If there’s one movie I’m looking forward to more than any other this year, it’s Rescue Dawn, by ubergenius Werner Herzog.It’s a fictionalized version of the true story of Dieter Dengler, one of only three people ever to escape from a Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp and survive.
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Eric-Approved Movies of 2007
Noel Murray’s blog post A Great Movie Year in the Making inspired me to update my own list of films I want to see in 2008. Some will surely suck, and probably the best upcoming films aren’t even on this list, but these are the ones I’ll be watching for.
Wizard People, Dear Reader
Well, Nando and I managed to finish our paper for ICML late Friday night. No, not that ICML, this ICML. I was mostly just glad to get it over with. I was working 14-hour days and getting progressively sicker — I’ve had the same cold for almost three weeks now, and it’s been attacking me…
A Date with John Waters
Just in time for Valentine’s, everybody’s favourite creepy pervert indie filmmaker is looking for a date. With you. Well, that, and he wants to sell you his album. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it now: God bless YouTube. I ordered the CD online before the video was even done. “Let’s be hillbillies and…
trailer for Grind House
The upcoming film from Tarantino and Rodriguez. It’s like somebody cracked open my skull and scooped out all my best dreams.(Okay, everybody, you can stop sending me links to it now.