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‘The Film Talk Lounge’ – The Place to Be at this year’s Nashville Film Festival!

Posted By: Jett Loe

Posted February 27th, 2010 · Comments

Hey there folks – we’ve got some exciting news – I’m pleased to announce we’re partnering with the 2010 Nashville Film Festival to bring you The Film Talk Lounge!  Every day at Noon we’ll be at the TFT Lounge (in the Whole Foods Tent) interviewing the creative movers and shakers of the Fest!

We’re going to be recording video as well as audio, (luckily I’ve got a month and a half to hit the treadmill – oh, sweet vanity); you’ll be able to watch the show live on this website, on YouTube, or as a downloadable audio or video podcast on your computer, iPhone and iPod Touch.

If you’re in the neighborhood stop by and say hi, we’ll even let ya crash on the couch!
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UPDATE:  We’re going to need an Intern to help us with production of the show and the social media stuff that surrounds it – you’ll get a pass to the Fest in return for helping us out – sounds like a pretty good deal to me! ;)  If interested then email me at jett@thefilmtalk.com.
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Weekend Watching

Posted By: Gareth Higgins

Posted February 26th, 2010 · Comments

Wherever you are in the TFT universe, some recommendations for the weekend:

At The Belcourt in Nashville you can see what appears to be the insanely wonderful film ‘A Town Called Panic’, which wouldn’t be a bad subtitle for ‘The White Ribbon’ also screening off 21st Ave South:

Belfast’s QFT presents Robert Kenner’s provocative and well-produced documentary ‘Food, Inc’:

If you happen to be in Prague, you can head to the Kino Aero for a theatrical screening of Lars von Trier’s ‘Antichrist’ (which we reviewed on Episode 101)

And if you’re at home, TCM’s traditional season of Oscar winning films has another week to go; Frankenheimer’s mind-bending ‘Seconds’, Beatty’s visually glorious ‘Dick Tracy’, and Malick’s heart-sore masterpiece ‘Days of Heaven’ among them.  If I had cable, I’d join ‘em.


*TCM are offering an ‘Oscar Party Pack’ to the first reader who emails contact@thefilmtalk.com with ‘Oscar’ in the subject line, so if you’re planning a get-together on Sunday week, feel free to get in touch.

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TFT DVD/Digital Media and Miscellaneous Delivery Mechanism Report: Herb and Dorothy

Posted By: Gareth Higgins

Posted February 23rd, 2010 · Comments

There’s something deceptively complex about ‘Herb and Dorothy’ – a film about two elderly art collectors, who appear to have bought paintings for the subversive and radical reason that they enjoyed looking at them, and apparently became an axis for the New York art world.  Hitchcock might have liked the mystery of how on earth they paid for the thousands of paintings filed away under bubble wrap in an NYC apartment small enough that TFT could afford to live there.  The film – just out from New Video Digital, and available for iTunes download, among other delivery mechanisms – could have turned out to be patronising in the way that stories about the elderly often are, but ‘Herb and Dorothy’ is more often endearing, with a genuine interest in the contours of the couple’s lives.

It also serves as a potted history of the New York art world, the relationship between creativity and commerce, and what Herb calls ‘the mental process’ of experiencing art.  (The artist Richard Tuttle elucidates how money gets in the way of real relationships between artists and collectors; Chuck Close talks about how Herb and Dorothy ended up influencing his work; and in what becomes a subtly moving interview in light of her recent death, Jean-Claude talks about her affection for these unlikely mavens.)  ‘Herb and Dorothy’ has some rough edges – and the choice of sentimental piano as incidental music over-eggs a story that doesn’t need to be made more gentle than it already is; but it reveals some ultimately profound things: the wonder with which Herb looks at a turtle in an aquarium is the same for when he stares at something on the walls of MoMA; a brief explanation of the different meanings of ‘wood’ opens up worlds of interpretation and invokes the need for patience in experiencing the miracle that each day already is; and the secret of a long partnership?  ‘We blended our aesthetics and we’re having fun’.  It’s a sweet movie, but has more than a little substance, and an ending that suggests both the increasingly flattened accessibility of art objects, and a declaration of hope for anyone who fears that getting old means it’s all downhill.

New Video Digital are also offering environmental warning documentary ‘The End of the Line’ from today – we’ll review soon; check out their facebook page here.


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TFT 112 – SHUTTER ISLAND / A SINGLE MAN

Posted By: Jett Loe

Posted February 22nd, 2010 · Comments

[DON'T SEE THE MEDIA PLAYER ABOVE?  THEN CLICK HERE TO LISTEN]

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DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

SHUTTER ISLAND / A SINGLE MAN / ASK THE FILM TALK/ NIGHT AND THE CITY

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TFT Introduces NIGHT AND THE CITY This Monday at The Belcourt

Posted By: Jett Loe

Posted February 21st, 2010 · Comments

Love Film Noir?  In Nashville this Monday?  Then you have no excuse not to see the delirious NIGHT AND THE CITY at The Becourt Theatre at 4:50 or 7:00 pm.

If you’re at the 7pm screening you’ll get to see yours truly introduce this fever dream of a film – a pic that has what may be the most astonishing performance I’ve ever scene in cinema- you have not seen Film Noir my friends – or film acting, till you’ve seen the non-stop man-on-a-wire performance of Richard Widmark as hustler and would-be wrestling mogul Harry Fabian.

See you there film lover!

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