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Up to this point, the career of Steven Soderbergh has unfolded like every independent director’s wet dream. His early films, such as 1989’s sex, lies and videotape, were the sort of intimate, deeply personal stories that stun film critics at Sundance but tend to find less success when playing alongside Rocky sequels. Nevertheless, [...]
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Episode 97 comes a day after the 81st Academy Awards and we have our comments on the highlights and lowpoints of the show. As well we look back at two films that won best picture in the past and one which we feel should have. First up is the first and only film [...]
Despite its apparent complexity, 3D is actually a deceptively simple process. Two images are filmed, one offset from the other by a same measurement that separates your two eyes, and then one is projected in red, the other in blue. The glasses that are handed out in the cinema, or in a copy of TV [...]
February 22, 2009 | Posted in
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His name is Tom Tykwer (“tik-ver”), and you might not know it, but you already know who he is. If you only saw five foreign films back in the 90s, it’s quite likely that one of them was Run Lola Run, his second feature, a hyper-stylized, tripartite romp filled with bright colors, rapid-fire [...]
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Along side the Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street films, the Friday the 13th series is the prototypical 80s slasher cycle. It’s also the latest in a long line of horror films to get a big budget reboot. Today, in part two of our Friday the 13th special, Sound on Sight takes a [...]
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008, USA
Directed by David Fincher
Written by Eric Roth (screenplay and screen story), Robin Swicord (screen story), F. Scott Fitzgerald (short story)
Produced by Cean Chaffin, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt, Julia Ormond, Taraji P. Henson
In the Oxford English dictionary, the definition of ‘whimsy’ does not, sadly, include the [...]
February 16, 2009 | Posted in
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The International
2009, USA
Directed by: Tom Tykwer
Written by: Eric Singer
Produced by: Lloyd Philips, Charles Roven, Richard Suckle
Starring: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ulrich Thomsen
Filmed all over Europe and the US, The International aims to be a slick action thriller in the vein of the Bourne films, with a bit of socially conscious intrigue a [...]
February 11, 2009 | Posted in
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Friday the 13th is the first and some say the best in a long running horror series that got sillier and more far-fetched the longer it pressed on. The film is in now way groundbreaking coming after cult favorites Black Christmas, Halloween and Bay of Blood, but does it do the trick in [...]
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Funny how movie marketing works. A few years back, when Tim Burton’s “Corpse Bride” saw release, it became convenient to associate Burton with 1993’s “Nightmare Before Christmas,” a movie he only co-produced and did story work on. “Nightmare” was actually directed by a fellow named Henry Selick – a less sellable name, perhaps, [...]
Burn After Reading
2008, USA
Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Produced by Tim Bevan, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Eric Fellner
Starring: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovitch, Tilda Swinton, Brad Pitt
There’s a fine line between cynical black comedy and sociopathy. On one side of it, you can take some pleasure [...]
February 8, 2009 | Posted in
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In choosing between 2000 plus movie posters, I can safely say that I have narrowed down my twenty four favourites. I decided not to place them in any order but I can tell you that without a doubt my favourite poster is that of Fritz Lang`s `M`
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February 3, 2009 | Posted in
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Aside from pornography and mid-nineties cyperpunk, film noir is likely the most instantly recognizable cinematic genre. Its dramatic, high-contrast lighting, black and white cinematography, and Expressionist-influenced camera-work defined the look of the gritty, sexually charged crime films of the 1940s and 50s. And while movies like The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, and Touch [...]
Episode 91 – History of the Academy Awards part 1
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With the 81st Academy Awards a little over a month away, Sound on Sight presents three special reviews of past Best Picture winners, each picked by a different host. Rick had singled out 1934’s It Happened One Night, directed by Frank Capra and starring [...]
