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... film cred its, title sequences, or the trend-setting imagination in film we have become used to experiencing.
Legendary designer Saul Bass (1920 –1996) not only created some of the most recognizable ...
... red now (I mean, who even knows what red now is really about anyway?).
This month is the 10th anniversary of Wilco’s most famous and most unique album. It’s a bit strange to me that this album is already ...
... Jazz, into a film. [Yes, that means this is a movie based on a book that has another book based on the making of the movie. That has to be a first.] Every book-based film will inevitably be compared back ...
What, if anything, pre-exists culture?
The question of what is “innate” in us as humans and what is simply the effect of our unique cultural context has long stood firm and unanswered . So while he might ...
... by virtue of familiarity. In this case, the walls may be a bit blood-splattered . ...
... and Swing Time (the definitive Fred Astaire – Ginger Rogers vehicle). In the midst of that, Stevens gave us I Remember Mama, a movie set in the early 1900’s about a Norwegian immigrant family living in ...
... this is a season where we intentionally face death as a practice that leads to a resurgence of life. Whether Lent is a sacred time and practice of yours or not, Harold Crick’s story about death and life ...
... color, light, handmade trinkets, sketched designs, life captured as a collage. Perhaps more enduring than some of their designs was the method by which the team created: later dubbed the “Eames design ...
... Blvd. to Get Shorty, movies have revolved around some of the film industry's favorite people - themselves. Midst this inbred collective, Pleasantville might be the most cleverly disguised. And while it ...
... it’s not. Here Clooney simply plays a guy trying to figure out life as it bounces over the unpred ictable waves. But as we watch Mike King awaken from his emotional coma - just as his wife forever fades ...
What is the Bible really telling us? If you can’t approach this film with a posture of humility, please don’t watch it. I mean it. For the Bible Tells Me So portrays Christianity’s hatred and treatment ...
... is just an excuse for the Marx Brothers to show off. They are absurd, surreal, hilarious, unpred ictable, and just plain funny. This movie was made in 1933 and nothing since rivals it. The pacing is ...
... lost my street cred by using the verb “dabbling” to describe what Glover is doing, but growing up in Iowa it isn't like I had much of it to begin with. Which puts me in good company as many question Glover’s ...
... Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick and is both the fictional account of an orphaned boy (Hugo) and the (pred ominantly) non-fiction account of French filmmaker George Méliès. One could even argue ...
... photographs taken in the Ross Sea, an expanse covered in six feet of ice and the size of the continental United States. Yet the story is just as much about the people living in this corner of the world, ...
... defense strategy of the accused Penn State coach is to attack the cred ibility of the coach who turned him in. Not too long ago, whistleblowers were called “rats,” and I was raised in a culture that taught ...
... to be moving away from descriptive, knowledge-based advertising towards a creative experience, bordering on music videos. Apple should get a fair amount of cred it for this trend, but it’s not magic…it’s ...
... new.)
But, what if there was another you? On another Earth?
This is the establishing question surrounding Mike Cahill’s feature film debut Another Earth. As blatant in the title, scientists have discovered ...
... question—how’s the movie?
My friend’s response speaks of the importance of The 39 Steps as a film and Alfred Hitchcock’s place in cinematic story telling. Carson looked at Kate and said, “I’m waiting ...
... Oh wow.” I wish I could have been there to hear the tone and pitch and meaning and weight of those words. Were they pensive? Excited? Scared ? Triumphant? Sad? All of the above? I imagine that Chris ...
... story that shows the power of eyes that see. The Social Network and Moneyball have one important thing in common: Aaron Sorkin. If you ever wondered why screenwriting has its own Oscar category, people ...
What is love? Better yet, where is it? For better or worse, there is a pred ominant standard in feature films. They are typically anywhere from 80 to 120 minutes in length and revolve around a singular ...
... in character on and off-set, brought a limitless fever to the film. Compared to Citizen Kane for its ability to capture the essence of a power-obsessed man in early 20th century America, only the generations ...
... Yes, they are keenly trained to see all things fashion, but they see in incred ibly beautiful and fascinating ways. It took Richard Press, the director, 10 years to ease Cunningham into being the subject ...
