Thanks to the readers who pointed out that, indeed, Che was panned by Variety’s Todd McCarthy, who writes: Neither half feels remotely like a stand-alone film that would satisfy audiences on its own, while the entirety offers far too many aggravations for the paltry rewards it offers. Scattered partisans are likely to step forward, but pic in its current form is...
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...
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] ...
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...
In a press conference with Clint Eastwood and Angelina Jolie the director and star said that the title change from Changeling to The Exchange was something they hadn’t yet heard, as the AFP reports: Eastwood picked up on a line of questioning at the post-screening press conference about the elusive nature of truth when asked about the Universal press release. “It’s...
Thanks to a tip from a reader, The Changeling has changed its name to “The Exchange,” according to Screen Daily. Variety’s Todd McCarthy gives it high praise, “emotionally powerful and stylistically sure-handed”: A dozen filmmakers could have taken a dozen different approaches to the same material — sensationalistic, melodramatic,...
