Afleveringen
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In a look back at the year of film that was 2012 we take a look at the state of the art (digital vs film) in terms of shooting a film and projecting that film. In a general election year we got to see the rise of the republican political documentary (2016: Obama's America). How to determine if you had a good year or bad year of film viewing. A quick look at the female roles in 2012 as well as the thriving American independent film scene.
Films of Note
Documentary:
West of Memphis
Mea Maxima Culpa
Detropia
The Invisible War
How to Survive a Plague
Last Call at the Oasis
The House I Live In
Fiction:
Amour
A Royal Affair
The Lorax
Wanderlust
God Bless America
On the Road
Django Unchained
Safety Not Guaranteed
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Savages
The Master
The Perks of Being a Wallflower -
Aaron flies solo on this show in which he looks at Activist Cinema, a favorite documentary sub-genre of his. First, we look at what counts as Activist Cinema and then move in to a look at four different companies/groups/collectives that are active in this genre. In no particular order; CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective, Citizens United, As-Sahab and Participant Media. Or to describe them another way-by their political ideology-in the same order; Anarchist Activists, Religious Extremists (Republican), Liberal Progressives and one more Religious Extremists (al-Qaeda).
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The final wrap up for the 2012 Cleveland International Film Festival. Over 85,000 people in attendance for over 320 features and shorts. Under African Skies, Missed Connections, Beauty is Embarrassing, Finding North, Bill W. and Best Intentions are the winners for this year.
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Attendance is growing and looks to his capacity on the weekends within the next few years. Some more Audience Award guesses as well as a look at some fantastic documentaries from Kenya, France and the USA.
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This Dispatch covers days 3 and 4 of the Cleveland International Film Festival - well not really covering the day so much as talking about 3 films (7 if you count shorts). Drive-In Movie Memories - Rent-A-Person - Validation - Slow - The Phone Book - No Room for Rockstars - Headhunters (Norway).
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Ahhhhhh, it's back - The Cleveland International Film Festival! 11 days of international films and amazing documentaries from around the world. In Dispatch 1 we look at how to open a film festival (Nesting), Ethan Hawke goes French (The Woman in the Fifth), why Diane Keaton films have no place at an international film festival (Darling Companion), a Kazakhstan space comedy (Baikonur) and how not to end your at the festival (Tyrannosaur).
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As Justin and Aaron warp up the sh*t year of 2011, they try and do it on a happy note. Justin joins Aaron in awarding Winnie the Pooh as one of the best films of the year. Conan O'Brien Can't Stop is dissected and exposed for the overblown, strung together web series that it was. Aaron proposes a Martin Scorsese line of 3D glasses that already exist, but without his name on them. Prom vs. Bully. Aaron gushes over some great American Indie films like Our Idiot Brother, 50/50, Bellflower, Martha Marcy May Marlene and Justin joins in with praise for Red State. As Justin gets drunker and angrier and a little quitter, Aaron names The Black Power Mix Tape 1967-1975 as the film that just beat out The Interrupters and Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory as his favorite film of 2011. Then Justin lets his fury go with his rationale for why there won't be any more theatres
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Aaron flies solo with some thoughts on female roles from 2011 films (Bridesmaids, Sucker Punch, Lars Von Trier, Fast Five, Transformers 3, Drive, Ides of March, Footloose, We Bought a Zoo and Woman Art Revolution!) along with some highly overlooked documentaries (The Interrupters, The Other F Word, An African Election and Secrets of the Tribe) and some World of Cinema Awards for 2011 - Best Poster, Trailer, Future Cult Film, Follow That Filmmaker, the Clint Mansell Award and The Dark Knight Award.
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Aaron and Justin look back at the sh#t year that was 2011 in film. In this episode we learn that:
-Once again the most attended films worldwide were devoid of anything resembling originality (shocking).
-Netflix apparently decides to let a 12 year old run the show for a while.
-Tom Hanks puts out two films that even bored, white housewives don't care about.
-The Digital Revolution finally takes hold with over 50% of screens in the US converted.
-Pixar finally makes a shitty film.
-Atlas Shrugged Part I proves that aiming for the Tea Party demographic is not a way to recoup your budget, let alone finance Part II.
-And, finally, the comedy genre may have a lot of original screenplay's, however, the emphasis is clearly on the second word.
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Aaron and Justin take a close look at two potential marketing "stunts". Christian Bale spends over 16 hours with a CNN crew tracking down a Chinese man on house arrest and Johnny Depp spends Halloween night with the Obama's at the White House, with decorations provided by Tim Burton of course. Then, after Name That Trailer, Aaron explains why there is no difference between the Claudette Colbert/Cecil B. DeMille version of Cleopatra and Roland Emmerich's 2012.
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Aaron and Justin take a look into the bedroom where the MPAA and SOPA are lighting candles and getting ready for their big night! Since the Film Piracy Funds Terrorism ad campaign went nowhere, the MPAA is up to some new tricks with the new Chairman and CEO Chris Dodd. They also discuss the Alex Jones method of not copyrighting material and Kevin Smith's public comments about intellectual property. Oh, and Justin recaps what his brain felt like after finally watching all six Star Wars "films" in order in one day while Aaron fights off sleep.
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Aaron and Justin take a look at the top grossing American films oversees and what those films are telling the world about our culture [Hint: It is not good and involves a lot of robots and genetic engineering] In this installment of Porn Parody, they take a look at the trailer for Not Airplane: A XXX Parody. Justin's been watching Armadillo, The Objective and Take Me Home Tonight and they play another round of Name that Trailer.
