I'm posting this update alongside my old review, so that I can add
some new thoughts on the film.
Not exact matches
In a rare TV sit down interview for a documentary
film about his late father, Cuomo reflects
on his 2010 comeback win, saying he doesn't
think he could have been successful if
New York voters hadn't gotten over the anger that led them to oust the late ex-Gov.
I must admit I don't have a clue how well this will go down but
thought I would give it a go anyway, but it's harder than it looks Trying to explain things whilst concentrating
on not messing up really can be difficult especially when you're
new to
filming, but when I feel ready to put the video up I will make sure to post it here first for you all to see.
To give you some idea of what Harvey and Bob
think of Charles Burnett's The Glass Shield, they blocked the
film's release for a full year, forced Burnett to write and direct a less blunt and despairing ending after some test - marketing, refused to let the original version be shown at a Burnett retrospective in
New York, and finally, after sending Burnett
on a few interviews, shoved the picture out earlier this month.
Therefore, one would
think that if a
film is going to be made
on the topic, it should either shed
new light or portray it from another perspective.
At the
film's press day, actor Paul Giamatti, who's also an executive producer
on the movie, talked about what drew him to John Dies at the End, his most memorable experience of the shoot, working with such
new actors, how he sees the industry now, and that he doesn't
think a
film like Sideways would even get made today.
You started hearing rumors and half - whispered, cryptic comments last year: Paul Thomas Anderson is working
on a
new film; it has something to do with the London fashion world in the 1950s, maybe; it will reunite him with his There Will Be Blood star Daniel Day - Lewis, potentially; it's loosely based off the life of either Charles James or Cristobal Balenciaga, possibly; the actor could be studying how to be a real - life tailor for the part, we
think.
Despite Gerda's understanding and moral support, not to mention Lili's own courage, it is difficult to get behind Lili throughout most of the first half of the
film, for she rushes headlong into an entirely
new life with little
thought to the consequences it will have legally, professionally, or
on her existing marriage.
Blinded by love for her
new boyfriend, Trent (Steve Carell), who preaches family values but continues to put him down, and a bratty step - sister (Zoe Levin) who
thinks he's just plain weird, the first half an hour or so establishes this to the point where you kind of just want the
film to get
on with it.
On Robert Bresson [
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films might be watched and
thought about.
Being as harsh as I tend to be
on films in general, especially considering that this one flies the accursed Disney banner, I
think it says a lot that I spent the entirety of the
film enjoying it just for what it was: an old - fashioned adventure flick, with
new - fashioned flair to spice it up.
The title of this supremely fresh, witty and
thought - provoking
new film by Swedish writer - director Ruben Östlund («Force Majeure») refers mainly to a
new exhibit
on display at a museum of contemporary art: a neon - bordered bit of brick flooring of...
Full Metal Jacket: 25th Anniversary Edition Rated R Available
on Blu - ray I can't
think of a better way to honor this infamous Kubrick
film about the Vietnam War than this amazing
new blu - ray set by Warner Brothers.
Initially it looked like «Anchorman 2» was going to have life as a Broadway musical (though quite how anyone
thought they were going to make a glitzy stage show about the cutthroat rough - and - tumble of television news and the sobering questions of journalistic ethics the original
film raised is beyond us), but thankfully sanity prevailed and we get to revisit the Channel Four News team nearly one decade
on, as they face the challenges of a
new era with hope, integrity and, probably, scotch.
As I was watching the
new «Tomb Raider», which is based
on the Lara Croft video games, and, of course, is a reboot of the «01 & «03
films starring Angelina Jolie, I couldn't help but
think that this is the kind of movie normally released in the summertime, not in mid-March.
Premiered in Sundance this year, Hosking's
film sparked a controversy of sorts: Variety's Dennis Harvey detected «a sense of absurdism that stubbornly remains
on the peepee / caca level,» and The Hollywood Reporter (John DeFore) commented, «in addition to being repulsive it's a witless bore»; conversely, IndieWire's Russ Fischer hailed it as «a
new event movie for the truly weird at heart» and Jordan Hoffman, in the Guardian, found it «a welcome oasis of filth, depravity and shock in a culture that too often
thinks merely being a little weird passes muster.»
