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On and On, On the Beat Goes
Strike Curious Poses | October 3rd 2008 by David Minogue
There hasn't been much happening on this site recently. There are two reasons really.The first is that recently I have been going through the "I don't want to / why blog?" phase that most bloggers go through at some stage. It happens to me every few read more
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dot art | September 23rd 2008 by Mo
The only downtown theater left in New Orleans is Canal Place Cinema that is run by Landmark Theaters. It is located in Canal Place. A number of the arthouse films show there. The New Orleans Film Festival takes place there too. The décor in the thea read more
THE LAST LEAR - WILL YOU WATCH IT?
Celebrity Gossip By Hafidz And Khai | September 16th 2008 by tinsel-gurus
The Last Lear is unlikely to do much trade. It will be regarded, quite rightly, as a curio, belonging to the tradition of parallel Indian cinema: arthouse with a strong focus on realism and naturalism. It bears none of the hallmarks of a classic mas read more
Abelard the Castration
Soiled Sinema | September 8th 2008 by Maq
Abelard the Castration is an extremely rare '77 Germanic art piece about the discovery of the corpses of infamous early lovers Abelard and Héloïse and more importantly, castration. This piece in particular has been deemed as simple sleaze but there read more
"Under the red carpet there is nothing"
Reaction! | September 1st 2008
The Observer reports that Venice - city of film - has only one cinema left (!): "While each neighbourhood used to have a cinema, showing everything from Saturday morning cartoons to obscure German arthouse movies, Venetians are today forced to congr read more
Undisputed
Soiled Sinema | August 25th 2008 by Maq
As a rabid fan of cinema, my knowledge of film knows no bounds. I watch at least 1 film a day, regardless if I'm even at work. In my frequent studies, I have generated an endless repertoire of cinema related know-hows and likings. What started as a l read more
‘The End’ for popcorn in British cinemas
Attuworld | August 12th 2008 by Yaikz
The credits are rolling in Britain for the time-honoured cinematic tradition of munching popcorn at the movies — a newspaper reported Sunday that increasing numbers of cinemas are banning it. A combination of health-conscious cinemagoers reject read more
No more popcorn in British cinemas?
Rangkuman Berita Aktual | August 10th 2008 by toekangblog
LONDON - The credits are rolling in Britain for the time-honoured cinematic tradition of munching popcorn at the movies a newspaper reported Sunday that increasing numbers of cinemas are banning it. A combination of health-conscious cinemagoers reje read more
Mister Lonely
The Search | May 22nd 2008 by Brett McCracken
Harmony Korine is an arthouse director if there ever was one. Actually, he’s probably beyond arthouse–more avant-garde than anything. His films–1997’s Gummo, 1999’s Julien Donkey Boy, and now Mister Lonely–are unli read more
hold on.
stuff you should be listening to | May 22nd 2008 by mbritton
Not only are The Whitest boy Alive a mental german band who make some seriously good downtempo music, but they're also a band who know how to comission a good video. You might want to watch this one once through with the sound off and then close your read more
Persepolis
Yet Another Film Review Blog | May 15th 2008 by Michael Leddy
This was, without doubt, the most unusual cinema experience of my life. For the entirety of the film, there wasn't a murmur from the audience. Not a whisper. The rational part of my brain admits that this was probably due to the combined effect of th read more
Movie Review: Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
Circe's Kitchen | May 12th 2008
Thanks to YouTube, I've fallen in love with Indian cinema.Before user-shared media, my exposure to Indian film was limited to campus film festivals, the occasional PBS documentary, and world music compilations. The history and complexity of the music read more
The Darjeeling Limited
Strike Curious Poses | March 18th 2008 by David Minogue
This weekend I read that cinema attendances in Ireland for July of this year totalled 2.35 million, this was a 32% increase on the same time the previous year. This heartening news, obtained from Ireland's Sunday Tribune, was not just because of the read more
LAMB Devours the Oscars - Best Animated Short Film
The Center Seat | February 20th 2008 by Nayana Anthony
Best Animated Short Film is the coolest Oscar category ever! Anyone know why? Well, aside from a lack of the usual bitchiness and intrigue that plagues many of the other awards, this is one of the few categories in which a movie-phile like me (or you read more
In which I'm all over it...
