Hilarious recipe videos in the style of famous directors

Kottke shows Hilarious recipe videos in the style of famous directors. I agree that this Tarantino one is the best. See the rest at his site.

Top 10 Movie Crimes of All Time

Another CineFix Top 10 list, this time, the Top 10 Movie Crimes of All Time. I think I’ve seen all but two movies mentioned in this. I love crime movies.

Ok, here’s every film mentioned. I’ve seen all but those emphasized and one of those I’m gonna watch tonight.

• 1931 M
• 1941 The Maltese Falcon
• 1944 Double Indemnity
• 1946 The Postman Always Rings Twice White Heat
• 1949 The Third Man
• 1949 White Heat
• 1950 Rashomon
• 1950 The Asphalt Jungle
• 1951 Strangers on a Train
• 1954 Dial M for Murder
• 1955 Rififi
• 1956 The Killing
• 1957 12 Angry Men
• 1958 Vertigo
• 1960 Breathless
• 1960 Ocean’s 11
• 1964 Topkapi
• 1967 Bonnie and Clyde
• 1967 Cool Hand Luke
• 1967 Le Samourai
• 1968 The Thomas Crown Affair
• 1969 The Italian Job
• 1970 Le Cercle Rouge
• 1973 The Sting
• 1974 Chinatown
• 1974 Murder on the Orient Express
• 1975 Dog Day Afternoon
• 1976 Taxi Driver
• 1981 Thief
• 1983 Scarface
• 1987 My Best Friends Birthday
• 1987 Raising Arizona
• 1988 Die Hard
• 1990 Miller’s Crossing
• 1991 Cape Fear
• 1991 Point Break
• 1991 Silence of the Lambs
• 1992 Reservoir Dog
• 1993 True Romance
• 1994 Léon The Professional
• 1994 Natural Born Killers
• 1995 Heat
• 1995 Se7en
• 1995 The Usual Suspects
• 1996 Fargo
• 1996 From Dusk Til Dawn
• 1998 Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
• 1998 Ronin
• 1999 Boondock Saints
• 1999 Office Space
• 2000 Chopper
• 2000 Memento
• 2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• 2000 Sexy Beast
• 2000 Snatch
• 2001 Heist
• 2001 Ichi the Killer
• 2001 Ocean’s Eleven
• 2001 The Score
• 2002 25th Hour
• 2002 Catch Me If You Can
• 2003 Oldboy
• 2004 Collateral
• 2004 With Blood on My Hands: Pusher II
• 2005 Brick
• 2006 Inside Man
• 2006 Lucky Number Sleven
• 2006 The Departed
• 2007 Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
• 2007 Mr. Brooks
• 2007 No Country For Old Men
• 2007 Zodiac
• 2008 Bronson
• 2008 Taken
• 2008 The Brothers Bloom
• 2009 A Prophet
• 2010 I Saw the Devil
• 2010 Inception
• 2011 Drive
• 2011 We Need to Talk About Kevin
• 2013 Blue Ruin
• 2013 The Wolf of Wall Street
• 2014 Gone Girl
• 2016 Hell or High Water

What to Watch: The Hidden Gems of Netflix, Amazon, and Filmstruck

People often ask me what movies or tv shows to watch and then say they only have Netflix streaming and I have no idea what they have available (usually nothing I think to recommend). Film School Rejects fixes that with the following lists: What to Watch: The Hidden Gems of Netflix, Amazon, and Filmstruck.

Any list that starts with In The Loop is a good list. If you haven't seen it, fix that. It's hilarious. Fruitvale Station, The Way Back, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World are all solid picks.

The Expanse is by far the best sci-fi show currently on TV. Their description of Eye in the Sky is dead on.

Oscar Winning Movies & Biggest Box Office Hits From Your Birthday Year

Thrillist lists Oscar Winning Movies & Biggest Box Office Hits From Your Birthday Year. I've seen almost all the movies mentioned and while I can quibble a little bit, this is a list of very good movies. It's often hard to decide between the most fun or best movie, whatever that may mean. This list gets past that pretty well by listing the biggest box office, the best picture winner and someone's idea of best movie for each year.

My birth year was 1966, not a great year for movies. The Bible was the biggest hit and ... we'll... meh. I love A Man for All Seasons which won 6 the Oscars. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is filled with virtuoso performance and two hours of yelling and won only 5 Oscars with 13 nominations. I'll add that I think the most fun movie of that year was The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!

Inception Interpretation

I don't know how I've never come across this theory about Inception before. Hal Phillips, back in 2010 postulated that "It’s all a dream.  Ariadne (Ellen Page) is leading an inception on Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio).  The entire film is that inception, and we never see reality." He goes into good detail and I'll have to watch it again (I haven't seen it yet this year).

