8 years ago
All posts by Sam Fragoso
Futile Indignation from an Entitled Film Culture
Over the past few days a pair of seemingly pragmatic events triggered off a reckless wildfire of futile indignation across the Internet.
The first began when David Chen (host of the popular podcasts The Tobolowsky Files and the /Filmcast) and Joanna Robinso...
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Battle of Directors: Wes Anderson vs. Quentin Tarantino
Battle of Directors is a weekly column that pits two filmmakers against one another, sheds light on their respective filmographies, and then asks readers to state which director they prefer. Thoughtful discourse and discussion is encouraged and desired. Enjoy!...
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With a Little Help from Our Friends
Every Monday With A Little Help From Our Friends is dedicated to highlighting the best pieces of writing on film and television published around the Internet.
For your reading enjoyment …
Lets begin with the best article you'll read this week: Karina Longwo...
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A Zombie Learns to Love in Charming Warm Bodies
B+
As humans, most of us want to feel something. Happiness, pain, anger, joy, sadness, depression, love. To feel is to be alive. R (an unusual, semi-conscious zombie played by Nicholas Hoult) doesn't remember what it was like to be human or to be connected ...
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Battle of Directors: Richard Linkater vs. Steven Soderbergh
Battle of Directors is a weekly column that pits two filmmakers against one another, sheds light on their respective filmographies, and then asks readers to state which director they prefer. Thoughtful discourse and discussion is encouraged and desired. Enjoy!...
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Wrapping up the Sundance Film Festival
After consuming and writing about 26 films over the past ten days, I'm a bit fatigued. Alas, below is a full roundup of every film I caught at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Full reviews of each movie will be published adjacent to their release in theater...
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With a Little Help from Our Friends
With A Little Help From Our Friends is dedicated to highlighting the best pieces of writing on film published around the Internet. Now, for your reading pleasure ….
For your reading enjoyment …
Check out Jim Gabriel’s thoughts on Zero Dark Thirty. Beyond the...
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Saying Goodbye to the Sundance Film Festival
Before my plane departs and I head back home to glorious Fresno, California, I’m taking a few moments to reflect on the last 10 days. I keep circling around the people, the films, the bliss. But it’s the individual moments that I remember with such lucidity.
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Sundance Day Six: David Gordon Green’s Prince Avalanche, The East, and the Polarizing Upstream Color
Prince Avalanche (dir. David Gordon Green)
(Grade: C) -- David Gordon Green’s return to independent cinema, after a string of achingly awful films (Pineapple Express, Your Highness,and The Sitter), may very well be the definition of mediocrity.
Languis...
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Delightful Day Five at Sundance Includes Lake Bell’s Directorial Debut, Chan-wook Park’s Stylish Stoker, and the Masterful Before Midnight
No small talk to include in today's wrap-up post. Enjoy the writing.
In a World (Dir. Lake Bell)
(Grade: B) -- Lake Bell’s charming In A World may be the first film to explore the occupation of voice-over artists (otherwise known as the folks with soothi...
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