October. It's A Wrap.

Oh, 2010. We're just getting to know you and you're already approaching history's grave. Stay a little while longer please? Two months... give us two months. Here are a dozen Film Experience highlights from October in case you missed 'em.Claremont & Hammerstein's "The Sound of Mutants"Jake Gyllenhaal Speaks a revealing evening with the star. Quotes on his three key movies.BPFTOI The popular

75th: "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Other the years I've been writing for The Film Experience I've realized I'm quite obsessed with chronologies and time. Stars that have been part of our rear view mirror of film history our whole lives were once fresh faces. It's a simple concept but intermittently hard to absorb. I mean, Olivia de Havilland and Mickey Rooney, two of the oldest living film stars, were once newbies! In fact,

The Greatest Halloween Moment in the History of the Movies

"RAAAAACHELLL FLAAXXXX!!!"[img src]Cher, Christina Ricci, Mermaids (1990)If you dare to disagree, you'd better list an inspired trick or a whopper of a treat in the comments!Oh and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!*

The Final Linkdown

My beloved bloglines -- where I subscribe to hundreds of blogs and websites in case something interesting pops up -- goes the way of the dodo tomorrow. This is the final link roundup as you've come to know (and love / be indifferent to). I'm taking this opportunity to rethink my web reading and start from scratch in terms of what I "follow" since I spend too much time surfing, skimming, reading,

Halloween Top Ten: I ♥ Zombies; or, Up with Dead People

Craig here. It's Halloween and the new horror tv series The Walking Dead is nearly upon us. This is what I've been thinking about day-to-day for the last few weeks. So here's a Tuesday Top Ten Special (i.e. it's on the weekend instead... and it's Halloween themed) to get you thinking about all things zombified. Perfect for a day made for the dead. Alive or recently embalmed, all enter here.

Streep Nom #15 & #16: Sister Aloysius Beauvier & Julia Child

In an off blog e-mail correspondence earlier this week, one of my fellow movie bloggers said to me "The best thing about this year's Best Actress race is that Streep isn't in it." That's funny. It's true that her ubiquity can be exhausting. It must especially feel like a relief for other Tinseltown goddesses in those rare years when she isn't in play. More room for them. But since Streep at 60, a

What if "Australia" Had Ended Here?

On this very day in 1939, Australia's Northern Standard incorrectly assumed that The Lady Ashley (Nicole Kidman) and her Drover (Hugh Jackman) had both perished in the Kuraman Desert!Newspapers. They've always had it rough; The second you publish something it's ancient history.Just as soon as this news was making the rounds the lady and her cattle driving man, rode into town in a cloud of

FYC Hell: Alice in Uglyland and the Art of Self Editing.

With screeners arriving and campaign parties starting, awards season is raring to go. The Oscar FYC ad pictured below, the first of the season, arrived today in my mailbox from the delightful Guy Lodge with the completely sensible command "Stop. This. Now." As many of you know, I loathe Tim Burton's Mia in Uglyland but I'm not dumb enough to think that it doesn't have a shot at a handful of Oscar

Kiss The Girl, Win an Oscar?

random Oscar thought of the day If the Best Actress race really narrows down to The Bening (The Kids Are All Right) vs. Natalie Portman (Black Swan) than we have a seriously sapphic situation going on this year."♪ I Kissed a Girl just to try it, I know Oscar won't mind it. ♫ "Hey, it worked last year for the ladies in this category.P.S. Does this mean that The Oscars are basically like frat

Linktivia

An endless series of links. I don't know what's wrong with me. I'm seriously going to go cold turkey. But let's start with "Boba Fett's Invoice" designed by Brock Davis because it's just making me giggle. [Discovered via]Self Styled Siren great piece on being drawn to older movies and why it's incorrect to reductively label that "nostalgia."Guardian Snarky (but funny) "Can Nicole Kidman pull an

LFF 2010: Zero Hours Remain

David from Victim of the Time with one last report from the 54th BFI London Film Festival.Craig gave you a packed wrap-up earlier today, but I couldn't let you go without getting in another word myself. I caught near to 50 films during the past month (give or take a couple I, er, nodded off during), and I'm happy to say there were an abundance of highs and a general lack of lows - maybe I just

Unsung Heroes: The Production Design of The Descent

Michael C. here from Serious Film for another episode of Unsung Heroes. With Halloween fast approaching I thought now would be a great time to shine the spotlight on my pick for the best horror movie of the last decade.I was researching Neil Marshall's The Descent for a post I was writing about horror movies when I was surprised to stumble upon this trivia item:No real caves appear anywhere in

Lunk. Subgenius. Monster.

awwww, poor Frankenstein Monster. Always so pathetically lonely. Hit refresh ya big lug! I'm sure someone will cozy up. If you're lucky she'll have a huge skunk inspired beehive. [Note: This illustration is brought to you from the wonderful imagination of Mr Hipp.... click over and see other illustrated wonders.]

Captain America's Mighty Shield Pecs

Behold: Chris Evans as Steve Rogers (aka Captain America), post-serum obviously.Captain America: The First AvengerIn all seriousness now, I have to ask: How they gonna make him look scrawny and unfit before he drinks the drink that transforms him into a super soldier?  If you would like to reread this post for several minutes  (no one will blame you) here's a little musical accompaniment. Read my

LFF 2010: five final festival films to wrap up with...

Craig here from Dark Eye Socket with my LFF wrap-up.As of tonight the BFI London Film Festival is done for another year. It's been a stellar year all told, if the surplus of reports are to be believed. And I'd willingly add a further approving nod to the list. I didn't manage to see everything I wanted (juggling festival times and dates with travel arrangements is an art – one that's open to

Animal Kingdom To Rack Up Awards (...In Australia)

Remember that one year (2001) when the list-happy AFI (American Film Institute) decided to compete with the Globes and the Oscars in year end prizes? No, that didn't last long. But there's another AFI, The Australian Film Institute, that has been around for a long time and is in no such danger of being a one-off. This year, they're all about the amazing family crime drama Animal Kingdom which

Hit Me With Your Best Shot: "Night of the Hunter" (1955)

"We've reached the Season 1 Finale of "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" I've had a lot of fun doing this shot-based series, wherein we choose our favorite images from films though sometimes, like tonight, when we're covering the great noir THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955) things haven't gone remotely as planned.<--- This is the disc as I received it in the mail this morning for this post.Obviously a

The Dark Knight Rises: A Review Starter Kit.

