By Scott Beggs
What counts as a "horror film"?
The article Broken Projector: The Thin Line Between Unsettled and Scared appeared first on Film School Rejects.
What counts as a "horror film"?
The article Broken Projector: The Thin Line Between Unsettled and Scared appeared first on Film School Rejects.
- 10/6/2017
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
By Scott Beggs
A series of allegations of sexual assault have revealed another cinematic holy place that needs to change. But even if everyone wants to heal, what does moving forward look like?
The article Broken Projector: The Harry Knowles/Alamo Drafthouse Problem appeared first on Film School Rejects.
A series of allegations of sexual assault have revealed another cinematic holy place that needs to change. But even if everyone wants to heal, what does moving forward look like?
The article Broken Projector: The Harry Knowles/Alamo Drafthouse Problem appeared first on Film School Rejects.
- 10/1/2017
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
By Scott Beggs
The Luke Cage and American Horror Story writer describes her path to the writers' room and answers your questions.
The article Broken Projector: Boomerang with Razor Blades (feat. Akela Cooper) appeared first on Film School Rejects.
The Luke Cage and American Horror Story writer describes her path to the writers' room and answers your questions.
The article Broken Projector: Boomerang with Razor Blades (feat. Akela Cooper) appeared first on Film School Rejects.
- 8/28/2017
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
By Scott Beggs
From "What screenwriting books should I read?" to "How do I get an agent?"
The article All Your Screenwriting Questions, Answered appeared first on Film School Rejects.
From "What screenwriting books should I read?" to "How do I get an agent?"
The article All Your Screenwriting Questions, Answered appeared first on Film School Rejects.
- 8/11/2017
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
By Scott Beggs
Ready to find your new favorite movies at YouTube and Crackle?
The article Broken Projector Podcast: Comic-Con and the New Rules for Getting Famous in Hollywood appeared first on Film School Rejects.
Ready to find your new favorite movies at YouTube and Crackle?
The article Broken Projector Podcast: Comic-Con and the New Rules for Getting Famous in Hollywood appeared first on Film School Rejects.
- 7/28/2017
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
By Scott Beggs
Ah, yes. The time of year when movies succeed at the box office only to be called "overperforming." Do they all have something, maybe, in common?
The article Broken Projector Podcast: The “Overperforming” Summer Movies appeared first on Film School Rejects.
Ah, yes. The time of year when movies succeed at the box office only to be called "overperforming." Do they all have something, maybe, in common?
The article Broken Projector Podcast: The “Overperforming” Summer Movies appeared first on Film School Rejects.
- 7/21/2017
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
If you haven’t heard, /Film has launched a new daily podcast called /Film Daily. On episode #2 for July 11, 2017, Peter Sciretta is joined by Brad Oman (aka Ethan Anderton) to discuss the latest news including Comic Con, Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan, James Bond, Marvel’s New Warriors, and Ready Player One. Scott Beggs joins us to discuss the […]
The post /Film Daily Podcast: Comic Con, Dunkirk, James Bond, Worst McU Bad Guys & Spider-Man Spoilers appeared first on /Film.
The post /Film Daily Podcast: Comic Con, Dunkirk, James Bond, Worst McU Bad Guys & Spider-Man Spoilers appeared first on /Film.
- 7/11/2017
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Apologies for the slim postings the past two days. Boring issues at Tfe HQ that will hopefully be remedied shortly for a jampacked next week. But enough of that...
As you may have heard Alden Ehrenreich has been cast as the Young Han Solo. If you are old like me you know he won't be the first actor to have risked Ford comparisons in the role. Way back in 1989, then freshly Oscar- nominated teen star River Phoenix (Running on Empty) played Young Han Solo in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in a flashback scene wherein we learned how Indiana Jones got that scar under his lip.
Alden Ehrenreich is all the rage at the moment due to his truly awesome work in Hail, Caesar! And the following tweet is most definitely true of actor heat both now and in general. The Coens have a rich history of making people...
As you may have heard Alden Ehrenreich has been cast as the Young Han Solo. If you are old like me you know he won't be the first actor to have risked Ford comparisons in the role. Way back in 1989, then freshly Oscar- nominated teen star River Phoenix (Running on Empty) played Young Han Solo in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in a flashback scene wherein we learned how Indiana Jones got that scar under his lip.
