Wednesday
Mid-August Lunch. At the Mayfair. A middle-aged bachelor looks after 4 elderly woman one hot Italian summer.
Countdown to Zero. New documentary from producer Lawrence Bender (An Incovenient Truth) about the ever-present peril of possible Nuclear War.
Thursday
The Piano Teacher. Michael Haneke’s erotically-charged tale of a troubled piano teach and her pupil plays at the Canadian Film Institute as part of their continuing Haneke Retrospectove.
Friday
The Social Network. David Fincher (Seven, Fight Club) directs the Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing) scripted account of the controversiak creation of Facebook. Stars Jesse Eisenburg as Mark Zuckerberg, and Justin Timberlake as Napster founder Sean Parker.
Case 39. Horror film starring Renee Zellwegger and Bradley Cooper. This sat on the shelf for a couple of years, so you’ve been warned.
Fubar II: Give’r!
Let Me In. Matt Reeve’s (Cloverfield) remake of the 2008 Swedish vampire flick Let The Right One In. As awesome as that film was, early reviews say that the remake is even better, much to everyone’s surprise.
Streetdance 3D. Not to be confused with Step Up 3D.
Retun to El Salvador. Documentary, playing exclusively at World Exchange, about life in El Salvador since the end of their civil war, 17 years ago. Embedded is the first 7 minutes of the film.
Jack Goes Boating. Philip Seymour Hoffman directs himself in a story of a shy reclusive man trying to find love with Amy Ryan.
Saturday
Stolen Kisses. The second full-length feature of Francois Truffaut’s Antoine Doinel series. At the CFI.
Benny’s Video. Haneke’s second film, about a tdisturbed young teenage boy and the cruel acts that her performs and videotapes. At the CFI.
Monday
City of God. From Fernando Meirelles, , the story of poverty-stricken and crime-ridden innercity Brazil. Nominated for 4 2002 Academy Awards, including Best Dircetor. At the Bytowne.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Upcoming movies in the next week
Thursday
Wild at Heart
Friday
Star Trek
Mothers and Daughters
Cherry Blossoms
Saturday
You Changed My Life
Spaceballs
Ms. 45
Sunday
Muppets From Space
Ghostbusters
Monday
Singin’ in the Rain
Wild at Heart
Friday
Star Trek
Mothers and Daughters
Cherry Blossoms
Saturday
You Changed My Life
Spaceballs
Ms. 45
Sunday
Muppets From Space
Ghostbusters
Monday
Singin’ in the Rain
Friday, May 1, 2009
Gran Torino
Gran Torino
2008. Dir. and starring Clint Eastwood.
2 hours.
Clint Eastwood makes his self-proclaimed final acting appearance in Gran Torino, about a recently widowed Korean War vet struggling to co-exist with his new Asian-American neighbours. Eastwood ends up getting involved his the Asian gangs in Detroit, leading to bloody results.
The problem with the film is that Eastwood overly plays his character, leading his sternness to come off as parody. His Asian co-stars are fairly good for being mostly amateurs, but Eastwood drags it down as he growls lines like "Get off my lawn."
Not terrible, but not up to par with Eastwood's recent masterpieces.
2 1/2 stars.
Saw by myself at the Mayfair.
2008. Dir. and starring Clint Eastwood.
2 hours.
Clint Eastwood makes his self-proclaimed final acting appearance in Gran Torino, about a recently widowed Korean War vet struggling to co-exist with his new Asian-American neighbours. Eastwood ends up getting involved his the Asian gangs in Detroit, leading to bloody results.
The problem with the film is that Eastwood overly plays his character, leading his sternness to come off as parody. His Asian co-stars are fairly good for being mostly amateurs, but Eastwood drags it down as he growls lines like "Get off my lawn."
Not terrible, but not up to par with Eastwood's recent masterpieces.
2 1/2 stars.
Saw by myself at the Mayfair.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Future Film Round-up
- Rod Lurie (The Contender) will be doing a remake of Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs. James Marsden will star, and the story will be relocated from rural England to the Deep South.
- Spider-man 4, due out in May of 2011, may be in 3-D.
- Kevin MacDonald (State of Play) will be adapting Isaac Asimov’s time travel novel The End of Eternity.
- Clark Gregg has joined the cast of Iron Man 2.
- David Slade, who directed the great unseen thriller Hard Candy (starring a pre-Juno Ellen Page) will direct the third Twilight film. And I still won’t see it.
- Universal will be remaking David Cronenberg’s Videodrome.
- Michael Caine has joined the cast of Chris Nolan’s next film, Inception. He joins Leonardo DiCaprio, Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Marion Cotillard.
- Robert Rodriguez is rebooting the Predator franchise. His Predators hits theatres next July.
- Denzel Washinton will star in Tony Scott’s Unstoppable. It will be the fifth film for Scott and Washington.
- Again unnecessary: Russell Brand is in talks to star in a remake of Drop Dead Fred.
- Oliver Stone and Michael Douglas are teaming up again for a sequel to Wall Street. Charlie Sheen played Douglas’ protégé in the first film … this time it will Shia TheBeef.
- Robert Zemeckis is considering making a Roger Rabbit sequel using motion capture technology.
- Miramax has bought the rights to remake the French thriller Tell No One.
- Spider-man 4, due out in May of 2011, may be in 3-D.
- Kevin MacDonald (State of Play) will be adapting Isaac Asimov’s time travel novel The End of Eternity.
- Clark Gregg has joined the cast of Iron Man 2.
- David Slade, who directed the great unseen thriller Hard Candy (starring a pre-Juno Ellen Page) will direct the third Twilight film. And I still won’t see it.
- Universal will be remaking David Cronenberg’s Videodrome.