Christopher Nolan has revealed the title of his third Batman film (Batman 8 if you're counting*) to Hero Complex and it's The Dark Knight Rises. We also know that the villain will not be The Riddler so stop that photoshopping of Tom Hardy in green tights even though his musculature is undoubtedly fun to move one's cursor around. What? Okay, you may leave the question mark upon his chest because

Oscar's Collection: The Youngest Best Actress Nominees

Another Oscar Trivia Explosion. This time it's the Actresses. Jennifer Lawrence made quite a film-carrying impression in Winter's Bone this past summer. It was one of the leggiest arthouse hits in some time, playing for months, and wracking up $6+ million without a huge advertising budget or bankable stars and with grim subject matter. Well done. At Christmas Hailee Steinfeld will lead us on a

"Every Ending... Has a Beginning."

The Birds (1963) gets the prequel we definitely needed...The Birds (The Prequel) from NYSUfilms on Vimeo.... because everyone hates movies without exposition / backstory. [/sarcasm] I love the gentle spoofing of our modern need for all mystery to be explained to us "We had no answer... until now". Ha!Apparently this prequel trailer for Alfred Hitchcock's classic The Birds is a year old. But I'm

This Link Goes to 11

Live Feed Glee inspired political attack ad. Who knew an attack ad could be cute?Kenneth in the (212) my friend Kenneth will be seen briefly in the new Mindy Cohn gay flick Violet Tendencies. When was the last time you heard "new Mindy Cohn flick"... let alone a gay one?Pop Justice "Bad Romance" is one year old today. Kinda. Still love it.This Leonardo TotallyLooksLike double gotsaved on my

Double Angel Braid Headband

Start along one side of her face and make an angel braid.  This is a braid where you only pick up hair from one side.  I pulled the hair from the front of her face as shown below.

Next make a parallel angel braid as shown below.  Do this to both sides of her head. 

 Below is a picture of the other side of her head as well.

 Take all 4 ends of the braids and pull them to the bottom, back of her neck and secure them together with an elastic.

 Below is a top view of the finished hairstyle.



Which movie...

...most reminds you of a happy night in your life? (It doesn't even have to be a happy movie to do so.)

A Midwestern 80s Moment: Kathleen, Meryl, Terri, Lesley

I'm sure it was because I lived in Michigan in the 1980s and that's when John Hughes movies were always in theaters but it seemed (to young me) that the Midwest was Hollywood-Hot back then. So this one goes out to all the Midwestern readers and to four fine actresses who are often associated with the 1980s though one of them has clearly transcended our puny mortal concepts of time.So we'll start

"NOW a warning?"

According to The Movie Timeline, which I like to visit on occasion,  Helen (Goldie Hawn) drank that potent boob &butt lifting potion in Death Becomes Her (1992) on this very day, October 26th, back in 1985! That scene isn't included onscreen but we do get to see Madeline (Meryl Streep) follow in her footsteps years later. And, anyway, I'm always up for an excuse to celebrate a 25th anniversary!"

Curio: Wes Anderson's Bad Dads

Alexa from Pop Elegantiarum here with your weekly arts and crafts. There is a very cool exhibit coming up for those in San Francisco. As I've noted many times, Wes Anderson is a bottomless source of inspiration for visual artists. So Spoke Art, a transient art gallery and publishing house based in the Bay Area, is taking advantage of the bounty by putting on an art show tribute to Wes Anderson

First and Last, "I'm in the Wrong Movie"

the first and last images in a motion picture (excluding opening/closing credits)Hmmmm. You may need another clue. The first and last lines:first: "Hey, what's this? One of ____'s tricks? I'm in the wrong movie!"last: [Can't share it. They're singing the title.]Can you guess the movie?Want to try more puzzles? Challenge your friends to guess. All solved puzzles have the answers in easy

Linky Linky

Movie|Line offers up pre 1970s horror movie suggestions for Halloween/Film James Franco making another poetry film. From behind the camera this time.MCN Halle Berry's Frankie & Alice to get Oscar qualifying release. Have I ever told you how much I hate the one week qualifier rule?  "YES. SHUT UP," the readers shout in unison. I'm just sayin' movies should be eligible only if the year of their

LFF 2010: Northern Lights, Black Swans

Dave from Victim of the Time, reporting from the 54th BFI London Film Festival.We're winding down now. Today's gala screening, the sparky, perceptive The Kids Are All Right, is old news on American shores, so it's a good thing that I've taken so long to ponder over today's films. Today's theme might be... don't expect too much. You'll only get hurt.Darren Aronofsky’s films consume. They consume

7 Word Reviews: Made in Dagenham, Stone, 127 Hours, Etc...

Can you feel Oscar precursor season gearing up?Left: Aron Ralson as himself.Right: James Franco as Aron RalstonThe mountaintops are a-rumbling. To delude myself into thinking I've "caught up" before the avalanche, herewith seven word reviews on a bunch of movies I haven't got around to talking about just yet. More to come on three of them.127 HoursIn which James Franco plays Aron Ralston who is

15 Directors Who Shaped My Movie Love

So there's this meme going around that Paolo tagged me with. So why not? The idea is that you list 15 directors, mainly off of the top of your head, that contributed to the way you experience and think about the movies. This is not a list of my all time favorites though half of the list would probably overlap. This is the list I come up with when I think briefly on the formative masterminds and/

Para Normal Activity.

What did you see over the weekend? Care to share? The only movie I managed to catch, on a total whim, was the original Paranormal Activity on Instant Watch just as the new one was packing them in at the box office. Hey, I've never claimed to be current with horror. I am totally not that guy. So here I am talking about a year after its sell-by date! I'm not in the now. I am beyond time.See, even

Take Three: Anna Faris

Craig here with Take Three. Today: Anna FarisTake One: Even cowgirls get the bluesI’m always up for a spot of Brokeback love. I know there's been plenty of attention around these parts in the past but let’s divert the love that-a-way. Let’s ride sidesaddle and gallop slightly away from Jake ‘n’ Heath. And Michelle 'n' Anne. And Ang. Hey, look, it’s Anna Faris as Lashawn Malone in Brokeback

First and Last, Far Away

first and last puzzles. Can you guess the movie?first image: last line:"You'll see. You'll see how far away we'll be."This one took a while for people to guess. It's such a good movie. The answer is [highlight the invisible text] BURNT MONEY (2000) from Argentina. Really intense crime drama about "the twins" who aren't twins but gay lovers. You should rent it.*

LFF 2010: What I Love the Most

Craig reporting from the London Film Festival. Argentinian film editor Delfina Castagnino makes her directorial feature debut with What I Love the Most / Lo que más quiero, a slight but thoughtfully quiet film full of long takes and extended pauses. The slim plot follows Pilar, who has recently lost her father, visiting her friend Maria, who is absconding from her boyfriend. The two spend their

You eat that watermelon, Juliette...

