villain ( 悪人 akunin ) is a 2010 japanese film directed by lee sang-il , based on shuichi yoshida 's crime noir novel of the same name .

it was nominated for numerous awards at the 2011 japan academy prize , including best film and best director ( which was director lee 's second nomination , after his 2006 win for hula girls ) , and won five , which included all four acting awards and for the score by joe hisaishi .

villain ( 2010 film )

2010 ( 34th ) montreal world film festival - aug . 26 - sept . 6 - world competition
the public was invited to vote for the most popular films in different categories of films presented during the 2010 montreal world film festival .
steven soderbergh ' s atmospheric , film - noirish and experimental b / w film was a mystery - thriller tale of sad romance .
in this film , directed by jean - loup felicioli and alain gagnol , leo , an ailing boy hero with special powers , takes on a villain in new york city .
kanye west has tonight ( february 24 ) been unveiled as villain of the year at the shockwaves nme awards .
adorable and refreshingly deep , in regard to the theorizing over the nature of good and evil . is a villain still a villain without a hero ? can there be one without the other ? can one create goodness , or will absolute power corrupt absolutely ?
gladly , once the film gathers momentum it stands tall as a powerful drama .
the film also features a set “built to resemble a dilapidated nuclear reactor . ”
with a beautiful central performance . . . villain is a drama that leaves an indelible mark on the viewer
far east films
the 2010 animated film “ a cat in paris ” was a nifty enough confection to have been nominated for an academy award ; “ phantom boy ” is the second effort from its directors , alain gagnol and jean - loup felicioli , and it’s not nearly as nifty , alas .
when david fincher’s oscar - winning movie the social network hit screens in 2010 , facebook had 500 million users and a valuation of $ 25 billion — facts which appear on the film’s closing slides , along with the information that mark zuckerberg had recently been minted as the world’s youngest billionaire .
villain is a sinewy twisting journey behind the curtain of big society thinking - and what it reveals is at once disturbing and moving in equal measure .
thats all ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! i wished you can make or repeat to done a wonderful movie like villain .
winner of 5 japanese academy awards , villain , ostensibly a crime film , and a thrilling one at that , transcends its genre trappings . adapted from the critically acclaimed novel of the same name , villain is located somewhere between the elegiac doomed young lovers - on - the run of nicholas ray ' s classic 50s noir they live by night and the excoriating social commentary of shohei imamura ( pigs and battleships , the insect woman ) .
continuing with his interest in ghoulish subjects , burton directed the film adaptation of the popular musical sweeney todd : the demon barber of fleet street in 2007 . the film reunited burton with longtime friend johnny depp and helena bonham carter . all three received critical praise for their work on the film , including several golden globe nominations . in 2010 , they reunited again in tim burton & apos ; s adaptation of lewis carrol & apos ; s alice in wonderland , wherein depp played the role of the mad hatter and carter , the red queen .
in addition to his filmwork , burton exhibited over 700 drawings , paintings , and other artwork at new york city & apos ; s museum of modern art in 2009 and 2010 - as well as at renown museums around the world .
villain is too long , with a propensity for cliché at vital moments , but its best parts are very good and lee ' s direction makes the most of them .
part crime movie , part romantic drama , totally compelling . fascinating in terms of its ethics : as the tagline puts it ,
who is the real villain ?
lee sang - il ' s film lasts 140 minutes and after 100 we all want to go home .
the rapper beat off stiff competition to be voted top villain ahead of the x factor ‘s simon cowell , liam and noel gallagher and lady gaga , who were also nominated .
excellent cinematography and performances make this tremendous real - life story worth a film worth seeing . [ full review in spanish ]
the next film in the spider - man series is taking on a distinctly british flavour . english actor andrew garfield was revealed in july as the man who will step into the famous red and blue costume , and yesterday it was announced that welshman rhys ifans would play the main villain in marc webb ' s forthcoming reboot .
the tamil nadu state government has announced film awards for six years , from 2009 to 2014 , in various categories including best picture , best actor , best actress , best villain , best comedian , best character artist ( male ) , best character artist ( female ) , best director , best scriptwriter and best dialogue writer .
the tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans . it represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show .
the film ' s theme tied together puberty with blood , sexual desire and metamorphic body changes ( including possession and infection ) .
people will appreciate how this film won awards for acting . however , slightly overcooked shots and inconsequential moments sometimes sap the control of a very solid drama ( running time 140 mins ) . nevertheless , as each tragedy unfolds , the film becomes gripping . ultimately ,
the villain in transformers 3 is “shockwave , the robot cyclops - turned - laser - cannon , who became dictator of their home world of cybertron after the other autobots and decepticons journeyed to earth . ” makes sense .
early in the movie , when roxanne is asking megamind where he gets the equipment for his super villain lair , minion ' s hand is sometimes on the back of her chair , and sometimes missing , between shots .
’s novel ' akunin ' ( ' villain ' ) . by the 2011 japanese academy awards , the movie won prizes in all four acting categories and was nominated for 11 others ( including best picture , best director and best score ) . understandably , expectation for a film of such sweeping recognition is high . by and large , it does not disappoint .
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trying to find the perfect match between pretentious and pop .
the fast - paced wisecracks and ironic asides that are the studio ' s hallmark help to push the film past the lumpy , generic storytelling .
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lee has crafted a sparse , elegant portrait of loneliness , grief and desperation , with some brilliantly convincing performances adding to the film ' s appeal .
described the film as
an old - school , kick - ass action movie where people are fighting with knives and shooting at each other .
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“inside job , ” a sleek , briskly paced film whose title suggests a heist movie , is the story of a crime without punishment , of an outrage that has so far largely escaped legal sanction and societal stigma . the betrayal of public trust and collective values that mr . ferguson chronicles was far more brazen and damaging than the adultery in nathaniel hawthorne’s novel , which treated hester more as scapegoat than villain .
drew houpt is credited as
the new duke
, an apparent reference to john wayne ( ' the duke ' ) who starred in the original film .
for a film whose stock in trade are tongue - in - cheek reversals of comic - book cliché , it too often settles for trite audience - pleasing .
based on real events , this crime action film depicts a seoul detective ' s attempts to keep peace while two chinese - korean gangs battle over turf in the neighborhood .
in the hands of hilary swank , sam rockwell and a strong supporting cast , this earnest film manages to tug a few heartstrings and say something important in the process .
tim robbins is an academy award - winning actor as well as an accomplished film director , writer and activist . he had a 23 - year relationship with actress susan sarandon .
loved this film . definitely one of those stories that leave you feeling conflicted and melancholy about the whole . the acting was incredible and the chemistry between satoshi and eri was amazing .
the film works on multiple levels – as a supernatural thriller ( though explicit paranormal elements are limited to a hallucinatory dream sequence and the final shot of the baby ' s eyes ) , as a psychological thriller about a paranoid pregnant woman who imagines herself at the centre of a conspiracy , and as the last word in marital betrayal , since the most despicable villain here is surely guy , who allows his wife to be raped by the devil in exchange for an acting role .
during the beginning of his search ( conducted like the film blow - up ( 1966 ) ) , mikael became suspicious that he was being tracked and someone had hacked into his computer .
tim conway is an emmy award - winning actor and comic known for his stints on mchale ' s navy and the carol burnett show as well as many other television and film spots .
in 2010 , quotes from the 2004 history that the social network portrays were already supposed to be funny . they took their humor from the dramatic irony inherent in how quickly the life of the internet was moving along . there’s justin timberlake’s famous line as sean parker : “you know what’s cooler than a million dollars ? a billion dollars . ” by 2010 , audiences knew a billion dollars was cooler than a million dollars , though they didn’t know that in a matter of years , a billion dollars would sound like nearly nothing . there’s also what is supposed to be a very impressive , seductive moment when parker woos zuckerberg with fancy cocktails and beautiful women , telling him , “they’re scared of me , pal , and they’re going to be scared of you . ” he doesn’t specify who “they” are , but his words call up an idea that was en vogue in 2004 — the point of “disruption” being to piss people off , take names , and charge full steam ahead , without care for any of the un - fun consequences . it inadvertently dates 2010 as well before silicon valley’s very recent anti - bro backlash , the delayed side effect of a hyper - masculine culture of “break stuff , change the status quo , who cares what happens next as long as it’s different . ”
like early haneke without the intellectual rigour but enlivened with beautiful moments of realisation , it ' s a film that becomes harder to take the more it sides with its
sensitive
star .
