spike ( 2008 film )
- episode dated 8 january 2008 (2008)... himself - guest
- episode dated 10 may 2008 (2008)... himself - guest
thomson - jones, kathryn, 2008. aesthetics and film, london: continuum .
- denzel washington / george clooney / clint eastwood (2008)... himself
–––, 2008. the philosophy of motion pictures, malden, ma: blackwell .
was presented by spike jonze and david fincher, two friends of tarsem. (spike jonze directed videos for the beastie boys ,
livingston, paisley, and carl plantinga, 2008. the routledge companion to philosophy and film, abingdon: uk: routledge .
sugarland – all i wanna do music video (mercury records) apr 2008 on oahu .
- the lord of the rings and the two towers (2008)... gollum
- the dickensian aspect (2008)... det. james' jimmy' mcnulty
skate videos were spike jonze’s “gateway drug” to the world of movie - making. in this 2008 interview, the being john malkovich director and other skate - film legends discuss the enduring importance of the underground scene
the informant (warner brothers) feature film about a high - level agribusiness exec turned whistle blower. starring matt damon. june 2008 on oahu .
a documentary film about fifteen young sailors vying to win the famous trans - pacific sailing race, and the struggles they encounter. aug 2008 on oahu .
mariah carey – i’ll be loving u long time music video features rapper t. i. jun 2008 on oahu
germany’s answer to the popular series, america’s next top model. hosted by heidi klum. 2008 on oahu .
( 2008). he has been married to catherine fitzgerald since june 26, 2010. they have four children .
among his many credits, vincent appeared in spike lee’s do the right thing and jungle fever and played a detective in the 2008 indie the tested. he had a cameo role in 2009’s stargate atlantis .
eisenstein, sergei, 1969. film form: essays in film theory, new york: harcourt .
wedding day (tnt) reality series where a couple is given the wedding of their dreams. sep 2008 on maui .
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director spike lee at the oscars in hollywood in february. photograph: lucas jackson / reuters
reality television series that reunites a group of high school classmates for the first time in 20 years. jul 2008 on maui .
hannity: i' m asking you about spike lee, who made an accusation about clint eastwood, because he portrayed it accurately in the film .
' we' re not on a plantation, clint.' spike lee hits back in war of words over black soldiers | film | the guardian
i went to the spike tv scream 2008 awards and have plenty of things to report back from it. first off, here’s a story i wrote that was published on the front page of the los angeles times this morning .
vincent was among the sopranos cast when the show received the 2008 sag award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series .
hannity: spike lee — i' m asking you if he — spike lee plays the race card continually. i' m asking you, if you have the intellectual honesty to admit it .
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a documentary series following the life of actress denise richards. airs sunday at 10: 30 / 9: 30c. apr 2008 on oahu .
ledger, who began his screen career in aussie tv shows sweat and roar in the mid 1990s, died in new york in january 2008 .
hannity: and do you think when spike lee said he was overrated because of his race ...
entourage (hbo) television series about a hollywood superstar and his group of friends. starring jeremy piven and kevin connolly. apr 2008 on oahu .
clint eastwood has advised rival film director spike lee to
shut his face
after the african - american complained about the racial make - up of eastwood' s films .
knight rider (nbc) updated version of the hit 80’s television series about a man and his car. starring val kilmer. oct 2008 on oahu .
colmes: well, no, it is the issue. he was criticized by spike lee for that, saying a white guy shouldn' t have made that film. spike lee could have made that film, as well, and he employed 90 percent african - american actors in that film. to suggest clint eastwood somehow does not care to employ african - american actors, which is the implication here, is wrong .
do yourself a favor, if you decide you want to know more about the film “spike: a gothic fairy tale”, do not go to youtube and look up the trailer .
in march 2008, jonze turned in a revised script. he hadn’t made major changes — he’d removed one scene and added two — but warner brothers acquiesced, giving him the money he needed to finish the film. “we felt that the changes spike made in the movie really addressed the majority of the issues, ” robinov told me .
illinois film officials won’t say whether lee’s film tax credits included a location fee for st. sabina. lee didn’t respond to emails .
his most famous role is baltimore commissioner ervin h. burrell, which he played on the critically acclaimed hbo series
the wire
from 2002 - 2008 .
a born director. a fearless actor. an unforgettable artist. i am heath ledger premieres may 17th on spike .
this is a rush transcript from
hannity & colmes ,
june 9, 2008. this copy may not be in its final form and may be updated .
wheel of fortune (sony pictures television) the iconic game show filmed 20 episodes in hawaii. starring pat sajak and vanna white. sep 2008 on big island .
tan, ed s. , 1995. emotion and the structure of narrative film: film as an emotion machine, london: routledge .
