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| inlareviewer |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 1:10 am |
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| I get the feeling it's a GOOD review. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 8:54 am |
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I'm very proud to have read and pretty well understood exactly what inla was saying about the movie. Quite a mental exercise, but worth it. Fitting for a Gilliam review.
This movie came out quite a while back in 2009, right? It was pretty well trashed if I remember correctly. Reading our LA representative's review make me want to see this wild polyglot of visual languages. Sadly it probably won't be available on the big screen which seems like the way it should be seen. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 11:24 am |
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Gary.............I admire your mental facilities.
And inla..........you are a gymnast with words. I'm dizzy.  But you've decided me on The Imaginarium. I'll be in Phoenix in a few days and can choose from that or Serafine or The Last Station. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 12:03 pm |
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carrobin wrote: I get the feeling it's a GOOD review.
But incomprehensible.
EDIT: Apparently it's not showing yet in the Oklahoma City area. We're getting a lot of interesting things at the theatre here over the next couple of months, like several operas, a live "Hamlet," a couple of concerts and something called the "Half the Sky Event."
EDIT 2: The "Hamlet" apparently is the opera. Looking it up, there's also a Hamlet in the original Klingon. Apparently not a Klingon opera, though. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 7:49 pm |
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| Just got back from An Education and Crazy Heart, which was a very pleasant way to spend three-and-a-half hours at the movies. Both deserve all the Oscar nominations they've received; the supporting cast of An Education is very good, and both movies use music very effectively. An Education is a good example of how a good scriptwriter and actress can take material that isn't all that original and turn it into something fresh. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 1:14 am |
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I didn't intend to slight the supporting cast of Crazy Heart. Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal are great, but so are Robert Duvall, Colin Farrell and the kid, Jack Nation. Colin Farrell particularly surprised me; I didn't know he was in this movie (since I avoided reviews), didn't recognize him when I saw him (although I was going nuts trying to place him), and was stunned when I saw his name in the closing credits. I was really surprised by the performance, too; I was expecting an entirely different kind of character. Farrell is very good, too. I believed his Tommy Sweet, just like I believed Jeff Bridges' Bad Blake and Maggie Gyllenhaal's Jean Craddock.
The most terrifying thing about this film was realizing I'm a year older than Bad Blake. Given Blake's condition in the movie, that's scary. And Jeff Bridges is brave. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 1:27 am |
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Ghulam wrote: Marc wrote: Ghulam, I agree. Crazy Heart is an Oscar caliber picture. My only complaint is that the final half hour of the film seemed rushed and a little too pat.
Spoiler: For me, it ends when she leaves him and he joins AA. The rest is just a postscript.
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I felt that way, too. And there really isn't a way that boy gets girl back after he loses her kid at the mall. I would have been disappointed if the film had reunited them as lovers after that.
Marc wrote: Saw Crazy Heart tonight. If Jeff Bridges doesn't win a best actor Oscar for his performance, I'll eat my guitar.
I don't think you'll have to. I'd vote for Clooney, but Bridges will win, and he's very, very good. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 1:41 am |
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| A post too far. |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 4:29 am |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 7:14 am |
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carrobin wrote: I get the feeling it's a GOOD review.
L.A. Times: Theater Review: 'Orpheus Descending' at Theatre/Theater
L.A. Times: Theater Review: 'Kings of the Kilburn High Road'
So, my posts are incomprehensible, evidently for a long time. Live and learn. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 11:15 am |
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Here's a picture of Lynn Barber at the time of the affair adapted for the screen for An Education. A short version of her story is here:
http://tinyurl.com/of4taa |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 11:38 am |
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inlareviewer wrote: carrobin wrote: I get the feeling it's a GOOD review. Except that it wasn't a review. None of my posts here are reviews, certainly I don't consider them thus. Reviewing is my occupation. That's not what I'm doing, or thought I was doing here, and it's one reason I hesitated so long before ever posting a review in the Reviews forum. Have said repeatedly, for however many years of posting here, that Third Eye for me is recreational, the posts usually off-the-cuff, after leaving a cinema/finishing a video/Critic's Circle meeting/Times brainstorming session, for the pleasure of sharing stream-of-consciousness reactions, Hollywood tidbits/stats/gossip and, in general, expressing myself and having fun doing so. Again, that's the principal reason behind my tendency to edit after-the-fact, a luxury not available to me in my work output, along with being dyslexic, which I am, its own challenge. The reviews for the Times (and L.A. Stage Alliance, Variety, La Brea Living and other venues over the years) are hopefully more formal, carefully thought-out and compressed for spatial requirements.
L.A. Times: Theater Review: 'Orpheus Descending' at Theatre/Theater
L.A. Times: Theater Review: 'Kings of the Kilburn High Road'
So, my posts are incomprehensible, evidently for a long time. Live and learn.
inla--Hope you're not taking those posts to heart. You are the very best critic on this forum without any competition. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 11:58 am |
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Quote: So, my posts are incomprehensible, evidently for a long time. Live and learn.
Not really that incomprehensible. The Imaginarium post required a lot more unraveling than usual, but you are reviewing a Gilliam movie after all. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 12:04 pm |
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Hey, inla, I didn't find them incomprehensible. Don't I count?  |
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