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Monday Live Tweet Alert: Join Us for The Seven-Ups!

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

As some of our regular readers undoubtedly know, I am involved in hosting a few weekly live tweets on twitter and occasionally Mastodon.  I host #FridayNightFlix every Friday, I co-host #ScarySocial on Saturday, and I am one of the five hosts of Mastodon’s #MondayActionMovie!  Every week, we get together.  We watch a movie.  We snark our way through it.

Tonight, for #MondayActionMovie, the film will be 1973’s The Seven-Ups!

If you want to join this watch party, just hop onto Mastodon, pull up The Seven-Ups on YouTube, start the movie at 8 pm et, and use the #MondayActionMovie hashtag!

Enjoy!

Here’s the Super Bowl Spot For Disclosure Day

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Disclosure Day is Steven Spielberg’s latest film.  We really don’t know much about it, beyond the fact that it appears to be science fiction and it stars Emily Blunt.

The Super Bowl spot is certainly intriguing.  I’m looking forward to unraveling this film’s mysteries.

The DGA Honors Paul Thomas Anderson

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

If you were like me and you were hoping for some sort of big upset at the Oscars next month, it looks like we’re out of luck!  The Directors Guild has honored Paul Thomas Anderson as director of the year for One Battle After Another.

The winners are in bold:

FEATURE FILM
Paul Thomas Anderson – “One Battle After Another” (Warner Bros.)
Ryan Coogler – “Sinners” (Warner Bros.)
Guillermo Del Toro – “Frankenstein” (Netflix)
Josh Safdie – “Marty Supreme” (A24)
Chloe Zhao – “Hamnet” (Focus Features)

FIRST-TIME THEATRICAL FEATURE FILM
Hasan Hadi – “The President’s Cake” (Sony Pictures Classics)
Harry Lighton – “Pillion” (A24)
Alex Russell – “Lurker” (Mubi)
Charlie Polinger – “The Plague” (IFC)
Eva Victor – “Sorry, Baby” (A24)

4 Shots From 4 Films: Special King Vidor Edition

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

4 (or more) Shots From 4 (or more) Films is just what it says it is, 4 (or more) shots from 4 (or more) of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 (or more) Shots From 4 (or more) Films lets the visuals do the talking.

Today, we celebrate the 132nd birthday of Texas-born filmmaker, King Vidor!  Though Vidor may no longer be a household name, he was one of the most important and idiosyncratic filmmakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age.  The Crowd is regularly cited as one of the most influential films ever made.  (Certainly every film that’s ever featured a shot of an anonymous office worker sitting in a room full of cubicles owes a debt to it.)  Duel in the Sun went on to inspire countless spaghetti westerns.  The Fountainhead is also regularly cited as a favorite by a surprisingly large number of directors.

In honor of King Vidor’s life and legacy, here are….

4 Shots From 4 King Vidor Films

The Champ (1931, dir by King Vidor, DP: Gordon Avil)

Duel In The Sun (1946, dir by King Vidor, DP: Lee Garmes)

The Fountainhead (1949, dir by King Vidor, DP: Robert Burks)

Solomon and Sheba (1959, dir by King Vidor, DP; Fred A. Young)