“why won’t they show you the numbers? i think they would be embarrassed by the numbers, ” says former state sen. rickey “hollywood” hendon, d - chicago, who sponsored the illinois film production services tax credit act of 2008 .
' a guy like him should shut his face' - clint eastwood on spike lee. photograph: nicolas guerin / corbis
' we' re not on a plantation, clint.' spike lee hits back in war of words over black soldiers
new york  spike lee will film passing strange, stew' s rock musical journey of self - discovery, during performances next week at broadway' s belasco theatre, it was announced wednesday .
into the blue 2: the reef (mgm home entertainment) straight to video feature film about a pair of professional divers who are hired to find columbus’ hidden treasure. starring chris carmack and laura vandervoort. may – jun 2008 on oahu .
this entry is organized around a number of issues that are central to the philosophy of film. they explore different aspect of film as an artistic medium, illustrating the range of concerns addressed within the philosophy of film .
special delivery (lifetime) television movie about a bonded courier who transports a bratty teenager on an international flight. starring lisa edelstein and brenda song. feb 2008 on oahu .
australia’s biggest loser: season 3 (fremantlemedia australia) a reality television series profiling a group of people as they compete to lose the most weight. feb 2008 on oahu .
the amazing race (cbs) a reality television series following teams of 2 on an international race around the world for half a million dollars. nov 2008 on oahu & kauai .
an article on sept. 6 about the film director spike jonze omitted a credit for the illustrations. they were by geoff mcfetridge, who also did the illustrations for the type about jonze on the cover .
hannity: spike lee ,
he' s overrated because of his race. you listen to the white media ...
for spike lee and members of his cast, & apos; chi - raq & apos; was a big, honking curveball .
heath ledger was an academy award - winning, australian actor best known for his roles in brokeback mountain and the dark knight. he died of an accidental prescription drug overdose in 2008 .
her character never once leaves her apartment during the entire course of the film .
hannity: spike lee ,
trent lott is card - carrying member of the ku klux klan .
is that acceptable, leo ?
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honoka’a boy (fuji tv) based on a true story, this feature film is about a young japanese boy who comes to honoka’a on the big island and becomes the projectionist at the honoka’a people’s theater. starring masaki okada. oct – nov 2008 on big island .
flirting with forty (lifetime) television movie about a divorced mother who falls for a younger man while on vacation. starring heather locklear and robert buckley. apr – may 2008 on oahu .
spike jonze, the director with the childlike imagination, and the actor max records. (jonze is the one without a wolf suit. )
spike lee, director of
chi - raq
during a media availability at the waldorf astoria in chicago on nov. 23, 2015 .
in order to justify the claim that film deserves to be considered an independent art form, philosophers investigated the ontological structure of film. the hope was to develop a conception of film that made it clear that it differed in significant ways from the other fine arts. for this reason, the question of film' s nature was a crucial one for theorists of film during what we might call the classic period .
–––, 2007. thinking on screen: film as philosophy, london: routledge .
the first trailer for the film about the late australian star was unveiled earlier this month along with news it would premiere at new york’s tribeca film festival this coming weekend .
before his unfortunate passing, heath ledger completed filming the dark knight, and the blockbuster that was rumored to have been heath ledger & apos; s oscar winning performance opened in u. s. theaters on july 18, 2008. the film grossed more than $ 400 million in 18 days .
the problem is that the sub - field of film theory within film studies has been dominated by a range of theoretical commitments that many anglo - american philosophers do not share. many such philosophers have therefore felt a need not just to make minor revisions in the field and its understanding of film but rather to make a new beginning in the study of film that does not share the problematic assumptions of film theory itself. for this reason, as well as the earlier - cited view of film as a legitimate topic within aesthetics, they have felt it important to develop a philosophically informed mode of thinking about film .
hannity :
... and nobody ever played basketball before him .
that' s your — that' s your friend, spike lee .
hannity: let me raise it up a notch. your friend spike lee ,
shoot charlton heston .
you want to defend that, leo ?
arnheim, rudolf, 1957. film as art, berkeley: university of california press .
