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A letter about the hub-bub around the movie.Censorship is the prophylactic that ensures our lives are not impregnated with culture and truth and knowledge—no matter how obscene that truth may be.

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s followup to 28 Days Later. I can’t wait to see this.

Saw the redesigned Kwik-E-Mart nee 7-11 on Pear Street in Mountain View on the way to the fireworks. Awesome, but the novelty wears off fairly quick.

William Gibson’s rejected script for Alien 3.

Get Samuel J. to send your slackjawed gawker slug-a-bed mates a customized phone call. Viral marketing at its evil geniously coolest.

Awesome bootleg money scene from upcoming King Kong movie [via]

As Sundance jumped the shark and started suckling from Hollywood’s teats, thus was Slamdance born.

. . Fortunately I’ve been adhering to a pretty strict, uh, drug regimen to keep my mind, you know, limber.

The process of moving the trilogy to DVD. On a side note, it looks like the force isn’t very strong with Mark Hamill these days.

Ebert and the Grey lady review Michael Moore’s film Farenheit 911. From the Times review:

That Mr. Moore does not like Mr. Bush will hardly come as news. “Fahrenheit 9/11,” which opens in Manhattan today and in the rest of the country on Friday, is many things: a partisan rallying cry, an angry polemic, a muckraking [...]

Opening and closing credits that are better than the film.

OK, I’m calling it. Hip neighborhood credibility time of death 9:59pm …

RockFish is an incredible 3D short film.

Walter Murch, a master film editor whose movie credits include Apocalypse Now and The English Patient talks about editing Cold Mountain on the Mac platform using Final Cut Pro. A great interview not because it gets into the technical details of editing the film on the Mac (it doesn’t), but because Murch discusses his art, [...]

Invisible Movie Quizzes. How much of a movie nerd are you? Can you recognize the film without the actors?

Greencine is very cool if you want Netflix-type service, but enjoy indie, arthouse, or alternative cinema.

The Matrix Revolutions was a major disappointment in so many ways and was very close to being, but not quite, the suckfest the harshest of its critics had labeled. The first hour of the film was downright interesting; there was great tension and a sense of urgency in the pacing of the film, a skill [...]

Well, the verdict is in from critics about the Matrix Revolutions. Here are some choice quotes:

“So disappointing they may as well have bussed in Ewoks to save Zion.” *
 
“Louder, longer, more expensive and dumber than its predecessors, Revolutions is a mediocrity that will provide escapism only to those who head for the theater exits.” *
 
“The [...]

I was googling for a link to THX1138 (the only George Lucas film I truly like) in a previous post and came upon Movie Locations. What’s interesting is that some of my favorite movies (both serious and guilty-pleasures) were filmed near where i live in Silicon Valley.

The Cyberdyne scene in Terminator 2 was filmed in [...]