film critics made the understandable mistake of identifying zuckerberg as powerful in only an antiquated sense of the term , but sorkin made the worse one of letting him off the hook as a kid who’d been hurt . ( all this supports the argument that , as zuckerberg wished , we shouldn’t have made a film about him while he was still alive . ) the social network is still a useful , enjoyable memento , but it’s clearly written with very little appreciation of its own stakes , and a lot of reverence for the brilliance of its central figure . in 2010 , it may have read as a searing portrait of the moment when , as dargis said in her review , zuckerberg turned “his life — and ours — into a series of zeroes and ones” but it only took that idea as far as a lonely dinner or a dark room .
a few lines from the film feel particularly hilarious seven years later . for one : “we don’t know what it is yet , we just know that it’s cool . ” facebook . . . cool ?
by the end of the film , the director desires the audience to have sympathy at arm’s length , but whether that is achieved is arguable . though not completely sentimentalising murder , we’re invited to consider the subtleties and complexities of evil conduct - spontaneity and premeditation , malice and regret . as a taxi driver innocuously remarks after the film’s climax , people who commit such awful deeds as murder must only be inhuman .
ben affleck ' s directorial debut film was an adaptation of dennis lehane ' s novel gone , baby , gone . in the film ' s opening voice - over narration during the credits , private investigator patrick kenzie ( casey affleck ) spoke about how his job was to find missing people because of his connections in the tough neighborhood where he grew up ( in the working class area of dorchester near boston ) :
a childhood acquaintance from simon ' s past , gordon moseley , was actually the victim of simon ' s bullying and torment - and simon was revealed as the real villain of the film . in high school , simon had spread the lie that gordon was gay and had been seen being molested by an older boy in a car . afterwards , the accusation ruined gordon ' s life . gordon set up an elaborate scheme to get payback revenge over 20 years later , including possibly impregnating simon ' s drugged - up wife robyn during an alleged rape
final confirmation that movie will be released in 3d . no word on if it will be shot in 3d or converted in post . knowing bay’s obsession with film , i’m assuming he agreed on a post process .
reversing the situation , bond held his enemy over the massive parabolic dish by his ankles , and they exchanged a final brief conversation before bond dropped him : (
for england , james ?
no . for me
) . after the villain fell to the ground , the massive satellite transmitter - antenna crashed down on him to end his life .
not the best work by the director sang - il lee , but overall , i was able to appreciate the film quite a bit , thanks to superb performances . wish it went a bit further . perhaps more oomph .
each performance is pitch - perfect , distracting the audience from the fact that this is ultimately lifetime tv movie fodder , and seducing them into believing that it really is a triumphant film about the enduring power of family loyalty .
great performance from mrs fukatsu , fantastic direction , but the movie seems to exist mostly for the final sequence . i liked a lot the sub - story of the father of the victim . flawed film , but with interesting touches .
i ' m surprised this movie didn ' t get more international attention though . or at least an oscar nomination for best foreign film and best actress for eri fukatsu who was painfully good . ok , i ' m done . lol
oman polanski ' s first hollywood feature was an adaptation of ira levin ' s bestseller , and its success launched a trend for devil - baby , evil - kiddy and satanic pregnancy movies that extended well into the 70s . the novel was first recognised as potential film material at proof stage by low - budget horror entrepreneur william castle , who ended up as the producer and had a fleeting cameo in the film as a man smoking a cigar outside a phone booth .
in 1999 , burton directed a freely adapted film version , sleepy hollow , of washington irving & apos ; s haunting tale the legend of sleepy hollow , in which johhny depp offered a notable performance as the heroic ichabod crane . in 2001 , burton took on an ambitious remake of the 1968 cult classic planet of the apes starring mark wahlberg and helena bonham carter . 2003 saw the release of the fantasy drama big fish , which stars ewan mcgregor and albert finney . the film earned four golden globe nominations . in 2005 , he released a remake of charlie and the chocolate factory starring johnny depp and a stop - motion animated feature called the corpse bride , which received an oscar nod for best animated feature film .
after super - villain megamind ( ferrell ) kills his good - guy nemesis , metro man ( pitt ) , he becomes bored since there is no one left to fight . he creates a new foe , tighten ( hill ) , who , instead of using his powers for good , sets out to destroy the world , positioning megamind to save the day for the first time in his life .
i want to watch this movie so bad ! i just finished reading the book and i really liked it . can ' t wait to see how it plays out on film . why must the dvd be released in march ? : - (
bay claims “one thing we’re getting rid of is what i call the dorky comedy” adding the the twins are “basically gone” but comic relief john turturro returns . bay’s “basically gone” comment seems to confirm that they have a short appearance in the film .
according to a ( probably spurious ) film - making legend , polanski , having never before adapted a novel , didn ' t realise he was allowed to make changes , with the result that his screenplay is remarkably faithful to levin ' s book .
the film’s visual design is a sometimes winning mix of styles , most clearly inspired by those of picasso and the illustrator pierre le - tan . ( the movie’s villain , called the broken face , could be an overly aggressive suitor of one of picasso’s demoiselles d’avignon . ) certain details are jarring , though : all the men wear wide - leg trousers , but seem to have unusually tiny feet , accentuated by weirdly pointed shoes . that my focus was drawn to this sort of detail strongly suggests that the movie doesn’t do its primary job : eliciting an affinity for its endangered young hero . instead of maintaining an effervescent fizzle , “phantom boy” too frequently sputters piffle .
the ' ghostwriter ' wrote the sentence on a piece of paper , passed through a number of hands to ruth , and shortly after , as he stepped outside with the original manuscript , he was run - down ( off - screen ) in the street ( the same thoroughfare in the film ' s opening ) . he was murdered like mcara , in order to silence him - or were both deaths just an accident ? his manuscript papers blew down the street in the wind as the film faded to white before the credits .
i guess i ' m a sucker for sappy tragic love stories when they ' re played out in a particular way . the asians typically know how to do it . villain appears slow - moving and sentimental , with a few scenes too heavy on melodrama and social commentary , but it ' s made with skill that transforms the material into a moving and rather powerful motion picture . ( i haven ' t read the acclaimed source novel . )
now , that closing scene — eisenberg hanging back in a conference room after his deposition , sending a facebook friend request to his ex - girlfriend , then endlessly refreshing his page to see if she’s responded , feels hollow . not only that , it feels stupid . whether mark zuckerberg is an asshole in the small - scale interpersonal sense belabored over in the movie doesn’t really matter — you could call him an asshole for a bunch of grander reasons , like assuming rich people are broadly benevolent enough to replace government safety nets , or calling it “crazy” to remove peter thiel from facebook’s board , and calling it “pretty crazy” to ask whether fake news on facebook helped trump win . zuckerberg isn’t a villain because he treated some people badly when he was 20 years old . if anything , he ' s a villain because he’s one of the most powerful people alive , and nobody asked him to be .
ifans , currently starring as drug smuggler howard marks in mr nice , joins a cast that also includes zombieland ' s emma stone . stone will play gwen stacy , the love interest for spider - man ' s alter ego , peter parker . the new film takes spidey back to his high school days , and does not focus on his usual girlfriend , mary jane watson . it may be that producers plump for an equally leftfield villain . studio sony has not revealed which character ifans will play . the webslinger ' s most famous enemies include the green goblin , the lizard , venom , the vulture and doc oc . of the above , all but the lizard and the vulture featured in the previous trilogy of films directed by sam raimi .
the general was court - martialed and found guilty for failing to report and concealing the west point gang - rape . he subsequently withdrew from public life . the film ' s ending title :
today , nearly 200 , 000 women serve on active duty in the military services .
there was only one twin - elias . the other identical twin lukas was killed in an
accident
( probably one that also disfigured the face of the mother ) before the events of the film . experiencing deep denial and guilt , elias was only imagining that lukas was alive .
more jarringly : “you know peter thiel ? no reason you should , he just runs a $ 2 billion hedge fund called clarium capital . ” in 2010 , americans generally didn ' t know who peter thiel was , a fact acknowledged in the script with parker lecturing early facebook cfo eduardo saverin . now thiel is an open wound for facebook . he remains on the board even after he buried a successful , popular news outlet over a personal vendetta , and even as he serves as an enthusiastic mouthpiece for various nightmarish political philosophies . his cinematically secretive data - analytics company palantir is poised to help donald trump make good on several of his most extreme campaign promises regarding immigration .
in 2012 , burton worked with depp on a film adaptation of the cult television series dark shadows . writer seth grahame - smith penned the script for this humorous look at a vampire living among his descendants . burton also mined his own childhood for the animated film frankenweenie that same year . the title character—a dog brought back to life after death—was inspired by one of his own pets . pepe
just had a good spirit , that dog ,
burton told entertainment weekly .
the frankenweenie character wasn’t meant to look like him . it was more just the memory and the spirit of him .
