryman
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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