Alden Ehrenreich is all the rage at the moment due to his truly awesome work in Hail, Caesar! And the following tweet is most definitely true of actor heat both now and in general. The Coens have a rich history of making people...
- 5/6/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Oh, hey, that didn’t talk long. Although our erstwhile heroine (?) and protagonist (?) Hannah (Lena Dunham, who we continue to wish made a series about her own life, because she is wonderful and cool and fun and not like goddamn Hannah at all) took a big leap of faith as this season of Girls kicked off (just four brief episodes ago, we must remind you), jettisoning her NYC lifestyle to attend the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop to actually work on the one thing we’ve told she’s really, really good at (writing, for those of you in the cheap seats). Hannah never really took to Iowa — mostly because she never really seemed interested in stretching her intellect, personality, or social interactions to do so — so we’re not exactly shocked that “Cubbies” saw Hannah kicking the thing wholesale. We are, however, surprised that the show only squeezed four episodes out of it. Iowa...
- 2/9/2015
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Generally, film and television characters have the least discerning tastebuds of anyone, ever, when it comes to drinks and libations. They sidle up to a counter or bar and order the vaguest thing they can think of. Sure, it’s a narrative technique to avoid product placement, but it’s almost always nonsensically vague. They order a “beer,” but not even a lager, ale, or porter; they order a whisky, but not (at least) a scotch, rye, or bourbon. In this never-ending sea of vagueness rises Sleepy Time tea – an unstoppably specific force infiltrating the business in and out. Sleepy Time is the tea offered to Eric Stoltz when his café, Java, doesn’t have chamomile, and chamomile is the answer Seth Rogen gave our Scott Beggs years ago when asked about his favorite Sleepy Time tea flavor. It is what fictional characters sip while watching What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, and...
- 12/22/2014
- by Monika Bartyzel
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Yesterday, Scott Beggs discussed how the subject of war permeated throughout Richard Attenborough’s career both in front of and behind the camera, noting how anti-war themes ran through the former Royal Air Force flier’s directing debut in Oh! What a Lovely War to his Best Director win for Gandhi and beyond. But there’s another important aspect of Attenborough’s unique career that informed this consistent theme of pacifism: the actor/director often gravitated toward stories of activists determined to change the world and its asymmetrical relations of power. Attenborough rarely put himself in the position of liberator, but recognized and used his position of Western privilege to render the speech of others heard. Attenborough was a genteel Englishman who seemed positively aristocratic in his presentation and demeanor – his appearance made him look the part of someone who might have been quite comfortable in the role of colonizer a century ago – but he used this...
- 8/26/2014
- by Landon Palmer
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
So far, 2014’s highest grossing “summer movie” (in what now seems like a four-and-a-half-month “summer”) was Captain America: The Winter Soldier with about $260m. That’s the lowest domestic gross for the summer’s biggest hit since Mission: Impossible II in 2000, and it was reached with the addition of inflation, 3D and IMAX. I’m not about to make a sky-is-falling claim here; there were a lot of factors and coincidences that went into having a crop of blockbusters that didn’t reach the heights of any of the past 13 years. But when the equation used to be $300 – 400m = blockbuster franchise, it’s worth stopping to ponder what these shifting numbers mean for the future of the biggest of Hollywood business. The endless franchises are running thin, not imploding. Last summer, every film nerd with an IP address was reposting Spielberg’s comments about the inevitable demise of Hollywood’s current mega-budget system. All...
- 8/12/2014
- by Joshua Coonrod
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Welcome To Issue 58!
If This Is Your First Time Here: Welcome! I bet you really liked Guardians of the Galaxy. This is my weekly column where I talk about superhero movie news, rumors and speculation to the detriment of no one. It usually has spoilers.
This Week: Keep yelling: It's no longer acceptable that Marvel doesn't have a female or minority lead superhero movie amongst it's announced releases.
When I was making notes about what I wanted to write about this week, I was circling something like: Marvel, now that you have a massive hit with the 10th movie in your inter-connected cinematic universe, and you of all people should know that “with great power comes great responsibility” so where are my movies with female superheroes or minority leads?
As the week progressed, there was some great reporting on both fronts and I thought: “Oh good, now I can talk...