Where is the beauty?
Contrast is often a gateway to experiences in wonder. When beauty is placed alongside grit. When compassion is juxtaposed to injustice. When love is tethered to pain. Biutiful is ...
... our perspective that we might better comprehend all that life encompasses. Story, good story, combats our red uctive tendencies.
The Help is a film about the truth-telling power of story, the kind of ...
How does what’s been broken get restored ?
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape is a captivating story about a family whose lives, roles, and interactions are drenched in more dysfunction than you could likely ...
How do you deal with your Old Man? Cool Hand Luke is a film filled with the presence and absence of Old Men. Luke [Paul Newman] is an aging man who is searching for purpose. Bored with his life he makes ...
... her cred it, unless you happen to catch an event where Bob Costas has produced one of his let’s-see-if-I-can-make-you-cry spots, you may or may not get glimpses of the hidden stories within the game. Of ...
... Pixar formula.
As we continue to explore the nature of wonder through art and film (on this site and red now.com), we continue to recognize the deep connection between art and personal expression. L’Illusionniste ...
... thing to The Goonies (and E.T.) your local theater has ever offered you. In fact if you take The Goonies [one of Speilbergs greatest offerings to the film world] and mix it will Abram’s Cloverfield [not ...
The Tree of Life resurrects the era when Hollywood still aspired to greatness. Not since 2001: A Space Odyssey (or less successfully, The Fountain) has a filmmaker attempted to capture both the origins ...
... watch this film: the symbolism of time; the meaning of father; eternal vs. mortal life; sacrifice; and a greater narrative overlaying a momentary story. Enjoy! Read more http://red now.com/blogs/intothedark/foreign/pans-labyrinth/ ...
... is a story of grace.
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... shifts from What “thing” do I have to be at next? to What do I notice? Can reality shift when we choose to see a little different? Read more http://red now.com/blogs/intothedark/in-theaters/source-code/ ...
... is in NYC and the family is in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan], they started rolling tape. What they captured is a story that could not have been written or lived just a few short years ago. Through ...
... remind us that we are loved beyond our merit, that in dysfunction there is always hope, and that beautiful harmony can flourish even in brokenness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNLcfJ06y34 Read more http://red now.com/blogs/intothedark/olderclassic/kramer-vs-kramer/ ...
... many important scenes throughout the film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEp3NKG2U5U Read more http://red now.com/blogs/intothedark/emerging-canon/away-we-go/ ...
... It is no surprise that Waste Land got its Oscar nomination in 2010. It certainly was a Top 5 film for myself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNlwh8vT2NU Read more http://red now.com/blogs/intothedark/documentary/waste-land/ ...
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... To be scared of being known? And maybe most important, What does it take to experience love and forgiveness midst the dysfunction? While the setting might be foreign, your identification with such realities ...
... Read more http://red now.com/blogs/intothedark/foreign/spirited-away/ ...
One wonders what types of thoughts and ideas would be discovered during a woodland hike through the forest of Sufjan Steven's mind. One would expect to find strange things, delightful things. As one interviewer ...
As opposed to most of the articles we write on red noW, we have made the assumption that you have already seen Inception and consequently have alluded to what might be "spoilers." Go see the film. Come ...
... My life? My identity? Will Nike help me do that? Will a shoe help me do that? Do I need new friends? Do I need friends at all? Will their shoe help me cure the dissatisfaction, the bored om I sometimes ...
... Soul. (The song was a red noW favorite in 2008 and was made especially popular after being featured in the Apple MacBook Air commercial.)
Naim sings about coming into a strange world, hoping to learn ...
In today's over-digitized-auto-tuned-world, the expansive sound of analog is not only becoming a lost practice, but a forgotten commodity. In short, analog (recorded) music is captured at a higher density ...
... over others often says more about the listeners than it does the artist themselves. We acknowledge this.
So, what does it say about us?
While red noW is not solely dedicated to the fusion of art and ...
red noW Favorites 2009 Year-end "lists" are a funny thing. They often say more about its contributor(s) than it does than the very thing it is hoping to promote. We are okay with this. It has been our ...
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