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‘Shame’ Shocks With Pitiless, NC-17 Sex | The Wrap Movies
Not a review, mostly talking about all the sex stuff. I wonder if Fassbender constantly having sex would be enough for BoobyTrap to want to see a movie that otherwise sounds like she'd hate it...
TIFF ‘11 Review: ‘Page Eight’ A Talky Spy Pic Pitting Old School Sensibilities Against New Realities > The Playlist
This has got Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Michael Gambon, Judy Davis, Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones and Ewan Bremner in it and it's a movie for TV that will be on PBS "later this year". Hopefully, someone will mention the date it airs before it actually airs...Quote:
So are we about to enter the midst of a full blown spy movie revival? That still remains to be seen. While our correspondent in Venice loved “Tinker Tailor Solider Spy,” he also cautioned that “it’s an uncompromisingly British film…and the repression of the characters may leave [the audience] feeling that it’s emotionally chilly.” And that can be said of “Page Eight” to some degree. Your feelings for the film may come from whether or not you can penetrate the mostly icy exterior Hare has carefully built for the film, but it’s too bad that even if you do break through, the politically contemporary story winds up feeling more like a BBC news special than a fully realized whodunit. [B-]
Toronto 2011: 'Shame' director surprised by controversy - latimes.com
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But ask director Steve McQueen what he thinks of the fuss and he waves it away. "I didn't do this to be provocative," he said in a Toronto hotel room Tuesday. "They say Michael is naked. Half the people in the audience have what he has, and 99% percent of the audience has seen what he has. It's the most un-shocking thing you can think of. And yet someone picks up a gun and blows someone's head off and that's normal."
James Franco Says He’s Going To Direct Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Child of God’; ‘Blood Meridian’ On Hold > The Playlist
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James Franco—man of many talents—says a lot of things and puts his name to a lot of projects. Like any artist worth his salt, or any person with good taste in literature, Franco has begun to circle the works of Cormac McCarthy with the hopes of bringing them to the big screen. Earlier this year, it was reported that Franco was attached to direct “Blood Meridian”—a forever in the works feature adaptation that has seen high profile names like Ridley Scott, John Hillcoat, Michael Haneke and Todd Field attempt to take it on in the past—but little was heard about it since. Well, taking a jaunt up to Toronto this week to help promote his ambitious installation/documentary piece “Memories of Idaho,” created out of the dailies for Gus Van Sant‘s “My Own Private Idaho,” Franco stopped by the TIFF Bell Lightbox for a Q&A and We Got This Covered were there to catch his update on “Blood Meridian” and the new McCarthy adaptation he’s working on.
“We shot a 20 minute test of it [‘Blood Meridian’] that turned out pretty well…we were gearing up to do the feature but that for various reasons is on hold, but we are going to make a movie based on his [Cormac McCarthy’s] third book ‘Child Of God,’” Franco said.
Jackie Earle Haley Joins Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’ | /Film
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Jackie Earle Haley will play Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Review: ‘Puncture’ With Chris Evans A True Story Weighed Down By Oscar Reel Antics > The Playlist
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At this point, Evans’ portrayal gives way to monologues and over-dramatic line readings and it becomes less of a Big Issues film and more like Lucas Lee’s Oscar reel. It’s an unnecessary concession to Hollywood theatrics, going from a mostly involving “Erin Brockovich”-style story of legally fighting the good fight into an over-compensatory star vehicle for the handsome, frequently-shirtless Evans. “Puncture” isn’t about an issue as much as it’s about the dedication of an obviously sick man who refused treatment for his addictions as he took on one of the biggest medical cases in history. If he wore a cape, there would be very little separating Evans’ character from another he has played: “Captain America.” [C+]
