tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44220165868424755922024-02-19T13:26:36.216-08:00Resident Film SnobIf you're here to see how many stars or thumbs I'm going to give the latest release, you're on the wrong page, my friend.
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Just ask.Film Snobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18301049932656054590noreply@blogger.comBlogger126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422016586842475592.post-27802265643310553452012-10-28T05:46:00.001-07:002012-10-28T05:46:55.919-07:00“Killer Joe” – William Friedkin (2012)<link href="file:///C:%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1J_Ot0dA7PuNsHDycfWOSS6P9tKSWMMTrwQG41rJwFjx43ESwI8dkocQpEEu8f8j46aY4BOd1aNBb4-ImHgANY1wMl01PjrPKMMB9mCwhXb17XB5ZA0Dv2otfqUejjBPdrW0aUWPd3eak/s1600/killer+joe+blog+poster.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1J_Ot0dA7PuNsHDycfWOSS6P9tKSWMMTrwQG41rJwFjx43ESwI8dkocQpEEu8f8j46aY4BOd1aNBb4-ImHgANY1wMl01PjrPKMMB9mCwhXb17XB5ZA0Dv2otfqUejjBPdrW0aUWPd3eak/s200/killer+joe+blog+poster.jpeg" width="200" /></a><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">It is my
sad duty to inform you that "Killer Joe" does not mark filmmaker
William Friedkin's return to his former glory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2006's underrated "Bug" notwithstanding, Friedkin hasn't
done much worth our attention since "The French Connection" and
"The Exorcist."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The director has floundered in mediocrity since the '70s, even
making some flat-out bad films like "Jade" and "Rules of
Engagement."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Killer Joe"
focuses on the Smith family.<span> </span>When Chris
gets himself in trouble with more debt than he can handle, the Smiths decide to
hire a hit man to kill his mother so they can split her insurance money.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Enter the title
character, a menacing cop who kills people on the side.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The problem is the
Smiths can't pay Joe up front, so they work out a deal.<span> </span>Joe gets full use of Dottie, the baby of the
family, as a kind of retainer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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terribly wrong, but we don't really seem to care about the troubles heaped onto
the Smiths.<span> </span>Each of them is so detestable
they frankly deserve to have Joe in their lives.<span> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The family's misfortunes are more than
warranted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I’m by no means someone
who needs likable characters to enjoy a film, but try as it might, “Killer Joe”
is no “Blue Velvet.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYoPs-zzoR99EZqLIjAOLaPDJjtssPF3HNs65a3HiPCEGBXiQRvBfzHjeiRbCrVK_99PDY0i_eE2LXr3D6MRSkLVHZaQ3HR0mXTtFIvAMNxozxgA01xrtWPXRGAjIdxwmytteXZmQFbVVr/s1600/frankbooth-bluevelvet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYoPs-zzoR99EZqLIjAOLaPDJjtssPF3HNs65a3HiPCEGBXiQRvBfzHjeiRbCrVK_99PDY0i_eE2LXr3D6MRSkLVHZaQ3HR0mXTtFIvAMNxozxgA01xrtWPXRGAjIdxwmytteXZmQFbVVr/s200/frankbooth-bluevelvet.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">There is one scene
involving a piece of chicken and a battered Gina Gershon that brings to mind
Dennis Hopper’s “MOMMY!” scene in “Blue Velvet.”<span> </span>But Joe is no Frank Booth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Frank was nightmarish and
creepy, where Joe is unsettling at best. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ZDhDCvKpWno8h694tWBPpCwYfq6t3yjqDeTzPVqLKnNehrM6TPTqaB3Svszw42VX8uwaVVzRxW63FyMj0EvaL9Hb6oaTgAiiQW5E5kYplDHHyYpxPKjsyrUfCeIVXfOBp5VxYjbH9Fix/s1600/marc_macaulay.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ZDhDCvKpWno8h694tWBPpCwYfq6t3yjqDeTzPVqLKnNehrM6TPTqaB3Svszw42VX8uwaVVzRxW63FyMj0EvaL9Hb6oaTgAiiQW5E5kYplDHHyYpxPKjsyrUfCeIVXfOBp5VxYjbH9Fix/s200/marc_macaulay.jpg" width="136" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">Actually, the film's
most menacing moments don't feature Joe at all, but Chris's debtor, Digger,
played by character actor Marc Macaulay.<span>
</span>He only has one scene, but Macaulay delivers the film's best
performance.<span> </span>Frankly, I wanted to see
more of Digger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are some
melodramatic moments in the film, but not enough to sustain the thriller
throughout.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The bottom line is, while "Killer
Joe" is bold and at times tense, but it just isn't very good.</span></span></div>
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Plums" is Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's follow-up to their 2007
animated masterpiece, "Persepolis."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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possible ways he could kill himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Each method is
distasteful, so he crawls into bed to wait for death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And that's where the
adventure begins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As Nasser-Ali lies in
bed, willing himself to die, he reflects on his life.<span> </span>The film is primarily a series of flashbacks
showing how he came to this sorry state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We see how he became a
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focus on gorgeous visuals at the expense of its theme and characters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">"Chicken With
Plums" is not one of them.<span> </span>There is
plenty beneath the surface.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Film Snobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18301049932656054590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422016586842475592.post-69785111762011500142012-10-18T13:34:00.000-07:002012-10-18T13:34:52.957-07:00Featurette about "Cloud Atlas"<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's a sci-fi drama that deals with how one's actions in a past life can impact future incarnations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's a featurette about the making of the film.</span></div>
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<br />Film Snobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18301049932656054590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422016586842475592.post-47727353874643724002012-10-14T17:41:00.000-07:002012-10-14T17:41:10.168-07:00Essay by Independent Filmmaker Jason Stogsdill about "The Everyday Adventures of Lane & Russell"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jason Stogsdill is an independent filmmaker working on a comedy called "The Everyday Adventures of Lane & Russell."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The film is expected to be released by the end of 2013. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've watched the trailer and it actually looks quite funny.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It was
really fun how we came up with the characters Lane and Russell. It was way back in 2000 when one night, my
friend and co-creator, Chris Stephens thought of doing an improv. So, we had another friend grab a camera and
shoot us. After doing a little skit, we
checked out what we came up with and we were stunned. It was hilarious!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on, we decided to participate in the University’s film festival. We weren’t really sure how the short film
would come out. We were amateurs and it was our first time to do something like
that. The film was rough and we weren’t
sure people would like it, but to our amazement, they did! We even won the Best Narrative and people
gave us a standing ovation. Ever since
then, we dreamt of producing a theatrical quality short film about Lane and
Russell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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only in 2008 that we finally got down to business, pulled up our sleeves and started
writing a script for the film. We began
to call up people, gathering a group of amazing artists, actors and
technicians. We started working with
various talented artists on concept art, costume design and concept
photography. We also spent a lot of time
looking for the perfect filming locations.
