One of my favorite comedies has finally made its way to DVD In 1980, a little movie called Airplane! wowed audiences with its brilliant send-up of the films Zero Hour and Airport 1975. Eager to jump onto the parody bandwagon and facing a lull in future releases do the 1980 SAG strike, Paramount rushes a comedy/horror scab film into production. High Line was filmed [...]
Poll: What do you want to see on DVD? This morning while browsing the Internet(s), I came across this link on the IMDb. It’s a Turner Classic Movies poll asking what currently unavailable on DVD film viewers most want to see released. They tallied their top 200 requests and put them up for a vote. TCM will use the results to lobby studios in [...]
Enter to win tickets for LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD Hello all, we’ve got yet another ticket giveaway for you. This time around it’s a screening of Alain Resnais’ art house classic/film school staple Last Year at Marienbad. The screening is at SIFF Cinema on Friday, July 18th at 8pm. To enter, fill out a form at the big plexiglass entry box on [...]
Tickets on sale for the 2008 TWIN PEAKS/DAVID LYNCH FEST Attention Twin Peaks fans! We’ve got tickets on sale here for the Seattle Art Museum’s annual celebration of the erstwhile TV show and all things David Lynch. This year they’ll be screening a brand new hush-hush secret film in the Lynch tradition. You can read a bit more about it and the whole evening [...]
Michel Gondry: our latest auteur Michel Gondry is the latest auteur to grace our director’s section. He’s got a nice patch of shelf real estate in between Godard and Stuart Gordon.
Many of us have wanted him to get a section since Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, but we had to wait until Be Kind, Rewind came out on DVD. [...]
Slapstick was a term invented to describe the physical comedy that was often practiced in vaudeville and early silent features. The work of Charlie Ch ... [more]
Robert Smigel's TV Funhouse cartoons on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE were always something to look forward to--and always too short. With this short-lived Come ... [more]
This landmark series uses specialist imaging and compelling narrative to tell the life story of our planet, how it works, and what makes it so special ... [more]
Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in Akira Kurosawaâ ... [more]
The warped minds at Adult Swim's ROBOT CHICKEN take their demented sensibility to the holy grail of sci-fi epics, STAR WARS, in this hilarious special ... [more]
Hungarian auteur Bela Tarr's 7-hour, black-and-white epic based on the novel by Laszlo Karsznahorkai took two years to film. The complex story follows ... [more]
Claude Jutra's evocative portrait of a boy's coming of age in wintry 1940s rural Quebec has been consistently cited by critics and scholars as the gre ... [more]
This 1929 silent film has been given a fresh orchestral score by Nitin Sawhney. Two kings both desire Sunita, the daughter of a hermit, and they decid ... [more]
Kaaapowie! Holy feature film, Batman... one based on the tongue-in-cheek, campy 1960's television series. Watch Batman and Robin battle sharks, Catwom ... [more]
