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Mendelson's Memos
http://scottalanmendelson.blogspot.com
"Essays, Reviews, Commentary, and Original Scholarship. A Film Blog that strives to be Art." Mendelson's Memos is a quickly growing film blog that attempts to separate itself by maintaining a certain dignity. A bare minimum of snark, no personal gossip, and a foundation in worthwhile writing and original ideas. Feel free to explore.
- Added on: Oct 5th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Scott Mendelson
- Listed in: Film Liberalism
- Tags: politics news reviews movies trailers essays
Recent Posts
Sandra Bullock Blind Sides New Moon, while newbies generally open OK. Thanksgiving weekend box office in review (11/29/09)
It was just seven-and-a-half years ago that Spider-Man became the first film to gross over $100 million in a single weekend. Now, we have a movie that has in fact dropped $100 million between its first and second weekend. That's right; Twilight Sag...
Scott Mendelson is officially a pundit.
This is a phone interview that I conducted with Jesse Wente of Canada's Q Radio. It's my first real interview, so there are plenty of first-timer hiccups. First of all, it was conducted at 6:30am while I had sniffles-related laryngitis. Second of ...
To pimp Ryan Reynolds, MTV blogger randomly makes up record-breaking statistic for The Proposal...
Did Terry Schwartz just randomly make this up? In a random post published September 1st (linked to in a Thanksgiving article concerning Ryan Reynolds), Schwartz proclaims that The Proposal is the highest-grossing romantic comedy of all-time. Well, ...
The Wolfman gets a traditional one-sheet.
I'm presuming that this is the final poster. There have been all kinds of reports involving behind the scenes turmoil on this one (Danny Elfman's gothic score being replaced, a fix-it editor called in to help construct the picture, etc), but I'm sti...
Book of Eli gets a poster.
My wife has been making the same joke over and over since she saw the trailer before The Box. "Who runs Bartertown? Gary Oldman runs Barter Town!" On the plus side, it looks like Oldman will add another notch to his onscreen mortality ra...
What\'s Avatar?
Fox needs to get it in gear. I was interviewed about racial and gender politics - re: The Princess and the Frog - for BBC World Service Radio. After a fun but too-brief chat, I brought up the buzz regarding Avatar as a topic for further discussion. T...
