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| marantzo |
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| Oh yeah, great songs on the movie score also. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:31 pm |
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| Observe and Report played here in Montreal for a couple of weeks, then disappeared. Until now, where - lo and behold! - it's playing at a cheap repertoire theater. I may just take Billy and Gary's word and check it out tomorrow. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:36 pm |
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Uh-oh. There's also The Limits Of Control, Jim Jarmusch's latest, and Atom Egoyan's Adoration, both playing downtown.
Decisions. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:37 pm |
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| Yeah, it only ran in the first run theatres here for about two weeks. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 5:19 pm |
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| Nothing runs here..........except maybe Tyson soon. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 8:20 pm |
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Sam Mendes may finally have hit a long-deserved speed bump. This overrated director has not met critical favor with his latest, Away We Go, a comedy starring John Kransinki and Maya Rudolph. The Cheever/Updike/O'Hara cliches Mendes coopted in American Beauty have carried him a long way, but now here's what A.O. Scott says:
The vague, secondhand ideas about the blight of the suburbs that sloshed around “American Beauty” and “Revolutionary Road” are now complemented by an equally incoherent set of notions about the open road, the pioneer spirit, the idealism of youth. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 8:30 pm |
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| I hope you all remember my negative review of American Beauty back in the NYTFF days. I remember being one of the only ones to say it was crap, except for the sex scene with the "king". |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 8:33 pm |
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marantzo wrote: I hope you all remember my negative review of American Beauty back in the NYTFF days. I remember being one of the only ones to say it was crap, except for the sex scene with the "king".
Gary--I was right there with you on AB. The Straight Story was the best movie of 1999 and the late, great Richard Farnsworth was robbed by Kevin Spacey. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 8:35 pm |
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| The reviews I've seen haven't been that bad. If nothing else it looks a lot more cheerful than Revolutionary Road. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 8:41 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: marantzo wrote: I hope you all remember my negative review of American Beauty back in the NYTFF days. I remember being one of the only ones to say it was crap, except for the sex scene with the "king".
Gary--I was right there with you on AB. The Straight Story was the best movie of 1999 and the late, great Richard Farnsworth was robbed by Kevin Spacey.
We are definitely on the same page here. It was actually tragic that Farnsworth didn't get it. And The Straight Story was robbed too, but it's not as bad as robbing a dead man. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 9:13 pm |
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| Of course, he wasn't dead when he was robbed, but he was on his way. I think. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 9:38 pm |
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| I was trying to remember if he were dead at the time or I knew he was dying.. Was it known that he was terminal or am I imagining it? |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 12:37 am |
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This is all very odd since I just saw Revolutionary Road for the first time. I have a feeling in a few days I'm going to come to dislike this movie but right now, I'm too taken by April, Kate Winslet's character.
I found it interesting that while I totally identified with her, I had no stomach for Frank Wheeler, or DiCaprio's performance. But Winslet. Wow.
Anyhow, go back to your discussion. I'm not really focusing. And it is time for bed. Wonder if I'll dream about living in that awful house ... |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 12:53 am |
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| REVOLUTIONARY ROAD was a fine film. Compared to most of the shit out there, it was a very fine film. Depressing, bleak, yes. But, also very moving and beautifully shot. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 7:40 am |
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| I liked Revolutionary Road myself, very much. I thought it was the only good movie or play I've seen Sam Mendes direct. I thought American Beauty was warmed-over Cheever and Mendes's Tony-winning revival of Cabaret was a dog. I think he's one of the luckiest men in show business, not to mention that he got Kate Winslet to marry him. So I think it's poetic justice that Away We Go is getting at best mixed reviews. |
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