Bagatelle: film links

le 14, décembre 2007

Trajan is the Movie Font
“Everywhere I look, it’s Trajan, Trajan, Trajan.”

le 15, juin 2007

10-Minute Cooking School: Sin City Breakfast Tacos
Robert Rodriguez cooks up some tasty-looking tacos.

le 12, mai 2007

As chosen by you … the greatest foreign films of all time
The order is arguable, but this is a pretty good list.

le 28, février 2007

Ads and propaganda from Children of Men
Remind me why I haven’t seen this movie yet?

le 10, février 2007

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
Todd Haynes’ notorious and incredibly hard-to-find film — better download it before it gets pulled

le 2, janvier 2007

10 kick ass opening credit sequences
I’m not completely in agreement on the inclusion of Pulp Fiction, but these still make up a nice selection

le 26, décembre 2006

Slate compiles the best of the best-of lists

le 15, décembre 2006

Michel Gondry Solves a Rubiks Cube with his Feet
Pretty self-explanatory, really.

le 28, octobre 2006

An update from Roger Ebert
Sounds like he’s on the mend, which is great news.

le 27, octobre 2006

M&M’s Dark Chocolate
Viral game where you have to find 50 horror movie title hidden in a painting
KISS meets Phantom of the Park Part 1
Oh my sweet jesus, I used to LOVE this movie as a kid

le 12, septembre 2006

David Cronenberg: on Andy Warhol
“Andy was a celebraholic. He would go to all the movies and read all the tabloids. He wasn’t anti-Hollywood; he loved it.”

le 29, août 2006

Collecting some great movie opening shots
Lots of stuff to love here

le 13, août 2006

Article on Justin Long, the “Mac” in Apple’s TV ads
I’d love to hear what John Hodgman’s (the “PC”) experience has been like

le 10, août 2006

Interview with Steven Soderbergh
Saving for later (looks good, though)
The Wilhelm Scream Compilation
Over and over and over and over

le 3, août 2006

MediaStorm: The Sandwich Generation
Moving documentary on people caught between caring for their children and their elderly parents.

le 13, juillet 2006

Solla Solla Enna Perumai
Holy. Crap.

le 10, juin 2006

“Tom Waits said he would glue my head to the wall”
The Guardian speaks to Jim Marmusch

le 1, juin 2006

Toronto’s Festival theatres are closing
The biggest repertory cinema chain in TO is closing its doors. DAMN.

le 24, mai 2006

turkish star wars
I don’t know where this is from, but damn, it’s awesome

le 19, mai 2006

10 Things I Hate About Commandments
heh!

le 18, mai 2006

Flak Over ‘Fast Food Nation’
It’ll be interesting to see how they’ve tried to translate the book into film form

le 10, mai 2006

Apocalypto Freeze Frame
Director Mel Gibson pops up in a single frame of the Apocalypto trailer.
Star Wars DVD Sets of Tomorrow
Star Wars is quickly becoming like Disney for nerds: re-released every 5 years to milk the crap out of a dead franchise

le 7, mai 2006

Harry Shearer’s You Wouldn’t Believe Our World
An 80’s spoof on industrial films that I had no idea even existed. (via)

le 1, mai 2006

How Hollywood portrays computers
My new whiz-bang-doodad is unstoppable

le 22, avril 2006

Roger Ebert’s “101 Movies You Must See Before…”
Being a reformed film ass I think I’ve seen most of these

le 26, mars 2006

It this the best fight scene of all time?
No, this is.

le 23, mars 2006

Interesting article on the rise of YouTube
I’d be interested to see what their bandwidth and usage stats are like

le 17, mars 2006

Snakes on a Plane “Official” trailer
Undoubtedly one of the must-see movies of 2006.

le 6, mars 2006

How To Watch the Oscars - In praise of Three 6 Mafia
Generally speaking, I agree with most of these comments. Crash, though? Gah?

le 2, mars 2006

Salon reviews Dave Chappelle’s Block Party
Looks like they liked it. Boy, I can’t wait.

le 5, février 2006

2005 Film Critic Top Ten Lists
And it’s Brokeback Mountain and A History of Violence neck-and-neck…

le 13, décembre 2005

Ten Movies Every Photographer Should See
I would add Kurosawa’s Ran into there - totally astounding

le 23, novembre 2005

Wow, Peter Jackson lost a lot of weight
How awesome for him. Here’s a before picture. (via)

le 13, octobre 2005

Salman Rushdie talks with Terry Gilliam
(via)

le 10, octobre 2005

Fire destroys ‘Wallace and Gromit’ warehouse
“In light of other tragedies, today isn’t a big deal”

le 7, octobre 2005

Examining the use of type in the movie Gangs of New York
It’s type knowledge like this that makes me feel very, very small

le 2, octobre 2005

Nick Park’s dog days
I can’t wait to see his next movie

le 1, octobre 2005

West Side Story reimagined… (.mov)
… as a horror film.

