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| bartist |
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| As Mia W fan, can't hardly wait for her Bovary |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:15 am |
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gromit wrote: 10 movies soon to be released based on books.
Most are books from the last 10 years, with the exception of two 19th C classics -- Madame Bovary and Far From the Madding Crowd.
As always, interesting to hear what changes were made -- such as the one shifted from Baltimore to Brooklyn. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 11:10 am |
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bartist wrote: gromit wrote: 10 movies soon to be released based on books.
Most are books from the last 10 years, with the exception of two 19th C classics -- Madame Bovary and Far From the Madding Crowd.
As always, interesting to hear what changes were made -- such as the one shifted from Baltimore to Brooklyn.
There's a French film about Madame Bovary, Gemma Bovary that's coming out in the States this summer, but that's more a riff on the original. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 1:41 pm |
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The Shanghai Film Festival was going this week.
Mostly a bad week for it, as we had 3 straight days of heavy rain M-W.
Mon and Tues it was pretty torrential rain which would ease up and then deluge again. I had trouble finding any pauses to feed my 7 garden cats.
I still have a three days left to see something.
Sat night there is a late showing of Ex Machina, but since it's at the main venue, it might already be sold out (?) That might be good to see on a big screen.
There wasn't much I was really interested in:
They Chased Me Through Arizona. Oddly a Swiss/Polish film, about a worker dismantling phone booths in the American SW with some other guy tagging along.
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Roy Anderson's slow deadpan, ironic films are interesting, but only half-effective for me. I wasn't too enamoured that this was really three short films linked in theme. He's gone that route before, but it often seems like lazy filmmaking to me.
The Man Who Defended Gavril Princip
I hope this courtroom drama is smart enough to open with a depiction of the assassination itself. I've mentioned before how bungled it was. There were 4 teams spread along the route, two men in each, one with a pistol one with a bomb. The 1st team lost their nerve. The second team tossed a bomb which fell off the back of the archduke's car and exploded under the car behind. The bomb thrower takes a cyanide pill, which only makes him sick, and jumps into the river intending to drown, but it's only a few inches deep.
The car sped off, and they decide to go to the hospital before the ceremony, so the driver misses the turn. Backs up around the bend and stalls trying to go forward across the Latin Bridge. Princip in the 3rd team assumes it's a big cockup, goes into a cafe on a corner to blend in, turns around after a bit and sees the archduke's big car backing right up outside the cafe. Steps on to the sidewalk and plugs the archduke and his wife at close range.
All that would make a great 20-30 minute opening before getting to the trial. Reportedly under Tito, "Princip's" footprints in cement were displayed on the sidewalk where he did the shooting. He was hailed as a nationalist hero.
The two other interesting possibilities:
Piccadilly, a 1929 Anna Mae Wong film. Didn't sound that great really, and I've already missed the only screening.
The Undesirable a 1914 Hungarian film, directed by Michael Curtiz. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 2:15 am |
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You're Sleeping, Nicole (Tu dors Nicole) a 2014 Canadian drama film directed by Stéphane Lafleur.
Sounds interesting. Tries to capture the feel and sounds of Summer when you're a teen growing up. This might have already passed through NYC this/last month. Maybe something to stream. Not sure i'll ever find it here ... |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 5:32 am |
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It will be very interesting to see how popular Inside Out is with kids. The movie has received far and away the best reviews of the year, and seems poised to be the first animated feature to be in really serious contention for Best Picture rather than Best Animated Feature. But my suspicion is that audiences are not going to respond with the same enthusiasm.
The movie is wonderful in many ways, delving into psychological areas that are rarely touched by movies at all, let alone animated ones. The two major characters are two emotions playing out inside the mind of an 11-year-old girl. The two emotions are Joy and Sadness, who with their more comic supporting emotions Anger, Fear, and Disgust are sometimes in agreement and sometimes warring for control. Joy is the team leader and she wants to keep everything happy happy happy, but over the course of the movie realizes it's not only impossible but also unconstructive to keep everything in a constant state of ecstasy.
Along the way there are the patented Pixar chases, wordplay, and slapstick interactions, as well as tender and/or painful scenes with the little girl and her parents, and occasional forays into other people's emotions. (Each one of us, it seems, has these five characters inside us.)
