To our readers in and around New York City (or at least those who haven’t yet fled today for sunnier, holiday-weekend-ier climes): Save the date Sept. 12! That’s when I’ll be down at 92YTribeca with Gus Van Sant for an advance screening of his new film Restless — and you are invited!
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Heads Up, NYC: Join Gus Van Sant and Movieline For a Preview of Restless!
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When they work, found footage films are testaments to the power of a limited perspective. Features like The Blair Witch Project , REC and Cloverfield get juice out of the fact that we’re not able to see or know more than the characters on screen. They use a gloss of the intentionally clumsy — jittery camerawork, lower quality footage, mundane dialogue — to allow a story to invade from an unexpected angle. They require cleverness in concept and, more importantly, in construction, particularly when the found footage flick in question is of the horror genre, as so many of them are; there’s no easier way to lose your audience than to make them wonder why, when such frightening things are allegedly happening, your characters are still bothering to roll tape. On the plus side, they’re a way to hide your monster (or witch, or demon, or alien) from view for longer than is usually allowed a more standard film — and the monster we imagine is usually much scarier than the one we finally see on screen.
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REVIEW: Slow, Ridiculous Apollo 18 is Found Footage Horror Done Wrong
Because of an early-morning badge snafu, I was unable to catch the press screening of Roman Polanski’s Carnage , the movie I was most looking forward to seeing here in Venice. Add that to the fact that I arrived here too late to see The Ides of March , and it’s a double bummer. But my consolation prize was not bad — at least in a so-bad-it’s-almost-good kind of way: I did get to see Madonna’s W.E. , which is in some ways just the kind of movie you’d expect from an artist who once, with a delightful lack of irony, declared herself a material girl.
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Postcard from Venice: Is Madonna’s W.E. a Portrait of Wallis Simpson or a Fantasy Shopfest?
As you fire up the grill and wax philosophical about the meaning of Labor Day this long holiday weekend (i.e. it means no work on Monday!), take a moment to think about the underdogs struggling to do battle at the box office. Killer sharks , astronauts , even the mighty Helen Mirren — none of this week’s new releases may have the power to unseat the chick-lit segregation drama The Help , which could well sweep all comers under the rug with another #1 weekend showing. Bet you never envisioned the summer blockbuster season would end this way, did ya?
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Weekend Forecast: Apollo 18, Shark Night 3D, and Helen Mirren Round Out Your Summer
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I admit, I can tolerate remakes. Everything from Fame and Footloose to Dirty Dancing and that globetrotting version of Clue are fine by me, even if they’re terribly executed. I just don’t have to see some of them! But something about the news of NBC’ s planned TV series adaptation of Romancing the Stone just hurts. Romancing the Stone , of course, is the 1984 action/adventure romantic comedy starring Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. Could you stand to watch a Romancing the Stone series?
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Talkback: Is a Romancing the Stone TV Remake Your Worst Nightmare?
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We’ve all wondered it before in moments of clarity and repose: ‘Why the hell do I know what a Kardashian is?’ In the latest installment of Verbal Vogueing , Movieline staff editor Louis Virtel dares to ponder the inexplicably famous, many-headed pop culture monstrosity that is the Kardashian brood, led by the one known as Kim. Join him and jam — turn it up! — with Episode 4, and chime in with any #RejectedOlympicEvents you’ve got. Just be warned: with “Kerrigan Wailing” and “STD Relay,” the gauntlet’s been thrown .
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VIDEO: Dissect the Kardashians in the Latest Episode of Verbal Vogueing with Movieline’s Louis Virtel
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Forget The Hunger Games and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn . I know what movie event you’re really psyched to see: the Jennifer Aniston and Demi Moore-directed Lifetime film Project Five . Because nothing says movie event like a dramatized breast cancer compilation! So grab your extra large soda and jump ahead to see the trailer, which features Rosario Dawson , Lyndsy Fonseca , Ginnifer Goodwin , Jennifer Morrison, Bob Newhart and Patricia Clarkson .
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Trailer: Jennifer Aniston, Demi Moore Direct in Cancer Omnibus Project Five
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Compared to the other releases set for Sept. 23 ( Moneyball , Killer Elite , Abduction , Machine Gun Preacher ), precious little is known about The Double . Correction: after watching the new trailer for the Richard Gere-led thriller, everything seems known about The Double . If you thought the trailer for Dream House gave up the farm, you ain’t seen nothing yet!
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Why See The Double When Its Trailer Seems to Spoil the Whole Movie
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Happy belated birthday to Michael Jackson, who would’ve turned 53 on Tuesday like his Oscars date Madonna did a couple weeks ago . May Michael thrive in heaven’s Neverland where the PYT s go on forever. Since we haven’t toasted MJ yet, why not revisit the Baddest Movie We Love of 1978, The Wiz ? Wait, I know why: Because we hate dancing and fun. Wait. No. Reverse that! Let’s strap on our flyest ruby slippers and ease on down the road!
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Bad Movies We Love: The Wiz
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Remember that folk music movie Joel and Ethan Coen were working on back in June? It has co-financing and a title. Variety reports that StudioCanal will co-finance the film, now titled Inside Llewyn Davis , with Scott Rudin set to produce. The film — which will reportedly feature “live music” — is inspired, in part, by the life of famed musician Dave Van Ronk, an important figure in the growth of the folk music scene in New York’s Greenwich Village in the 1960s. [ Variety ]
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Coen Brothers Folk Music Movie Gets Co-Financing, Title
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