If This Is Your First Time Here: Welcome! I bet you really liked Guardians of the Galaxy. This is my weekly column where I talk about superhero movie news, rumors and speculation to the detriment of no one. It usually has spoilers.
This Week: Keep yelling: It's no longer acceptable that Marvel doesn't have a female or minority lead superhero movie amongst it's announced releases.
When I was making notes about what I wanted to write about this week, I was circling something like: Marvel, now that you have a massive hit with the 10th movie in your inter-connected cinematic universe, and you of all people should know that “with great power comes great responsibility” so where are my movies with female superheroes or minority leads?
As the week progressed, there was some great reporting on both fronts and I thought: “Oh good, now I can talk...
- 8/6/2014
- by Da7e
- LRMonline.com
What’s the best movie ever made? Would the person sitting next to you agree? Does the title really matter, or is the search a happy distraction meant to let the cream of the crop rise to the top? What happens when you watch a bunch of that cream? And why has “cream” become a metaphor for quality? The Sight & Sound Top 50 is a great place to start with all of those questions. For almost two years, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs have been watching the best movies of all time and discussing them with the aim of discovering and re-discovering important cinematic experiences. Now that their quest is over, here are their thoughts and conclusions on what it’s like to see that many treasured movies, followed with links to all 50 conversations for your perusal. Take a deep breath, grab a bowl of cream and dive in. Landon’s All-Time Experience Even as working through the...
- 5/8/2014
- by FSR Staff
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
This week on the Sound On Sight flagship podcast, we discuss The Amazing Spider-Man 2, written by the Lost/Alias team of Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Jeff Pinkner; and directed by Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer). For a movie that introduces a ton of characters and dips into a wide variety of subplots, we figured there would be lot to talk about, and so we decided to invite special guest Scott Beggs (the managing editor of Film School Rejects, and host of the Broken Projector podcast), to join us in the discussion.
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- 5/5/2014
- by Sound On Sight Podcast
- SoundOnSight
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss another entry in the list, dissecting old favorites from odd angles, discovering movies they haven’t seen before and asking you to join in on the conversation. Of course it helps if you’ve seen the movie because there will be plenty of spoilers. This week, they revel in the unadulterated delight of City Lights and imagine it as an elderly film that still feels young at heart. In the #50 (tied) movie on the list, The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) falls in love with a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill) and tries everything he can to earn money, even as life throws him repeatedly under the bus. But why is it one of the best movies of all time? Scott:...
- 4/30/2014
- by FSR Staff
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss another entry in the list, dissecting old favorites from odd angles, discovering movies they haven’t seen before and asking you to join in on the conversation. Of course it helps if you’ve seen the movie because there will be plenty of spoilers. This week, they bow to the ethical and empathetic complexity of a movie violently opposed to the inhumane destruction of conflict: Gillo Pontecorgo’s The Battle of Algiers. In the #48 (tied) movie on the list, resistance fighters hoping for Algerian freedom from France square off against French soldiers — each employing their own methods of madness — with regular citizens in the crossfire. But why is it one of the best movies of all time? Scott:...
- 4/16/2014
- by FSR Staff
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss another entry in the list, dissecting old favorites from odd angles, discovering movies they haven’t seen before and asking you to join in on the conversation. Of course it helps if you’ve seen the movie because there will be plenty of spoilers. This week, they attempt to dissect a movie that’s a dissection of movies. In the #48 (tied) movie on the list, Jean-Luc Godard chops up cinema’s past in order to praise and bury it by relegating it to histories. But why is it one of the best movies of all time? Landon: So I have a few initial reactions to Histoire(s) du Cinema as a whole before we get into what Godard might be doing here...
- 4/8/2014
- by FSR Staff
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The best movie culture writing from inside the Internet’s finest brainpans. 24 Things We Learned From The ‘Face/Off’ Commentary — Did you know that Johnny Depp, Alec Baldwin, and Bruce Willis were at one point attached to this? Cage and Depp? I’d say the world couldn’t handle that much crazy, but the final product had Cage and Travolta, so what do I know? The 5 Greatest Reactions to Being Body Swapped in Movie History — Neil Miller, the publisher of Pajiba, is doing what he’s best known for: Masterful Gif work. ‘Mulholland Drive’ as the Ultimate Body Swap Movie — Not a lot of people think of David Lynch’s film as a body swap movie, but Pajiba’ Managing Editor Scott Beggs makes the case that it may very well be the best one in the genre. What was the deal with the idealized version of adults in body-swap movies? Allison...
