Three days at the festival and there are a lot of blank stares at the Lido, no one seems to know enough about what is happening here. The same time a year later, do not even have a movie of a circle in my guide to detection, and from what I’ve been listening to, the selection is a bit hit and missUsually, the opening week’s carnage - the first Saturday of last year saw two movies in the morning and had eight interviews in the afternoon, including Ridley Scott, Ang Lee and Casey Affleck.
Even after a quarter century in the business that have not yet learned (well, actually) read more

Whatever your political viewpoint, I hope we all agree that just plain suck bad movies. With this in mind, I invite you to join me in preparing to condemn the film parody that seems to be An American Carol (see trailer here), a film in which a filmmaker named Michael Malone Liberal taught the error of his ways by the ghosts of Patton, George Washington and country singer Trace Adkins as the Grim Reaper.
Now, as regular readers may have found out, my policy is at the extreme left wing of the spectrum (for American standards, all I am a Communist, in English terms, somewhere around a read more

Messy, noisy and a little below the market … No, that’s not an appreciation of the style director Michael Bay, but the opinion of some who hate moviegoers popcorn which complaints have been Picturehouse Cinemas, a popular chain based arthouse cinemas United Kingdom, in the opinion of management the prohibition of salt / sweet treat.
Since the Lumiere brothers caught a train’s arrival at the station of La Ciotat, film fans have been stuffing his face with the noisy lunch and now it seems that since the advent of the peas and olives, wasabi, humble nucleus days may be read more

The Venice Film Festival opened today with its jumble of all time: the ineptitude and confusion. To “Periodici” (an Italian euphemism for “get to the end of the queue and stay there) means people like me, however, began with a rare press conference that, as it turns out, rather perfectly reflected the themes of the film. Luckily, I had been at the Locarno film festival in Switzerland at the Italian border, the other week, so I felt like I had paved the way of life here, but it is still a little getting used . Because he was a bunfight, I retired to a quiet area of the read more

The Film Festival of San Sebastian had a great, if confusing, will begin on Thursday. Sexy, flirty and fun (and screening in the sidebar Zabaltegi, no official competition), which laid the foundation for what came later, in the sense that San Sebastian is a relaxed and friendly festival that is not taken as seriously like some other festivals, including Cannes and … well, just CannesActually I was not here in time, but there was much confusion about whether Richard Eyre opened, The Other Man or Woody Allen Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Indeed, it was Eyre’s film. But if we are only read more

Word was already coming to the first, on the half hour gap between the two, and, thank God, it was good. Coincidentally, I met in the game Rourke Rachel Married on Wednesday, and was surprised to find very charming, very charming and disarming accessible in a way that did not expect. There is a lot of his real personality, I am then in The Wrestler, a film that plays like a Rocky movie for children of the 80s, but with a greater willingness to explore the dark side of his anti-heroAnd 100 minutes later I had to agree. “The first glimmer of hope in the festival of shit read more

As we have seen in the commercial documents, including Variety and the screen, Bloom is not proving to be for all tastes. The LFF unveiled its line-up today and as I suspected it was very solid. As I write, Bloom has just had its North American premiere in Toronto. In a way I had intuited, also, The Brothers Bloom will be in the square as well, enjoy a gala screening courtesy of American Airlines. Director Rian Johnson tells me, with some relief that was “OK” *, and I think the Odeon West End is the perfect place to see their love story swindler. But trade is not exactly for read more

Heroes began its third series last night and is now officially more lost than lost. After a second season stunted by writers strike, we hope to understand some of grip “Save the cheerleader” for action. But if the cheerleader is not needed saving, and if Sylar can be stopped by a simple lattice door, where can we go from here?OK, this is not cinema, but the film-esque, and has us all talking, so I wanted to share.
We are now blurred in the plot area, where writers shred all notes in character (if they had any), and re-write, a week at a time, losing track of what has gone read more

Heroes began its third series last night and is now officially more lost than lost. OK, this is not cinema, but the film-esque, and has us all talking, so I wanted to share. After a second season stunted by writers strike, we hope to understand some of grip “Save the cheerleader” for action. But if the cheerleader is not needed saving, and if Sylar can be stopped by a simple lattice door, where can we go from here?
We are now blurred in the plot area, where writers shred all notes in character (if they had any), and re-write, a week at a time, losing track of what has gone read more

Admittedly, this is a question that has left me uncertain.Having seen the trailer for $ 80 million adaptation of Watchmen Warner Brothers in a crowded theater, the excitement was palpable. Do register with the masses, as equally dark 300 last year? Can you leave the box fanboy, the nightmare of films like V for Vendetta and A History of Violence? More than anything, however, left me wondering if this production will be closed to the general public to enjoy the well-informed and the fanboys only, destined to be nothing more than a cool trailer.
DC Comics, the publisher of Watchmen, read more

Sam Toy reports of the British Film Festival of Dinard ..
This is particularly true for any British journalists in attendance, no doubt we have seen a good number of films already, and not only - in the festival in the traditional way - running around like blue arsed fly, trying to see everything what is offered. So when I asked the Wise in the last minute if I wanted to cover for him, did not take long to convinceIf you ask an experienced professional festival as Damo, he will tell you that the British Film Festival in Dinard, a small coastal town in north eastern France, has a read more

Instead, he is given one of the thoughtful and intelligent dramas most of the year, no doubt full of moments of knowing, dry comedy, but the presentation of a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of arguably the most controversial president ever. With all the Bush-bait is happening in Europe, it is easy to see Bush as a buffoon redneck, redneck buffoons but not simply walk into the Oval Office, and does very well is show how W Bush Jr. gave one lap later, restless wild youth and focused on policy, partly by the need read more

Neither group, I suspect, has exactly what women expectYou could hear the cries of horror when it was announced that Hollywood hottie Josh Hartnett has signed to star in “Rain Man” in the West End. True, they calmed down a bit when it was revealed that he would be taking the role of Tom Cruise rather than Dustin Hoffman, but even so, the theater seemed to be filled with a) severe damage to the theater with the hope of being right in their prejudices and b) with stars in their eyes.
In other words, it is only there as TottyCharlie While Babbitt, a selfish wheeler-dealer read more

As a result, I developed a sort of Pavlovian response to it, and even combined running time is about four hours now (including an intermission 20 minutes), in my mind seemed far, far more time and began to stand as a prohibition of Mount Everest in the cinema. As tired as hell, I missed the first screening of Steven Soderbergh’s Che at Cannes and catch up with him, despite being shown on two occasions. Still, to get a ticket and I thought, why not?
Knowing almost nothing about Ernesto “Che” Guevara apart from what I picked up from The Motorcycle Diaries, I was ready read more

Oliver Stone, W is a film that had my doubts, and I suspect that I was afraid the film is that everyone wanted: a big, noisy, Natural Born Killers-style satire George W Bush portrayed as savage, ignorant child murderer . Instead, he is given one of the thoughtful and intelligent dramas most of the year, no doubt full of moments of knowing, dry comedy, but the presentation of a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of arguably the most controversial president ever. With all the Bush-bait is happening in Europe, it is read more