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| Joe Vitus |
 Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 10:00 pm |
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Marc wrote: Quote: I think about that every time you link a review from Dangerous Minds.
Too bad for you. Sounds like you have a psychological problem.
I rarely link to my reviews on DM and I write a lot of film-related pieces on DM. I made an exception for The Master because of the hype.
You've linked your stuff a lot. Not even saying you shouldn't. Just saying it's kinda wrong that you attacked someone for doing what you do yourself. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 10:04 pm |
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| No real interest in Much Ado at the moment. Maybe when it comes out, I'll feel differently. The Branagh version was abysmal. Like a two hour Martini and Rossi Austi Spumante commercial. Plus, I was in a production of Much Ado--I got a stellar review from the impossible-to-please local critic (he said I had wired energy)--and it's always odd for me to watch versions of plays I've been in. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 10:35 pm |
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Joe, relax. I've met both Rod and Marilyn. Both very nice people, though it seems that Rod and Marilyn are a bit touchy. Marc is very interesting and lots of fun, but he does throw things out there. Some people just get pissed off with some of things he posts.
Marc, I really liked your critique of The Master though I haven't seen the movie. You'll be happy to know that the critique of the movie in the Montreal Gazette was very close to the same problem that you had with The Master. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 10:37 pm |
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| Joe, I never liked Branagh, period! |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 10:41 pm |
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| I've heard Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing described as the best modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare since Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 11:17 pm |
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| That isn't much of a recommendation, in my book. I probably liked that movie more than anything else Luhrmann has done, but talk about damning someone with faint praise... |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 12:11 am |
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Would have liked William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet much more if Baz hadn't, among many inequities, gone and got Miriam Margolyes to play the Nurse and then cut her role to virtually nothing. Personally, have never seen His Lurhmanity do anything better than his French New Wave-era-skewed La Bohème, which was dazzling, devastating and unforgettable in the theater... though that of course was the theater, and opry, to boot, so presumably it doesn't count.
Speaking of which, are there any Current Films worth noting? That haven't already been notated, I mean? Am sort of interested in The Master, but since the second retrenchment, it's become just too darned expensive to go to the Mooveeplecks if not really sure it's going to be worth the gas and time (or time and gas, if cinema hot dogs are in the offing).
On the horizon, should probably make an effort to catch Lincoln, but am more than a little leery; and The Life of Pi, but am more than a little Timothy Leary; and had plumb forgotten there's a new Gus Van Sant coming in December (the name of which I have also forgotten) which by my lights is always some kind of hopeful, not to mention Les Miz...but, helas, those are all Future Current Films.
Oh, heck, who am I kidding? Will just end up watching They Met in Moscow or Hangmen Also Die! or Fantasia or Reefer Madness or the CBC Long Day's Journey into Night or any season of Upstairs, Downstairs on YouTube for the eleventeenth times; or Christine Edzard's Little Dorrit (both parts) or Night Nurse or Tetro or A Single Man or Jail Bait or A Big Hand for the Little Lady or Mayerling on DiVid for the thirtythirdteenth times, and wait until December. By which point, doubtless I won't care anymore, and will have taken up crocheting. As Helen Grayco told Spike Jones in the immortal None but the Lonely Heartburn (a Soaperetta), I must go away somewhere and figure this thing out. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 12:58 am |
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inlareviewer wrote:
Speaking of which, are there any Current Films worth noting? That haven't already been notated, I mean?
Margaret (sort of a Dvd thang already)
Moonrise Kingdom
Beasts of the Southern Wild
The Master
Lincoln
Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
Cloud Atlas (Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis)
Argo (Ben Affleck)
More Foreign, More Obscure:
The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr)
This Is Not a Film (Panahi)
Post Tenebras Lux (Reygadas)
In the Fog (Loznitsa)
Tabu (Gomes)
I've only seen Margaret and Turin Horse of those.
Some are still not out yet. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 1:03 am |
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We're in that period between summer films and the early Oscar bait.Trouble with the Curve's coming out on the 21st, there's The Master, of course. Maybe Looper. In October we get Argo, Seven Psychopaths, Cloud Atlas, and, of course, Atlas Shrugged part deux.
Speaking of Shakespeare, there's a film version of All's Well That Ends Well coming out in a couple of months, but it looks to be one of those British productions that doesn't go wide in the States. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 7:05 am |
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| inla--Why are you leery of Lincoln? Is the buzz out there really bad? |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 7:10 am |
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marantzo wrote: Joe, I never liked Branagh, period!
Me, neither. |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 7:18 am |
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| Why did you never like Branagh? He's made some turkeys, but his acting in Henry V, just for one, was exemplary. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 7:59 am |
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To Inla's question about current films, I respond with my standard myopic these-open-today thing: Arbitrage, and Liberal Arts (with Eliz. Olsen as Josh Radnor's love interest in a prof/student romance). While one awaits masterpieces, these might be watchable but really I have no idea....haven't sought out reviews or buzz in any form.
BTW: Sorry, again, to give impression I was dissing 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days - it's extremely well done and it's quite possible that, in some future state of repose and/or tranquility, I will watch it again and connect with it on a deeper level. It was really a very tangential and unimportant part of a point I was making about Toronto FF. I could be wrong, but had the feeling a couple here were quietly offended, so that's why I'm going out of my way to stress that 4, 3, 2 was, even if not my cup of tea, something I could recognize as great film. The closing scene is terrific. |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 8:19 am |
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inlareviewer wrote:
Oh, heck, who am I kidding? Will just end up watching... A Big Hand for the Little Lady....
Which I did the other day for the umpteenth time and looooooved it once again. What a cast--and what a delightful movie! Just for starters, Joanne Woodward was never better, even in The Three Faces of Eve. And Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Charles Bickford, Kevin McCarthy, etc.--such perfect casting in every single role. |
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| grace |
| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 10:34 am |
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I won't even pretend to judge Branagh's acting, but I could listen to his voice forever. Even the hubby swoons a little during a certain Henry V speech.
Looking forward to:
Hello, I Must Be Going - supposed to (finally) be Melanie Lynskey's breakthrough performance, plus it was shot in my hometown and written by a former Stapleite (high school grad of said hometown, and aka Chrissy Tompkins from That Thing You Do.) Very mixed reviews, but if nothing else, I can pick out landmarks.
Looper
The Master - I know what's been said, but I want to judge for myself. Plus PSH -- I'm there.
Cloud Atlas -- The description confuses me, and I like that.
Argo - Tentatively liked the trailer, love the supporting cast (A. Arkin, J. Goodman). Have the sneaking suspicion that underneath all the hoopla, this Ben Affleck product could suck; but that can be fun, too. I'm willing to take the chance.
Currently showing, will probably see at least one of these this week:
The Imposter - On the fence about this, as the write-up lays the premise on a little thick. Sometimes I end up wanting to tell a flick like this to get over itself.
Robot and Frank - Frank Langella as an old guy with a companion robot. Sounds predictably schmaltzy but it's Frank Langella, who in my world is almost the male SASSY.
Showing, but being skipped:
The Words - Sometimes I don't have to find things out for myself.
Hope Springs - The hub's not interested , might hurt his feelings if I go alone.
The Intouchables - A French buddy movie of sorts. Might end up going to this one, though. |
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