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Mel Brooks tells David Bianculli about the late Madeline Kahn:

I’m in tears thinking about Madeline. And what an incredibly gifted gift from god, Madeline Kahn. The funniest and most talented comedienne I think, including people like Carol Burnett who are great, you know, and Gilda Radner who was magnificent, but nobody — listen to me, David Bianculli — nobody could approach the magnificence and wonder of Madeline Kahn. She was really a great gift to us all. … I saw art [in her], not just funny. But I saw a person who was gifted with art. She’s the only one who actually could have worked in opera as an opera singer, as a coloratura. She was that talented or I think she could have worked as a longshoreman in New Jersey. I don’t think there’s anything that Madeline Kahn couldn’t do.”

 GIF of Madeline Kahn in Young Frankenstein (1974) via trixiedelight

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[..] they’re all dressed so anthropologically right for now in New York City–one has a hat, one has a tie and sweater, one has a dress—but they all look like they’re in a Godard movie. (Noah Baumbach)

Austin Film Society is hosting an advance members-only screening of Frances Ha next week. 

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Increasingly, I notice how good movies look when projected at private corporate screenings rooms and how bad movies look projected at major multiplexes — even at press screenings, where you’d think the staff would be on their best behavior. In the last few weeks I’ve seen two new blockbusters in 3D; one at a Times Square multiplex, and one at a studio’s private screening room. The multiplex blockbuster looked murky; its nighttime action scenes were basically gibberish. The privately screened blockbuster looked magnificent; even in 3D, it practically glistened, and the low-light action sequences were easy to follow.

A Troubling Statement on the State of Movie Projection | Criticwire

Well, this is likely the reason why The Hobbit screening I attended was so lousy.

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I saw The Great Gatsby this evening

My roommate talked me into it, and I don’t regret it. However! I don’t know what it says about me that the 1924 composition Rhapsody in Blue showing up in 1922 sequences threw me more than the 2013 songs that pepper the score. And the Gershwin piece was so chopped up!

J and I both giggled out loud during the hotel scene when Nick says, I just remembered, today’s my birthday. But honestly, the movie could have been far more ridiculous than it was. I told J, this movie may be better than AUSTRALIA, but I still like that movie more.

erina: Just finished watching this movie ”También la Lluvia” (Even the Rain). I liked it a lot even though it was a little obvious in comparing Spanish colonialism with modern corporate colonialism (although it’s a pretty fair comparison!) But it’s a good story and it’s really pretty. And Gael Garcia Bernal. But the main thing that struck me is that it takes place in Cochabamba, Bolivia in the year 2000, and it’s based on factual events. I went on a week long medical mission with my dad to Cochabamba in March of 2000, and I don’t think I had any idea that this was going on. If I did, I didn’t understand it (I was 15) and have no recollection of it whatsoever. That trip was still one of the best things I’ve ever been lucky enough to do. Anyway, two thumbs up for this movie and Gael Garcia Bernal. Adding to my queue!
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erina:

Just finished watching this movie ”También la Lluvia” (Even the Rain). I liked it a lot even though it was a little obvious in comparing Spanish colonialism with modern corporate colonialism (although it’s a pretty fair comparison!) But it’s a good story and it’s really pretty. And Gael Garcia Bernal.

But the main thing that struck me is that it takes place in Cochabamba, Bolivia in the year 2000, and it’s based on factual events. I went on a week long medical mission with my dad to Cochabamba in March of 2000, and I don’t think I had any idea that this was going on. If I did, I didn’t understand it (I was 15) and have no recollection of it whatsoever. That trip was still one of the best things I’ve ever been lucky enough to do.

Anyway, two thumbs up for this movie and Gael Garcia Bernal.

Adding to my queue!

lincolncenter: Lincoln Center’s AtriumFlix series, a monthly FREE cinema showcase with filmmaker discussion and screening, continues tonight. April’s event begins with an interview of prolific filmmaker Mira Nair (Academy Award and Golden Globe Nominations) conducted by Elvis Mitchell, the curator for the Film Independent/Los Angeles County Museum of Art, followed by a showing of Nair’s seminal film Mississippi Masala.  Staring a young Denzel Washington, this exquisite film tells of a third-generation Ugandan Indian family – Jay and Kinnu - who are expelled from the country in 1972 and then escape to Mississippi. In 1990 Mina, their daughter, falls in love with Demetrius (Washington), a local carpet cleaner and their forbidden and sensuous romance begins. The film highlights racial and class tensions in the supposedly “New South.” Join us at 7:00pm at the David Rubenstein Atrium. Mira Nair fan 4 LYF (is that how the kids say it?).  I say that, but I haven’t seen her Earhart film because my dislike of Hillary Swank is stronger than my desire to see every film Nair makes. Still, Mississippi Masala is pretty wonderful. Denzel is so cute in it!
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lincolncenter:

Lincoln Center’s AtriumFlix series, a monthly FREE cinema showcase with filmmaker discussion and screening, continues tonight.

April’s event begins with an interview of prolific filmmaker Mira Nair (Academy Award and Golden Globe Nominations) conducted by Elvis Mitchell, the curator for the Film Independent/Los Angeles County Museum of Art, followed by a showing of Nair’s seminal film Mississippi Masala. 

Staring a young Denzel Washington, this exquisite film tells of a third-generation Ugandan Indian family – Jay and Kinnu - who are expelled from the country in 1972 and then escape to Mississippi. In 1990 Mina, their daughter, falls in love with Demetrius (Washington), a local carpet cleaner and their forbidden and sensuous romance begins. The film highlights racial and class tensions in the supposedly “New South.”
Join us at 7:00pm at the David Rubenstein Atrium.

Mira Nair fan 4 LYF (is that how the kids say it?).  I say that, but I haven’t seen her Earhart film because my dislike of Hillary Swank is stronger than my desire to see every film Nair makes.

Still, Mississippi Masala is pretty wonderful. Denzel is so cute in it!

Connie Britton joins Tina Fey in all-star 'This Is Where I Leave You' | Inside Movies | EW.com

Yeah, yeah, this is wonderful, but here’s my favorite part of the casting news:

Rounding out the cast is Ben Schwartz (the noxious Jean-Ralphio on Parks and Recreation, and scheming Clyde on House of Lies) as the family’s young rabbi, who is determined to bring a cool, modern edge to their faith’s longstanding traditions of mourning.

Also I don’t know what it says about either me or the book, but I read this one a few years ago and only vaguely remember major plot elements.  Like the main guy is separated, comes home to sit shiva for his dad, and falls for a gal he went to high school with who’s still in his hometown.  I think.  I recall it was funny in parts.