At the end of 2010, we were able to finish about 30 percent of the
film. We had a long way to go to finish
the film, but we didn’t have enough budget.
Unfortunately, budget has always been the problem for us indie
filmmakers. This is probably something
that other indie filmmakers can relate to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we began thinking of various ways to raise the money for the film, so we
decided to start a Kickstarter campaign, hoping that if it is successful, we’d
be able to raise enough money to finally finish our short film, The Everyday
Adventures of Lane and Russell. We are
hoping that with the support of friends, relatives and people who believe in
what we do, we will be able to finish the short film.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to admit that I am a little biased about these characters but I think people
will love them. Well, people will
probably hate Lane. He’s an egotistical
borderline sociopath who constantly abuses Russell, but I think people will
love Russell. Curiously enough, despite
Russell’s lack of social skills, he seems to get along well with everyone. It’s his heart – he has a huge kind
heart. I believe in this film. I believe in friendship, loyalty and humor,
lots of it, and this is what the film is all about. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: large;"><o:p>To see more about "The Everyday Adventures of Lane & Russell," check out <a href="http://laneandrussell.com/">laneandrussell.com</a></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">NEW YORK (AP) -- Netflix's highly anticipated original series "House of Cards" will premiere Feb. 1.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The remake of the classic British miniseries stars Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright. It's produced by David Fincher, who directed the first two episodes. Spacey plays a ruthless, strategizing House majority whip.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All 13 episodes will be immediately available to Netflix members in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Latin America and Scandinavia.<br /> </span></div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">The show's second season will begin production next year.</span><br />Film Snobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18301049932656054590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422016586842475592.post-15728356418691886822012-10-07T05:49:00.000-07:002012-10-07T05:49:31.790-07:00The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chobsky (2012)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Charlie is a freshman in high school who doesn't have a friend to his name until he meets Patrick and Sam, a pair of outsider seniors.</span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlU2yOn0YHzAdPKNwfFjIMJzKDNWU4Z5IBCJCsZt5Hh8lDe45yNjzF4z97dAUjIy7GHpmk-4-5A95Y3V669sDujpixB31KYqUcvgll7WYrPugSfpw5lW5QED8KMb_a1BArwH5Q_4XQ5NVn/s1600/emma-watson-perks-of-being-a-wallflower-trailer-watch-now.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlU2yOn0YHzAdPKNwfFjIMJzKDNWU4Z5IBCJCsZt5Hh8lDe45yNjzF4z97dAUjIy7GHpmk-4-5A95Y3V669sDujpixB31KYqUcvgll7WYrPugSfpw5lW5QED8KMb_a1BArwH5Q_4XQ5NVn/s200/emma-watson-perks-of-being-a-wallflower-trailer-watch-now.jpg" width="200" /></a><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Charlie inevitably develops feelings for Sam, but it's more than a high school crush. Their relationship develops slowly and it's treated delicately, with the respect it deserves. The two of them open up to each other over the course of the film with trust and in good faith.</span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioIWlTbyx0-IN6367ABXcKxd0nRqhMpHdGhL-aAa8By1aw_VKOu4Oi8kxftmB1kiB5uq1mjnZpYLsubOyTnniEk2de6636sFN_gprVl2xbSTlOiB38meNrje4kbpBJkZzkK2Xc-XvibJRb/s1600/Perks-of-Being-A-Wallflower-Logan-Lerman-Emma-Watson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioIWlTbyx0-IN6367ABXcKxd0nRqhMpHdGhL-aAa8By1aw_VKOu4Oi8kxftmB1kiB5uq1mjnZpYLsubOyTnniEk2de6636sFN_gprVl2xbSTlOiB38meNrje4kbpBJkZzkK2Xc-XvibJRb/s200/Perks-of-Being-A-Wallflower-Logan-Lerman-Emma-Watson.jpg" width="200" /></a><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Charlie, Patrick and Sam are all damaged goods, and that's why they fit together so well. Traditionally, in films like this, the focus is on how much kids like this need to be accepted. What makes "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" so special is these characters aren't just ready to receive love, they're capable of giving it as well.</span></span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The film works so well because while it focuses on teen angst, it demonstrates, without any cynicism, how it's not just a source of pain, but a force that drives these kids.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mostly, it shows how the people who love you can make you brave. Admittedly, that sounds cheesy as hell, but when you're watching this film, it feels like a lovely sentiment.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr7p7ph4lwCcpzxBrXePM27DmXMkQO5lHsMzBf_UGmiShhurg0YgriT5MkHPkyDspMnyYk_5qZHJN_t1sp1hswYigb1mrInJFNXlVT93A9SAHJz1GUoOAPNr4r26B9SjSMqFKncGwN0SZj/s1600/logan-lerman-the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr7p7ph4lwCcpzxBrXePM27DmXMkQO5lHsMzBf_UGmiShhurg0YgriT5MkHPkyDspMnyYk_5qZHJN_t1sp1hswYigb1mrInJFNXlVT93A9SAHJz1GUoOAPNr4r26B9SjSMqFKncGwN0SZj/s200/logan-lerman-the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But I think what I love most about "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" is the way it truly understands broken people. If someone is sad, they genuinely don't have the capacity to feel better. And "Perks" accepts people like that on their face without trying to change them.