February 2012
8 posts
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The Artist (2011)
I WON’T TALK! I WON’T SAY A WORD!
by Chad Perman
For all the modern day cultural importance of movies, I can’t help but think that they used to simply mean a whole lot more way back when. A time I never knew but feel an aching nostalgia for nonetheless. A time when a movie was an event, but not only an event: an escape like no other, a communal experience, a uniquely bright...
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Just a quick, informal poll:
Which film do you think will actually win Best Picture this year? And which film would, if it were entirely up to you?
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The Descendants (2011)
ISLAND LIVING: PARADISE LOST?
by Jiordan Castle
I fell out of love with George Clooney a few years ago. Still, we had a great run: I watched him save lives in a hospital, verbally spar with Michelle Pfeiffer, get through airport security over a dozen times in just a few short hours, give orders as only an animated fox could…the list goes on and on. But, as disjointed May-December...
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Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
BAD ARTISTS COPY. GOOD ARTISTS STEAL.
by Michelle Said The picture is fuzzy. At first it is unclear what we are seeing. The camera keeps zooming in and out haphazardly and eventually we realize that we, or the camera, has been placed high up on a building. Suddenly we come into focus on a city — it looms below us appearing to be vaguely European, but we can’t be sure. We see everything and...
A Valentine's Movie List
by Chad Perman
If you decide to watch a movie on Valentine’s Day - and we here at BWDR obviously strongly recommend that you do - choosing one can be a bit of a minefield. The straight-forward Hollywood rom-coms of the past twenty years (at least) are usually god awful, the predictable and sappy ones often make you want to burn out your eyes (The Notebook, The Proposal, etc) and the indie...
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Waitress (2007)
by Elizabeth Grant Thomas
When a friend of mine, a fellow new mother, started a blog about “making pies and raising Baby,” I asked her if she had seen the film Waitress. When she said she hadn’t, I gushed: “Oh, you have to! It’s about this woman who finds out she’s pregnant, and she doesn’t want to be, and all she wants to do is make pies, and so it’s all about pies and babies, but it’s so...
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Clerks (1994)
I’M NOT EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE HERE TODAY
by Christopher F.
Clerks is a film about my best friend Joe.
When I first saw Kevin Smith’s debut feature, to say it didn’t grab me would be an understatement. Calling me a kid of the nineties is a bit like saying that people born in the sixties were the free love generation - I might have been alive for the vast majority of those years,...