Terrible Yellow Eyes!
The film I’m most looking forward to this fall is Where the Wild Things Are , opening October 16. I’m hardly alone in my anticipation; there are millions of fans of the book and the wonderful, whimsical art of Maurice Sendak
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Terrible Yellow Eyes!
Creation gets an American distributor after all.
A few days ago , Brandon mentioned that the producers of Creation — one of a few movies about Charles Darwin that have been produced this year in honour of Darwin’s 200th birthday — were claiming it had been difficult to find an American distributor for their film because evolutionary theory is “still a really hot potato in America.” Now, the Hollywood Reporter says an American distributor has been found for the film after all — and it is Newmarket Films, the same distributor that handled Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ nearly six years ago. If anyone in this business would know how to handle a “really hot potato”, it would seem to be them. Newmarket is reportedly thinking of releasing the film in December.
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Now He’s REALLY Informed!
The Informant!, No. 2 at the box office last weekend, features a future Christian as its protagonist, played by Matt Damon
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Darwin Film: Not Showing in a Theater Near You?
As Mark indicated last week, things are beginning to heat up around the Darwin biopic, Creation , in which a young Charles Darwin (played by Paul Bettany) struggles between faith and reason, particularly after the loss of a cherished daughter.
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Fallen Angel Finds a Home
David DiSabatino, director of a new documentary about the late Larry Norman, said in a recent e-mail that his film, Fallen Angel , has “obtained a commitment from a documentary niche-marketing specialist” to bring the film to “a number of theaters in early 2010.” The company, Abramorama, most recently distributed Anvil: The Story of Anvil , which received high critical marks. Critical response to Fallen Angel is somewhat lacking, except for a few things that had been written about earlier versions of the film — which I saw about a year ago. DiSabatino took some of those early criticisms to heart and apparently has done some heavy editing on the film, and says the new version has a much different vibe than the original
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Saved! + Helter Skelter + South Park=Leslie
My getaway day film at TIFF was Leslie, My Name is Evil , a camp-kitsch satire I described on Twitter as a cross between Helter Skelter , Saved! , South Park , Carrie , and Forrest Gump . With maybe a dash of Rocky Horror Picture Show thrown in for good measure. “Just because I want to make out with her,” one of the jurors says of the titular Manson girl, “doesn’t mean I wouldn’t vote to put her to death.” You get the idea
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World Films and the Buzz About Town
Despite my emphasis thus far on sneak previews of commercial studio releases, I am conscious of the fact that TIFF stand for the Toronto International Film Festival. My Tuesday, through a fluke of scheduling more than a conscious choice, had a heavy international flavor. Clare Denis returned to Africa with White Material , Amos Gitai frets about war in Israel in Carmel , and Jessica Hausner follows believers on a pilgrimage to Lourdes .
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World Films and the Buzz About Town
World Films and the Buzz About Town
Despite my emphasis thus far on sneak previews of commercial studio releases, I am conscious of the fact that TIFF stand for the Toronto International Film Festival. My Tuesday, through a fluke of scheduling more than a conscious choice, had a heavy international flavor. Clare Denis returned to Africa with White Material , Amos Gitai frets about war in Israel in Carmel , and Jessica Hausner follows believers on a pilgrimage to Lourdes .
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Ends of the World (as We Know It)
Since it would take me more time and space than I have at the moment to fully explain why I disliked The Road as much as I did, I will save that for another place and another time and instead elucidate here who I think will like it, and why. Continue reading ..
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Brilliant Star; Drab Gray
Jane Campion’s Bright Star is a heartfelt, carefully drawn, masterpiece of a love story, It contains all the fire and penetration one would expect from a Campion film, but there is also a surprising–and welcome–tenderness as well. “They were so young,” Campion said of John Keats and Fannie Brawne when introducing the film. There is a protectiveness that she clearly felt about the love story at the heart of the biography, one that shields the film from the dull hagiography that permeates so many biopics and the more strident polemicizing that gets conflated with passion in some of Campion’s earlier works.
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