</span></span>Film Snobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18301049932656054590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422016586842475592.post-7158549895058258192012-09-30T04:40:00.001-07:002012-09-30T04:40:39.864-07:00"Looper" - Rian Johnson (2012)<br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">"Looper" reunites Levitt with director Rian Johnson, who collaborated on the sensitive but brutal high-school gumshoe film, "Brick," and this film has a similar, decidedly indie feel.<br /><br />"Looper" is the best mainstream science fiction film since 1998's "Dark City."<br /><br />It's brually violent and features a complicated, sordid and conflicted anti-hero.</span>Film Snobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18301049932656054590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422016586842475592.post-56120602710090870912012-09-26T14:13:00.000-07:002012-09-26T14:13:07.038-07:00"Looper" Featurette<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rian Johnson's "Looper" reunites the director with Joseph Gordon Levitt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“Compliance” clearly wants to be either a rigid
psychological thriller or a profound statement on sexual sadism. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It is neither.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The film takes place mostly in the backroom of a
fast food restaurant as a prank phone call, over the course of a few hours,
leads to a rape.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">But Craig Zobel’s screenplay, based on a true story,
can’t keep up with its concept.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It starts with a great deal of promise as the
tension starts to build, but the focus shifts quickly from the victimization of
Becky, our protagonist to absolute wonder over the stupidity of the characters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">As the employees continue to believe the caller, who
claims to be a policeman demanding a strip-search of a young girl, it’s
impossible to believe none of them would question the caller’s credibility.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The film makes the case that at least some of the
workers have been duped and are victims, just like Becky and that’s a
conclusion I found strikingly offensive.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiftLRK-E7P8vwLpuFwFlOMkpfEQKK-O5i5ZdY0TEak8-mFxHJ7OT_BAUijNNudpf3S_9tJX5TTTuC0G7gzt8ckNGVVkKWaTMqViakMDgTowSsi9buFOBuXPNr2oVBtj_fX55XSrshVbMnl/s1600/Sandra.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiftLRK-E7P8vwLpuFwFlOMkpfEQKK-O5i5ZdY0TEak8-mFxHJ7OT_BAUijNNudpf3S_9tJX5TTTuC0G7gzt8ckNGVVkKWaTMqViakMDgTowSsi9buFOBuXPNr2oVBtj_fX55XSrshVbMnl/s200/Sandra.jpg" width="200" /></a></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The employees are complicit in the crime, not only
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Kevin and Marti, who seem to know something is wrong but don’t help their
friend.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The concept “Compliance” is based on is interesting
and should have produced a thought provoking film.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> As a skeptic of PG-13 horror films, I doubt it, but hell, I'll see it and keep an open mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"The Cabin in the Woods" is a simultaneously funny and scary horror film that comes out on blu-ray and DVD later this month.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Tension between city folk and hillbillies is just one of the fun elements of "The Cabin in the Woods."</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL-F_vlC_InXPbYTeUj5w7QxDB-RGGNpBzkWTES5rp0OxKQnNNkFx9o-w-wTgcvhx47sMpdQ_8lSJMc_YguwrUskDkdwZMoiAJiv61Y_NK7lzbdBvFrkU6H5d9AzllVQsplCOYNs7D-Rdr/s1600/Cabin-in-the-Woods3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL-F_vlC_InXPbYTeUj5w7QxDB-RGGNpBzkWTES5rp0OxKQnNNkFx9o-w-wTgcvhx47sMpdQ_8lSJMc_YguwrUskDkdwZMoiAJiv61Y_NK7lzbdBvFrkU6H5d9AzllVQsplCOYNs7D-Rdr/s200/Cabin-in-the-Woods3.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The story is very familiar. We follow a group of young people on a retreat into the woods where death and dismemberment awaits them.</span></span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The twist is the entire scenario is being controlled by a bunch of people in a lab.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja08LMhuoDfepB392JZU9TYnh22SO2XwR82-9TjtYcF4-gO-Vn4kvrW7NsMIxsLCuWJ7Rw0B_2Ej53jgcNbKAH48QTdby4hDwDyUp8aDrXLeTd8vJcz3vO-uZqJ1hJbD9dom9J9dCmklTp/s1600/120406-cabin-in-the-woods.380;380;7;70;0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja08LMhuoDfepB392JZU9TYnh22SO2XwR82-9TjtYcF4-gO-Vn4kvrW7NsMIxsLCuWJ7Rw0B_2Ej53jgcNbKAH48QTdby4hDwDyUp8aDrXLeTd8vJcz3vO-uZqJ1hJbD9dom9J9dCmklTp/s200/120406-cabin-in-the-woods.380;380;7;70;0.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford play the puppet masters who crack jokes like a sadistic Waldorf and Statler.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Seeing "The Cabin in the Woods" is the most fun I've had watching a movie in a very long time.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">After years of a disturbing uptick in PG-13 horror movies, the horrific violence, profanity, nudity and sex in the film is more than welcome.</span></span>Film Snobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18301049932656054590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422016586842475592.post-11239643657346740582012-09-01T06:23:00.001-07:002012-09-01T06:23:03.876-07:00In 'Lawless,' Nick Cave crafts a new murder ballad<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1lIzXCwsRT6xlvMEjpRzJWSHSxWXPZLpJrRvPdlxh02bUj1LfGhRDzm2kOSc1sj6k7TT5xZZj4tYAJqo3XGxIHspIqj8-Xr99skqB3TobXKVPAZWDe83FNahVF8IwChyZDuPGjGkQOWH2/s1600/Nick-Cave-010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1lIzXCwsRT6xlvMEjpRzJWSHSxWXPZLpJrRvPdlxh02bUj1LfGhRDzm2kOSc1sj6k7TT5xZZj4tYAJqo3XGxIHspIqj8-Xr99skqB3TobXKVPAZWDe83FNahVF8IwChyZDuPGjGkQOWH2/s320/Nick-Cave-010.