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Enter to Win Trance on Blu-ray by Naming Your Fav Kick Ass Lady in Film
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Jul 8, 2013
From director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) comes the mind-blowing, psychological crime drama Trance. After a blow to the head during his attempted robbery of a $27 million Goya painting, Simon (James McAvoy), a fine-art auctioneer, awakens to find that the painting – and his memory – are missi read more
Top 3 Reasons Why North by Northwest is the Best Hitchcock Film
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Claire Dunderman on Jul 8, 2013
Hitchcock is arguably one of the best directors of all time. Actually, scratch that – Hitchcock is one of the best directors of all time. He maintained excellence and quality throughout his entire career, and fomented some of the strongest careers in acting history – Stewart and Grant read more
They Shoot Pictures Don’t They?
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Jul 8, 2013
It’s all auteurs all the time at the marvelous film resource They Shoot Pictures Don’t They? Based in Australia and run by cinephile extraordinaire Bill Georgaris, the TSPDT is currently in a transition phase as it’s migrated from an old look to a new look. The good news is that read more
The Critic
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Sam Cooper on Jul 6, 2013
If you’re like me and enjoy your television shows littered with movie references, particularly funny ones, then you’re probably seen The Critic. Lasting only two seasons and a handful of webisodes, the show had a tightly woven style of humor, albiet one laced with movie parodies. If you read more
Interview with Silvio Soldini, Director of For Other Eyes and Come Undone
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Beatriz Jereza on Jul 5, 2013
Only a minute into a conversation with Silvio Soldini and you’ll find yourself in awe at the depths of his thoughtfulness of the world around us. Soldini is proof that we can all find inspiration anywhere, even from the seemingly mundane routines of everyday life. The Italian film director wi read more
10 Great Movie + Music Moments
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Wade Sheeler on Jul 4, 2013
There are those moments in a good movie, very fleeting, when direction, plot and music all meld to deliver a message that is such a pure hybrid that no other medium could deliver it as perfectly. Music, or absence thereof in films, is one of the most important elements. It can take a scene to the s read more
Top 10 Frank Capra Movies
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Jul 3, 2013
If you asked me who my favorite auteur is, I would probably say Alfred Hitchcock. If I you asked me on a day when I was feeling particularly film snobby I might say Truffaut, of course! Or if you asked on a day when I was feeling particularly obtuse, I would say something like F.W. Murnau – a read more
Movie Review: World War Z
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Jul 3, 2013
Okay, World War Z, the new zombie apocalypse flick from one Mr. Brad Pitt, has gotten some pretty mixed reviews. I cannot imagine why they’re so mixed. World War Z is smart, fast paced, fun and full of some stunning zombie visuals. If you want a lot of zombies in your zombie apocalypse, which read more
Style Evolution: Doris Day – Part 2 (1961-1973)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Christina Stewart on Jul 2, 2013
Doris Day is our conception of the perfect girl next door, but in the later half of her career she really came into her own as a marvelous comedienne. She was able to convey the complexities of marriage with remarkable reality and candor, not to mention humor and class. She grew up and evolved on s read more
Top 5 Jimmy Stewart Films
Pretty Clever Films Posted by clairedunderman on Jul 1, 2013
James – or Jimmy, however you like to refer to him – Stewart. A legendary actor and the man who started it all for me. Jimmy Stewart has been my favorite actor ever since I was little; he definitely was one of the reasons why I initially was so interested in classic films (and films in read more
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Sam Cooper on Jun 29, 2013
“September 21st, 1945. That was the night I died.” So begins the opening of Grave of the Fireflies, a Japanese animated film concerning a teenage boy, Seita, and his young sister, Setsuko, adjusting to the wartime atrocities that drive them away from there home. Their father is a captai read more
Movie Review: Kill, Baby. . .Kill! (1966)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by John Munshour on Jun 28, 2013
Much like the town in which it is set, Mario Bava’s Kill, Baby. . .Kill! (1966) is a movie that is and is not hiding something. Dr. Paul Eswai (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart) is summoned to the late 19th century town of Carnagan to aide an investigation. The police have received a note from a young woman read more
Movie Review: The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Toyiah Murry on Jun 27, 2013
My introduction to The Battleship Potemkin was in film school. As an undergrad, learning about director Sergei Eisenstein and his association with the Kuleshov School of film theory was imperative, elementary knowledge. The Kuleshov effect, or a montage, is a form of editing believed by proponents read more
Style Evolution: Doris Day – Part 1 (1948-1960)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Christina Stewart on Jun 26, 2013
Doris Day is our conception of the perfect girl next door. Spunky, beautiful, endearing, talented, and boy can she put over a song! Her style evolution over her twenty-five year career is fascinating and, much like the stars of today, it demonstrates not only the styles of the time, but also her de read more
Movie Review: Harper (1966)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Wade Sheeler on Jun 26, 2013
Harper airs Saturday, June 29 on TCM. Check local listings for time. Some actors were born to play roles. And some roles could only be played by one actor. Bogart as Rick Blaine and Gable as Rhett Butler come readily to mind. So does Paul Newman as Butch Cassidy and Henry Gondorff. And then there&# read more
Keanu Reeves, Vampire Hunter
Pretty Clever Films Posted by jaredbratt on Jun 26, 2013
Lukecool is the title for a film you cannot see. It’s the title for a film you cannot discover, download, search-for, rent, stream, or import — It flat-out doesn’t exist… wait, wait, let me clarify this — It exists but the only way to take a gander at it would be read more
Films in Bitter/Sweet: The Joyous Cinema of Jacques Demy to Screen at TIFF Cinematheque
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Jun 25, 2013
Jacques Demy may be the most overlooked auteur who can also be fairly characterized as part of the “French New Wave.” Not nearly as experimental as Alain Resnais, nor nearly as political as Jean-Luc Godard, nor nearly as arty as Francois Truffaut, Demy’s films instead weave a cine read more
Book Review: Peter Lawford: The Man Who Kept the Secrets
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Laura Grande on Jun 25, 2013
It’s easy to become immersed in a book that highlights the dark underbelly of Old Hollywood. All the glitter and glam was nothing more than an illusion and many celebrities lost themselves to the pressures that came with being famous. Much like they do today. As James Spada’s biography read more
Top 3 Western Sheriffs in Classic Movies
Pretty Clever Films Posted by clairedunderman on Jun 24, 2013
The sheriffs in classic movies almost always gets the short end of the stick. They’re bullied, they’re bruised, and they’re always the ones that get shot or blamed. But these sheriffs in classic movies stand above the rest and proved to the wild West that nobody was going to mess read more
Movie Review: Storm Surfers 3D
Pretty Clever Films Posted by beatriz.jereza on Jun 24, 2013
Storm Surfers 3D, directed by Justin McMillan and Christopher Nelius, is a sports documentary that is a window into the adrenaline-filled world of big-wave surfing. Tom Carroll, along with his best friend, Ross Clarke-Jones, and surf forecaster, Ben Matson, share their trials and tribulations as read more