- 4/1/2014
- by Agent Bedhead
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss another entry in the list, dissecting old favorites from odd angles, discovering movies they haven’t seen before and asking you to join in on the conversation. Of course it helps if you’ve seen the movie because there will be plenty of spoilers. This week, they look back on a life in love and celebrate a simpler (but often more difficult) form of filmmaking from Carl Theodor Dreyer. In the #43 (tied) movie on the list, a marriage falls apart, leading a woman to seek a lover and, above all else, love. But why is it one of the best movies of all time? Landon: So I’d like to jump in with a reaction to Gertrud more than a specific question...
- 3/13/2014
- by FSR Staff
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss another entry in the list, dissecting old favorites from odd angles, discovering movies they haven’t seen before and asking you to join in on the conversation. Of course it helps if you’ve seen the movie because there will be plenty of spoilers. This week, they get lost in the whirling modern wonder of Jacques Tati‘s fictional Paris to revel in whimsy, caprice and noisy angst. In the #43 (tied) movie on the list, the doofy Mr. Hulot (Tati) bumbles around the labyrinthine steel and concrete of a tech-addled city while tourists bounce around station to station and the background eventually comes to the foreground. Honestly, writing a plot synopsis for Playtime is a self-defeating purpose. But...
- 3/6/2014
- by FSR Staff
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
After all the handwringing and concern, this year’s Oscars were reasonably even-handed. After all, the directors for Adaptation, Shame and Children of Men all got to make acceptance speeches — and they got to give them while representing incredibly strong pieces of cinema, standing alongside some stridently beloved performers. The next morning, there was a general perception that the whole program had been “fair” after a few years where the politicking (and its results) were too overt, where decent had replaced outstanding, where ossification had set in. The Academy had finally gotten it right. Whatever that means. The thing is, to think of any given stack of Oscar ballots as being wrong is both faulty and perfectly natural. We do it every year with gusto even knowing that — for all the pomp and ceremony — the Academy Awards aren’t a final or definitive word on quality. They’re one group’s opinions, but...
- 3/4/2014
- by FSR Staff
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss another entry in the list, dissecting old favorites from odd angles, discovering movies they haven’t seen before and asking you to join in on the conversation. Of course it helps if you’ve seen the movie because there will be plenty of spoilers. This week, they think subversively about Billy Wilder‘s men-in-dresses comedy Some Like It Hot since everything seems to have a “secret gay agenda” these days. And because you can’t bend genders without making romance a little interesting. In the #43 (tied) movie on the list, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play musicians who foolishly witness the Valentine’s Day Massacre. Trying to hide out, they get into drag to join an all-female band traveling to sunny Miami...
- 2/20/2014
- by FSR Staff
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss another entry in the list, dissecting old favorites from odd angles, discovering movies they haven’t seen before and asking you to join in on the conversation. Of course it helps if you’ve seen the movie because there will be plenty of spoilers. This week, they appreciate the nuance of a meta movie that’s part documentary, part real-life recreation using people playing themselves. In the #43 (tied) movie on the list, Abba Kiarostami becomes interested in the story of a young man pretending to be a famous director in order to take advantage of a family, and decides to jump into the middle by making the situation into a movie. Close-Up rings with dozens of moving parts, but...
- 2/13/2014
- by FSR Staff
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Tucked deep in the recesses of a Tuesday night, two large bits of entertainment news hit the metaphorical wire, lighting up the echo chamber of the Internet (and especially Twitter) with some good old-fashioned outrage. Our own Scott Beggs has already shared the heartbreaking news that (sad face emoticon) indie darling Greta Gerwig is now a huge sellout who will never again make another quirky and original film and will instead toil forever in the salt mines of corporate sitcom hell. Let us mourn. Amidst the Gerwig-centric rage, another piece of news also arrived – that Robert Schwentke is set to helm the second entry into Lionsgate’s Shailene Woodley-starring Divergent series, based on the very popular Ya trilogy by Veronica Roth. If the Gerwig news did not already tap your rage reserves, come with me – we shall spend it here. Divergent director Neil Burger bowed out of the second film, Insurgent...
