Margot at the Wedding (2007)

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Lower Your Shields
by Tenenbaums in Tenenbaums Blog

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"Far from the painful experience that I envisioned, Margot at the Wedding is not a film that I would recommend, but it pretty much worked for me. After writer/director Noah Baumbach's The Squid and the Whale got me all hyped up (Wes Anderson production! Co-writer of The Life Aquatic! Great cast! Funny trailer!) and then fed me an overdose of unnecessarily uncomfortable preteen sexual moments, my shields were raised to maximum levels for his follow-up feature. But, as I did with the strong parts of Squid, I laughed a good bit at Margot's strong start. And then the laughs and engaging moments kept coming. That's not to say there is a lack of the squeamish. An early scene during Margot's (Nicole Kidman) first night at her sister's (Jennifer Jason Leigh) house ranks right up with Frank's forays into beer and self-stimulation in Squid. Fortunately, that's as far as Baumbach ventures this time, though it seems that Malcolm's (Jack Black) breakdown is intended to elicit the same dis ... " [More]

The Strange Love of Wicked Litt ...
by dibot in dibot Blog

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"I'm so far behind that these are going to be super short (even for me). Maybe I can catch up. The Lady Vanishes, an Alfred Hitchcock ("Family Plot") movie mostly set in the confines of a train, is a mystery where one woman notices another has gone missing, but no one believes her. Of course. Good. Of course. But not Hitch's best. I liked Marnie, another Hitchcock film, better. Tippi Hedren ("Dead White") stars as a con girl who falls for her mark, Sean Connery ("The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"). But then he turns the tables on her. There's also fits of hysterics, horses, crazy mothers, color flashbacks and birds. Different than the average Hitchcock, still very suspenseful and good. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers was definitely strange. A young girl kills her overbearing aunt, but a friend witnesses the event and things change forever. Most of the story occurs when the participants are grown-up and full of bitter mind games. This is classified as a film noir, so it has ... " [More]

Margot At The Wedding
by awkwardj in honest to blog

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"In a year of Invasions and Golden Pointerthingys, it's nice to see Nicole Kidman actually act. With relish. " [More]

Redacted, Southland, Margot. Ne ...
by SpoutBlog in SpoutBlog on spout.com

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"Here’s a look at the notable films opening this week that we’ve previously covered here on SpoutBlog: Redacted: Bill O’Reilly can finally get a look at the film he’s sight-unseen been threatening to boycott, while Magnolia finally gets to put that whole all-press-is-good-press maxim to the test. Here’s my review from Telluride; for a recap on the possibly-contrived battle between director Brian DePalma and producer/distributor Mark Cuban, see here, here and here. Beowulf: Is director Robert Zemeckis not doing press for this film because he knows it’s a bad idea to compete with the post-Comic-Con gushage over Angelina Jolie’s nakedness? [More]

Margot at the Wedding
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"I first saw Margot at the Wedding, Noah Baumbach’s follow-up to The Squid and the Whale, in September at Telluride. I generally disliked it, but I vowed to see it again at the New York Film Festival and, if my opinion had changed, update my original review. If anything, the second viewing solidified many of my initial, negative feelings about the movie, but I did gain deeper respect for the performances, particularly that of Nicole Kidman, who creates a magnificent villain with a vivid backstory, despite the fact that Baumbach gives her very little to work towards. I’ve updated my review to include some thoughts based on a second viewing; you’ll find the old version here, and the new version after the jump. (more…)

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"IFP has just announced the nominations for their Gotham Awards, which will be handed out in Brooklyn next month. I’m so happy to see that Craig Zobel’s fantastic Great World of Sound has been nominated in three categories–Best Feature, Breakthrough Director and Breakthrough Actor–the most nominations of any single film this year. Zobel’s feature, which Magnolia released with little fanfare last month, shares the Best Feature category with four, relatively “big” indie-arm titles: The Namesake, I’m Not There, Margot at the Wedding, and Into the Wild. I’ve privately bitched about the lack of publicity surrounding Sound (even the release date seemed misguided, as it fell right in the middle of the Toronto Film Festival and thus necessarily turned coverage of the movie by bloggers and other indie journalists of limited resources into an afterthought), so I’m hoping these nominations will give Magnolia the impetus to give the film a stronger "

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Margot at the Wedding Trailer
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"I rarely get excited about new trailers; I NEVER get excited about two trailers in the same week. But today, thanks to Variety's Anne Thompson, I've had a glimpse at a second film on my list of Fall 07 Must-Sees, and I can tell you that it isn't going anywhere. Powered by AOL Video Margot at the Wedding (embedded via MovieFone above), written and directed by Noah Baumbach, stars Baumbach's wife Jennifer Jason Leigh as a lady preparing to marry the schlub who got her pregnant. That description might call to mind a certain recent comic smash, but this looks like very different territory. Within the context of Baumbach's filmography, Margot looks more like the dark family dramedy The Squid and the Whale than something like clever-but-fluffy Mr. Jealousy. Nicole Kidman--brunette, and just de-glammed enough to resemble a real person--plays Leigh's judgmental sister. Jack Black is once a " [More]