The Brothers Bloom isn’t just a movie about a con. It is itself a confidence trick. The difference is that the marks are all sitting in the audience instead of on the screen.
Deploying his now trademarked abundance of style and excess of patter, writer/director Rian Johnson (Brick) tries for two hours to distract the audience [...]
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I’m not sure there’s a bad time to be Rachel Weisz, but the last few weeks seem like especially good ones because her name keeps turning up everywhere.
She’ll be seen later this year in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Lovely Bones; Alejandro Amenábar’s Agora with Weisz as fourth century mathematician, philosopher and astronomer Hypatia of [...]
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It’s been kicked around and it’s been delayed, but here are the first 7 minutes to The Brothers Bloom, Rian Johnson’s anticipated (in some quarters) follow up to his debut film Brick to help you decide for yourself:
You can also check out a different clip over at Apple.
I’ve tried to be optimistic about this one [...]
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AFI announced yesterday that two highly anticipated films, Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler and Steven Soderbergh’s Che will be making their West Coast premieres at the 2008 AFI Fest.
Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival, The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke will screen November 1 at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Che starring Benicio Del Toro [...]
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Here are a few more odds and ends that didn’t quite warrant their own story. As always, they’re 100% Varietese free…
Ben Affleck is in talks to rewrite, direct and star in The Town described as a “dark heist-romance hybrid” revolving around a love triangle between a thief, a bank manager and an FBI agent. Adrian [...]
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For this batch of Toronto reviews, I’m mostly dispensing with plot synopses because I already recently summarized these movies in the fall forecast. If you enjoy your LiC regurgitated story blurbs, let me know and perhaps they’ll return with the next round.
Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Variety’s John Anderson liked it a little but called [...]
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As Toronto fires up and Venice winds down, here’s a smattering of reviews of the higher profile films critics are talking about.
The Wrestler. Though he found the plot of Darren Aronofsky’s film predictable at times, THR’s Stephen Farber liked this story of a former wrestling star, especially the performances, calling Mickey Rourke’s a career-best:
“Rourke dispenses [...]
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I listed Rian (Brick) Johnson’s The Brothers Bloom in the October Fall Forecast, but Johnson confirmed on his own message board that it’s being moved back to a limited release on December 19 with a wide release to follow in January.
According to Johnson:
“October and November are crowded as hell, it’s a tough tough market, especially for [...]
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Philip Seymour Hoffman and Samantha Morton in
Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York
Moving right along with the Fall Forecast. Here’s what’s coming up in October. Once again, all dates are subject to change based on studio whim. LiC’s picks are starred.
October 3
An American Carol. I love Airplane! as much as anyone, but David Zucker’s name hasn’t been attached [...]
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According to IGN’s Todd Gilchrist, Rian Johnson (Brick) is set to follow up The Brothers Bloom with a sci-fi film called Looper.
He doesn’t say much about the story, but he says it’s violent and dark, involves time travel as a plot device and will focus on characters more than “fantastical conceits.”
I wasn’t as impressed by [...]
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