Tag Archives: Cinema

Brokeback Opera Break Down — I Can’t Quit You, Oh, Wait, I Just Did

The New York City Opera has cancelled plans for Brokeback Mountain: The Opera:
Back in June, it was announced that Charles Wuorinen was commissioned to write an opera adaptation of the popular film Brokeback Mountain.

Then in September, following a meeting of New York City Opera’s Board of Directors Mortier, announced that City Opera would be commissioning [...]

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Harry Potter and the Naked Nymph (Julia Louise Dreyfus)

In 1986 there was a terrible movie named Troll.
I never saw it when it came out.
I can’t quite say I’ve seen it.  All right, I actually have seen it.  All of it.  But chunks of it were on DVR speed-through speed.
FromPopsucker:
the thing that shocks me isn’t that Lindsay Lohan’s sister auditioned for a remake of [...]

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Were the World Mine

This looks cute.
Takes the idea of Puck and Midsummer Nights Dream and flips it on its orientation.
Shakespeare has always been a great example of a playwright who breaks the fourth wall in soliloquy, and musicals do the same thing.  I wonder if the cinematic form will work for combining elements of the Bard and Broadway.
Or [...]

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The Last Hollywood Star

The last star on the north east corner of Hollywood Boulevard and La Brea. Picture and details below the jump.

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Inside & Outside the Academy Awards — 2008

When there’s a big awards show at the Kodak Theatre, I often get to see what the set-up is like because I take the Metro subway twice a day at Hollywood & Highland.
What was cool this week is that not only did I see the red carpet being setup earlier in the week, but [...]

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extremely brief episodes (2007-11-05)

Looks like PerezHilton is now on Twitter! Pushing Rss feeds with his blogs. I’m tracking a certain phrase that popped into his headline. #
DraftGore.com has an ad on CNN right now. Very cinematic stills. Letterboxed style framing. Looks inexpensive but classily produced. #

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Lions for Lambs Review

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Sara Evans on The View & Meryl Streep in Rendition & Robert Scoble on Video Length (extremely brief episodes (2007-10-21)

Sara Evans sounds great on “As If”

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extremely brief episodes (2007-10-13)

At the Los Angeles library, my favorite check-out guy saw Blade Runner at an Los Angeles cinema. I’ve never seen it on the big screen. #
Ann Coulter has been making headlines offending Jewish people. Her phraseology was incendiary but actually based on the new testament. #
Gore won the peace prize & everyone [...]

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Steve Carell is “Dan In Real Life” — and “Noseless Man” in Posters — an exercise in non-descriptity

Doesn’t this poster send a horrible message to boys worried about their looks?

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