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Youth Without Youth (2007)
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"Youth Without Youth starts as a visual spectacle and I had my doubts about 30 minutes in if the story was going to keep up. Bruno Ganz, Wim Wender's muse, plays along side Roth as the mad scientist. He actually says something like "you are the most valuable specimen on the face of the earth. Come, have your chicken." Its based on a story by Mircea Eliade and tells the tale of an older man struck by lightning who reverts to young age and becomes blessed with powers including telekinesis. He re-meets his bride (played very nicely by the beautiful Alexandra Maria Lara, also infected by the lightning) and gets another stab at the relationship only to find out the Nazis are interested in his powers, forcing him to flee his native Hungary. This also has something to do with Theology and certainly is based in the history of Philosophy and probably appeals to those types.It is beautiful to watch, and certainly on the Blu-Ray. But for me, its a total mess. "
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10 Small Roles for Big Stars
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"We’re less than a week away from the release of Tropic Thunder, and as the reviews and puff pieces make their way onto the web, there’s one thing clearly uniting the media’s coverage: talk of Tom Cruise’s appearance in a small role as a Hollywood studio boss. Everyone seems to agree that he steals the show and that his performance — or the joke surrounding it — is one of the comedy’s major highlights, if not the actual best part. Of course, we can expect a good cameo from Cruise every now and then. He showed up for a bit part in Young Guns and played himself as playing “Austin Powers” in Austin Powers in Goldmember. But from what it sounds like, his role in Tropic Thunder is featured for longer than might qualify as a cameo. Some are regardless referring to the performance as an “extended cameo”, and in theory it certainly fits in with the huge crop of so-called “ironic cameos” that have become popular in movies and TV in the last ten years. Still, despite my not having yet seen th ... "
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Blog Nosh 11/27/07
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"Some of these links still date back to before the weekend. What can I say? It took a couple of days to make it all the way through my feeds. Only freshies tomorrow, I promise. John Brownlee offers a sneak peak at Ghostbusters 3, the videogame-only continuation of the saga, featuring a script by Dan Ackroyd and the voices of Ackroyd, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson. “Will Ghostbusters 3 be a worthy successor to the franchise? It’s still too early to say, but early game footage of Ghostbusters 3 has leaked out, and it looks incredible.” That footage is embedded above. We’re sure Ronnie Bronstein is very excited about his Spirit Award nomination, but Frownland is also up for an award at the Gothams, the New York-centric film awards put on by Find Independent’s former parent company, IFP, which takes place tonight. And as if the stakes weren’t high enough already, Michael Tully
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"Francis Ford Coppola accuses Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro and Jack Nicholson of being old, rich, and lazy. While opening up another bottle of wine on his estate and noodling with his first film in ten years. Hannah Takes the Stairs is playing the London Film Festival. Xan Brooks has a mixed review: “Hannah Takes the Stairs is a film that showcases much of what is good about independent American cinema: its naturalistic, free-form rush comes embroidered with the sort of casual epiphanies that a bigger production would have either ironed out or ignored altogether. But it is also prey to much that is bad.” Ang Lee has trimmed “7 or 8 minutes” from the version of Lust, Caution set for Chinese release, but the film has yet to pass that country’s censorship board, and the longer the release is delayed, the greater the potential damage from piracy. A release date an "
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Top 15 Fall Films I'm Looking F ...
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"Fall is my favorite time of year. Not just because it's the time of year when New York City is at its most beautiful, thus reminding us all why we continue in this abusive relationship with it, but because the movies start to get good again after the onslaught of big-budget blockbusters that are only occasionally watchable. People seem to think that, with each passing year, the movies get worse and worse. Well, if you're looking at crap like Transformers (the new nadir of megahit blockbuster quality), then yeah. But there's a whole crop of ambitious, interesting films that come out every fall and - even if they end up being bad - you have to give them credit for trying. Unlike Transformers. So here's my list of 15 films that I am dying to see this fall. Some are already out (and I'm negotiating with my wife to be able to find the time to see them) and some I still wait in painful anticipation for: 15. American Gangster - Ridley Scott might have actually ... "
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The Return of Francis Ford Coppola
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"I've spent much of the morning noodling around on the website for Francis Ford Coppola's upcoming film, Youth Without Youth***. Sony Classics bought distribution rights to Coppola's first film in a decade last March; at the time, Anne Thompson offered this description: Inspired by his daughter Sofia to make a low-budget personal film, Coppola opted not to take the festival route, preferring to fly under the radar. The indie-financed film, which Coppola shot last year in Romania, is set during World War II and stars Tim Roth as a 70-year-old professor who is struck by lightning, suddenly turns 40 and becomes brilliant. (He also sprouts a doppelganger.) His quest is to discover the origin of language and consciousness. By movie?s end he and his lady love (Alexandra Maria Lara) speak in tongues?sans subtitles...The movie has been compared to an arty Raiders of the Lost Ark. In keeping with Coppola's apparent desire to keep the project personal, the web site functions as a kind of ... "
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