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Clip joint: feathers

17 December 2009 3:46 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Feeling down? Greatpoochini invites you to fluff yourself up and let your imagination take wing to find the best film clips featuring plumes of all kinds

"I'm as light as a feather! I'm as happy as an angel!" Whether inspired by these immortal words, especially when uttered by Alastair Sim's Ebeneezer Scrooge, or perhaps the fine white quills wielded by Scrooge's clerks in A Muppet Christmas Carol, this week we focus on feathers.

But before letting your imaginations take flight, some ground rules. There'll be extra marks for clips that do not feature live birds – especially as depicted in those sub-Attenborough wildlife documentaries, soundtracked by condescending narration, that seem to have been handed down from Hollywood generation to generation. However, in the spirit of Clip joint, some creative exceptions, and the occasional turkey, will of course be accepted.

1) Dumbo's grips his magic feather, spreads his ears, and we all see an elephant fly. »

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Liv Ullmann, François Truffaut and, well, "The Princess and the Frog"

25 November 2009 12:24 PM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »

"Liv Ullmann wasn't Ingmar Bergman's muse, she was his partner in angst - a fellow weary existential traveler conspiring with him to invent some of the most psychologically complex men and women in cinema history." In the L Magazine, Benjamin Strong previews BAMcinématek's Ullmann retrospective (through December 6), arguing that it "provides a timely opportunity to reassess the oeuvre, to see anew how varied and experimental a body of work it really is." Persona, for example, is "a movie that's too often remembered solely for its gorgeous B&W framing of its two lead actresses and not for the pair of rather startling montages (is that a hairy penis I see before me?) with which the film begins and ends - philosophical passages that still look as formally daring as anything by more celebrated postmodern radicals like Jean-Luc Godard." »

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Holiday Preview: A Repertory Calendar

3 November 2009 1:01 PM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

Tim Burton invades New York, New Italian Cinema hits Los Angeles, Harold and Kumar spread holiday cheer in Austin and everywhere you look, they're celebrating All Tomorrow's Parties -- just some of the holiday film fun you can have this winter at your local repertory theater.

More Holiday Preview: [Theatrical Calendar]

[Repertory Calendar] [Anywhere But a Movie Theater]

New York

92YTribeca

In November, the 92YTribeca Screening Room will have some special guests in the house when it hosts the already sold out "A Conversation with Wes Anderson and Jason Schwartzman" on November 10th, with the two longtime collaborators discussing their latest film "Fantastic Mr. Fox." But tickets are still available for the night before (Nov. 9th), when actor Ben Foster and director Oren Moverman will screen their acclaimed new post-war drama "The Messenger". Much of the rest of the month is devoted to Cinema Tropical's Ten Years of New Argentine Cinema series with screenings of Adrián Caetano's immigration »

- Stephen Saito

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Eric Hatch: News Correspondent

1 October 2009 11:42 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

Growing up watching the same three films over and over (Ghostbusters, The Goonies and Annie), Eric Hatch discovered that a whole new world of film was waiting to be watched after viewing Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. He then watched every Hitchcock film and branched off to other classic suspense films, later discovering Swedish films and, his personal favorite, horror. At the age of 15, Eric knew that his future was destined to be film related. He attended Dawson College and studied Cinema and Communications under the impression that he was going to become a successful film producer. After studying film for three years at Concordia University, Eric decided to combine his passion for film with journalism, with the hopes to beginning his own film related magazine or radio show. Now, Eric is an aspiring journalist, studying in Concordia's Journalism Graduate Program and is proud to be a member of Sound on Sight. »

- Ricky

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Culture Warrior: ‘Inglourious Basterds’ and the Political Movie Theater

24 August 2009 11:04 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Cinema itself, specifically the movie theater, has played a significant role within the narratives of a few of this summer’s most notable releases. Up perceives the movie theater as a place where dreams are born, encapsulated in a movie made by a studio that continues to progress cinema at large. Public Enemies contained its climactic moments around a movie theater while simultaneously displaying how Hollywood filmmaking has remained the same but different (even when it has abandoned the material of film itself). (500) Days of Summer, between its winking acknowledgment of frequent misinterpretations of the ending of The Graduate to its heartbreak articulated through homage to French New Wave and Ingmar Bergman’s Persona and The Seventh Seal, is a movie that shows how cinema shapes specific ideas of love and heartbreak within the cultural psyche. But with Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, we have been bestowed a major late-summer release that not only frames its entire »

- Landon Palmer

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Ingmar and Mike

30 July 2009 11:31 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Two years ago today death came for Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni. Robert here, thinking back on the day when my two favorite living directors both died. Two men who had a huge impression on me. It was as a young budding movie lover that Bergman and Antonioni taught me how film could be more than popcorn entertainment... it could be art.