in the film ' s tense conclusion , the two agents engaged in a fight - to - the - death combat atop his destroyed control center - lair in cuba . bond raced to disarm the transmitter - antenna of a large satellite dish communicating with a second , deadly rogue goldeneye satellite nuclear - weapon .
after forming his own production company , burton directed the lavish production batman ( 1989 ) . with a cast that included jack nicholson , michael keaton , and kim basinger , the stylized feature became the first film to sell $ 100 million in the first 10 days of release . the following year , burton helmed the bizarre but touching film edward scissorhands . featuring notable performances by up - and - coming stars johnny depp and winona ryder ( as well as price & apos ; s final feature role as the eccentric inventor ) , edward scissorhands was acclaimed for being both a social satire and a simple tale of love and intolerance .
i went into villain ( akunin ) knowing nothing about the directors earlier work ( apart from the japanese remake unforgiven which was fantastic ) and what i watched was a profoundly powerful and beautiful experience and is now one of my favorite character studies . saying this , i can definitely see why some may not enjoy this at all due to the fact that some moments do unfortunately slightly to cross the fine line into the melodramatic zone ( which you kind of get used to after watching so many asian movies haha ) .
in the brilliant first two - thirds of the film , the focus was on the strange and random behavior of the mother ( a
bait - and - switch
directorial technique ) , not on what the twins were doing . they went to extremes to test and torment her - changing the film ' s mood to torture - porn . elias let a giant pet madagascar hissing cockroach squirm from his sleeping mother ' s chest into her mouth . in a ghastly and brutal torture sequence , the two twins tied their mother to her bed and demanded that she prove her identity , or tell them where their real mother was .
read between the lies
was the intriguing tagline for roman polanski ' s taut and increasingly - claustrophobic film about paranoia and power struggles . it had similarities to real - life political figures , including british prime minister tony blair and his wife claire , us sec . of state condoleeza rice , and the halliburton corporation .
as of the end of last year , the company’s own statistics claim it has 1 . 86 billion active users . it’s valued at around $ 400 billion . while that seven - year growth is staggering , what’s actually uncanny is how markedly the way we discuss facebook has changed since 2010 . when vanity fair put mark zuckerberg at the top of its annual list of 100 worldwide influencers that year ( affectionately named “the new establishment” ) , the publication apparently struggled to justify the choice . zuckerberg’s accomplishments , as listed : “facebook runs more banner advertisements than any other website” and “ [ facebook ] drives more us visitor traffic to some sites than even google . ” in other words , to the average reader : “you know , technical stuff . ”
though one could compare to the classic british comedy
the ladykillers ,
jae gon son ' s film
villain and widow
is quite a delight for korean movie lovers . it borrows elements from genres like comedy , romance , and drama to make a film that doesn ' t quite fit in any genre but is quite satisfying in the end . a cultural artifact smuggler tells his partner ( suk - kyu han ) that he obtains a very precious tea cup from china , but hides it in his home without his family knowing it . in a hilarious manner he passes away while his partner is hauled away to jail yet is the only one who knows the secret . few years pass , the widow ( hye - su kim ) and her teenage daughter are in desperate financial straits and want to rent out the now vacant room in their house to help pay their debts . in a deal with a rich person who wants the cup for his gallery , suk - kyu han moves in with an alias and proceeds to search for the tea cup . what happens next is quite surprising , with director jae gon son delving into serious themes like suicide , depression , and dysfunctional family relationships yet maintaining light - hearted elements . though the ending seems inevitable , i give credit to jae gon son for an ending that is not quite a happy ending and yet suitable for the smuggler and the widow . if you are reading this , then it is most likely you have an interest in this film and i say go see it now !
in the new film sam witwicky is “taking his first tenuous steps into adulthood while remaining a reluctant human ally of optimus prime . “shia has this great line : ‘you know , i’ve saved the world twice , but i can’t get a job . ' ” okay , so transformers is never gonna get a screenplay nomination at the academy awards .
the three main sections of the film were told from different viewpoints : first tully , then jake , and finally lena . jake was warned not to get involved by various competing interests , and clearly cautioned by american colonel muller ( beau bridges ) :
when i was at west point , we put a uniform on a mule .
in 1994 , burton cast johnny depp as the title character in ed wood —a black - and - white portrait of a middling filmmaker and his all - consuming passion to succeed . although critically praised ( martin landau won a best supporting actor oscar for his portrayal of a drug - addicted bela lugosi ) , the film failed to appeal to mass audiences . after producing the third installment batman forever ( 1995 ) and the animated feature james and the giant peach ( 1996 ) , burton directed the sci - fi spoof mars attacks ! the film flopped at the box office despite an all - star cast that included jack nicholson , glenn close , annette bening , and pierce brosnan .
good movie . very long , but doesn ' t drag . as another reviewer commented , the title really does make you think by the end who the villain actually is . for me , the young girl at the beginning and her fickle boyfriend are way worse characters ! yuichi is flawed and he does some awful things , but there is growth from him by the end . ( which also initially confused me until i realised what his motivation was ) . basically it ' s a doomed romance between him and a quiet girl who works in a menswear store .
megamind is a highly entertaining and inventive animated comedy that deserves far more praise than what it has received . i really thought that the film was one of those films that really exceeded expectations , and was quite good with the story , voice cast and 9of course animation . the film has plenty of good comedic bits , and to viewers who enjoy a fun , entertaining comedy that is engaging from start to finish , megamind is definitely worth your time . i thought that the idea here was very good , and of course simple , and while using that , the filmmakers were able to pull off something quite memorable in the process . for what it is , it ' s an impressive will ferrell vehicle , and here he does some very good work as the lead character , megamind . if you love animated features , megamind is a film for you . with some great on - screen gags , well crafted story , and good performances from the talent voicing the characters , megamind succeeds at being a wonderful animated comedy , one that uses the bare minimum to really grab your attention . i felt that this movie definitely deserved more praise than what it initially got , and it should belong among the most memorable genre films . megamind has great characters , a good idea that just grabs your attention . what megamind does so well is that it uses its cast to really elevate the film ' s material , and since the cast is comprised of some of today ' s funniest actors , it ' s what gives the film its edge to make it stand out among other animated features , that and it ' s visuals , effective direction and well thought out comedy . megamind is well worth seeing if you enjoy animated features and it ' s a movie that is well worth your time .
the as - yet - untitled fourth spider - man film is set to debut in cinemas on july 3 2012 and will be filmed in 3d . entertainment weekly has called james vanderbilt ' s screenplay
gritty
and
contemporary
, suggesting that it may be in the same vein as batman begins , christopher nolan ' s successful 2005 reimagining of the batman series .
it was both a complex serial - killer procedural and a neo - noir , with themes of generational sexual abuse , sadistic violence against women , revenge , family secrets , corporate corruption , and nazi racism . it was the first adaptation of the millennium trilogy , a series of books by stieg larsson . there were a number of questions to be answered in the film as it told its story .
writer / director joel edgerton ' s twisting vengeance - based thriller ( his directorial debut film ) had some elements of fatal attraction ( 1987 ) , the hand that rocks the cradle ( 1992 ) , and michael haneke ' s cache ( 2005 ) . a suburban la couple had just relocated from chicago due to a change in the husband ' s work ( and after robyn had lost a pregnancy ) :
this call to arms makes you wonder why anger of the kind so eloquently expressed in “inside job” has been so inchoate . and through no fault of its own , the film may leave you dispirited as well as enraged . its fate is likely to be that of other documentaries : praised in some quarters , nitpicked in others and shrugged off by those who need its message most . which is a shame .
directing an ensemble that included michelle pfeiffer , danny devito , and christopher walken , burton reteamed with keaton for the 1992 batman sequel , batman returns . the following year , he produced the animated musical tim burton & apos ; s the nightmare before christmas . created with the painstaking process of stop - motion animation , the film became a critical and commercial success , while burton was credited for his technical prowess .
anthony breznican has a new article on transformers 3 titled “next ‘transformers’ is due for a switch” which mostly consists of director michael bay and producer lorenzo di bonaventura explaining what went wrong with the previous installment , transformers : revenge of the fallen ( blamed mostly on the rushed schedule and writers strike ) . there are a few interesting bits about the newest film to be found in the article , here is a sample :
sony ' s matt tolmach said :
we have been very fortunate to attract some of the best actors working today to play the villains in the spider - man movies , and it is exciting to see that trend continue with rhys ifans . after seeing his performance in our upcoming film anonymous , we ' re in awe of his talent and think he ' s the perfect choice to take on this role .
in the film ' s conclusion , vengeful myra had been shot to death by lilly , and then myra ' s face - blasted and disfigured corpse was made to look like lilly ' s . roy was called upon , as next - of - kin , to identify his mother at the phoenix morgue - he concealed that he noticed lilly ' s right hand did not have its tell - tale cigar burn mark .