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">CANNES, France (AP) -- Writing the Prohibition-era bootlegger crime film "Lawless" -- his second realized script and largest movie production yet -- taught Australian songwriter Nick Cave certain foundational lessons of Hollywood moviemaking.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> "I learned that it's a waste of time to graphically kill animals in scripts," Cave says, laughing. "It's going to hit the cutting room floor."</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> The education and development of Nick Cave, screenwriter, continues with "Lawless," a tale of three bootlegging brothers (Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Jason Clarke) in rural 1920s Virginia. In adapting Matt Bondurant's novel, Cave was predictably moved to include scenes from the book of a pig's slaughter and a dead calf's birth, but had to settle for gangster gunplay and an ominous atmosphere alive with the constant threat of sudden brutality.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> The film marks Cave's continuing dalliance with screenwriting, "an extracurricular" activity, he calls it, along with novel and poetry writing. That's in addition to his "No. 1 job" as a musician and frontman of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and the currently dormant Grinderman.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> "I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever," says Cave, who also wrote the 2005 Australian outback Western, "The Proposition." "I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable. But as soon as that's gone and I understand the process, I don't think I'll have much interest in writing scripts at all."</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Violence has been a rich vein for Cave since he emerged in the 1980s with the London-based punk outfit The Birthday Party. As a theatrical lyricist of spare fables, his gothic songs of death and mean men with a "red right hand" have often carried a murderous gravity and narrative bent.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Like the bloody "Proposition," "Lawless" is another kind of murder ballad for Cave, one populated with colorful characters compelled by primal urges.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> "I don't know where that comes from except that it's a particular talent I have to write about that stuff," says Cave, a native of rural Victoria who now lives in Brighton, England, with his wife and twin sons. "Whether that's from being a country boy walking around the ranges with a shotgun as a child and all that sort of stuff, but that was very much what my childhood was like."</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Cave spoke in an interview first in May at the Cannes Film Festival, where "Lawless" competed for the Palm d'Or, and again by phone from Los Angeles, where he's recently recorded a new album with the Bad Seeds.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Erudite and droll, Cave, the son of an English teacher and librarian, is an engaging subject whose dry wit captivated Cannes more than the star power of the film's cast, which also includes Guy Pearce and Jessica Chastain.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> LaBeouf attached himself to the script early on and stuck with the project through delays due to financing. He remained with it because of Cave's screenplay and the prospect of working with director John Hillcoat, a friend of Cave's who also directed "The Proposition."</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> "When a man says to you, `I'm planning on making "Goodfellas" in the woods,' it's really hard to get away from that idea," says LaBeouf.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Cave says that the larger size of "Lawless," which the Weinstein Co. is releasing in theaters Friday, "opened my eyes to how film is made," referring to the necessary compromising of a project with many interested parties.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> But screenwriting remains a fascinating process for Cave, who says it comes far more natural to him than songwriting. Despite the 54-year-old's decades in music, he calls songwriting torturous.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> "Songwriting is something where I have to go into a room on my own and battle it out and squeeze out these songs," says Cave. "It's like giving birth out of the tiniest of apertures. It's painful and it's kind of bloody, whereas writing scripts, I feel like a little boy."</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> When Cave writes a script, he simultaneously is considering the score. For "Lawless," he wanted to avoid the Americana route, wary of competing with T-Bone Burnett's "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack. Instead, he and Bad Seeds violinist Warren Ellis went for a "raw, punky feel."</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> The score is thus full of countrified versions of more recent rock songs not typically done that way, most notably bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley singing the Velvet Underground tune "White Light/White Heat." Cave believes the song, which is about methamphetamine use, connects the film's criticism of Prohibition with contemporary anti-drug policy.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Though Cave now finds himself an in-demand screenwriter, he says it reenergizes him for his "bread and butter" occupation.