Rare Clips from Hitchcock’s Unmade Found-Footage Project KALEIDOSCOPE

Witney Seibold writes in Blumhouse about a lost Hitchock project I didn't know about Rare Clips from Hitchcock’s Unmade Found-Footage Project KALEIDOSCOPE

KALEIDOSCOPE was, to put it in modern language, meant to be perhaps the very first ‘found footage’ or ‘mockumentary’ film. With photographer Arthur Schatz, Hitchcock staged some nudity-laced, crime-scene-like photos of the film’s potential victims — which, having seen them, may have indeed been too edgy for modern American audiences. Additionally, they shot some handheld motion picture scenes, wherein women were stalked.

It was even proposed that there was to be no sound in the film; the actors were to be unknowns, and the performers seen in the test footage are still unknowns to this day.

KALEIDOSCOPE was meant to be one of the darker, edgiest horror films ever made — it was, essentially, made to have the same sort of raw, fleshy terror as something like THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, but with a classier and more experienced art director at the helm. It was meant to look like it was discovered after the fact, having been filmed by an unnamed voyeur who somehow had access to the dark sexual murders depicted."

There are short video clips embedded in the article.

Why Hollywood’s writers are on the verge of a strike — and what it could mean for the industry

Vox explains Why Hollywood’s writers are on the verge of a strike — and what it could mean for the industry. Things are always more complex than they seem but I'm on the writers' side.

The Thor: Ragnarok Trailer Gives Us an Excuse to Do Physics

Wired has a cute article, The Thor: Ragnarok Trailer Gives Us an Excuse to Do Physics analyzing the physics of the Thor/Hulk punch in the new trailer. They embed some simulations using two things I'd hadn't heard of before. The embedding of code seems to happen via trinket and the code is using GlowScript IDE to do the physics animation.

Standby

This is a short film about two cops that manages to express a real relationship in under 6 minutes. Really well done.

Standby from Charlotte Regan on Vimeo.

Here’s what’s coming to Amazon Prime in April

The A.V. Club lists Here’s what’s coming to Amazon Prime in April. I recommend The Handmaiden and Hello, My Name Is Doris.

Rogue One: Visual Effects Revealed

(via kottke)

Moonlight Explained: Symbols, Camera & More

Spoilers for Moonlight, but a nice examination of the filmmaking techniques used to convey character and story and why it won an Oscar.

Arrival: A Response To Bad Movies

Nerdwriter has a nice piece on Arrival. It assumes you've seen the film (spoilers), which you should.

via Kottke

Oscar Nominations

Oscar nominations came out today.

Leaving out the shorts here are the number of nominations per film (those checked I've seen):

• [x] 14 La La Land
• [x] 8 Arrival
• [x] 8 Moonlight
• [ ] 6 Hacksaw Ridge
• [ ] 6 Lion
• [x] 6 Manchester by the Sea
• [ ] 4 Fences
• [x] 4 Hell or High Water
• [x] 3 Hidden Figures
• [x] 3 Jackie
• [ ] 2 A Man Called Ove
• [ ] 2 Deepwater Horizon
• [ ] 2 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
• [ ] 2 Florence Foster Jenkins
• [ ] 2 Kubo and the Two Strings
• [ ] 2 Moana
• [ ] 2 Passengers
• [x] 2 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• [x] 1 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
• [ ] 1 13th
• [x] 1 20th Century Women
• [ ] 1 Allied
• [x] 1 Captain Fantastic
• [x] 1 Doctor Strange
• [ ] 1 Elle
• [ ] 1 Fire at Sea
• [x] 1 Hail, Caesar!
• [x] 1 I Am Not Your Negro
• [ ] 1 Jim: The James Foley Story
• [ ] 1 Land of Mine
• [ ] 1 Life, Animated
• [x] 1 Loving
• [ ] 1 My Life as a Zucchini
• [x] 1 Nocturnal Animals
• [x] 1 O.J.: Made in America
• [x] 1 Silence
• [x] 1 Star Trek Beyond
• [ ] 1 Suicide Squad
• [x] 1 Sully
• [ ] 1 Tanna
• [ ] 1 The Jungle Book
• [x] 1 The Lobster
• [ ] 1 The Red Turtle
• [ ] 1 The Salesman
• [ ] 1 Toni Erdmann
• [ ] 1 Trolls
• [ ] 1 Zootopia

I've seen everything nominated in just one category, Original Screenplay. If I see just three, Hacksaw Ridge, Lion and Fences I'll complete 9 more. Then I need to see 7 more with two nominations, 16 more with one, and the shorts. The only categories I've seen none of the films, other than the shorts (and I've caught one of the animated ones), are Foreign Language and surprisingly Animated Feature.