Film Society of Lincoln Center's Kent Jones offers some
thought / theme shaping
on the upcoming
films to play at the
New York Film Festival.
The
film features effects co-designed by Willis O'Brien, the man who brought us King Kong, which is enough reason to
think Warner Archive has a fun retro flick they've decided to bring back
on this
new release.
On this episode of Talk Easy, Sam Fragoso sits down with comedian / musician Kate Micucci of the
new film «Don't
Think Twice.»
This week we return to the world of current releases to put the nail in the coffin, or not, of the career of M. Night Shyamalan as we discuss his latest
film The Visit as well as our smattering of
thoughts on whatever we enjoyed this week with the return of our
newest segment No Time to... Continue reading «TUMP [EP # 217 — THE VISIT][SPOILERS]»
When asked to comment
on the amount gamers could potentially spend
on Disney Infinity «s numerous Play Sets and character packs, Day said: «I
think the value proposition here is really quite good because normally, when Disney releases a
new film, there would be another game associated with that that would be upwards of # 50.
This week we return to the world of current releases to put the nail in the coffin, or not, of the career of M. Night Shyamalan as we discuss his latest
film The Visit as well as our smattering of
thoughts on whatever we enjoyed this week with the return of our
newest segment No Time to Explain.
Did Disney
think people savvy enough to buy Emperor's
New Groove
on Blu - ray wouldn't notice or care that the format that usually boasts more bonus features gives this esteemed
film nothing more than its sequel?
«Stealing Beauty» is the
new film by Bernardo Bertolucci («Last Tango in Paris,» «The Last Emperor»), who like many a middle - aged man before him has been struck dumb by the beauty of a nubile young girl, and has made the mistake of trying to approach her
on what he
thinks is her level.
He gave his
thoughts on the gender equality movement during an interview with The Washington Post
on the red carpet for the premiere of his
new film The Post, in which he co-stars with Meryl Streep.
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ON THE INTERNET By Mark Olsen Trouble in cyberland: a few
thoughts on the new frontier of film journalis
on the
new frontier of
film journal
film journalism.
A.V. Club
film editor A.A. Dowd and staff writer Ignatiy Vishnevetsky head to Farmhouse Tavern to pick apart the Peter Pan origin story Pan — a movie that might be more fun to talk about than it is to watch — and share their
thoughts on Robert Zemeckis» broad and occasionally beautiful
new film, The Walk.
It's an honest initial
thought to have, however, once the
film starts rolling, the stylish cinematography
on the bleak streets of
New York City, the salient audio of gun shots ringing from a drunk cop's pistol and the slow unveiling of a nuanced plot proves otherwise.
Even with an increased curiosity about the
new «Silent Hill»
film and trying to make sense of whatever is going
on with «Cloud Atlas» — which I'm starting to
think is just out there enough that I might really enjoy it — the next movie I'm most excited about is Daniel Craig's return to James Bond in «Skyfall» set to arrive in theaters
on Nov. 9.
Filmed with handicams, starring a pair of art - house favorites, and scored by blog buzz band Grizzly Bear, «Blue Valentine» couldn't look like more of a stereotypical indie romance if it tried — but who wants to ring in the
New Year with hopeful
thoughts for 2011 and a round of «Auld Lang Syne,» when you can head to the theater and watch Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams getting it
on in this bleak romantic drama, already the center of a ratings controversy over the NC - 17 the MPAA slapped
on it for an «emotionally intense» sex scene?
I suppose the old Jimmy Stewart
film would never have shown the passengers working
on the plane while shaking their asses to Outkast's «Hey Ya», or can claim to have the hip quotient of a Tyrese (2 Fast 2 Furious) or Sticky Fingaz (Lift) as part of the crew, but does anyone
think these facets are worthy enough elements to make a whole
new movie out of?
I loved how it turned expectations
on its heals, I
think it is a bold direction for a
new generation of fans, and it leaves the last
film an enigma.
The Week in Movies discusses the last seven days in cinema — including the
new Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice trailer (and everyone's
thoughts on it), Trainspotting 2 being confirmed by Sony, Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn saying The Hateful Eight is Quentin Tarantino's best
film and much, much more.
