Drive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – Various Artists

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I recently purchased an AppleTV and love it.  Initially, my only objection was the fact that my HDTV is 1080p.

Apple TV 1080p

It seems like the difference between 1080p and 720p is big, but it’s not. Ever notice how sports in HD looks amazing? Well, the major networks (ABC, ESPN, Fox) have 720p resolution for the HD programming. It’s not about pixels per inch as much as it is bit rate.

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Below is the American Film Institute (AFI) Top 100 Movies of All Time. The first of the AFI 100 Years… series of cinematic horrors and milestones, AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies is a list of the 100 best American movies, as determined by the American Film Institute from a poll of more than 1,500 artists and leaders in the film industry who chose from a list of 400 nominated movies The 100-best list was unveiled in 1998.

AFI Top 100

Films were judged according to the following criteria:

1. Feature-length: Narrative format, at least 40 minutes long.
2. American film: English language, with significant creative and/or financial production elements from the United States.
3. Critical Recognition: Formal commendation in print.
4. Major Award Winner: Recognition from competitive events including awards from organizations in the film community and major film festivals.
5. Popularity Over Time: Including figures for box office adjusted for inflation, television broadcasts and syndication, and home video sales and rentals.
6. Historical Significance: A film’s mark on the history of the moving image through technical innovation, visionary narrative devices or other groundbreaking achievements.
7. Cultural Impact: A film’s mark on American society in matters of style and substance.

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Female First has put together a list of the the top 10 movies people pretend to have seen. They brought in the world’s top statisticians and, over the course of four years, their subjects completed a series of tests… blah, blah, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.  Here’s the list of films you all haven’t seen, you fucktard liars:

1. The Godfather
2. Casablanca
3. Taxi Driver
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. Reservoir Dogs
6. This Is Spinal Tap
7. Apocalypse Now
8. Goodfellas
9. Blade Runner
10. The Great Escape

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Quentin Tarantino’s Favorite Movies of 2010:

1. Toy Story 3
2. The Social Network
3. Animal Kingdom
4. I Am Love
5. Tangled
6. True Grit
7. The Town
8. Greenberg
9. Cyrus
10. Enter the Void
11. Kick Ass

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Netflix offers a wide variety of pricing for almost any budget.  Personally, I’m enjoying all the movies they’ve added recently for instant streaming, plus one DVD out at a time (let’s face, not everything you want is available for streaming).  I’m a Mac owner and using the latest version of Firefox, I’ve never experienced a problem with streaming in the six months I’ve been a subscriber.  You can also view these on your TV with a Wii, PS3, or XBox 360.  They suposedly have options to view on your iPhone or iPad, and I’m sure it looks good, but I haven’t had the opportunity to check it out.

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Current Netflix prices are below (as of the date of this post):

Netflix Prices – Unlimited Plans:

• Netflix instant watching:  $7.99 a month (note you receive no DVDs in the mail with this option)
• 1 DVD out at-a-time, plus unlimited Netflix instant watching:  $9.99 a month
• 2 DVDs out at-a-time, plus unlimited Netflix instant watching:  $14.99 a month
• 3 DVDs out at-a-time, plus unlimited Netflix instant watching:  $19.99 a month
• 4 DVDs out at-a-time, plus unlimited Netflix instant watching:  $27.99 a month

Netflix Prices – Limited Plans:

• 1 DVD out at-a-time, plus up to 2 hours of Netflix instant watching a month:  $4.99 a month
• Starz Play Only (No DVDs) — just unlimited streaming of Starz Play:  $6.99 a month

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McGuffin by Hitchcock from isaac niemand on Vimeo.

From Wiki:

A MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin or maguffin) is “a plot element that catches the viewers’ attention or drives the plot of a work of fiction”. The defining aspect of a MacGuffin is that the major players in the story are (at least initially) willing to do and sacrifice almost anything to obtain it, regardless of what the MacGuffin actually is. In fact, the specific nature of the MacGuffin may be ambiguous, undefined, generic, left open to interpretation or otherwise completely unimportant to the plot. (Examples might include money, victory/glory, survival, a source of power, a potential threat, etc….or something entirely unexplained.)

The song from the Cyrus trailer is “Home” by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros from the album Up from Below.

Cyrus Trailer Song

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• Download Up from Below (Bonus Track Version) – Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros on iTunes

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“Relentlessly entertaining.” — New York Magazine

“Full of wry one-liners, well-spun anecdotes, and pithy observations on the movie-making industry.” — Village Voice

“Tales from the Script is actually the ideal summation on the art of screenwriting: rigorously structured, filled with great stories.” — NPR.org

Few modern art forms are as misunderstood as the craft of screenwriting, because the collaborative nature of filmmaking and the dominance of celebrity actors and directors obscures the contributions of screenwriters. So if you’re a writer eager to break into Hollywood or simply a movie buff excited to hear the stories behind your favorite films, this unique nonfiction book/documentary film project will captivate you with insights into the wild and mysterious world of Hollywood screenwriting.

Enjoy inside conversations with the men and women who dreamed up some of the world’s most beloved movie characters. Learn how they surmounted the incredible odds against breaking into Hollywood, and discover the myriad ways in which they transformed their ideas into films that topped the box office, launched the careers of major stars, and earned them Oscars. The stories behind the storytellers are as exciting, surprising, and inspirational as the narratives of their celebrated films.

Revel in the exploits of Shane Black (Lethal Weapon), John Carpenter (Halloween), Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption), Nora Ephron (When Harry Met Sally…), William Goldman (The Princess Bride), David Hayter (Watchmen), Paul Mazursky (An Unmarried Woman), Bruce Joel Rubin (Ghost), Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver), Ron Shelton (Bull Durham), and dozens of other Hollywood writers. For the full list, click here.

In addition to name-brand talents, Tales from the Script features newcomers whose stories prove that talented people can write their way into the top ranks of the movie industry. There’s Justin Zackham, who decided to write one last script before giving up on his flagging movie career; the script became The Bucket List, a sleeper hit starring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. There’s Ari B. Rubin, a second-generation screenwriter who skipped his law-school entry exam to finish a screenplay that got optioned by Robert Redford. There’s Duncan Tucker, who scraped together money from real-estate ventures, friends, and family to make Transamerica, the bold story about gender issues that netted leading lady Felicity Huffman an Oscar nomination.

Tales from the Script puts readers into the trenches of the Hollywood development process through colorful stories about Harrison Ford, Morgan Freeman, Adam Sandler, Joel Silver, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and many more. Entertaining, startling, and uplifting, this collection is a pure pleasure for those who dream of writing the Great American Screenplay—it’s a master class taught by those who made that dream come true.

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Find cheap prices for the Pulp Fiction Bad Mother Fucker wallet! Click on the Bad Mother Fucker Wallet for more info!

BAD MOTHER FUCKER WALLET

Jules: I want you to go in that bag, and find my wallet.
Pumpkin: Which one is it?
Jules: It’s the one that says Bad Motherfucker.

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