I'm not particularly interested in Hacksaw Ridge but given it got six noms I'll see it. Other than the foreign language films I think the only one I hadn't heard of is Jim: The James Foley Story up for best song. There's nothing I really don't want to see, though I have only little interest in Suicide Squad, mostly to see how bad it is.

I liked but didn't love La La Land, so I'm not thrilled that it tied All About Eve and Titanic for most nominations with 14. Titantic went on to win 11 awards, tying the most with Ben-Hur and The Return of the King. I hope it doesn't tie those films, but I think they're both a bit overrated. All About Eve though is great, if you haven't seen it, see it!

Some of my favorite films of the year were shut out. I'm most disappointed about Swiss Army Man which I would have given a best picture nom and original screenplay (over any of the ones given) and I would have given it best score. I also really liked Miles Ahead and The Birth of a Nation. I also would have given Hunt for the Wilderpeople an original screenplay nom over anything nominated, it was hilarious and touching.

I did pretty well in my nomination predictions.

• For Picture my 8 picks all got nominations and I just missed one for Hacksaw Ridge.
• For Director I got 4 out of 5, missing Mel Gibson for Hacksaw Ridge for Scorsese's Silence.
• For Actress I got 4 out of 5, missing Ruth Negga in Loving for Amy Adams in Arrival. I'm fine with that
• For Actor I got 4 out of 5, missing Viggo Mortensen in Captain Fantastic for Joel Edgerton in Loving. I'm also fine with that.
• For Supporting Actor I got 3 of 5, missing Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea and Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals
• For Supporting Actress I got 5 out of 5.
• For Adapted Screenplay I got 4 out of 5 missing Lion for Nocturnal Animals
• For Original Screenplay I got 4 out of 5 missing The Lobster (which I hated) for Loving.
• For Documentary I got 3 of 5 missing Fire at Sea and Life, Animated, neither of which I've seen.
• For Animated Feature I got 5 out of 5, without having seen any of them

The Oscars are given out Sun Feb 26th.

Oscar Nomination Predictions

Oscar nominations are going to be announced tomorrow morning. I don't usually do predictions for Oscar nominations but I'll take a shot this year. These are picks for what I think will be nominated, not what I think should be nominated. They are somewhat in order of most likely to least likely in each category and only in the big categories.

Picture:

• Moonlight
• La La Land
• Manchester by the Sea
• Arrival
• Lion
• Hidden Figures
• Fences
• Hell or High Water

Director:

• Damien Chazelle, La La Land
• Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
• Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea
• Denis Villeneuve, Arrival
• Martin Scorsese, Silence

Actress:

• Natalie Portman, Jackie
• Emma Stone, La La Land
• Amy Adams, Arrival
• Isabelle Huppert, Elle
• Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins

Actor:

• Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
• Denzel Washington, Fences
• Ryan Gosling, La La Land
• Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge
• Joel Edgerton, Loving

Supporting Actress:

• Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea
• Viola Davis, Fences
• Naomie Harris, Moonlight
• Nicole Kidman, Lion
• Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures

Supporting Actor:

• Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
• Dev Patel, Lion
• Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nocturnal Animals
• Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
• Hugh Grant, Florence Foster Jenkins

Adapted Screenplay:

• Moonlight
• Arrival
• Fences
• Hidden Figures
• Nocturnal Animals

Original Screenplay:

• La La Land
• Manchester by the Sea
• Hell or High Water
• Loving
• 20th Century Woman

Documentary Feature:

• Cameraperson
• O.J.: Made in America
• 13th
• Weiner
• I Am Not Your Negro

Animated Feature:

• Kubo and the Two Strings
• Zootopia
• Moana
• The Red Turtle
• My Life as a Zucchini

Movie Review: Hidden Figures

I’ve seen a number of bio-pics from the 30s and 40s about people like Madame Curie, Lou Gehrig, Louis Pasteur, Thomas Edison and famous presidents and patriots and I wonder why they don’t make movies like this anymore? Yes they covered up character flaws and weren’t always the most historically accurate, but they were dramatizations and could make you feel good and want to research the people more. Isn’t that valuable? Didn’t Shakespear do that?

Well this year they made one like that again. Hidden Figures is the little known story of NASA’s “colored computers”, African-American women who did a lot of the number crunching for the space program. Yes there were white wome who did that too but as you might imagine, the black women faced even more difficulties. Hidden Figures Movie vs the True Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA explains some of the liberties the movie took. Nevertheless, these women were exceptional individuals and this movie is an exceptionally well told story.

Movies Seen in 2016

Previous Years: 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011

In 2016 I saw 259 feature length movies and 49 short films (those under 40 mins). That’s the most I’ve seen in a year other than 2011 where I went crazy and saw 366 features and 30 short films.

