Movie Man
When film critic Will Pfeifer isn’t watching movies, he’s reading about movies, talking about movies, thinking about movies or dreaming about movies. Now he shares that unhealthy obsession with you. From Hollywood hits to Japanese obscurities, from Oscar night to the summer season, he’s got movies on the brain — and on this blog. |
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Add comment June 17th, 2009
Here, courtesy of pop culture artist Dan Meth, is a timeline of movie futures stretching from A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (which, believe it or not, took place 14 years ago) to DUNE (which takes place a long, long time from now).
Click here for Dan’s site, which includes both a bigger version of this timeline and more of Dan’s work — including a great location map of TV sitcom settings.
Add comment June 17th, 2009
According to the Risky Biz Blog over at the Hollywood Reporter, there’s a remake of 1935’s THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN in the works, to be written and directed by Neil Burger, who performed the same duties on 2006’s THE ILLUSIONIST.
THE ILLUSIONIST wasn’t a bad movie, but it had the bad luck to come out at roughly the same time as THE PRESTIGE, the other — and much better — duelling magician movie. (Also, the plot twist of THE ILLUSIONIST was basically that there was no plot twist.) I’m sure THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN will be modernized, sexed-up and CGI-ed within an inch of its life, but until then, let’s enjoy this bit from the (still brilliant) original…
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| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
| 29 | 30 | |||||
