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TIFF 2010: Oliver Schmitz’s Life, Above All
The following vid dates back to last Sunday, it was the first public screening to Oliver Schmitz's Life, Above All, a film that played well at Cannes, was subsequently picked up Sony Pictures Classics, was just named as South Africa's Best Foreign film entry, and judging from the reaction from the crowd on this particular night, will play extremely well for a certain type of demo. I didn't think this demo would include me.
TIFF 2010 Day 3: Mike Mills’ Beginners
It might have been a longer than expected wait for Mike Mills' sophomore narrative feature film to arrive -- but now after having just seen the world premiere screening I'd note that: it was worth the wait. Mills' last pic, was a docu focusing on the pill popping nation of Japan - a sort of a companion film to prescription drug addiction featured in his debut film, 2005's Thumbsucker. With Beginners, we get high on love, doped up with melancholy and are intravenously connected to a film that is pleasantly soft, authentic and comes without pretension.
Review: Easy A
Will Gluck's Easy A gets a pretty good set of report grades due to its tone, dialogue and startling vibrant performance from Emma Stone, who delights from the very start, to the excusable ending. If given the chance, this should test extremely well with the targeted teen audience and those who accidently migrate to the film will find a highly likeable treatment.
Review: I’m Still Here
Best exemplified with Phoenix's studio meeting with Sean Combs, the feeling of inauthenticity chokes the film down into a less than basic interest level submission, and the film's climax, which pointlessly rehashes the infamous date on Late Show's David Letterman will only feel like a case of deja-vu.