famed director , producer and screenwriter tim burton was born timothy walter burton on august 25 , 1958 , in burbank , california . as a child , burton was engrossed with the classic horror films of roger corman—many of which featured quintessential screen villain vincent price . burton also developed a penchant for drawing and enrolled at the california institute of arts , where he majored in animation . in 1980 , upon his graduation , he began working as an apprentice animator for walt disney studios . within a year , burton grew tired with his work at disney and decided to strike out on his own . in 1982 , he released the award - winning short vincent , which paid homage to the enduring work of his childhood idol .
set in a french - animation dream of new york city , it tells the story of leo , a plucky , kind little boy , very attached to his lovely family , and very ill . but his illness has given him a gift : he can leave his body for certain periods and spy unseen on others . conveniently , he can still speak through his physical body as he does so . and so leo finds himself assisting a bumbling cop who’s laid up on another floor in his hospital . together the two , with the help of the cop’s journalist friend ( and , of course , possible love interest ) , team up to take down a villain who’s blackmailing the city with a deadly … wait for it … computer virus .
conviction could have been a compelling , extremely moving , and heat - warming story , but the way tony goldwyn and the cast of conviction tell it , it ' s not so gripping ( boring even at parts ) and compelling , but it tries to manipulate the audience to care , to cry , to cheer . but to tell the truth , it got about half - way . there is almost no history to these characters , and there are a lot of people to remember the names of , and we are supposed to hate , or love these people , but we don ' t know much about them , nor have we seen much of them either . the performances by hilary swank , sam rockwell , melissa leo , minnie driver , juliette lewis , baliee madison , and tobias campbell are what keep this film above water . see this film for the extraordinary performances , if for nothing else .
in the pre - title credits sequence , nine years before the events of the film , british agent 007 james bond ( pierce brosnan ) was working alongside british secret agent 006 alec trevelyan ( sean bean ) . their assignment was to destroy a soviet nerve gas factory at the arkangel chemical weapons facility , but the mission went awry and trevelyan was executed . as he was shot by general ouromov ( gottfried john ) , trevelyan called out :
for england , james .
[ the film ' s plot twist hinged on the fact that lukas didn ' t exist , similar to m . night shyamalan ' s ending of the sixth sense ( 1999 ) , and numerous other films , such as carnival of souls ( 1962 ) , fight club ( 1999 ) , haute tension ( 2003 ) , identity ( 2003 ) , a tale of two sisters ( 2003 , s . korea ) , the machinist ( 2004 ) , and the uninvited ( 2009 ) . ]
outside , christine was getting in a taxi on her way to her next game ( or
gig
) assignment in australia ( with a small
walk - on
role ) . after she revealed her real name was claire (
you don ' t know anything about me
) , nicholas invited her to dinner . she counter - invited him to join her for coffee at the airport - the film ' s final line :
would you like to have a coffee with me at the airport ?
the same was true of mr . ferguson’s previous documentary , “no end in sight , ” which focused on catastrophic policies carried out in iraq by president george w . bush’s administration just after the overthrow of saddam hussein . but whereas that film concentrated on a narrow view of a complex subject — the conduct of the war rather than the at least equally controversial rationale for fighting it — “inside job” offers a sweeping synthesis , going as far back as the reagan administration and as far afield as iceland in its anatomy of the financial crisis .
film critics at the time seemed to be betting that the social network would serve as a major historical document . rolling stone ’s peter travers credited it as the film that would forever “define the dark irony of the past decade . ” jim emerson’s review at urltoken started with 300 words from erving goffman’s landmark 1959 essay “the presentation of self in everyday life . ” the new york times ’ manohla dargis called it a “resonant contemporary story about the new power elite , ” and linked out , on that line , to a summary of c . wright mills’ 1956 book about bureaucratic authority figures . it’s not really clear what emerson or dargis were saying , other than they believed zuckerberg would be pretty powerful , and that the moment seemed portentous enough to warrant tying their reviews to classics of contemporary sociology . it’s a handy , comforting way of trying to slot zuckerberg into power structures that had already been studied , rather than acknowledging the fact that upending those ( and replacing them with sweeter - faced but insidious new power structures ) was the dna - level goal of what he was building .
in 1984 , burton created a unique version of the frankenstein story with the live - action short frankenweenie . impressed with frankenweenie , paul reubens commissioned burton to direct the wildly inventive comedy pee - wee & apos ; s big adventure ( 1985 ) . the success of pee - wee & apos ; s big adventure brought about other opportunities , including the 1988 ghost story beetlejuice starring michael keaton , alec baldwin , and geena davis . often considered the prototypical burton film , beetlejuice was recognized for its visual flair and interwoven themes of fantasy and horror .
in a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes , sits a black house with a dead lawn . unbeknownst to the neighbors , hidden beneath this home is a vast secret hideout . surrounded by a small army of minions , we discover gru , planning the biggest heist in the history of the world . he is going to steal the moon . ( yes , the moon ! ) gru delights in all things wicked . armed with his arsenal of shrink rays , freeze rays , and battle - ready vehicles for land and air , he vanquishes all who stand in his way . until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen : a potential dad . the world ' s greatest villain has just met his greatest challenge : three little girls named margo , edith and agnes .
one of the major breaks in the case of harriet ' s disappearance was a set of intriguing multiple photographs taken during a children ' s day parade in 1966 in the town of hedestat , shot in rapid sequence and viewed as a film . the most important of the photos was the one seen from harriet ' s point - of - view - she was fearful of the startling sight of her teen brother martin vanger ( in a tell - tale blue striped sweater ) stalking her from across the street during the parade - after which she fled and disappeared .
but it is hard to imagine a movie more serious , and more urgent , than “inside job . ” there are a few avenues that might have been explored more thoroughly , in particular the effects of the crisis on ordinary , non - wall - street - connected workers and homeowners . the end of the film raises a disturbing question , as mr . damon exhorts viewers to demand changes in the status quo so that the trends associated with unchecked speculation of the kind that caused the last crisis — rising inequality , neglect of productive capacity , endless cycles of boom and bust — might be reversed .
the film concluded with ginger transformed into a monstrous ginger - wolf engaging in a killing spree , including a threatening showdown with her sister , who up until this point had attempted to rescue ginger from her animalistic urges . brigitte felt she no longer had a bond with her sister - she had a choice to either cure her sister with a syringe of
werewolf antidote
or to kill her with a knife , and chose the latter (
i ' m not dying in this room with you
) . she was intimately close to ginger - wolf , hugging her when she exhaled her last breath .
bruised and unrecognizable to them , she appeared quick to judge and punish , less loving , more erratic and jealous of her boys ' closeness . she required complete silence and peace in order to recuperate : no light in the house and no playing inside among other restrictions . the two frightened sons suspiciously believed that their radically - transformed mother who was now disciplining them more severely than usual , was an imposter . they also believed that she was refusing to acknowledge lukas - as a form of punishment - and not for the real reason - - lukas didn ' t exist - the film ' s obligatory spoiler twist .
with that in mind , i revisited fincher’s facebook film ( written by aaron sorkin , whose script won the best adapted screenplay oscar ) . the social network was and still is one of the sharpest movies i’ve ever seen — it’s the rare example where sorkin’s reflex for writing witty , whiny men with outsized intellect and poorly disguised narcissism serves as an advantage instead of a handicap . it’s paced with the precision of a metronome , it’s shot and edited like a daylight - hours horror movie , it’s a more seductive scene portrait than almost famous or annie hall , and it has at least four career - high cast performances ( andrew garfield , the quietly oscar - snubbed ! ) .
very multilayered tragedy features some beautiful performances from senior cast members , punctuated by a melancholy score by jo hisaishi . the central love story between lonely woman fukatsu and lonely youth turned murderer tsumabuki is good but runs a bit too long . however , what i really liked about this film is that it takes the time to fully explore all of it ' s subplots . the one of the father seeking solace , then revenge , over his daughters murder being particularly poignant . then , the young murderer ' s grandmother ' s stoicism in the face of adversity - just beautiful , but sad of course . no one does melodrama as well as the japanese , and i ' m a sucker for it . be warned . some moments will require kleenex .
dozens of interviews — along with news clips and arresting aerial shots of new york , iceland and other disaster areas — are folded into a clear and absorbing history , narrated by matt damon . the music ( an opening song , “big time , ” by peter gabriel , and a score by alex heffes ) and the clean wide - screen cinematography provide an aesthetic polish that is welcome for its own sake and also important to the movie’s themes . the handsomely lighted and appointed interiors convey a sense of the rarefied , privileged worlds in which the wall street operators and their political enablers flourished , and the elegance of the presentation also subliminally bolsters the film’s authority . this is not a piece of ragged muckraking or breathless advocacy . it rests its outrage on reason , research and careful argument .
just when we think we ' re dealing with a straight forward thriller , the story takes a sharp left turn and plunges us into a much more ambiguous space where good and evil seem to slowly merge , reflect each other , and then swap as the film gradually upends all our preconceptions . yet shimizu is given a temporary oasis from the implacable march of fate in the form of mitsuyo , a young naive woman who , unaware of his notoriety , falls in love with him . convinced that despite his dysfunctional behaviour , where everything , including their own sex , is commodified and stripped of emotion , mitsuyo believes they can find a way to be together . at lunch with her in a twee tourist trap shimizu blurts out his terrible secret . as her illusions about shimizu ' s character are shattered , she chooses to replace these with a delusional conviction that somehow their love can transcend the situation and remove them from the normal constraints of society .
