I saw Coraline again yesterday and it totally holds up. And spent a little time also figuring out where they used CGI to sweeten the stop action and add SFX.
I'm sorry. You were going to ask me to choose, right? Did you want to finish?
Zoe ,'War Stories'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Theodosia - Feb 17, 2009 2:39:08 am PST #12 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Frankenbuddha - Feb 17, 2009 3:07:31 am PST #13 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Lucky 13?
Tom Scola - Feb 17, 2009 4:53:55 am PST #14 of 30000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Nate Silver predicts the Oscars: [link]
tommyrot - Feb 17, 2009 4:57:42 am PST #15 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Picture this: Elton John, Jane Austen and a space predator!
Trend alert! First there was Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Now comes news that Elton John's Rocket Pictures has set Will Clark to direct Pride and Predator, which mixes Jane Austen-period costume drama with an alien crash landing.
According to Variety, the alien will butcher the mannered protaganists, who suddenly have more than marriage and inheritance to worry about.
Shooting will begin in London later this year. John executive-produces, and his Rocket partners Steve Hamilton Shaw and David Furnish are producing.
Clark, who directed the award-winning short The Amazing Trousers, wrote the script with Andrew Kemble and John Pape.
John will supervise the music, as he does in each Rocket-produced film.
SailAweigh - Feb 17, 2009 5:55:34 am PST #16 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Oooh, new thread. Bring on the brides and the samurais!
Hayden - Feb 17, 2009 5:58:13 am PST #17 of 30000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Both of the movies referenced in the title will be broadcast on TCM in the next two weeks. I take this as a blessing.
Fred Pete - Feb 17, 2009 6:49:16 am PST #18 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
I saw an obscure oldie called Dreamboat over the weekend. Very odd comedy, but very worthwhile.
Thornton Sayre (Clifton Webb) made some swashbuckling silent movies with Gloria Marlowe (Ginger Rogers) under the name Bruce Blair. Sayre leaves Hollywood, becomes stuffy professor of English at stuffy college (president played by Elsa Lanchester). Has a daughter (Anne Francis) who's even more stuffy and intellectual than he is.
Then television comes along. Marlowe hosts broadcasts of her old movies with "Dreamboat," as she calls him -- and the team becomes even more popular than ever. Someone realizes Professor Sayre (known as "Ironheart") is Dreamboat. University trustees worry about the effect on the school's reputation. It turns out university president is madly in love with Bruce Blair. And father and daughter go to New York, seeking an injunction to stop the broadcasts....
I'll only say that one scene in the hotel bar alone is worth the price of admission.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 17, 2009 7:02:49 am PST #19 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I'm having a hard time imagining Clifton Webb as any kind of "Dreamboat", but I've probably seen LAURA too many times.
Granted, I have a hard time with LAURA taking Vincent Price seriously as a gigilo, but I've also seen too many of his horror movies over the years.
megan walker - Feb 17, 2009 7:05:42 am PST #20 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I love Laura, although I do agree that the Price casting throws you out of the picture for a bit.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 17, 2009 7:18:29 am PST #21 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I love Laura, although I do agree that the Price casting throws you out of the picture for a bit.
Though he does make a superlative red herring in compensation for the seeming miscasting of the role (though I think that's only retrospective - at the time I don't think it was such odd casting).