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Commentary – SATC2
When Busby Berkeley wowed and won over throngs of people in the 30’s & 40’s with his movies of sparkle, charm and eye candy, were there just no movie critics around or did movie critics used to be real people who can take things at face value, enjoy it and for God’s sake, not pick, pick, pick like vultures on prey! Casting aside the filmmakers’ breathtaking cultural insensitivity, their astonishing tone-deaf ear for dialogue and pacing, their demented, self-serving idea of female empowerment, the biggest sin of “Sex and the City 2” is its lack of beauty. It’s garish when it should be sumptuous, tacky when it should be luxe,…
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The Final Concert Martin Scorsese: THE LAST WALTZ
Thursday began PFS’s free outdoor music/film screening series in Northern Liberties at Piazza at Schmidts: 5/27 – The Last Waltz 6/24 – Almost Famous 7/15 – Shine a Light 8/19 – The Song Remains The Same 9/16 – Stop Making Sense The heavenly sitting out in the evening weather we all enjoyed the two nights prior, couldn’t last just one more night, instead it threaten big storms and got really cold; which I think deterred a lot of people from coming. I do hope these next screenings will turn into a great party atmosphere. It has all the elements – WMGK is sponsoring the events; their DJ’s get the attendees…
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Philly Restaurant – Amada
Heather & Felix visit to Philly for Tapas...
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Jennifer Lawrence in WINTER’S BONE / Q&A with dir Debra Granik
How long was the pre-production period? Â The actors, Jen and John Hawkes (who played Teardrop) came down a week ahead of time. Jen had to do a lot of work learning how to use the farm machinery and the squirrel skinning. John visited some bars and got recordings of people's voices in the community to learn accents. "This was a crucial part of the production, to have time before rolling to get acclimated and steeped and immersed in the groove."
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Sci-Fi discussion follows PFS screening of “Alien”
In my last post, I included a favorite quote in regard to the joy of watching the unfolding of life piece by piece [click HERE to view post] Well, the next fun piece of the unfolding of my life, is being asked to blog for Philadelphia Film Society! I’ve tried to stay neutral when it comes to the rift between Philadelphia Cinema Alliance (CineFest & QFest) and Philadelphia Film Society (Philadelphia Film Festival) attending events for either camp and then blogging about it. Tinsel & Tine is still a free agent; I’ll just be doing double duty. When blogging for PFS, I will post on their site and link my…
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