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| bartist |
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Quote: Tim Burton's Dark Shadows looks like a lot of fun but doesn't have much to do with the tv series.
Given that DS was a gothic soap, that might be a good thing.
CORIOLANUS: The bastards. The fucking bastards! If anyone at 3Eye who happens to live in Chicago, LA, or NY and shot a pirate copy of this wants to make a few bucks, contact me. Unless a DVD release is impending...haven't checked yet.
19 fucking screens. One weekend. That was the U.S. release, folks. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 10:22 am |
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bartist wrote: Quote: Tim Burton's Dark Shadows looks like a lot of fun but doesn't have much to do with the tv series.
Given that DS was a gothic soap, that might be a good thing.
CORIOLANUS: The bastards. The fucking bastards! If anyone at 3Eye who happens to live in Chicago, LA, or NY and shot a pirate copy of this wants to make a few bucks, contact me. Unless a DVD release is impending...haven't checked yet.
19 fucking screens. One weekend. That was the U.S. release, folks.
bartist--I have a copy of the film you can have if you want. Let's talk about how to get it to you. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 10:59 am |
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| Ah yeah, the SAG perk. Thanks! Turns out the Swedish dvd release is May 3, and my son can jigger the regional code, so we're good to go. Just disgruntled because I'd like to have seen it on the big screen. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:17 pm |
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| Dark Shadows looks dreadful. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 2:25 am |
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Cinema Verite (2011) was pretty interesting. It's a recreation of the making of An American Family a 1971 documentary billed today as the first reality TV series. A 12-part 12 hour PBS doc, it captured the Loud family of Santa Barbara falling apart. It also features one of the first openly gay characters on television, as their son lance goes to NYC at the start of filming and lives in the Chelsea Hotel and hooks up with the Warhol crew.
I quite liked Diane Lane as the mother trying to negotiate her way between old values and new, and deal with her cheating husband played by Tim Robbins. James Gandolfini plays the producer/filmmaker who contrived all of this. It gets into issues of how the camera effects behavior, privacy, editing, media, reality, etc. A lot of the 70's period clothes and hair were quite good. I also liked how it used some brief clips, mostly at the end, of the real family, of Dick Cavett back then, etc.
Would be interesting to see the whole 12 hour original An American Family program, or at least a 3 hour condensed version if nobody would be willing to risk a 4 disc set in these early waning days of Dvd.... |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 4:49 am |
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Joe Vitus wrote: Dark Shadows looks dreadful.
You can say that again. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:30 am |
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Cinema Verite - I'd like to see this, more than I'd like to see the original AAF, which struck me, ca. age 14, as somehow false in a Heisenbergian way (the act of observation changes what is being observed), and kind of repellent. Probably didn't help that, from a Nebr. perspective, the whole Santa Barbara affluent life didn't seem quite real.
"Funny Games" with more philosophy and less blood?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1790869/
It's now showing at Tribeca. It's Canadian, so I assume the cabin invaders will be more courteous. |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:22 am |
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| I remember "American Family," though I didn't watch it much. Too much like spying on the neighbors (back when neighbors were dull). I also remember liking Albert Brooks' "Real Life" (I think that was the title), in which he was a filmmaker trying to make a documentary on a suburban family (Charles Grodin was the husband, but I forget the others). Amusing in its uniquely Brooksian way. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:30 am |
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billyweeds wrote: Joe Vitus wrote: Dark Shadows looks dreadful.
You can say that again.
It looks to me like Burton's returning to Beetlejuice mode. |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:37 am |
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| I'm rather tempted by "Dark Shadows," despite its campy look--it seems like every book I've proofread for my paperback publisher client in the past six months has been a "paranormal romance" with vampires, all of them gorgeous, sexy and passionate. I'd like to see an old-school vampire who sleeps in a coffin filled with the soil of his native land, who can't tolerate sunlight, and whose main interest in a sexy woman is the vein in her neck. I figure Tim Burton can deliver. (Unfortunately, there are so many other movies I want to see more...) |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:56 am |
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| I may see it, but "Pirates!" has priority. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:57 am |
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| Also tempted by the low-hanging fruit of another TB movie. But it's "Bernie" that really draws my eye, as a possible Texas version of "Fargo." Limited on Friday, then "expansion" release on May 4. |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 12:02 pm |
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| Yes, "Bernie" is a step above "Dark Shadows" on my priority list--I just read an interview with the director, who said it's based closely on a real-life murder case in Texas and much of the dialogue is made up of the town's citizens talking about it. Sounds interesting--and of course I'm a fan of Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 1:14 pm |
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| I'm a huge MacLaine fan, a sorta Black fan, and (this almost counts as a guilty admission) a really big McConaIcan'tspellit fan. I can't wait for Bernie. |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 1:21 pm |
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| I should have mentioned that Cinema Verite was directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini who made American Splendour -- also dealing with biographical recreation and pseudo-documentary issues. |
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