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Commentary – The Secret In Their Eyes
I highly recommend seeing Juan Jose Campanella’sThe Secret In Their Eyes, (winner of this year’s Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film – Argentina). If you read the reviews or even the synopsis, it makes the film sound too complicated and slow. True, it is a hearty soup of genre’s – Film Noir, Murder Mystery, Drama, Love Story, Crime Novel, but the ingredients compliment each other, never one overpowering the other. (pictured Ricardo DarĂn & Soledad Villamil)The subtitles are written as if nothing is lost in translation, particularly the surprising humor. The story within a story, storytelling has been done a million times before, but in this case it’s done…
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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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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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Commentary – Computer Love
As is often the case, Tinsel & Tine goes through posting feast or famine. This weekend begins the Philadelphia Film Society Spring Preview Film Festival, sponsored by Pennsylvania Hospital, and by coincidence a new acquaintance, Harwood Duncan, (pictured) (see Cafe Centennial post) had his film premiere for a film called Computer Love Thursday night, so my weekend of screening got off to an early start! You can’t so much as own a hot dog stand without having a facebook page anymore; the reason being, it is an amazing marketing/promotional tool. The film’s producers told me it was how they got the word out and IHouse (350+ seats) was packed! Plus,…
