Originally posted on Terry Malloy's Pigeon Coop:
A Dutch angle is a shot whereby the camera is tilted in relation to the scene. The shot then appears to be leaning to one side. To get slightly more technical, the usual vertical lines of the shot will be…
“I’m Irish. Racism is part of me culture.” So says the police officer of the title, Sgt. Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson). The Guard crashes right into stereotypes galore, racial and otherwise. To begin with, Sgt. Boyle is ignorant, he’s lazy, he only enforces laws when he feels like it, […]
…don’t just take our word for it. In 2011, the New York Times‘ Manohla Dargis wrote: Popping with glorious, bright color and off-color jokes, “The Guard” is an Irish comedy and almost incidental thriller, though mostly it’s something of a bait and switch. The tasty bait (and reluctant […]
Saturday, March 9 @ 8 p.m. The Guard (2011) Kick off your St. Patrick’s Day celebration with the highest-grossing Irish indie ever made. Shot on location in Western Eire, The Guard stars Dublin-born Brendan Gleeson as a backwards, racist cop teamed with an African-American FBI agent played by […]
Originally posted on The Focused Filmographer:
Today is THURSDAY!!! And you know what that means!! :) It is officially time for another fun-filled edition of “Trailer Time Thursday!” Here is your weekly fix of “Triple-T” (aka: “Trailer Time Thursday!”)!! In case this is your first visit to “Triple-T,” here’s what it’s all…
It might be a bit of a stretch to classify Moonrise Kingdom as a “Movie You May Have Missed.” However, we feel the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences definitely missed this one, or maybe forgot about it, as it was released in select theatres way back […]
Midnight in the Garden of East Texas This is the Texas Monthly article upon which BERNIE was based; journalist Skip Hollansworth co-wrote the screenplay with director Richard Linklater.
We won’t lie, we’d never seen Lars von Trier’s Melancholia on a big screen before. While the director is understandably controversial, there’s no disputing that he made a beautiful film. We really want more people to see this movie, hopefully the screen caps below will help convince you […]
If you missed MELANCHOLIA last year, check out this review of “an atypical disaster film” in which “[director Lars] von Trier cleverly challenges the weightlessness and unthinking, flippant nature often exhibited by the typical ones.” We’ll be showing it this Friday 2/15 at 8 p.m. and Sunday 2/17 […]
Just a few more days until the film fanatic’s Super Bowl, aka the Academy Awards. We’ve had an official Oscars app for a few years, here are some other Oscar-related apps and sites, if you’re into that.
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