<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" ><channel><title>STATIC MASS EMPORIUM</title> <atom:link href="http://staticmass.net/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://staticmass.net</link> <description>The Essence of Film</description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 14:40:05 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=394</generator> <item><title>Natural Born Killers</title><link>http://staticmass.net/deconstructing-cinema/natural-born-killers-movie-1994/</link> <comments>http://staticmass.net/deconstructing-cinema/natural-born-killers-movie-1994/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 12:38:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Arpad Lukacs</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Deconstructing Cinema]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Top Features]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://staticmass.net/?p=29804</guid> <description><![CDATA[In part 80 of Deconstructing Cinema, there’s only one question we need to ask when it comes to Oliver Stone’s controversial Natural Born Killers: Is this film any better than the media it's out to criticise?]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://staticmass.net/deconstructing-cinema/natural-born-killers-movie-1994/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Wall Street</title><link>http://staticmass.net/deconstructing-cinema/wall-street-movie-1987/</link> <comments>http://staticmass.net/deconstructing-cinema/wall-street-movie-1987/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 10:28:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick Samuel</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Deconstructing Cinema]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Top Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charlie Sheen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Daryl Hannah]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gordon Gecko]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Greed Is Good]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hal Holbrook]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Martin Sheen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michael Douglas]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movie]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oliver]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stewart Copeland]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://staticmass.net/?p=23251</guid> <description><![CDATA[In Part 36 of Deconstructing Cinema, Patrick takes a look at whether or not “greed is good” with a scene from Oliver Stone’s 80’s defining film, Wall Street.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://staticmass.net/deconstructing-cinema/wall-street-movie-1987/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>JFK</title><link>http://staticmass.net/deconstructing-cinema/deconstructing-cinema-jfk-movie-1991/</link> <comments>http://staticmass.net/deconstructing-cinema/deconstructing-cinema-jfk-movie-1991/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 00:52:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick Samuel &#38; Jonahh Oestreich</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Deconstructing Cinema]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Top Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Sutherland]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gary Null]]></category> <category><![CDATA[JFK]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jim Garrison]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jim Marrs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kevin Costner]]></category> <category><![CDATA[L. Fletcher Prouty]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oliver Stone]]></category> <category><![CDATA[President Lyndon Baines Johnson]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://staticmass.net/?p=17239</guid> <description><![CDATA[History has a way of repeating itself. In Deconstructing Cinema we take a look at a pivotal scene in Oliver Stone’s JFK with a conversation between Garrison and X that takes place near the Washington Monument.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://staticmass.net/deconstructing-cinema/deconstructing-cinema-jfk-movie-1991/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Django Unchained</title><link>http://staticmass.net/topfeature/django-unchained-movie-2012-review/</link> <comments>http://staticmass.net/topfeature/django-unchained-movie-2012-review/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 09:00:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ben Nicholson</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Top Features]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://staticmass.net/?p=27528</guid> <description><![CDATA[Controversial cult film director Quentin Tarantino returns to big screen with a 'Southern' pitching of the long-running Django, as a freed slave looking to find his wife.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://staticmass.net/topfeature/django-unchained-movie-2012-review/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>I Give It A Year</title><link>http://staticmass.net/topfeature/i-give-it-a-year-movie-2012-review/</link> <comments>http://staticmass.net/topfeature/i-give-it-a-year-movie-2012-review/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 04:10:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Pete Turner</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Top Features]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://staticmass.net/?p=27808</guid> <description><![CDATA[Written and directed by Dan Mazer, this is one of the latest comedies to show marriages in crisis, offering a frightening and bleak look at what can become of couples.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://staticmass.net/topfeature/i-give-it-a-year-movie-2012-review/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Flight</title><link>http://staticmass.net/topfeature/flight-movie-2012-review/</link> <comments>http://staticmass.net/topfeature/flight-movie-2012-review/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 01:54:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ben Nicholson</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Top Features]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://staticmass.net/?p=27802</guid> <description><![CDATA[Robert Zemeckis returns to live-action cinema with this drama about an alcoholic pilot who may face prison despite an audacious crash-landing that saved countless lives.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://staticmass.net/topfeature/flight-movie-2012-review/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>God Told Me To</title><link>http://staticmass.net/cult/god-told-me-to-movie-1976-review/</link> <comments>http://staticmass.net/cult/god-told-me-to-movie-1976-review/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 12:13:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Simon Powell</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Cult Movies]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://staticmass.net/?p=29785</guid> <description><![CDATA[Larry Cohen’s 1976 cult movie hints at UFO abductions, virgin births, mind control, biblical sacrifice, and messianic androgynous aliens, but fails to tie them up into a completely coherent narrative.