Robert Feinberg and Ruby Lynn Reyner are finally Finishing Heaven
I spent most of Sunday decompressing so my Saturday report is a day late. It all fits into the big picture though because the first film I watched was a documentary that tests the notion of whether late is indeed better than never. Let’s just pretend I’m [...]
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Moviefone has the new James Bond trailer in HD Quicktime.
Click here to see the Low-D version.
There’s something about James Bond that’s connected directly to the part of my brain that’s still 12 or 13 years old so please forgive my continual plugging of this movie.
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The Los Angeles Film Festival Audience Awards were handed out last night.
Audiences chose The Wackness as Best Narrative Feature, Anvil! The Story of Anvil as Best Documentary Feature and Man on Wire as Best International Feature.
I didn’t catch the Anvil documentary because it played too far away from Westwood, but Man on Wire was the [...]
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So, on Friday I took time out from watching movies at the LA Film Festival…to watch more movies outside of the festival. Explain to me which part of taking a break from movies by watching movies doesn’t mean my life has spun out of control.
Anyway, first up was WALL•E. I enjoyed it, but it didn’t [...]
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The 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival wraps up today with Family Day, the premiere of Journey to the Center of the Earth, a scattering of other screenings and the announcement of the Audience Awards, but for me it ended last night.
Before I post the usual recount of yesterday’s movie activity, I wanted to report the [...]
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Baghead: Be afraid. Be very afraid.
I took some time out to catch a few new theatrical releases on Friday night so there’s only one movie from LAFF to report on.
How do you describe Mark and Jay (The Puffy Chair) Duplass’ Baghead. Is it a horror movie? Is it a comedy? Is it another entry in [...]
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Roy Andersson’s You, the Living (Du Levande)
Have you ever known someone you feel sorry for but can’t bear to spend more than a few minutes with? That describes the main character Eléonore (Eléonore Hendricks) in Josh Safdie’s The Pleasure of Being Robbed, a film I saw just before the festival began but am only now [...]
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Wednesday was a day at LAFF that probably would’ve been more rewarding earlier in the festival when my energy was higher. As it is, we’ve passed the half way mark, there’s a feeling of winding down and I’m finding myself losing patience with some of the more challenging fare. Nevertheless, I came away with some [...]
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Eve and WALL•E - Just a couple of crazy robots in love
Thursday brings us to another Weekend Forecast. Prospects are certainly better than last week.
WALL•E. I’m taking a break from the tail end of the LA Film Festival just for opening night of the latest from the fine folks at Pixar. I’ve said it before [...]
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A scene from Robert McGuire’s segment of Fear(s) of the Dark
I very nearly skipped The Wackness last night for the late addition of Winged Creatures with Kate Beckinsale. Something about The Wackness didn’t feel right. More than the mixed reviews out of Sundance, I hated the title and the prospect of another story about a [...]
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Danny Glover in John Sayles’ Honeydripper - A movie you may have missed
Ok, I know I said this item would be run on Tuesdays (if it ran at all) and here it is Wednesday again. I’ll tell you what. If you send in a self-addressed stamped envelope, I will happily refund your full LiC subscription [...]
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Choke: Two sex addicts walk into a strip club…
I might be stating the obvious here, but something has come into clearer focus for me these past few days: Beware of reviews from film festivals. They’re not to be trusted. Environment, expectations and state of mind are all mutable, they all have an impact on a [...]
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Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort in Hal Ashby’s Harold and Maude
Fact #1: Hal Ashby rules.
Fact #2: People don’t talk enough about Hal Ashby’s remarkable and unbroken run of movies during the golden age of 1970s American Cinema. Seriously. Come on. The Landlord (1970). Harold and Maude (1971). The Last Detail (1973). Shampoo (1975). Bound for Glory [...]
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Sunday was another good day at LAFF. I saw three documentaries and one narrative feature and they all ranged from good to great.
First up was Man on Wire, a superb and surprisingly moving documentary about Philippe Petit, a Frenchman, acrobat and mad dreamer who walked a tight-rope between the twin towers of Manhattan’s World Trade [...]
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It’s Watercooler time, but I’m afraid I don’t have much to start it off. At LiC it was all LAFF all the time this weekend and there was no time for new releases.
It looks like The Love Guru would’ve stiffed even if I had seen it though. Did anyone see it? Was it as bad [...]
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