No way for Anthony Hopkins, Damien?Damien wrote:criddic3 wrote:Fracture has Ryan Gosling and Anthony Hopkins.
From the sublime to the ridiculous.
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- Eric
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I don't usually follow titles as they're in production, so I don't typically start anticipating films until they're done and showing up in previews. The only title I think I remember being interested in seeing is the Chris Rock film based on Eric Rohmer.
No offense Jack but I dearly hope that once Scorsese has his oscar we are not in for years of the masses clamouring for Ridley Scott to win one. While I find Scorsese's body of work overrated on balance, he at least has a distinct voice and talent, as well as an admirable commitment to and knowledge of cinema history.jack wrote:American Gangster.
Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington in a Cop/Drug Dealer epic set in 1970s Harlem directed by Ridley Scott.
For the love of God will Sir Ridley win his Oscar already...
Scott's work relies on flashy photography and shallow characterization and I'd have been happy if he'd carried on his entire career as he started, making 30 second TV commercials - taking time out only to make Alien and Thelma & Louise.
And I say this of a fellow Northeast Englander!
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i know, and then i was totally proven wrong...oh wait, no never mind...Damien wrote:rolo, I think the reason I "lashed" you was for saying that Bill Condon didn't deserve the Oscar, without having seen the film.
"When it comes to the subject of torture, I trust a woman who was married to James Cameron for three years."
-- Amy Poehler in praise of Zero Dark Thirty director Kathryn Bigelow
-- Amy Poehler in praise of Zero Dark Thirty director Kathryn Bigelow
I'm also looking forward to I Could Never Be Your Woman, Amy Heckerling's first film in over a decade, with two of Hollywood's most beautiful people, Michelle Pfeiffer and Paul Rudd. Although it's been delayed for months, the trailer makes it look pretty good.
"...it is the weak who are cruel, and...gentleness is only to be expected from the strong." - Leo Reston
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable." - Jodie Foster
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable." - Jodie Foster
I was so caught by the story and so moved by the characteres, that I couldn´t perceive your observations.Penelope wrote:Hustler wrote:Penelope wrote:
Especially Magnolia.
Tell me why, please
Anderson is a director who is more blatently pretentious than Inirritu; every single frame has a "Look, Ma! I'm making a film!" vibe to it that is vomitously off-putting; he's so in love with his own self-perceived talents that he fails to recognize that his "characters" are nothing more than types or that his technique--taking the worst aspects of Altman and Lynch and throwing them into a blender--isn't "revelatory" but, rather, derivative and just plain silly. After the first ten minutes of Magnolia, I wanted to slit my own throat.
Anderson is a director who is more blatently pretentious than Inirritu; every single frame has a "Look, Ma! I'm making a film!" vibe to it that is vomitously off-putting; he's so in love with his own self-perceived talents that he fails to recognize that his "characters" are nothing more than types or that his technique--taking the worst aspects of Altman and Lynch and throwing them into a blender--isn't "revelatory" but, rather, derivative and just plain silly. After the first ten minutes of Magnolia, I wanted to slit my own throat.Hustler wrote:Penelope wrote:Hustler wrote:
All of them, including Magnolia?
Especially Magnolia.
Tell me why, please
"...it is the weak who are cruel, and...gentleness is only to be expected from the strong." - Leo Reston
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable." - Jodie Foster
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable." - Jodie Foster