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Filmbrain's Screen Capture Quiz: Round 19 - We Have a Winner!
The extra-long all-opening-credits round of the Filmbrain Screen Capture Quiz is finally over! Regular contestant Max G. was the lone voice in the wind this week as he (somehow!) recognized the blue curtain and moon behind it from the opening...
Heading to Toronto: The Coen Brothers, Michael Moore and More...
The lineup for the 34th Annual Toronto International Film Festival continues to grow. Ten new films have been added to the program, including new films by the Coen Brothers, Michael Moore, Werner Herzog, and Drew Barrymore's directorial debut Whip It, featuring Juno's Ellen Page as a recent roller derby convert. Check out indieWIRE for the complete list of this year's scheduled films.
World Premiere of The Fantastic Mr. Fox AnnouncedThe Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson's first animated film, will have its world premiere at The Times BFI London Film Festival on October 14, 2009. The film is co-written by co-written by Noah Baumbach. Wes Anderson, and voice talent George Clooney, Meryl Streep, and Jason Schwartzman...
Review: The Answer Man
John Hindman's debut feature The Answer Man is a pleasant and enjoyable film, easy to go down, and often wrong in the details: a perfect fit for TV rather than the movie screen.
The always terrific Jeff Daniels and Gilmore Girls' Lauren Graham star in the romantic comedy, but...
Filmbrain's Screen Capture Quiz: Round 19 - Tiebreaker 1
A quick correction to last week's post. There are in fact four people with perfect scores, not three as I had reported. Here's the first of the tiebreaker quizzes. Submit your answers to this address. Good luck!
Review: (500) Days of SummerJoseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel light up the screen in Marc Webb's directorial debut (500) Days of Summer. That might sound corny, but they do. The story of Tom (Gordon-Levitt) and Summer (Deschanel) begins at the end, first introducing us to Tom, heartbroken, after the...
Review: Shane Meadows' Somers TownBest known for his bleak and violent previous films, This is England and Dead Man's Shoes, filmmaker Shane Meadows makes an uncharacteristically charming departure. In Filmbrain's Screen Capture Quiz: Round 19 - We (Don't) Have a Winner!
A day (or two) late and a dollar short. Wednesday came and went, as did Thursday. It was only late last night that I found the time to tally up the entries for the round. It appears there are three...
Fernando Eimbcke's Lake Tahoe screens in New YorkFernando Eimbcke's follow-up to Duck Season is a wry comedy laid out in steady shots that seem to be more interested in location (nowhere near Lake Tahoe) than in the characters that traverse them on foot, car, or bicycle. Slowly, something like a story develops as the film's hero Juan... |
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