Just eat it!I'm totally not crazy about watermelons myself. I don't like anything where I have to spit out seeds. You?This entirely random post has been brought to you by a recent screening of What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993) in which just about everyone is excellent even though people only talk about it today in terms of Leonardo DiCaprio's first entirely deserved Oscar nomination. I meant to

LFF 2010: Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

Like Winter Vacation (reviewed yesterday and also showing today), more snowy desolation abounds in Almari Helander’s debut film Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. But this time the setting is a much more grim (bordering on Grimm) and fable-like Finland (bordering on Lapland). There are 24 days to go until Christmas, and high on a mountain a mysterious company called Subzero Inc. are drilling

How to Make a Poof

I recently got asked how I do my daughters poof.  I am going to attempt to explain

With my oldest daughter we often times just pull her hair back and use the bobby pins to push the poof forward.  I also use a straight end comb (rat tail comb) and put it evenly under a small layer of hair in the front and pull slightly.   This smooth out the hair and poofs it up.

However if we want a bigger poof.  This is the trick we use.

 Start by making your parts and pull the rest of the hair out of your way.

Next make a part in the center of your hair for the poof.  Move the hair across the front of her face out of the way for a moment.

Then pull the back half of the hair into an elastic and push it forward and secure with bobby pins.  **If you criss cross the bobby pins they say in much better.

Now take the front piece of hair and comb it over the poof and secure it with bobby pins.  If your daughters hair is too thin to stay with just bobby pins use an elastic and then use the bobby pins to push the hair forward.

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Yes, No, Maybe So: "Rabbit Hole"

I probably need to start covering movies I'm not absolutely drooling for in this yes, no, maybe so trailer series. It gets hard to pick the "no" and "maybe" elements for a film like, say, this one here...John Cameron Mitchell's RABBIT HOLE will hit theaters, albeit only a few of them we're guessing, on December 17th, a date obviously chosen with the perception that it will maximize Oscar

Catherine Deneuve and The Terrified Naked Model

Yesterday was the 67th birthday of the one and only Catherine Deneuve. As some of you know, she's one of my top ten actresses of all time. I didn't celebrate because I was too busy tinkering with blog coding. (Lots of good changes coming. Cross your fingers)<-- Deneuve with foxy François on the Potiche promotional trail.Here in the USA when people talk about 60something actresses, it's almost

First and Last, 4.45

the first image in a motion picture, and the last... Can you guess the movie?That's right. It's the very recent hit [highlight for the answer] ZOMBIELAND (2009).  *

The 50 Oldest Living Oscar Nominees

Happy birthday to Best Actress winner Joan Fontaine (Suspicion, 1941), also known as the second Mrs. DeWinter. She turns 93 years young today. What on earth was she thinking about when she won the Oscar. This photo to your left fascinates me on account of "who knows?" It seems so much more candid than many Oscar night photos.I keep the following "still with us!" list, not from any morbid

Linkenstein

What follows is a strange amalgam of old and new links. It's a frankenstein roundup, stitched together over the past four days from aborted link posts that were accidentally unposted... until now. "IT'S ALIVE!"/Film Jon Hamm as Superman?Movie|Line's failed/jokey photoshop attempt at the same thing utterly delights me (pictured left)I Just Want to Be Perfect Black Swan website devoted to Nina's (

Review: "Hereafter"

Clint Eastwood, now 80 years old, has never been more regular. Somewhere between the months of October and December each year, comes a new Eastwood picture for your consideration... or "For Your Consideration" if you're a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In some years, like 2006 (Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima) or 2008 (Changeling and Gran

LFF 2010: Winter Vacation

Craig here with more from the LFF 2010Winter Vacation (Han jia), the acclaimed new film from writer-poet Li Hongqi, arrives at the LFF with prizes from both the Seoul and Locarno film festivals. It languorously tracks the existence of a community of mostly-related residents, chiefly a gang of teens awaiting their return to school,  during the last days of a particularly desolate and

Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Mean Girls

Next Wednesday night is the Season 1 Finale of 'Best Shot". Together we'll look at the 1955 classic Night of the Hunter which --- well, if you've never seen it, you're in for a major film event. It's appropriately creepy for late October, too. Today, something lighter and flirtier. MEAN GIRLS (2004)God, she can be SO annoying.Few movies from the Aughts have proved as delightfully durable as Mean

Unsung Heroes: Tom Stoppard for Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade

Michael C. here from Serious Film for another episode of Unsung Heroes. This week why don't we hand out some credit for some "uncredited" writing.All directors, no matter how great, have a few blind spots. Even someone as indisputably great as Alfred Hitchcock could become leaden and stilted when he attempted farce. Similarly, one would not be too far out on a limb if he or she accused Steven

LFF 2010: And It Hurts With Every... Cannon

David from Victim of the Time, reporting from the 54th BFI London Film Festival.I've been engrossed in this festival for so long now, it already feels like it's winding down; in fact, there's another week to go, with Danny Boyle's 127 Hours the closing night gala next Thursday evening. Perhaps my feeling comes from the fact that my most anticipated film is just around the corner: yes, I too fell

Poof with Small Braids

Start by making a poof in the front center of her head.

 Along each side of the poof take a small amount of hair and make a braid.

 Wrap the braids around the ponytail holder and secure it with bobby pins.

 Below is the side view of her hair.