( 2012), the eponymous king kong in the 2005 film, caesar ...
the best spike lee movie and the best 9 / 11 movie and the best new york movie of the last fifteen years. the competition on all three fronts is sadly weak but i’m not damning with faint praise; this is a great film .
the debates about what the philosophy of film should look like are really just being joined. this is because it is only recently that a scientific conception of the philosophy of film has emerged as a competitor. but despite the increasing popularity of a cognitive approach to film, there are fundamental issues about the structure of the philosophy of film that remain to be settled .
jennifer hudson at the world premiere of spike lee' s
chi - raq
at the chicago theatre on nov. 22, 2015, in chicago .
this spike lee film examines the life of an aspiring actress in new york. she is upset by the treatment of women in the movie industry during one of her screen tests with' qt'. out of work... see full summary »
still, there are some reasons why it might seem problematic for there to be a separate academic field of the philosophy of film. because the study of film is already institutionalized within academia in the discipline of film studies, and because that field includes a separate sub - field of film theory, it might seem that, unlike literature and music, say, film is already well - served by this institutional base. from this point of view, the philosophy of film is redundant, occupying a space that has already been carved out by an alternative discipline .
director spike lee' s passionate adaptation of the thrilling broadway musical about a young bohemian who experiences sex, drugs and rock and roll on his journey to selfhood .
illustration from maurice sendak' s children' s book
where the wild things are .
photo of max records from the film version of
where the wild things are
from warner bros. photo of spike jonze by francois guillot / afp getty images
jon & kate plus 8: season 4 (tlc) a documentary series following the lives of a couple as they struggle to raise a set of twins and sextuplets. airs mondays at 9 / 8c. 2008 on maui .
bryan appleyard has argued compellingly for man on wire (2008) as the “most important” 9 / 11 film. for appleyard, james marsh’s documentary account of philippe petit’s tightrope walk between the towers in 1974 – precisely by not mentioning the towers – affects an “anticipatory sadness and nostalgia for a pre - 9 / 11 world” .
ranciere, jacques, 2006. film fables (talking images), london: bloomsbury academic .
sinnerbrink, robert, 2011. new philosophies of film: thinking images, london: continuum .
state officials won’t say whether they’ve ever rejected an application for film tax credits for any reason .
q: what' s happening? a lot of the film doesn' t make sense .
i am heath ledger, a feature - length documentary celebrating his life using footage he had filmed himself, was released in theaters and aired on spike in may 2017 .
this idea of modeling the discipline of the philosophy of film on the natural sciences has been prominent among cognitive film theorists (bordwell and carroll 1996; currie 1995). this rapidly developing approach emphasizes viewers' conscious processing of films, as opposed to the emphasis within traditional film theory on unconscious processes. in general, these theorists lean towards seeing the study of film as a scientific undertaking .
the oscars present hollywood as it wishes to be — refined, glamorous and high - minded — but on saturday night at the greek theatre, the spike tv scream 2008 awards showed the movie industry as it truly is in 2008: obsessed with superheroes, overflowing with fake blood and relentless in its pursuit to sell popcorn to teenagers. and despite a name that sounds like a b - movie convention, the scream awards turned out to be so of - the - moment in their target audience that top studio executives, major stars and a - list directors not only attended, they talked backstage about the show as a sign of the times .
the philosophy of film has become a significant area for philosophical and aesthetic research. philosophers have concentrated both on aesthetic issues about film as an artistic medium — the philosophy of film — and questions about the philosophical content of films — films as philosophy. the sophistication and quantity of contributions in both of these areas continue to increase, as more philosophers have taken film seriously as a subject for philosophical investigation .
carroll, nöel, 1988. philosophical problems of classical film theory, princeton: princeton university press .
jarvie, ian, 1987. philosophy of the film, new york: routledge & kegan paul .
the acrimonious feud between two of hollywood' s best - known film directors reached a new level of name - calling and accusation at the weekend as spike lee invoked america' s bitter legacy of slavery in response to clint eastwood' s comments to the guardian on friday .
hannity: i agree. and spike lee or clint, maybe one day, should do a movie on it. but that' s not what this movie was about .
d. b. sweeney at the world premiere of spike lee' s
chi - raq
at the chicago theatre on nov. 22, 2015, in chicago .
festive children' s animation following the adventures of a young elf who graduates to santa' s workshop. unfortunately, as hard as spike tries, he struggles to adapt to life in the workshop and cause no end of trouble. from the award winning producer of jungle bunch, spike is the amazing story of how a little elf save christmas .
