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...Robert Wise's The Day the Earth Stood Still was a really neat movie. And so it remains, for a lot of reasons: its timing, at the onset of the atomic age and the cold war; the clear identification of Klaatu as a Christ figure (his earth name is John Carpenter - or "JC" if you care to parse those initials - and his surname refers us to Jesus's occupation); the fact that its success helped initiate what amounted to a new and potent movie genre - sci-fi - and, above all, the way it keeps faith with its roots in parable...
...This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you're gonna let it be the worst." - John Belushi in Animal House...
...Going from backstage to center stage, four of the principal minds behind Obama and John McCain's campaigns convened in the John F. Kennedy Forum for a post-election retrospective moderated by PBS anchor Gwen Ifill...
...ever-present million-dollar smile. By its end, Sheen reveals a Frost transformed from entertainer to thinker, a man who has come to take himself seriously after confronting serious issues.Sheen and Langella are supported in the film by Matthew Macfadyen as Frost’s straight-man producer John Birt, and by the comedic tag team of Oliver Platt and Sam Rockwell, who play Frost’s academic “crack investigators” with relish. The only failure of the film here is Rebecca Hall (last seen actually emoting in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona?...
...vision. Between screenings, he discussed the concept of “place”—that of a film bringing the viewer to a new place through description—that he struggled with as his career brought him to cinema. Ultimately, it was the poetry of John Ashbery that led him to ask, “What would it be like to make a film that is the place?” For Dorsky, that new place is the dialectic between the artist’s labor and the well of the viewer’s imagination...