Best Actor: Editor Phil Busse believes that Matthew McConaughey deserves not one but TWO Oscars as Best Actor (and a third for Best Supporting Actor in his brief appearance in The Wolf of Wall Street.) The Texan heartthrob had his breakout year, finally reclaiming the greatness he showed in A Time To Kill and cleaning […]
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The Grand Anderson
The Source’s film fest tribute to the Great Wes Anderson
To conclude The Grand Anderson—which really has just been foreplay for Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest (out on March 7)—the Source presents probably his most popular film, The Royal Tenenbaums . . .and yes, it is a costume party! And by “party” we mean “contest.” Winning outfit receives a day pass to Mt Bachelor. Losing […]
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Move Over, Sundance
Telluride MountainFilm showcases sophisticated action films
Over the past few decades, kayaking has evolved, with boats from the ’80s seeming more like relics belonging in the Smithsonian than in the river; so why shouldn’t it be expected that kayaking films also have matured into sophisticated and sleek art pieces as well? “Cascada,” one of the short films that is bundled as […]
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Film Events 2/19-2/27
Capote Tribute Philip Seymour Hoffman was perhaps the greatest actor of his generation. Seriously. We will fist-fight anyone who says otherwise. During his two-decade career, he emerged from that-guy-who-is-in-every-film to the marquee actor, creating dozens of indelible characters during his all-too-short career: rock editor Lester Bangs in Almost Famous, reform-minded priest Father Flynn in Doubt, […]
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Foxy, SCHWING!
The Grand Anderson Film Series continues
Except perhaps the filmmaker who brought him to life on screen, Wes Anderson, no one rocks a corduroy suit quite as fantastically as Mr. Fox, the title character of The Fantastic Mr. Fox. This adaptation of the classic Roald Dahl story was Anderson’s foray into the animated realm and, really, who else could round up […]
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Ghost in the Machine
RoboCop? More Like EmoCop! Ha!
Like a machine, we can take RoboCop apart, breaking it down to discrete components: Writing. Directing. Acting. Editing. And disassembled, just about every piece of 2014’s RoboCop remake is better than the corresponding piece of 1987’s RoboCop. But there’s a strange, beautiful alchemy that bubbles and hisses when one speaks of transcendent concepts such as […]
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Critical Miss
Knights of Badassdom Is an Unholy Beast
Idiots might grin when they see a fiery-eyed, supernatural Peter Dinklage give a knowing smile while avenging his bloody death at the teeth and talons of a hell-spawned succubus near the end of Knights of Badassdom. (Whoops! Spoiler alert!) He’s a badass in Game of Thrones! And now he’s a badass in a movie about […]
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No Mickey Mouse Films Here
Animated shorts is the Oscar’s most imaginative category
Last year, Disney won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film with “Paperboy,” a short, visually pleasing and, not surprisingly, predictable, easy-to-like, love story. It beat out other clever entries from much smaller crews, like “Fresh Guacamole,” a quick-witted visual treat from a one-man animating team. It hardly seems fair. Again, this year, Disney has […]
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Bratwurst Party
Going to war with The Monuments Men
“See, I’m not just a pretty face!” George Clooney says in The Monuments Men. And then, because he’s George Clooney, he smiles charmingly, and because he’s George Clooney, you think, “That’s right! You aren’t just a pretty face!” Because you’re George Clooney! Still, it’s sometimes easy to forget that Clooney—in addition to being a pretty […]
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Rush-MORE, not less
The Grand Anderson Film Series begins
Max Fisher: I like your nurse’s uniform. Dr. Peter Flynn: These are O.R. scrubs. Max Fisher: Oh, are they? And so begins the Source‘s latest film series, “The Grand Anderson,” a celebration of the great quotes, storylines and characters penned and brought to life by writer and director Wes Anderson. Rushmore—a classic tale of one […]
