This sprawling, ambitious nearly - three -
hour film deals with nothing less than the survival of mankind, the power of love, and the Theory of Relativity!
Not exact matches
While zero -
hours contracts are particularly common in fast food and retail, other sectors where workflow is unpredictable, such as the creative industries (advertising, PR,
film and design), have long employed «per project contract» freelance talent to
deal with the ups and downs, and the specific skill requirements of individual projects.
Be prepared for the fact that this is a long
film, clocking in at nearly two and a half
hours, with virtually no moments of levity or comic relief,
dealing with brutally difficult subject matter throughout.
As someone who honestly doesn't care for or like
films dealing with or revolving around war, I was truly fascinated by this
film, and it held my attention the entire two
hours plus runtime.
In a more ambitious (and decidedly less commercial) effort like The
Hours and Times, the lack of sex can be defended as a central part of the
film's seriousness and modesty, justified both by history (the real - life relationship between Brian Epstein and John Lennon) and by the
film's status as an «open» narrative leaving a great
deal to the viewer's imagination.
Muppets Most Wanted's overused plot is the typical heist
film, which is too familiar to be thrilled by, and worse, it means the final half
hour is going to
deal with whether or not Constantine is able to pull of his scheme.
Each
film owes a great
deal to its source material: the action is largely confined to a single setting over the course of a few
hours, and the narrative is driven almost entirely by dialogue.
But about an
hour into the
film, Gekko sort of takes it over, and the last 30 minutes are devoted almost entirely to his future as a trader in a world where he no longer needs secret names and under - the - table
deals to deliver his financial death blows.
The
film focuses so much on the last 12
hours of his life that much of the stuff that went on before simply isn't
dealt with.
Like that
film and Wes Anderson's «The Royal Tenenbaums,» «The Meyerowitz Stories» is very much about the burden of having a difficult dad, although toward the end I could have sworn the movie also morphed into a screwball remake of «Summer
Hours,» Olivier Assayas» wonderful 2009
film about three siblings trying to figure out how to
deal with an artistic inheritance.
Starting things off, there's an audio commentary from director Mark Hartley, joined by «Ozploitation Auteurs» Brian Trenchard - Smith, Antony I. Ginnane, John D. Lamond, David Hannay, Richard Brennan, Alan Finney, Vincent Monton, Grant Page, and Roger Ward; a set of 26 deleted and extended scenes, now with optional audio commentary from Hartley and editors Sara Edwards and Jamie Blanks; The Lost NQH Interview: Chris Lofven, the director of the
film Oz; A Word with Bob Ellis (which was formerly an Easter Egg on DVD); a Quentin Tarantino and Brian Trenchard - Smith interview outtake; a Melbourne International
Film Festival Ozploitation Panel discussion; Melbourne International
Film Festival Red Carpet footage; 34 minutes of low tech behind the scenes moments which were shot mostly by Hartley; a UK interview with Hartley; The Bazura Project interview with Hartley; The Monthly Conversation interview with Hartley; The Business audio interview with Hartley; an extended Ozploitation trailer reel (3
hours worth), with an opening title card telling us that Brian Trenchard - Smith cut together most of the trailers (Outback, Walkabout, The Naked Bunyip, Stork, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, three for Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, Libido, Alvin Purple, Alvin Rides Again, Petersen, The Box, The True Story of Eskimo Nell, Plugg, The Love Epidemic, The Great MacArthy, Don's Party, Oz, Eliza Fraser, Fantasm, Fantasm Comes Again, The FJ Holden, High Rolling, The ABC of Love and Sex: Australia Style, Felicity, Dimboola, The Last of the Knucklemen, Pacific Banana, Centrespread, Breakfast in Paris, Melvin, Son of Alvin, Night of Fear, The Cars That Ate Paris, Inn of the Damned, End Play, The Last Wave, Summerfield, Long Weekend, Patrick, The Night, The Prowler, Snapshot, Thirst, Harlequin, Nightmares (aka Stage Fright), The Survivor, Road Games, Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior), Strange Behavior, A Dangerous Summer, Next of Kin, Heatwave, Razorback, Frog Dreaming, Dark Age, Howling III: The Marsupials, Bloodmoon, Stone, The Man from Hong Kong, Mad Dog Morgan, Raw
Deal, Journey Among Women, Money Movers, Stunt Rock, Mad Max, The Chain Reaction, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Attack Force Z, Freedom, Turkey Shoot, Midnite Spares, The Return of Captain Invincible, Fair Game, Sky Pirates, Dead End Drive - In, The Time Guardian, Danger Freaks); Confession of an R - Rated Movie Maker, an interview with director John D. Lamond; an interview with director Richard Franklin on the set of Patrick; Terry Bourke's Noon Sunday Reel; the Barry McKenzie: Ogre or Ocker vintage documentary; the Inside Alvin Purple vintage documentary; the To Shoot a Mad Dog vintage documentary; an Ozploitation stills and poster gallery; a production gallery; funding pitches; and the documentary's original theatrical trailer.
There is a great
deal of table - setting involved in taking heroes from allies to battling frenemies, so it's to their credit that the build - up doesn't feel forced or overly contrived to get us there, even though it does take quite some time, about a third of the
film's 2.5 -
hour length, for the story momentum to finally kick into high gear and be the
film we are all expecting going into it.
Below, the team from «Search» (John Cho, director Aneesh Chaganty and Debra Messing) sat with TheWrap
hours before the
film sold to Sony Worldwide Acquisitions for $ 5 million, the largest
deal of the festival so far.
The
film is exhaustive in its attempts to fit a great
deal of events into the two and a half
hour running time.
About an
hour into the
film, I began to realize that only two scenes even vaguely
dealt with the main plot, with many scenes totally unnecessary even if they are somewhat amusing.
Cuesta keeps his
film lively in the first
hour with montages of real life footage and news coverage, reminding his audience that this story was very much a big
deal, even if it's one which is perhaps today rarely spoken about (ask «Joe Public» who Oliver North is and I'd imagine the answers back up my statement) and in another highly complementary comparison I was often thinking about how Oliver Stone would have handled a
film on the subject and character.
Russell Crowe's
film, «State of Play» (2009)
dealt with catching a killer, and Michael Keaton «s «Spotlight «(2015) gave us the toll those long
hours had on family when you investigate the Church.
Still, it feels like movies like Darkest
Hour and The Post, both well - made
films about big, important political concerns being
dealt with on a granular level, would be competing for the same votes, and neither one of them appears to have captivated wide enough segments of the audience to accumulate the votes they'll need.