- 2/12/2014
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss another entry in the list, dissecting old favorites from odd angles, discovering movies they haven’t seen before and asking you to join in on the conversation. Of course it helps if you’ve seen the movie because there will be plenty of spoilers. This week, they leave their old lives behind to go on the run with a beautiful woman who can literally drive a man insane. In the #41 (tied) movie on the list, Jean-Luc Godard delivers a fancy-free story involving crime, waterboarding and whirlwind romance that comes with a bomb strapped to itself. But why is it one of the best movies of all time? Landon: So there’s a lot to potentially unpack with this film, but...
- 1/29/2014
- by FSR Staff
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss another entry in the list, dissecting old favorites from odd angles, discovering movies they haven’t seen before and asking you to join in on the conversation. Of course it helps if you’ve seen the movie because there will be plenty of spoilers. This week, they visit Pompeii, Sorrento, Naples and Capri alongside a husband and wife who are on the verge of no longer being husband and wife. In the #41 (tied) movie on the list, Roberto Rossellini directs his wife Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders as a foreign place shows them their true natures, intentions and the idea that they may merely be strangers after all. For its generic title, Journey to Italy is anything but. But...
- 1/22/2014
- by FSR Staff
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss another entry in the list, dissecting old favorites from odd angles, discovering movies they haven’t seen before and asking you to join in on the conversation. Of course it helps if you’ve seen the movie because there will be plenty of spoilers. This week, they travel to Bengal to spend a few days with a poor rural family. In the #41 (tied) movie on the list, Satyajit Ray delivers a view into poverty that eschews exaggeration in favor of realism and calm, quotidian contemplation. But why is it one of the best movies of all time? Scott: So you wrote recently about American cinema’s reluctance to show poverty (on the 50th anniversary or our country’s war on it), and...
- 1/15/2014
- by FSR Staff
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss another entry in the list, dissecting old favorites from odd angles, discovering movies they haven’t seen before and asking you to join in on the conversation. Of course it helps if you’ve seen the movie because there will be plenty of spoilers. This week, they hang around Paris with a troubled young man named Antoine who isn’t wearing a red hunting cap. In the #39 (tied) movie on the list, Francois Truffaut delivers a semi-autobiographical tale of misunderstood youth that careens downward toward prison, aided by uncaring authority figures. But why is it one of the best movies of all time? Landon: So there exists some controversy regarding what film holds the status of the inaugural film of the French...
- 1/8/2014
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
In the wake of actor Paul Walker’s untimely death back in November, the team behind his calling card blockbuster Fast and Furious franchise was stuck with the unfortunate task of deciding the future of the series while still mourning one of their stars. The car crash that claimed Walker’s life happened during a holiday break, with the Fast and Furious 7 cast and crew slated to return for more filming the following week, ensuring that the nasty business of actual business was going to have to infringe on the worse business of mourning. Basically – it may be crass to talk money and timing after someone dies, but deciding the fate of the billion-dollar franchise is also hugely important to the livelihood of hundreds of people involved with the series. After weeks of back and forth, buzz, and chatter, it seems as if Universal and the rest of the Fast team have decided on a course of...
- 1/6/2014
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss another entry in the list, dissecting old favorites from odd angles, discovering movies they haven’t seen before and asking you to join in on the conversation. Of course it helps if you’ve seen the movie because there will be plenty of spoilers. This week, they let Federico Fellini take them around Rome to psychoanalyze an incredibly cool cat who loves splashing in fountains with the beautiful and famous. In the #39 (tied) movie on the list, Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni) looks for love in some of the right places — namely with the gorgeously fun-loving Syliva (Anita Ekberg) — but his heart isn’t in the correct state of mind. But why is it one of the best movies of all time? Scott:...
- 12/10/2013
- by FSR Staff
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss another entry in the list, dissecting old favorites from odd angles, discovering movies they haven’t seen before and asking you to join in on the conversation. Of course it helps if you’ve seen the movie because there will be plenty of spoilers. This week, they spend a few days with Chantal Akerman‘s delightfully uptight Jeanne Dielman at her home at 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. In the #36 (tied) movie on the list, a woman of incredible order provides for her son by sleeping with men for money, maintaining a spotless home and cooking hearty meals day in and day out. When she ruins dinner one night, it destroys the comfort of her routine. But...
