Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

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Australia’s Oscar Chances: Does ...
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"Oprah Winfrey can certainly create a best seller when it comes to books, and her pick of the presidential candidates is on his way to the White House. But can she get behind a movie and contribute to its success? 20th Century Fox seems to hope so, because the studio apparently allowed the talk show host to screen an unfinished cut of Australia in preparation for her November 10 show, which featured the film’s stars, Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, as well as a live-via-Skype call-in from filmmaker Baz Luhrman. Fortunately for Fox, Oprah raved about the film, and now the media has latched on to the endorsement, creating some much-needed positive buzz for the Oscar-hopeful. Yet there’s a big problem with all the excitement: Oprah’s film recommendations have hardly been sure-fire champs in the past. Case in point: the first title I came upon while searching for Oprah-select cinema was something called [More]

Slightly disapointed but please ...
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"A week ago today I took my girlfriend to see Love in the Time of Cholera. I read the book from which it's based and figured that this would be the quinisential "chick flick". I was very hyped about the adaptation but knew from past experiences not to expect much. Still, I'm a huge fan of Gabriel García Márquez's work. I've read all his books and a good number of his editorial works as well. Having seen the movie, I can't imagine they'll be adapting any of his other works. His style of writing has been termed "Magical Realism" and is a blur between South American storytelling and senility, imo. To write a screenplay from him is to pluck a bird clean and ask it to fly. I think this was doomed from the beginning. Most things about this movie were par if not subpar. Mike Newell's direction, subpar. the cast was strong and yet somehow came across as fledgling. Newell's most recent notible work, Harry Potter and the Goblet ... " [More]

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