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| marantzo |
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Back to current films: Premium Rush is well worth seeing. It opens with a car-bicycle collision, and then flips back to an earlier time of day. Goes forward from there and goes back a number of times filling in the plot. The bikes zip around in Manhattan at speedy and dangerous rates, especially Gordon-Levitt's bike. It's quite a ride with interesting characters and wild chases. And some pretty gritty scenes. I think it is the director's first film. It is very well put together. I highly recommend it.
Carrobin, of course I don't know what your apartment building looks like (I imagine it is a brownstone), but you may likely see it in the picture. A number of shots around and in Central Park. All on the West Side if I'm not mistaken.
Has Joseph Gordon-Levitt ever given a performance that was below par? He's been very good in everything I've scene. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 4:22 pm |
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I doubt that my apartment house (which is a nice red-brick building, not a brownstone) is seen in the film because all the food wagons and gear were parked in front of it. Maybe there's a skim along the skyline, though.
P.S. I've read that there are no special effects in the film, and that Gordon-Levitt does most of his own riding and stunts. He's a fearless kind of guy. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 4:23 pm |
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marantzo wrote:
Has Joseph Gordon-Levitt ever given a performance that was below par? He's been very good in everything I've scene.
I think he can be mediocre if the material lets him down. Nobody could make Inception work, and I totally despised Brick. (Some people love it.)
His performance in Mysterious Skin is miraculous. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 4:33 pm |
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| I thought he was the best thing in Inception, a movie I wasn't crazy about but didn't hate. I thought DiCaprio was blah. I didn't love Brick but I liked it. Don't know anything about Mysterious Skin. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 4:59 pm |
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marantzo wrote: Don't know anything about Mysterious Skin.
If you already like Gordon-Levitt, see Mysterious Skin and prepare to be a fanboy. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 5:30 pm |
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carrobin wrote: I doubt that my apartment house (which is a nice red-brick building, not a brownstone) is seen in the film because all the food wagons and gear were parked in front of it. Maybe there's a skim along the skyline, though.
P.S. I've read that there are no special effects in the film, and that Gordon-Levitt does most of his own riding and stunts. He's a fearless kind of guy.
When you see the movie watch the end credits Gordon-Levitt is by the car that hit him. The window is smashed and his arm is full of blood. He's in good humour though.
Mysterious Skin isn't playing. I'll pick up the videa I guess. |
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| grace |
| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:55 pm |
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| You could pick up The Lookout for even more Gordon-Levitt goodness if you want. I really enjoyed the flick and him in it. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 7:26 pm |
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| I've seen it. More than once. It was shot in Winnipeg. Excellent filck. There was a strange coincidence when I saw it on the big screen. I'm watching my programmes now, I'll post it later. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 8:10 am |
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| JG-L also good in 500 Days of Summer. With that rather plain-looking actress whose name escapes me, the one who does Iphone commercials in her pyjamas and has an excess of hair. Whiskey might remember her name. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:07 am |
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bartist wrote: JG-L also good in 500 Days of Summer. With that rather plain-looking actress whose name escapes me, the one who does Iphone commercials in her pyjamas and has an excess of hair. Whiskey might remember her name.
Superb in 500 Days (a borderline great film) (with Zooey Deschanel), and also in 50/50. Funny, two titles beginning with "50." |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:46 am |
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Kinyarwanda is a pretty good dramatization of the war and ethnic clashes that subsumed Rwanda in the 90's.
It's a bit heavy on being a message film at times -- Christians and Muslims need to work together; forgiving your enemy is divine -- but it also shows some realistic violence and fear as chaos evolves.
Interesting extra about making the film. A Rwandan in the film industry got a grant of $250K from Europe to make a film about the Rwandan genocide. He talked to a Peace Corp guy who knew another Peace Corp guy from a few years before in Nigeria. Aldrick Brown then went to NYU film school, and made short films. He wrote the script in 5 weeks to meet the grant deadline, and then directed Kinyarwanda in 16 days on location in Rwanda. They filmed during the rainy season which also coincides with grasshopper mating season, and dealt with other obstacles.
It's a good film, mostly with non-actors and some Rwandan actors and a few Americans. I really liked the hunched little Imam, who apparently in real life is a school teacher. He always seemed confident yet apologetic at the same time. The interspersed moments with killers telling their crimes and asking for forgiveness was powerful and felt documentary.
The film did well at Sundance. Definitely a good film to catch on cable. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 10:02 am |
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bartist wrote: JG-L also good in 500 Days of Summer. With that rather plain-looking actress whose name escapes me, the one who does Iphone commercials in her pyjamas and has an excess of hair. Whiskey might remember her name. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 10:21 am |
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| OK, but what sort of woman lives in a house with big old windows but has to ask her Iphone if it's raining? |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 10:26 am |
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| Seriously, I wish she hadn't signed up for "New Girl" because now she's not signing on to any film projects. "My Idiot Brother" was her last film gig. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 10:40 am |
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| Those iPhone commercials are amusing the first two times, then become really annoying. Did John Malkovich really think the joke was funny? Is Martin Scorsese really that dependent on Suri? (Is it Suri? Or is that TomKat's daughter? Now I'm confused--where's my iPhone?) |
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