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Lemon of the Week: The Death of Serious, Politically-minded Studio Movies?
I'm not sure who to give the Lemon of the Week to? Does it go to adult public who fail to support such films or for having changed their taste buds? Does it go to the studios who blame the economy for dropping such projects from future slates? What I do know is that all eyes will be peeled on how well The Informant and The Men Who Stare at Goats do this Fall.
Weekly Eye Candy: Chinatown via Fukunaga, Yong Kim and Arteta
While the cities of Paris, New York and Tokyo have all been showered with love via short film collectives, now the location specific neighborhood with an abundance of metropolitan settings will receive the same treatment.
Film Review: Tony Manero
What is fascinating about character is his since of normalcy, he lacks a moral compass from which to work from and the ascension of his obsessive behavior adds unpredictability to the tone of the film. The out of focus, handheld aesthetics, muted and degraded colors add a touch of realism and vintage to the film, and for a period pic working with such a politically charged subject matter, Tony Manero takes a risky, disturbing, but rewarding road in deciphering the air of the moment.
Paramount Vantage: Three Years of Highs and Lows
From an outsiders point of view, you'd think that winning Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor for 2007's No Country for Old Men and winning Best Actor and Best Cinematography for There Will Be Blood would be a sign of better things to come, but at the end of the day, it's not the number of Oscars you win, but the plus and minus on the balance sheet.
Mungiu and Uricaru place Bogdan Apetri in the ‘Outskirts’
Tales from the Golden Age's Cristian Mungiu and Ioana Uricaru (one of the several co-directors that participated in the deadpan, short film collage on some of the blunders in Romanian's past) have collaborated on a screenplay that they have handed to fellow Romanian filmmaker Bogdan Apetri. This is Apetri's feature length debut.