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the topic of film narration thus continues to be a subject of intense philosophical discussion and investigation. various attempts to explain its nature remain hotly debated. as new and more complex styles of film narration become popular, it is likely that the subject of film narration will continue to receive attention from philosophers and aestheticians .
philosophers working in the continental tradition have advocated a more sweeping account of film' s contribution to philosophy. indeed, the term
film - philosophy
has been introduced to refer to the allegedly new form of philosophizing that takes place on film. (see sinnerbrink 2011 for a discussion of this idea. )
he acquired the rights to the film, and, he said, “i started to collect visuals. ”
is there any need for a separate philosophic discipline devoted to film in addition to more empirical studies of film undertaken under the aegis of film studies itself? although this question has not always received the attention it deserves from philosophers, it is actually a pressing one, for it asks philosophers to justify their newly found interest in film as more than an opportunistic incorporation of a highly popular form of popular culture into their domain .
this stretching of the concept
film
to include both non - celluloid movies and television and other related mediums has led some philosophers of film to suggest replacing the term
film
with a broader category, such as moving picture or moving image. so far, such suggestions have not yet changed the way in which the field is designated, so i retain the term
philosophy of film
throughout this entry .
kupfer, joseph h. , 1999. visions of virtue in popular film, boulder: westview press .
–––, 2011. seeing fictions in film: the epistemology of movies, oxford: oxford university press .
geoffrey rush is an australian actor best known for his award - winning performance in the 1996 film shine .
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but moviegoers took little notice of those who attacked the film. they flocked to the cinemas, dirty harry' s dialogue passed into common parlance, and it now occupies an important if uneasy place in film history .
the second peculiarity is that within film studies—itself an institutionalized area of academic study—there is a sub - field of film theory that has significant overlap with the philosophy of film even though the majority of its practitioners operate on significantly different philosophical assumptions than anglo - american philosophers of film. in the balance of this entry, i shall include both of these areas under the rubric of the philosophy of film, although my primary emphasis is on the contributions of anglo - american theorists and i will occasionally distinguish this field from film theory as practiced within the area of film studies. one of the characteristics of philosophy as a discipline is its questioning of its own nature and basis. the philosophy of film shares this characteristic with the field in general. indeed, a first issue that the philosophy of film must address is the grounds for its own existence. this involves not only the question of what the field should look like, but also that of whether it has any reason to exist at all .
singer, irving, 2010. cinematic mythmaking: philosophy in film, cambridge, ma: the mit press .
in a meeting with mayor rahm emanuel, lee recalls ,
the mayor objected that the title was going to give chicago a bad image, that it would hurt tourism, that it would hurt economic development on the south side. but let' s be clear: he never said to me,' spike, don' t make this film.' what he said was:' spike, i like your films. i just don' t like the title of this one.'
was titled “do the race thing: spike lee’s afro - fascist chic, ” and accused lee of immaturity and propagandizing for black nationalism. in fact, lee is as hard on the film’s black characters for their political apathy as he is on the pizzeria owner, sal, who is scarcely a one - dimensional race baiter; “do the right thing” is inarguably among the most thoughtful and unsentimental meditations on race relations committed to film. scorsese calls it “a wonderful film, a tough picture that puts it right out there. ” the
the discussion of the realist character of film continues to be a topic of heated debate among philosophers of film. most recently, the emergence of digital technologies for fashioning the image raise very basic questions about the plausibility of this view .
after all, as long ago as 2008, her video for girlfriend became one of the first on youtube to bust through the 100m views mark. this traffic, though, was itself allegedly driven mainly from a dodgy source – one fansite that encouraged users to follow a link which would keep the video open in their browsers, then refresh it every 15 seconds to spike the view - counter. the malware motherlode normally comes through similar shady sub - scripts – the saga continues .
the trailer does nothing for this film. in fact, when i viewed it, i felt the movie looked cheap, silly, and somewhat amateurish. so when i sat down to watch “spike”, i was dreading it. i just plain did not want to watch the film. thankfully, i was wrong and the film is actually really good. that isn’t to say this is my type of film, which it isn’t, but this one could very well find an audience and become a cult classic. four friends are on a road trip in the middle of the night when their tire pops and the driver loses control, skidding to a stop in the woods .
it might therefore seem surprising that there is a significant tendency among film scholars to treat films as the product of a single individual, its auteur or author. on this line of interpretation, the director of the film is the creative intelligence who shapes the entire film in a manner parallel to how we think of, say, literary works being authored .
