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Nancy

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:28 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 4607 Location: Norman, OK

marantzo wrote:

Is Surfs Up a 2007 release?

As I recall, it is.

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inlareviewer

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:01 pm

Joined: 05 Jul 2004 Posts: 1949 Location: Lawrence, KS

Surf's Up, 2007

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0423294/

That may sneak in the animated category, if there's any residual Penguin Love after Happy Feet's upset over Cars last year. Heck, there was talk about Bee Movie (until people saw it), and there was talk even about Beowulf, which was/is technically eligible. There's still a chance Persepolis could snag the third animated feature slot. If not, it stands a chance in ForLang, since that's done by a special-screening committee composed of members from all the branches. At present that's favored to go to 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, presuming it gets a nom.

All is conjecture. The AMPAS nominating ballots are in the mail right now. Right now, this very minute, wending their way to PriceWaterhouseCoopers, since the deadline for postmark was this weekend, I do believe.

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jeremy

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:29 pm

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Beowulf gets my vote.

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Syd

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:44 pm

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marantzo wrote:

Is Surfs Up a 2007 release?

Definitely. It came out a couple of weeks before Ratatouille.

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marantzo

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:06 pm

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Though Ratatouille has some exceptional animation sequences, especially of Paris and its colour and mood and, well its feel, I liked Surfs Up better. There were some magnificent surfing visuals and the script and performances of the wonderful cast was much sharper and funnier. It was a gem.

Syd

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:39 pm

Site Admin Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 12921 Location: Norman, Oklahoma

Ratatouille has one of my favorite moments of 2007, when Remy is on a rooftop and gets his first panorama of the city he lived in for all his life. He never knew he lived in Paris.

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inlareviewer

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:51 pm

Joined: 05 Jul 2004 Posts: 1949 Location: Lawrence, KS

Syd wrote:

Ratatouille has one of my favorite moments of 2007, when Remy is on a rooftop and gets his first panorama of the city he lived in for all his life. He never knew he lived in Paris.

That was a dazzling shot in a film virtually comprised of them. My own favorite indelible scene is the climactic memory-flash between Anton Ego and the title dish. However, am fairly sure that Remy did not live in Paris all his life. He lived in the adjoining countryside, by the cottage of Mabel, she of the attic-ceiling-displacing bad aim. SEMI-SPOILER IN WHITE Remy didn't hit Paris until after he went into the river astride the Anyone Can Cook book-raft and was separated from his family by the bend in the viaduct, winding up in the sewers under Paris unawares. Fortunately, he didn't run into the Phantom of the Opera. I devoured Ratatouille. It should play in a Food Film Festival with, oh, Chocolat, Babette's Feast, and Big Night, and Eat, Drink, Man, Woman, and Waitress. Not so much with, say, Sweeney, or Titus, or The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, or Eating Raoul.

Now, My Dinner With Andre....

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Earl

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:32 pm

Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 2621 Location: Houston

jeremy wrote:

Talking of which, perhaps someone can tell me what the critics darling NCfOM is about. I suspect it isn't actualy about anything.

A guy finds a stash of drug money and then goes on the run from a fearsome hitman who works for the drug runners. Tommy Lee Jones plays an entire Greek chorus.

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inlareviewer

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:37 pm

Joined: 05 Jul 2004 Posts: 1949 Location: Lawrence, KS

Earl wrote:

A guy finds a stash of drug money and then goes on the run from a fearsome hitman who works for the drug runners. Tommy Lee Jones plays an entire Greek chorus.

THAT'S IT!!! (insert impish grin here)

Devil's Advocate Dept:

It's about 122 minutes.

Psst: "You can't stop what's coming" is key to what it's really about. At least, that was my impression.

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jeremy

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:19 pm

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 6794 Location: Derby, England and Hamilton, New Zealand (yes they are about 12,000 miles apart)

But what does it mean?

Nancy

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:55 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 4607 Location: Norman, OK

jeremy wrote:

But what does it mean?

That you shouldn't get off the main road in certain parts of the South, a lesson we should have learned from Two Thousand Maniacs, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Brigadoon.

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Syd

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:10 am

Site Admin Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 12921 Location: Norman, Oklahoma

Nancy wrote:

jeremy wrote:

But what does it mean?

That you shouldn't get off the main road in certain parts of the South, a lesson we should have learned from Two Thousand Maniacs, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Brigadoon.

Speaking of which, did you know U-Turn was remade as a Bollywood Film? It's called Musafir. Apparently not available on DVD.

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Nancy

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:16 am

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 4607 Location: Norman, OK

Syd wrote:

Speaking of which, did you know U-Turn was remade as a Bollywood Film? It's called Musafir. Apparently not available on DVD.

Darn.

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Nancy

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:22 am

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 4607 Location: Norman, OK

Syd wrote:

Speaking of which, did you know U-Turn was remade as a Bollywood Film? It's called Musafir. Apparently not available on DVD.

If this is the same one, it is apparently available from hindimoviesonline.com. Don't know what region it is, though.

Musafir DVD $16.99

Starring:

Sanjay Dutt, Anil Kapoor, Aditya Pancholi, Sameera Reddy, Mahesh Manjrekar/Dolby Digital 5.1 Channe/English Subtitles

Lucky (Anil Kapoor) had had enough of change. From orphanages to juvenile delinquent homes! From odd jobs to petty crimes! From home addresses to jail addresses! He wanted his innocence back. A plot of land in Bangalore… a family... a dog… a new beginning. One last con-job, girlfriend in tow, sunset in background, and he would be well on his way. Twenty-four hours later, he’s been betrayed by his girlfriend, hunted by a drug lord, orphaned by the death of his three partners and sent to Goa to do a drug deal to buy his life back.

Musafir jack-knifes into the hedonism of Goa raves, flea markets, hippies and wanderlust. Lucky pulls of a drug deal with the deadly Israelis, chases a femme fatale with a ubiquitous past (Sameera Reddy), manages to lose the drug lord (Sanjay Dutt) money yet again, is hounded by a corrupt cop (Aditya Pancholi) with a secret agenda, and gets offered the same amount by a perverted husband (Mahesh Manjrekar) who offers him a contract killing. Under siege and racing the clock, a deadly battle of wits ensues in a climax filled with spiraling tension and volatile action.

MUSAFIR lives into the dark side of human nature. Its protagonist is pushed to the edge of his morality. He meets desperate characters, skinned to the bone by their vulgar wants.

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Syd

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:30 am

Site Admin Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 12921 Location: Norman, Oklahoma

That's the one. Apparently Amazon doesn't know about it.

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