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| ehle64 |
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she looks really bad in the previews, too
don't get me wrong, I enjoy ms. adams, but . . . |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 2:41 pm |
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Marj wrote: Even though Columbia probably had nothing to do with it they'll reap the rewards. PBS played some of her old shows last night!
So now what are you going to do? Your threat was to Columbia, not PBS. I have a feeling NPR and PBS are merely jumping on the bandwagon. But who am I to say?
PS. Did you miss the article in last weeks NY Times Magazine section? It was about foodies and lead off with Julie and Julia.
Columbia's doing the US theatrical production. NPR and PBS (and the NYT) are jumping on the bandwagon, but Columbia made the picture - and I'm sure that their marketing dept is working overtime putting out press releases / kits and such.
I didn't see the article, last weekend was kind of busy. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 3:02 pm |
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| Just want to say thanks folks for pushing me to "Up," which I finally saw today. (I figured it might not be around another week, I'm not working in an office today, I just finished the freelance job, and the weekend shows would be full of kids--so I had run out of procrastination excuses.) Wonderful movie. I just wish the few parents who did show up this afternoon had taught their kids to whisper. Apparently "Disney" means "don't bother finding out what it's about, just drag the kids in" to a lot of people. But at least it wasn't a Saturday... |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 3:15 pm |
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lady wakasa wrote: Dear Columbia Pictures:
As much as I love food, and consider Julia Child to be an institution, and had a roommate who lived next door to JC (although the bum never invited me over), and am looking forward to seeing Julie & Julia - would you please slow down with the marketing push. We all know that the movie's coming out. Most of us are going to see it. You've already got us.
Mention of Julia Child - rather than the movie itself - doesn't have to show up everywhere, including news broadcasts. Julia Child died five years ago; she's not making a comeback. You probably asked for family permission on some level, but you didn't ask *her*, and I really think you should be talking about THE MOVIE.
And I'm sorry - you would have only some influence on this, but Terry Gross did *not* need to replay her **Julia Child** interview.
Thank you,
- me
P.S. - If you start replaying her tv show as a promo, I will come find you and do a Dan Aykroyd on you.
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 3:18 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Agree about Gordon-Levitt, but his peak so far is indisputably Mysterious Skin, one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. And (from recent vintage) one of the best.
It really was a painful, moving, compex picture. I'm not as sold on Gordon-Levitt as some (I sense of an independant cinema flavor-of-the-month), but he's certainly not bad and the movie is disturbing in just the way it ought to be. The ending was incredibly moving. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 7:00 pm |
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I saw THIRST today. I recommend it. Its not in the same league as OLD BOY, but its still exciting film making from Park Chan-wook.
I've been out of Manhattan for too long. I love it. But, the Village Voice is barely recognizable and I paid $12.50 for a matinee screening of THIRST. $12.50! |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 8:22 pm |
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A Perfect Getaway may not be a great schlock thriller, but it's the best one I've seen in far too long. Anchored by a terrific plot and supported by some really solid acting, it's got shocks and laughs and great scenery. Steve Zahn and Timothy Olyphant are two favorites of mine, and the ladies (Milla Jovovich and Kiele Sanchez) do right by their guys. It's fun all the way and my favorite of its kind in years.
Zahn and Jovovich hit Hawaii for their honeymoon and meet up with a bunch of dudes and chicks who are kind of strange. Meanwhile, some bad folks are murdering newlyweds. Oops. Should the happy couple have chosen Niagara?
For once, Manohla Dargis and I agreed. She raved, I rave. It's the exception that proves the rule. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 8:37 pm |
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Quote: Has anyone here seen The Lookout? Not only a good film, but a terrific performance by Gordon-Levitt and shot in Winnipeg.
Gary.......I did see and like it........did not realize that was Winnipeg. Every film Gordon-L is in shows a different side of this huge talent. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 9:19 pm |
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Marc wrote: I saw THIRST today. I recommend it. Its not in the same league as OLD BOY, but its still exciting film making from Park Chan-wook.
Yes. This.
Quote: I paid $12.50 for a matinee screening of THIRST. $12.50!
Unfortunately, this too. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 9:56 pm |
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Befade wrote: Quote: Has anyone here seen The Lookout? Not only a good film, but a terrific performance by Gordon-Levitt and shot in Winnipeg.
Gary.......I did see and like it........did not realize that was Winnipeg. Every film Gordon-L is in shows a different side of this huge talent.
Betsy, it's not surprising that you didn't know it was Winnipeg (and the surrounding countryside of course), but my son who has lived here for a number of years (got his medical degree here, for example and spent every summer here growing up) like the movie a lot and didn't know it was Winnipeg even though he actually knew all the locations that were in the movie. When I told him it was shot in Wpg. he was stunned and said he had to see it again.
The skating rink beside that modern building where some scenes take place is actually our central library and he didn't even recognize it. The apartment Levitt lived in with his friend is right across the street from the YMHA where he had been often and the light and lit crucifix which keeps flashing through his window is the Calvary Temple (Holy Rollers) across the street. The bars he goes to are in the exchange district where my son has been many times. He did say that the highway where the accident took place looked very familiar to him, which was on the highway to Winnipeg Beach where he was also on many times ever since he was a kid.
Capote was also shot in Winnipeg and its surrounds. Lake Winnipeg actually stands in for the Mediterranean in the scene that take place in the supposed Spanish villa. It's a big lake. Take a look at a map. The penitentiary was Stony Mountain Pen which is about ten miles outside of Winnipeg on the way to Winnipeg Beach. When Hoffman was shooting in one of the small towns out that way he would have breakfast at the local cafe every morning and gossip with all the regulars.
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 2:43 am |
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| Olivier Assayas' Summer Hours is a wonderful film of a matriarch who dies and leaves her house and beautiful objects in it including paintings (including two Corots), sculptures and exquisite furniture pieces to her two sons and one daughter, and how they deal with the loss of their mother and resolve their disagreements about the disposition of the property. It is about relationships, moving away, and the differences between the generations about attachments and constancy. Juliette Binoche is excellent and so is the rest of the cast. It is a 'slice of life' movie. The best movie I have seen this year so far. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 10:52 am |
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Ghulam,
I found SUMMER HOURS terribly boring. It was well-crafted and acted, but did not engage me in the least. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 12:35 pm |
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Marc wrote: Ghulam,
I found SUMMER HOURS terribly boring. It was well-crafted and acted, but did not engage me in the least.
I am surprised. It does not have dramatic highlights, but a lot happens in the course of 100 minutes and it rings true. As Billy says, 'different strokes'!
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 5:46 pm |
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Julie and Julia is somewhat less than its two halves, and I found myself wishing they'd made two movies, one about Julie and one about Julia Child. The problem is than Julie is a mousy little woman, and Julia is so much larger than life that she could bone and truss Julie and serve her for lunch. I think a straight biography of Julia Child would make a surprisingly interesting movie; the sections here are certainly interesting. Julie's sections would work as a low key comedy if she didn't have to compete with a force of nature.
Both husbands come off well. The Childs seem to have been a well-matched pair (the movie mentions they met in the OSS, but we don't get to see them there). Meryl Streep chirps a bit too much at first, but eases off as the movie goes on, or I just got used to it. It sort of makes me want to read "My Life in France." Amy Adams doesn't come off as well because her character just doesn't have the spark Ms. Adams does so well. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 6:40 pm |
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| By the way Julia Child was 6'2". Meryl Streep is 5'6 but grew eight inches to play the part because she's an actress, and convinces us she's taller than Stanley Tucci. |
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