 The back view



Who's That Girl? (Episode 10)

Can you name the actress and the film in which she appears? Who are these mystery girls?A [Highlight for answer] Tomboy icon Mary Stuart Masterston in Some Kind of Wonderful (1987). Guessed by Kit and domgogoB [Highlight for answer] Yep, that's SJP, Sarah Jessica Parker in Ed Wood (1994). The guy lying on the floor there is Johnny Depp. Guessed by James Colon.C [Highlight for the Answer] The

Boo You Whore

So... Blogger's image upload function happens to be getting some sort of reboot on the very night we were doing Hit Me With Your Best Shot!Image uploading being the #1 requirement for celebrating our favorite screenshots, we're postponing til tomorrow night at 10:00 PM. You're invited so be here. Maybe we should just move to ThursdaysYes, every Thursday he thinks she's doing SAT prep but really

Sam Rockwell and Hilary Swank in "Conviction"

Whether or not you believe the old Hollywood maxim “directing is 90% casting,” you do have to admit that it’s a hefty percentage of the sum of any good film. Tony Goldwyn, who directed the true story exoneration drama Conviction, now in theaters, obviously understands this. Sam Rockwell was Goldwyn’s first and only choice to play the convicted murderer Kenny Waters and casting him was a wise move

Get Away Fom Ripley You Bitches

JA from MNPP here. If you consider Ridley Scott's 1979 masterpiece Alien a horror film (and you really should consider Ridley Scott's 1979 masterpiece Alien a horror film) (and even more specifically it should be considered it a slasher film, just a slasher set in outer space) then it becomes immediately clear that Ellen Ripley, the character immortalized by Sigourney Weaver in this and its

Dandy Giveaways and More

Dandy Giveaways and More has featured The Wright Hair on their site http://www.dandygiveaway.com/?p=1261 everyone should check out their fun site.

LFF 2010: A Screaming Man

Craig here, continuing a look at films showing at the 54th BFI London Film Festival.I much admired Chad filmmaker Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's Daratt/Dry Season from 2007 (it took the #4 spot in my year-end list for that year), and he’s triumphed again with his fourth feature, A Screaming Man/Un homme qui crie. Made in the same refined and frank vein as Daratt, this new film follows Adam (Youssouf

First and Last, The Lawn

the first image from a motion picture and the last...Need another clue? Here's the same thing in dialogue form first: "oh my god oh my god" last: "I know things about pigeons."Can you guess the movie?That's right it's [highlight for the answer] Clint Eastwood's IN THE LINE OF FIRE (1993)Want to try more puzzles? Challenge your friends to guess. All solved puzzles have the answers in easy

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You Will Link a Tall Dark Stranger

Scott Feinberg points out that Sony Pictures Classics is the first studio out of the gate with Academy screeners. This is a good strategy as I've noted previously. I am anxious to watch Please Give again (very funny movie with delightful actressing throughout... in other words: my kind of movie). I haven't yet screened You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger but shall very soon now that it's here. I

Mad Men at the Movies: 'Adieu, Adieu, To You and You and You-ooo'

Previously on MM@M: 4.1 Live From Times Square 4.2 Sixties Sweethearts 4.3 Catherine Deneuve & Gamera, 4.4 Jean Seberg, 4.5 Hayley Mills & David McCallum, 4.6 Chaplin the Sad Clown 4.7 "No Bad Seats" 4.8 Peyton Place 4.9 "The Beautiful Girls"In Mad Men at the Movies we investigate the cinematic references in the Emmy winning drama Mad Men. Though we accidentally took a one month hiatus from this

Comment Party in Aisle 3

What we're (still) talking about in case you haven't been paying attention. Comments are like blog oxygen. They're like applause for desperate performers. Don't sit on your hands. Type! Consider this a whip cracked. You know you like that.Andrew answers a question we asked back in the Oscar's Favorite Foreign Film Directors article: why wasn't Akira Kurosawa's Ran nominated for Best Foreign Film

Ménage à trois "A Dangerous Method"

Eeep!Viggo Mortensen as Sigmund Freud. Put me on the couch.Keira Knightley as Sabina and Michael Fassbender as Carl Jung.Yes, It's VIGGO (my vote for the most consistently brilliant 50something male actor working), Keira, and the wonderful Michael Fassbender in David Cronenberg's Psychiatrists In Love. er... The Dangerous Method. I once saw a play about these three characters (not the Christopher

Curio: Lisa Brawn's Woodcuts

Alexa from Pop Elegantiarum here with your weekly arts and crafts. Recently I came upon these woodcut paintings by Lisa Brawn. Lisa carves detailed portraits into wood, generally beams of salvaged Douglas fir. Usually artists carve into wood in order to make prints from the resulting block; instead, Lisa paints the carved block itself to create one-of-a-kind portraits. She looks to pop

First and Last

the first actual image (during the opening credits) and the last image (before closing credits) from a motion picture...Need another clue? Highlight for the first and last lines of dialoguefirst: This is great. Oh, that's incredible.last: Bye.Can you guess the movie?Of course you can. It's [highlight for answer]... the pop culture smash hit GHOST (1990) [Hit the label below for previous quizzes]

Do 50 Splits for JCVD

I almost let the day slip on by without wishing the Muscles from Brussels a Happy 50th Birthday. So happy birthday to the Time Cop himself, Jean Claude Van Damme, our Universal Soldier. He hit the big 5-0 today. He can do the splits and you can't. (For a brief moment I considered posting 50 pics of JCVD doing the splits. Then sanity returned.Or at least I can't.But even if you can, I think maybe

Braids to Messy Bun

Start with the bangs pulled back into a poof.

                                                 Make 1 small french braid along the poof.

Then make a 2nd french braid parallel to the first.  As shown below do this to both sides of her head. 

The top of her head with the poof and braids is shown below.

                                                        Then pull all the hair into a ponytail.

Make a messy bun with the ponytail.

                                            Below is a side view of the braids and messy bun.

LFF: Picco an Oscar Nominee

David of Victim of the Time reporting from the 54th BFI London Film Festival.I'd like to stick some exciting star sightings into my little introduction here, but sadly the only famous body part I've laid eyes on (so far) is Freida Pinto's head. Before we get to the enticing capsules -two starkly different Foreign Film Oscar contenders and one harrowing prison drama that trumps them both - a bit

Oscar Prediction Revisions: Costume Design, Documentary Shorts

The Oscar Prediction Pages are all finally revised and updated.CostumesThis morning I was thinking about the costume designers who may be in play. Like many of the Academy's branches, costume designers can be a bit insular about who they nominate (though no group is anywhere near as "final club" elitist as the composers) but one previously unnominated designer I hope they consider is Louise

Link Robot ♥ Actresses (Especially the Intimidating Leggy Kind)

Shock Till You Drop Sigourney Weaver interview involving all four Aliens movies and her other genre successes. She's a bit cagey in her answers -- see how she dodges the tough question. But it's Sigourney so we read. And...Collider ...Robert DeNiro has signed on to play the object of her investigation in the psychological thriller Red Lights. He'll be playing a psychic, she's a paranormal

