When I lived in California, I didn’t have cable. So I didn’t follow and actually couldn’t watch Sex and the City. Then one day, my friend Amy introduced me to the show. I was instantly hooked. I went and bought the DVDs of all the prior seasons and watched them back-to-back. We’d often get together […]
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This is the best Piracy PSA evah. Maybe you have to have watched Superbad to find it funny though…
<a href=”http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/3522ad043c” mce_href=”http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/3522ad043c”>”Piracy PSA” with Christopher Mintz-Plasse</a> on <a href=”http://www.funnyordie.com/” mce_href=”http://www.funnyordie.com/”>FunnyOrDie.com</a>
Manish Acharya’s Loins of Punjab Presents is freaking hilarious! After I missed the first screening at NYU’s First Run Film Festival (where the film won the award for Best Feature), I hounded Manish to show me his film. It just so happened that NYU held a marketplace for their graduating students. And that is where, […]
As we watch the films of today, it is great to take a moment and think about where this medium has evolved from.
In the 1890s, the Lumiere brothers were hard at work to make a motion picture camera. Their father was a photographer and working for him, the men were introduced to the medium and […]
Three One-Minute Reviews
Published by November 6th, 2006 in Film Festivals, Perspectives and movies. 0 CommentsOne minute review: Royal Tenenbaums
Directed by Wes Anderson, I LOVED this movie. I’d heard mixed reviews, but this film really got to me. It is a mix of happy and sad, touching and quirky. It does an amazing job of using humor and sarcasm to lighten the mood about life’s difficulties and failings. This messed […]
Jon Kilik, one of the two producers on Babel, joined us for a discussion before the screening. Jon seems like an extremely modest and likeable guy and he talked about how he worked his way to up the producing ladder � the importance of being a line producer, making your contacts, and learning from great […]
Babel, directed by Alejandro Gonz�lez I��rritu (for which he won the Best Director award at Cannes) and written by Guillermo Arriaga, has gotten press for the controversies surrounding the director and the screenwriter. But the focus should be on the film itself. The movie that completes the trilogy started by Amores Perros and 21 Grams, […]
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