Tag: Once

• Six thoughts on ‘Titanic’

  Cinema Sugar asked on Threads: “What movie do you refuse to watch?” It provoked some interesting responses, the most common by far being Titanic and Barbie. I get the Barbie backlash since it’s new and somewhat (weirdly) politically charged. Titanic, though, is nearly 30 years old and one of the most awarded and highest-grossing movies of…

  Jun 20, 2024

  # Cinema Sugar, film, movies, Once, review, Titanic

• How ‘Hairspray’ and ‘Once’ made me love musicals

  Originally published at Cinema Sugar Josh, you’re in a musical. That’s how musicals work. When you’re too emotional to talk, you sing. When you’re too emotional to sing, you dance.” — Melissa, Schmigadoon I went through a phase as an adolescent when I didn’t get musicals. Not only that: I actively resented them. They’re cheesy…

  May 30, 2023

  # Cinema Sugar, film, Hairspray, movies, music, musicals, Once, review

• Fourteen Memories

  Fourteen scattered memories, in no particular order, written at whim on the occasion of my birthday on the fourteenth of September. 1. Every summer, on their way down to or up from Texas, Grandma Helen and Grandpa Cliff stayed with us in Madison for a few days. Knowing they’d be there when I got home…

  Sep 14, 2015

  # Arrested Development, Brick, Cliff Huhta, college, Green Bay Packers, Helen Huhta, Ice Cap Fortune, It’s A Wonderful Life, life, lists, movie theaters, Once, summer camp

• 7 Beautiful Movie Music Moments

  Sometimes we as moviegoers have to let movies affect us in ways we cannot explain or control. One of those ways is through music. Whether it is an epic orchestral theme or a lone piano suite, music in the movies can make the difference in how I respond to the story. Listening to a CD…

  Dec 4, 2011

  # Alan Silvestri, Cast Away, film, Glen Hansard, Howard Shore, lists, Lord of the Rings, movies, music, Once, Philip Glass, Remember the Titans, The Truman Show, Trevor Rabin, WALL-E

• Best Films of the 2000s

  The Lives of Others (2006) – A German film about a surveillance expert who spies on a playwright in Communist Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall, The Lives of Others won the Best Foreign film at the Oscars and for good reason. Unbearably suspenseful and surprisingly moving, The Lives of Others shows that…

  Dec 30, 2009

  # best of, Children of Men, film, High Fidelity, In America, lists, Memento, movies, Once, review, The Lives of Others, Unbreakable, WALL-E, Zodiac

• The Oscars — ‘Once’ Wins!

  I got two of my Oscar picks wrong – not bad. I don’t remember why I didn’t pick Diablo Cody to win, but I’m glad she did. Yay for Once! It was pretty lame that Marketa Irglova got cut off, but pretty awesome that Jon Stewart gave her time later. The only reason why the…

  Feb 24, 2008

  # Academy Awards, film, Jon Stewart, movies, Once, Oscars

• Listen Up, Academy…

  My 2007 ACADEMY AWARD PICKS: Best Picture Who will win: No Country for Old Men Who should win: No Country for Old Men Best Director Who will win: The Coen Brothers for No Country for Old Men Who should win: The Coen Brothers Best Actor Who will win: Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood…

  Feb 19, 2008

  # Academy Awards, film, movies, No Country For Old Men, Once, Oscars, Ratatouille, Sweeney Todd, There Will Be Blood

• Best Films of 2007

  Note: See an updated version of this list. 1) The Lives of OthersThis German film won Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars last year, and boy, did it deserve it. Set in East Berlin during the Cold War, involving a member of the German secret police who spies on a dissident writer and soon finds…

  Feb 1, 2008

  # best of, film, Juno, lists, movies, NCC Chronicle, No Country For Old Men, Once, Ratatouille, review, The Lives of Others, Waitress, Zodiac

• Soundtrack of the moment, part III

  Haven’t done one of these in a while. Since the last one, I’ve tightened my music collection dramatically so as to eliminate the stuff I don’t listen to, as well as the stuff I had just for the sake of having. Here it goes… “I’m Waiting for the Day” – The Beach Boys – Pet…

  Nov 5, 2007

  # Billy Joel, Cat Stevens, David Crowder Band, John Lennon, music, music of the moment, Once, Paul McCartney, Radiohead, Randy Newman, Stevie Wonder, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Starting Line