Take Three: Deborah Kara Unger

Craig with this week's Take Three Today: Deborah Kara UngerTake One: (Fear) X marks the...Game ‘A lone man searching for answers to a troubling mystery – assisted by a mysterious and wilfully tricksy woman – whilst on the run from a seemingly shadowy organisation’. This could well describe, in loose terms, the basic plot of two higher profile Unger films: The Game (1997) and, to a lesser

Say What? (Tom is so Impossible)

Amuse us. Caption or add dialogue to either of these photos in the comments. They're taken from the set of Mission Impossible 4. Jeremy Renner and Tom Cruise have gone for a swim. [src]

Actressing, Swag, Oscar Updates

Heads up: I interviewed Juliette Lewis (!) a few days ago and that piece will hit on Thursday. In November... TILDA. Stay tuned. The fall film season always brings fresh golden excitement to The Film Experience.Speaking of pick-me-ups...This T to your left, is my favorite piece of swag for precursor season thus far. They passed some law that bloggers are supposed to tell you what gifts they get,

LFF 2010: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Craig from Dark Eye Socket here with the first of several reports from the 54th BFI London Film Festival. Dave started things off the other day with thoughts on festival opener Never Let Me Go and a grab bag of London delights, but first up for me is a trip to Thailand with this year's celebrated Palme d'Or winner. Ah, Uncle Boonmee. You’ll now be able to add the LFF to your lifetime of

Angela Lansbury and Other Oscar Record Holders

Slow and steady tortoises may win races but sometimes we have to stop to celebrate the hares that sprint. In the case of Angela Lansbury, who celebrates her 85th birthday today, we can do both.<--- Angela in her Tony nominated role from A Little Night Music last season on Broadway. She's won 6 Golden Globes and 5 Tony Awards. Emmy (18 nominations) and Oscar (3 nominations) have eluded her.  Slow

A Link of Their Own

Have your eyes yet feasted on this actual handwritten letter (thx Boy Culture) that Madonna wrote to photographer Steven Meisel? So much pop cultural memory jogging is happening: Herb Ritts, the "Sex" book in idea form, The House of Extravaganza, and --eep! -- everyone's favorite female baseball picture A League of Their Own ("Geena Davis is a barbie doll"... "I hate actresses..." HA!).That's

First and Last, Two Walks.

first and last images from motion pictures (excluding credit sequences)Highlight the first and last lines of dialogue if you need another clue. first: "Run, run, run, he's gonna get you!"last: "You look good wearing my future."Can you guess the movie?[highlight for the answer]. Uh huh, it's SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL from the 80s starring Eric Stoltz and Mary Stuart Masterson (wearing his future) *

Gwyneth Says "Hi"

so... "Hi."*

LFF 2010: (Self-) Love Gone Blue

David from Victim of the Time, reporting from the London Film Festival.“Why would I go to London?! No way!” A wry chuckle greeted this on-screen outburst during my first public screening of the 54th BFI London Film Festival. I may have already sat through two and a half weeks of press screenings, but in that moment I knew the energy had changed now the festival had kicked into gear. Without the

True Hooks For Oscar Grit. About Supporting Actor...

I'm updating the Oscar categories as you read [index] but today I'd like to talk specifically about the supporting category. Can the Coen Bros western True Grit figure in?Supporting ActorThe excitement-boosting second trailer for True Grit gives us a good look at both Matt Damon and Josh Brolin. I had hoped that we'd get a good look at the always under-appreciated and under-used Barry Pepper [

What are you seeing this weekend?

I'm curious as always.(working on Oscar revisions. may next week be less difficult!)

First and Last, City/Audience.

the first and last images from motion pictures (excluding credits as they always have names which give the game away)Can you guess the movie?[highlight for the answer] Yes, it's THE PIANIST (2002), the presumed Best Picture runner up to Chicago. Want to try more puzzles? Challenge your friends to guess. All solved puzzles have the answers in easy highlightable text for guess-checking if you've

Modern Maestros: And Many More...

Robert here with the final entry in my series on great directors.A full year after starting my Directors of the Decade series that eventually evolved into Modern Maestros, I can declare that no man should besmirch the state of movies today.  We've discussed 47 directors who are consistently putting out films that are original, interesting, exciting and often masterpieces.With each piece I've come

Unsung Heroes: The Costumes of The Big Lebowski

Michael C from Serious Film back again, this time with a Little Lebowski Urban Achiever whose work is already iconic even if few know her name.I'd like to dedicate this one to the costume designers that don't do movies about dead monarchs or glittery musicals.-Sandy Powell collecting her third OscarIt's a common refrain among film lovers that flashier work may win the awards, but the subtler,

Burlesque ~ New Photo!

Here it is, in all its hot honey gloryI wish I liked Christina Aguilera more because I am so thankful that we'll have a musical to enjoy in the movie theaters this year. But still... CHER.This photo begs the question, though... The Hand Bra: Who wore it best? poll by twiigs.com BARBRA STREISAND

Foreign Film Oscars: International Beauty Pageant.

If you'd like to read about the now official Oscar submissions for Best Foreign Language Film,  click away. But because you -- make that we -- can't see most of the films, due to the hideous state of international distribution, let us use this Academy press release as an excuse to take a different view, a sexytime view... a Beauty Break if you will. Let's gawk at the actors and actresses who are

Hit Me With Your Best Shot: "La Dolce Vita" (1960)

This week's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" topic is Federico Fellini's wonderful classic La Dolce Vita (1960). One caveat before we begin: I've had a difficult night and computer issues, so I was only able to pull screenshots from the film's first half. But no matter. Ninety minutes in, Fellini has already gifted us with a greater movie than most and there's still another one its same size waiting

Bad Girl

I've been bad and I'm quite behind on blogging. Supposed to be working on that "Best Shot" for this evening (La Dolce Vita) but I am a million hours behind and now the Academy has gone and finalized the Oscar Foreign Film list and the Documentary Short Finalist so there's that, too. Updating now so more on something or other in a couple of hours.In the meantime this is a shot from Madonna's "Bad

Female Characters (In Two Dimensions!)

Have you seen this flowchart on female movie stereotypes in entertainment? It's created by the folks at Overthinking It. (You'll have to open that window to view it in readable size.)It's dizzying, hilarious and depressing in equal masure. I'm reading it and I'm totally hearing Meryl Streep's voice in my head when Shirley Maclaine starts listing monster movie moms (like Joan Crawford) that she

Eisenberg vs. Damon? The Youngest Best Actor Nominees!