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> "Screenwriting is something I use to help keep the process of songwriting alive," he says. "If that's all I was doing, I would have dried up or gone into a real decline years ago with songwriting. I'm always coming back to songwriting. In fact, I'm always running back to songwriting screaming."</span></span>Film Snobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18301049932656054590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422016586842475592.post-71218390501683359542012-08-26T02:16:00.000-07:002012-08-26T02:16:06.475-07:00"Lawless" - John Hillcoat (2012)<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">The film once again teams up Hillcoat and murder-music legend turned screenwriter Nick Cave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The story centers around three bootlegging brothers, Jack, Forest and Howard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Guy Pearce, who played the quietly ferocious Charlie Burns in Hillcoat's violent 2005 masterpiece, "The Proposition," shows up as Special Agent Charlie Rakes, the intensely creepy, sadistic dandy of a lawman intent on putting the Bondurants out of business.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The violence in "Lawless" is glorious, as it should be. The film is screaming and subdued at the same time, an unlikely mix that's become Hillcoat's haunting trademark.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If "The Road" and "The Proposition" weren't enough for Hillcoat to make his mark, "Lawless" goes a step further in establishing Hillcoat as one of the most important directors working today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"> Julie Delpy channels Woody Allen with "2 Days in New York and she does it quite well.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">She also draws from filmmakers like Eric Rohmer.<br /><br />But it would be misleading to say "2 Days in New York" is derivative.</span><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwCk5B1VMMFng6kptGe922zkQcvw6I46dCqG_ZG8_KE0g4bIZW405FP2db0uPRceY8S6Ea7z6ZYf1ZQ5-tfMA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">The film is her follow up to her 2007 film, "2 Days in Paris."<br /><br />The film follows Marion, played by Delpy and her boyfriend, Mingus, played by Chris Rock.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijRRs3GNTFxRvieWUjSi2ydJGtmW10oIMzmRkHN_st3OaOdrlZVZH9U5odxGH1x9UsU05dyB9lqbWPd_oIEgiK7UJ1hoP8bDm52OHsDqqU5nrLwg1d-wuQWbkDB4UQZDOYxIQWfQxG2qxF/s1600/Delpy+&+rock.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">Rock gives an admirably understated performance as Mingus, who serves as Marion's confidant before becoming her lover.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">Marion falls for Mingus shortly after her marriage disintegrates and, unlike her romance in "2 Days in Paris," we can actually see the attraction here.<br /><br />Mingus is supportive and loving without the condescension we've seen from Marion's past lovers.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ccpgnFp6A5sRXNxmndZ2Rb4LX7NrpoWJjVa5NxMmFky4XDH4rOuBgMrvd-Nen1Bj_DklXGiTVJYNJo9l26TfkrpA7oFvaD1lygxVQkOAXE2oghHIMHI5gxAtBDnA8041WsV_2QCaMkx_/s1600/rock+&+dad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ccpgnFp6A5sRXNxmndZ2Rb4LX7NrpoWJjVa5NxMmFky4XDH4rOuBgMrvd-Nen1Bj_DklXGiTVJYNJo9l26TfkrpA7oFvaD1lygxVQkOAXE2oghHIMHI5gxAtBDnA8041WsV_2QCaMkx_/s200/rock+&+dad.jpg" width="200" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><br />The story involves Marion's eccentric family who comes to visit from Paris and how they interact with Mingus, a decided pragmatist.<br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIPteFotvbluijVFMsigJ7BK06UKppYfbkdDelJFt0NuDykQh0u7ULq1YNG5oxGsw1zPkMgmF-4X5xL54TfzgMHqIZFMdVykdvfOKraQRJdtpgxVB7AEdCSSKcx4IubEK66W9wUEClFmQS/s1600/delpy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIPteFotvbluijVFMsigJ7BK06UKppYfbkdDelJFt0NuDykQh0u7ULq1YNG5oxGsw1zPkMgmF-4X5xL54TfzgMHqIZFMdVykdvfOKraQRJdtpgxVB7AEdCSSKcx4IubEK66W9wUEClFmQS/s200/delpy.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">"2 Days in New York" is a character-driven comedy and the people we're asked to spend 90 minutes with are interesting and funny.<br /><br />The film works on every level and although it's slight, is has more insight into relationships than most romantic comedies and it's easily one of the best films of the year.</span><br />Film Snobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18301049932656054590noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422016586842475592.post-61035670456385761172012-08-12T15:35:00.000-07:002012-08-12T15:35:01.058-07:00"Take This Waltz" Sarah Polley (2012)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Sarah Polley's "Take This Waltz" might be the most delicate film I've ever seen about the breakdown of a marriage.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This all sounds like high praise and it is.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The only problem is I'm pretty sure I hated this movie.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The film follows Margot, played by Michelle Williams, a happily married woman who suffers from an infatuation with her new neighbor, Daniel.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWJLueWjM9dc4_JpKaE2drbB2tvM6pVNbjwj12hcHNvKKW0wrmJPavViVEhC3pkjpUnjwwW4W-xC-uinKKzTxCf8T1PkPfFTh9l64wT8eQaaAbyxvC-U4GCEZqEjkhG3gu5Uu9CJo3Tc/s1600/rogen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWJLueWjM9dc4_JpKaE2drbB2tvM6pVNbjwj12hcHNvKKW0wrmJPavViVEhC3pkjpUnjwwW4W-xC-uinKKzTxCf8T1PkPfFTh9l64wT8eQaaAbyxvC-U4GCEZqEjkhG3gu5Uu9CJo3Tc/s200/rogen.