Oscar night: halfway measures
For an Oscar year in which several big awards were foregone conclusions, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences soiree this past Sunday included its share of surprises. It also featured...
View Article100 Favorite Movies?
MSN.com's Movies section is rolling out thumbnail appreciations of the 100 Favorite Movies determined by polling MSN staffers and contributors. RTJ and KAM took part.
View ArticleMinistry of Framing Pictures
Sorry, we're a bit late giving notice (no, not resigning!): Friday, March 15 , will bring this month's session of Framing Pictures - 5 p.m., Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave. An hour-and-a-half of...
View ArticleMcCabe in Paradise
The 100 Favorite Movies project at movies.msn.com takes another twenty clicks toward the top of the list, and your Straight Shooting correspondents have written up two of the entries (nos. 53 and 46)....
View ArticleBravo, Angels!
The 100-fave-films rollout continues at movies.msn.com, and 40 through 21 includes two Howard Hawks pictures keynoted by Kathleen Murphy. Only Angels Have Wings (...
View ArticleWild angels and easy riders
In anticipation of the new Ryan Gosling–Bradley Cooper picture The Place Beyond the Pines , Kathleen Murphy has written a feature on men and wheels:...
View ArticleFraming Pictures has always been the caretaker
Framing Pictures convenes earlier than usual in the month of April— Friday, April 5 , to be precise, at 5 p.m. at the usual venue, Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave. The panel expects to start out...
View ArticleThe MSN 100 ... all present and accounted for
All 100 of the communally favorite movies of movies.msn.com have been announced by now. You can get easy access to any one of them via...
View ArticleMajor Dundee
Sam Peckinpah's much-messed-with 1965 film Major Dundee has just come out on Blu-ray from the boutique label Twilight Time. The two-disc set features both the 2005 reissue based on a preview version of...
View ArticleSummer's sizzling hot movies
Kathleen Murphy surveys summer movie prospects for MSN: http://movies.msn.com/movie-guide-summer/summer-hot-movies-page-one/story/feature/?ocid=mohfpS1L At left, the Deppster and the Hammer in...
View ArticleHannah Arendt: cerebral superhero
Margarethe von Trotta and Barbara Sukowa have rendered a provocative portrait of one of the 20th century's key historians. Opens in Seattle next Friday, July 19, at the Seven Gables. Required viewing.
View ArticleOnly God Forgives
Drive might have earned Nicolas Winding Refn Best Director laurels at the 2011 Cannes film fest, but detractors rated the Ryan Gosling thriller over-heavy on ultraviolence and arthouse style, light on...
View ArticleThe Act of Killing
Some days it seems the world is chock-full of killing grounds, some known, always more to be discovered. Filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer digs one up for our edification in Indonesia, where gangsters and...
View ArticleMoments out of Time 2013
Our annual aggregation of memorable ephemera from a season of cinema has a new home, which is itself a new home: http://www.cinephiled.com/moments-time-2013/ Go there to read all 200 entries ......
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