Watch: Video Essay ‘Why CG Sucks (But Doesn’t Really)’ Explores The Value Of Digital Effects
Watch: Video Essay ‘Why CG Sucks (But Doesn’t Really)’ Explores The Value Of Digital Effects
The Essentials: The Films Of David Fincher Ranked
Ranked: The Films Of David Fincher
The Films Of David Fincher: A Retrospective
In general, when we pen a retrospective on a director's oeuvre , we try and save them for when a filmmaker is deep into his career and has a least 15-plus films under his belt. But we're making an exception her...
Notes & Awards: ‘Dogtooth,’ Wins In Montreal, ‘Hurt Locker’ & ‘Big Fan’ Nom’d In Gotham
Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos’ "Dogtooth" won the $15,000 Louve D’Or prize at the 38th Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinema at the weekend. The disturbing, yet strangely comedic film screened at Cannes earlie...
2-Disc ‘Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ DVD Coming To… Criterion?
God, we flagged this last night, but we didn't realize who was releasing it! (thanks Twitter folks).David Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is coming out as a 2-disc set on the Criterion Collectio...
The Arcade Fire To Soundtrack The ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ Trailer; More Music In The Film?
The original -- now infamous -- and contentious test screenings of "Where The Wild Things Are" in early 2008 featured temp music that boasted tons of the Arcade Fire and also acoustic Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs songs.We...
The Curious Case of Fincher’s ‘Benjamin Button’
Anyone want to hazard a guess of what happened "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" here? 12 nominations and only three technical wins?A lot of people predicted this from the outset, but with that many nominat...
‘Slumdog Millionaire’ Sweeps The 81st Oscar Awards With 8 Awards
They 81st annual Academy Awards were predictable, sure, but still, the new format was definitely engaging and entertaining.As expected "Slumdog Millionaire" was the night's big winner taking eight of its ten no...
Updated: The Playlist’s Slightly Less Half-Hearted 2008 Predictions
Yeah, we said we lost interest in the Oscar race, and we did, but in typical Playlist fashion, we got a little obsessed, took the conventional wisdom temperature and did a little bit of research. Here's our upd...
Preordained: ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ Cleans Up Again, At The Editing, Sound And Cinematography Guild Awards
So we're in the home stretch as far as the awards season goes with the (newly revamped) Oscars now less than a week away, and now the final film guilds have handed out their trophies. First, let's start with t...