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://staticmass.net/cult/god-told-me-to-movie-1976-review/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Brood</title><link>http://staticmass.net/cult/the-brood-movie-1979-review/</link> <comments>http://staticmass.net/cult/the-brood-movie-1979-review/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 08:00:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Bleasdale</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Cult Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cindy Hinds]]></category> <category><![CDATA[David Cronenberg]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Don’t Look Now]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Howard Shore]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movie]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oliver Reed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Review]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Samantha Eggar]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Shivers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Brood]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://staticmass.net/?p=24102</guid> <description><![CDATA[The 1979 horror film, The Brood, was a turning point in writer and director David Cronenberg’s career, and a disturbing meditation on what happens when families are broken.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://staticmass.net/cult/the-brood-movie-1979-review/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Phantasm</title><link>http://staticmass.net/cult/phantasm-movie-1979-review/</link> <comments>http://staticmass.net/cult/phantasm-movie-1979-review/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 05:08:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick Samuel</dc:creator> 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Lace</title><link>http://staticmass.net/classic/arsenic-and-old-lace-movie-1944-review/</link> <comments>http://staticmass.net/classic/arsenic-and-old-lace-movie-1944-review/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:17:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Paul Costello</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Movie Classics]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://staticmass.net/?p=29778</guid> <description><![CDATA[Frank Capra’s 1944 film sees Cary Grant stumbling upon his dear aunts’ deadly secret: they’ve been murdering lonely old men that come to stay with them, and burying them in the cellar!]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://staticmass.net/classic/arsenic-and-old-lace-movie-1944-review/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>North By Northwest</title><link>http://staticmass.net/classic/north-by-northwest-movie-1959/</link> <comments>http://staticmass.net/classic/north-by-northwest-movie-1959/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 07:50:47 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Simon Powell</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Movie Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alfred Hitchcock]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cary Grant]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crop Dusting Scene]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Eva Marie Saint]]></category> <category><![CDATA[James Mason]]></category> <category><![CDATA[North By Northwest]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Raymond Bellour]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Analysis of Film]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://staticmass.net/?p=24064</guid> <description><![CDATA[North by Northwest sees Hitchcock at the height of his powers, but with a sly sense of irony and some Freudian undertones, this is no mere empty headed glamorous spy romp.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://staticmass.net/classic/north-by-northwest-movie-1959/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>His Girl Friday</title><link>http://staticmass.net/classic/his-girl-friday-movie-1940-review/</link> <comments>http://staticmass.net/classic/his-girl-friday-movie-1940-review/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 01:26:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ben Nicholson</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Movie Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cary Grant]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charles Lederer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[His Girl Friday]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Howard Hawks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movie]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ralph Bellamy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Review]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rosalind Russell]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Screwball Comedy]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://staticmass.net/?p=24529</guid> <description><![CDATA[Based on the stage play, The Front Page, Howard Hawk’s screwball comedy sees a newspaper editor’s ex wife about to marry another man and has to work fast to win her back.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://staticmass.net/classic/his-girl-friday-movie-1940-review/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Two In The Wave</title><link>http://staticmass.net/documentary/two-in-the-wave/</link> <comments>http://staticmass.net/documentary/two-in-the-wave/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 07:00:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick Samuel</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Antoine de Baecque]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Emmanuel Laurent]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Francois Truffaut]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Isild Le Besco]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jean-Luc Godard]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jean-Pierre Léaud]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://staticmass.net/?p=10670</guid> <description><![CDATA[The rise and fall of the friendship between Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut, the two leading filmmakers of the French 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<item><title>Bande à part</title><link>http://staticmass.net/world/bande-a-part-movie-1964-review/</link> <comments>http://staticmass.net/world/bande-a-part-movie-1964-review/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 04:12:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Paul Costello</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[World Cinema]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://staticmass.net/?p=29759</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jean-Luc Godard once said “All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun.” Bande à part, his most approachable and accessible film, is something of an exercise in whether or not this is true.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://staticmass.net/world/bande-a-part-movie-1964-review/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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