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the film that was n't ( הסרט שלא היה ) is a two-part documentary series about interrogations in israel and the occupied territories , including the use of torture in those interrogations .

it aired on israeli television in 1993 and 1994 .

the film was directed by ram loevy .

the film that wasn ' t

: yeah , well , that class wasn ' t about what i thought it was about .
you obviously don ' t even have a clue what irrelevant means , because columbus certainly wasn ' t .
jolie : i would never have made the film if it wasn ' t in cambodia , if rithy hadn ' t agreed to do it , if it wasn ' t with cambodian actors , if it wasn ' t in [ khmer ] - that was the whole reason to make this film . to give this country a chance to speak . and if they weren ' t ready , then we wouldn ' t have made the film .
hijuelos added that she could not provide an exact count of the inquiries her office had received , but that number wasn ' t overwhelming because most mexicans in phoenix are from northern mexico , which wasn ' t affected .
that preamble wasn ' t enough to stop an online petition from being launched to pull to the bone from the public domain .
1 . judd nelson wasn ' t almost fired just for picking on molly ringwald . he also couldn ' t stay in the shots .
6 . a cut scene shows that allison wasn ' t smoking pot with the others because she was actually off somewhere singing .
2 . and jack black didn’t want to be in the film at all .
americans consider otto warmbier a murder victim , even if he wasn ' t technically
executed
by kim .
“consumption of film entertainment has become that much more immediate , fans simply can’t and won’t wait like they used to , ” says bourdillon .
2 . the topless scene wasn ' t the only scandalous moment removed . there was also a risque scene involving
milfs .
it is the 50th anniversary of cathy come home this year . what parallels are there between this new film and that film ?
of a film and then the film is something else . it happens to me once in a while where people just don’t get the ending . ’
then that in my mind makes the film successful ,
she said .
despite all his efforts , mr . aronofsky wasn’t fretting about viewers missing the point . “i can’t spoon - feed , i just don’t do that , ” he said . “my job , first and foremost , is to entertain and scare the audience . ”
the following is a faithful translation of a speech delivered by ram loevy at tel aviv university on 11 february 2009 . in that speech , loevy described the process by which he created his film , the film that wasn ' t ( הסרט שלא היה ) , about the use of torture in israel and the west bank .
but it wasn’t all good luck . spielberg was not happy when stock footage of both vehicles was later used in an episode of the television series
that comes through the ship and makes faces . cg was completely unproven . we didn’t know how it could be integrated with film .
the film would include many testimonies , so that it would be clear that we are talking about a common phenomenon .
blacks who aren ' t slaves still hate white people who aren ' t slavers though .
: well , you don ' t see that every day of the week .
the film , which premiered to tepid reviews at last year’s toronto film festival , is the latest in an increasingly long line that don’t rely on box office . in fact , the poor showing is of little consequence .
though it ' s reported that many scenes in the film were improvised , the scene where allison reynolds draws in the library isn ' t one of them .
j . a . bayona’s tear - jerking fantasy film doesn’t come close to earning its inevitably devastating emotional climax .
we celebrate the myth not the man . isn ' t that the excuse to keep jefferson and washington ?
now we were lying in bed . i wasn’t going to fuck her . she had her head on my shoulder . she started to talk . i let her .
“i’d made a really grueling , dark film and i just don’t think audiences in 1982 wanted to see that , ” said carpenter . “they wanted to see e . t . and the thing was the opposite . ”
16 years ago , zacharias kunuk made history several times over with his film atanarjuat : the fast runner . it was the first feature film ever in the inuktitut language , the first indigenous film submitted by canada to the academy awards and the first — and , to this day , only — canadian film to win the camera d ' or for best first feature at the cannes film festival .
you don ' t understand the term
history
. i wouldn ' t expect you to be capable of grasping all that much , honestly .
there were many turbulent arguments between us . we knew that this would not be just another film .
people don’t give george the credit that he deserves . the work he did on the prequels enabled a kind of filmmaking that has kept the industry alive .
this time , netflix included a trigger warning , stating that the film includes ,
realistic depictions that may be challenging for some viewers .
let me address my claim that it wasn ' t that entertaining . this could possibly be because nolan kept it as close to the source material as he could – and good for him , not being persuaded by the powers that be , who probably want more action scenes and love triangles .
darren aronofsky doesn’t want viewers to know the allegory ahead of time : “i can’t spoon - feed , i just don’t do that . my job , first and foremost , is to entertain and scare the audience . ”
i can ' t relate to it at all ,
mccarthy said of the film and portrayals of eating disorders in general .
independence day : resurgence didn’t screen early for critics . that could be a good thing .
] let me see if i got this . the third story on the news tonight was that someone i didn ' t know thirteen years ago when i wasn ' t president participated in a demonstration where no laws were being broken in protest of something that so many people were against , it doesn ' t exist anymore . just out of curiosity , what was the fourth story ?
hi noomi . in unlocked , you play a tough - as - nails spy tasked with preventing a terrorist attack . but the role was initially written for a man , wasn’t it ?
sheedy explains the scene was always in the film , and though she doesn ' t know who actually drew the picture , she did set the record straight on one detail . the actress explained that dandruff she scratched out of her hair wasn ' t actually dandruff or even parmesan cheese as previously thought .
i think it was potato flakes of some kind ,
sheedy said .
that’s nearly unprecedented for a movie of this size . it’s hard to think of many comparable films that weren’t screened for critics in advance : as scott mendelson points out at forbes , the closest comparisons are probably the 2014 hercules movie starring dwayne johnson , and 2009’s g . i . joe : rise of the cobra , a $ 175 million film based on a toy line that wasn’t quite the successful franchise starter it was obviously intended to be .
4 . a double amputee was used to create the film’s quintessential special effect .
kapelos pictured ( middle ) at the beginning of the film . ( image : mentalfloss )
the suffragette film shows the violent human cost of votes for women in britain . thank god
i am something in the nature of a film editor emeritus , and brothers joel and ethan coen are self - styled cinéastes who had begun shooting this , with little concern to what it might be called . pansies don’t float was an early working title that , thank goodness , they were prevailed upon to discard . —roderick jaynes , introduction to the published screenplay the man who wasn’t there
our reputation wasn’t stellar , because we were breaking a lot of rules . but at the same time , we were there at 3 o’clock in the morning when those studio guys were asleep in their beds .
sheedy confirmed that a topless scene involving a swimming teacher was cut out of the film , saying :
i think john [ hughes ] didn’t want to have it in the movie . i think he thought it didn’t really work for him .
, it seemed like we really hit a wall . cg had been floating around as this carrot : it was promising all this stuff for like 10 years but wasn’t really delivering on it .
the director and star of the monumental and critically acclaimed film open up on the latest episode of the filmmakers .
: perhaps i didn ' t properly explain the fundamentals of the slowdown plan .
kudrow later recalled , “i didn’t like the guitar . i wasn’t getting it . so i think i even asked , ‘what if she plays the bongos ? ’” they ended up bringing a guitar teacher in , but that didn’t last long . kudrow learned a couple of chords , then announced that she was done with the lessons . she decided that phoebe would only know a handful of chords anyway . and thank goodness because “smelly cat” is perfect just the way it is .
independence day : resurgence didn’t screen early for critics . that could be a good thing . - vox
: you kissed him ? you didn ' t tell me that . where did you kiss him ?
2 ) the scene alone tipped the film from being a pg - 13 to an r .
was a film that literally couldn’t be made ; the technology required to bring the movie’s universe to visual life simply didn’t exist . eventually 20th century fox gave lucas $ 25 , 000 to finish his screenplay—and then , after he garnered a best picture oscar nomination for
we made it through two years without a star wars film . i think we did five films in that time .
founded in 1950 through the enthusiasm of the athens association of film critics , it wasn’t until the 1960s that key members of the association , artists and writers , formalized their activities to establish this nonprofit cultural institution as it is known today . this initiative was led by aglaia mitropoulou , whose close collaboration and exchange with the french cinémathèque was significant to the archive’s development . such relationships continue , and the greek film archive and film museum remains committed to the research , collection , conservation , and promotion of greek and international film heritage . with its strong tradition of presenting , discussing , and analyzing films and other relevant documents , the greek film archive hosts the premieres and special cinema screenings of the work of documenta 14 filmmakers in athens .
