Michael Cera and Kat Dennings in Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
Happy Monday everyone and welcome to LiC’s weekly look at how you the beloved reader spent your movie weekend. Consider it an open thread with a movie-centric focus. Talk about what you’ve seen lately or anything else that’s on your mind. You can even talk [...]

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The wide releases are a mixed bag this week so let’s cut through the crap and lead off with a couple of movies that are only playing in limited release but have received the coveted LiC stamp of approval.

Ballast Stark, minimalist and naturalistic, Ballast may not be the feel-good movie of the fall, but it’s a [...]

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Some people are so blind, they can’t see a metaphor even when it’s right in front of them.
I thought the protests over Tropic Thunder were the silliest ever, but now blind activists are planning on picketing the release of Fernando Meirelles’ Blindness, a film about society crumbling when it’s hit by an epidemic of sightlessness.
Marc Maurer, [...]

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The other day I passed along news of the much improved critical reaction at Toronto to Fernando Meirelles’ Blindness which has been re-edited and de-voiceovered since it got a mixed response at Cannes. Now according to an email I just received, Miramax has dropped the planned September 26 limited release of the film and it will be opening wide [...]

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Is it just me or is there a little bit of Toronto ennui in the air? It’s not just indifference at LiC, I’m noticing it on the blogs actually covering the event. I didn’t focus on Toronto last year so perhaps this is par for the course.
I didn’t mention yesterday that Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler [...]

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Julianne Moore in Blindness
One of the more anticipated films going into Cannes last spring was Blindness, the opening night selection from Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardner) about a mysterious epidemic that causes people to go blind. With Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore, Danny Glover and Gael Garcia Bernal, it seemed like it couldn’t [...]

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George Clooney and Frances McDormand in Burn After Reading
You can almost hear the air being let out of the summer movie season. Overall it was a pretty decent four months of movies, but I for one am glad to see it coming to an end. Now it’s time to look forward to the last third [...]

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