Set in Dallas in the days following 9/11, it focuses
on the relationship between Mark Stroman, who went
on a killing spree targeting men he wrongly
thought were Arab, and Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a Bangladeshi - born convenience - store clerk who was shot by Stroman but survived... Michael Winterbottom's
new film The Vatican Connection, is based
on the true story of NYPD Detective Joe Coffey who uncovered a global trail of intrigue involving billions of dollars, Vatican bankers, and a shadowy worldwide conspiracy.
Graeme Robertson
on whether The Last of Us needs a
film adaptation... Video game adaptations are nothing
new; with Hollywood in its infinite wisdom
thinking that whatever works
on the games console, must surely work
on the big screen, churning out video game movie after video game movie.
Speaking at the
new movie's premiere
on Wednesday night, Abrams told reporters to
think of the two
films as «two different rides at the same amusement park» — presumably, the rollercoaster of manufactured drama Abrams creates every time one of these big «mystery projects» rolls around.
Producer Lauren Shuler Donner first mentioned development
on a
New Mutants
film in 2009, confirming it's been pitched to the studio and I
think people have just...
There are excellent
new interviews and
new and archival featurettes, including the
new 46 - minute retrospective documentary BBStory: An American Film Renaissance, and Jack Nicholson, who has been conspicuously absent from other special editions and retrospective documentaries
on his key
films, contributes his
thoughts and remembrances in interviews for Five Easy Pieces and Drive, He Said.
To put it another way, while I'm more than sympathetic to Jonathan's desire to read Karen Ordahl Kupperman's book about early America before weighing in
on The
New World (I speak as one who read four different books about feudal Japan before writing my review of The Last Samurai a few years back), I
think it's also essential to keep in mind the fact that most audiences who see the
film will come to it with very little, if any, historical background, and that to a certain extent the
film even asks to be read ahistorically.
The co-creator of «Judge Dredd» John Wagner discusses 35 years of writing the iconic 2000 AD character, how he and the judge differ politically, aging the character in real time, his
thoughts on the
new film and more.
In an interview with Yahoo! about her
new film A Bigger Splash, Swinton reveals her
thoughts on acting and surprisingly she isn't actually interested in making movies.
Martin Freeman (Black Panther, Ghost Stories) speaks about Netflix's
new zombie
film, Cargo including some of his own
thoughts on the supernatural:» Once you hear something that goes bump or bang and you start making up your own narrative for it.
In response to a
New York Times piece
on educators in the media, students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education reflect
on who they
think of when recalling popular educators in television or
film.
Now that Gone Girl is
on the
New York Times bestseller list for the 7th week in a row; 20th Century Fox has paid $ 1.5 million for the
film rights (with Reese Witherspoon producing and starring, and Flynn writing the adaptation); and the author is appearing
on morning news shows... I
thought you might want one more nudge to read this brilliant, exciting thriller.
In our second episode of Movie Corner, Roger and I discuss our
thoughts on the
newest Pixar
film, Inside Out.
In the games coverage of today, VR is covered somewhat but is yet to reach the levels of the established consoles and portables most players have; however when asked about their large focus
on VR, Warren told us that with VR,
films can suddenly allow for branching story lines and «choice», a concept that is very basic for games, but exceedingly
new for
film, saying, «I
think VR is a medium in which
film makers and game makers can actually work together.
We work with international and UK artists to produce extraordinary experiences, creating an exciting mix of
thought - provoking drama, dance,
film and contemporary visual art with a strong focus
on international work,
new commissions and talent development.
Rail: No no no, I mean I know that's an obvious thing, but that you did go to a
new medium, but
on the other hand I'm
thinking now that you did make your Brooklyn Battery Tunnel
film after Warhol's «Empire,» you have done photographs, so... I guess neon is in its own way as much about jazz clubs and Broadway as it is Bruce Nauman or something.
Anyone interested in why I'm so obsessed with the balance of environment and human development, my
thoughts on problems with media coverage of climate, and the genesis of Dot Earth might enjoy the interview below,
filmed by Brook Silva - Braga for his
new Web TV effort The Interviewpoint.
Now the
film is available
on DVD so we
thought we'd check in with Sara to see how things are going and if we can expect any
new updates
on the dvd.TreeHugger: Why did you originally decide to do a documentary
on Dr. Bronner's soap?