When it's not pandering to the kid demographic, it's very sophisticated and thoughtful, and I fear too much so for the attention span of children. Hey, once in a while it even confused this college graduate and his retired-social-worker wife. (How does one completely lose a "core memory"?) On the whole, I'm glad I saw it, but Pixar-wise I still prefer Toy Story 2. (There's a character in Inside Out which is pretty much cribbed from TS2 btw.) |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 12:48 pm |
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While I probably won't see "Jurassic World," the current New Yorker review of it is intriguing. The genetically modified super-dinosaur is described thusly:
"We know that she is part Tyrannosaurus rex, but the rest of her DNA is classified. My best guess, having seen the movie, is that she is six per cent chameleon, three per cent Tasmanian devil, and one per cent Joan Crawford."
Sounds like an Oscar contender to me. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 2:07 pm |
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"...one percent Joan Crawford." Like many one per centers.
And the U.S. is getting a pair of Bovaries, it appears. Since one of them is a French riff, and they seem nearly simultaneous, I guess the Rule of Two doesn't apply. |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 2:43 pm |
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Inside Out does seem to be doing well with kids. I was a little apprehensive when I saw the previews but I really liked it. There are some really lovely scenes (the opening and climax, for example), some haunting (the removal of long-term memories to the abyss, some madly creative (abstract thought), and many poignant. It looks like it's turning into a major hit without debuting at #1 on the box office charts (close behind Jurassic World).
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| Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2015 5:51 pm |
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I went to a movie this afternoon. I was going to see Inside Out or Spy. I decided to see Spy and I would see Inside Out next Tuesday. I thought I would like Spy and was sure I'd like Inside Out.
Well, I more than liked Spy, I loved it! All the main actors were very good, but Melissa McCarthy carried the movie and she was terrific. The film was full of action and humour. I laughed all the way. And as usual I watched all the stuff after the end of the movie. It was also great stuff to watch.
Has anyone here seen the flick? If not, go and see it.
(Everyone in the theatre were laughing.) |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2015 5:59 pm |
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marantzo wrote:
Has anyone here seen the flick?
See previous page. |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2015 6:27 pm |
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Ghulam wrote: Raves on Spy may be justified. It provides about as many laughs as a good Pink Panther movie.
Ghulam, you and I have the same happy feeling about Spy.
Thanks for telling me to check the previous page, Syd. |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 5:34 am |
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| I've often said that my two favorite living male "movie stars" are Michael Keaton and Mark Ruffalo. Well, today, Ruffalo has to take top spot due to his charismatic and quite astonishing portrayal of a manic-depressive father in Infinitely Polar Bear, the autobiographical first film by Maya Forbes. Ruffalo is by turns hilarious, scary, and lovable--sometimes all at the same time. It's a mind-blowing turn, and Ruffalo is supported brilliantly by the amazing Zoe Saldana as the mother of his two daughters, the older of whom (the fictionalized version of writer-director Forbes) is played by the daughter of Forbes herself. Got that straight? No matter. Just see the movie. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 9:03 am |
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| There's an article about the "Infinitely Polar Bear" family in the current New Yorker magazine. Very interesting folks. |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2015 9:09 am |
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The biography of Brian Wilson titled Love & Mercy is a near-great, certifiably excellent film, directed by Bill Pohlad with insight, humor, and soul. As the mind and major creative force behind the amazing Beach Boys, Wilson is a musical genius, but to call his life troubled is to understate the case. Beginning with a sadistic, twisted father and coninuing with a sadistic, twisted psychiatrist, Wilson was surrounded by toxic influences almost constantly, but the fact that he came out of it alive and still functioning as a musician makes for an inspirational story. That it's never framed as a traditional "feel-good" film just makes it all that more genuinely optimistic.
Paul Dano and John Cusack play Wilson at various times of his life, and though they look completely different from each other, both capture Wilson perfectly. As the evil shrink, Paul Giamatti is slimy and disgusting, and as the woman in Wilson's life Elizabeth Banks is marvelously understated and thoroughly real. The movie is a genuins must-see for anyone, and for a Beach Boys fanatic like me, it's the holy grail. |
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