Starting Out in the Evening (2007)

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Top Ten Movies I've Seen This Y ...
by JimBell in JimBell Blog

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"These are the top ten films I’ve seen at the mid-point of the year. I think it is a good idea to post a semi-annual list because instead of complaining about mundane theatre offerings the list confirms that there are enough excellent films out there to watch. In no particular order: Mother of Mine (2005; Finland/Sweden)—A young Finish boy is torn from his family by WWII and later in life comes to terms with both of hi " [More]

Starting Out in the Evening
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"Starting Out in the Evening (2007) is excellent (certainly deserving of its 86% Fresh Tomatoes). It is the story of two odd couples—an old novelist and the engaging graduate student who is studying his work, and the novelist’s 40-year-old daughter and her love for the “wrong” man. It’s about the complexities of love. What makes this tried and true theme fresh is that in any given scene, you never know how things will turn out. Even though the swelling music suggests romance, it could be the start of a break up. When you think the author and grad student may have a May/December romance, it is not like that, and when you suspect she is manipulating him, she isn’t, she truly wants to figure out what makes her favourite writer tick, and she wants to advance her career in a cut-throat business—and who can blame her for that? While most of the acting kudos and nominations have gone to Frank Langella for his muted but powerful performance of the a ... " [More]

Starting Out In The Evening - R ...
by mercurial in a filmblog

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"Finding love with another is fairly common, finding love within yourself can be tremendously harder. In Starting Out In The Evening, an aging author finds excuse in indulging a young aspiring literary critic as she pens her graduate thesis on his oeuvre. While a stilted romance blooms between the two, his daughter gets caught up in her own misgivings about her two lovers and her trepidation for the future. Simultaneously endearing and platitudinous, an ambiguous lightness emerges through the duration of the film in this simple yet lovely story. " [More]

my 2007 movie lists
by wonga in wonga's filmblog

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"i have a wonderful picture of all my movie ticket stubs from this year in a pile but i can’t get it transferred to my filmblog (yes, i save my ticket stubs and scrapbook them at the end of the year…i know, it’s sad really)! armed with discount movie coupons, i saw 118 movies this year at the theater and, as usual, it was really hard to narrow them down but here’s my list, for what it’s worth. some are from 2006 that i didn’t see until later. my 15 favorite movies at the theater in 2007the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert fordthe diving bell and the butterflythe lives of othersjunothe painted veilonceno country for old men< " [More]

FilmCouch #49
by paul in paul on spout.com

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"I am Legend opens tonight, how does Will Smith surviving the apocalypse stack up in the small pantheon of post-apocalyptic movies? Where does the no budget, camp-fest Saucy Flyer UFO PI fit in? Also, interviewing filmmaker Andrew Wagner (The Talent Given Us) about how he makes films from one truth, “Life is hard.” Starting Out in the Evening is his new movie in theaters now. FilmCouch 49 (Subscribe to FilmCouch in the iTunes store and an episode will download each Friday.) I am Legend, Starting Out in the Evening, The Talent Given Us

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"I am Legend opens tonight, how does Will Smith surviving the apocalypse stack up in the small pantheon of post-apocalyptic movies? Where does the no budget, camp-fest Saucy Flyer UFO PI fit in? Also, interviewing filmmaker Andrew Wagner (The Talent Given Us) about how he makes films from one truth, “Life is hard.” Starting Out in the Evening is his new movie in theaters now. FilmCouch 49 (Subscribe to FilmCouch in the iTunes store and an episode will download each Friday.) I am Legend, Starting Out in the Evening, The Talent Given Us

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"We didn’t do a New in Theaters last week, and many Thanksgiving releases are expanding this weekend, so this is basically a recap of every film we’ve reviewed that’s been released in the past two weeks. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Paul was “blown away” by Julian Schnabel’s latest at Telluride; at NYFF, Karina called the film “an almost excessively beautiful aestheticization of misery [that’s] often a little too good at conveying Baudy???s isolation within his own head.” Check out today’s podcast, which includes an interview with Schnabel from Telluride, and an argument between Karina and Paul. The Savages: At Telluride, Paul called Tamara Jenkin’s long-awaited feature follow-up to Slums of Beverly Hills “a really rich movie, full of dark humor you have to develop when things aren???t funny.” Starting Out in the " [More]

Denver Film Festival Ahoy
by SpoutBlog in SpoutBlog on spout.com

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"Posting may be a bit light today and Friday, as I’m heading to Denver to attend the final weekend of the Starz Denver Film Festival. Kevin and Paul will be posting a bit while I’m gone, so be nice to them. Hopefully I’ll find the time to scribble something about the films screening while I’m there, including Starting Out in the Evening, the much-lauded doc?? A Walk Into the Sea, and the comedy Karl Rove, I Love You. And if you’re in Denver, come see me speak on this panel on Friday. It’s very important that I put as many sympathetic plants in the audience as possible. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog " [More]