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Daniel is one of those guys who thinks he's seductive but </span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWJLueWjM9dc4_JpKaE2drbB2tvM6pVNbjwj12hcHNvKKW0wrmJPavViVEhC3pkjpUnjwwW4W-xC-uinKKzTxCf8T1PkPfFTh9l64wT8eQaaAbyxvC-U4GCEZqEjkhG3gu5Uu9CJo3Tc/s1600/rogen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">really just comes off as creepy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Seth Rogen gives a surprisingly muted performance as Margot's clueless and then heartbroken husband, Lou.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcqpZvsQPRRbzx6wM67NGD8v0b1GclnAPg8aXD4s2eNDdvflSBU2A7f8CXQu_sto8l7L_cYS5oKBeyQCAOKaHrvMH3BhhSMUYe-RrAGnOUEXSU2JmUlvjHFH-1THKh-SWKEUhPWJjJoJem/s1600/Williams+%2526+rogen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcqpZvsQPRRbzx6wM67NGD8v0b1GclnAPg8aXD4s2eNDdvflSBU2A7f8CXQu_sto8l7L_cYS5oKBeyQCAOKaHrvMH3BhhSMUYe-RrAGnOUEXSU2JmUlvjHFH-1THKh-SWKEUhPWJjJoJem/s200/Williams+%2526+rogen.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The relationship between Margot and Lou is much more interesting than her crush on Daniel.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The couple has a touching playfulness about them, but it's hiding a lot of insecurity, pain and vulnerability.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg3G_5EICCn0sxd8P7eIU8Pzsp3QqKtrPXxM7ONSlNLnwABFzwHewTAr9BGLUakAhuPAQCYjPBegqMs-XCTp5hqVe54gFaEF-j4Tk45ln39wmnxy_pAT7qsaQ71joIch0NkYBbws8yy7vV/s1600/Williams.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg3G_5EICCn0sxd8P7eIU8Pzsp3QqKtrPXxM7ONSlNLnwABFzwHewTAr9BGLUakAhuPAQCYjPBegqMs-XCTp5hqVe54gFaEF-j4Tk45ln39wmnxy_pAT7qsaQ71joIch0NkYBbws8yy7vV/s200/Williams.jpg" width="199" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As always, Williams gives a truly gorgeous and penetrating performance.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">She more than deserves her third Oscar nod in a row.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And Sarah Silverman plays Geraldine, Margot's sister-in-law and the film's voice of reason.</span></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcNtxcwbq10wtnYoTjCJbjoMDetPAQ8p8vIAsz-TuQ9GW3YK4xUHeBBjjUoIqwfxoHCSxIhScSYSRQ3pQvezVG2-VANhstjK70n3aoKIx4OGiMyFOTbpbfdgRGD7wE5MMIo6nR2NzYq5Gh/s1600/Silverman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcNtxcwbq10wtnYoTjCJbjoMDetPAQ8p8vIAsz-TuQ9GW3YK4xUHeBBjjUoIqwfxoHCSxIhScSYSRQ3pQvezVG2-VANhstjK70n3aoKIx4OGiMyFOTbpbfdgRGD7wE5MMIo6nR2NzYq5Gh/s200/Silverman.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">For most of the film, I wasn't sure Geraldine's character was necessary, but at the end, she ties up the point of the film nicely.</span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcNtxcwbq10wtnYoTjCJbjoMDetPAQ8p8vIAsz-TuQ9GW3YK4xUHeBBjjUoIqwfxoHCSxIhScSYSRQ3pQvezVG2-VANhstjK70n3aoKIx4OGiMyFOTbpbfdgRGD7wE5MMIo6nR2NzYq5Gh/s1600/Silverman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ultimately, "Take This Waltz" is about the pitfalls of discontent.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMoXBLsOZbbaHunCw7jtIf0xf5AxDAhYM-1lMB77Z7wwAZarZfew8B2Brz7h9yYieRMXvTo1VjIrxabmyIcza05pfy8XclFu8N_Hn6OrXZKEDb2sYlee-cvEjl1-7H5Lvi7oIxCJ4q8K-y/s1600/polley.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMoXBLsOZbbaHunCw7jtIf0xf5AxDAhYM-1lMB77Z7wwAZarZfew8B2Brz7h9yYieRMXvTo1VjIrxabmyIcza05pfy8XclFu8N_Hn6OrXZKEDb2sYlee-cvEjl1-7H5Lvi7oIxCJ4q8K-y/s200/polley.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Polley is a remarkably understated talent and I can't wait to see her next film.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">However, I don't ever want to see "Take This Waltz" again.</span></span>Film Snobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18301049932656054590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422016586842475592.post-16290874984075922432012-08-10T11:45:00.001-07:002012-08-10T11:45:38.583-07:00"96 Minutes" - Aimee Lagos (2012)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH5UeodgFr2BVJ0buRN9V1txqrUdwBP2L6ONqS-q6aSFY9GkFm0QIYGJ0fl6-UnBrwaZMKDLaR10sOJqw7-aW2bS7Ocv5vzD4zrnt0uYDF7XGnbSqMmPycbeHq-A0gu_1eWGxfNDFMMl63/s1600/poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH5UeodgFr2BVJ0buRN9V1txqrUdwBP2L6ONqS-q6aSFY9GkFm0QIYGJ0fl6-UnBrwaZMKDLaR10sOJqw7-aW2bS7Ocv5vzD4zrnt0uYDF7XGnbSqMmPycbeHq-A0gu_1eWGxfNDFMMl63/s200/poster.jpg" width="135" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"96 Minutes" is a fairly impressive feature debut by newcomer Aimee Lagos. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The premise of the film is a good person who does bad things is more of a monster than a straight-up bad guy. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The story follows Carley and Lena, two college students and Dre and Kevin, two high-school students. The characters are frantically trying to figure out what to do after Kevin shoots Lena in the face. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The narrative flips back and forth between the adrenaline-filled crisis sequence and the problems of the characters' everyday lives. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lena is in love with a boy who treats her like something he dug out of his ear. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Carley is neglected by her father and anxious about starting law school. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Dre is a kid working hard to graduate and escape from street life. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And Kevin has trouble dealing with his foul-mouthed mom and her physically abusive boyfriend. But what Kevin really wants is to be a gangsta. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Eventually, the two timelines merge and we see exactly what led up to the shooting. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The film starts slow, but somewhere in the middle of the second act, the pacing catches up and we find ourselves involved in a fairly engrossing melodrama. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Dre makes mistake after mistake as he tries to dig himself and his friend out of a bad situation. The scenario makes for some very nice tension. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ultimately, "96 Minutes" leaves us with little hope for mankind which puts it right in line with reality. </span></span>Film Snobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18301049932656054590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422016586842475592.post-39371627224213470442012-08-09T11:07:00.001-07:002012-08-09T11:07:53.395-07:00"Ruby Sparks" - Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris (2012)<br />