but once the philosophy of film is granted autonomy as a separate sub - field of aesthetics, the question arises as to its form. that is, philosophers are concerned with the issue of how the philosophy of film should be constituted as a field of study. what role is there for film interpretation in the field? how do studies of particular films relate to more theoretical studies of the medium as such? and what about philosophy in film, a popular mode of philosophic thinking about film? is there a unified model that can be employed to characterize this newly vitalized domain of philosophic inquiry ?
but even though the film didn’t knock my proverbial socks off in a horror - related way, it’s actually not bad... as long as you’re not expecting to be scared. spike is a thoughtful, well - acted reprisal of the beauty and the beast legend, but with a modern and weird twist to it .
lee pace and catinca untaru in one of the swashbuckling scenes in the fall,  a film with two parallel stories .
freeland, cynthia a. , and thomas e. wartenberg, 1995. philosophy and film, new york: routledge .
krakauer, siegfried, 1960. theory of film: the redemption of physical reality, new york: oxford university press .
litch, mary, and amy d. karofsky, philosophy through film, 3rd edition, abingdon, uk: routledge .
livingston, paisley, 2009. cinema, philosophy, bergman: on film as philosophy, oxford: oxford university press .
ufc primetime: georges st. pierre vs bj penn (spike) television series that followed bj penn and georges st. pierre as they trained for their fight against each other. jan 2009 on big island .
mallett and henderson are represented by paul bresnick literary agency, llc, new york, and for film by united talent agency .
allen, richard, and murray smith (eds .), 1997. film theory and philosophy, oxford: clarendon press .
carel, havi, and greg tuck, 2011. new takes in film - philosophy, basingstoke, uk: palgrave macmillan .
currie, gregory, 1995. image and mind: film, philosophy, and cognitive science, cambridge: cambridge university press .
“we started implementing a corrective action plan in september that will ensure more accurate reporting of the growing and diverse film industry in our state, ” says illinois film office spokeswoman jacquelyn reineke. “the diversity standard we employ sets illinois’ film program apart from the rest of the country, and we continue to look for new ways to reach out and utilize the talents of minority vendors. ”
illinois has doled out more than $ 330 million in tax credits to 1, 410 productions that spent more than $ 1. 1 billion in the state since 2008, state records show. the largest credit — $ 11. 5 million — went to the company that produced the sci - fi film “divergent. ” the smallest — $ 4, 817 — went to northfield’s towers productions for a tv pilot called “earth uncensored. ”
spike lee will co - write and direct
time traveler ,
a feature adaptation of a memoir by ronald mallett, one of the nation' s first african - americans to earn a ph. d in theoretical physics .
you specifically wanted the film to hurt koch, right? we have one scene where our man spray - painted dump koch. and also we had this plan because the film came out in august and that fall was the democratic primary. so throughout the film, you hear mister señor love daddy, played by samuel jackson, telling people to vote, vote, vote. and dinkins won .
just a small sampling of his other film and tv credits include copland, nypd blue, law & order, this thing of ours and spy. his imdb page lists an upcoming 2018 film, asbury park, which also includes his old pal and costar pesci .
bordwell, david, and nöell carroll. 1996. post - theory: reconstructing film studies, madison: university of wisconsin press .
the film will screen in cinemas for one week only from thursday may 11. the list of participating cinemas can be found at urltoken
i have one main gripe about this film. i hate to do it but i have to admit that the dialogue annoyed me, at times. that is a personal gripe though and there is a line in the film where the girl tells spike that what he said was the cheesiest line ever heard. this tells me that writer / director robert beaucage was well aware of the territory he was delving into and poked a little fun at it. and to the casts credit, really sell the story and the dialogue works. the story revolves around spike and the methods he chooses to try and win the love of the girl. edward and sarah have a chemistry that comes across on - screen and are gifted performers .
spike lee' s take on the
son of sam
murders in new york city during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an italian - american northeast bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another .
festive children' s animation following the adventures of a young elf who graduates to santa' s workshop. unfortunately, as hard as spike tries, he struggles to adapt to life in the workshop... see full summary »
- every conceivable method is used to minimize and postpone expenditures. digital makes both easier. it reduces the cost of production by eliminating the cost of film stock and processing, and camera rental. digital also postpones, and in some cases eliminates, the cost of making film prints if filmmakers use digital projection at festivals. they often decide not to make a film print if theatrical distribution isn’t an option .
