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Manny Farber's Best Films Of 1951, #7: "The Day The Earth Stood Still," directed by Robert Wise
2 December 2009 6:57 AM, PST
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Greetings, people of Earth. I mean, Manny Farber fans. Over at my blog Some Came Running, I've been looking at Farber's picks and positions on his best films of 1951 (the title of his piece for The Nation reprinted in Farber on Film puts the phrase best films in quotation marks), and doing my own humble sort-of updates, as it were. As The Auteurs is conducting a really lovely and imaginative retrospective on Farber's work, I asked my overseers if I could bring one such consideration over here, and I'm honored to be included in the series. For write-ups on the prior six pictures, go here and work backwards.
We start with Farber: "Science-fiction again, this time with ideals; a bouyant, imaginative filtering around in Washington, D.C., upon the arrival of a high-minded interplanetary federalist from Mars, or somewhere; matter-of-fact statements about white-collar shabby gentility in boarding houses, offices, and
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Link Bag
27 October 2009 10:11 PM, PDT
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Arts Beat When Woody Met Ingmar. How have I never heard this story before? Love it
Low Resolution hilarious take on the latest Twilight: New Moon trailer
i09 an interview with a Dollhouse writer on this last great episode
Culture Snob describe your taste in horror in 10 movies. Interesting take on a "best" list
In Contention Guy Lodge plays contrarian for Precious
Some Came Running gets nostalgic for gauzy Jenny Agutter and mack daddy Michael York in 70s 'classic' Logan's Run
This is the time of year when everyone who really loves movies remembers that not all of the best movies of any given year come out in the last two months of the year and it's so annoying that everyone pretends that they do
Man Made Movies the online Sam Rockwell Oscar for Moon campaign
Attention Deficit Disorderly great piece on The Hurt Locker and Jeremy Renner's Sgt.
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Giving A Second Shot To "Where The Wild Things Are"
21 October 2009 12:24 PM, PDT
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It is not common practice for a film reviewer, or film writer, or, not to split hairs, a film critic, to reveal the state of mind he or she was in when seeing a film. Nor to necessarily admit that said state of mind colored one’s perception of the film. In practice, that sort of thing of course happens all the time. But the critic’s not supposed to admit it. More to the point, the critic is, or was, expected to make sure that such a thing doesn’t actually happen—to maintain his or her objective perspective while viewing and apply a subjective aesthetic/sensibility/analytical apparatus to the picture at hand after that. Again, as to whether this ideal ever really obtained in practice is open to question, not that we’ll ever discover the answer.
One thing that internet film “criticism” has given rise to
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Terrible Yellow Links
15 October 2009 8:37 AM, PDT
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Today's Must Read
Newsweek brings Maurice Sendak, Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze together for an awesome conversation while Where The Wild Things Are heads to theaters. It's a must read. Here's a little bit about Sendak's issues with Disney Do you think Disney is bad for children?
Sendak: I think it's terrible.
But you have all the Disney characters on your mantel behind you.
Sendak: I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. I stood on the chair screaming, "My hero! My hero!" He had a lot of guts when he was young. We're both about the same age; we're about a month apart.
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Linker
17 September 2009 5:30 PM, PDT
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Glark makes an of-the-moment funny. Rip Swayze [thx Joe Reid]
Dave Kehr interviews Lars Von Trier but also discovers some new (old) Italian masterpieces that sound intriguing
Indiewire A Single Man will be distributed this year by the Weinsteins. Colin Firth is gunning for Best Actor. I love festival season. It always makes the awards race seem so near
New York Times 5 great upcoming performances: Gabourey Sidibe and Carey Mulligan have more buzz than they can deal with already but this article also contains less common drooling over Robin Wright Penn in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Variety Nicole Kidman continues on her gloriously pathological quest to work with every fine director in the world. Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In) will direct The Danish Girl. Unfortunately Charlize Theron has bolted. I want to root for Theron, I do. But her filmography bores me
Some Came Running Glenn Kenny on three
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Kaylie Jones Reads from Lies My Mother Never Told Me
26 August 2009 7:22 AM, PDT
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Lies My Mother Never Told Me by Kaylie Jones.
As the daughter of award-winning novelist James Jones (From Here to Eternity, Some Came Running, The Thin Red Line), Kaylie Jones grew up surrounded by the literary elite, counting James Baldwin, Norman Mailer, and William Styron as close family friends. In her new memoir, Lies My Mother Never Told Me (William Morrow/HarperCollins), Jones takes readers behind the glamour, recalling a life and mother-daughter relationship riddled with emotional abuse and alcoholism. In this exclusive audio excerpt, she describes her sometimes lonely youth in Paris, and the beauty, years later, of being a mother herself. Listen to the podcast after the jump.
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Splendor in the Link
14 August 2009 10:45 AM, PDT
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Oh. My. God. A Natalie Wood Retro right here in NYC next week. Wheeeee. I'm bouncing up and down in my chair as I type. (I'll fix the resultant typos later).
If you've never seen Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice you'd be insane to miss it. "Oh, Insight!" I'd also suggest catching Inside Daisy Clover because it's a) really weird and b) all about Hollywood and c) they totally nominated the wrong supporting actress from it for the Oscar.
There's also the opportunity to see Rebel Without a Cause, Gypsy, This Property is Condemned or West Side Story on the big screen if you haven't. I have so I'll be trying to catch the ones I haven't laid eyes on yet: Tomorrow is Forever (1946) with Claudette Colbert, the controversial hard to find Kings Go Forth (1958) with Frank Sinatra and Peeper (1975) with Michael Caine. Why can't this series last longer than a week.
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