- 11/26/2013
- by FSR Staff
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
By all accounts, the production behind The ABCs of Death 2 didn’t have to reach out to aspiring filmmakers to fill their 26th slot. With names like Sion Sono, Alex de la Iglesia and Vincenzo Natali rounding out the roster for the alphabet-inspired horror anthology, they could have easily enticed another heavy into the mix. Instead, they did what they did with the first film and sought a new voice from their fan base. It worked well before. So well in fact that one of the non-winners from the first contest — Chris Nash — made such an impact that he secured a spot alongside more well-established filmmakers as one of the 25. Thus, the search for the 26th director was on. Since both Rob Hunter and Scott Beggs were foolish enough to watch all of the 500+ entries, and now that the 12 finalists have been announced, they wanted to rank the disgusting dozen with an eye toward choosing who they...
- 11/22/2013
- by FSR Staff
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
It’s been a while since we opened our week with one of these discussion threads. And I miss them, so I’m bringing it back, at least for now while our Managing Editor Scott Beggs is on vacation. Which, as you may know from the course of the site’s history, means that we’ll be experimenting again, with hallucinogens. Or something along those lines. While we figure out the office non-prescription drug situation, it’s time to talk about the things you watched this weekend. It’s a chance for you to share what you’re up to, give us your review and find other queue-filling goodness courtesy of legions of Fsr readers around the world. The comment section awaits. I’m proud to get us started. This weekend was a lighter one for yours truly. As you might know if you follow me on Twitter, I’ve got a thing for the sport known...
- 11/4/2013
- by Neil Miller
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss another entry in the list, dissecting old favorites from odd angles, discovering movies they haven’t seen before and asking you to join in on the conversation. Of course it helps if you’ve seen the movie because there will be plenty of spoilers. This week, they revel in the evil banality of the Holocaust, its survivors and its perpetrators. In the #29 (tied) movie on the list, Claude Lanzmann whittles 350 hours of footage into a 9-hour experience of peaceful fields and conversations about death camps. But why is it one of the best movies of all time? Scott: So for two installments in a row, we’ve been lucky enough to view movies that are discouragingly long. We...
- 10/29/2013
- by FSR Staff
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
While the latest season of Saturday Night Live has so far been a mixed bag of the good, the bad, and the “why the hell is Miley Cyrus here again?,” it has found plenty of success when it comes to pre-made digital shorts that poke fun at some of pop culture’s other big obsessions. While the Girls parody trailer rung our bells earlier this season, this past weekend’s send-up of Wes Anderson films (and, more specifically, one that addresses what would happen if Wes Anderson directed a horror film) is not only the funnier of the two, it’s one of the funniest things they’ve done as of late. Our own Scott Beggs shared the fake trailer for The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders earlier today (you can catch up on it Here), and while we’re still chuckling over its “critical lauds” (including a hilarious bit that shouts out our pals at Fangoria...
- 10/28/2013
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss another entry in the list, dissecting old favorites from odd angles, discovering movies they haven’t seen before and asking you to join in on the conversation. Of course it helps if you’ve seen the movie because there will be plenty of spoilers. This week, they find themselves at odds over a 7-hour Hungarian movie from the excessively patient Bela Tarr focused on a farming collective and the wacky exploits of its denizens. In the #36 (tied) movie on the list, cows meander out of their barn for 9 minutes, then a group of scheming communards deal with the return of a charming, long-lost figure in different ways — in between extended tracking shots of the landscape and people walking from one place to...
- 10/17/2013
- by FSR Staff
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The poster for Wes Anderson‘s latest, The Grand Budapest Hotel, is a pretty little thing. And there’s no dispute that it’s one of his films; the poster has the trappings of an Anderson production written all over it. The intricate, palacial hotel looks like a dollhouse nestled in a storybook with a rickety but charming marquee spelling out the title. The only way this would be more Andersonian is if the front of the hotel was removed so you could see what all of the guests were doing in each of their rooms on every floor. I’m assuming that will happen at some point during the movie, though. The film itself is a bit of a departure from his usual fare, though. Set in the early 20th century, it follows a legendary concierge at the hotel, along with his young employee who becomes his protégé. They must deal with the theft and recovery...
