Movie review: David Fincher’s Gone Girl
via BBC – Culture – Movie review: David Fincher’s Gone Girl.
Film & Movies
Movie review: David Fincher’s Gone Girl
via BBC – Culture – Movie review: David Fincher’s Gone Girl.
“Lawrence Kasdan has had quite an impressive career in Hollywood, moving from cowriting blockbusters like The Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark to writing and directing his own, more personal films. In this excerpt from a new interview recorded for Criterion, Kasdan talks about his positive experiences in the studio system, and how working on what he calls “high-quality mass entertainment” allowed him to move on to darker, more dramatic territory, as he did with The Big Chill.”
via Lawrence Kasdan on His Career – From the Current – The Criterion Collection.
The new version is here. See the brief interview on YouTube here.
“James Dean, in full James Byron Dean (born Feb. 8, 1931, Marion, Indiana, U.S.—died Sept. 30, 1955, near Paso Robles, California), strikingly handsome American motion picture actor enshrined as a symbol of the confused, restless, and idealistic youth of the 1950s.”
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Kensington Video Is Closing!
By Scott Marks, Sept. 26, 2014
Winnie Hanford, Kensington Video’s Rock of Gibraltar, just delivered a heaping dose of terrible news. After 30 years in business, the world-class video store will be closing shop in February, 2015.
The 100 best novels: No 54 – The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1929)
Dashiell Hammett’s crime thriller and its hard-boiled hero Sam Spade influenced everyone from Chandler to Le Carré
via The 100 best novels: No 54 – The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1929) | Books | The Observer.
“Ever since the first whispers of its existence, Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar has been cloaked in mystery. Though the curtain is slowly being parted over time, there are still some key secrets that have been kept close to the chests of those involved at Warner Bros. With almost a month to go until the film’s November 7th release date, we just might have our next big piece of information to Interstellar’s ultimate voyage. More specifically, we just might know how long the journey is going to take.”
via Interstellar Is Going To Be An Absurdly Long Movie – CINEMABLEND.