January 2011
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Blue Valentine/Faces Podcast Up Now!
Should Ryan Gosling have been nominated for an oscar? Is Blue Valentine an archetype or a specific case? Can Cassavetes write dialogue sober? (SPOILER ALERT: no). Find out the answers to these and other questions in this week’s Cutemeat podcast.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cute-meat/id372087391
Worst Trailer of the week
Cutemeat wants you to decide this time.
Cutemeat's Oscar Nomination Special
We met up the day the Oscar nominations were announced to chatter about this years most probable winners and biggest over sights. Podcast up on iTunes now!
The King's Speech podcast
Cutemeat’s podcast review of The King’s Speech is up n-n-n-now! Also reviewed is David Lynch’s The Elephant Man, Macy reads a David Lynch Tweet and both hosts compete to find the Worst Trailer of the Week.
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Endangered 2010: The Fictional Documentary
I’m Still Here
Casey AFFLECK
Catfish
Henry JOOST Ariel SCHULMAN
Exit Through the Gift Shop
BANKSY
Netflix has discovered my true relationship to documentaries. Perusing the selection of those that I have not watched yet, I realized suddenly that the program designed to predict my reaction to these films had, without fail, predicted them all at three stars. That is to say, the...
Attack 2010: A Year in Homosocial Complications...
There have been many years when cinema reflected our culture’s preoccupations, deepest desires, and most relied-on ideologies. Last year, America’s guilt over her impoverished and too often ignored populations accumulated into two narrations of the same story. Precious (Lee Daniels), a tragedy of a woman who is overtaken by the social caste in which she was born, and The Blind Side (John Lee...
The Fighter review
It’s up! Kourtney and Macy’s rundown of The Fighter is up on iTunes now! In in the two complain about Boston-accents, Macy reads a David Lynch Tweet, and they both compete to find the Worst Trailer of the week!
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Endangered 2010: The Killer Inside Me
Michael WINTERBOTTOM
I want to begin with a ludicrous and inexcusable journalistic move: a dictionary definition. The dictionary, in this case, is Urban Dictionary, and the content is user-generated. The concept I am looking to shed some light on is “cool,” one of the more popular entries on UD with over 150 entries. Browsing through the possible explanations of what is, admittedly, one of the...
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Cutemeat Series: Endangered 2010
Although I adore the awards season because good films are, for once, given the full attention of popular culture, it is also an opportune time to wade through the hysterical furor of superlative congratulatory rhetoric film criticism produces. This is not to say I wish to attack the criticism being produced, but rather to examine the field of possibility as it stands. The thing about...
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Little Black Book - The Woman Chaser (1999)
Little-known director Robinson Devor and his forgotten 1999 masterpiece, The Woman Chaser, do the best job of not fully showing their hand of any noir film made after 1980. The film stars journeyman comic actor Patrick Warburton, whose incredible performance will make you lament the fact that he ended up in CBS sitcom hell. He plays Richard Hudson, a snake-oil salesman whose expertise and cool...
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True Grit podcast up now
It’s here! Kourtney and Macy’s take on the Coen’s latest film, True Grit, and compare it to Fritz Lang’s revenge Western The Return of Frank James. And like always, Macy reads a David Lynch Tweet and both hosts compete for the worst trailer of the week award.
The Tourist podcast is up!
Our Tourist/Torn Curtain podcast is up on iTunes now!
http://cutemeat.podbean.com/mf/web/acembz/TheTourist.mp3
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Myth and Original
One of the piercing questions of art in the contemporary world is: “at what price do we value originality?” For the moment, I’m going to put aside the obvious objection to the question (that originality is an impossible myth of modernity) and engage it at face value. Popular culture attempts to award originality, it’s safe to say, on account of the belief in the lie of creativity: that the great...