- 10/14/2013
- by Samantha Wilson
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss another entry in the list, dissecting old favorites from odd angles, discovering movies they haven’t seen before and asking you to join in on the conversation. Of course it helps if you’ve seen the movie because there will be plenty of spoilers. This week, they march with the masses to the factory while dreaming of Utopia by exploring the more-than-spectacle magic of Metropolis. In the #36 (tied) movie on the list, a madman fuels a robot with his obsession, but it will lead to his downfall when the people form an uprising. But why is it one of the best movies of all time? Scott: So how perfect is it that we’re talking about Metropolis on the day that our...
- 10/1/2013
- by FSR Staff
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss another entry in the list, dissecting old favorites from odd angles, discovering movies they haven’t seen before and asking you to join in on the conversation. Of course it helps if you’ve seen the movie because there will be plenty of spoilers. This week, they celebrate Buster Keaton as a superhero who is faster with his locomotive. In the #34 (tied) movie on the list, the union army steals a supply train with a damsel on board, and Johnnie Gray But why is it one of the best movies of all time? Landon: I love me a Buster Keaton movie. There’s nothing quite like his incredible human acrobatics and larger-than-life choreography. So it came to no surprise to me that...
- 9/25/2013
- by FSR Staff
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss another entry in the list, dissecting old favorites from odd angles, discovering movies they haven’t seen before and asking you to join in on the conversation. Of course it helps if you’ve seen the movie because there will be plenty of spoilers. This week, they try to paint a smile on the face of Alfred Hitchcock‘s most terrifying chiller. In the #34 (tied) movie on the list, taxidermy enthusiast Norman Bates struggles to run a small roadside motel, but his life is turned upside down when a beautiful young woman on the run with some money rents a room and steals his heart. When his overbearing mother disapproves, she’ll threaten to tear his love apart. But...
- 9/17/2013
- by FSR Staff
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Fresh out of its showing at Tiff (read our own Kate Erbland’s review) comes the second trailer for John Wells‘ August: Osage County, the story of a large and cranky family that comes together for the funeral of their patriarch. The high-profile project, based on Tracy Letts‘ Pulitzer Prize-winning play, is nothing to sneeze at; when most of your cast has already won an Oscar or been nominated, you know it’s probably smooth sailing until awards season. While the first trailer focused more on Meryl Streep‘s vicious Violet Weston and her cutting remarks (here’s Scott Beggs’ writeup of the first trailer for comparison), the new incarnation seems to remove a teensy bit of Meryl’s bite to focus more on the larger family as a whole. And while Lord knows we all love ourselves a mean Meryl, by featuring more of the Westons, it gives a better look into their deep bitterness and...
- 9/12/2013
- by Samantha Wilson
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss another entry in the list, dissecting old favorites from odd angles, discovering movies they haven’t seen before and asking you to join in on the conversation. Of course it helps if you’ve seen the movie because there will be plenty of spoilers. This week, they dig into Vittorio De Sica’s heart-squeezing journey through post-wwii Rome in search of The Bicycle Thief, appreciating how pessimistic and PG-rated it can be. In the #33 movie on the list, Antonio needs his bicycle for work, but it’s stolen, so he and his son Bruno must track the thief down or risk going hungry. But why is it one of the best movies of all time? Landon:...
- 9/10/2013
- by FSR Staff
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss another entry in the list, dissecting old favorites from odd angles, discovering movies they haven’t seen before and asking you to join in on the conversation. Of course it helps if you’ve seen the movie because there will be plenty of spoilers. This week, they compare Travis Bickle to Don Quixote and try to understand the many contradictions of Martin Scorsese’s angry masterpiece. In the #31 (tied with The Godfather: Part II) movie on the list, Robert De Niro shaves his head, fights with a mirror and tries to rights society’s wrongs with a bullet. But why is it one of the best movies of all time? Scott: So with Taxi Driver we have a truly bizarre beast of...