- Michael Caine has joined the cast of Chris Nolan’s next film, Inception. He joins Leonardo DiCaprio, Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Marion Cotillard.
- Robert Rodriguez is rebooting the Predator franchise. His Predators hits theatres next July.
- Denzel Washinton will star in Tony Scott’s Unstoppable. It will be the fifth film for Scott and Washington.
- Again unnecessary: Russell Brand is in talks to star in a remake of Drop Dead Fred.
- Oliver Stone and Michael Douglas are teaming up again for a sequel to Wall Street. Charlie Sheen played Douglas’ protégé in the first film … this time it will Shia TheBeef.
- Robert Zemeckis is considering making a Roger Rabbit sequel using motion capture technology.
- Miramax has bought the rights to remake the French thriller Tell No One.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Upcoming movies in the next week
Wednesday
Nanook Taxi
At the Mayfair.
Friday
Wolverine
Hugh Jackman returns to yet another X-Men movie, this one a prequel telling the Wolverine origin story. Also satrs Danny Huston and Liev Schreiber.
The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Matthew McConaughey makes another romantic comedy. And it will suck.
Hunger
The film concerns young men imprisoned in Ireland for political crimes who decide to go on Hunger Strikes in 1981. Won quite a few awards in Britain last year, opens Friday at the Bytowne.
Sars Wars
Zombie film from Thailand. Midnight at the Mayfair.
Saturday
Forrest Gump
Tom Hanks stars in the Oscar-winning film from 1994. At the Mayfair.
Tremors
At the Mayfair.
Sunday
The Mayfair is showing both original Predator movies, if you have time to bleed.
Predator
Predator 2
Monday
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
From director Peter Greenaway. At the Bytowne.
Tuesday
The Mayfair is showing this double bill of Mexican-themed classics, just in time for a swine flu epidemic ... uh, I mean, Cinco de Mayo. There will be traditional Mexican folk dancers performing at 6:30 … or maybe there won’t be.
Frida
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Nanook Taxi
At the Mayfair.
Friday
Wolverine
Hugh Jackman returns to yet another X-Men movie, this one a prequel telling the Wolverine origin story. Also satrs Danny Huston and Liev Schreiber.
The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Matthew McConaughey makes another romantic comedy. And it will suck.
Hunger
The film concerns young men imprisoned in Ireland for political crimes who decide to go on Hunger Strikes in 1981. Won quite a few awards in Britain last year, opens Friday at the Bytowne.
Sars Wars
Zombie film from Thailand. Midnight at the Mayfair.
Saturday
Forrest Gump
Tom Hanks stars in the Oscar-winning film from 1994. At the Mayfair.
Tremors
At the Mayfair.
Sunday
The Mayfair is showing both original Predator movies, if you have time to bleed.
Predator
Predator 2
Monday
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
From director Peter Greenaway. At the Bytowne.
Tuesday
The Mayfair is showing this double bill of Mexican-themed classics, just in time for a swine flu epidemic ... uh, I mean, Cinco de Mayo. There will be traditional Mexican folk dancers performing at 6:30 … or maybe there won’t be.
Frida
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
I'm Not From Here; I Can't BE An Example For Anyone."
Wendy and Lucy
2008, dir. Kelly Reichardt
Starring Michelle Williams, Will Patton, Scott Wilson, Will Oldham.
1 hour 20 minutes
Michelle Williams stars as Wendy who, with her dog Lucy, stop off in a small Oregon town on their way to Alaska in search of work. Wendy doesn’t have very much money, and her car is almost dead. Things go from bad to worse when Wendy is caught shoplifting food, which leads to her dog disappearing.
Wendy and Lucy is the second film from director Kelly Reichardt, after Oldjoy, the story of two old friends who go on a road trip and then hike to some famous hot springs. Like Oldjoy, Wendy and Lucy is not overly concerned with the story, but rather the characters, in this case almost exclusively Wendy. Unlike other movies (especially independent ones), Wendy and Lucy doesn’t follow the usual route of making the small-town locals eccentric characters, but rather portrays them as being rather ordinary, no different really than people you’d meet anywhere.
That, however, may be the film’s undoing, because at the end of a long-feeling hour and twenty minutes, you’re not quite sure what the point of it all is. Wendy ends up in town, problems arise, and they’re not resolved, only abandoned, not to put too fine a point on it. Michelle Williams is very convincing in her role, but everyone just seems to be there to feed her character’s plot.
2 ½ stars
Saw with Steph at the Bytowne.
2008, dir. Kelly Reichardt
Starring Michelle Williams, Will Patton, Scott Wilson, Will Oldham.
1 hour 20 minutes
Michelle Williams stars as Wendy who, with her dog Lucy, stop off in a small Oregon town on their way to Alaska in search of work. Wendy doesn’t have very much money, and her car is almost dead. Things go from bad to worse when Wendy is caught shoplifting food, which leads to her dog disappearing.
Wendy and Lucy is the second film from director Kelly Reichardt, after Oldjoy, the story of two old friends who go on a road trip and then hike to some famous hot springs. Like Oldjoy, Wendy and Lucy is not overly concerned with the story, but rather the characters, in this case almost exclusively Wendy. Unlike other movies (especially independent ones), Wendy and Lucy doesn’t follow the usual route of making the small-town locals eccentric characters, but rather portrays them as being rather ordinary, no different really than people you’d meet anywhere.
That, however, may be the film’s undoing, because at the end of a long-feeling hour and twenty minutes, you’re not quite sure what the point of it all is. Wendy ends up in town, problems arise, and they’re not resolved, only abandoned, not to put too fine a point on it. Michelle Williams is very convincing in her role, but everyone just seems to be there to feed her character’s plot.
2 ½ stars
Saw with Steph at the Bytowne.
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