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| bartist |
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Buzz is strong, from Toronto, for Gravity.
Still smarting from all the nonsensicals in Oblivion. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 10:53 am |
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| Huge word out of TFF for 12 Years a Slave. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 12:47 pm |
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| Yup. Huge word from TIFF, generally, for the fall movie season. (I have a friend in Toronto who corrects me on the acronym, too - they like to stress that it's international) And we finally gets to meet Llewyn. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 6:35 pm |
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Apparently, the performance from Chiwetel Ejiofor, a definite favourite of mine, in 12 Years A Slave ticks all the Oscar boxes (which I didn't mean in a disparaging way). Also featuring Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Fassbinder and Brad Pitt, the film has a strong cast.
To-date, Steve McQueen's fims have tended to concentrate on mood rather than plot. With a strong narrative to give the film backbone, this could be his moment to shine.
I can't make up my mind about Benedict Cumberbatch. I think he's good, but maybe his singular presence and looks can be distracting. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 7:56 pm |
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| The preview of 12 Years a Slave was very good. It looks better than the Nelson Mandela preview that also showed before The Butler. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 8:14 pm |
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| I'm very annoyed with Cumberbatch. The last brief season of "Sherlock" ended with him apparently dead, and he doesn't seem to have managed to stop working on films long enough to come back to life. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 9:08 pm |
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carrobin wrote: I'm very annoyed with Cumberbatch. The last brief season of "Sherlock" ended with him apparently dead, and he doesn't seem to have managed to stop working on films long enough to come back to life.
Well, they've filmed season 3, now we just have wait. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 7:11 pm |
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Wow, even Peter Travers panned "The Family." Must be dreadful. Just the notion of Luc Besson doing Mafioso comedy made me wary.
Good news, though - The Spectacular Now has achieved wide release and rolls into Podunk tomorrow! |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 8:17 pm |
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| When Travers pans, it's a good sign. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 6:54 am |
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bartist wrote:
Good news, though - The Spectacular Now has achieved wide release and rolls into Podunk tomorrow!
Good news indeed. Still my favorite flick of 2013. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 12:23 pm |
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This film passed through a timewarp? or just Distribution Hell?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Nobody_(film)#Release
Opening in two weeks in U.S. First shown at TIFF in Sept. 2009.
Jared Leto goes Jack Crabbe on the makeup. Sounds like the kind of thoughtful science fiction indie that shows up every couple years if we're lucky. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 1:48 pm |
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bartist wrote: This film passed through a timewarp? or just Distribution Hell?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Nobody_(film)#Release
Opening in two weeks in U.S. First shown at TIFF in Sept. 2009.
Jared Leto goes Jack Crabbe on the makeup. Sounds like the kind of thoughtful science fiction indie that shows up every couple years if we're lucky.
Sounds like an attempt to cash in on the amazing buzz for Leto's performance in the upcoming Dallas Buyers Club, in which Matthew McIstillcantspellit is getting even better response than Jared. The movie sounds thrilling. |
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| knox |
| Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 5:08 pm |
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Yeah, Mr. Nobody sounds like a coattails release. Well, any way they can get decent sci-fic. to a theater. Even if it takes four years.
And yes, I'm in line for DBC, because both Leto and McConaughey are the sort of actors you simply cannot not watch.
The Spectacular Now didn't initially appeal to me, but the raves (including from Mr. Billy) are so resounding that I am surrendering to the wisdom of the crowd. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 2:19 am |
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Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell is a documentary that becomes sort of a family art project. Polley discovers a hidden family secret, and then interviews everyone about it. But not content with talking heads and the nature of the revelation, she adds herself and her questioning into the film, and then adds some extra layers. Interestingly, she has her father, an old actor, narrate most of the events/film, including some that must have been a bit uncomfortable for him. Then has some actors reenact moments of her mother's life and affair, and grunges up those scenes to make them look like period 70's home movies.
I'm not really a fan of docs which place the filmmaker's quest to film the material and create the film front and center. Indeed, the Dvd for Stories We Tell had a trailer for The Cove, which in my O was a pretty damned annoying instance of letting the quest to make the film dominate and overwhelm the actual material the film seeks to convey.
I thought this was good in parts, but largely self-indulgent, and getting caught up in its own art concepts, ignores giving us some basic factual information. When did Mom die? From what? When did these briefly mentioned divorces occur -- were they really tightly clustered after the revelation came out (which was when?) as the one daughter suggests.
I find it frustrating when docs give you more of a feeling of what it's likes to be there but skip some basic factual info, which can help evaluate and understand the situation.
I found it amusing that everyone's main reaction to the revelation was Damn, I need to write a story/make a film about it. Overall, I kind of agreed with the one daughter (Sarah's sister), when she asks why anyone would care about their little family drama. I found it a bit of a yawn when Polley tries to make it into a big issue of Secrets and Truth and Art.
Not a bad film and I suspect some will be more tolerant/forgiving of this me-me-me approach to documentary filmmaking. |
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| Syd |
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| Sounds like an odd little film. Polley's a talented director, and I have a crush on her, so I'll probably see it at some point. |
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