Flipped (review)
Everything that is wrong with The Movies today in America is beautifully encapsulated in how this lovely little movie cannot find an audience in the current movie environment.
Month: September 2010
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Apocalypse’
You know what I always look for in an end-of-the-world movie? Sandra Bernhard as the hero…
trailer break: ‘I’m Still Here’
So, Joaquin Phoenix chucks his acting career in favor of one as a rapper. And Casey Affleck is there to document it. Or is it all a fake?
question of the day: What actors will you watch in anything?
I wonder whether the big draw of *The American* was George Clooney. Are there more folks out there who, like me, would watch Clooney in absolutely anything?
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: series six filming started today
Production began today on the 2011 episodes of *Doctor Who,* according to Doctor Who News Page…
WWII in HD (review)
The name is a little misleading. These 10 45-minute episodes aren’t just in HD: they’re in color. Hardly anyone even knew most of this footage existed, and it is amazing to see.
watch it: “Kodak 1922 Kodachrome Film Test”
I love the painterly luminosity to the color here, especially to the skin tones. Just beautiful.
color photos of a black-and-white world, part 3
I love coming across color images from the eras when black-and-white photography and film were so dominant. But what about going further back into the past? How does a sudden look at a time that we’ve only ever seen as monochrome change how you think about it?
color photos of a black-and-white world, part 2
Isn’t it amazing to see color photos from a time when we hardly ever see such imagery?
color photos of a black-and-white world, part 1
Our ideas about the past have been so shaped by black-and-white imagery that it almost doesn’t seem real when we’re suddenly confronted by rare color pictures from those era.