"Do I have your full attention?"Whilst continuing my "Best in Show" column for Tribeca Film, I decided it was high time to highlight Jesse Eisenberg from The Social Network and this is why. Here at The Film Experience though, it's time for Oscar trivia! Though I would love to see Eisenberg win traction for Best Actor, he has something else working against him besides the subdued performance: his

30 Seconds To Link

Time Warner Do you want to be an indie film icon? Time Warner is hosting a short film competition on their YouTube channel. The prize is a trip to Sundance and presumably the festivities there.Spangle the slippery slope of the new MPAA ratings. Yes, they're now warning you if a movie shows male nudity. Female nudity is the regular kind, see. No funny stuff!Self Styled Siren great rangey

Curio: Film and Thread and Scarlett Johansson Pillows

Alexa from Pop Elegantiarum here with your weekly film craftiness. I've shared items from the glorious threadiverse before, but there are so many wonderful film-inspired embroidery pieces out there that they can't be contained in a single post. Some are simply clever, others downright artful. A selection, for your viewing pleasure.Moxiedoll specializes in handstitched happiness. Here are her

Super Mario Beats It: The Lessons of NYCC 2010

.JA from MNPP here. New York's Comic Con went down this previous weekend in the massive Javits Center here on the island of Manhattan, and if you were there amongst the stacks of dusty Fantastic Four comics and shiny samurai sword replicas and Jason Voorhees masks you might've seen me wandering around in a glassy-eyed stupor. Every Comic Con I've been to breeds the same overstimulated dullness -

Happy Josh Day

Happy 18th birthday to one of the most in demand young actors in Hollywood, Josh Hutcherson. As time goes by, I've stopped handing The Bening, Juli and  Ruff' all the credit for the beauty of The Kids Are All Right and the glory of the ensemble work becomes clearer.  (They'd better get a SAG ensemble nod in January.) When the DVD arrives in November, I know it'll be the type of movie that gets a

First & Last, After You

first and last images from a motion picture.and here's the first and last pieces of dialogue. first: After you.last: I prefer you, too.Can you guess the movie?*This is the beloved classic called, you guessed it, [Highlight for the answer] HARVEY (1950) starring Jimmy Stewart and his invible friend who he happens to be talking to in both of those lines of dialogue included. more first and last

Familiar Faces. The David Fincher Hierarchy

By now you've undoubtedly confirmed for yourself that Brad Pitt is not in David Fincher's The Social Network... Unless you count that "Tyler Durden" Facebook profile on a computer screen in Jesse Eisenberg's room (blink and you'll miss it but I did catch it the second time through).A Fincher sandwich. Brangelina brung the bread.If you foolishly expected Brad to pop up for a cameo, you're forgiven

Washington and Cherry

NYFF Finale: 7 Word Reviews (Meek's Cutoff, Another Year, Hereafter, More...)

Oh readers. What to do with me? I'm always falling behind. In an effort to acknowledge that NYFF ended this weekend, and fall prestige/early campaign season is already upon us (Toy Story 3 event tonight!), here's everything I saw at the NYFF. I got sick right in the middle so I missed a handful I wanted to see. The films are presented in the order I saw with a brief description and a 7 Word

The Foreign Film List Grows: Miki's Endurance, Maria's Acclaim

63 countries have now announced their Oscar submissions. Last year we had 65 films and the most ever, if my data is correct, was 2008 in which 67 countries competed for the coveted 5 slots. (If 10 is the number for Best Picture, shouldn't the corresponding prize for subtitled features, also be 10? ) In other words, numbers-wise, we're just about finished. The deadline has already passed but some

No Exit Through The Simpsons Shop

Did you catch this frankly amazing Banksy-adjusted opening to The Simpsons? Here it is in all its subversive glory.This makes me think two things.I probably should have seen this year's buzzy Banksy street art doc Exit Through the Gift Shop. Of the three documentaries at Sundance that garnered the most "you must see this!" buzz -- the others being Catfish (loved) and Waiting for Superman (did not

First & Last, "Cameron Diaz is Hot"

the first images, pre and post opening credits.no last image as it'd give the game away completely. How about the first and last line of dialogue instead? first ~ "That Cameron Diaz is hot."last ~ "It was when I met these guys, my friends."Can you guess the movie? I actually don't like this one at all but some of you are bound to be fans. To each their own!It's [Highlight for the answer] THE

10 Links for 10/10/10

Since we won't have another repetitive day like this until 3010 and since I will be well into my 1000somethings when that day arrives (yes, I plan to live as long as Gandalf... though without the scraggly beard) and possibly too senile to blog, I was going to post this great picture of a certain actress in a t-shirt that read "10" that I screencapped a year ago and I cannot find it. Sadness. You

Take Three: Laurence Fishburne

Craig here with Take ThreeToday: Laurence FishburneTake One: Security vans and alien landsIt’s a cheeky sidestep this week. More of a Take Six – although still in three bite-size chunks. For starters, there’s two roles in a couple of nifty, no-fuss genre hits that he contributed supporting turns to recently: Armored (2009) and Predators (2010), both directed by Nimród Antal. In the former he

Blame it on the Boogie

Boogie Nights opened 13 years ago today. Do you love it as much as I do?No, no... you couldn't possibly. I love it too much. I cannot describe the muchness. (But I shall attempt to if you click on the "Boogie Nights" label and read various old postings.)**

First and Last, Eye

first and last images from a film.  first and last lines of dialogue for another clue. first ~"Some call _______ the perfect society."last ~ "To live only once... but with hope."Can you guess the movie?Yes, it's the sci-fi adaptation [Highlight for the answer] AEON FLUX (2005) starring Charlize Theron... who probably needs to get back to work in some major surprising way that reinvigorates

BPFTOI: Driving Through the Best Years of Miss Daisy's Lives

"Best Pictures From the Outside In" is back. But, oh fiddle, because the series is so infrequent we have to keep explaining it. It's a joint production between Mike at Goatdog's Blog, Nick at Nick's Flick Picks and Nathaniel at The Film Experience. We began in 2008 pairing the most recent winner No Country For Old Men with the first winner Wings and we've been working our way inward ever since

Links: Michelle, Naomi, Anderson, Marilyn, Pepé

I wanna be loved by you, just you... and nobody else but you. i wanna be loved by you a-loh-oh-oh-ooooone. boopboopadoo. Witness: Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe. Me likey.Michelle Williams is really on fire these days, isn't she? Whether she's causing NC-17 ratings by being such a brutally honest actor (the MPAA can blow me when they're done gagging about Ryan going down on her in Blue

