National Film Society

[Excerpt:] - The scary fact is that the plot of the new Bond film is eerily true and an environmental nightmare.

Original post by steve1151

There is an account, apocryphally, from medieval times, of a person walking into a room and being confronted with the sight of a man transfixed. The man in the room is holding something in his hands, staring at it. His eyes are glazed. His lips are moving soundlessly.

Original post by Sarcophilus

Music Reviews: Jacofest, a rousing all-star tribute to the late genre-bending, electric bass phenom Jaco Pastorius, found that artful balance between legacy and longing, delicate mixing history and mystery.

Original post by edomaniac

Weekly: Autoimaker puts Hollywood pacts on hold — On paper it sounded perfect: In 2005, Volkswagen agreed to pony up around $40 million annually over three years to place its cars and familiar logo in Universal’s movies, at the studio’s premieres, on its DVDs and inside theme parks.

Original post by edomaniac

Film Reviews: The peripatetic life of filmmaker Michael Almereyda (”Happy Here and Now,” “Hamlet”) is captured in glorious fragments forming a breathtaking whole in his new video feature, “Paradise.”

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Web Exclusive: Like many of gaming??™s most iconic franchises, “Tomb Raider” and its universally-recognizable bombshell heroine Lara Croft have occasionally struggled to find footing as tech and tastes evolve.

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Film Reviews: As with other recent Icelandic films (such as Baltasar Kormakur’s “White Night Wedding”), whimsy overwhelms good comedic sense in rising helmer Olaf de Fleur’s second feature, “The Higher Force.”

Original post by edomaniac

Front Page: Federal mediator supervises second meeting — The Screen Actors Guild? and the majors have started? their second consecutive? day of face-to-face talks under? the supervision of a federal mediator.

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Web Exclusive: ‘World Turns’ performer studied classical music — Composer and film and TV actor Keith Douglas Pruitt died in New York Nov. 12.

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Award Central: Voters overwhelmed with assessing TV and film — While the Oscars are all about movies, and the Emmys focus exclusively on television, the Golden Globes ambitiously cover it all.
In an age where both mediums and their stars seem to be increasingly intertwined, it just makes sense to recognize film and television as flip sides of the same entertainment coin.

Original post by edomaniac