Random Movie Talk Twelve (no, not that horrid Schumacher movie)

[cobl04]

He was Lee Jordan, Fred & George's friend, the Quidditch commentator.

just did a google search

 

[powerhour24]

I know, right?

 

[powerhour24]

‪Community - Magnitude (Pop pop!) 'Early 21st Century Romanticism'‬‏ - YouTube


'Pop! Pop!': The Oral History of Magnitude, the Party Machine of 'Community' | TheWrap TV

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Bout to watch Carpenter's The Thing.

You bitches.

 

[lazarus]

Starting a movie at 5:30am FTW.

Spoiler

WINTER.

 

[bono_212]

Fuck yeah, Gaf man! Enjoy that shit.

I find myself starting films at 5:00 AM or later all too often.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

I wasn't able to watch it. I had noticed it was being played on one of the Encore channels, so I figured it would be on On Demand. It wasn't. I ended up watching Sportscenter and reruns of Home Improvement instead.

^ This movie...could be a lot of fun. Or a disaster. It will be something, that's for sure.

 

[bono_212]

I'd almost hoped that wasn't coming out, I hadn't heard about it in a while

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

the STEW!

 

[powerhour24]

Those are some atrocious costumes.

 

[bono_212]

Snow White, that famed warrior.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Those are some atrocious costumes.

KStew

 

[lazarus]

THE LlZE!

 

[Jive Turkey]

Watched Order of the Phoenix and Half Blood Prince over the last couple days. I'm catching up like a mu'fucker. Really liked them. The series seems to be getting better and more mature, which is nice. But the more I see, the more Goblet of Fire seems to stick out as an ugly stepchild. Was a decent movie, but the plot seemed a little pointless. Instead of moving the narrative of the series forward, it was about some silly wizard competition (that eventually moved the story along), that seems really out of place now. That one feels like an issue of the Hardy Boys or something where the books don't necessarily string together; they're just an independent entity. I realize the ending was really important, but there could have been a more concise way of going about it. Anyone else feel that way?
But anyway, really liked the last couple I saw. The creature content was slim in Half Blood Prince, but that's okay I suppose as long as they make up for it. Also, I didn't like that Giant creature in Order of the Phoenix. He looked like a cartoon and wasn't rendered very well, so he didn't blend into the scenes. As a matter of fact, fuck that giant creature. I liked the dead flying horse things though. But the invalid Voldamort thing is still my favourite. Gonna rewatch the first two before I move on the Deathly Hallows 1

 

[powerhour24]

Goblet of Fire is all over the place. It gets the characters more right than a lot of the rest of the series doesn't, but it comes from a novel with such a sprawling plot and unlike POA and all of the Yates films, they couldn't commit to streamlining the novel and as such is really choppy as we get bits and pieces of things. (like the reporter, who actually plays an important role in Order of the Phoenix, so it made sense to set her up, but then they didn't use her later in GOF or at all in OOTP; and the biggest example is the World Cup that didn't really happen). There are high stakes for a lot of the characters, but overall I agree with you JT, even in the novel I've always been a little down on Goblet of Fire and the film and the novel are often sited as people's favorite.

That said, they absolutely nailed the maze scene on, it's pitch perfect and the filmmakers made such a coup to convince Ralph Fiennes to be Voldemort. I also love how the child actor that played him as Tom Riddle in Half-Blood Prince is Fiennes' nephew.

 

[Jive Turkey]

I've also found myself laughing a lot more than I expected. There are a lot of little funny gags that are quite charming. You really get the sense that the filmmakers were having a lot of fun with these. Nice to see

 

[powerhour24]

Yo JT,


Bono, U2 doc will open Toronto International Film Festival - latimes.com


I was pretty tempted to go this year anyway...

 

[Jive Turkey]

Ya, I was just looking at that man. Pretty cool and rumours of an acoustic set from Bono and Edge too! I've gone to our documentary festival a bunch of times (Hot Docs), but never TIFF. I'm definitely going to try to get tickets for this one

 

[powerhour24]

I've wanted to go in years past, this might just be what puts me over the edge to finally go.

 

[powerhour24]

Cameron Crowe's Pearl Jam documentary is premiering there too.

 

[Hewson]

Cameron Crowe's Pearl Jam documentary is premiering there too.

It premiers at TIFF on 9/10, then it'll also be shown Sep 20 at a yet TBD location here in Boston as well as many other cities...

PJ20

 

[powerhour24]

Yeah, if I don't make it to TIFF I may just hold out, it's premiering on TV in October.