Open Thread

What's on your mind apart from Oscar (see post below for that discussion)? Planning to see anything this weekend?*

Oscar Chart Revisions: Best Picture and Director

For as much as the internet would like you to think it's all figured out by now -- "The Social Network vs. The King's Speech: To the Death!" -- in truth, things are never settled in early October. I think 6 films are still looking solid for inclusion in the magic 10. But things can always change.An awkward moment in the Academy's waiting room.Anywayyyy, Check out the Best Picture Chart which

First and Last, Never Going Back

Here's the first actual image (pre-opening credits)The first post opening credits image has a key celebrity face (star studded movie) so we won't use that. Here's the last image but try to guess without it as it's kind of spoilery. [click to embiggen]first and last line of dialogue as another cluefirst ~ "Check, charge or cash?"last ~"Told you I'm never going back." "Yeah"Can you guess the movie.

Modern Maestros: Pedro Almodóvar

Robert here, with my series on great contemporary directors.  This will be my last entry on a specific director, so I thought I'd go out with a bang.  Next week I'll wrap things up in a more general sense.Maestro: Pedro AlmodóvarKnown For: colorful, often kinky films about love and obsession.Influences: Billy Wilder, Hitchcock, Sirk, Fassbinder, FelliniMasterpieces: All About My Mother and

Unsung Heroes: The Chefs of Ratatouille

Hi everybody. Michael C from Serious Film back again with another unsung contribution to cinematic brilliance. This week it's an achievement I'm sure most of you will recognize -- just don't read it on an empty stomach.I have always been a little taken aback by the depth of Brad Bird and Jim Capobianco's screenplay for Ratatouille. I mean, here is a big-budget family film starring a talking rat

First & Last, The Window Opens

the first image (prior to the opening credits)the first image (post opening credits) the last image (pre closing credits)first and last bits of regular dialogue if you need another clue first ~ "And now the window opens, it gently gently opens."last ~ "See you later."Can you guess the movie?The colorful film is [Highlight for the answer] ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (1970) starring Barbra

Kristin Scott Thomas Wanted Tilda's Role in "Burn After Reading"

The latest issue of French Premiere has hit the newsstands 'cross the Ocean. It's a big Harry Potter issue with new photos and such but if you look at the top left hand headline you can see the hallowed name of Kristin Scott Thomas, one of the few British acting giants that didn't teach at Hogwarts. Kristin has lately been headlining French films like Leaving (now in theaters) and, of course,

Hit Me: "Requiem for a Dream" (10th Anniversary!)

In the "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" series we choose our favorite images from motion pictures. Next Wednesday we're looking at Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960) in glorious black & white. Today's topic is Darren Aronofsky's haunting addiction drama... in full color."If this is red, I wanna know what's orange?" Requiem for a Dream (2000)10th Anniversary AppreciationRequiem for a Dream warns us

Part 2: Jake Gyllenhaal on "Zodiac", "Donnie Darko" and "Brokeback"

If you missed my Tribeca Film article about Jake Gyllenhaal's New Yorker festival interview, open it up and dig in. But here on home turf, why not share quotes I couldn't fit into that overview? I know some of you probably suffer as do I with "too much Jake is not enough" so here's some cinematic memories to temporarily satiate your Gyllenhaalism.Talking about Donnie Darko, Zodiac and Brokeback

All Good Links

Before we get to today's link roundup -- I went a little crazy as I sometimes do -- enjoy the heat sensor-like photography of the All Good Things poster. Perhaps Ryan and Kiki were a bit jealous of the ruckus Jake & Annie's nude poster caused online.P.S. Jake Gyllenhaal is obsessed with Ryan Gosling. Just saying. I would try to quote his answer from Saturday night when the audience question 'who

2 Braids Across Face

This is a really cute fun and easy way to keep the bangs out of her eyes.

                                    Make the first french braid across the front of her face.

Make a parallel french braid along the lines of the first one.  Shown Below

                                                                 Simple easy and your done.



Darren Aronofsky: To "SNIKT!" Or Not To "SNIKT!"

Y'all. I am so worried about the continued reports / rumors that Darren Aronofsky is making a superhero picture next. First they said he wanted the Superman reboot that now belongs to Zach Snyder. (Great, just what traditional placid loveably corny Superman needed... a tricked up slo-mo enthused "hip" director. Yikes!) Now, Vulture reports that Aronofsky is close to signing for Wolverine 2: No

First and Last, 50 Year Old

first and last is a long running movie quiz about just what it sounds like it's about. Here's the first actual image...or, if you prefer, the first post opening-credits imageand the (second to) last image ...prior to a close-up on the stars face so I can't show that!and the first and last lines of dialogue if you still need helpfirst ~ [screaming] followed by "Look at me. Calm down. Calm down.

Links: Special "Social Network" Edition.

All Too Flat I haven't said anything about the score to The Social Network but this article says plenty. You know, I agree with pretty much everything in this article -- I also thought that gambit of playing the music so loudly in the club scene that you had to strain to hear their conversation was not annoying like it is in movies with poor sound mixing but actually interesting and important --

One Easy Way To "Fix" The Oscars. Strangely, They Never Consider It.

Have you read this possible Academy date change article? Basically they want to move the Oscars up to January or early February in 2012. Every year we hear this discussion about how to shorten the season and compete with audience exhaustion involving all those months of precursor awards. These articles and this discussion always cracks me up because the media covering it and the Academy board of

Part 1: Jake Gyllenhaal at "The New Yorker Festival"

I'll share a few more interesting movie-specific quotes I couldn't find room for in this article tomorrow here at the blog. But for now a piece I wrote for Tribeca Film.He’d be unrecognizable but for those enormous blue eyes. In fact, when Jake Gyllenhaal walked out on stage at the SVA Theater in Chelsea on Saturday night, a full bushy beard covering what seemed like all of his face, film critic

Curio: Yul Brynner's Photographic Journey

Alexa here. Yul Brynner has always been a favorite of mine, maybe because The King and I was the first musical I ever saw. Or maybe because my old Ukrainian great-grandmother swore he was the spitting image of her brother. Or maybe it was just his mellifluous voice and shiny dome. But it wasn't until I spotted the recent press on an exhibit of his photographs in New York that I was aware he

NYFF: A Summary

The 48th New York Film Festival screenings begin with a promo reel in which a graphic animated map of the world is formed. Famous director names are paired with their countries of origin in rapid succession until the entire globe is lit up as if powered by the cinema itself! It’s a simple—even subtly clever—way to remind us that cinema is a global artform and that the NYFF in dependably

Big is Good.