- 9/4/2013
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
While the trailer for Martin Scorsese‘s The Wolf of Wall Street painted a wild world of excess and debauchery, the new stills from the film are only showing a tame little piece of the bigger puzzle. Granted, you’ve still got Leonardo DiCaprio living it up, white guy stockbroker style, but the cash-flinging, womanizing, partying, and domination seen in the trailer (which our own Scott Beggs wrote about here) are replaced by images that depict the business side of the affair. Wall Street before wolfishness? But come on – you know as soon as DiCaprio finishes raising his glass on that classy-as-hell yacht, he’s about to either A) have sex with Margot Robbie B) fling cash at poor people C) snort coke? That’s what rich people do on yachts, right? or D) get into classy fisticuffs. It’s like it’s all just out of reach for us. Hopefully...
- 8/29/2013
- by Samantha Wilson
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
In news that makes perfect sense when you think about it, Marvel has announced that James Spader has been cast as the maniacal sentient robot Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron. This comes as a different sort of role for the actor, who generally plays maniacal human beings. Marvel did not reveal whether or not Spader would be performing motion-capture, as Mark Ruffalo does to play The Hulk or Vin Diesel will do for Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy, or just providing his voice to the character. Regardless, it’s sure to be unnerving. Slap a cardboard box robot costume on Spader and it would probably still be an effective villain. Spader seems well-suited for the role, which writer-director Joss Whedon modified just a bit (as our own Scott Beggs recently wrote about). Think of Ultron as artificial intelligence with a God complex. He’s a robot with feelings. Horrible...
- 8/29/2013
- by Samantha Wilson
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss another entry in the list, dissecting old favorites from odd angles, discovering movies they haven’t seen before and asking you to join in on the conversation. Of course it helps if you’ve seen the movie because there will be plenty of spoilers. This week, they figure out how the only sequel featured on the list changes the way we view the original. In the #31 (tied with Taxi Driver) movie on the list, Michael Corleone continues his ascent as the head of the family while descending into a personal hell. But why is it one of the best movies of all time? Landon: So we’ve arrived at the first and only sequel on our list. And...
- 8/27/2013
- by FSR Staff
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
It’s been two years since WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange warned us about widespread survillance on our tech devices, and the world is still fascinated with the silver-haired whistleblower. While the real Assange is still camped out in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Benedict Cumberbatch is stepping into his shoes and bleached hair for Bill Condon‘s The Fifth Estate, which focuses on Assange’s partnership with Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) and the rise of the mighty WikiLeaks. Though we already got a glimpse of the film and Cumberbatch’s excellent Aussie accent from the trailer (which our own Scott Beggs wrote about here), the film’s team has some released new stills and posters – unfortunately they’re not giving us much to work with. There’s Assange on camera during an interview, a group of concerned Suits in a situation room probably learning about a new leak and a truly terrifying close-up of Peter Capaldi looking...
- 8/20/2013
- by Samantha Wilson
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Ron Burgundy has clearly blown into his mighty conch and summoned his trusty news team to assemble in the 1980′s, if these stills from Anchorman: The Legend Continues are to be believed. Will Ferrell is back as Burgundy, and it’s unclear whether he and Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate) will ever be married on top of that mountain with garlands of fresh herbs, but they certainly look happy traipsing down the streets of New York City together. When you survive a bear attack together, you can survive anything as a couple. The whole team, including Brick (Steve Carell), Brian (Paul Rudd), and Champ (David Koechner) have left their local station in San Diego for a revolutionary 24-hour news channel in the Big Apple called…Gnn. This is the 80′s, so the overwhelming wall of news coverage that we’re used to isn’t a thing yet. And these are the brave men (and woman) who are being...
- 8/13/2013
- by Samantha Wilson
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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PopWatch cute comic strips on the making of Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
In Contention a new possible awards player this November: The Book Thief, a Holocaust drama with Emily Watson and Geoffrey Rush
Natasha Vc likes plus size Twilight art
Comic Book Movie even though I'm sick of the X-Men, I keep posting about the new stills. It's a sickness! I blame Hugh Jackman who looks pretty great in 70s pants.
Pajiba shares a sweet vid of Idina Menzel & Taye Diggs singing a Wicked tune for fans while trying not to wake the baby. I've never liked Idina more!
/Film on the Orca doc Blackfish and the trouble it's causing the Nemo sequel Finding Dory
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- 8/10/2013
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
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