Of course one has to admit that Bergman and Antonioni are eternally entwined with the bad name that "art film" sometimes has... and for pretty good reason. After all, Ingmar Bergman directed an entire trilogy on God's silence. Antonioni directed an entire trilogy about the impossibility of love. What do you mean people think art films are needlessly depressing?

And so the reputation of the art film goes: If you want a good time... watch something else.

Still Bergman and Antonioni never really deserved that reputation. The Seventh Seal »

- Robert

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A Bell Jar Etude

28 July 2009 7:03 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

Famously a mere low-budget Brit horror movie produced by a softcore outfit and directed by a young Roman Polanski with only one feature under his belt, after he'd emigrated from Communist Poland, "Repulsion" (1965) is also the first truly Freudian movie. That is, not a movie that merely employs Freudian psychology to tell its story (that began, more or less, with Pabst's "Secrets of a Soul," from 1926), but a movie that harbors a silent Freudian reptile brain and insists that we search for answers to the heroine's irrational mysteries, without narrative assistance, acting like analysts ourselves in the dark.

This idea, I've always thought, was manifested best a year later, in Bergman's "Persona" (1966), the Gordian knot of which positions the audience as the unspeaking therapist to Bergman's spewing neurotic, just as Liv Ullmann's mute patient becomes the confessor to Bibi Andersson's logorrheic nurse. But Polanski's film isn't nearly as »

- Michael Atkinson

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Sophie Barthes' Top Ten Films of All Time

6 July 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile (interview with filmmaker with an upcoming theatrical release), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of all time favorite films. This month, Sophie Barthes (the filmmaker behind Cold Souls - Samuel Goldwyn Films 08/07/2009) gave her top ten as of July 2009. Cléo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda)"Watching Cléo from 5 to 7 is like strolling for a day in Paris in the summer. This film is so charming in its simplicity and it’s beautifully shot. It goes from light and frivolous moments to extremely moving sequences. Another poetic and powerful insight in the feminine psyche." The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)"I love the story and its execution. It’s a fascinating character study. The production design and locations are incredible. A happy marriage between cinema and architecture. »

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Blu-ray Review: The Seventh Seal (Criterion Collection)

16 June 2009 1:55 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Upon receiving Criterion's brand new special edition of Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal I had just finished watching his film trilogy (Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light and The Silence) and there couldn't have been a more appropriate time to do so. Of the three films in Bergman's trilogy, Winter Light is not only the best, it is a perfect companion piece to The Seventh Seal. Made five years after The Seventh Seal, Winter Light also touches on the "silence of God," but where these two films differ is in their outcome. While both are asking questions, Winter Light offers far more answers than The Seventh Seal, but where Winter Light finds answers and The Seventh Seal does not is exactly where both films find their charm. Criterion initially released The Seventh Seal in 1999 with only an audio commentary by Bergman expert Peter Cowie, the theatrical trailer and what »

- Brad Brevet

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Cannes 2009: Masters Bergman and Fellini Make the Cut

3 April 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- The Tarantinos, the Hanekes and the von Triers will be sharing the limelight at the Cannes Film Festival next month along with great masters Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini. Cannes will be host to Images From The Playground -- a new compilation film containing unique and never before seen material from nine of Ingmar Bergman's behind-the-screen films, from Sawdust and Tinsel to Persona, and today comes word that the fest will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of Federico Fellini's "La dolce vita" with the world premiere of "Noi che abbiamo fatto 'La dolce vita' " (We Who Made "La dolce vita"). One of my most beloved scenes in the history of film is when Anita Ekberg decides to walk into the fountain.  The documentary is about the making the film, and is directed by Assistant Director at the time in Gianfranco Mingozzi. The picture was conceived by Fellini »

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