[ kim ] chose to let a million to two million people starve to death in the 90’s . so 340 executions ,
malice said .
that number is better to focus on than the guy who probably wasn ' t eaten by dogs .
i don ' t need to be educated on the subject . you likewise don ' t need to make unverified , likely false claims .
you changed how you edited this film from previous ones . how and why ?
that peta has an impossible agenda and that someone probably tried to make money by making my film look bad , does not excuse the mistakes made 15 months ago , irrespective of the fact that the dog in question was unharmed .
every christmas season , there’s at least one film that rumbles into theaters with the sole purpose of yanking tears from its most cold - hearted viewers . enter a monster calls , a story about a young boy wrestling with his mother’s terminal illness . in a way , the film succeeds ; it’s hard not to get choked up at a premise like that . but as the movie rumbled toward its inevitably devastating conclusion , the chief emotion i felt wasn’t sadness but annoyance at the dashed grander potential .
he added : “i reached deep into myself and saw what this film was about , and i think it’s clear that audiences have responded . it’s is a very , very special film to me . ”
so , what wasn’t filmed in front of a live audience ? one example is the cliffhanger in the season four finale , “the one with ross’s wedding . ” at the end of the episode , ross is about to marry emily , but accidentally says rachel’s name at the altar . “we couldn’t have an audience for that , ” aniston said . “we always remove the audience for the cliffhangers because , obvious reasons , you don’t want to spoil it . ”
dunn’s body wasn’t found until july 14 . authorities were notified about the video after a relative found it on social media . while authorities could identify all of the teenagers , investigators initially said they did not commit a criminal act .
at the time , but it had the first digital star character of a feature - length film .
through that lens , the film also grapples with modern ideas of identity , particularly chu’s “struggle to define himself as an asian - american” and how the internet affects those perceptions as well . it’s currently the film’s only screening in chicago .
“i don’t think i was that aware really of how famous harry was , ” nolan said on friday ( july 7 ) . “i mean , my daughter had talked about him . my kids talked about him , but i wasn’t really that aware of it . so the truth is , i cast harry because he fit the part wonderfully and truly earned a seat at the table . ”
was the hardest film i’ve ever worked on . we had to train people to do work that we barely knew how to do .
a variety of scenes from the movie were cut from the final film , and sheedy recalled one that was a big moment for her character .
there were rumours that jimmy’s hall was going to be your last film . was that ever the case , and if so what persuaded you to make i , daniel blake ?
again , that doesn’t change the movie itself . but it can change the way you watch it — even when the theater is exactly the same .
those guys didn’t quite understand the critical nature of making a movie . you can’t be a day late ; it just doesn’t work . it all fits together into a giant mosaic . all the pieces have to fall together .
“i wasn’t given military orders . because of my own personal feelings , i treated the prisoners strictly as enemies of japan , ” he told his interviewer , bob simon . watanabe refused to meet with zamperini as part of the piece .
production on the film was bumpy , which is more frequent at pixar than might be assumed . faced with story and scheduling complications in 2010 , mr . lasseter ended up taking over the film from brad lewis , a first - time director who ultimately left the studio . if getting “cars 2” back on the road wasn’t big enough , mr . lasseter soon suffered the death of his father , paul . he also broke his arm .
when director nick broomfield sent a working edit of the film , i was so disturbed by the subject matter that i couldn’t even watch it . aileen wuornos led a tortured , torturing life that is beyond my worst nightmares . it wasn’t until i was told that aileen spent many hours listening to my album “tigerlily” while on death row and requested “carnival” be played at her funeral that i gave permission for the use of the song . it’s very odd to think of the places my music can go once it leaves my hands . if it gave her some solace , i have to be grateful .
that incident is one of many acts of militant suffrage depicted in new film suffragette , which is released in the uk on october 12 .
mr . aronofsky organized a private screening for ms . griffin and the writer rebecca solnit . “the film doesn’t operate in an intellectual way , it operates emotionally , and that’s its strength , ” ms . griffin said .
angelina jolie and rithy panh co - directed the film
first they killed my father .
what the film does so well is to depict just how united the suffragettes were behind a single cause .
we’d been cutting on film for many years but we found that the infrastructure for cutting on film was just disappearing . the biggest problem was the cost of printing the sound rushes on mag stock and also printing all the film rushes . it was more than i could justify so , reluctantly , we cut on avid . it has some advantages but i found cutting on film was a more human way of working – you can see what you’ve done at the end of the day . avid seems quicker but i don ' t think the overall time taken is any less . i just find the tactile quality of film is more interesting .
roderick jaynes is the pseudonym employed by the brothers joel and ethan coen to disguise the editing of the films they otherwise produce , direct , and write together under one or both of their given names . the use of this fictive persona ( a source that dares not speak its name ) in regard to the neo - noir ultimately released as the man who wasn’t there ( 2001 ) is doubly ironic . here it foregrounds a similar subterfuge of identification in the film itself , a subterfuge that has gone largely unnoticed or at least not remarked on in the discourse surrounding the film . 1
if you ' re really , really active in your eating disorder , don ' t watch this ,
said rogers .
don ' t watch it , and don ' t watch it alone .
the tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans . it represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show .
alison rogers watches a difficult scene in the netflix film to the bone . the film , which came out last friday , portrays a woman with anorexia and has been accused of glamorizing the eating disorder . ( cbc )
an article last sunday about the making of the film “mother” misstated the year that susan griffin’s book “woman and nature” was published . it was 1978 , not 1979 .
: well , i haven ' t worked that out yet , but i ' m sure groveling will be involved .
dennis muren was curious and excited and wasn’t at all how i thought the ilm guys would be . he helped produce this soft - surface character : flowing , rippling , very complex . it became a pivot point in the history of visual effects .
: i will . because they weren ' t presidents when they first met them . that ' s not the case here .
: that ' s not what men do . i know no men who do that .
the other script was one he had on his mind lately , so it might not take that long . “the idea was , i was going to write two scripts , ” he said . “i wasn’t going to shoot the western until next winter , and i have been full of piss and vinegar about the other one . so now i’ll do that one . ”
—we wanted to have the flames reflecting off the alloy skin as the t - 1000 walks through them .
: i ' m sure he didn ' t take the time to . . .
by now you may have heard that nelson , who played the volatile john bender , was nearly let go from the film . though his picking on ringwald was a large part of that , sheedy explained to huffpost entertainment that there was more to the story .
' we won , '
ungalaaq recalls kunuk saying .
and i said , ' what are we trying to win ? ' and then zach said , ' we won , the film . . . in cannes ! ' and i said , ' oh , ok ! ' [ laughs ] i wasn ' t really focused on trying to win and all that .
declining to screen a film for critics before release is usually a pretty strong sign that the movie isn’t any good — or at least that the studio believes critics won’t like it . ( although some early reviews of independence day : resurgence do appear to be relatively kind . ) it can also be read as a signal that with a presold , megabudget sequel like this , the studio’s marketing team thinks critics simply don’t matter : it’s an independence day sequel . your decision to buy a ticket won’t have anything to do with whether a critic liked it or not .
part of the problem was that the thing opened two weeks after e . t . and while e . t . featured a benevolent alien and a happy ending , the thing starred a violent , evil alien and had an ending that left audiences scratching their heads a bit .
that sentiment is precisely what critics of to the bone have warned about : that the film glamorizes eating disorders and calorie counting and might serve as an instructional video on how best to have an eating disorder .
now , keene says , she’s glad about depp’s casting because it means a native person isn’t “embroiled in that mess . ”
though it’s often cited as a remake of the 1951 film the thing from another world , it’s really not . though the two films do share the same source material—john w . campbell jr . ’s 1938 story , “who goes there ? ”— carpenter was clear that he “didn’t want to compete with the old film , which was greatly beloved by me . so i went back the novella [ on ] which both films were based . ” unlike the 1951 film , carpenter’s movie features a creature that can perfectly imitate its victims .
as for where “the daily show” falls on that continuum , stewart admits that it’s probably at the intersection of the two extremes .
kudrow said that she was surprised to hear perry’s interpretation of chandler at the first table read because when she first read the script , she thought chandler was supposed to be gay . and she wasn’t the only one . during the first few seasons of the show , many fans speculated about chandler’s sexual orientation . in 1997 , david crane told entertainment weekly , “no , chandler isn’t gay . nor will he be gay . ”
winston , known for his work on movies like aliens , predator , edward scissorhands , and jurassic park , would not accept credit on the film , however , as he was adamant that it was “rob’s film . ” winston was thanked in the final credits .
as the truck rams the car over the cliff and falls off in the final film , there is a low roar sound effect that the filmmaker included to emphasize the death of the truck . spielberg , who wanted the truck to seem
quite literally , that is totally incorrect and retarded to think that ' s what history is .
carpenter does , however , pay homage to the earlier film , most notably in the scene where he shows the alien’s icy tomb that has been removed from the snow and in the main title sequence .
looking back on the entire incident , i now find it fascinating and somehow uplifting that the public broadcasting network in israel agreed to finance and broadcast a film that investigated the horrors inflicted by israeli forces on the palestinians . i wonder how many other countries would have agreed to do that .
