Tag Archives: Big Night

Big Night: Movie as Metaphor

Be it his turn as flamboyant TV host Caesar Flickerman in The Hunger Games I-IV, empathetic refuge scientist Abraham Erskine in Captain America: The First Avenger or long-suffering magazine art director Nigel Kipling in The Devil Wears Prada, Stanley Tucci has proven time and again to be one of our finest character actors.

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A Small Medical Emergency…

maxresdefaultA minor medical scare this past weekend has resulted in the hospitalization of the Conflicted Film Snob, a shocking turn of events considering the robustness of health he felt getting out of bed on Saturday morning. Worse still, the forced downtime has given him much too much time to dwell on mortality while staring at his non-slip socks.

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Forgotten/Ignored Gems (Pt. 1)

Weegee-International_Center_of_PhotographyThe Public Eye (1992, dir. Howard Franklin)

Anyone who’s ever flipped through a Life magazine photo retrospective while sitting in a doctor’s waiting room most certainly has seen the work of Arthur Fellig, a photographer better known to the world by his nickname, Weegee.

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