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| billyweeds |
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Befade wrote: The mother was played by Lonergan's wife.
Just for the record, J. Smith-Cameron is not just "Lonergan's wife." She's a highly respected NYC stage actress, and she does a superb job as the mother. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 11:33 pm |
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I meant NO disrespect........I thought she was a revelation as the mother. Her name isn't familiar to me and it's an unusual name.......so I took the easy way out (director's wife). Of course, Billy.......you are in a special position to be familiar with stage actresses in NYC.
On another note: Lonergan's best friend is Sarah Jessica Parker's husband. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 12:23 am |
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billyweeds wrote: Befade wrote: The mother was played by Lonergan's wife.
Just for the record, J. Smith-Cameron is not just "Lonergan's wife." She's a highly respected NYC stage actress, and she does a superb job as the mother.
Yeah, she was a revelation.
I kept wondering if I'd seen her before or where she'd been, or if she was as good as I thought. Had to look her up after watching the film. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 12:54 am |
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| J. Smith-Cameron is also in Lonergan's other movie, the wonderful You Can Count On Me. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 5:18 am |
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Marc wrote: J. Smith-Cameron is also in Lonergan's other movie, the wonderful You Can Count On Me.
Mark Ruffalo's performance in that movie is the very definition of "breakthrough" as well as "star-making." The whole movie is wonderful, but Ruffalo is more than that--he's mind-blowing. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 2:30 pm |
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| I don't know why I found Ruffalo forgettable in You Can Count on Me......I'll have to watch it again........maybe it's because I find the actress who played his sister so magnetic. However, Ruffalo struck me like lightning in In the Cut. And I really enjoyed seeing Meg Ryan play against type. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 2:42 pm |
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Befade wrote: ...the actress who played his sister...
Another name check for Betsy.
It's the amazing Laura Linney. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 2:46 pm |
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Quote: Mark Ruffalo's performance in that movie is the very definition of "breakthrough" as well as "star-making." The whole movie is wonderful, but Ruffalo is more than that--he's mind-blowing.
Agree 100 percent. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 3:59 pm |
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Quote: Another name check for Betsy.
Thanks, Billy. Lately I'm thinking I need a sidekick device that will deliver the names to me that I can no longer reach by myself. |
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| knox |
| Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 4:06 pm |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_(2012_film)
Near the bottom is discussed Scientology officials "hitting the ceiling." Interesting how some religious sects just can't handle mockery, real or otherwise. Guess we can be glad that Scientologists don't generally carry grenade launchers.
Ruffalo is a great actor - in fact, I can't remember him in a weak performance, ever. And yes, he's mindblowing in YCCoM. Would define him as an actor of such calibre that I never think of hitting "pause," if watching a video scene with him, no matter how urgent the call of nature. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 4:14 pm |
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| Ruffalo is one of my favorite actors. Plus he's the kind of guy you just know would be cool to have as a friend. Socially conscious too--he's anti-fracking with a vengeance. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 4:29 pm |
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C'mon, it's fun to set your tapwater on fire!
The Scientology folk are nothing if not predictable. Like fundy Muslims. |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 1:24 am |
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I had the chance to see a press screening of Frankenweenie tonight and thought it was the best thing Burton has done in a long time. He seems to have reconnected to his Beetlemuse. His new flick is streamlined and fun, unlike the bloated hot water dogs he’s been serving up in recent years
Frankenweenie is a feature-length remake of a short movie Burton made back in 1984 and features the director’s signature touches: bug-eyed goth kids, allusions to horror movie classics (particularly those made by Universal Studios in the 1930s), a main character based on Vincent Price, the manicured emptiness of suburbia, childhood nightmares and alienation. And though the movie has a wicked sense of humor, it is one of the sweetest films Burton has made in awhile, calling forth the kinds of emotions that made Edward Scissorhands so exceptional.
Frankenweenie features spirited voice acting by Martin Short, Catherine O’Hara, Wynona Ryder, Martin Landau and a typically lush, haunted house score by Danny Elfman. The puppets, animation, sets and CGI blend into a phantasmagorical whole that feels more organic than most recent animated films - the world of Frankenweenie looks lived in, with lots of telling details that add to an overall feeling of authenticity and grittiness. And in keeping with its homage to the great films of James Whale and Tod Browning, Burton’s tale of a dead doggy brought back to life is in glorious black and white. The film is also in 3D, which seems almost required these days for family-style blockbusters. Burton doesn’t use the 3D for gimmicky effects. With exception of Hugo and Avatar, I haven’t been knocked out by the glut of recent 3D movies. But Burton uses it quite artfully to create an enhanced sense of shadow while letting the camera peek around objects in the foreground with the furtiveness of a curious and frightened child - sort of like peering through the fingers of your hand while covering your eyes at a horror movie. Perfect.
After a series of less than stellar films, Burton has returned to a place that he knows well and to the kind of storytelling he excels. His connection to the material is palpably joyous. There’s more honest laughs and feel good moments in Frankenweenie than in any Burton movie since Ed Wood. And the darker, edgier moments in the film keep it from being sentimental kiddie stuff. I found great pleasure in watching irritatingly cute animals transformed into little snarling blood-crazed zombies, particularly one repellent kitty who meets a fate that recalls that long ago encounter between Bambi and Godzilla. And a French poodle made to resemble Elsa Lanchester from Bride Of Frankenstein is pure genius and just one of a slew of visual gags that gives Frankenweenie more snap than a Coney Island hot dog. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 1:44 am |
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Ruffalo's one of those actors who's grown on me over the years, not that I've ever really disliked him. I liked him in 13 Going on 30 (where he was dominated by Jennifer Garner), and better in Zodiac, The Kids are All Right (a movie I don't care for), but I was really impressed by him in The Avengers, where he took a role I didn't think him suited for, which Edward Norton and Eric Norton couldn't pull off, and made it his own.
For me, You Can Count on Me is the movie that broke Laura Linney, but I'm more impressed by her later roles in movies like Kinsey and Love Actually. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 2:26 am |
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Marc wrote:
Frankenweenie is a feature-length remake of a short movie Burton made back in 1984 and features the director’s signature touches:
I'm glad you included that.
I was worried you were having a flashback at first.
And where are the flashbacks anyway? I'd love to relive some of those youthful acid trips.
Is this going to be a big release?
Hopefully it will turn up here before the end of the year. |
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