: i don ' t know . but i would have liked that campaign . if my friend andy shepherd had shown up , i would have liked that campaign very much .
we didn’t have the go - ahead . spaz and stefen and i were fearless fools .
trump thinks immigration is his party’s winning issue in midterms . the polls aren’t so sure .
for every show i’ve done , i have convinced myself the work was obsolete . that was an intentional thing . if there’s another film out next summer , i don’t want to be reminded of the last one , even if the theme’s the same . it’s up to me to find some way to make that different .
preview screenings encourage that model of criticism , allowing critics to declare their opinion in advance of the movie’s opening day , before moving on to the next film and the next review .
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when it was released 16 years ago , i didn ' t get it .
the director and star of the award - winning film sat down with the filmmakers to look back at their collaboration . 10 : 02
] i regrouped . you have to give me that . i stood in the middle of the oval office and made it clear that he who doesn ' t take the gdc seriously does so at his peril .
there should be student conduct charges against the group that hosted the meeting that locked them out ,
he said .
she sang the song to herself and then she walked out of the room and just joined the group ,
sheedy went on .
so that wasn’t in the script , and he actually let me shoot it . he shot it twice , and then afterwards said that everybody sort of thought it was a little bit too weird .
7 . principal vernon ' s anger was totally real .
: lewis , we ' ve had presidents who were beloved , who couldn ' t find a coherent sentence with two hands and a flashlight . people don ' t drink the sand because they ' re thirsty . they drink the sand because they don ' t know the difference .
russell threw an actual stick of dynamite during a scene toward the end of the film . he did not , however , anticipate it being so powerful . russell was literally blown backwards after the device detonated ; this take was left in the film .
as for the working title , “ not to float” suggests submersion , something kept beneath the surface , and what in a hollywood film is more likely treated as submerged ( “subtextual , ” if you will ) than the representation of a homosexual ? yet “pansies don’t float , ” like “roderick jaynes , ” both shrouds and reveals , for , as we will show , more than one “pansy” ( beyond the secondary character openly disclosed as homosexual ) lurks beneath the surface of the man who wasn’t there . besides “outing” none other than the film’s protagonist , and assessing the significance of his “closeted” gayness , this essay will analyze the relation of homosexual submersion to film noir as a genre specifically , and to the issue of “gay representability” in american commercial cinema as a whole .
yes , let me just open the history book and read all the information that ' s not related to political history . oh there isn ' t any . how weird , a guy on 4chan told me history isn ' t about politics
they choose this room , which is a very inaccurate replica of french architecture ( deliberately so , inaccurate ) because one was suggesting that they had some idea of something that he might think was pretty , but wasn’t quite sure . just as we’re not quite sure what do in zoos with animals to try to give them what we think is their natural environment .
if i do it , all the components need to be right . that’s not a movie i can compromise with . she’s been a big part of my life ; at crucial moments , she was like an angel when i wasn’t in a good place . i have a painting in my house that’s four metres long that this swedish artist did for me . it has ravens and the lyrics of back to black . when i left sweden after my divorce ( 4 ) , that was what i brought with me . so the film needs to be close to my heart and done the right way . and if not , it won’t be me doing it . it’s too precious to gamble with .
i was naïve in my belief that a public outcry would ensue . critics praised the film , but with regard to the topic itself , there was absolute silence . it was as if the events described in the film had taken place somewhere far away . it was as if we bear no responsibility .
when the t - 1000 goes through the doors in the mental institution ? turns out that if you hold a can of dog food upside down , the sound of that cylinder slowly coming out of the can is the perfect combination of mud , metal , and suction . that sound effect cost 75 cents .
while the film was underway , we were informed that i had been awarded the israel prize . the headline on the front page of the yediot ahronot newspaper read ,
israel prize winner making film about the secret service ' s ' torture chambers . '
i was stunned by how it was worded . the use of the term
torture chambers
was ironic . perhaps it was intended to harm the film , and perhaps even to suggest that the state of israel ' s highest prize would be given to a traitor .
“i got way too big off views / back to the basics , i won’t lose . ”
: i don ' t even know what we call her . is she the first mistress ?
it doesn ' t matter the situations are analogous . further it ' s hilarious that you think romans somehow forgo the basic logic of associating behaviours with the animals that perform them , did they also presume every wasp stingless ?
as soon as the video was displayed on tmz , peta called for a boycott of the movie and i began receiving messages on twitter that ranged from polite questions about what happened to harsh anger . i wasn’t surprised nor resistant to this messaging , as i have also called for boycotts against those whom i felt are doing wrong to animals .
one negatively reviewed film , especially one that goes on to become a megahit , isn’t enough to scratch the pixar brand . but the commentary did dent morale at the studio , which until then had enjoyed an unbroken and perhaps unprecedented run of critical acclaim . reviewing the film for the wall street journal , joe morgenstern wrote , “this frenzied sequel seldom gets beyond mediocrity , ” perhaps suggesting that the creative spark that had guided pixar so successfully through 11 straight hits — including three “toy story” films — was beginning to dim .
eagle - eyed viewers will catch the word “flammable” scrawled across the back of the truck , yet when it careens off the cliff at the end of the movie it doesn’t go boom . the studio wanted a big explosion , but the director wanted a slower demise for his film’s villain .
that these aren ' t sanitised is a fitting testament to the long and painful path they had to travel to bring about social change in britain .
sorry , but that ' s wrong . you don ' t get to change the definition of words to fit your narrative ,
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feel free to take a walk down memory lane with the ghostbusting girls , confident that they haven ' t committed any major sacrilege against your fondest cinematic memories . just know they haven ' t done anything to add to them either .
> msm : you won ' t believe what racist cuckservative said . . . etc
“i was slurring . my words rolled around and got sticky and didn’t come out .
but don’t worry : a national tour is set to kick off in fall 2019 .
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] syd , please , i don ' t want to lose you over this .
: i don ' t understand , sir , is there a problem . . .
stewart wasn’t entirely convinced he should — or could — direct the thing , but he didn’t let that stand in his way . “oh , i’m still not convinced , ” he says . “if you wait to be convinced that you can do something , you’ll never do anything . people always ask me , ‘how do i become a comedian ? ’ and i always say , ‘well , i think one thing you should do is get on stage and tell jokes . ’ ”
according to the script , the janitor is meant to be a former student of the high school , as indicated by his picture in the case at the beginning of the film . but when it came to moranis ' portrayal , kapelos said the actor and producers didn ' t have
a meeting of the creative minds at that moment .
don ' t you wish you were a man ?
a male passer - by barks at anne marie - duff ' s character , violet , as she campaigns on the streets of london in the film .
both jon favreau and jon cryer were considered for the role of chandler before it went to matthew perry . and perry almost didn’t get the gig either . during the 1994 pilot season , he filmed the pilot for a show called lax 2194 in addition to friends . the show would have been about baggage handlers at lax who sorted aliens’ luggage . thankfully , it wasn’t picked up , and perry was able to take the friends gig .
lisa marie roberts’s original lawyer wasn’t one of them . there were reasons to suspect her : she had a tumultuous , sometimes violent relationship with the victim , jerri williams . cell records showed that at 10 : 27 on the morning of the murder , roberts’s phone connected to a tower within 3 . 4 miles of kelley point park , where williams’s body was discovered . her attorney felt that was enough to convict her .