Blonde Moments... | January 21st 2008
It occurred to me one afternoon last week, as I sat in Edinburgh’s arthouse cinema, enjoying a glass of red wine and the new film about the life of Bob Dylan in a fit of decadence. At one point, Speckled Lad leant in close and breathed something re read more
The Rape of Europa
scaryflocci | January 2nd 2008
See details of the film here. It is playing in January at the Bloor Cinema in Toronto. See review and synopsis below, via Amazon: Review Bringing a radically new perspective to World War II and the Holocaust, this fast-paced docu, based on Lynn Ni read more
Om Shanti Om
Bollywood Movie Reviews | December 10th 2007 by Johny Joseph
Cut the crap, cut the gyan-baazi, cut the will-it-won't-it work naatak. Shah Rukh Khan and Farah Khan's OM SHANTI OM is a true-blue masala entertainer. If MAIN HOON NA was a chauka, this one hits a sixer!Wait, a word of advice to all netizens/reade read more
REVIEW: No Country For Old Men
MovieBob | November 22nd 2007
What sets the Coen Brothers apart from not only other indie-scene mainstays but most other modern American filmmakers is - apart from the astonishing surplus and consistency of talent - that their BEING American filmmakers is unmistakable... In an ag read more
London
eyeflare tips and stories for travelers | November 12th 2007 by jack norell
All the favorite places to see, things to do, and food to eat in London. Here are our picks. Last updated 13 November 2007. London entertainment Aint Nothin But… The Blues Bar Ain’t Nothin’ But, better known as The Blues Bar, has read more
London
eyeflare tips and stories for travelers | November 12th 2007 by jack norell
All the favorite places to see, things to do, and food to eat in London. Here are our picks. Last updated 13 November 2007. London entertainment Aint Nothin But… The Blues Bar Ain’t Nothin’ But, better known as The Blues Bar, has read more
ITV Hail Success of First National Film Awards
The Spine | September 30th 2007
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Spit on me Dickie!
Bopping with Niall JP O'Leary | September 22nd 2007
As part of the Fringe, a septet, 3epkano, were staging a performance in the IFI entitled 'Cinema of Silence', in which they play live accompaniment to some silent arthouse movies. I already had my ticket for Sunday's performance, but I learnt yester read more
Spit on me Dickie!
Bopping with Niall JP O'Leary | September 22nd 2007
As part of the Fringe, a septet, 3epkano, were staging a performance in the IFI entitled 'Cinema of Silence', in which they play live accompaniment to some silent arthouse movies. I already had my ticket for Sunday's performance, but I learnt yester read more
Sherman Torgan, New Beverly Cinema
Rabbit + Crow | July 20th 2007
Sherman Torgan, owner/operator of the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles has died unexpectedly.The New Beverly has been one of L.A.'s longest running arthouse cinemas. Its custom was to screen a thematically-linked double-feature every night, usually read more
Reaching a consensus
Not Another Relationship Blog | June 21st 2007
"Do you have any ideas of what you want to do tomorrow night?"Thinking for a moment, I wanted my response to indicate I wasn't vapid of constructive thought, nor controlling, possessive or bossy. What I wanted to say was I simply hated making decisio read more
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Celtic Cult Cinema | May 14th 2007 by Mark Leslie Woods
Cannes film festival hits 60Bon chance a tous les uns!Cannes Film Festival turns 60 this year, and the diamond milestone means a long line of stars jostling with lesser-known names of arthouse cinema for media attention and fans' adoration on the fam read more
Original Version
Oiseau Anglais | November 14th 2006
If you want to see a film in Reims you have three options. You could jump in your car and drive to fifteen minutes to one of the commercial parks and the huge Gaumont multiplex, where every film is shown in French or dubbed into French; you could str read more
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