I'd recommend this film wholeheartedly to the art -
house film crowd, fans of Anderson, and also fans of Adam Sandler who maintain that he could be a fine actor if he weren't pigeonholed into making dumb comedies.
Not exact matches
Even critics of last year's Amores Perros have admitted that an insurgence of Mexican productions into the highly populated art
house distribution
crowd is increasingly inevitable (the best simile that could be imagined is that the rise of Mexican cinema is like the push for Germany and Japan's permanent inclusion on the UN Security Counsil — hey, as art
film distributors are saying, we're still working with the inclusion of Iran and Taiwan).
Part of what makes these
films Hollywood comedies is their ability to please a wide variety of viewers, not just an art -
house crowd.
Director John Bonito's
film is a fun guilty pleasure for the
crowd that worships Patrick Swayze's «Road
House.»
The one that it brings slight reminders of is Jerry Zucker's Ghost but as that
film played to the masses and went for entertainment value, Lowery's
film plays the to art
house, Terence Malick
crowd and is much better for it.
The Sundance winning documentary that wowed cinema audiences last November and December is also up for another IFTA as
Crowded House musician Nick Seymour has been nominated in the Best Original Score category for his work on the
film.
Jesteadt said that nevertheless, the title will play well to the dedicated art
house crowd, noting that fans of Sony Classics» 2007 animated feature Persepolis ($ 4.44 M domestic gross) are a natural audience for the
film.
The key difference between Funny Games and Last
House is that Craven, who would later become the undisputed king of both multiplex horror and the reflexive slasher
film, made a straightforward B - movie that catered to the grindhouse
crowd.
It tends to follow the «haunted
house» standard without much to veer away from the
crowd, factors that lead the
film to become plodding and predictable.
The duo return to the Berlinale this year with competition
film «In Order Of Disappearance» (aka «Kraftidioten «-RRB-, which marks a deliciously mean - spirited step up from «Gentle Man» — pretty much bringing the
house down at our public screening — though that might be partly due to home
crowd advantage, as the
film also features regional favorite Bruno Ganz in a small, memorable role.
Some of the
films have succeeded by courting a younger, more diverse
crowd than the typical art
house drama.
Davis Guggenheim's
film was not made for mass consumption, but for the art -
house crowd — educated elites and true believers in education reform.