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Kinefaktura. Kinefaktura. Ryan Gosling Interview – Ryan Gosling Drive and Crazy, Stupid, Love. August 9, 2011, 7:30 PM A long ride through a dangerous world of skeletons, roller coasters, fast cars, slow talk, Bonkers candy, street crawlers, love parades, and freak shows with Ryan Gosling, the most amused man in movies By Tom Chiarella More from this author 4:08 p.m.

Ryan Gosling Interview – Ryan Gosling Drive and Crazy, Stupid, Love

Greenwich Village First thing: Yes, Ryan Gosling will drive. So he proffers the key fob. He's brought a mask, pinched in his fingertips, as a gift. Last year Gosling, who is thirty, became a star by way of an indie flick that went relatively huge, Blue Valentine, in which he played Dean, the drunk housepainter and half-decent father, pitching the guy's emotional caterwaulings in a maleness both grand and petty. 4:28 p.m. "So I figure this will be kind of a road trip," Gosling says, as if the nature of any moment were a simple question of it being coaxed. Lights scalloping past on the tile ceiling, and Ryan Gosling reveals: His apartment is full of skeletons. They're Remaking "Dirty Dancing," and That Sound You Hear is My Inner Preadolescent Girl Weeping Inconsolably.

Yeah, they’re remaking everything these days.

They're Remaking "Dirty Dancing," and That Sound You Hear is My Inner Preadolescent Girl Weeping Inconsolably

They’ve remade "Conan The Barbarian"! I just saw the trailer for it this weekend. Conan! What is best in life? To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women .... and the internet criticisms of OG movie fans, am I right? Speaking of the lamentations of women, Zack Snyder, easily my most-despised living director (seriously, I have a wonderful fantasy of assembling a band of angry ladies to beat him to unconsciousness with vagina pillows) (technically those are vulva pillows, I guess), is remaking Superman. It’s like Hollywood can’t even wait for the corpse to get cold anymore. Most of the current crop of remakes don’t really bother me.

But then ... then they came for "Dirty Dancing. " The 50 Funniest Scenes in the History of Film. By Dustin Rowles | Guides | April 22, 2011 | Comments (0 View Coming up with the 50 funniest scenes in the history of cinema turned out to be much easier than I expected, thanks to the stellar efforts of our readership, who essentially nominated hundreds of clips to choose from.

The 50 Funniest Scenes in the History of Film

Narrowing it down to 50 was another matter, and then attempting to rank them in order of hilariousness was an almost impossible task. But we rank, therefore we are. There's not a lot of fun to be had in a perfect list; it forecloses the possibility of discussion. That said, if you're a fan of Peter Sellers, Bill Murray, John Cleese, or Steve Martin, you're probably going to like this list more than not.

At any rate, here are your 50 Funniest Movie Scenes of All Time. 50. 49. 48. 47. 46. 45. 44. 43. 42. 41. Scenes 40 - 31 >> Scenes 30 - 21 >> Scenes 20 - 11 >> Scenes 10 - 1 Around the Web. The 50 Best Movies on Netflix Instant. We love the convenience of streaming movies on Netflix Instant, but we don’t always love the navigating through the countless films in the service’s ever-expanding catalog to find something to watch.

The 50 Best Movies on Netflix Instant

So we’ve compiled our list of recommended titles for you—whether you love classics, comedies, documentaries or just good ol’ fashioned kung-fu. The genres vary greatly here—and range in age from brand new to 87-years-old—but all 50 of these films come with the Paste stamp of approval. The list is up to date as of February 2013, but we’ll continue to update the list from time to time as Netflix Instant changes its offerings. 50. In the LoopYear: 2009Director: Armando Iannucci If clever verbal humor were easy, we’d have more comedies like In the Loop. The Best Apocalyptic Movies Of The Last 50 Years. Just Another Princess Movie. Image by Sarah Handelman I suppose most girls remember when they became aware of themselves as specifically female viewers.

Just Another Princess Movie

Growing up in the eighties, I watched movies about boys and girls with equal relish, empathizing with the protagonists and getting totally absorbed in story without my parts getting consciously in the way. When I realized the boys in my classes didn’t do the same thing — they refused to see themselves in female protagonists and found the prospect humiliating to contemplate — I felt I had overstepped my bounds. Feeling simultaneously embarrassed at being so profligate with my sympathy and spiteful towards those who weren’t, I started watching movies the way I was supposed to: as a girl, specifically. Boy, was it bleak. If you don’t get to be Indiana Jones and have to think about how he is with girls, if you have to wonder, while watching Treasure Island, whether any of the characters you loved would even talk to you, movies become kind of painful.