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| Joe Vitus |
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| You nailed it, Billy. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 12:04 am |
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Joe Vitus wrote: You nailed it, Billy.
You saw the movie? I had no idea. Why no review? |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 12:07 am |
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I can do little more than reiterate Betsy's, Billy's and Marc's praise for An Education. I had a rare day off and caught it this afternoon. Strongly recommended.
billyweeds wrote: An Education
Smaller supporting roles are played expertly by Emma Thompson and Olivia Williams. Thompson is a foolish, borderline evil school head, and it's interesting to see Thompson play this kind of unredeemedly nasty sort. Williams is a much nicer schoolmarm. She's a fine actress seen much too little since Rushmore and The Sixth Sense.
Re Olivia Williams: probably not your cuppa, but she has a strong supporting role on the soon-to-be-taken-off-the-air sci-fi FOX series Dollhouse. She is compelling as Adele, the manager of the Los Angeles branch of the Dollhouse corporation.
Marc wrote: AN EDUCATION. (spoilers)
And then there is the banana as sex toy scene. Jenny run for it!
An Education is so good in so many ways that these flaws, while important ones, don't destroy the film. The movie was based on a memoir by Lynne Barber, so screenwriter Nick Hornby may have been working from actual events.
The banana actually happened. Here is an excerpt from Lynn Barber's memoir helpfully provided by Roger Ebert in four-star review of the movie.
I think Barber is being modest when she says that she was not as attractive as Carey Mulligan. Based on the photos of her in that excerpt, she was quite the looker at 16.
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By the way, no one has mentioned Rosamund Pike yet, so I will. She's a versatile actress and whenever I see her name in the credits I look forward to watching her work. She was Jane Bennet in the version of Pride & Prejudice starring Keira Knightley. She was bad Bond Girl Miranda Frost in Die Another Day, which I think was the last Bond movie starring Pierce Brosnan. And she was also great alongside Ryan Gosling and Anthony Hopkins in the legal thriller Fracture.
In An Education Pike plays the dim-witted Helen, Danny's girlfriend. I enjoyed the take on "stupid, but sweet" that Pike brought to the role. She genuinely was puzzled why Jenny would want to go to university to "read English." She thought Jenny could learn much more useful information from magazines than from books. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 12:14 am |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 12:46 am |
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Earl,
you're absolutely right about Rosamund Pike. She was wonderful. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 2:57 pm |
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Bad Lieutenant, Port Of Call - New Orleans opens tomorrow in Austin. The programmers at The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema posted this review on their website:
Quote: God-DANG.
We’ll admit, we were initially merely amused at the prospect of the new BAD LIEUTENANT film. Mid-career action convert Nicolas Cage starring in a film from German renaissance wildman Werner Herzog? Sure, we’ll watch that. An advance screening rolled around about a week ago and the programmers gathered together to give the movie a fair viewing.
Two hours later, our faces were obliterated. It’s no joke: BAD LIEUTENANT is the BEST FILM OF 2009. I swear on my granny. It’s a perfectly assembled, harrowing, hilarious, one-of-a-kind film, and deserves to be seen by everyone between the ages of 16 and 3000. Nicolas Cage does things that no actor has ever done in a movie. Herzog takes chances that pay off without fail. There are invisible iguanas and breakdancing ghosts. And it all ties together in a tight, completely linear storyline. That’s some kinda miracle and these guys did it.
With mostly great reviews and starring Nic Cage, you have to wonder why the studio, First Look Pictures, didn't get behind this movie. Did they think it was too weird? |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 3:28 pm |
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| They absolutely thought it was too weird, and you know what? They were right. I absolutely fell in love with this movie, and Cage in it, and just about everything else about it. But for me to pretend it's a movie the public would get behind would be nothing short of delusional. It is in many ways a truly ludicrous movie, and some people I know, love, and respect think it's horrible. (One of my best friends texted me from the theater where he was watching it, and I quote, "Worst. Movie. Ever.") I completely disagree with them but at the same time completely understand their point of view. All due respect to the guys and gals in Austin, but this is NOT the best movie of the year. It is, however, and stressing the IMO here, definitely one of the, if not the, most entertaining. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 5:10 pm |
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| Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 5:40 pm |
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Quote: All due respect to the guys and gals in Austin
Billy, these are the programmers that continue to screen The Room.
The programmers at The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema are a quirky bunch. They developed something they call "Heckle Vision". Audience members can heckle a movie by text messaging. The heckles are displayed as a crawl along the bottom of the screen. Of course, they do this only for really bad movies on specified nights.
On Thanksgiving day, the folks at Alamo presented a Thanksgiving dinner with all the fixings during their screening of Antichrist. Nothing like eating cranberries and stuffing while watching Willem Dafoe ejaculate blood.
Here's what they're doing for New Year's Eve
http://blog.originalalamo.com/2009/12/03/just-announced-the-alamo-ritz-new-years-eve-bash-the-apartment/ |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 5:48 pm |
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| Every Monday night The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema screens the current episode of Mad Men on the big screen. The appropriate alcoholic beverages are served by waitresses dressed up as secretaries. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 5:50 pm |
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Marc wrote: Quote: All due respect to the guys and gals in Austin
Billy, these are the programmers that continue to screen The Room.
The programmers at The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema are a quirky bunch. They developed something they call "Heckle Vision". Audience members can heckle a movie by text messaging. The heckles are displayed as a crawl along the bottom of the screen. Of course, they do this only for really bad movies on specified nights.
On Thanksgiving day, the folks at Alamo presented a Thanksgiving dinner with all the fixings during their screening of Antichrist. Nothing like eating cranberries and stuffing while watching Willem Dafoe ejaculate blood.
Here's what they're doing for New Year's Eve
http://blog.originalalamo.com/2009/12/03/just-announced-the-alamo-ritz-new-years-eve-bash-the-apartment/
OMGOMGOMG. There is nowhere else in the world I would rather spend New Year's Eve. Tell inlareviewer about it too. We both might very well show up in Austin to see 2010 in with you. (Unfortunately, just kidding, at least about me.) |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:08 pm |
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Sounds great. I'd love to go. If I don't give a damn about organic can I get a cheaper ticket for non-organic?
I can't make it of course, but would if I could. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:15 pm |
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| Wouldn't we all. What a great way to spend a New Years Eve. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:20 pm |
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| I have enough room in my apartment for all of you if you bring sleeping bags. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 1:14 am |
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The reviews are coming in for AVATAR and and it's getting raves. 100% on rottentomatoes.
I got a ticket to see it next Thursday at midnight. |
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