“she’s gotta have it” premièred at the san francisco film festival and prompted a bidding war for the distribution rights. it opened in the summer of 1986, with what lee calls a “marketing gimmick”: for nearly a month, the movie could be seen at only one theatre in america, cinema studio, at sixty - sixth and broadway. “every night it was sold out, ” lee recalled. “and i would get there and hand out buttons. me and my friends were selling ‘she’s gotta have it’ t - shirts. ” when the film opened in wide release, it made about seven million dollars. the credits announced the film as “a spike lee joint. ” lee told me, “from very early on—not that i was that sophisticated, but, coming from the independent world, i knew that millions and millions of dollars were not going to be spent on the promotion and marketing of my film. so in a lot of ways i had to market myself and market the brand of spike lee. ”
lee is still angry about the accusations. “they’re, like, ‘so, spike, are you saying that every single jewish person is a crook? ’ ” he told me. “get the fuck out of here! that’s crazy. ”
jodie foster and samuel l. jackson are honorary co - chairs. spike lee gives the keynote address. john turturro hosts the show. a new filmmaker grant for emerging producers is added with a cash prize of $ 20, 000 .
everal people have surprised me by saying that one of the movie’s biggest legacies is the impact you had on diversifying new york film crews .
' favorite scene in the original book, is when max meets a sea monster. that scene is however not included in the film .
in opposition to such a negative view of film' s relationship to society, philosophers of film have argued that popular films need not support social domination but can even give expression to socially critical attitudes. in making this argument, they have corrected film theory' s tendency to make broad generalizations about the relationship between film and society that are not grounded in careful analysis of individual films. they have instead concentrated upon presenting detailed interpretations of films that show how their narratives present critical takes on various social practices and institutions. class, race, gender, and sexuality are among the different social arenas in which philosophers of film have seen films make socially conscious, critical interventions in public debates .
smith, murray, and thomas e. wartenberg, 2006. thinking through cinema: film as philosophy, malden, ma: blackwell .
thomson - jones, kathryn (ed .), 2016, forthcoming. current controversies in philosophy of film, new york: routledge .
–––, 1997. “ le grand imagier steps out: the primitive basis of film narration, ” philosophical topics, 25: 295–318 .
philosophers of film have generally opposed this view, seeing film as a source of knowledge and, even, as potential contributor to philosophy itself. this view was forcefully articulated by stanley cavell, whose interest in the philosophy of film helped spark the field' s development. for cavell, philosophy is inherently concerned with skepticism and the different ways that it can be overcome. in his many books and articles, cavell has argued that film shares this concern with philosophy and can even provide philosophic insights of its own (cavell 1981; 1996; 2004) .
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carroll, nöel and jinhee choi, 2005. the philosophy of film and motion pictures: an anthology, malden, ma: blackwell publishers .
chatman, seymour, 1990. coming to terms: the rhetoric of narrative in fiction and film, ithaca, ny: cornell university press .
but the agency that runs the illinois film office routinely has violated that part of the law, a chicago sun - times investigation has found .
oh, padding. the scene takes place in the film’s first few minutes, so it actually does serve a purpose, as it helps prepare us for all of the similarly useless padding to follow. spike “tortures” the guy three times throughout the course of the film, and we also have scene after scene of spike telling the girl how much he has missed her and how much he wants to be with her. we got it, buddy - move on. there is also a subplot about the other two (the lesbians) arguing over whether or not to try to find the others or look for a call box. these scenes are so similar they might as well have just filmed one such version and re - used it whenever they felt the need to cut to this drivel .
1. george lucas and friends at the spike tv scream 2008 awards. 2. christopher nolan accepts one of the 12 trophies for “the dark knight. ” 3. marilyn manson owns a lot of black clothes. 4. tim burton makes his way to the stage beneath ballons. 5. frank miller is flanked by two of the actresses from “the spirit, ” paz vega on the left and jaime king on the right. 6. wes craven was given a career excellence award. 7. kerli performed, as did the smashing pumpkins. 8. anothony hopkins was honored with a legend award .
the n. y. u. film program is one of the best in the country. (the director ang lee was in lee’s class, jim jarmusch was there at the same time, and joel coen had graduated from the undergraduate film program a year earlier .) during his first year at n. y. u. , lee was shown a number of classic movies by his professors, including the 1915 film “the birth of a nation, ” by d. w. griffith, who pioneered many cinematic techniques still in use today. but the film was notorious, even at the time of its release, for its endorsement of white supremacy and its glorification of the ku klux klan. (griffith adapted the film from a
a stand - up comic at the time, martin lawrence made his feature film debut in the supporting role of cee, a local neighborhood teen .
cavell, stanley. 1979. the world viewed: reflections on the ontology of film, enlarged edition, cambridge, ma: harvard university press .
cox, damian, and michael levine, 2011. thinking through film: doing philosophy, watching movies, chichester, uk: wiley - blackwell .
read, rupert, and jerry goodenough, 2005. film as philosophy: essays on cinema after wittgenstein and cavell, london: palgrave - macmillan .