80% first run features is basically average for me.

I rate on the Netflix 5 point scale where 1 is hated, 2 is didn’t like, 3 is I liked it, 4 is really liked and 5 is loved.

I had a pretty average curve for me.

I saw 83 features in the theater and most of the rest on cable. I only watched 3 films on Netlix this year, none on DVD or Blu-ray and only 1 online.

I’ve got a few theaters I go to regularly, though the Somerville gets so much because of IFFBoston. The shorts I see in the theater are the Oscar nominees, this year I saw them at the Kendall, the others at the Somerville are some shorts packages at IFFBoston. Assembly Row opened in 2015, it’s nice but I only made it 4 times.

My monthly viewing was a little odd with big months in January, July and December. Maybe I just binged in weather that was too cold or too hot. This year IFFBoston was split over the end of April and beginning of May so neither month peaked too high. But I caught 40 of the 2016 films, 18 features, and 22 shorts.

Yet again, my viewing was really skewed towards recent films this year. I saw 79 features from 2016 and 67 from 2015. All the shorts I saw were from 2014 or later.

Last year April was the only barren month for Oscar nominated films, this year it’s just February which seems odd, I guess I caught all the nominees in Jan or during the year. These are films from any year that got a nomination or won, not just from last year’s Oscars. They also (obviously) don’t include any films that came out this year that will get nominated later this month.

Yet again I feel like I need to see more foreign films:

I break down films into five genres that I’m pretty happy with. I then use some sub-genres and I still have a hard time putting every film in one. There are lots of Dramas and Comedies that have no sub-genre. But here’s how it looks for this year:

Below are all the films I saw in 2016:

