Archive for November, 2007

Down South, Singing the Indie Blues

November 30th, 2007 by By JOHN ANDERSON
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Twenty-seven years and 16 features after they began their mutual career, John Sayles and Maggie Renzi are still making...

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Striking Screenwriters Dismiss New Proposals

November 30th, 2007 by By MICHAEL CIEPLY
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The screenwriters called the proposals from producers a “a massive rollback,” and called on their members to continue their...

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No Country for Old Men

November 21st, 2007 by Rolling Stone Movie Reviews
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Miramax Films' 'No Country for Old Men' Photo Starring:
Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kel...
Review:
Misguided souls will tell you that No Country for Old Men is out for blood, focused on vengeance and unconcerned with the larger world outside a standard-issue suspense plot. Those people, of course, are deaf, dumb and blind to anything that isn't spelled out between commercials on dying TV networks. Joel and Ethan Coen's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel is an indisputably great movie, at this point the...

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I’m Not There

November 21st, 2007 by Rolling Stone Movie Reviews
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Photo Starring:
Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell, Richard Gere, Julianne Moore, Char...
Review:
So what if nothing is revealed. Todd Haynes is a mischievous visionary who puts the music and the myth of Bob Dylan before us in I'm Not There and dares us not to revel in the troubadour's poetic, contentious, ever-changing essence. It's a feast for the eyes, the ears and the Dylanologist scratching around our minds and hearts. And, get this, never once does Haynes mention the name of the mesmeric changeling at his film's center. There's no...

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Beowulf

November 21st, 2007 by Rolling Stone Movie Reviews
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Photo Starring:
Brendan Gleeson, Anthony Hopkins, Ray Winstone, Robin Wright-Penn...
Review:
I expected the film version of the epically tedious Old English poem to be a craptacular. Director Robert Zemeckis used the same motion-capture process in 2004's The Polar Express and turned live actors into digital humans who looked invaded by body snatchers. Boy, have things changed. The eighth-century Beowulf, goosed into twenty-first-century life by a screenplay from sci-fi guru Neil Gaiman and Pulp Fiction's Roger Avary, will have you jumping out of your skin and begging for more. Be...

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