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Arriving just in time to slice and dice screens during the Halloween season comes Alexandre O. Phillipe's documentary 78/52, named after the 78 shots and 52 cuts that comprise the primal terror of Psycho’s infamous shower scene. A frame-by-frame deconstruction of the sequence, the myth, and the way it changed moviegoing culture forever, 78/52 debuted to warm reviews at Sundance earlier this year and will no doubt be a sweet seasonal treat for fans of Alfred Hitchcock, legacy horror, and the precise construction that goes into the craft of filmmaking.
Aficionados and genre experts such as Guillermo del Toro, Jamie Lee Curtis, Karyn Kusama, and Danny Elfman provide their own insights in the documentary...
Chris Feil's weekly series looks at the use of music in movies
The Big Chill is one of the definitive films about the baby boomer generation, marking their coming of a certain age where life begins to look a lot less like what they were promised. And this is a generation that was promised an awful lot. It’s appropriate then that Lawrence Kasdan packs the film with tunes that contrast a youthful optimism with more complicated tones of soulful longing.
Many of the songs featured in the film would become soundtrack staples to the extent that they became movie cliches. Off-hand you can probably think of a half dozen films that also featured “The Weight” by The Band or “Joy to the World” by Three Dog Night. But what The Big Chill got right - and first, mind you - about much of this music is how it was the tapestry of that generation...
It's time to play our new favorite fantasizing rather than dealing with awful reality game. So where and with whom would you like to be doing what right about now. Would you rather...
...hug a tree with Goldie Hawn? ...decorate Milla Jovovich's face with jelly stickers? ... float in the sea with Nico Tortorella? ... see Hamilton with Ashton Sanders? ... go vegetable shopping with Kristin Scott Thomas? ...hit the stables with Naomie Harris? ... "go heavy" with Orlando Bloom? ... do a shot with Leonardo Nam and Ptolemy Slocum as Westworld season 2 begins filming? ...F@*# Up some homophobes with Haaz Sleiman?
With the recent news of Ed Skrein's departure from Hellboy, cinema goers as well as actors are becoming increasingly aware of the sensitivities of depicting race on screen. For 34 years the Orpheum theatre in Tennesse has shown Gone With the Wind in its summer programme. Screening the evening of August 11, just before the racist violence in Charlottesville, the theatre received numerous complaints of screening a work with highly romanticised visions of the Old South, and black characters who exist without any acknowledgement that they are slaves.
The Orpheum has decided to forego screening the film in 2018...
Gurus of Gold pundits make some quick assessments as the new awards season begins Paste Magazine why isn't Billy Eichner a sex symbol yet? THR the new version of It is already causing real clowns to lose work Advocate offers up 17 LGBT tropes that need to be retired from entertainment. This list is so wide-ranging they'll be no queer characters left on TV if they follow it! /Film cool stuff: scratch off poster to track your viewing of 100 classic movies
The Daily collects obituaries and tributes to the acclaimed horror director Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre) IndieWire Dunkirk arranges a special screening at Toronto to celebrate IMAX. Consider that Oscar campaign already ignited Awards Daily new stills for Call Me By Your Name. These are more likely it. The first few were so underwhelming TowleroadHeathers is getting a TV adaptation. Leslye Headland directs the pilot which has updates for the Heathers for themselves (one of them is genderqueer)
Off Cinema • The Cut good deep dive into Kathy Griffin's life post that T***p photo that got her into so much trouble • Vox winners and losers of MTV Video Music Awards • ET literal winners of the MTV Video Music Awards (though, like the Gramys, it's not an awards show that's actually about awards) • AV Club Jason Segel is having a tall person small door problem. Cute • Playbill the 29 biggest grossing Broadway shows of all time from the Cabaret revival with Natasha Richardson and Alan Cumming ($119 million) to Disney's The Lion King $1.3 billion). Hamilton is already at #18 ($242 million) and it's only been open two years! (It should be noted that these are just their Broadway grosses, not touring companies and the like.
Exit Video Seems like there's going to be a few short films about the Blade Runner world before Blade Runner 2049 opens. Here's the first one...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017 at 4:55PM 
Arriving just in time to slice and dice screens during the Halloween season comes Alexandre O. Phillipe's documentary 78/52, named after the 78 shots and 52 cuts that comprise the primal terror of Psycho’s infamous shower scene. A frame-by-frame deconstruction of the sequence, the myth, and the way it changed moviegoing culture forever, 78/52 debuted to warm reviews at Sundance earlier this year and will no doubt be a sweet seasonal treat for fans of Alfred Hitchcock, legacy horror, and the precise construction that goes into the craft of filmmaking.
