It is another dazzling film from Pixar with Up. I don’t think I’ve ever cried so hard during an animated film but this one tugs at the heartstrings like no other. It is all good things – breathtaking animation, vibrant characters, risky storytelling on occasion. It is funny, joyous, sublime. Like other Pixar films, it makes you look differently at the...
Monthly Archives: May 2009
There has got to be some kind of major financial potential lost when Nicole Kidman drops out of a project. You’d think that she would be replaced with someone of equal star power. Funnily enough, Woody Allen decided not to match fame for fame and chose instead Lucy Punch to replace Kidman. Variety says that “sources” say “Punch will play a high-priced...
It’s Pixar’s world; we just wish we could live in it. With this summer’s Up mission accomplished, and before we can say, “Next!” the new teaser for Toy Story 3 appears. We assume this preview will be seen preceding screenings of Up, but Alex Billington at First Showing has a copy for us to borrow beforehand. This teaser squeezes more...
As Pablo noted overnight, “UP! just got 98% approval on RT !!! That’s higher than any other Pixar film.” Up has 18 perfect scores of 100 on Metacritic, for a year’s-best average of 90. Last year, WALL-E had 20 100′s and The Dark Knight had 16 perfect scores. (Interestingly, if not tiresomely, Stephanie Zacharek gave all three of these...
IndieWire has polled a group of critics and bloggers and published scores for the top films and filmmakers at Cannes. Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet placed first in every category except, not surprisingly, Worst Film. FILM 1) ‚ÄúA Prophet‚Äù – 14 pts (6 mentions) 2) ‚ÄúAntichrist‚Äù – 11 pts (5 mentions) 3) ‚ÄúPolice, Adjective‚Äù...
Brad Brevett at Rope of Silicon has found a promo for Bad Lieutenent that he suspects might have been made to drum up interest in Cannes. Not strictly a remake — since Herzog claims never to have seen the original — it gets my attention because of the director and then loses it just as quickly because of the star. I know I’m in the minority, but the...
