J. Hoberman, Village Voice: “A painful movie to endure.” Alonso Duralde, MSNBC: “Whatever your preconceived notions, W. manages to be both exactly what you thought it would be and something else entirely.” Stephanie Zacharek, Salon: “I know it’s probably taking the artistic high road to view George W. Bush compassionately. But I’m...
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Winner of Best Documentary at Tribeca, Pray the Devil Back to Hell recounts the courageous efforts of Liberian women to overcome dictator Charles Taylor and end decades of warlord violence. Reticker, whose docus have all concerned women, presents the females’ calm visages and voices of reason in direct contrast to the unctuous public doublespeak of Taylor and the...
Thanks to AD reader Daniel for pointing us to the Synecdoche Facebook page where they have an MP3 of Jon Brion’s Little Person.¬† I haven’t seen many films being marketed on Facebook yet – and probably users haven’t quite adjusted themselves to looking for films there in the first place but it soon will be. [update: if the above link is broken,...
There’s something not quite right about this. The last remaining Titanic survivor is being forced to auction off her possessions to pay her nursing home fees while the film of the tragedy is still positioned as the higher money-maker of all time. Perhaps she’s already been paid as a source on the film but that money is gone. If I were Jim Cameron I’d...
Dave Karger is floating the idea that The Road may become a 2009 release. He cites a few reasons for this but doesn’t report any confirmation yet, mainly that the big push will be for The Reader rather than The Road. Either way, the real loser, Karger says, will be Viggo Mortensen: “Even though he’s got two other films this fall (Appaloosa and the upcoming...
It isn’t exactly the kind of glowing review you’d want if your film is at the top of the list where Oscar handicaps are concerned which, I’ll admit, isn’t saying much. True that the subject matter to head straight for the heart of the Academy demo, it’s probably going to need a bit more than Todd McCarthy seems prepared to give it: Although...
Yeah, I know it’s a few days old by now, but Slashfilm recently posted some lovely new stills of Milk, which is great since the same images have been floating around the web for so long. I don’t know if it’s a strategy or not but I like it as a way to build anticipation among the chattering class. Remember how little of There Will Be Blood anyone saw? ...
The most massive collection of movie stats on the web has mountains of data than can be mined to forecast Oscarworthiness. Simply weighing ratings scores against known Oscar history gives us a quick and dirty indication of nominee likelihood. Daniel mentioned this in a comment a few minutes ago, just as I was putting the finishing touches on these charts — charts...