Faraway, So Close

Movie title sequences are one of those things you notice when they’re really, really good. Art of the Title is a great website for finding and being inspired by great title sequences, past and present, including High Fidelity (links to quicktime file).

[A 24 Hour Trip to New York] from M. Ward on Vimeo.

skate - shot on red - 120 fps from opus magnum prod. on Vimeo.
I’d recommend clicking through via the direct link below and watching it in HD on Vimeo’s site for a much better version.
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Have to confess that I don’t know a lot about Hunter S. Thompson. Perhaps that’s why I might like to see this movie.

I love Batman stuff. Batman always trumps Superman in my books.
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From the movie ‘Once’, Falling Slowly is a beautiful song with a haunting hook that sticks in your head for days/weeks.

I totally forgot about my weekly scrabble game post. It’s coming. In the meantime, here’s a little trailer you should watch:

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After watching bits and pieces of the Academy Awards, here are some of the movies we’d like to see:

Atonement
Enchanted
Autumn Rush
Once
There Will Be Blood
La Vie En Rose
No Country for Old Men
Into the Wild
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Michael Clayton
The Last King of Scotland
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

We don’t get out to a lot [...]

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From the site:
EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed is sure to stir up a lot of controversy and bring up a lot of important questions. It’s critical that we take a stand to fight for the truth. In EXPELLED Ben questions why all the Neo-Darwinists are so nervous right now. What are they so afraid of? [...]

It’s Friday so all you get is a movie trailer. Your refund is in the mail. Tomorrow it’s supposed to be -50 with the wind chill so chances are there will be drastic changes to this site as I get bored/cabin fever.

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