Posts Tagged ‘Up’
Score Your Week | Up “Seizing The Spirit of Adventure”
The Oscar winning score from Up has enough great tracks on it to last a few months on Score Your Week, but there’s one track that just gets me on the edge of my seat every time. Read on!
Score Your Week | Lost Season 1
At the beginning of the week here at Filmdogs, a member of the pack will be offering a recommendation for a soundtrack to help you speed up those never ending work days and (if possible) inspire you.
One of my most fulfilling cinematic moments of 2010 was watching the bone white text appear one last time at the end of my favorite show, LOST. It was an astonishing moment for me to look back at six years with these characters and their journey, and finally find closure. Luckily I will be able to relive what I could consider to be my favorite film of 2010 once again, as the final season hits dvd this Tuesday. In honor of this fantastic week I will be spotlighting one of the most important characters of Lost, Michael Giacchino’s music. Giacchino has produced some of the best and most interesting scores of late including Star Trek, Fringe, The Incredibles, and his oscar winning score for Up, but it is with Lost that he really made his mark. From screeching horns to piano ballads, Giacchino helped usher along every emotion that the show had to offer.
The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 19 – School’s Out
The 19th Episode of The Filmdogs Podcast is threaded and ready to roll. This week we chat about new projects from Chris Pine, Gulliermo Del Toro, Robert Rodziguez, and Spielberg in the News. Then we discuss the bearded ones’ 1991 film Hook for In Defense of. It’s our 5 favorite screenplays in our Featured Topic, and to close it out we have a famous convo from Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction in our The One Liner of the Week.
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The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 13 – Podcast Forever After
You’ve got a friend in the newest epic episode of The Filmdogs Podcast. We talk about the bomb that is Jonah Hex and Pirates 4 in the news while Wall-e and Up go head to head in VS. It’s all Pixar all the time as we dissect each film from the best studio today, and get the word on their latest, Toy Story 3, from host Mr Jason in our Featured Topic. Then to wrap it Up (pun intended) we celebrate the 35th Anniversary of Steven Speilberg’s classic thriller Jaws in our One Liner of the Week.
Email us with you podcast feedback or segment suggestions at filmdogspodcast@gmail.com. Subscribe to the podcast here, or listen in you browser. Also, you may download an enhanced AAC feed with chapter markers and artwork from iTunes on your computer or straight to your iPhone/iPod touches now! If you like what you hear be sure to write a quick review on iTunes as well. It helps us out. Thanks!
Dig the Life Fantastic: Rental Review of “Fantastic Mr. Fox”
Pop quiz..ready?…
#1: Name the film that was nominated for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score at the 82nd Academy Awards. Has been nominated for the 2010 Critics Choice Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Animated Feature and was nominated for the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film.
Hint: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray.
Still don’t know? No it isn’t UP.
Answer: Fantastic Mr. Fox
#2: Have you heard of this film, let alone watched it?
Answer: Probably not.
Oscar Winners
Overall, this years awards went down as expected and were kind of bland. I kept hoping for an upset, but the biggest one I got was Geoffrey Fletcher winning Best Adapated Screeplay for Precious over Jason Reitman’s script for Up in the Air. It was cool seeing Kathryn Bigelow become the first woman to win in the directing category. Dito, as for seeing “The Dude” himself, Jeff Bridges, win for Crazy Heart. The Hurt Locker had a big night sweeping all the major awards including Best Picture. For me though the best part of the entire show was the cutting of the Best Original Song performances from the telecast. Here’s hoping that change is here to stay. See all the winners below in bold.
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The Pack’s Oscar Picks
Here are some of the Pack’s Oscar picks. Each individual writer’s choices for who they think will win are indicated by their name in Bold to the right of a nominee. See how our staff’s picks stand up against our own and leave your thoughts below in the comments. Also follow the sites official twitter for live updates during the show. Read the rest of this entry »
Up Close and Fictional – 101
Welcome to my new game “Up Close and Fictional,” episode one. Below are zoomed in stills from some of film’s most iconic scenes. Cryptic hints will guide you to victory. Enjoy… These are pretty easy … for now because I promise episode two will be harder! Muahaha.
Hint: This is an easy one. CLICK FOR ANSWER
Dare to do more?
Give the Oscar to a Cartoon: Oscar Review of “UP”
The first two times I sat down to watch UP I kept getting interrupted by this and that, not getting a good feel for the film as a whole. I just turned off the PS3 after watching it all the way through, and I’ll be at a loss if it doesn’t get best picture this year. Welling up during a cartoon is an extremely rare occasion for me, but it happened almost three times during UP. This isn’t to say if a film makes you cry that it deserves an Oscar, but there’s a certain amount of undeniable brilliance that shines through with this Pixar masterpiece.
