The bride wore…yellow
The big news at LiC over the extended holiday weekend was The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on Christmas morning. I’m a little talked out about that one at the moment, but feel free to join in the conversation over on the review thread anyway or simply add your two cents here – [...]
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I just finished watching the day-after rerun of this episode of Charlie Rose which originally aired Christmas night. Charlie has an unfortunate habit of dropping plot spoilers willy nilly and, though he’s not as bad here as he was on two episodes about The Reader (author Bernhard Schlink one night and Kate Winslet, David Kross, [...]
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Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
It is said that youth is wasted on the young, but in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the title character is blessed – and cursed – to live life the other way around. Born a frail, infant-sized old man with cataracts and arthritis, [...]
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I caved in and watched the teaser trailer for David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton, but I’m drawing the line on this one. Nothing could make me want to see the movie more, so why risk ruining it before I see it? Anyway, I’m a [...]
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After catching 20 minutes of clips from David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at Telluride, SlashFilm’s Peter Sciretta seems hell-bent on taking the film down. He was disappointed with the compilation, which by his own later admission contained clips that were mostly one minute plus with one romantic scene going over two minutes.
Now [...]
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Judging an entire movie by 20 minutes is madness, but SpoutBlog’s Karina Longworth has seen the preview of David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at Telluride and she liked it. In my book, she’s kind of an anti-fanboy and also one of the sharper characters out there when it comes to indie films [...]
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All it took is one clown spouting off about a friggin’ test screening at AICN and suddenly the idea that David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is too long is on its way to becoming conventional wisdom.
Next Anne Thompson rings in. I don’t know if she’s referring to the AICN piece which had [...]
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