le 29, septembre 2005

The Shining reimagined as a family movie (.mov)
Brilliant proof that movie previews aren’t what they always seem to be

le 23, septembre 2005

JG Ballard writes on A History of Violence
“All Cronenberg’s films… are concerned with two questions: who are we, and what is the real nature of consciousness?”

le 20, septembre 2005

‘Bride’ Stripped Bare
some interesting technical details behind the Corpse Bride: edited using Final Cut Pro, shot using digital still cameras

le 16, septembre 2005

How my life became a game
Kevin Bacon on six degrees

le 29, août 2005

Roger Ebert on the depiction of evil and violence in films
a passionate and lucid response to the makers of Chaos (via)

le 13, août 2005

Trailier for Wong Kar Wai’s new movie 2046
looks incredible, as expected

le 1, août 2005

The Last of the Indies
Jim Jarmusch hates the word “independent”

le 29, juillet 2005

How movie studios choose release dates
(via)

le 27, juillet 2005

Was Owen Wilson the key to the Wes Anderson phenomenon?
it’s true, he’s easy to underestimate

le 25, juillet 2005

The Aristocrats
movie where 100 comedians take a stab at the most foul joke ever (1000% NSFW)

le 24, juillet 2005

Director Miranda July’s weblog for the film Me and You and Everyone We Know
just saw the movie tonight. It’s quite good - more on it later

le 18, juillet 2005

Twelve Sequels to Dances With Wolves That, Due to Monetary Constraints, Were Never Produced.
i heart mcsweeney’s.

le 17, juillet 2005

Pulp Fiction in 30 seconds with bunnies.
linked like crazy, but worthy

le 13, juillet 2005

More evidence that Oliver Stone is certifiably nuts
if these quotes are true, man.

le 12, juillet 2005

Is Anybody Making Movies We’ll Actually Watch In 50 Years?
I’ve always wondered about the longevity of today’s cinema

le 8, juillet 2005

Oliver Stone to direct WTC movie with Nicholas Cage
like almost everything else Stone does, it will be utter crap

le 26, juin 2005

Putting movie ad blurbs back into context
hint: it’s not as gushy as the ad would lead you to believe
Top 40 “Short Take” Movie Moments
short and sweet

le 23, juin 2005

Paul Haggis on the origins of Crash
“It was 1991 and we were driving home from the opening of The Silence of the Lambs…”

le 11, juin 2005

Interesting article on the secret art of creating movie trailiers

le 18, mai 2005

The All-Time Top 100 Voices in the Movies
what, no Michael Wincott?

le 20, avril 2005

(QT Mov) Superimposing Psycho
Overlaying Hitchcock’s and Gus Van Sant’s shower sequences (via)

le 31, mars 2005

SIN CITY Comparisons
comparing comic cells with screen captures

le 23, mars 2005

Taxi Driver locations, then and now
revisiting locations from the classic film

le 1, mars 2005

Watch Ryna, the Canadian Oscar winner

le 15, février 2005

Frank Miller’s Sin City
looks pretty great

le 21, janvier 2005

Films from the first public screening of the Cinématographe Lumière, 1895
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
coooool.

le 7, décembre 2004

Top 100 Overlooked Films of the 1990s
a pretty good list, but what’s with Strange Days, Titus, and Mystery Men? Yeech.
big list of, er, best of 2004 lists

le 26, octobre 2004

A Conversation With Errol Morris

le 25, octobre 2004

A Very Long Engagement
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie) has a new movie coming soon (via)

le 11, octobre 2004

Truth Stranger Than ‘Strangelove’
Chistopher Reeves dies
Goodbye, Superman

le 25, septembre 2004

Lacquer: From LA to NY in 4 minutes
another brilliant Michel Gondry moment

le 22, septembre 2004

Russ Meyer splits the scene
it was his scene, and it freaked him out

le 19, août 2004

Film Composer Elmer Bernstein Dies at 82

le 11, août 2004

Great unpublished interview with Bill Murray

le 9, août 2004

Top 100 overlooked films of the 1990s
I’ve seen 51 (does that make me a movie nerd?)

le 7, août 2004

Surprisingly interesting interview with the Harold and Kumar go to White Castle actors

le 10, juillet 2004

Great article about Will Smith: he’s smarter than you might think

le 8, juillet 2004

Beautiful video: made with a coolpix755!

le 4, juillet 2004

The Daily Show on Farenheit 9/11 (.mov file)
Michael Moore on the Daily Show

le 11, juin 2004

The Numbers - Movie Budgets

le 28, mars 2004

Citizen Kubrick

le 25, mars 2004

100 movies that deserve more love

le 23, mars 2004

Night of the Living Dead is now public domain!

le 7, mars 2004

Mel Gibson’s ‘Passion’: publicity juggernaut: I so do not want to see this movie

le 14, janvier 2004

Worst movies of 2003

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