Naff Insights

Sight & Sound Poll

Sight & Sound has released their decennial poll of movie critics naming the best films of all time. For the first time in many decades Citizen Kane is knocked off the roost, replaced by Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. It also includes a bevy of ...

 

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Fare Thee Well, Gore Vidal & Chris Marker

In the past two days, we've lost a great filmmaker and a great writer. Chris Marker's La Jette is a true classic. It inspired much cinema that followed and was adapted in Hollywood into the well-made (although quite different stylistically) 12 Monkeys. ...

 

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The Aurochs are Here

If you live in Nashville, today is like a holiday (for movie lovers). The most fascinating, moving motion picture of the year is finally here. Beasts of the Southern Wild opens at the Belcourt today. Buy tickets NOW. With the success the Belcourt has had with Moonrise Kingdom, I suspect Beasts tickets are soon to be rare commodities.

 

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First Trailer for Ang Lee’s LIFE OF PI Released

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I'm excited about this one. The visuals look a little over-the-top, but considering it's about a boy who survives a shipwreck with a tiger named Richard Parker, that's probably not something to worry about.

 

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