Seen	Title	Year	Length	Country	Rating
Jan 3	Top Five	2014	Feature	US	4
Jan 3	Shadow of the Thin Man	1941	Feature	US	3
Jan 3	The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	2015	Feature	Britain	3
Jan 3	The Billion Dollar Brain	1967	Feature	Britain	2
Jan 3	What We Do In the Shadows	2014	Feature	New Zealand	2
Jan 5	The Hateful Eight	2015	Feature	US	4
Jan 9	Mad Max: Fury Road	2015	Feature	Australia	5
Jan 9	The Hundred-Foot Journey	2014	Feature	US	3
Jan 9	Dear Albania	2015	Feature	US	3
Jan 10	Joy	2015	Feature	US	2
Jan 14	Cinderella	2015	Feature	Britain	3
Jan 16	Dead End	1937	Feature	US	4
Jan 16	St. Vincent	2014	Feature	US	4
Jan 16	Jackie Brown	1997	Feature	US	3
Jan 16	Listen to Me Marlon	2015	Feature	Britain	3
Jan 16	52 Pick-Up	1986	Feature	US	2
Jan 17	What Happened Miss Simone?	2015	Feature	US	3
Jan 17	The Revenant	2015	Feature	US	3
Jan 18	The Blue Bird	1918	Feature	US	2
Jan 19	The Danish Girl	2015	Feature	Britain	3
Jan 21	The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs	2015	Feature	US	4
Jan 22	Carol	2015	Feature	US	2
Jan 23	Avengers: Age of Ultron	2015	Feature	US	4
Jan 24	45 Years	2015	Feature	Britain	3
Jan 24	Entourage	2015	Feature	US	2
Jan 25	The Best Years of Our Lives	1946	Feature	US	4
Jan 25	The Helen Morgan Story	1957	Feature	US	2
Jan 27	The Imitation Game	2014	Feature	Britain	4
Jan 28	Winter on Fire	2015	Feature	Ukraine	4
Jan 30	Sounder	1972	Feature	US	4
Jan 30	Superbad	2007	Feature	US	4
Jan 31	Bear Story	2015	Short	Chile	4
Jan 31	Sanjay's Super Team	2015	Short	US	4
Jan 31	We Can't Live Without Cosmos	2015	Short	Russia	4
Jan 31	Prologue	2015	Short	Britain	4
Jan 31	Catch It	2015	Short	France	4
Jan 31	World of Tomorrow	2015	Short	US	3
Jan 31	If I Were God	2015	Short	Canada	3
Jan 31	The Loneliest Spotlight	2015	Short	US	3
Jan 31	The Short Story of a Fox and a Mouse	2015	Short	France	3
Feb 6	Tomorrowland	2015	Feature	US	2
Feb 7	Hail, Caesar!	2016	Feature	US	2
Feb 13	Kingsman: The Secret Service	2015	Feature	Britain	4
Feb 13	The Leisure Class	2015	Feature	US	1
Feb 14	Day One	2015	Short	US	5
Feb 14	Shok	2015	Short	Britain	4
Feb 14	Stutterer	2015	Short	Britain	4
Feb 14	Ave Maria	2015	Short	France	3
Feb 14	Everything Will Be Okay	2015	Short	Germany	3
Feb 21	Magic Mike XXL	2015	Feature	US	3
Feb 21	Deadpool	2016	Feature	US	3
Feb 28	Rejected	2000	Short	US	2
Feb 29	San Andreas	2015	Feature	US	1
Mar 1	Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens	2015	Feature	US	4
Mar 2	Knight of Cups	2016	Feature	US	1
Mar 6	The Witch	2016	Feature	US	2
Mar 10	Spy	2015	Feature	US	3
Mar 10	Eye in the Sky	2015	Feature	Britain	3
Mar 12	Love & Mercy	2015	Feature	US	3
Mar 13	10 Cloverfield Lane	2016	Feature	US	4
Mar 16	Body Team 12	2015	Short	Liberia	4
Mar 19	Avengers: Age of Ultron	2015	Feature	US	4
Mar 19	Still Alice	2014	Feature	US	4
Mar 19	Big Eyes	2014	Feature	US	3
Mar 20	Tangerines	2014	Feature	Estonia	4
Mar 20	Hello, My Name is Doris	2016	Feature	US	3
Mar 30	The Dark Horse	2016	Feature	New Zealand	3
Apr 3	Midnight Special	2016	Feature	US	3
Apr 5	Ori & Addison	2014	Short	US	4
Apr 5	Hunter's Moon	2015	Short	US	3
Apr 5	Knockturnal	2016	Short	US	2
Apr 13	Ant-Man	2015	Feature	US	4
Apr 16	Ricki and the Flash	2015	Feature	US	2
Apr 17	We the People: The Market Basket Effect	2016	Feature	US	3
Apr 17	Chappie	2015	Feature	US	2
Apr 18	Everything is Copy	2015	Feature	US	4
Apr 18	Shattered	2007	Feature	Britain	3
Apr 20	Never Weaken	1921	Short	US	4
Apr 20	From Hand to Mouth	1919	Short	US	3
Apr 21	The Cardinal	1963	Feature	US	4
Apr 22	Vertigo	1958	Feature	US	3
Apr 24	Sound of Redemption	2016	Feature	US	4
Apr 24	Miles Ahead	2016	Feature	US	4
Apr 27	The Hollars	2016	Feature	US	4
Apr 28	Five Nights in Maine	2016	Feature	US	4
Apr 28	Embers	2016	Feature	US	3
Apr 29	Presenting Princess Shaw	2016	Feature	US	4
Apr 29	Always Shine	2016	Feature	US	3
Apr 30	Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World	2016	Feature	US	5
Apr 30	Transpecos	2016	Feature	US	5
Apr 30	Class of '27	2016	Short	US	4
Apr 30	Neige	2016	Short	US	4
Apr 30	A Living Wage	2016	Short	US	3
Apr 30	Lockdown	2016	Short	US	3
Apr 30	The Champion	2016	Short	US	3
Apr 30	The Dwarvenaut	2016	Feature	US	3
Apr 30	Bluespace	2016	Feature	US	2
May 1	Balcony Scene	2016	Short	US	5
May 1	Hunt for the Wilderpeople	2016	Feature	New Zealand	5
May 1	Disorder	2016	Feature	France	4
May 1	Ori & Addison	2016	Short	US	4
May 1	Bonding	2016	Short	US	4
May 1	Twinsburg	2016	Short	US	3