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"Stranger than Fiction" and Woody Allen's "Purple Rose of Cairo."</span></div>
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has the line between art and life been explored so thoroughly as it is in
"Ruby Sparks."</span></div>
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a writer suffering from writer's block until he finds himself romantically
drawn to one of his characters.</span></div>
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finally returns to his typewriter, he does so with such fervor he brings his
ideal woman to life.</span></div>
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acknowledges his love for Ruby even before she manifests herself.</span></div>
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written her exactly to his liking, having her say things like "The first
time I saw you, I said, 'Look at that boy.<span>
</span>I'm going to love him forever and ever.'"</span></div>
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nothing good ever lasts and trouble starts when Ruby starts showing she has a
will of her own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Calvin can
keep writing to change her for convenience's sake, but no matter how often he
tweaks Ruby, she never fits his idea of perfect because how good can the
product of a neurotic mind be?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At one
point in the third act, we're horrified at the controlling monster Calvin has
become.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The point
of the film is that no abstract ideal can ever be a match for a real,
autonomous human being.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Make no
mistake, "Ruby Sparks" is not a romantic comedy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is,
however, insightful, endearing, forgiving and easily one of the best films of
2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">And as a
side note, "Ruby Sparks" gets points for having the couple attend a
screening of Peter Jackson's zombie film "Dead Alive" and including Plastic
Bertrand's "C'est Plane Pour Moi" on the soundtrack</span>.</span></div>Film Snobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18301049932656054590noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422016586842475592.post-9116732402210461582012-08-03T11:15:00.001-07:002012-08-03T11:15:18.441-07:00Moonrise Kingdom - Wes Anderson (2012)<div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Moonrise Kingdom" is a love story between two tween misfits and it may well be Wes Anderson's masterpiece. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The story starts with a boy named Sam's escape from camp. He's a scout nobody seems to like. <br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sam meets up with his girlfriend, Suzy, whom he's gotten to know primarily through letters. She is fleeing parents whose idea of family communication is certifiably disjointed. <br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The entire community goes hunting for the young runaways and that's the story in a nutshell. <br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But as with all of Anderson's work, the plot is more or less incidental. <br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The quirky characters are the focus of the film.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ed Norton plays a strict, loving and clueless scout leader who loses a camper.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tilda Swinton plays a villain who swoops in, going only by the name "Social Services."<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And Bill Murray and Frances McDormand stand out as Suzy's maddening parents whose communication problems most likely precipitated their daughter's exodus.<br /> </span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Anderson's point, of course, is that we're all odd ducks. </span></span>Film Snobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18301049932656054590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422016586842475592.post-18342210009253691052012-08-02T11:11:00.000-07:002012-08-02T11:11:21.480-07:00"Ruby Sparks" Featurette<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's a behind the scenes look at the making of the upcoming film "Ruby Sparks."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Woody Allen is back on both sides of the camera in "To Rome With Love." </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The film is a continuation on Allen’s tribute to Luis Bunuel he started with "Midnight in Paris." </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This an homage to the eccentric bunuel of "The Discreet Charm of the Burgeiosie," not the psychotic Bunuel of "Un Chien Andalou." </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"To Rome With Love" is comprised of four intercut vignettes.
And they take some surreal turns, feeling a bit like Harry Block's short stories from "Deconstructing Harry." </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The most satisfying story line features Jesse Eisenberg and his infatuation with Ellen Page, his girlfriend's friend who comes to stay with them in Rome.
