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Youniverse Movie Blog: November 2007
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Friday, 30 November 2007. The body of Tobey Maguire. 8216;I’m not sure’. He already had experience riding horses with Ang Lee in Ride with the Devil. ‘ I love riding and I had the same horse-wrangler Rusty Henrickson I had on Ride with The Devil. Before him there was this really old-style wrangler called Monty. And I said Monty is there anything I can do to advance me more quickly? I met Tobey in 2003, when he was promoting his film Seabiscuit. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The body of Tobey Maguire.
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Youniverse Movie Blog: GONZO: THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON [The Review]
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Tuesday, 4 November 2008. GONZO: THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON [The Review]. One of the good things about this documentary by Oscar-winning film-maker Alex Gibney is how it restores Dr Gonzo to some semblance of seriousness. He was very much more than the Ralph Steadman caricature, a sort of drug-addled holy fool. At one point in the 1970’s, at the peak of his powers, Thompson was a formidable influence on the political landscape of America. 8216;Politics is the art of controlling your envi...
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Youniverse Movie Blog: November 2008
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Thursday, 13 November 2008. I had a pleasant Sunday afternoon last weekend catching up on a screening of Secret Sunshine. The feature film from South Korean director Lee Chang-dong. Introduced by programmer and critic Tony Rayns. Won best director prize in Venice in 2002, but it’s taken until now to follow that film up. Secret Sunshine. My favorite Lee Chang-dong film remains Peppermint Candy. Not a single Lee Chang-dong film has received even a one-screen release in the UK (even the US released Oasis.
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Youniverse Movie Blog: Joaquin Phoenix Quits Movies to Focus on Music.
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Tuesday, 4 November 2008. Joaquin Phoenix Quits Movies to Focus on Music. Phoenix's publicist, Susan Patricola, has confirmed his earlier comments to TV's "Extra": The upcoming Two Lovers. Will be his last performance on film. He has said that Two Lovers. Is his last. But this is not strange. Joaquin has been directing music videos and been involved in music for the last number of years," she says. The 34-year-old star received Oscar nominations for his roles in Gladiator. And Walk the Line.
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Youniverse Movie Blog: Defiance [The Review]
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Wednesday, 12 November 2008. This is not a review. I left half-way through Defiance. In an act of, perhaps, Defiance. Defiance. Is highly thought of in the Oscar race. Daniel Craig plays the lead character, a rugged freedom fighter and militia man, a proto-Israeli if you like. He’s tipped for an Oscar nomination; US audiences like the story, based on a true incident, of Jewish Byelorussians fighting back against the Nazis. I broke off seeing Defiance. Because I was sick of it. Sick to death of it....
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Youniverse Movie Blog: OldBoy - The Octopus Eating Scene
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Friday, 7 November 2008. OldBoy - The Octopus Eating Scene. With the news that Steven Spielberg is to remake the South Korean psychodrama, everyone is wondering whether that movie's most famous scene is about to be reproduced. Would Will Smith ever chow down on a slippery, live cephalopod? Ah yes. The Octopus. The scene 'has become an iconic image in the minds of many Asian cinema fans,' according to Variety. The scene unfolds as follows. I want to say straight away that most people in Korea don't normal...
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Youniverse Movie Blog: Taxi Driver: Story of the Scene
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Monday, 3 November 2008. Taxi Driver: Story of the Scene. You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who do you think you're talking to? Travis Bickle is practising with his guns in front of a mirror in one of the most-quoted scenes in modern cinema. The film is Taxi Driver. The actor is Robert De Niro. The exact identity of this comedian, curiously, remains unrecorded. Despite De Niro’s recent G...
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Youniverse Movie Blog: Oscar Noms
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008. Daniel Craig, 'Defiance'. Benicio Del Toro, 'Che'. Richard Jenkins, 'The Visitor'. Ben Kingsley, 'Elegy'. Mickey Rourke, 'The Wrestler'. Current state of play for Oscar 'Best Actor' Public Poll for LA Times. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Milk - The Re-Run. OldBoy - The Octopus Eating Scene. Joaquin Phoenix Quits Movies to Focus on Music. GONZO: THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON. Taxi Driver: Story of the Scene.
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Youniverse Movie Blog: Milk - The Re-Run
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008. Milk - The Re-Run. There are the first rumblings of a Sundance Film Festival boycott; not just the boycott of Mormon businesses in Utah advocated by many enraged Gay Rights activists, but an actual wholesale rejection of the esteemed (but increasingly creaky) festival itself. Last week, Proposition 8 was passed by a vote in California. It reverses the right to civil gay unions and has effectively annulled over 18,000 of them (including the George Takei one) retrospectively.
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Youniverse Movie Blog: Tarantino Update
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Monday, 3 November 2008. The final casting pieces of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. Have fallen into place. Maggie Cheung has been cast as Madame Mimieux, the French matriarch of the Cinematheque that takes in the protagonist Shosanna (Melanie Laurent) when she is homeless and being sought by the Nazis. Finally, Samuel L. Jackson will be the omniscient narrator. 10 November 2008 at 16:59. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Milk - The Re-Run. OldBoy - The Octopus Eating Scene.
