SMART MOVES 'MUNICH' MIXES MORALS AND ACTION

Dayton Daily News;  May 5, 2006 ;     700+ words ......for best director), but in both cases the fi lm was something of an afterthought. This...you don't need to be introduced to this fi lm's director, Terrance Malick; everyone else should know that Malick is revered by the fi lm geeks because he's one of those directors...

Crew cut

The Sunday Herald;  August 24, 2008 ;     588 words ......to determine the correct level of your fi lm- buffery. When you see a baby's pram bouncing...Palma in disguise. ) Quite why a gangster fi lm made in the 1980s but set in Chicago of...a scene from a silent Russian agit-prop fi lm is another question entirely; let's just...

FILM[news]

Dayton Daily News;  May 4, 2007 ;     422 words ......REVIEWED Oregon Stories, a documentary fi lm chronicling the history of Dayton's Oregon...130 E. Fifth St., Dayton. The 45-minute fi lm was produced by John Bognar and John Mays...eventual blight in the 1950s and 1960s. The fi lm focuses on the period of renewal in the...

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DVDs NO.28 YUGOSLAVIA UNDERGROUND

The Sunday Herald;  October 5, 2008 ;     586 words ......effect of such fi ghting on indigenous fi lm industries might seem trivial to say the...always made it diffi cult for a unifi ed fi lm industry to sustain itself. However, we'...s the word - in Dusan Makavejev's 1971 fi lm, WR: Mysteries Of The Organism. This strange...

Boys meet girls 'KONG,' 'GEISHA' SPIN TRADITIONAL THEMES

Dayton Daily News;  March 24, 2006 ;     611 words ......lots of everything, which is fi nally the fi lm's real fl aw: It's really, really overstuffed...largely ignore that at the heart of the fi lm is a story of children sold into prostitution...those pretty robes. It's also one of those fi lm adaptations that feels strangely airless...

Genetic deficiency FINAL X-MEN MISSING DOUR GRANDEUR OF EARLIER FILMS

Dayton Daily News;  September 29, 2006 ;     693 words ......to tell you that the snickering on this fi lm started early and didn't let up right through...spins thinking about this fl ick. This fi lm will utterly enrage a fair number of people...BUDDY HACKETT Some folks say this is the fi lm in which Disney animation got back its...

Til death do us part 'CORPSE BRIDE' WARMS OVER 'NIGHTMARE BEFORE...

Dayton Daily News;  January 27, 2006 ;     627 words ......it had most of the things that made that fi lm so dourly beloved, including Burton, musical...couple (which they are supposed to be in the fi lm, and that's no good). It's just not fun, which what this fi lm should be. Extras: director commentary...

ALEXIS [raves on]

Dayton Daily News;  October 19, 2007 ;     264 words ......it's sure to get you in the mood. For fi lm, I would say go easy earlier in the month...How about director Tod Browning's 1932 fi lm "Freaks?" He cast famous circus sideshow folk of the day for this fi lm that takes a wicked dark turn at the end...

FILM news

Dayton Daily News;  July 8, 2005 ;     369 words ......BEING SHOT IN DAYTON An independent feature fi lm titled Missed It is being fi lmed at Colonel...by Columbus native Brian Southers , the fi lm follows a female high school basketball...Thursday. He is shooting 95 percent of the fi lm in Dayton, at Colonel White and in the...

The right direction ; It's a tough field, but women filmmakers are...

Albuquerque Journal;  April 6, 2008 ;     700+ words ......through until they capture their vision on fi lm. "Directing is by far the most difficult aspect of fi lm to break into," says Lisa Strout, director...living, but I'm still kicking." Her short fi lm, "Osama Likes Frybread," won a $20,000 grant...

'Pacifier' successful vehicle for Diesel 'DAILY SHOW' SET FOCUSES ON 2004...

Dayton Daily News;  June 24, 2005 ;     585 words ......Chronicles of Riddick, this otherwise slight fi lm comes off as a waft of fresh air, and saved...Diesel; now just make sure your next action fi lm doesn't stink. Also, don't run for governor...Woman TYLER PERRY KIMBERLY ELISE This indie fi lm had a huge opening weekend that took by...

THE RELATIONSHIP WAS ALWAYS GOING TO END BADLY: I PAID THE BILLS, HE...

The Sunday Herald;  June 8, 2008 ;     700+ words ......strange to see yourself genuinely crying on fi lm. At one particular moment I try to casually...which he was making his way as a fledgling fi lm-maker. We made the difficult split - or...in 2004. And now here he was, with a fi lm crew, asking questions about our past for...

NEO-NOIR UNDER A BRIGHT NORDIC SUN AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DVDs

The Sunday Herald;  July 20, 2008 ;     546 words ......Norway, a country that has enjoyed bursts of fi lm-making activity without ever really becoming...stage actors created a minor golden age of fi lm-making in the 1930s, which continued to...documentaries of adventurer Thor Heyerdahl, whose fi lm of his Kon-Tiki expedition across the ...

Fun? Not so much

Dayton Daily News;  April 7, 2006 ;     575 words ......Dick and Jane JIM CARREY TEA LEONI This is sort of fi lm I call a "mall fi lm," which is to say, you're at the mall, you've done...stalwart American consumer! I salute you. As for this fi lm: Jim and Tea are soulless yuppies who lose it all...

AROUND THE IN 80 DVDs

The Sunday Herald;  July 6, 2008 ;     514 words ......always been the case, however. The Danish fi lm industry was quite spicy during the silent...Films, still the world's oldest surviving fi lm company (recognisable by its polarbear...Early Danish cinema had a truly great fi lm-maker in Dreyer, although he was occasionally...