May 1	My Dark Side and My Light Side Meet in a Bar to Discuss the New Star Wars Movie	2016	Short	US	3
May 1	Teenage Cocktail	2016	Feature	US	3
May 1	Forever, Your Fireplace	2016	Short	US	2
May 1	Blast Beat	2016	Short	US	2
May 2	Weiner	2016	Feature	US	4
May 2	The Lost Arcade	2016	Feature	US	3
May 3	Don't Think Twice	2016	Feature	US	4
May 3	Little Men	2016	Feature	US	3
May 4	The Intervention	2016	Feature	US	3
May 5	Going the Distance	2016	Short	US	4
May 5	Killer	2016	Short	US	4
May 5	Pickle	2015	Short	US	3
May 5	Affections	2015	Short	US	2
May 6	My Brother is a Zombie	2015	Short	US	4
May 6	Tilly	2015	Short	US	3
May 6	The Itching	2016	Short	US	2
May 7	Captain America: The Winter Soldier	2014	Feature	US	5
May 7	Fantastic Four	2015	Feature	US	2
May 8	Captain America: Civil War	2016	Feature	US	4
May 15	Money Monster	2016	Feature	US	3
May 17	Wet Hot American Summer	2001	Feature	US	3
May 19	Z for Zacharia	2015	Feature	US	3
May 19	Mr. Holmes	2015	Feature	US	3
May 21	All the Way	2016	Feature	US	5
May 22	The Nice Guys	2016	Feature	US	3
May 23	Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation	2015	Feature	US	4
May 27	Love & Friendship	2016	Feature	Ireland	3
May 28	The Intern	2015	Feature	US	3
May 29	Under the Gun	2016	Feature	US	4
May 29	The Lobster	2016	Feature	Greece	2
Jun 2	The Scarecrow	1920	Short	US	3
Jun 2	The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean	1972	Feature	US	2
Jun 3	Tale of Tales	2016	Feature	Italy	3
Jun 5	Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping	2016	Feature	US	2
Jun 7	The Martian	2015	Feature	US	5
Jun 8	Good Kill	2015	Feature	US	3
Jun 9	Room 237	2012	Feature	US	2
Jun 11	Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight	2013	Feature	US	4
Jun 11	Pal Joey	1957	Feature	US	3
Jun 11	Meet the Hitlers	2016	Feature	US	3
Jun 12	The Fallen Idol	1948	Feature	Britain	4
Jun 12	The Searchers	1956	Feature	US	3
Jun 12	Alexander Hamilton	1931	Feature	US	3
Jun 13	Lawrence of Arabia	1962	Feature	Britain	5
Jun 18	Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1	2012	Feature	US	4
Jun 18	Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2	2012	Feature	US	4
Jun 18	The Alamo	1960	Feature	US	4
Jun 19	Everest	2015	Feature	US	4
Jun 19	De Palma	2016	Feature	US	4
Jun 19	The Walk	2015	Feature	US	3
Jun 22	Tickled	2016	Feature	US	4
Jun 24	Batman: Under the Red Hood	2010	Feature	US	3
Jun 24	The Good Dinosaur	2015	Feature	US	3
Jun 24	Shutter	2008	Feature	US	2
Jun 26	The Man Who Knew Infinity	2016	Feature	Britain	3
Jun 28	Swiss Army Man	2016	Feature	US	5
Jul 2	Go West	1925	Feature	US	4
Jul 2	Shaun the Sheep Movie	2015	Feature	Britain	4
Jul 2	Captive	2015	Feature	US	3
Jul 2	O.C. and Stiggs	1985	Feature	US	2
Jul 2	Laurel Canyon	2002	Feature	US	2
Jul 3	Path to War	2002	Feature	US	4
Jul 3	Gangster Squad	2013	Feature	US	3
Jul 3	Ted 2	2015	Feature	US	3
Jul 3	Batman: Year One	2011	Feature	US	3
Jul 4	Misery	1990	Feature	US	4
Jul 4	Get Shorty	1995	Feature	US	4
Jul 4	MI-5	2015	Feature	Britain	3
Jul 5	Heist	2015	Feature	US	2
Jul 6	Heartburn	1986	Feature	US	2
Jul 7	A Walk Among the Tombstones	2014	Feature	US	3
Jul 7	Project Almanac	2015	Feature	US	2
Jul 8	The Normal Heart	2014	Feature	US	4
Jul 9	Black Sunday	1977	Feature	US	3
Jul 10	Broken Blossoms	1919	Feature	US	4
Jul 10	Swiss Army Man	2016	Feature	US	5
Jul 11	Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars	1973	Feature	Britain	2
Jul 11	The Game	1997	Feature	US	3
Jul 17	Stonewall	2015	Feature	US	2
Jul 17	Concussion	2015	Feature	US	3
Jul 17	Straight Outta Compton	2015	Feature	US	4
Jul 17	Ghostbusters	2016	Feature	US	2
Jul 24	Star Trek Beyond	2016	Feature	US	2
Jul 29	Thunder Road	2016	Short	US	3
Jul 30	That Cold Day in the Park	1969	Feature	US	2
Jul 30	Cesar Chavez	2014	Feature	US	3
Jul 30	High Anxiety	1977	Feature	US	4
Jul 30	Atari: Game Over	2014	Feature	US	3
Jul 31	Spectre	2015	Feature	Britain	2
Jul 31	The 33	2015	Feature	US	3
Jul 31	Jason Bourne	2016	Feature	US	3
Aug 2	Munich	2005	Feature	US	4
Aug 4	Deception	2008	Feature	US	2
Aug 4	The Rocketeer	1991	Feature	US	4
Aug 5	My Left Foot	1989	Feature	Ireland	4
Aug 6	Boyz n the Hood	1991	Feature	US	5
Aug 7	Shalll We Dance	2004	Feature	US	3
Aug 7	Captain Fantastic	2016	Feature	US	4
Aug 14	Grandma	2015	Feature	US	4
Aug 14	Black Girl	1966	Feature	France	3
Aug 16	Complete Unknown	2016	Feature	US	2
Aug 19	Things to Come	1936	Feature	Britain	3
Aug 20	Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country	1991	Feature	US	4