“i typically don’t read the reviews , ” he said , not exactly answering the question . “i make movies for that little boy who loves the characters so much that he wants to pack his clothes in a lightning mcqueen suitcase . ”
the frame ' s john horn met with jolie and panh to discuss the making of the film , and the importance of it being a truly cambodian production .
the makers of the hunting ground say they gave the young men implicated in the film a chance to comment , and none responded . but it wasn’t until february , a month after the documentary made a celebrated debut at the sundance film festival , that winston says he was first contacted by a representative for the film . he referred this person to zalkind , who says he never heard from anyone representing the hunting ground . i contacted kirby dick to talk to him about the willingham case . he declined to speak with me , but asked for a list of written questions . i sent him my questions by email , and he replied , “after careful consideration i respectfully decline . ” i also contacted cnn to discuss the case . a representative did not respond to a request for comment .
variety later reported that during the ovation , kristen had the cameras pan down to her feet which were covered in denim sneakers – a clear dig at t he no - flats policy that caused controversy at last year’s festival .
spielberg himself offered a clue when , continuing his conversation with those entertainment writers in los angeles , he described his father ' s own war stories :
i was supposed to wave the flag and be patriotic and say that without his efforts i wouldn ' t have the freedoms i had or even the freedom to have the bicycle i was riding .
only later did the director realize that it wasn ' t
a bunch of bunk he was telling me .
john miller , the high - school teacher from pennsylvania , teaches jimmy ryan the same lesson .
: well , if you go through that door , the united states secret service . that ' s my private office .
from what i was told ,
said kapelos ,
he wanted to play the character as a russian with gold teeth and keys between his legs , playing with it provocatively . . . and so it’s like , it wasn’t organic , i guess is putting it politely and correctly .
i was getting desperate . we didn’t stop pestering them . we placed dozens of calls to the idf spokesman , to the office of the director general of the israel broadcast authority , but to no avail . the idea of cutting the soldier from the film so that it could be broadcast was unacceptable to us . we used many different ways to verify his testimony and were convinced that it was reliable .
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] can i just state very clearly i can ' t be part of anything illegal .
boo hoo who cares . don ' t deify figures of the past that benefited from inherently misogynistic and racist systems . tradition is for idiots . science rules .
besides , stewart insists , he doesn’t have the right “skill set” for the job . and what might that skill set be , that this restless and responsible , hyper - verbal and deeply thoughtful funnyman - turned - filmmaker lacks ?
exclusive : learning today that his script the hateful eight leaked after he gave it to a small circle of actors , quentin tarantino tells me that he’s so upset that he has decided that he will not direct that film next . so basically that means the conversation that will be circulating around town following this story with tarantino goes from an ensemble western to a whodunit . as in , which actor or their reps leaked the script that , as a result , is going on the shelf — literally a bookstore shelf , because tarantino tells me he will publish it first and maybe revisit the prospect of a movie in the next five years .
chu’s meticulous , unconventional approach meant much of the attention he attracted was negative , but it wasn’t just his approach that people called out . much of that negativity was outright racist vitriol aimed at chu’s asian - american identity . since his run on the game show turned him into something of a public figure , chu has somewhat embraced that identity , speaking out about various social issues in public appearances and from his @ arthur _ affect twitter handle with more than 35 , 000 followers .
i was once young , and have since grown old , and i have yet to understand the apathy with which the issues raised in the film were received , just as i do not yet understand the laughter that erupted in the audience when i was suffering on stage in that student production .
[ the film ] makes me feel like there ' s something wrong with me ,
said rogers .
it makes me feel like other people are watching this film . . . thinking , ' god , how awful that is , how bad i feel for this young woman . '
well it’s the old phrase isn’t it : ‘agitate , educate , organise . ’ you can agitate with a film – you can’t educate much , though you can ask questions – and you can’t organise at all , but you can agitate . and i think to agitate is a great aim because being complacent about things that are intolerable is just not acceptable . characters trapped in situations where the implicit conflict has to be played out , that is the essence of drama . and if you can find that drama in things that are not only universal but have a real relevance to what’s going on in the world , then that’s all the better . i think anger can be very constructive if it can be used ; anger that leaves the audience with something unresolved in their mind , something to do , something challenging .
kira mccarthy prepared to watch the film by making sure her ipad was nearby to distract her during difficult moments . ( cbc )
] this isn ' t about me . how can you keep quiet ? how do you have patience for people who claim they love america , but clearly can ' t stand americans ?
for it was wilding ' s violent death that finally brought the suffragettes to the world ' s attention . the film depicts it unflinchingly and shows real footage of the hundreds of women who marched behind her coffin through the streets of london .
in the words of the prophet beyoncé , paramount pictures ain’t sorry . if mother ! ’s mania wasn’t for you , then … maybe there’s a sleepy showing of tulip fever you could slip into ? the studio is standing behind darren aronofsky’s controversial film and its “f” cinemascore rating . ( to be fair , the emoji movie has a “b” rating , so maybe take this with a grain of salt . ) paramount’s worldwide president of marketing and distribution megan colligan spoke to the hollywood reporter about the critics and audiences who were disgusted that the studio would release such a gruesome movie . colligan basically says that aronofsky is an auteur , jennifer lawrence is a star , and not everything has to be palatable . per thr :
the film leaves it to the viewer to decide whether the more extreme actions of the suffragettes could be justified . there are certainly moments of pure triumph against the lascivious male characters but there are also flickers of pure violence that risked injury to the innocent .
in order to capture the contemplative persona of the novel’s main character , the film’s writing team suggested modeling its narration after the michael caine film alfie , in which caine regularly addresses the audience straight on . cusack was hesitant , telling the new york times in 2000 , “i vetoed that idea . i thought there ' d just be too much of me . ” it was only after director stephen frears joined the team that cusack regained confidence in the device .
in this film the characters are explored more fully . both katie and dan are seen in extremis . in the end , their natural cheerfulness and resilience are not enough . certainly politically the world that this film shows is even more cruel than the world that cathy was in . the market economy has led us inexorably to this disaster . it could not do otherwise . it generates a working class that is vulnerable and easy to exploit . those who struggle to survive face poverty . it’s either the fault of the system or it’s the fault of the people . they don’t want to change the system , therefore they have to say it’s the fault of the people .
in the fall of 2011 , the administrative board ruled that winston was responsible for sexual harassment , and he was put on what the school calls “dismission , ” a form of expulsion that would allow him to reapply for admission . in the film , the finding against winston is presented as a rare triumph , though a fleeting one . willingham says in the movie that upon returning to cambridge in september , she received a facebook message from the dean of students , who wanted to meet with her . ( willingham had graduated from the law school ; she was back in cambridge for a teaching fellowship in the sociology department of harvard college . ) the meeting was to deliver the news that winston’s dismission had been overturned by the faculty . but the movie is misleading on the process and the timeline . winston missed the entire 2011–2012 academic year because of the finding of the administrative board . during that year , he was barred from attending classes while his case slowly worked its way through the law school’s disciplinary process ; at that time , expulsion required that two - thirds of the faculty vote to ratify the ruling . it wasn’t until the spring of 2012 that the faculty , after reviewing the testimony from the administrative hearing , voted to dismiss the charges against winston and allow his return that fall .
the frame ' s john horn with angelina jolie and rithy panh , who co - directed the film
first they killed my father .
was the most expensive film ever made at that point , and it all hinged on this liquid metal guy . so now we’re making , essentially , one of the two main characters of a $ 100 million movie a cg effect . that was really scary .
the universal story of people struggling to survive was the starting point . but then the characters and the situation have to be grounded in lived experience . if we look hard enough , we can all see the conscious cruelty at the heart of the state’s provision for those in desperate need and the use of bureaucracy , the intentional inefficiency of bureaucracy , as a political weapon : ‘this is what happens if you don’t work ; if you don’t find work you will suffer . ’ the anger at that was the motive behind the film .
everybody says , “oh , you’re going to replace actors . ” you can’t replace actors . we’ve created duplicates , clones , but they can’t act . they’re a computer , for god’s sake .
hijuelos said that authorities don ' t have a good sense of the full impact of the disaster . news reports from mexico on wednesday afternoon showed that rescuers were still in the early stages of going through rubble piles to look for trapped people and bodies .
“the main objective of a premium vod ( video on demand ) release is to try to get more income from vod than you might expect from just a standard vod release , ” says a source at bulldog film distribution . “misconduct definitely wasn’t a flop for us as a distributor , despite only making a few thousand pounds at the box office . theatrical is just one area of the whole release and other areas , including pvod , are much more positive . ”
it was an impossible number of shots for an era in which none of the equipment or the processes that were used to produce the film existed . it was overwhelming . it took almost a year just to get the camera going .
3 ) the film is set to be directed by kirsten sheridan , daughter of jim sheridan and co - writer of in america .
as for depp , he told npr that his version of tonto has to give a peek at the stereotypes that exist so that , when the stereotypes are flipped , the audience can recognize it . well - meaning efforts aside , keene doesn’t see it that way . “it would have been really cool and powerful if tonto was just another guy who happened to be indian , if they didn’t have to go into the whole mystical , spiritual fantasy element , ” she says . “just let tonto be a person . that would be really powerful . ”