Jeff Wells, who comes up for air to write: I know I predicted this based on a reading of Peter Buchman’s script, buy [sic] the first half of Steven Soderbergh’s 268-minute Che Guevara epic is, for me, incandescent — a piece of full-on realism about the making of the Cuban revolution that I found utterly believable and politically vibrant and searing. It’s...
Monthly Archives: May 2008
This is a very strange but interesting video. I bring this to you for three reasons. The first, there is a great clip of Angelina in the film seeing her “son” for the first time. The second, to see what it was like the moment L’Exchange (Changeling) came to an end (standing ovation), and the third, to see the Cannes craziness overall and all in French: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmm9K1ITnPA[/youtube] ...
Swiped this from Poland’s The Hot Blog: Comme Au Cinema It looks a little weird, a little funny, a little Charlie Kaufman. And I’m thinking it’s going to need a lot of love from critics if it’s to be hoisted onto the awards circuit. No one else writes the way Kaufman does, at least no one who regularly works and sells scripts. There are probably...
One of my favorite filmmakers, Spike Lee, was out in rare form at the Cannes film fest talking about the whitewashing of black soldiers during WWII as he prepares to release Miracle at St. Anna РOctober release date?: Lee said: “There were many African-Americans who survived that war and who were upset at Clint for not having one [in the films]. That was...
So, it was suggested that we add Iron Man to visual effects and sound. Good suggestion. I’m opening this thread for you all to let loose your suggestions – but please keep them only to either movies that have been seen and WIDELY reviewed, that is, actual critics have reviewed the movie (Aint it Cool doesn’t count for Oscar). Or movies that have been...