Aug 20	There Will Be Blood	2007	Feature	US	4
Aug 21	Office Space	1999	Feature	US	4
Aug 28	Movie Crazy	1932	Feature	US	3
Aug 28	Hell or High Water	2016	Feature	US	4
Aug 29	Truth	2015	Feature	US	3
Aug 29	The Lady in the Van	2015	Feature	Britain	3
Sep 3	The Silencers	1966	Feature	US	3
Sep 3	In the Heart of the Sea	2015	Feature	US	2
Sep 3	Pride	2014	Feature	Britain	4
Sep 4	Jane Wants a Boyfriend	2016	Feature	US	3
Sep 4	It Follows	2015	Feature	US	3
Sep 4	The Stanford Prison Experiment	2015	Feature	US	2
Sep 4	Sicario	2015	Feature	US	4
Sep 5	The Rat Race	1960	Feature	US	3
Sep 5	Hysteria	2011	Feature	Britain	3
Sep 5	The Quiet American	2002	Feature	Britain	4
Sep 5	Carrie	1976	Feature	US	3
Sep 6	Black Sea	2015	Feature	Britain	2
Sep 6	The Jerk	1979	Feature	US	4
Sep 6	Leon: The Professional	1994	Feature	US	4
Sep 7	Very Semi-Serious	2015	Feature	US	3
Sep 7	Coney Island	1917	Short	US	3
Sep 11	Star Trek III: The Search For Spock	1984	Feature	US	3
Sep 11	Sully	2016	Feature	US	3
Sep 18	Tron	1982	Feature	US	2
Sep 19	Star Trek V: The Final Frontier	1989	Feature	US	1
Sep 22	Shakes the Clown	1991	Feature	US	3
Sep 24	Spartacus	1960	Feature	US	5
Sep 25	Ben-Hur	1959	Feature	US	3
Oct 1	Whiskey Tango Foxtrot	2016	Feature	US	2
Oct 2	Command and Control	2016	Feature	US	3
Oct 8	13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi	2016	Feature	US	3
Oct 9	The Birth of a Nation	2016	Feature	US	4
Oct 16	Denial	2016	Feature	Britain	3
Oct 17	Borrowed Time	2016	Short	US	3
Oct 19	Never Happened	2016	Short	US	4
Oct 22	Blazing Saddles	1974	Feature	US	5
Oct 23	Moonlight	2016	Feature	US	4
Oct 25	The Handmaiden	2016	Feature	Korea	5
Oct 26	I Am Not Your Negro	2017	Feature	US	5
Oct 27	After the Storm	2016	Feature	Japan	3
Oct 27	The Autopsy of Jane Doe	2016	Feature	Britain	4
Oct 28	Loving	2016	Feature	US	4
Nov 2	Manchester by the Sea	2016	Feature	US	4
Nov 3	Piper	2016	Short	US	4
Nov 6	Doctor Strange	2016	Feature	US	3
Nov 13	Arrival	2016	Feature	US	4
Nov 15	Noctural Animals	2016	Feature	US	3
Nov 19	By the Sea	2015	Feature	US	1
Nov 20	The Edge of Seventeen	2016	Feature	US	4
Nov 22	The Martian	2015	Feature	US	5
Nov 24	Funeral in Berlin	1966	Feature	US	4
Nov 24	Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House	1948	Feature	US	5
Nov 25	Jobs	2013	Feature	US	3
Nov 26	Nanook of the North	1922	Feature	US	4
Nov 26	Zero Days	2016	Feature	US	4
Nov 26	Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice	2016	Feature	US	1
Nov 27	Harlan County U.S.A.	1976	Feature	US	4
Nov 27	The Peanuts Movie	2015	Feature	US	3
Nov 30	Ace Ventura: Pet Detective	1994	Feature	US	2
Nov 30	2 Guns	2013	Feature	US	3
Dec 3	Race	2016	Feature	US	3
Dec 3	Keanu	2016	Feature	US	4
Dec 4	Evolution	2016	Feature	France	1
Dec 5	Altman	2014	Feature	US	3
Dec 6	Countdown	1968	Feature	US	2
Dec 6	Much Ado About Nothing	2013	Feature	US	3
Dec 8	Casino Royale	1967	Feature	US	2
Dec 8	Mad Hot Ballroom	2005	Feature	US	3
Dec 9	My Blueberry Nights	2007	Feature	Hong Kong	3
Dec 10	Paris Blues	1961	Feature	US	3
Dec 10	Harper	1966	Feature	US	3
Dec 10	The Drowning Pool	1975	Feature	US	3
Dec 10	The Brothers Grimsby	2016	Feature	Britain	2
Dec 11	Misconduct	2016	Feature	US	1
Dec 11	Jackie	2016	Feature	US	3
Dec 15	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	2016	Feature	US	4
Dec 16	Star Wars IV: A New Hope	1977	Feature	US	5
Dec 17	Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing	2016	Feature	US	4
Dec 17	Eddie the Eagle	2016	Feature	Britain	3
Dec 17	War	2007	Feature	US	2
Dec 18	La La Land	2016	Feature	US	2
Dec 21	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	2016	Feature	US	4
Dec 22	Forsaken	2015	Feature	Canada	3
Dec 24	Legend	2015	Feature	Britain	2
Dec 24	The Invisible Man	1933	Feature	US	2
Dec 24	Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens	2015	Feature	US	4
Dec 25	Keeper of the Flame	1942	Feature	US	3
Dec 25	Argo	2012	Feature	US	4
Dec 26	Bubba Ho-Tep	2002	Feature	US	2
Dec 26	City by the Sea	2002	Feature	US	3
Dec 27	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	1939	Feature	US	4
Dec 27	The Life of an American Fireman	1903	Short	US	2
Dec 27	The Musketeers of Pig Alley	1912	Short	US	3
Dec 27	The Beau Brummels	1928	Short	US	3
Dec 27	Ball of Fire	1941	Feature	US	3
Dec 27	Punch-Drunk Love	2002	Feature	US	4
Dec 28	Ratatouille	2007	Feature	US	4
Dec 29	Meet John Doe	1941	Feature	US	4
Dec 29	Jeff, Who Lives at Home	2012	Feature	US	3
Dec 30	Sushi Girl	2012	Feature	US	3
Dec 31	Spotlight	2015	Feature	US	5