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<span style="font-size: large;">He follows Eisenberg and Ellen Page around like an intimidating Jiminey Cricket. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The only difference here is Baldwin's role as a conscience is to advise in reason, not morality. </span></div>
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Other stories involve characters played by the likes of Penelope Cruz, Roberto Benigni and Judy Davis. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fortunately, we're treated to the quirky Benigni from films like Jim Jarmusch's "Down By Law" and "Night on Earth" as opposed to the sad caricature he made of himself twelve years ago. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"To Rome With Love" has gotten mediocre reviews so far and that feels about right.
It's not Allen at his best or worst. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you're already a Woody Allen fan, you'll like this film just fine. If you're not, "To Rome With Love" isn't going to convert you.</span>
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</div>Film Snobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18301049932656054590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422016586842475592.post-18395900054749484402012-07-19T11:50:00.000-07:002012-07-19T11:54:37.068-07:00"The Dark Knight Rises" - Christopher Nolan (2012)<br />
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<span>Let's just
get the question on everyone's minds out of the way. </span></div>
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<span>No, "The
Dark Knight Rises" is not as good as "The Dark Knight," but how many movies
are?</span></div>
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<span> </span></div>
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<span>The two
films belong in different genres entirely.</span><span>
</span><span>"The Dark Knight Rises " is an action film on a massive
scale while its predecessor was a brooding crime drama.</span></div>
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<span>Having said
that, there's no reason why anyone shouldn't enjoy the new Batman movie; it's
spectacular.</span></div>
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<span> </span></div>
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<span>The film
opens up with an impressive action sequence that introduces us to a new brand of
Batman villain.</span></div>
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<span> </span></div>
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<span>It involves
Bane allowing himself to be taken into custody and then promptly escaping by
crashing a plane and killing a lot of people.</span></div>
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<span>When one of
Bane's henchmen willingly goes to his death, we realize we're not just dealing
with criminals, but fanatics.</span></div>
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<span>Tom Hardy
plays Bane with a serviceable menace.</span></div>
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<span>Bane bests
Batman in a fight and it's surprisingly unsettling to see Batman
defeated.</span></div>
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<span> </span></div>
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<span>Showing all
that rage and sadness with most of his face obscured is a tall order and hardy
has Heath Ledger's enormous shoes to fill, but he manages to make it work
beautifully.</span></div>
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<span>As for the
other villain, Anne Hathaway is simply fantastic as
Catwoman.</span></div>
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<span>At the
start of the film, Hathaway plays her character with a convincing meekness with
superb underlying intensity.</span></div>
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<span> </span></div>
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<span>When she
takes a sinister sharp turn, we completely believe her.</span></div>
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<span> </span></div>
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<span>She
establishes herself as someone who can more than take care of herself and her
character evolves from there.</span></div>
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<span> </span></div>
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<span>And just a
side note the character actors featured in the film were chosen very well, from
Burn Gorman to Matthew Modine. (I was especially pleased to see "Torchwood's" Gorman.)</span></div>
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<span>I'm afraid
of saying too much in this review just because nobody wants to be
spoiled.</span></div>
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<span>Suffice it
to say there are a couple of twists at the end.</span></div>
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<span>I did not
see one of them coming and the other you would have to be an idiot not to spot
in the first act of the film.</span></div>
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<span>So go, with
my blessing.</span><span>
</span><span>Enjoy Batman in all his stylized
glory.</span></div>
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"A Dangerous Method" is nothing short of a masterpiece.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">I realize
the film is hardly new - it's been on Blu-ray and DVD for months now, but after
watching it several times, I have to post something about it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHczO3Kc-nJM2v-bngTc-vD-vHAxL6lzyHSyN35-IwOJWmyne4rU88hHM4MwEsfFobQqsI195eINBTV9k-fsa9GFVmTt0o3YAnL_zwIYxDrVi5SL-AW0MYwGVchWnJ5pfGxyORTg_hQQ24/s1600/Knightley-Dangerous-Method.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHczO3Kc-nJM2v-bngTc-vD-vHAxL6lzyHSyN35-IwOJWmyne4rU88hHM4MwEsfFobQqsI195eINBTV9k-fsa9GFVmTt0o3YAnL_zwIYxDrVi5SL-AW0MYwGVchWnJ5pfGxyORTg_hQQ24/s200/Knightley-Dangerous-Method.jpg" width="175" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">I'm at a
loss trying to think of a word stronger than "adore" to describe how
i felt about this film.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">I wish this
movie were a lollipop so i could lick it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">A friend of
mine who had seen the film said she would have liked to see more about the work
and lives of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">But that's
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">"A Dangerous
Method" isn't about the work of these pioneering psychoanalysts, but about
how their egos overshadowed their work.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">The film
follows Jung and his patient, turned protégé, turned lover, Sabina Spielrein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">Spielrein
is truly the protagonist of the film and her character defines both Jung's
character and frames the conflict with his mentor, Sigmund Freud. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">Artists
have examined human sexuality for centuries and most come to the obvious
conclusion that humans are </span>driven<span style="color: black;"> by their
desires.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">But with
films like "A Dangerous Method," "Crash," Videodrome"
and "Dead Ringers," David Cronenberg takes it a step further.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">He argues,
rather articulately, that everybody is, at their core, perverse, a sentiment I
happen to agree with.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We're not as much
motivated by our desires as we are dominated by our perversions<span style="color: black;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">With "A
Dangerous Method," Cronenberg makes his point beautifully and
affectionately.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>Film Snobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18301049932656054590noreply@blogger.com0