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| gromit |
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Has anyone seen:
Tomorrowland (Brad Bird) -- supposed to be mostly a misfire
Room
The Lobster
Jauja
Trumbo
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Fish and Cat
I'm curious about all of those. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 8:10 am |
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billyweeds wrote: marantzo wrote: Second to Casino Royale.
That's kinda what I was getting. Guess I'll have to see it.
I liked Casino Royale and Skyfall better, but the Bond Girl was great and usually smart. Was it my imagination, or did Bond kill a lot of innocent people in the scene in Mexico City? Remember, the streets were full of people celebrating the Day of the Dead. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 11:33 am |
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gromit wrote: Has anyone seen:
Trumbo
Hadn't heard of it, but given that "Johnny Got His Gun" was sorta my youthful initiation into indie/alt films and made a big impression on me, I will have to see it.
Knowing zero about the film, except the title, I will guess the action is primarily in the 50's McCarthy period, and that it's a good double feach with Bridge of Spies.
EDIT: God yes, I'm going to see a film about Dalton Trumbo with this cast: Bryan Cranston (in the title role), Diane Lane, Louis C.K., Elle Fanning, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg and Helen Mirren. Packing the car to drive to Denver now.... |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 12:50 pm |
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A few days ago I read an interesting article written by Dalton Trumbo in 1957, when the blacklist was beginning to ease up. It contained some minutiae of the day, but was interesting to read Trumbo's own words about the decade long witch hunts. It's a little long. Some of the stuff regarding Best Screenplay Oscars during the post-WWII era is quite amusing.
Here's the link: http://www.thenation.com/article/blacklistblackmarket/ |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 1:38 pm |
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| Mark Rylance is probably going to be a frontrunner for Best Supporting Actor this year. Haven't seen the movie, but Rylance is an international stage acting legend who hasn't yet broken through in film. |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 10:10 pm |
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gromit wrote: Has anyone seen:
Tomorrowland (Brad Bird) -- supposed to be mostly a misfire
Room
The Lobster
Jauja
Trumbo
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Fish and Cat
I'm curious about all of those.
gromit, my 10-Second review of "Room" is up in that forum, my thoughts on it in this forum are here:
http://www.thirdeyefilm.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=242586&highlight=#242586 |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 11:21 pm |
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| I liked Tomorrowland, especially Raffey Cassidy as Athena, but it's an uneven movie. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2015 7:06 am |
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If you've seen the 2002 Todd Haynes movie Far from Heaven, in which 1950s housewife Julianne Moore juggled two Dennises, the gay husband played by Quaid and the African-American handyman played by Haysbert, then you've already basically seen Carol, the new Haynes movie, likewise set in the 1950s and starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara as two women in love. Both films are sculpted within an inch of their lives, beautifully coiffed and dressed and designed, and repressed to the max. They're both interesting as works of art but not so hot as entertainment.
Blanchett is a great actor, but here she's too self-consciously restrained and I could see the actor at work in almost every frame, and Mara is just...there. Haynes also has a penchant for turning hunky males into stuffed shirts. In Far from Heaven it was Quaid and here it's the charismatic Kyle Chandler, so great in The Spectacular Now and The Wolf of Wall Street and the Netflix series Bloodline. Here, playing Blanchett's husband, Chandler sits on his emotions, and it doesn't pay off.
Incidentally, I lived through the 1950s and that misbegotten decade was never as gorgeous as it looks here. Television sitcoms like Father Knows Best nailed the tacky look and feel much more accurately IMO.
Don't get me wrong. This is not remotely a "bad movie." But it put me to sleep. |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2015 5:48 pm |
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| Was very much a "Far From Heaven" fan -- indeed, had Mrs. Gummer not missed out on a Racso nod for "The Hours" due to a submission snafu, she and La Belle Nosecole might well have cancelled each other out, leaving Julianne Moore,Please,Thank You to win the Bald Gold Man With A Sword her multivalent performance as Cathy Whittaker so richly deserved, and both the 'tography and Elmer Bernstein's score were astoundingly worthy -- so am pretty sure given that -- plus having loved "The Price of Salt" since college -- will at the very least admire "Carol." |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2015 7:23 am |
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| inla--My prediction is that you will love Carol. It's very much a Todd Haynes creation, and my admiration for Haynes is considerable. I admire but do not love--if that makes sense. I agree that Moore would have won the Oscar had Streep been nominated and had Kidman not applied that putty nose...and made a deal with the devil (Tom Cruise's management, but hey, that's only a rumor, right, yeah). |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2015 2:28 pm |
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Spotlight is as riveting as All the President's Men was 40 years ago. The cover-up of child molestation in the Boston Archdiocese was seemingly even more impenetrable than the cover-up of Watergate. Tom McCarthy directs with the same sure hand that we saw in The Station Master. Mark Ruffalo sinks himself in the role to such an extent that he is almost unrecognizable; perhaps partly because of that hair style.
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2015 3:58 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: inla--My prediction is that you will love Carol. It's very much a Todd Haynes creation, and my admiration for Haynes is considerable. I admire but do not love--if that makes sense. I agree that Moore would have won the Oscar had Streep been nominated and had Kidman not applied that putty nose...and made a deal with the devil (Tom Cruise's management, but hey, that's only a rumor, right, yeah).
willybeeds, it makes perfect sense -- it's ALL so subjective -- yeah, just a rumor, uh-huh -- and amid the general critical raptures for Carol, there's one particular thumbs-down that made your antipathy positively supportive by comparison, tee-hee:
http://www.out.com/armond-white/2015/11/19/carol-review-cate-blanchett-todd-haynes-make-lesbians-classy-and-dull |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2015 10:12 pm |
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Gromit.......I liked 99 Rooms.......basically a 2 actor film. Michael Shannon impressed me and I'd never seen him in anything before. Andrew Garfield played against type. It was a good close and intense reveal of the housing crisis in Florida featurilng a realtor buying up foreclosed houses and evicting the inhabitants.
I have also seen Truth and Steve Jobs. The Jobs movie was spellbinding and looked at a very specific aspect of his life. Keep Syrian immigrants out? Does everyone know that Steve Job's father was Syrian? Would you like the world better without Apple, Republicans? |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2015 10:42 pm |
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Befade wrote: The Jobs movie was spellbinding and looked at a very specific aspect of his life. Keep Syrian immigrants out? Does everyone know that Steve Job's father was Syrian? Would you like the world better without Apple, Republicans?
Good thing Jobs died before he finished carrying out his evil master plan--or is it still in progress...? |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2015 4:54 pm |
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| Has anyone seen Beasts of No Nations? Am torn on whether to stream it or not. |
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