2016 National Film Registry Inductees

The National Film Registry announced their 2016 inductee, With “20,000 Leagues,” the National Film Registry Reaches 700

Films Selected for the 2016 National Film Registry:

• Atomic Cafe (1982)
• Ball of Fire (1941)
• The Beau Brummels (1928)
• The Birds (1963)
• Blackboard Jungle (1955)
• The Breakfast Club (1985)
• The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)
• East of Eden (1955)
• Funny Girl (1968)
• Life of an American Fireman (1903)
• The Lion King (1994)
• Lost Horizon (1937)
• The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
• Paris Is Burning (1990)
• Point Blank (1967)
• The Princess Bride (1987)
• Putney Swope (1969)
• Rushmore (1998)
• Solomon Sir Jones films (1924–28)
• Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
• Suzanne, Suzanne (1982)
• Thelma & Louise (1991)
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
• A Walk in the Sun (1945)
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

I’ve seen the bold ones, links are to the films on YouTube.. I’m thrilled to see The Princess Bride and The Breakfast Club included and it’s always nice to see Hitchcock even if The Birds isn’t my favorite. Film descriptions here.

UI design for Rogue One

Blind did the UI design for Rogue One. It seemed inscrutable to me but did match the Star Wars universe well. I wonder why it took so long to upload the Death Star plans because they’re all just 8-bit graphics.

(via Kottke)

Movie Review: Rogue One

It’s very good. It’s like a Star Wars version of the Guns of Navarone. I went into it knowing virtually nothing about it, having seen only one trailer a few months ago. I left very happy. It’s not without flaws, but I enjoyed it and the third act worked very well. I can quibble about some things, but that makes for fun post movie discussion.

I saw it in IMAX 3D in the second row. I even saw it in the only laser 4K projector theater in New England but I still want to see it again in 2D. I don’t think it will make much of a difference. I didn’t like wearing the glasses, I felt like I was watching through a porthole. Also lots of shots were composed for 3D, so when people are standing around talking, there’s someone’s back in the foreground covering half the frame and it’s very blurry and then there’s someone facing the camera in focus and then there’s background out of focus. The depth of field in a lot of shots seemed unnecessarily shallow. It got much better in the climax. If there’s a 2D IMAX version (I’m not sure there is) I’d go for that.

I left with a question that I can state here without spoilers. The Star Wars universe has some interesting future tech and seems short changed in some other ways. They don't seem to have decent encryption for secret transmissions, so they have to messenger things around. There's a bit of computer tech in Rogue One that just had me scratching my head of why someone would invent something like that. So here's the question. How long until Star Wars becomes the old Flash Gordon serials, where the tech is no longer futuristic?

Update: This is Film Critics Hulk’s take, Film Crit Hulk SMASH: The Slippery, Sloping Story of ROGUE ONE and I have to say I agree with all of it.