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Robert Gives Thanks

25 November 2009 11:01 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

I love slow movies. Really slow. For the longest time I thought everyone else considered that word to signify the worst in movies. Slow meant bad enough to put you to sleep. I love movies that put me to sleep. I’ve a whole collection of movies that I can pop in the DVD player whenever I can’t sleep and they’ll do the trick. If we can agree that music peaceful enough to put you to sleep can still be great, why not movies?

So this year I’m thankful for slow movies. But I’m also thankful for others who love them, because together we inspire filmmakers to keep making them. Great modern films like Goodbye, Solo and The Assassination of Jesse James..., and The Band’s Visit and Silent Light.

I’m thankful that cinema hasn’t been completely overrun by the desire to make anything »

- Robert

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Birthday Suits: Good Hair, and Good Music.

14 November 2009 7:29 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Celebrating the birthdays of the film-famous. If it's your birthday, we'll sing you a happy one in the comments.

Louise Brooks, Veronica Lake and Josh Duhamel

1906 Louise Brooks, dancer, silent film actress, icon, quotable diva, film critic, memoirist, ...Lost Girl, Lulu. Her hair is legend.

1908 Joseph McCarthy, he saw only Red(s). He's been a villainous figure in movies ever since, whether seen, unseen or fictionalized. See: Guilty by Suspicion, The Way We Were, The Manchurian Candidate, Good Night, and Good Luck. and many more...

1919 Veronica Lake, femme fatale, purveyor of the peek-a-boo bang (her hair also being legend). Kim Basinger didn't even have to get "cut" to look like this goddess in La Confidential. She just had to sell those glorious blonde waves.

1945 Paul Hirsch, editor of Carrie, Star Wars (Oscar win), Ferris Bueller's Day Off and more...

1951 Zhang Yimou, fine director, awesome goddess worshipper. Think of what he »

- NATHANIEL R

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"Project Runway" 6.2 Recap: "Pregnancy Chic"

28 August 2009 7:16 AM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »

Warning, spoilers ahead! Read no further if you don't want to know what happened on last night's Project Runway.

Last week Christopher won, Mitchell completely flamed out and sent a nightgown with a high ruffled collar down the runway, and yet somehow it was quirky Ari, that Samantha Ronson lookalike, who got sent packing for her disco soccer ball outfit. A surprising result. I would take a disco soccer ball over an Elizabethan-collared nightgown any day.

This week's episode picks up the next morning in the designer apartments with the obligatory shirtless shot of the hottest male designer (this season it's Logan). In the background, Malvin bites into his Fuji apple.

Everyone is surprised that Ari went home, and Christopher, now that he has a win under his belt, is feeling his oats and holding court. "I'm just happy Mitchell, that you're still here." says a generous Christopher. The unstated addendum to that is, »

- dennis

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Classic Film Stars: Now Less Elusive!

24 March 2009 7:32 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Have you heard the news that Warner Bros has opened up their vaults? Seems at least one of the major studios has realized that those who truly love the cinema love the entire history of it. They'd like to see more of that history.

Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery live Private Lives but they

still want to show off their brand new DVD collections!

There's a reason that some former mega stars (Norma Shearer is a good example) fade in the public consciousness quicker than others. Actually there are many reasons: changing tastes, mediocre filmographies, undramatic personal lives -- especially if they don't end tragically, pop culture's rapid "who's next?" star meat grinder, lack of gay appeal (think about it: fascinating the gays insures a long shelf life for entertainers. I don't think I need to cite examples... they've probably popped into your head just reading that sentence). But I'm »

- NATHANIEL R

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Dispatch from Rotterdam: Guy Maddin on "Send Me To the 'Lectric Chair"

29 January 2009 7:59 PM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

By R. Emmet Sweeney

Guy Maddin is a hoarder of uncanny images, from the candy-colored Alpine tableaus of "Careful" to the frozen horse heads of last year's "My Winnipeg." A commission from the Rotterdam Film Festival centers around another: Isabella Rossellini blasted out of an electric chair. It's the basis for his new short film, "Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair," part of the Urban Screens series at the festival, which is projecting three works onto office buildings throughout the city. It's an archetypal Maddin film, conflating sex, death and film history in a manic seven minutes. I spoke with him at the festival about the new work, collage parties, Thomas Edison and the hazards of Dutch public transit.

How did you get this assignment, and how did you conceive it?

I was approached by the producers Keith Griffiths and Simon Field, who are both friends of mine. They just »

- R. Emmet Sweeney

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