http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/?rsssource=1 MPR news editor Euan Kerr's movie musings two seats in from the aisle. Copyright 2008, Minnesota Public Radio Sat, 17 May 2008 14:25:07 -0600 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Euan Kerr Daniele Luchetti's 1960's drama "My Brother is an Only Child" is an unsettling film. The tale of two brothers who take Italian stereotypes of emotional disputation to new levels will ring true for anyone who know that special blend... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/my_brother_is_a.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/my_brother_is_a.shtml Sat, 17 May 2008 14:25:07 CDT Euan Kerr So Iron Man crashed into the theaters a couple of weeks ago and apparently cleaned up, even after the Wachowski brothers "Speed Racer" entered the scramble a week later. But now what? What will the summer bring? A host of... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/so_where_is_the.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/so_where_is_the.shtml Fri, 16 May 2008 09:34:01 CDT Euan Kerr Phil Donohue's documentary "Body of War" tells the story of Iraq war veteran Tomas Young. A bullet in the spine paralyzed him from the chest down less than a week into his first tour in Iraq. Or perhaps it would... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/body_of_war_tel.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/body_of_war_tel.shtml Thu, 15 May 2008 16:34:06 CDT Euan Kerr I am really enjoying reading the Mark Harris book "Pictures at the Revolution" which follows the making for the five best film Oscar nominees for 1968. One of them is that film I now love to hate "Dr Dolittle." Here's... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/how_they_tried_1.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/how_they_tried_1.shtml Wed, 14 May 2008 18:19:16 CDT Euan Kerr I have two half-watched films at home, and I'm feeling guilty. It's an extension of the stern admonition that you have to finish everything on your plate I suppose. There are excuses of course - and I think good ones... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/partial_films.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/partial_films.shtml Tue, 13 May 2008 15:15:52 CDT Euan Kerr It sounds like there was quite a turnout for the open casting call for the Coen Brothers movie "A Serious Man" in Minneapolis recently. The search is on for a 12 year old boy a 16 year old girls and... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/coen_dreams.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/coen_dreams.shtml Mon, 12 May 2008 16:50:34 CDT Euan Kerr I've been working my way through Milos Forman's memoir "Turnaround" in recent days. He tells of his childhood and how things changed when the Gestapo took away his parents. He began living out of a suitcase, moving between family members... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/formans_advice.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/formans_advice.shtml Sun, 11 May 2008 16:35:01 CDT Euan Kerr Sitting in the neighborhood film emporium last evening, I chanced across the trailer for "The Dark Knight Returns." It was more than a little disquieting. There, in demented make-up as the Joker, stood the late Heath Ledger, grinning like a... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/heath_ledger_li.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/heath_ledger_li.shtml Sat, 10 May 2008 11:31:19 CDT Euan Kerr The Global Lens series is now underway at the Walker Art Center. I chatted with Santosh Daniel today, the Program Director for the Global Film Initiative, the San Francisco-based organization sponsoring the series. The idea behind the Initiative is... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/the_effort_behi.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/the_effort_behi.shtml Fri, 09 May 2008 17:34:17 CDT Euan Kerr Thanks to my colleague John Birge who shipped this site to me. The Internet Movie Car database gathers images of cars which appear in movies and lists them with pictures. It's a huge task, and while I have to wonder... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/an_obsessive_co.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/an_obsessive_co.shtml Thu, 08 May 2008 18:38:37 CDT Euan Kerr The Parkway in Minneapolis launches its Homegrown series next Monday. The idea is to feature local film makers. The program kicks off with "Bill's Big Pumpkins" and James Vculek's North Shore mystery "Two Harbors." You can get a sense of... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/home_grown_pump.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/home_grown_pump.shtml Wed, 07 May 2008 17:54:43 CDT Euan Kerr I stumbled across this on YouTube: a combination of a favorite film, "Children of Men" with a favorite philosopher film critic Slavoj Zizek. This internet thing might catch on!... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/i_stumbled_acro.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/i_stumbled_acro.shtml Tue, 06 May 2008 09:02:26 CDT Euan Kerr The folks at MSPIFF are continuing to cycle through some of the festival films, blending them in with the run of "Blindsight" which opens at the end of the week. Fri., May 9 7 p.m. - Blindsight 9 p.m. -... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/mspiff_the_film.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/mspiff_the_film.shtml Tue, 06 May 2008 08:59:32 CDT Euan Kerr Garth Jennings says he isn't worried about the competition from Iron man for his film "Son of Rambow." Of course he said what he said before Robert Downey and friends pulled in $100 million over the weekend. There is... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/son_of_rambow_v.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/son_of_rambow_v.shtml Mon, 05 May 2008 17:18:33 CDT Euan Kerr Inspired in part by seeing "Encounters at the End of the World" the Kerr household just sat down to the Herzogian mocumentary "Incident at Loch Ness." What a delightfully strange flick. It's at once a homage to Werner Herzog and... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/incident_at_loc.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2008/05/incident_at_loc.shtml Sun, 04 May 2008 13:51:14 CDT