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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Six
27 December 2009 10:09 AM, PST
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The Last Airbender
Opens: July 2nd 2010
Cast: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Summary: A live-action film based on the Nickelodeon animated TV series. In a fantastic world where civilisation exists as four great empires, a reluctant young child sets out on a perilous journey to restore balance to a world torn apart by war.
Analysis: Its been quite the decade for M. Night Shyamalan who started it as a household name with labels of a moodern-day Hitchcock thanks to the likes of "The Sixth Sense" and "Signs". Today he's considered more of a one-trick pony and in some cases a punchline due to rampant stories of egomania run wild and a series of much derided onscreen flops like "Lady in the Water" and "The Happening".
Thus 'Airbender' marks a potential return to form for the helmer. An adaptation of the hit cartoon series
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- Garth Franklin
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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Six
27 December 2009 10:09 AM, PST
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The Last Airbender
Opens: July 2nd 2010
Cast: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Summary: A live-action film based on the Nickelodeon animated TV series. In a fantastic world where civilisation exists as four great empires, a reluctant young child sets out on a perilous journey to restore balance to a world torn apart by war.
Analysis: Its been quite the decade for M. Night Shyamalan who started it as a household name with labels of a moodern-day Hitchcock thanks to the likes of "The Sixth Sense" and "Signs". Today he's considered more of a one-trick pony and in some cases a punchline due to rampant stories of egomania run wild and a series of much derided onscreen flops like "Lady in the Water" and "The Happening".
Thus 'Airbender' marks a potential return to form for the helmer. An adaptation of the hit cartoon series
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- Garth Franklin
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Tiff ‘09: Short Takes
24 September 2009 9:54 AM, PDT
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Trash Humpers
Directed by Harmony Korine
Anyone who enjoyed Korine's previous feature, the funny, surreal Mister Lonely, may have been looking forward to what he was to do next in anticipation of a further expansion into pseudo-accessible territory. Instead, Korine decided to jump off the arthouse deep end with Trash Humpers, a reasonably well-executed conceptual short that somehow found its way to an incredibly tortuous 78 minutes. An "artifact" rather than a film, Humpers is meant to act as a simulation of found art, an odd relic from an unknown universe bestowed to us through some incredibly unfortuitous happenstance. Perhaps if Korine had issued the film (shot on deliberately primitive video) anonymously in a soiled plastic bag, the film might have accomplished just such an effect after being rediscovered by the bored film students of future decades, but as it stands it's merely an intermittently funny but mostly agonizing collection of
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- Simon
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Toronto Mini: 'Life During Wartime' treads familiar ground
21 September 2009 9:00 AM, PDT
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I run hot and cold on the work of Todd Solondz. Quite like "Dollhouse" and "Happiness," sort of dig "Palindromes," and have no real use for "Storytelling". Short answer. I think he's very good at creating a very particular dramatic reality. 'Cause he's not doing reality. And once I know a filmmaker's not trying to make a movie that is "real," but is instead theatrical, stylized, in some way heightened... I'm judging it by how well it does what it's trying to do. That's where I think he's really very skilled. His films have one of the most distinct cadences of
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Toronto: Some closing thoughts, and Todd Solondz’s unhappy sequel
20 September 2009 11:38 AM, PDT
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Here are a few last, random thoughts on the Toronto film festival, which came to a close yesterday:
It Was a Very Good Year. In the week I spent there, almost everyone I talked to seemed to agree -- as did I -- on the generally exciting quality of the movies. The fact that so many of those films connected with the anxious urgency of the moment lent the programming (intentionally or not) a certain seductive coherence. At times, coming out of a movie like Collapse or Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, it was almost like attending the Whole Earth on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown film festival -- and I mean that as a compliment.
Best Film I Saw. Hands down, Up in the Air. An exquisite reminder of everything that a Hollywood movie can still be, Jason Reitman’s sublime comedy about a jet-setting down-sizer
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- Owen Gleiberman
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Review | Todd Intact: “Life During Wartime” Maintains Solondz’ Droll Satiric Aura
16 September 2009 6:33 AM, PDT
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Despite the director’s four year hiatus from making movies, Todd Solondz’s gravely entertaining touch remains as intact as ever. “Life During Wartime,” his sixth feature, maintains the droll satiric aura that permeates all of his work. It also involves his favorite narrative themes — pedophilia, suicide and other forms of emotional confusion are filtered through a typical Solondzian vision of suburban discontent. Less abstract than his last film, “Palindromes,” — but …
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Todd Solondz's Latest to Debut at Tiff
23 July 2009 9:20 AM, PDT
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The Toronto International Film Festival this morning announced another fistful of selections, including Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime, the provocateur's first film since 2004's Palindromes. Also headed north: An Education, the best film to emerge this year from Sundance (and probably anywhere else for that matter); and Solondz's fellow cinematic bad boys Gasper Noe (Enter the Void) and Lou Ye (Spring Fever). Actress Samantha Morton will also premiere her directorial debut The Unloved. [indieWIRE]
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All About Evil In Production! Starring Natasha Lyonne, Thomas Dekker & Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson!
19 March 2009 3:24 PM, PDT
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All About Evil Is Currently In Production! Natasha Lyonne, Thomas Dekker, Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson, Mink Stole, Jack Donner And More Get Bloody By The Bay With Writer / Director Joshua Grannell (Aka Peaches Christ)!
San Francisco, CA, Tuesday, March 17th, 2009---
Production has kicked into high-horror gear as Joshua Grannell is shooting his first feature film All About Evil in March. Grannell has written the Evil script and is directing the dark comedy, set in San Francisco.
All About Evil centers around a mousy librarian, who has inherited her father's beloved but failing old movie house. In order to save the family business she discovers her inner serial killer -- and a legion of rabid gore fans -- when she starts turning out a series of grisly shorts. What her fans don't realize yet is that the murders in the movies are all too real.
Grannell is in his 12th year
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