MacGuffin Spotlight

MacGuffin Roundtable #1 – I Wanna Hold Your Hand

February 12th, 2011 | POSTED BY Spencer Fornaciari

The premiere episode of the MacGuffin Roundtable. In this segment the MacGuffin crew team up to discuss I Wanna Hold Your Hand, from director Robert Zemeckis. This episode can be played online via the flash player below or it can be downloaded from here. It…

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Intro To Noir

February 10th, 2011 | POSTED BY Spencer Fornaciari

Brandi and Allen discuss noir in honor of SIFF Cinema’s Noir City series. In this piece they discuss the origins, characteristics of noir, important movies, and its influence  on modern cinema.

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Oscar’s Crimes – Hitchcock

February 9th, 2011 | POSTED BY Edward Davidson

All Points Bulletin: Be on the lookout for a small, bald, gold man. He is 13 and 1/2 inches tall, weighs 8.5 lbs, sexual organs seem to be absent, tends to stand very still, constantly wielding a crusader’s sword, and is made of gold plated…

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Bird Watching – Mary Lambert’s “Pet Sematary”

February 7th, 2011 | POSTED BY Brandi Sperry

Because February is Women in Horror month (you can get lots of information on that here), I’ll be devoting the month’s Bird Watching columns to horror films. As a big horror fan, and as someone who pays a lot of attention to female-directed films, I’m…

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Oscar’s Crimes – Best Picture of 1998

February 2nd, 2011 | POSTED BY Edward Davidson

All Points Bulletin: Be on the lookout for a small, bald, gold man.  He is 13 and 1/2 inches tall, weighs 8.5 lbs, sexual organs seem to be absent, tends to stand very still, constantly wielding a crusader’s sword, and is made of gold plated…

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Bird Watching – Susanne Bier’s “Brothers”

January 31st, 2011 | POSTED BY Brandi Sperry

Bird Watching is a new column that will appear on Mondays, in which I’ll discuss films that were directed or written by women. I’ve only seen two of Susanne Bier‘s films, but I’m prepared to call her one of my new favorite directors. It was…

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Preview – SFFSFF at Cinerama

January 28th, 2011 | POSTED BY Brandi Sperry

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Film Festival, affectionately known as SFFSFF (say it “siff siff”) returns to the Cinerama theater in Seattle this weekend. The sixth annual event, jointly sponsored by the Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum and Seattle International Film Festival, will feature…

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Interview – Danny Boyle – 127 Hours

November 20th, 2010 | POSTED BY Benjamin Nason

When it comes to the whole of his body of work it is apparent that Danny Boyle’s career is one ripe with diversity.  Never allowing his self to be pigeonholed as any sort of genre director all the while contributing influential movies to genre filmmaking,…

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