March 9, 2009 • 6:01 pm 0
For Trevor and my other screenwriting friends, read this interesting profile on Tony Gilroy, writer and director of the movie, Michael Clayton, as well as the upcoming movie Duplicity. It’s great to hear about someone working to create characters and stories with some depth.
(Via The Morning News)
Filed under: Movies , Links, Movies, screenwriting
February 3, 2009 • 12:10 am 0
In the tradition of Valentine’s Day with our friends, Leanne and I would like to invite you to see a screening of Coraline. It will be the second year now that we’ve gathered a group of friends to partake in a Henry Selick stop motion animated film (after last year’s showing of The Nightmare Before Christmas.) If you have nothing else happening, book it off and plan to come out with us.
Oh, by the way, did you hear about the homemade promotion materials that were sent out? Those boxes and those sweet shoes? Pretty cool.
Update: Here’s a video from the advertising agency that put all the promos together. There were a lot of pieces to this!
Filed under: Movies , movie, valentine's day
January 25, 2009 • 12:43 am 0
The National Film Board has revamped their website and put a number of films up for free viewing. You could kill a number of hours over there with the depth and quality of the films.
A number of them I remember from my childhood, when they’d show animated shorts to fill the 10 to 15 minutes between the end of an awkwardly timed movie on CBC and whatever was after it. For example, this one taught me what pleases girls completely.
Keep tabs on their blog as well. (Love that owl!)
(via Club Mumble and Said the Gramophone)
Filed under: Art, Movies , canada, film, national film board, nfb, video
October 18, 2007 • 8:30 am 0
I picked up the advance screening pass I won from FFWD yesterday. For all that were lucky enough to snag a ticket from one of the sponsors, congratulations and I’ll see you all tonight.
Also, check out The Hour tonight (October 18, 2007) as Wes Anderson and Jason Schwartzman will be on the show.
Lastly, check with Rushmore Academy for more news and reviews of the film.
Filed under: Movies , Advance Screening, Calgary, The Darjeeling Limited, The Hour, wes anderson
October 10, 2007 • 11:20 am 0
According to Fox Searchlight, via Rushmore Academy, The Darjeeling Limited will be opening in Calgary on October 19, 2007. This is one day after the advance screening (which myself and all my roommates have entered and hoping to win tickets). Who wants to join me that weekend?
Update: The Advance Screening is showing on Thursday at Westhills which also is the first theatre in the city (as far as I can tell) to confirm the times for screenings starting this weekend. Of course, most of the theatres publish their movie schedules on Thursday for the coming week, so we’ll find out conclusively where it’s playing at that time.
Filed under: Movies , Calgary, Movies, The Darjeeling Limited, wes anderson
October 5, 2007 • 10:59 am 0
In line with many of the other reviews that have been popping up around the web (see Rushmore Academy for links to many of them) the well respected (personally and corporately) Roger Ebert gave The Darjeeling Limited a 3 and a half stars out of 4. Check out his review which does not present anything too unique but does have a couple nice insights into the film. This comment:
The casting of the three brothers is also a good fit. Their personalities jostle one another in a family sort of way; they’re replaying old tapes. Then they have unplanned adventures as a result of the obscure medications, and end up off the train and in the “real” India with all of that luggage. But Anderson doesn’t have them discover one another, which would be a cliche; instead, they burrow more deeply inside their essential natures. Then Francis springs a surprise: Their journey will end with a meeting with their mother (Anjelica Huston), who for some years has been a nun in an Indian religious order. Her appearance and behavior is our catalyst for understanding the brothers.
I had the same sense regarding the mother after reading the script. You have that ‘Aha’ moment where you see things come together at the end and see a deeper aspect of why they are who they are. Notice though, that the word there is ‘catalyst’ for understanding. Nothing is presented clear cut and definite. We slowly piece together our knowledge of the brothers, just as they seem to be piecing together their knowledge of themselves and each other.
In that way, it’s a great movie representation of a roadtrip. You go to find out who you are, who your traveling partners are and find that the experiences you’re placed in due to your surroundings change the way you see yourself. You don’t change that much, and home is still waiting for you, but you see things a bit differently. (A friend of mine would be in a better position right now to judge that assessment) That’s why I think this movie will really resonate with myself and my roommates. We’re like these brothers in so many ways.
Filed under: Movies , Movies, Roger Ebert, The Darjeeling Limited, wes anderson
October 2, 2007 • 8:09 pm 0
Go to Dose to enter a contest for tickets to an advance screening of The Darjeeling Limited. Screening at the Westhills theatre in Calgary is on October 18. I guess we can presume the movie will be released here sometime after that date. November perhaps? Very exciting stuff. If anyone can get a hold of some of those advance tickets, let me know.
Filed under: Movies , Dose.ca, The Darjeeling Limited, wes anderson
|
