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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences All the information you need to know about the Academy Awards (a.k.a. the Oscars). AFI – American Film Institute The official website of the American Film Institute. Here you’ll find all the AFI Top 100 lists. Allmovie.com Lists over 131,000 movies. One of the best features is the [...]
Whether you’re a Bach aficionado or just getting into classical music, I highly recommend Bach Concertos by Hilary Hahn with Jeffrey Kahane and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Hilary Hahn at 26 is one of the finest internationally known classical musicians. She was named “America’s Best” young classical musician by Time magazine in 2001. She [...]
Writer/director Patrice Leconte is one of the most consummate filmmakers in recent years. If he has made a bad film, I have yet to see it. With such films to his credit as Monsieur Hire, The Hairdressers Husband (Le Mari de la Coiffeuse), Ridicule, and The Widow of Saint-Pierre (La Veuve de Saint-Pierre), Leconte has [...]
In the small northern village of Marville, France, during the First World War, the retreating Germans have left behind a stockpile of munitions armed with a bomb in the hopes of blowing up the town and thwarting the advancing British army. Spies in the French underground warn the villagers who immediately evacuate. Before leaving, they [...]
It was suggested to me that we needed a review of a scary movie for the month of October, so that’s exactly what I did. With a threatening premise of offering enlightenment on enlightenment, the prospect of viewing the documentary What the Bleep Do We Know, was terrifying for a pseudo-nihilistic skeptic such as myself. [...]
Le Placard is one of the more recent comedies of France’s writer/director Francis Veber, creator of the classic French comedy La Cage Au Folles. Starring Daniel Auteuil (The Widow of Saint Pierre), Thierry Lhermitte (The Dinner Game), and Gérard Depardieu (all-purpose French actor), Le Placard tells the story of François (Auteuil) a kind, but cowardly [...]
With the New Year quickly here, I decided to try and find an album that was far from my usual favorites. I needed something new and inspirational. Well, I am pleased to announce that I have discovered a real gem, Alone in IZ World by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole. Kamakawiwo’ole was considered to be one of the [...]
Very few rock bands have had the ability to have such a prolific career to the same degree that U2 has. U2 has achieved constant commercial and critical success over the years, including numerous Grammy awards, for the production of their 14 albums. They have done everything on their own terms artistically and have knocked [...]
The number of walking corpses is on the rise…well, in the movies, anyway. October is the month for monster movies, and the monster flavor of the month is ZOMBIE! It’s about time too. Vampires have had the spot light for far too long. Time to give the rest of the undead the attention they deserve. [...]
With only three films under his belt, writer/director Shane Meadows is already being lauded as one of Britain’s finest filmmakers working today. Upon viewing his third film, Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, it’s easy to see why. Meadows has a singular, subtle sense of style that is delicately balanced with his gritty, human [...]
Memento is the type of film that leaves you astonished at the end—and wanting to watch it another time straight through. It might seem that film noir revolving around amnesia and revenge doesn’t seem particularly original or interesting, but writer and director Christopher Nolan follows these premises and achieves just that. The last thing the [...]
