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New Projects: Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Alien’, Will Ferrell, and ‘Duck Tales’
New Projects is a weekly round up of movies and TV shows recently announced and currently in development for the near future. To be honest, I was a little skeptical of the news last week that Neill Blomkamp would be helming an Alien remake. Elysium was a bust, the jury is still out on Chappie, […] More
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‘Boyhood 2’? Richard Linklater considering sequel
Just when it seemed like Boyhood’s Richard Linklater was done with the film that took twelve years to shoot, he’s recently announced the possibility that Boyhood may get an unlikely sequel. While the first film followed the story of a boy growing up into a young adult, Linklater has admitted that the story of this man’s foyer into adulthood during his 20’s could be an equally compelling project for the director. More
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Watch an insightful video essay opposing ‘Boyhood’ with subversive best of the year list
Richard Linklater’s 12 year spanning epic film Boyhood has been touted as the best film of the year by many critics for it’s authentic performances, uniquely compelling narrative and ambitious filmmaking process, all of which makes it a strong contender for the upcoming awards season. But as with anything that is so well regarded there […] More
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Watch a ‘Boyhood’ behind the scenes featurette, 12 years in the making
Gene Siskel had a saying: “Is this movie more interesting than a documentary about how they made it?” Boyhood is an amazing film, but within every item of press and even the fabric of the very movie is weaved the story of how Richard Linklater took a young boy, Ellar Coltrane, and watched him grow […] More
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Obsessed with Pop Culture: Best of the Week
‘The Hospital Suite’ – John Porcellino Seeks the Cure to What Ails Him John Porcellino is an alternative comics artist who has been drawing his signature series, King-Cat Comics & Stories for 74 issues across four decades and several US states. Since the late 1980s, Porcellino has performed in several bands, run a record label and […] More
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’21 Years: Richard Linklater’ is more entertaining than must-see
Most filmgoers don’t know Richard Linklater’s name but his effect has been felt through the American independent film scene since the debut of Slacker in 1991. For the star-studded cast of commenters sitting down for some insights into Linklater, it’s hard to imagine a world without him. He is the unicorn who managed to build an entire career of passion projects that most filmmakers never get to, or let toil in production hell. More
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The Past, Present, and Future of Real-Time Films Part One
What do film directors Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Agnès Varda, Robert Wise, Fred Zinnemann, Luis Buñuel, Alain Resnais, Roman Polanski, Sidney Lumet, Robert Altman, Louis Malle, Richard Linklater, Tom Tykwer, Alexander Sokurov, Paul Greengrass, Song Il-Gon, Alfonso Cuarón, and Alejandro Iñárritu have in common? More specifically, what type of film have they directed, setting them […] More
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Stars honor Richard Linklater in ’21 Years’, new doc
Richard Linklater is at the height of his power coming off this year’s Boyhood, and yet what’s funny is that he hardly exudes the presence of an auteur the way so many of his contemporaries or his idols have before him. “This Slacker ain’t no slacker”, as Matthew McConaughey says in a trailer for a […] More
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Week in Review: What do Adam Sandler’s Netflix movies mean for Hollywood?
Does Netflix have Eric Cartman’s AWESOME-O working in their studios? You remember; he was the lovable robot who could invent Adam Sandler movies out of thin air, like “Adam Sandler falls in love with a Golden Retriever” or “Adam Sandler is stranded on an island and falls in love with a coconut.” If so, that […] More
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7 Filmmakers that should give TV a try
In this new golden age of television that we are currently living in, the television industry is poaching some of cinema’s greatest minds more than ever to create their own long form stories after being restricted to the hour and a half to maximum four hours that film allows. The gap is getting increasingly small […] More
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Sound On Sight Podcast, Episode 391: ‘Boyhood’
A unique work in American cinema, shot in 39 days over the course of 12 years, Boyhood is a groundbreaking story of adolecsnce as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason. Today on Sound On Sight, we give you our long awaited review of Richard Linklater’s critically acclaimed indie gem. Here to join […] More
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Richard Linklater’s new film will be ‘That’s What I’m Talking About’
Richard Linklater, one of his generation’s best and most influential filmmakers, has chosen That’s What I’m Talking About as his next project. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, it looks like Linklater has chosen his next project after the highly successful Boyhood. Since 2011 the director has been attached to direct a remake of the […] More
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