Movie reviews, interviews and top 5 lists with Adam Kempenaar and Matty Robinson
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More about this episode: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nnnfm Oscar-winning Hollywood anti-hero Christopher Walken performs Lady Gaga's 'Poker Face'
Filmspotting Dick Schickel on Bob Altman: drunk misanthrope who didn't make enough Herbie movies ... or something like that
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It appears that from the beginning of his career until almost its end (when illness slowed him), Robert Altman never passed an entirely sober day in his life. When he was not drinking heavily, he was smoking dope -- often doing both simultaneously. ...
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Additional details:Adam Kempenaar is the co-host and executive producer of the popular film discussion podcast Filmspotting, also broadcast on WBEZ. Kempenaar holds an M.A. in Journalism from the University of Iowa and bachelor's degrees in Film Studies (Iowa) and English (Grinnell College). ...
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Oct. 30: Yes, we are obviously trying to seduce you. This week, Adam and Matty decide to forgo their spot at Oxford next semester and instead fall head over heels for the much older Peter Sarsgaard's fast car, cool jazz and French cigarettes. ...
Filmspotting So Jeff Bridges (along with Damon and Brolin apparently) is attached to the Coen brothers "re-make" of True Grit ... email info @ filmspotting DOT net your best bit of imagined dialogue of the Dude, Walter, and Donnie deep in the heart of "Indian Territory" (not the preferred nomenclature) on the trail of a killer and the best gets some swag
Filmspotting Need help with this week's Top Five; looking for Top Five Taboo Relationships (Lolita, West Side Story, Brokeback ...) any relationship that challenges societal prejudices/established mores ...
Filmspotting I've been advised by our production team (well, adam) that show #278 with reviews of Where the Wild Things are and High and Low will not be up until the afternoon. i'm curious, if you listen to the show (and I'm not convinced anyone outside of our parents really does) when do you listen to it? when would you want to have it available?
Filmspotting You know how Lego has playsets based on Star Wars scenes (like Hoth, for example) ... I think we need Lego playsets for other movies, like "The Hotel Scene" in No Country For Old Men ... imagine a Lego Anton Chigurh, out-fitted with an air gun ... I think this needs to happen
Filmspotting Uncle Matty is pumped
Filmspotting I'm too exhausted to go into details behind the joke about a South Carolinian drama teacher, a Hollywood Director, and a Podcast walking into a bar in Melbourne, but if you've listened to the show, you'll know how oddly cool and surreal the image below is ...
Filmspotting Sent in by a listener; apropos of our recent discussions of both Wait Until Dark and Inglorious Basterds ... oh Quentin
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Broadway and Off Broadway show reviews and critics picks from acclaimed NY Times critics Ben Brantley, Bruce Weber, and more. Also read London theater reviews.
Filmspotting Great Golden Brick graphics from Greg Nemec; which one do you like best, building the pyramid or the smiley dude? ... I think i like the smiley dude
Filmspotting Okay, I'm posting these just to keep people from sending me the link ... if you collected Movie trading cards in the 70's/80's, you'll admire the handiwork on display
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I made these a while ago, and just decided to post them. Plus stickers!
Filmspotting Hey everyone, it's Adam... the less clever of the two hosts of Fimspotting. If you're in Chicago, we're giving away 50 passes to a free, advanced screening of "The Boys are Back" this Thursday night, Oct. 1. Should be some left if all of my Twitter people didn't get to them first. Score one for Team Adam! :) http://filmspotting.net/contests.htm
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For your chance to win a pass for two to the special advance Chicago screening on Thursday, October 1 of THE BOYS ARE BACK, logon to WWW.GOFOBO.COM/RSVP and enter RSVP Code: WBEZR8PM
Filmspotting I talked about this on the show: Jandy Stone's Film on TV run-down ... great resource, really nice write-ups and she highlights films we've talked about our alluded to countless times on the show ... I think she offers up a new list every Monday
Row Three » Film on TV: September 28-October 4 - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million product
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A few to highlight this week: Martin Scorsese’s electrifying Taxi Driver is playing late Tuesday/early Wednesday on TCM, the small but highly worthwhile The Station Agent is on Wednesday on IFC, and TCM is showing a Marx Brothers double-feature Friday morning.
