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Friday, October 30, 2009

Nirvana - "Aneurysm"

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The Nirvana Live at Reading CD/DVD comes out on Tuesday. Folks, it's great. And it got me thinking about all the Nirvana songs that are...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

afi fest 2009 reviews

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As usual, L.A. Weekly is all over this year's AFI Fest, which kicks off tomorrow. The four films I reviewed for the Weekly were each qu...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

chuck klosterman speaks

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I interviewed Chuck Klosterman about his new essay collection, Eating the Dinosaur , for Vulture . Here's a sample: "There’s a rea...
Monday, October 26, 2009

peter weir and me

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.... OK, maybe not quite. But this Wednesday, I'll be speaking at the Palm Springs International Film Society as part of its "Darin...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

tony jaa of 'ong bak 2' speaks

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Via email, actor (and now director) Tony Jaa answered some questions about his latest martial-arts flick, Ong Bak 2: The Beginning . The pie...
Friday, October 23, 2009

michael jackson - I can't help it

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With This Is It hitting theaters next week, I was thinking about Michael Jackson. You know his big smashes, but do you know his album cuts?...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

'antichrist' review

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Once you've read Roger Ebert's dead-on-the-money take on Lars von Trier's Antichrist , perhaps you'd like to head over to m...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

'A Woman Under the Influence' at MoMA

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Starting Saturday, New York's Museum of Modern Art will be screening the newly restored print of John Cassavetes's 1974 film, A Wom...
Friday, October 16, 2009

'astro boy' review

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If you can see the new animated film Astro Boy in digital projection, by all means do it. (And as my colleague Michael Rechtshaffen mention...

fringe: dream logic

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Last night's Fringe wasn't one of the season's best, but, hey, at least the team took a little road trip to Seattle. My recap ...

alice in chains - check my brain

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I don't think I've mentioned how much I love Alice in Chains' new album, Black Gives Way to Blue . It's a really impressive...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

'opa!' review

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Four years after playing at the Toronto Film Festival, Opa! gets a theatrical run in Los Angeles starting Friday. The movie stars Matthew Mo...
Friday, October 09, 2009

fringe: momentum deferred

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You needed a scorecard to keep up with everything that happened on last night's Fringe . Or you can just read my recap over at Vulture ...

the velvet underground - sunday morning

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Maybe I just heard it at the right time in my younger years, but this song always does feel like Sunday morning to me. And if you love this ...

'the damned united' and 'an education'

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Two movies coming out today are based on true stories. But while An Education can't fully escape conventionality, The Damned United tota...
Monday, October 05, 2009

'nashville' at the new beverly

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Robert Altman's Nashville will be playing Oct. 14-15 at the New Beverly . You know why it's a great movie, but if for some reason yo...
Friday, October 02, 2009

fringe: fracture

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Last night's episode incorporated one of my favorite recurring bits of goofiness in the Fringe universe: the notion that Peter has a lit...

David Letterman - First Show After 9/11

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Last night's Late Show will go down as one of the handful of truly unforgettable episodes David Letterman has filmed over his now-27-yea...
Thursday, October 01, 2009

'new york, I love you' review

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New York, I Love You is from the same people who brought us Paris, Je T'Aime . It's not as great, but enough of the short films work...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

my new job title

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Now that it's on the website for all to see, I can formally acknowledge that, yes, I'm the new vice president of the Los Angeles Fi...
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Tim Grierson
Senior U.S. critic for Screen International. My writing appears at the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Vulture and the A.V. Club. My latest book is This Is How You Make a Movie. I'm also the author of Martin Scorsese in Ten Scenes and Public Enemy: Inside the Terrordome. Other books: FilmCraft: Screenwriting, Wilco: Sunken Treasure, and Blinking Lights and Other Revelations: The Story of Eels. (I'm also co-author of FilmCraft: Cinematography.) Email me at grierson@hotmail.com.
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