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| Syd |
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billyweeds wrote: Befade wrote: I've just jumped on the Mike Leigh bandwagon. I liked All or Nothing more than Another Year....
Did you review Another Year? I missed it if so. Please link.
While you're waiting, I have a detailed review in the film review archives. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 12:18 am |
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Syd wrote: billyweeds wrote: Befade wrote: I've just jumped on the Mike Leigh bandwagon. I liked All or Nothing more than Another Year....
Did you review Another Year? I missed it if so. Please link.
While you're waiting, I have a detailed review in the film review archives.
How long ago did you write it? Do you mean Another Year or All or Nothing? Please link me to it. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 12:18 am |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 11:49 am |
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| whiskeypriest |
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Befade wrote: leaving for Tucson.........see you later. |
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| Syd |
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billyweeds wrote: Syd wrote: billyweeds wrote: Befade wrote: I've just jumped on the Mike Leigh bandwagon. I liked All or Nothing more than Another Year....
Did you review Another Year? I missed it if so. Please link.
While you're waiting, I have a detailed review in the film review archives.
How long ago did you write it? Do you mean Another Year or All or Nothing? Please link me to it.
Sorry, All or Nothing. Another Year hasn't appeared here. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 1:43 pm |
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Funny, Earl!
Was dragged to The Social Network, fingernails leaving tracks in the oak floor, which for me proved to be a sound instinct. I'll have to read some of the review comments here to get a sense of why some thought this film was award-worthy. It's clever, some good writing there, but the vivid drama of a broken friendship that I was hoping for just didn't materialize. Eisenberg does a borderline-Asperger's guy, staring intently at laptops and running around with a zero-affect stare -- I'm not an actor, maybe that's harder than it looks. Rooney Mara didn't want to spend time with him...neither did I. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 2:33 pm |
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| Well Zuckenberg or whatever his name is, is a prick so it's easy to not like Eisenberg's portrayal. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 2:51 pm |
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| Zuckerberg is far far from a warm and fuzzy person, so the character wasn't meant to be lovable, and part of Eisenberg's challenge was to make him interesting and even identifiable over the long haul. I think he succeeded in spades, and without ever for a nanosecond resorting to easy caricature. |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 5:27 pm |
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Befade wrote: I would say that Hurt Locker, though riveting is not a place I'd want to revisit. Up on the other hand was really Up and the old man with his backstory befriending the boy.......inspiring. Still, it's Firth that sticks.
billyweeds wrote: inla--Something told me I should have researched the Joan Greenwood character's name. I sort of knew she didn't have the same name as the temptress from The Skin of Our Teeth, but got lazy. Whatever--Joan Greenwood could recite the phone book and make it sound lascivious. But Kind Hearts and Coronets is for me her peak.
In a game attempt to get back to Current Films:
Major upset at DGA: Tom Hooper, not David Fincher, takes the helmer's prize.
Gold Derby: 'King's Speech' pulls off shocking upset at DGA Awards
That alone makes the 2/27 festivities at the Kodak at once predictable and un-, Mr. Fincher hitherto seeming a Sure Bet (he still might win, it's everybody voting, his movie is absolutely directed to the last degree), now rather less certain, and Mr. Hooper's DGA win, together with the PGA prize, swings King's Speech into Probable Victor status on high. On the other hand, there's still a month, and (inlareviewer's annual hope) Upsets Could Yet Transpire.
Have now seen The Social Network 4 or 5 out of the mater's 18 and counting re-screenings (it's astonishing how much she digs it, but there it is). In fairness, it rather gains in accessibility and is a natural for video, not least because the extraordinary amount of narrative foundation and specific cross-layering that the nine-page opening scene sets forth without obviating is, understandably, easier to detect and catch. I still don't exactly love it, but do appreciate its considerable achievement. Hey, even on the first, not-blown-away viewing last fall, the level of technical/executional brilliance was self-evident, just as the unwavering commitment of Jesse Eisenberg to an anything but charming character was unmistakable, all the way to the enigmatic yet palpable feelings in his eyes at the page-refreshing final shot. Elsewhere, am glad that AMPAS deigned the score eligible after all (after initially declaring it in-, along with the soundtracks of Black Swan, Kids Are All Right and I forget the fourth), because it's quite adept and spare at developing the main piano theme and accompanying Swarmatron snarls and reverbs from hopeful to ominous to elegiac. What else? Oh, yeah. Andrew Garfield was robbed, period.
In other news, Back Stage and The Actor's Fund are sponsoring a mini-Annette Bening film festival at Laemmle's Music Hall Feb. 7 & 8, featuring her four Oscar-nominated films. And so the Derby charges forth. |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 10:38 pm |
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| SAG awards had absolutely no surprises. It seems like business as usual: Firth, Portman, Bale, Leo, TKS for ensemble, which is the SAG awards' equivalent of Best Picture. Yawn. |
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| Joe Vitus |
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billyweeds wrote: Zuckerberg is far far from a warm and fuzzy person, so the character wasn't meant to be lovable, and part of Eisenberg's challenge was to make him interesting and even identifiable over the long haul. I think he succeeded in spades, and without ever for a nanosecond resorting to easy caricature.
I agree 100%. |
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| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 7:03 am |
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| If anyone concluded from my little statement about Zuckerberg and Eisenberg's portrayal that I didn't think his performances was very good, I thought his performance was excellent. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 8:22 am |
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marantzo wrote: If anyone concluded from my little statement about Zuckerberg and Eisenberg's portrayal that I didn't think his performances was very good, I thought his performance was excellent.
Glad you clarified it; your original comment, while non-negative, was non-committal. |
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