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Justin and Aaron revisit the National Film Registry and gush over the film preservation documentary These Amazing Shadows - on PBS 12.29.11 at 10pm as part of the [i]ndependent lens series. Related episode: Ep. 38 - Dispatch 16 (Film Preservation).
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The MPAA is up to their old tricks again, rallying their troops to help pass the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Turns out that if you visit a "rouge site" you are putting your family at risk. Justin and Aaron also look at the top 10 most pirated films, according the Hollywood Reporter. The "Name That Trailer" game is debuted as well as some talk about Attack the Block, The Siege and Magic Bus.
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As season 4 starts of The World of Cinema, The Avengers trailer is released and everyone in Cleveland (except for Aaron and Justin) losses their god damned mind. Captain America rings the opening bell for the NYSE, no joke.
After more than two years of incessant bitching from Justin, Aaron finally watches Guy Richie's Revolver. They both agree that Mr. Richie should force his religious beliefs into more of his films. Especially Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows. This episode is finished up with a look at the trailer for The Graduate: A XXX Parody. -
Aaron and Justin briefly discuss their continued obsession with Jody Hill's career, then the get into the marriage of Hollywood and the Military, aka the Militainment Industry. This episode starts off with a look as who worked for the Office of Strategic Services and it's later incarnation as the Office of Policy Coordination. Some of the prominent Hollywood names that were working for these organizations were; John Ford, Frank Capra, Cecil B. DeMille and Daryl F. Zanuck. We then take a look at Operation Mockingbird and its embedding of military personnel and intelligence officers in all levels of the media, especially motion pictures.
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Aaron and Justin take a stab at predictions for the Fall 2011 film season. What will be a hit. What will be a flop. What will win an award. What will actually get our asses into a theatre seat this fall! Films discussed include:
Aaron's Picks:
Contagion, Haywire, Drive, Restless, 3, Moneyball, Margaret, Wanderlust, Red State, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Melancholia, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Hugo, The Artist, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (USA), Paranormal Activity 3, Magic Trip, In Time, Bernie and Bellflower
Justin Picks:
Apollo 18, Ides of March, The Three Musketeers, Immortals, In Time, The Sitter, J. Edgar, Machine Gun Preacher, Straw Dogs, The Rum Diaries, Khodorkovsky and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Justin's Steaming Pile of ____ List:
The Thing, Real Steel, Fright Night and of course - Footloose -
As we enter into another season of summer films at the multiplex, Aaron and Justin take a stroll down memory lane and remember a simpler time when "multiplex" meant 6 screens and theatre chains were expanding all over America. Then they return to the present where the worst multiplex offenders think they are a circus. In the end we flash forward to the not so distant future and speculate on if a theater is still showing films and no one comes, is it still a theater?
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Yea, it seems as though Found Footage is a legitimate genre. It has its own Wikipedia page with over 40 examples. It is also worldwide - Italy, Japan, Uruguay, the UK, USA, Norway and Spain have all given us examples. Aaron and Justin take a look at what the rules of the genre seem to be and in the process, they discover several more sub-genres; like the "Ghost Hunting Camera Crew Disappears While Investigating Ghosts and Their Footage is Found" genre.
Films discussed include:
David Holzman's Diary (1967)
Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
84 Charlie MoPic (1989)
The Last Broadcast (1998)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
The St. Francisville Experiment (2000)
The Last Horror Movie (2003)
Zero Day (2003)
September Tapes (2004)
The Curse (2005)
Head Case (2007)
The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)
Rec (2007)
Diary of the Dead (2007)
Paranormal Activity (2007)
Redacted (2007)
Cloverfield (2008)
Quarantine (2008)
Rec 2 (2009)
The Ritual (2009)
The Last Exorcism (2010)
Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)
The Troll Hunter (2011)
Apollo 18 (2011)
Area 51 (2011)
Films that use found footage style:
American Beauty (1999)
Afterschool (2008)
Devil (2010)
Catfish (2010)
The Silent House (2010)
All One Shot Films:
Russian Ark (2002)
The Stroll (2003)
The Silent House (2010)
Related Episode: Ep. 4 - Documentary Genres (www.theworldofcinema.com) -
Aaron and Justin do a quick recap of great moments in porn history (from Roman Erotic art found at Pompeii to the earliest surviving silent porn film, El Sartorio [1907]) and then get into films that blur the line between "legitimate films" and porn: The Funeral (1996), Brown Bunny (2003), Anatomy of Hell (2004), Romance (1999), Battle in Heaven (2005), Irreversible (2002), Baise-Moi (2000), and Short Bus (2006).
Then we discuss the wild world of the porn parody: The Big Lebowski, Star Trek, The Silence of the Lambs, Avatar (in 3D), The Human Sexipede, The Player's Club, Red Riding Hood, Pron, Rocki Whore Picture Show, Scream, Basic Instinct, Scooby-Doo, Slumdog Millionaire, Booty Shop, Justice League, Batman, Boyz in da Hood, The Dark Knight and The Simpson’s (Live Action)...yes, you read that right. We also touch on the birth of modern porn in the late 1960's and early 1970's, the Celebrity Sex Tape phenomenon and trying to "unwatch" horrific things like Two Girls One Cup (one of the most notorious porn scenes in history). We finish up with the money shot news of porn coming to the street markets of Iraq with titles like Cheap Meat and The Rape of the Coeds. - Laat meer zien
