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Remember Me: Charles Durning (1923 – 2012)
Some acting careers are made by a single role. Think Brando’s Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Robert DeNiro’s Johnny Boy in Mean Streets (1973), Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jack in the box office behemoth Titanic (1997). A similar connection can happen on a more personal basis. You watch a movie and an actor — […] More
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Post Sandy Thoughts: Seven Disaster Films Done Right
The gray rolling seas thundered through the forest of pilings under the piers, sometimes cresting enough to send a geyser of wind-whipped froth up onto the decking. Other places, it poured through the gaps the wind and tide had eaten through the dunes and poured into the beach town streets. It pulled boats large and […] More
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TIFF Bell Lightbox Presents The Rise of Beefcake Cinema: ‘Daylight’ succumbs to its misplaced ambitions at pathos
Daylight Directed by Rob Cohen Written by Leslie Bohem USA, 1996 People will say that there’s always a light at the end of the tunnel. That may be true, but what’s in between and inside said tunnel is often drab, dingy and fairly lackluster. Such is the 1996 action adventure film, Daylight, a film with […] More
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Tumblr Round-Up: ‘Pulp Fiction’ – ‘Heathers’ – French Poster Art – Alfred Hitchcock – ‘Moonrise Kingdom’
The Tumblr round-up is a compilation of images, links, posters, stories, videos and so on, taken from the Sound On Sight Tumblr account. We simply do not have the man power nor time to write articles on every interesting movie related goody we find, so this is our way of still promoting some of the […] More
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Clash of the Titanics: two restored re-releases compared
Titanic Written and directed by James Cameron USA, 1997 A Night to Remember Written by Eric Ambler Directed by Roy Ward Baker UK, 1958 Marking the 100th anniversary of the disaster, the two most famous films about the Titanic sinking have received the restoration and re-release treatment, albeit one of them on a much grander […] More
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Tumblr Round-Up: ‘Community’ art-work – Bruce Lee – ‘Magic Mike’ – ‘Titanic Super 3D’ and more
The Tumblr round-up is a compilation of images, links, posters, stories, videos and so on, taken from the Sound On Sight Tumblr account. We simply do not have the man power nor time to write articles on every interesting movie related goody we find, so this is our way of still promoting some of the […] More
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Will ‘Titanic’ sink at box office?
In 1997, I was a high school student when James Cameron’s blockbuster Titanic was released. As I was in an all-girls school, Leomania was off the charts. For a good six months, everyone was talking about how good the film was and how hot Leonardo DiCaprio looked. Now, a good 15 years later, Titanic is […] More
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Tumblr Round-Up: Video Essay on ‘Battle Royale’ – 8-bit movie posters – ‘Hunger Games’ – Paul Newman – Steve McQueen and more
The Tumblr round-up is a compilation of images, links, posters, stories, videos and so on, taken from the Sound On Sight Tumblr account. We simply do not have the man power nor time to write articles on every interesting movie related goody we find, so this is our way of still promoting some of the […] More
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Why Can’t An Oscar-Winner Look More Like A Hit?
Throughout the first half of February, the Sound On Sight staff will take a look at the Academy Awards. Whether one of the major studios takes the top prize at the Academy Awards or not, they have no squawk this year. Several years ago, as you might recall, the Big Guys were getting fed up […] More
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‘Supercut – Spoiler Alert’
Well it’s a new day and here is yet another montage, the second in two days. Lucky for us, it’s just as great. Yesterday we showed you A Brief History of Title Design. This time however, it’s the work of youtuber Hatinhand. He brings us a montage sequence of amazing movie ending spoilers. Overall there […] More
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A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Oscars (part 2)
I will leave the discussion of what/who won/didn’t win and why/why not to others. I have only one concern: Did it work? For the now befuddled, let me recap what I laid out back in January when the 2011 Academy Award nominations were announced: A year earlier, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences […] More
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Strangest & Most Controversial Moments In the History of the Academy Awards (Pt. 3)
Strange Acceptance Speeches – Cuba Gooding Jr.’s acceptance speech at the 1997 Academy Awards has topped a list naming the most dramatic, outrageous and unexpected moments in Oscar history. Gooding Jr. was so overjoyed to collect his Best Supporting Actor prize for Jerry Maguire that the actor continued to speak even when the orchestra began […] More