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Win Fright Night 2 on Blu-ray
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Sep 26, 2013
Fright Night 2: New Blood Available on Blu-ray and DVD October 1 Enjoy this Vampire Tour of Romania, courtesy of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and then enter to win your very own copy of Fright Night 2 on Blu-fay! Vampire films are not a new phenomenon and in fact the presence of vampires can read more
Gilda (1946): Rita Hayworth and Jean Louis
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Christina Stewart on Sep 25, 2013
There NEVER was a woman like Gilda! Jean Louis’s costumes for Rita Hayworth in Gilda created an illusion of the perfect exotic femme fatale that not even Hayworth herself could live up to. She was quoted as saying many times over, “Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.” Gilda read more
Top 3 Reasons Why Rope is Creepier Than a Slasher Movie
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Claire Dunderman on Sep 24, 2013
Rope – the underrated, spooky gem of Hitchcock’s murderous repertoire. Only this time, the killing is done with class. In the age of gore and slasher films, one tends to forget that horror can be frightening on a level that penetrates the psyche. Here’s the top 3 reasons why Rope read more
Top 3 reasons Why it Had to be a Bus It Happened One Night
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Claire Dunderman on Sep 23, 2013
Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night is the movie that stunned America. It swept the Oscars and, to use a gooey cliche, swept us off our feet. It was the start of the modern day romantic comedy, and without it we wouldn’t have gems ranging from You’ve Got Mail to Silver Linings Pla read more
Blu-ray Review: A Letter to Three Wives
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Sep 22, 2013
All About Eve will forever be director Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s master piece, and rightfully so. But his A Letter to Three Wives, made just one year prior to Eve, can be regarded as his “breakout” picture. While less acerbic than Eve, this movie offers some keen insights into male-f read more
Max Fleischer presents Popeye The Sailor
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Bennett O'Brian on Sep 21, 2013
Here’s one: Can you connect Popeye the Sailor with Citizen Kane using only one degree of separation? It’s easier than it sounds. Popeye was first created by cartoonist E.C. Segar as a comic strip character to appear in the funny pages of the New York Journal. Segar’s “Thimble Theatre” strip read more
Book Review: Hitchcock’s Villains: Murderers, Maniacs, and Mother Issues
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Sep 20, 2013
Many of you might remember a fabulous podcast called “A Year of Hitchcock” and the resulting book of the same name co-authored by the hosts of that podcast, Eric San Juan and Jim McDevitt. If you recall one or both of those things, then Hitchcock’s Villains: Murderers, Maniacs, and Moth read more
Blu-Ray Review: The Fly (1958)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Sep 19, 2013
Almost universally, film snobs will sniff at Kurt Neumann’s 1958 version of The Fly and note that David David Cronenberg’s 1986 remake is far superior. Okay, fine. That’s true. But really, it’s almost apples and oranges. Thanks to a new Blu-ray release from 20th Century Fox read more
Win A Letter to Three Wives on Blu-ray
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Sep 18, 2013
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment released director Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s A Letter To Three Wives (1949), starring Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, and Ann Sothern, on Blu-ray on September 17. You can win your very own copy from Pretty Clever Films! As three women head off on a boating read more
Gwen Wakeling: Impeccable Designer
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Christina Stewart on Sep 18, 2013
Even if you don’t know Gwen Wakeling’s name, you know the costumes and the films she designed for. She worked at nearly every studio in Hollywood and dressed almost every leading lady and man tinseltown ever produced. She was equally skilled with modern and exotic costumes, as she was with designin read more
Win The Croods on Blu-Ray!
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Sep 18, 2013
Throughout their adventure, the Croods encounter tons of unique croodaceous creatures. The beauty of these peculiar animals that they had never seen before amazed audiences across the world. Continue reading below to learn all of the background information on these wild animals, and get to know the read more
Top 5 Ocean Films
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Sophie Vickers on Sep 17, 2013
The ocean is the last mysterious and largely unexplored territory on earth and Hollywood is just as fascinated with the seas as the rest of us. From summer blockbusters to animated kids movies to documentaries, here are the Top 5 Ocean Films. Since Toy Story wowed audiences in the mid nineties, Pi read more
A Conversation with Nicolas Philibert
Pretty Clever Films Posted by John Munshour on Sep 17, 2013
For someone who describes himself as shy, documentary filmmaker Nicolas Philibert is anything but reserved when it comes to talking about his work. When discussing it, he takes on a quality similar to his films, the rhythmic, thoughtful restlessness of an enthusiast. “I really like to improvi read more
Top 10 Cynical Political Films
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Lesley Coffin on Sep 16, 2013
Politics is everywhere, like the air we breathe, and politics have dramatic impacts on our everyday lives. It only makes sense that cinema often turns its attention to politics and it also makes sense that those attentions are sometimes very, very cynical. Here are the Top 10 Cynical Political Film read more
Indie Watch: Goldfield
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Sean Fitzpatrick on Sep 15, 2013
A couple months back, I reviewed a short film called The Winking Boy by Australian director Marcus Dineen. The Winking Boy featured gifted writing and acting from Aussie newcomer Alan King. I was, and am still, impressed by both Dineen and King’s ability to quickly and assuredly capture the essence read more
Overlooked Gems: The Paper Chase (1973)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Lesley Coffin on Sep 15, 2013
We are back to school and some really smart people are entering the Ivy covered halls of Harvard Law School. That location has been presented on screen several times, most notably today in the film Legally Blonde. One of the best scenes in that film shows Reese Witherspoon’s El being asked to read more
Flowers and Trees (1932)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Bennett O'Brian on Sep 14, 2013
Released in the summer of 1932, an animated short called Flowers and Trees became the first film to be theatrically exhibited in the latest technique of three-strip Technicolor – and it represents Walt Disney’s first calculated steps towards becoming a master of cinema’s newest trend. With the read more
TIFF13 Interview: Edgar Reitz and Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Sep 12, 2013
Where is a filmmaker to go after completing a sweeping, 32 episode (a combined 52 plus hours) feature film about life in Germany between 1919 and 2000? I’m speaking of course about the incomparable Edgar Reitz and his epic Heimat, and it turns out Reitz has the answer – you go further b read more
TIFF13: The Double
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Sean Fitzpatrick on Sep 12, 2013
The person that we see in the mirror is always more confident, attractive, and capable than the one that we present to the world. That mirrored self-image contains everything that we love and hate about our bodies and personalities. Yet, those reflected people seem to avoid the emotional and psycho read more
Helen Rose: MGM’s Wedding and Chiffon Queen
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Christina Stewart on Sep 11, 2013
Whether it was Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly or Jane Powell, MGM head designer Helen Rose loved dressing her leading ladies in chiffon. Who could blame her really? Even though it’s a difficult material to work with, Rose mastered it because she loved how it moved and picked up the light. She has be read more