 

[Lancemc]

Speaking of film fests, Venice this year kicks all sorts of ass:

In Competition:
“Alps,” directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
“A Burning Hot Summer,” directed by Philippe Garrel
“Carnage,” directed by Roman Polanski
“Contagion,” directed by Steven Soderbergh
“A Dangerous Method,” directed by David Cronenberg
“Dark Horse,” directed by Todd Solondz
“The Exchange,” directed by Eran Kolirin
“Faust,” directed by Alexander Sokurov
“Himizu,” directed by Sion Sono
“Killer Joe,” directed by William Friedkin
“The Ides of March,” directed by George Clooney (Opening Night)
“Last Day on Earth,” directed by Abel Ferrara
“The Moth Diaries,” directed by Mary Harron
“Poulet aux prunes,” directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
“Quando la notte,” directed by Cristina Comencini
“Seediq Bale,” directed by Wei Te-sheng
“Shame,” directed by Steve McQueen
“Terraferma,” directed by Emanuele Crialese
“Texas Killing Fields” directed by Ami Canaan Mann
“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,” directed by Tomas Alfredson
“L’ultimo terrestre,” directed by Gipi
“W.E.,” directed by Madonna
“Wuthering Heights,” directed by Andrea Arnold

Out of Competition:
“La folie Almayer,” directed by Chantal Akerman

Horizons section:
“I’m Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad and the Beautiful,” directed by Jonathan Demme
“Sal,” directed by James Franco

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

“Shame,” directed by Steve McQueen

Holy shit, back from the dead? I need to call my Mom. She loved him.

I think this has a chance to be one of the best films ever made by a corpse.

 

[mad1]

anyone here seen Rubber?

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

anyone here used Rubber?

Dalton never has.

 

[Lancemc]

TIFF


Galas

Albert Nobbs (Rodrigo Garcia, Ireland)
Butter (Jim Field Smith, USA)
A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg, France/Ireland/UK/Germany/Canada)
From the Sky Down (Davis Guggenheim, USA)
A Happy Event (Rémi Bezançon, France)
The Ides of March (George Clooney, USA)
The Lady (Luc Besson, France/UK)
Moneyball (Bennett Miller, USA)
Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding (Bruce Beresford, USA)
Take this Waltz (Sarah Polley, Canada)
W.E. (Madonna, UK)

Special Presentations

11 Flowers (Wang Xiaoshuai, China/France)
50/50 (Jonathan Levine, USA)
360 (Fernando Meirelles, UK/Austria/France/Brazil)
The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius, France)
Americano (Mathieu Demy, France)
Anonymous (Roland Emmerich, Germany)
A Better Life (Cédric Khan, France)
Burning Man (Jonathan Teplitzky, Australia)
Chicken with Plums (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud, France/Germany/Belgium)
Coriolanus (Ralph Fiennes, UK)
Countdown (Huh Jong-ho, Korea)
Dark Horse (Todd Solondz, USA)
The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies, UK)
The Descendants (Alexander Payne, USA)
Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn, USA)
Elles (Malgoska Szumowska, France/Poland/Germany)
Eye of the Storm (Fred Schepisi, Australia)
Friends with Kids (Jennifer Westfeldt, USA)
Habemus Papam (Nanni Moretti, Italy/France)
Headhunters (Morten Tyldum, Norway)
Hick (Derick Martini, USA)
The Hunter (Daniel Nettheim, Australia)
Jeff, Who Lives at Home (Jay Duplass & Mark Duplass, USA)
Killer Joe (William Friedkin, USA)
Like Crazy (Drake Doremus, USA)
Machine Gun Preacher (Marc Forster, USA)
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin, USA)
Melancholia (Lars von Trier, Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany)
The Oranges (Julian Farino, USA)
Pearl Jam Twenty (Cameron Crowe, USA)
Rampart (Oren Moverman, USA)
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Lasse Hallstöm, UK)
Shame (Steve McQueen, UK)
A Simple Life (Ann Hui, HK/China)
The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols, USA)
Ten Year (Jamie Linden, USA)
Trishna (Michael Winterbottom, UK)
Twixt (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)
Tyrannosaur (Paddy Considine, UK)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay, UK)
Where Do We Go Now? (Nadine Labaki, France/Lebanon/Italy/Egypt)
Woman in the Fifth (Pawel Pawlikowski, France/Poland/United Kingdom)

 

[LMP]

Yeah, shit. I was surprised by the Guggenheim Achtung Baby doc opening the fest.

New York's line-up may rule as well.

 

[lazarus]

I'm looking forward to the new Yorgos Lanthimos more than anything else at either festival, by far.

 

[Lancemc]

Akerman for Venice, Davies for Toronto... easily.

As far as premiers anyway. We Need to Talk About Kevin is probably still my most anticipated remaining film of the year.