Jose here.Money may not sleep but apparently our creativity does. Watching Wall Street the other day I couldn't help but ask myself how is it that technology took a turn on us at some point and now cell phones are going big again?I know nothing will ever be as big as that brick Gordon Gekko checks out of jail in the sequel......but in theory the things we saw back in '87 are still going on today.

What Were We Talking About?

When Sam Mendes and Maggie Gyllenhaal had lunch recently in NYC, what do you suppose they were talking about? I hope Maggie was saying "sorry about being such a one-dimensional cartoon in Away We Go -- but you weren't helping, mister man!" What were they talking about? What were we talking about? What are we still talking about? (That actress list fo' sure and also the August: Osage County

Toddler 2 Ponytails

Because of our age and the length of her hair we haven't been too creative lately with her. 

So here is one of the few changes in her hairstyle lately. 

We made a zig zag part and then put her hair into 2 ponytails.  This turned out to be adorable.  It is few and far between that I can convince her to have more than 1 elastic.  I hope this phase passes soon, but until then I will keep trying to convince her of new styles. 

"Mary, did you see The Omen?"

I'm multi-tasking! It's a new episode of actors on actors, tv @ the movies and a monologue.Recently after an accidental couch potato binge on The Golden Girls -- you all know what that's like, right? -- I realized that the boyfriend had never seen the classic 70s sitcom Soap, which is from the same creative team, so we've been watching. The main character is rich dotty matriarch Jessica Tate (

"Thelma, don't you litter."

.JA from MNPP here. At this point in Thelma & Louise, our girls have just robbed a convenience store (not to mention that whole shooting a rapist thing slightly earlier). In fact that tiny bottle of Wild Turkey that Thelma's contemplating chucking out of the car is amongst the stolen goods. And yet even the fiercest lady outlaws must have their standards. No littering!Watching some of T&L this

IMDb Top 20 Actress List. A Few Late Notes.

Have any of you read this IMDb list which purports to evaluate the "overall importance and impact" of film actresses across the span of the past two decades. That'd be 1990-2009 (though obviously they're including 2010.) I had somehow missed this list which arrived in September I think but I can't let it go by without some comment. I'm not sure what they mean by "impact" exactly... global fame?

Braid Fun

This is another really cute and fast hairstyle. 

When finished you will have a total of 4 braids.  I started on her right side just above her ear.  I made a small part as shown below.

 Then I made a simple braid I made a 2nd braid just above that one as shown below.  Make sure you braid all the way to the end.

                             Do the same to the other side.  Shown below is the left side of her head.

 Then pull all 4 braids to the center, back of her head.

Below is the side view.

This style is so quick you can do it in under 5 minutes.  For those days you need a really quick style.

Take Three: Paul Schneider

Craig here with this week's Take Three.Today: Paul SchneiderTake One: Shining bright in the backgroundSchneider is the epitome of faded rakishness as Charles Armitage Brown, the somewhat disarmingly oily, though tender, poet pal and occasional gooseberry orbiting around both Ben Whishaw’s Keats and Abbie Cornish’s Fanny in Jane Campion's excellent Bright Star (2009). He is the film's third,

Links: "The 39 True Basterds Are All Right Network"

Warning: Teaser poster for True Grit bound to shame eventual actual poster with its gorgeous directness and simplicity. [Editor's Note: I've been in a very bad place/mood when it comes to movie posters lately. More on this soon.]big screenScanners wonderful piece on the editing in Inglourious Basterds and what kind of choices Sally Menke was making.Guardian I hadn't realized that The Kids Are All

First and Last, "Time on My Hands"

first and last images from motion pictures (excluding credit sequences) Can you guess the movie?*It's a biopic from the 1990s. If you're stumped highlight for the answer. It's... LOVE IS THE DEVIL starring Derek Jacobi and Daniel Craig. How about that?*

Foreign Film Race: Ricardo Darín... Again. And More...

First comes Oscar. If you follow my charts and this race each year it's impossible to escape Argentinian movie star Ricardo Darín. Not only is he continually employed but whichever body chooses Argentina's Oscar submission each year has a huge crush. He's the star of their 2001 nominee Son of the Bride and their 2009 winner The Secret in Their Eyes and he's also principle cast in their submission

Should Case 39 be open or shut? Half and half for a laugh, perhaps?

Craig here, taking a look at Renée Zellweger's new cinema release. (There are a few mild spoilers contained)Case 39 stars Zeéeeee as Emily Jenkins, a concerned social worker in a headband. She’s worried about the well being of a child. We’re more worried about her personal hair-care regime: when her hair is up, fixed in place with said headband, she’s out of danger; hair down means terror is

A History of... Julie Andrews

To celebrate the 75th birthday of the great Julie Andrews, our favorite singing governness, our favorite magical nanny, our favorite gender bending toast of Paris. Something big was in order. Why, she's practically perfect in every way... so in her honor, a resurrection of a long dormant exhaustively researched 100% true* series that was once the Film Experience's most popular feature.1935 Julia

Facebook Go Boom

"Dating you is like dating a stairmaster," Erica Albright (Rooney Mara) says, exasperated, in the opening sequence of THE SOCIAL NETWORK. Her personal stairmaster is Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) and you're witness to a car wreck of a break-up in progress. It's emotionally gorey but there will be rubbernecking; you can't look away. If the hilarious stairmaster line doesn't

Tony Curtis (1925 - 2010)

He was born in 1925 when the masses were still swooning for silent icons like Rudolph Valentino. By the late 1950s he was a household name heartthrob himself if not a silent one. Still, that oft imitated Bronx accent "yonda lies the castle of my fadduh" couldn't derail his movie ascendance.History continually teaches movie stars -- though scant few of them seem to really listen -- that what's

First and Last, Will They Come Back?

first and last images from motion pictures (excluding opening/closing credits)First and last lines of dialogue if you need another clue first ~ "What the hell is that all about?"last ~ "Oh, they won't be back. I don't think they like me."Can you guess the movie?Highlight for the answer to check your work -- It's FIRE IN THE SKY (1993). God, that abduction scene is SO scary. *