MustReadAfterMyDeath Tagged Articles at Cinematical
Trailer Park: Love, Lesbians and Lewis Carroll
Filed under: Animation », Comedy », Documentary », Horror », Trailer Trash », Trailers and Clips »
I Love You Beth Cooper
A high school nerd proclaims his love for the most popular girl in school during his graduation speech and in response she decides to give him the night of his life. In some ways this looks like a by the numbers high school comedy, but there's charm and wit at work here. And there's no denying the appeal of Heroes' Hayden Panetierre as the object of our protagonist's affection. Here's William's take on the trailer, and you can see the movie on July 10.
Lesbian Vampire Killers
This movie wears its Shaun of the Dead influence pretty obviously and it's hard not to love a concept like lesbian vampires. Fun little homage or humorless knock-off? Time will tell, but I'm feeling optimistic about this one. Two Welsh lads (one hefty, one not so much) have their hiking excursion interrupted by a pack of blood sucking lesbians. No U.S. release info for this one just yet.
The Rocchi Review -- Live from LAFF with Stu VanAirsdale of Defamer
Filed under: Podcasts », The Rocchi Review: Online Film Community Podcast », Los Angeles Film Festival »
How do you jump from one of New York's best-loved insightful film blogs to a L.A.-based weblog better known for bite than brain? What's it like to blog the Oscars for Vanity Fair? What will it take to have big-studio publicity recognize the online world? And what are some of the standout films and special selections at this year's Los Angeles Film Festival? Joining us this week live from one of L.A's most hallowed cultural institutions -- The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf -- to talk about all these topics and more is Stu VanAirsdale, Senior Editor at Defamer and the founder of The Reeler. Cinematical's podcast is now available through iTunes; you can subscribe at this link. Also, you can listen directly here at Cinematical by clicking below:
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LAFF Review: Must Read After My Death
Filed under: Documentary », Theatrical Reviews », Festival Reports », Los Angeles Film Festival »
If Tolstoy had lived in our time, he might have expanded on his famed quote from Anna Karenina to note that happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way ... and that's demonstrated through their documentary. Following in the archival-confessional mold of such documentaries as Tarnation and Capturing the Friedmans, filmmaker Morgan Dews has created Must Read After My Death -- or, rather, assembled it, from decades of photographs and home movies and Dictaphone recordings found in his grandmother's home after her passing. Dews doesn't interject himself into this material; at the same time, he's made the decisions that shape it -- the inclusions, the deletions, the things we linger on, the things elided over.
Must Read After My Death is, first and foremost, a portrait of the marriage between Allis and Charlie. Allis is a mother and home maker, but the need to be perfect chances at her, chokes her; Charley travels for work, a charmer and hearty man's man whose easy charm makes it entirely too easy to ignore his family. Hoping to make Charley's distance more tolerable -- or, at least, more entertaining -- the family purchased a Dictaphone, and sent audio recordings back and forth. These recordings -- made in quiet contemplation or moments of anger, some heavy with things unsaid, some thick with the sounds of rage and desperation -- are the aching heart and wounded soul of the film.
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