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Most moviegoers can agree on one thing: there were way too many movies this year. If you’re (un)fortunate enough to live in New York, you had the opportunity to see around 600 new features come and go; the rest of us didn’t get that many fewer. That means that anyone who’s been put in a position to make a top 10 (or top 15, or top 20…) had to make some sad cuts. So we thought it appropriate to highlight some of the year’s most memorable individual moments, scenes, and sequences, from movies that may or may not have made our individual year-end lists. Some were from movies we didn’t love; some are from movies we didn’t even like, but all stood out. Which is no small feat considering just how insane the release calendar has become.
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http://www.soundonsight.org/2011-the-years-best-movie-moments-part-2/Most moviegoers can agree on one thing: there were way too many movies this year. If... more
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Most moviegoers can agree on one thing: there were way too many movies this year. If you’re (un)fortunate enough to live in New York, you had the opportunity to see around 600 new features come and go; the rest of us didn’t get that many fewer. That means that anyone who’s been put in a position to make a top 10 (or top 15, or top 20…) had to make some sad cuts. So we thought it appropriate to highlight some of the year’s most memorable individual moments, scenes, and sequences, from movies that may or may not have made our individual year-end lists. Some were from movies we didn’t love; some are from movies we didn’t even like, but all stood out. Which is no small feat considering just how insane the release calendar has become.
follow the link
http://www.soundonsight.org/2011-the-years-best-movie-moments-part-1/Most moviegoers can agree on one thing: there were way too many movies this year. If... more
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Justine and Ricky D are back from the Toronto International Festival to discuss three of the best films of 2011: the sophomore effort by Steve McQueen, Shame, the long-awaited return of acclaimed director Lynne Ramsay with We Need To Talk About Kevin, and finally Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, which is also out wide this weekend.
listen at the link below
http://www.soundonsight.org/sound-on-sight-radio-podcast-rewind-drive-shame-we-need-to-talk-about-kevin/Justine and Ricky D are back from the Toronto International Festival to discuss three... more
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[Bronson opens in limited release today. It's also one of the films we're looking for your webcam reviews for The Rotten Tomatoes Show. See the film, submit a review and you could get $100 if we use you next Thursday night.]
The essential point made repeatedly through Nicolas Windin Refn's Bronson is simple: find what you love and never let it go. Or, in the case of Michael Gordon Peterson, to channel that love into unbridled agression and transcend himself.
After all, he is "Britain's most expensive prisoner" and the facts about his life have nicely settled into larger-than-life myth. And this, according to Refn, is how to view such a man.
Prior to being Bronson, Petersen is nothing more than a brute. But he is a brute in search of purpose and meaning. Tom Hardy pulls off this exquisitly complicated role that always threatens to border on parody. Yet Hardy's lashing into the viewer in the first half's Stage segways are violent reminders to never fully trust him.
The film itself begins with Bronson as narrator, pulling the viewer down into his absurdist world that is a mixture of caberet and pit-fighting. But from there it is a history according to Bronson that is mirred in the gallows. Prison is the only answer for him when it comes to what he wants out of life.
Refn and Hardy compliment each other constantly. Where Refn keeps the camer locked, Hardy paces like a caged animal filled with intensity that he struggles to contain. The film takes a minor change in the second act, as Hardy's narration is dropped in favor of mezmerizing sets and odes to The Pet Shop Boys.
The mistake many can make with this film is the implication we're supposed to like the real Bronson. You're not.
Refn and Hardy have made the Boogeyman real and it is incredible to watch the entire evolution from myth to broken piece of meat forever stuck in a cage.
-John Lichman
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What up Thursday? You're all, "it's almost the weekend and I'm going to make sure this is the lamest newsday ever." And we're all, "Nuh uh." So let's prove Thursday wrong!
-The Guardian talks SEXSPLOITATION films and uses a video to show said conversation. [TheGuardian]
-Thomas Jane came to Current and breaks open as to what an actor does. [Current]
-Fox Searchlight wants to make a biopic about The Ramones. Why not. [THR]
-Nicolas Winding Refn is profiled and sheds a little fascination on making Bronson. [NYT]
-Ellen Page is just like you and me: she enjoys not being near people and occasionally digging shit up. [Movieline]
-And finally, a production photo from Date Night. This is what you came here for. [Current]
-John Lichman
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Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox join forces with bloggers, comedians, students and citizen critics to review "Bronson."
The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a movie review show that airs on Thursday nights at 10:30 e/p on Current TV. From reviews of the newest releases to commentary on cult favorites and movie trends, each episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a fast-paced, comedic journey through the week in cinema.
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For more about movies from Current: http://current.com/moviesBrett Erlich and Ellen Fox join forces with bloggers, comedians, students and citizen... more
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You wanna talk extreme? Charles Bronson, ne Michael Peterson, has spent thirty-four of his fifty-six years of life in incarceration of one form or another — most of that time has been in solitary confinement. The system has been violent to him, but he’s been violent back, and an anti-authoritarian cult has risen around his two-fisted brand of rebellion.
He’s an artist and poet, and has published an instructional book on how to keep fit under restricted resources (like, say, if you’re kept in solitary for most of your life). He’s not the guy you’d want to have a beer with. He’s most likely the guy you’d fear is going to break the beer bottle over your head. (Although, to be fair, he’s been certified as clinically sane and hasn’t been violent for the last seven years.)
In telling Bronson/Peterson’s story in the new movie, BRONSON, Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn has decided to meet extreme with extremes. The narrative style is surreally hyperbolic; the violence is blunt and unsparing; a framing device has Bronson — played by Tom Hardy — telling his tale from a proscenium stage. There are saturated color schemes, animated sequences, and even, for obscure reasons, a reference to the artist Magritte. Some of this seems to push too hard (Whiteface? Really?), but Refn clearly has his reasons and, while I may not have bought it all, I didn’t regret being taken on the trip. If you’re going to go out there, I think, then, frack, you’d better go all the way out there. Congrats, Nick, mission accomplished.
Refn and I got to talk about the motivation behind the narrative madness and discussed how one confronts an audience with a character who defies empathy. (I also got to meet his three month old daughter, who’s another kind of extreme: extremely adorable.) Click on the link above to hear the interview.You wanna talk extreme? Charles Bronson, ne Michael Peterson, has spent thirty-four of... more
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Ellen learned how to escape from prison through watching the movies.
The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a movie review show that airs on Thursday nights at 10:30 e/p on Current TV. From reviews of the newest releases to
commentary on cult favorites and movie trends, each episode of The Rotten
Tomatoes Show is a fast-paced, comedic journey through the week in cinema.
For more from the Rotten Tomatoes Show visit: http://rottentomatoesshow.com
For more about movies from Current: http://current.com/moviesEllen learned how to escape from prison through watching the movies.
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The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a movie review show that airs on Thursday nights at 10:30 e/p on Current TV. From reviews of the newest releases to commentary on cult favorites and movie trends, each episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a fast-paced, comedic journey through the week in cinema.
For more from the Rotten Tomatoes Show visit: http://rottentomatoesshow.com
For more about movies from Current: http://current.com/movies.The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a movie review show that airs on Thursday nights at 10:30... more
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