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Bad Movie Night
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"You know about a bad hair day; well, this was a bad movie night—three promising rentals, three disappointments. Although the period detail is excellent in The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001), the main character, played by Billy Bob Thornton, is too unrealistic in contrast to the other characters, who may be a bit off kilter but seem plausible. For example, early on, the protagonist and his wife entertain her boss and his wife for a painful dinner, the social interaction saying all that needs to be said. In contrast to this fine presentation of self in everyday life, our protagonist is so clinically depressed that the interaction involving him seems fakey because ordinarily people would not put up "
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Week 30.
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"Titles in bold represent a first time viewing. 346. Magnolia (Anderson, 1999)----------I thought that this was a pretty great collage-type film with the likeness of a more familiar title, Crash. Aside from Julianne Moore's performance, one of the few things I didn't like was the fact that the characters didn't connect with each other other than the bizarre finale at the end of the film. (7.5 / 10) 347. Stuck (Gordon, 2007)----------Based on a true story, stuck follows a wannabe-ghetto woman (Mena Suvari) after she hits a homeless man and drives him into her garage. The acting was terrible, the premise was good though. Towards the end, it began to pick up in terms of entertainment. (6 / 10) 348. Equilibrium (Wimmer, 2002)----------Christian Bale? Sweet. Reviews relating it to The Matrix? Awesome. This is why I initially c "
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The New World (2005, Terrence M ...
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"How do you get over your first love? Maybe you will always love him, but that is all right because it is possible to love the man of your past and live in the present. Terrence Malicks fourth film The New World (2005) is an epic love story that misses the mark. Pocahontas, Q'orianka Kilcher, exuberates life. She experiences the joys of first love with Colin Farrell. They share pleasures in a fantasy world, which Farrell says is a dreamlike world, but he later acknowledges that this world was the most real thing he has known. The dream world shatters with the outside world, which demands Farrells attention. Farrell feels the call of reality and leaves his love, and instructs the she be informed that he is dead in an attempt to make her forget him. His departure almost breaks her. Another man, Christian Bale, relates to her sufferings and eventually grows to love her. They marry, but she has not forgotten her first love. Voiceo "
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Moving Image Institute: The Deal
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"Over our five days at the Institute, we kept returning to serious of binary oppositions: print versus online; doing it for the passion versus doing it for the pay; criticism as consumer reporting versus advocacy for artists. With such circular questions, it’s hard to get anywhere, making it easy to lapse into what filmmaker Kelly Reichardt jokingly referred to at one point as “glass half full of shit” thinking. But out of the morass of questions and unresolvable clashes came an emphasis on compromise and balance: nearly every guest speaker made some mention of making trade offs, of covering for noble failures with less-noble successes. This seemed most prevalent on Saturday, with Reichardt and Tom Kalin’s independent filmmaker panel; Ryan Werner of IFC and Don Krim from KINO representing indie distribution; and, particularly, the online film criticism panel, featuring Eugene Hernandez (indieWIRE), Michael Koresky (Reverse Shot), Matt Zoller Seitz (
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"Over our five days at the Institute, we kept returning to serious of binary oppositions: print versus online; doing it for the passion versus doing it for the pay; criticism as consumer reporting versus advocacy for artists. With such circular questions, it’s hard to get anywhere, making it easy to lapse into what filmmaker Kelly Reichardt jokingly referred to at one point as “glass half full of shit” thinking. But out of the morass of questions and unresolvable clashes came an emphasis on compromise and balance: nearly every guest speaker made some mention of making trade offs, of covering for noble failures with less-noble successes. This seemed most prevalent on Saturday, with Reichardt and Tom Kalin’s independent filmmaker panel; Ryan Werner of IFC and Don Krim from KINO representing indie distribution; and, particularly, the online film criticism panel, featuring Eugene Hernandez (indieWIRE), Michael Koresky (Reverse Shot), Matt Zoller Seitz (
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Making 'The New World'
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"Making 'The New World' There's no Spout link for this movie. It's a documentary that is included on the DVD for The New World. It's a reminder of the incredible amount of work that is put into some movies that you can hardly even imagine, especially when you have a director and team who are really dedicated to such a huge and somewhat unusual project.While you do learn many interesting things about the film and some things of historical interest, there's nothing that really makes this making-of documentary stand out. Actually I was hoping (although I had no reason to) that I would finally get to see or hear a bit of Malick talking or at least more than a glimpse of him in action. No such luck. The guy is obviously still as shy and reclusive from appearing personally to the public.Something else kind of strange, this was directed by Austin Jack Lynch, the son of David Lynch.Rating: 7/10 "
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"This blog entry is part of my “movie year countdown round #2”. Read more about that here.The New WorldWell it's strange but I seem to like each of Malick's subsequent movies less and less. Badlands is one of my absolute favoirtes of all time. In the cold, decisive world of movie ratings I gave it at 10. Days of Heaven I gave a 9, The Thin Red Line an 8, and The New World a 7.I feel like the movies are losing the inherent ironic humor of his characters and narration for something that's trying to be more poetic and profound in it's sincerity. It's not connecting with me as much.I don't think I ever really connect with Malick's characters. I guess at first I didn't think we were supposed to. But now he uses the same distancing techniques on conjunction with techniques that seem to be striving for the opposite. I won't deny the cinematography is gorgeous. The worlds and history come alive to an extent that is rare on screen. Bu ... "
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FilmCouch #22
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"Remakes: The Weinsteins are remaking Seven Samurai. Is it sacrilege? What if Pulp Fiction and The Matrix were remakes? We speculate the originals: Pulp Fiction (1975), The Dot-Matrix (1971). Movies remaking (and reshaping) history: Once Upon a Time in America, The New World, The Patriot and more. Download FilmCouch #22 or subscribe in the iTunes store (search for “filmcouch” or click here to launch iTunes) and a new free episode will download every Friday.
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