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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
southendmd:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on June 18, 2011, 12:48:57 am ---I was wishing you had posted a picture, but I saw her in the video and see what you mean! Though does the sister have brown eyes? Vera's are so strikingly light blue.
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Good pick up, K, on the eyes, I mean. I found a photo of them. The sister's name is Taissa (ta-EE-sa):
southendmd:
--- Quote from: Mandy21 on June 17, 2011, 09:13:49 pm ---Paul, I swear, you are a neverending bounty of trivial knowledge of all topics. What would we ever do without you?
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:-*
Front-Ranger:
Just came from seeing Midnight in Paris. It was fun in a wistful sort of way. Since Owen Wilson is a blonde, I thought how much better Heath would have been in the role. Heath and Woody Allen...that would have been quite a combination. The parts with the '20s celebrities were enticing and quite a tease. I wish those characters had been developed more. Luis Bunuel as a dunce, getting his inspiration from surfer dude Owen? It was great to see Carla Bruni in a role as a working woman in Paris...she was great!!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Tony-Ranger on July 17, 2011, 12:02:19 am ---I wish those characters had been developed more.
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I thought so, too.
But I really liked Owen Wilson. Well, I always like him. He seems surfer-dudish, but he's really smart. He co-wrote The Royal Tenenbaums, one of my favorite movies, and once wrote an eloquent and funny letter to the New Yorker taking down movie critic David Denby, who had said some out-of-line things (he's right -- I'd read Denby's review, and it was harsh) about Ben Stiller:
http://gawker.com/032504/gossip/owen-wilson/owen-wilson-comes-to-buddy-ben-stillers-defense
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I read David Denby's piece on Ben Stiller with great interest (The Current Cinema, January 24th & 31st). Not because it was good or fair toward my friend but exactly because it wasn't. I've acted in two hundred and thirty-seven buddy movies and, with that experience, I've developed an almost preternatural feel for the beats that any good buddy movie must have. And maybe the most crucial audience-rewarding beat is where one buddy comes to the aid of the other guy to help defeat a villain. Or bully. Or jerk. Someone the audience can really root against. And in Denby I realized excitedly that I had hit the trifecta. How could an audience not be dying for a real "Billy Jack" moment of reckoning for Denby after he dismisses or diminishes or just plain insults practically everything Stiller had ever worked on? And not letting it rest there, in true bully fashion Denby moves on to take some shots at the way Ben looks and even his Jewishness, describing him as the "latest, and crudest, version of the urban Jewish male on the make." The audience is practically howling for blood! I really wish I could deliver for them—but that's Jackie Chan's role.
Owen Wilson
Dallas, Texas
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oilgun:
Tonight, at the Montreal Fantasia film fest, I saw
A lonely Place to Die - A white-knuckle tense mountain climbing thriller from Scotland. I was on the edge of my seat from start to finsih. I highly recommend it. Melissa George leads the excellent cast which includes Ed (Eragon) Speleers:
Review:
http://twitchfilm.com/reviews/2011/07/fantasia-2011-a-lonely-place-to-die-review.php
Then I saw Another Earth which was a completely different experience. A low budget, intimate, philosophical, melancholic & gripping sci-fi drama. Well worth seeing! The performances by the two leads, it's basically a two-hander, are excellent. An intelligent and quietly affecting film. It's being released on Aug 5th
Review:
http://twitchfilm.com/reviews/2011/07/fantasia-2011-another-earth-review.php
Trailer:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8hEwMMDtFY[/youtube]
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