–––, 2001. “film, ” the routledge companion to aesthetics, berys gaut and dominic mciver lopes (eds .), london: routledge .
wartenberg, thomas e. and angela curran, 2005. the philosphy of film: introductory text and readings, malden, ma: blackwell publishers .
21. miracle at st. anna (2008): turns out that lee’s feud with clint eastwood over flags of our fathers ’ lack of black characters was a lot more memorable than the movie he made as a response to hollywood’s history of minimizing african - americans’ battlefield contributions. this 2008 commercial bomb fascinates because it shows the veteran filmmaker still pushing himself as he attempts a grand - canvas world war ii epic with some grippingly tense battle scenes. but as with so many of his ambitious misfires, miracle at st. anna works mostly as an intriguing experiment, saddled with a dull, sentimental narrative that traffics in the kind of war - movie clichés you’d assume lee would be too smart to repeat .
a related issue concerning narrative that has been a focus of debate is whether all films have narrators, including those without explicit ones. initially, it was argued that the idea of a narratorless narrative did not make sense, that narration required an agent doing the narrating, who was the film' s narrator. in cases where there were no explicit narrators, an implicit narrator needed to be posited to make sense of how viewers gained access to the fictional world of the film. opponents responded that the narrator in the sense of the agent who gave film audiences access to a film' s fictional world could be the filmmaker (s), so there was no need to posit such a dubious entity as an implicit narrator of a film .
“spike” may not be for everyone. there isn’t much for the gore fiends and it is a story about finding and holding on to the one you love, in a very different and bizarre way, but love none the less. it is an interesting take on the “beauty and the beast” formula with a darker twist and much more of a tragic story. and that is why it worked for me. i hate romance films but love tragic ones. maybe that makes me a bit twisted, but if i wasn’t i probably wouldn’t be writing these reviews. robert beaucage is gonna be a talent to watch and “spike” is definitely a film deserving of a cult following .
on january 22, 2008, ledger was found unconscious in his bed by his housekeeper, teresa solomon, and his masseuse, diana wolozin, at his apartment in the soho neighborhood of manhattan. according to police reports, wolozin used ledger & apos; s cell phone to call ledger & apos; s friend, mary - kate olsen, for help .
as part of their argument, these film theorists have gone beyond examining individual films themselves and have argued that the very structure of the narrative film functions to assist in the maintenance of social domination. from this point of view, an overcoming of narrativity itself is required for films to be genuinely progressive .
associate professor of cinema studies and africana studies at new york university, ed guerrero' s popular books do the right thing (british film institute, part of the bfi' s modern classics series) and framing blackness (temple university press) explore black cinema' s cultural, political and aesthetic history, as well as its critical discourse. here he discusses the rich legacy of spike lee' s work .
the idea that the philosophy of film should model itself upon a scientific model has been contested from a variety of points of view. some philosophers, relying on the writings of pragmatists like william james, have questioned the idea that natural science provides a useful way to think about what philosophers are doing in their reflections on film. here, there is an emphasis on the particularity of films as works of art in contrast the to the urge to move to a general theory of film. others, making use of later wittgenstein as well as the tradition of hermeneutics, also question such a natural scientific orientation for philosophic reflections on film. this camp sees the study of film as a humanistic discipline that is misunderstood when it is assimilated to a natural science .
by prolific filmmaking; creating a celebrity / actor persona; applying a new business model; and perhaps most importantly, focusing on survivability and success as a
final cut
director in mainstream commercial cinema, spike lee made a huge contribution to jump starting a whole new outlook on black filmmaking. by persisting in his vision, as he says to
make one film after another
for the mainstream industry and theatres, lee is one of a handful of directors to survive the' new black film wave' on his own commercial and creative terms. by industry standards, lee has kept busy making at least one commercial feature film a year, and this interspaced with a steady flow of other media and commercial projects .
