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Movie fashion by Siobhan Braun, Jr.
Big Screen blogger and Reader film critic Scott Marks goes to the movies. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/sep/20/31927/ Reader Hat: Freebie thrown to Marks during pre-show promotional giveaway at AMC Mission Valley. Jonas Bros. Sunglasses: 99 cents at the 99 Cent Only Store. Criterion …
Who would you cast to star in a Diana Vreeland biopic?
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/sep/20/31909/ This morning's telephone call from England got me thinking. Lisa Immordino Vreeland, director of Diana Vreeland: The Eye has to Travel, was on the line. When asked who should star as Diana Vreeland, the former pace-setting editor of Harper's …
The many spectacle/facial hair combos of delightful character actor Stanley Tucci
Look, I didn't choose the blog life, the blog life chose me. So yeah, I'm supposed to be doing other stuff, important stuff - analyzing trailers, reviewing movies, eating chicken and waffles, etc. etc. But instead, I'm posting this collage …
Entre Les Bras (Step Up to the Plate)
The Loft at UC-San Diego (911 Lyman Lane, Price Center East) will be screening Entre Les Bras (Step Up to the Plate) on Thursday, October 4. A dinner will be served at 7 p.m. and the film will begin at …
Opening this week
Surprise, surprise, I liked The Master. I'm a sucker for alienated vets with a predilection for booze and women. I also liked Step Up to the Plate. I'm a sucker for father-son issues being worked out in an atmosphere of …
A closer look at the trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5bvK-pMzJM&feature=player_embedded&noredirect=1 When you're taking a children's book and stretching it into a nine-hour film, you naturally want to avoid the kind of ponderous seriousness that bogs things down. Happily, you've got a natural source of comic relief in dwarves. Sure, …
A closer look at the trailer for Skyfall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgr2syY_OU4 You can see it, right? Javier Bardem's inspiration? It's amazing, the finest homage I've seen one actor pay another in a long time. Here, Bardem is, well, he's being John Malkovich. That pursed-lip sneer, that supercilious delivery in the …
First Friday Films: The Maltese Falcon
On Friday, October 5 the The San Diego Museum of Art (1450 El Prado) will screen The Maltese Falcon at 8 p.m. with a pre-film lecture at 7:00 p.m. by Eddie Muller who will "touch on the role of cinematic …
Interview: Nicholas Jarecki, the man behind Arbitrage
Nicholas Jarecki’s industry calling card was the 2001 book Breaking In: How 20 Film Directors Got Their Start. After several music videos and commercials, Jarecki collaborated with novelist Bret Easton Ellis on the screenplay to The Informers. Jarecki, 33, admits …
Rear Window
Cinema Under the Stars will screen Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1954 film Rear Window from Thursday to Saturday, September 27-29. "Delicious terror from master Hitchcock and a spine-tingling excursion into voyeurism. A wheel-chair bound photographer (Jimmy Stewart) amuses himself by spying …
More subtitles for dummies
Last week's opening salvo was literally months in the making. As if a bolt from above, the following frames appeared to me over the past few days. This post is dedicated to those allergic to funny writing at the bottom …
Local filmmaker Rebecca Tolin knows how to market her documentary
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/sep/18/31761/ When last we spoke, documentary filmmaker Rebecca Tolin was nursing her wounds after being a last minute shut out at the SDSU Filmmaker's Showcase. At the time, she was looking for a venue to showcase her latest 10 minute …
Today in merchandising: moonshine!
Between Lawless and The Master, Annapurna Pictures is starting to build a name for itself as the most moonshiney production company going. And while Lawless sure made moonshinin' purty, The Master makes it compelling. So in all fairness, it should …
Meet The 3 Stooges, Peter Lorre, Bette Davis, and more in person!
My first meeting with Jerry Lewis should have been in 1963 when he made an opening-night appearance at Skokie's Old Orchard Theatre. My dumb-sock parents couldn't get their act together and instead carted me to see The Nutty Professor, sans-Jerry, …
Ken Cinema not 100 after all
My face is red, but I'm in good company. A 1990 University of San Diego graduate history survey on file with the San Diego Historical Society, word from a generally reliable source, and the dependable (as a rule) Cinema Treasures …
Hollywood consternation
My favorite part about the news that The Master set a per-screen box-office record last weekend (a record previously held by the similarly unusual Moonrise Kingdom) is the thought of Monday morning meetings among studio executives. "Quick! Bottle that lightning! …
Action movies galore
This week from Monday through Thursday (September 17-20) South Bay Drive-In (2170 Coronado Ave) features action and horror on their three screens. At 8:30 p.m. Lawless, The Possession and Resident Evil: Retribution will play, and at 10:35 the drive-in will …
Welcome, meet my parents
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/sep/15/31531/ UC-San Diego is screening the 1989 surrealist comedy/horror film Parents on Thursday, September 27, on the East Lawn of Price Center for free. The film is set in the 1950s in a suburban neighborhood where a ten-year-old boy begins …
Free kids' movie @ Silver Wing Rec Center
On Saturday, September 22, Happy Feet Two will screen for free at Silver Wing Neighborhood Park (3737 Arey Dr) around 7 p.m. or 15 minute after dusk. Admission is free and hosted by The County of San Diego Department of …
Free movies of the week - big themes edition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJVuqYkI2jQ To celebrate the release of the trailer for Spielberg's Lincoln, here's Spielberg's Amistad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxRfe6C3otM&feature=related At the other end of the Civil War, you got Dances with Wolves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZYs8OGeCAA&feature=related And here's Pearl Harbor; that was a pretty big deal, too: …