Cinematical's Fall Preview: RvB's Picks
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There's nothing like the moment of anticipation before you've seen the half-baked, crucially compromised or mortally flawed film in question. Still, when given the choice between summer's poorly animated CGI beasts and fall's Oscar-pimping cat-tearing* among our sweatier over-actors and over-actresses, you don't know which season to worry about more.
Despite the Venice Film Festival's chilly response to The Fountain, I'm going to be waiting for it. The film festival audiences were right about The DaVinci Code, but they're not right about everything. I'm curious why The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma's new film) didn't get booed, despite its rep as a chestnut-stuffed Joss Harnett-basted turkey. Is it because of a lingering tolerance in Italy for badly-written giallos?
Pan's Labryinth is a film to look forward to this fall -- Guillermo del Toro's odd sensibility blends the weirdest of Mexican horror with an intelligent use of graphics, and I still remember what a startling film Cronos was. It also looks more on the fantasy spectrum like In the Company of Wolves than The Brothers Grimm. Plus, James thought it was good.
As for the rest of the fall, this is what people in my neck of the woods get to look forward to in October: The opening of a two screen second run house, to make up for all the local theaters we've lost. I also want to see the Dardenne Brothers retrospective at Pacific Film Archives at UC Berkeley, and the vintage 1952 swashbuckler Fanfan la Tulipe, whenever it chooses to open in the Bay Area. Who cares if EW said "ew."
*Hamlet's slang for over-acting is "tearing a cat"; picture the yowling, scratching and fur-flying.
For more of Cinematical's Fall Preview, see: Erik's Picks, Scott's Picks, Jette's Picks, Matt's Picks, Ryan's Picks, Christopher's Picks, Mark's Picks, Dani's Picks and Jeffrey M. Anderson's Picks.
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9-11-2006 @ 7:55PM
The Jeremy said...
RvB, how much screentime did Jemima Rooper get in *The Black Dahlia*?
While she's relatively unknown in the States - aside from costarring on *Hex* shown on the BBC America cable channel - she has been in some stuff that is available on DVD here. Like say, *Kinky Boots*, *The Railway Children* (Masterpiece Theatre, NetFlix has it), and the scifi flick that probably had less time at the box office than *Equilibrium*, that being *A Sound of Thunder*.
Inquiring minds wanna know...and before this Friday preferably! :)
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