, because if you took out every line of dialogue in the film and replaced it with something that sounded human, it might be an ok movie .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. what a space it opens…
faison reached new career heights after the film' s release, with memorable turns in blockbusters like 1991' s
the silence of the lambs .
a film about a group of conquistadors who come across a group of aztec villagers that worship two tyrannosaurus rexes. starring ian ziering. 2007 on oahu .
family including ledger’s sister kate also speak in the film, but a press release today stated the family would not be conducting any interviews around its release .
ross douthat joined the new york times as an op - ed columnist in april 2009. previously, he was a senior editor at the atlantic and a blogger for urltoken. he is the author of
privilege: harvard and the education of the ruling class
( hyperion, 2005) and the co - author, with reihan salam, of
grand new party: how republicans can win the working class and save the american dream
( doubleday, 2008). he is the film critic for national review .
this list originally ran in august 2012, tied to the release of spike lee' s red hook summer. in the three years since, lee has released a 2013 remake of oldboy, last year' s da sweet blood of jesus, and, as of this week, the powerful mess of a film chi - raq. we' ve updated this list to include those recent offerings from this true hollywood original .
in his pathbreaking study of what he called “classical film theory, ” noël carroll (1988) argued that there were many illicit presuppositions at play in the classical theorists' attempts to define film' s nature. in particular, he accused them of confusing particular styles of filmmaking with more abstract claims about the nature of the medium itself. his accusations seemed to spell the end of such attempts to justify film styles by their grounding in the medium' s nature .
lee has continued to explore racial themes in his works, as is the case with 1992' s
malcolm x
and 2000' s
bamboozled .
other credits include 1998' s
he got game ,
1999' s
summer of sam ,
2002' s
25th hour ,
2006' s
inside man
and 2008' s
miracle at st. anna .
lee' s latest film ,
da sweet blood of jesus ,
was financed primarily through kickstarter donations .
9. she' s gotta have it (1986): famously shot in two weeks on a nonexistent budget, lee’s first film is completely all over the place, part in - your - face polemic, part buppie–woody allen–esque social comedy. like its main character — spike’s mars blackmon, soon to be immortalized in michael jordan commercials — it’s obnoxious, loud, incorrigible, and completely ingratiating, in spite of its self .
in addition to acting in the film (in which she had to perform topless in one of her scenes), perez also served as the official choreographer .
and then is television. although many film scholars and philosophers of film has a disparaging view of television, the emergence of such shows as the sopranos and the wire established television as a medium for making valuable works of art. as a result, it makes sense to include such shows under the rubric of films .
as film and its related digital media continue to expand in their influence upon the lives of human beings, the philosophy of film can be expected to become an even more vital area for philosophic investigation. in the coming years, we can look forward to new and innovative contributions to this exciting area of philosophical research .
hannity: next question about spike lee and his race obsession. he said about — after hurricane katrina and the catastrophe, he said ,
it' s not too far - fetched, i don' t think, to put past anything the united states government .
heath ledger was born on april 4, 1979, in perth, australia. his breakout role was in the film 10 things i hate about you with julia stiles. ledger received academy award and golden globe nominations for his role in brokeback mountain. in 2008, after completing filming on christopher nolan & apos; s the dark knight, ledger died as the result of an accidental prescription drug overdose. he received a posthumous best actor academy award for his performance as
the joker .
ledger had a daughter with actress michelle williams .
ledger had told the new york times in november of 2007 that he was taking ambien, a prescription medication used for the short - term treatment of insomnia. he discussed the difficulty that he was having with portraying the joker in batman sequel the dark knight (2008), a character he described as a
psychopathic, mass - murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy.
spike is a 2008 horror-romance directed by robert beaucage , produced by string and a can productions , and starring edward gusts , sarah livingston evans , anna-marie wayne , nancy p. corbo , and jared edwards . the film has been described by robert hope as " angela carter rewriting la belle et la bête as an episode of buffy the vampire slayer . " 
spike is a 2008 horror-romance directed by robert beaucage, produced by string and a can productions, and starring edward gusts, sarah livingston evans, anna-marie wayne, nancy p. corbo, and jared edwards. the film has been described by robert hope as " angela carter rewriting la belle et la bête as an episode of buffy the vampire slayer. "
spike is a 2008 horror-romance directed by robert beaucage, produced by string and a can productions, and starring edward gusts, sarah livingston evans, anna-marie wayne, nancy p. corbo, and jared edwards. the film has been described by robert hope as " angela carter rewriting la belle et la bête as an episode of buffy the vampire slayer. "