The already-incredible line-up for the 2016 New York Film Festival just got even more promising. Ang Lee‘s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk will hold its world premiere at the festival on October 14th, the NY Times confirmed today. The adaptation of Ben Fountain‘s Iraq War novel, with a script by Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire), follows a teenage soldier who survives a battle in Iraq and then is brought home for a victory lap before returning.
Lee has shot the film at 120 frames per second in 4K and native 3D, giving it unprecedented clarity for a feature film, which also means the screening will be held in a relatively small 300-seat theater at AMC Lincoln Square, one of the few with the technology to present it that way. While it’s expected that this Lincoln Square theater will play the film when it arrives in theaters, it may be...
Lee has shot the film at 120 frames per second in 4K and native 3D, giving it unprecedented clarity for a feature film, which also means the screening will be held in a relatively small 300-seat theater at AMC Lincoln Square, one of the few with the technology to present it that way. While it’s expected that this Lincoln Square theater will play the film when it arrives in theaters, it may be...
- 8/22/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
There are at least a dozen great movies to be made out of the life of Harry Houdini, the magician/escapist/pre-cinematic showman/enemy of spiritualism. Unfortunately, History’s new Houdini tries to be all those movies and a few more. The result is a grab-bag of biopic clichés, awkwardly strung together by star Adrien Brody’s narration. Brody sounds like he’s auditioning for any of the parts in Sin City 3, and he overcooks every half-baked line into pure cheesecake: “The one thing I can’t seem to escape from… is me.” Or: “Some things can hit you in...
- 9/2/2014
- by Darren Franich
- EW - Inside TV
Let's hope the director's decision to abandon his latest film following a script leak is just a minor Tarantantrum. The western genre desperately needs his rejuvenating influence
For every cinephile that delights in Quentin Tarantino's penchant for opulent dialogue and magpie film-historian's eye, there's another who sees the Us director of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill movies as a garish charlatan who survives on a habit of plundering the past. But the news today that the film-maker is to shelve his recently announced followup to Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, should be cause for no one who cares about the future of the western to celebrate.
Having seen the Oscar-winning screenplay for Django leaked only a few days after it was completed in May 2011, Tarantino says he was aghast to discover that his new script is also now in the public domain. In an interview with Deadline,...
For every cinephile that delights in Quentin Tarantino's penchant for opulent dialogue and magpie film-historian's eye, there's another who sees the Us director of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill movies as a garish charlatan who survives on a habit of plundering the past. But the news today that the film-maker is to shelve his recently announced followup to Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, should be cause for no one who cares about the future of the western to celebrate.
Having seen the Oscar-winning screenplay for Django leaked only a few days after it was completed in May 2011, Tarantino says he was aghast to discover that his new script is also now in the public domain. In an interview with Deadline,...
- 1/22/2014
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
E. B. White once wrote, “Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.” Analyzing trilogies seems to the same. The entire point is to enjoy them. Still, given the many sins to be found in film, there are worse things than movie trilogies but few have become more prominent or unavoidable. In terms of definitions, a trilogy only means three “individual” (animated, live-action, etc.) films are tied together which leaves a lot of room in seeing something as a trilogy.
Currently, negative reviews over trilogies highlight how easily and predictably they start off well but soon degenerate at a rapid pace. Then, too, there cases where once was good enough and added treatments are not welcome. David Lynch’s Dune thankfully has not become a trilogy though it sits there waiting to be given birth. In rare cases, yes, a trilogy may be badly called for.
Currently, negative reviews over trilogies highlight how easily and predictably they start off well but soon degenerate at a rapid pace. Then, too, there cases where once was good enough and added treatments are not welcome. David Lynch’s Dune thankfully has not become a trilogy though it sits there waiting to be given birth. In rare cases, yes, a trilogy may be badly called for.
- 4/3/2013
- by Christian Jimenez
- SoundOnSight
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