http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog The Free Market of Signs & Signifiers Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:58:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/best-new-big-screen-movies-08/ http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/best-new-big-screen-movies-08/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:32:27 +0000 admin http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/?p=303 In 2008 your moviegoer saw a total of 36 new films in the theater, 40 revivals on the big screen, and 81 movies on the small screen (including complete TV show seasons, which count for ’1′). Top 3: 1. My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin. The “fjords within the fjords. . .” Guy Maddin explicates the hometown [...]]]> http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/best-new-big-screen-movies-08/feed/ 2 http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/best-revival-movies-08/ http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/best-revival-movies-08/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:47:45 +0000 admin http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/?p=299 [in no order] 1. Rubin & Ed Howard Hesseman & Crispin Glover buddy spirit jaunt through the Cali-jurassic desert caves of sleek desolate downtown districts and Gordon Gekko-trickle down Motivational Groups, the gags funny and strange eons beyond the veneer of a midnight straight-to-cable job.  dir. Trent Harris, 1991, Walter Reade Theater. 2. Where’s Poppa [...]]]> http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/best-revival-movies-08/feed/ 0 http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/movie-guest-screenings-2008/ http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/movie-guest-screenings-2008/#comments Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:33:42 +0000 admin http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/?p=290 Your moviegoer this year attended several NYC screenings with guest appearances by artists and critics hailing from the sometimes rapturous, sometimes intolerably geeked-out world of repertory filmdom. . . . February Film Forum hosted “An Evening w/ Sidney Lumet,” where the director conversed with folksy and erudite film historian Foster Hirsch.  Several career highlight clips were [...]]]> http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/movie-guest-screenings-2008/feed/ 2 http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/2008-best-25-movies-on-video/ http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/2008-best-25-movies-on-video/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:00:50 +0000 admin http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/?p=305 [in no order] 1. In A Lonely Place, Nicholas Ray, 1950. The writer victimized by his own pulp tropes and his own pugnacious romantic past, in Hollywood, Bogart’s Dixon Steele scours his deepest Author’s hyperfaculties, to prove himself to the Law, the Movies and his Lady Laurel Gray to whom he has already proven, and [...]]]> http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/2008-best-25-movies-on-video/feed/ 0