There will be no sandbox Detrius 2011 thread.

didn't like the Italian family thing last year, but she did save Julia from being unredeemably bad. Since I like Lynne Ramsay's miserabilism I have some hopes for Kevin. xp

It looks like Jaime's petition worked or had good timing, bcz Margaret is going to get some critic screenings.

if I haven't mentioned yet, Vanessa R, Brian Cox, and R Fiennes are all stellar in Coriolanus (roughly in that order).

margaret on one (1) screen in the uk fwiw
i would be psyched to catch it on dvd if i didn't suspect it may only be released on import laserdisc

wld think itd be ripe for ondemand, etc like Melancholia but who knows

also i didnt know scott rudin was a producer of it. sorta shocked he cant get more distro but mb he doesnt want to

there's a piece in the new sight & sound on its spiteful distro setup, w/bizarre details about contractual limits to running time, etc (w/the edit coming in twelve seconds under the 2 1/2 hr ceiling); does just seem like an act of reprimand to release it so unenthusiastically. i hope the dvd w/the three hour cut comes out, anyway

If I were a writer-director I'd create roles just for Vanessa R.

if it's true that Scorsese and Schoonmaker edited this cut of Margaret, it's Marty's best work in years.

How was Coriolanus? I'm waiting on a screener...

Since I like Lynne Ramsay's miserabilism I have some hopes for Kevin.

I've enjoyed all of her work too, although Morvern Callar a little less than the rest. MC was a little trés dreamy and elliptical for me, and I felt like it suffered a little from story-lack. But the source material for Kevin is pretty dense and phenom, and if it doesn't fall to sentimentality I think it will be a fantastic – difficult - film.

I went in not knowing it was gonna be contemporary, shot partly in the Balkans with Hurt Locker-style shooting (same DP), lotsa cable news tableaus etc, and was pleasantly surprised. Can't think of a Shakespeare film I've liked since the Hawke/Almereyda Hamlet.

xp

Have you guys read the play? That charater's so difficult to render.

I haven't, and I bet cutting half the text was a good move here. RF has played it on stage before.

I was actually planning on reading it this weekend prior to watching – a co-teacher recommended it as "Hamlet, but for grown-ups."

Sounds minor.

re: Scorsese and Margaret, according to Lonergan, he worked on a "fuller" cut that no one's seen yet.

I don't really like the tragedies that much, except for Othello.

I'm not sure this comes across as a tragedy! Caius Martius is such a prick. There should be more parts for 75ish actresses in butch military drag, tho.

Eric, how can something with world-class classical acting be considered mino... oh, you.

I didn't recognize Vincent Cassel in his meaty, brief A Dangerous Methodrole after being left with the caricature he drew in the ballet potboiler last winter.

Morbs, you're getting me awfully psyched to see the Cronenberg -- too bad the nearest it will come to this location is at least a 2 hour drive, and possibly more like 3 1/2.

I think it helps w/ ADM to believe psychoanalysis is essentially ridiculous, as I do in my Irish Catholic heart.

RF has played it on stage before.

Apparently the first acting job Gerard Butler ever had was in the ensemble of Coriolanus. History!

much barely sublimated man-pounding btwn Fiennes and Butler here

Detrius '12 all wrapped up.

http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/12/02/tim-erics-billion-dollar-movie-red-band-trailer

yesssss.

Since I didn't crack a smile, I suppose those guys are big on cable.

Typical NYC award screening attendee on line for The Artist: 80-year-old woman who asks "Is this the one with Meryl Streep?"

Huh, seems I'm the one who likes comedy now.

the unfunny post-1977 kind yah

What does 1977 represent? Annie Hall?

Kentucky Fried Movie?

Star Wars

Annie Hall, Let's Get Small, an extra year of Bicentennial Nigger, the deaths of Chaplin and Groucho

...the last time Jimmy Carter boasted high approval ratings

So it's even then. You don't like unfunny post 1977 comedies, and I don't like unfunny pre-1950 comedies.

LOL, meant to type 1960

What does 1960 represent -- Nixon/Kennedy debate?

The year comedy became funny.

What does 1960 represent -- Nixon/Kennedy debate?

It was three years before It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

There are no unfunny pre-1950 comedies btw.

(also in '77: Mary Tyler Moore Show ends, Bob Newhart and Carol Burnett enter their last seasons, SNL permanently shakes off most of the edge it initially had)

The first half-hour of War Horse is dreadfully familiar, some great images here and there after that. I would say it's SS's least interesting film since Jurassic Park 2 if I'd seen that one.

There was a Q&A after with Janusz Kaminski, Michael Kahn, Kathleen Kennedy. At an INDUSTRY GUILD screening in NYC, some woman rose and asked if John Williams was the only guy considered to do the score. It's true, nobody knows anything in showbiz.

(btw she was clearly unaware that JW has done all his scores for 40 years)

Take Shelter was quite good, except for the usual indie film gripe, i.e. the writer-director can't end the film properly.

Chastain's oppressed normality deserves as much props as Shannon and his flop sweat.

house of pleasures, as its being called in the US i guess, is on amazon instant to stream for $7/$8 (HD)

i liked it, its def a bit blunt when it gets around to making its points but i enjoyed the languid time it took getting there

it is a big Sicinski fave, I will see it this week at the IFC Center.

I found the new incarnation of Tinker Tailor a bore, sorry spyfans.

it's just v efficient or i guess slightly more generous deft, i think. surprised to see it in top ten lists

Wow, I actually thought a movie was better than Swinton's performance therein, for once.

Naturally, it's a horror movie.

I found the new incarnation of Tinker Tailor a bore,

The original is too.

^nuts

I had forgotten all the gay/bi stuff in it, unless they left some of it out on TV in deference to Sir Alec.

had you read the book, eric? hated WNTTAK but can't quiet eliminate the possibility that it might not have been so heavy handed & ott had one not known where it was going, as i did

International Documentary Association gives best feature to Nostalgia for the Light (which I found visually ravishing but not as transcendent as others did):

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/ida-awards-and-more-documentary-news

Have you seen Incendies yet, Morbs? The plot calisthenics strained the credulity of the final twist, but the movie's quite good.

I have a library copy that will be watched sometime in the next 167 hours. EH, you're welcome to my spot on this next year.