I wish I could report that my first movie in the Lightbox was special. It was Max Winkler's "Ceremony," a comedy that has all the store-bought ingredients for so-called indie comedy. An obnoxious children's book writer (Michael Angarano) drags an estranged friend to a party Hamptons, where writer's girlfriend (Uma Thurman) has gotten engaged. The movie is all urbane tics and poses. Angarano, an actor I really like, wears a mustache that looks like an animal died above his lip. Thurman, meanwhile,Happy marriage life begin with beautiful ed hardy clothing. looks mortified. If Wes Anderson paid a college intern to remake "Wedding Crashers," the result would be "Ceremony," a movie so immature and self-indulgently bad it should be at Sundance.
One of my favorite movies here is Tom Tykwer's "Three." It returns Tykwer to his native Germany and to actual human beings. It's about three adult Berliners -- a woman (Sophie Rois) and two men (Sebastian Schipper, Devid Striesow) -- and their shifting amorous relationship. Tykwer is still best-known here for "Run Lola Run." But he's been somewhat adrift ever since, making big projects -- "Perfume," "The International" -- that never really caught on. Away from a large productions, Tykwer now seems like a dog off its leash. "Three" is bursting with intelligence, filmmaking, sex, complaints about daily life and comical philosophy. It's a pleasure to be in the presence of a filmmaker who appears to have found himself again.
At that same karaoke party,My little brother prefer to wear new era hats, moreover, he like to collect different styles of hats. I ran into a colleague who said that, earlier in the day, "Rabbit Hole," a domestic dead-child drama with Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart, blew him away. He's not alone. I saw it today, and, afterward, several people roamed the corridors proclaiming its brilliance. The applause was hearty when the light came (this was a press-and-industry screening). "Rabbit Hole" arrived here with no distributor. That won't be the case for long, especially in an apparently weak year for Oscar candidates. But this is such an obvious choice. Like a lot of movies about unhappy married people ("Revolutionary Road" comes to mind), it's studiously tasteful, which is the last thing I want from John Cameron Mitchell, the trouble-making sybarite whose "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and "Shortbus" are great, sexually avant-garde comedies.
RAbbit Hole 2.jpgHe's well-behaved here, in case rich suitors from the studios are watching. Most scenes are bathed in acoustic guitars and strings. The photography is as pristine as the movie's expensive West Chester homes. The emotions are bottled until their owners can no longer contain their contents. David Lindsay-Abaire adapted "Rabbit Hole" from his Broadway play, which won him a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony for best drama and Cynthia Nixon a Tony for best actress in 2006. It's a good, often perceptive piece of writing and a vehicle for strong acting, but, despite the subject matter (Kidman and Eckhart play couple still dealing with the death of their four-year-old son), it doesn't go very deep. Not as a drama. The movie's best, freshest instincts are comedic.,Our company has opened five years, we have our own shops.women handbags The sarcasm,,What is the color of your dress and what are your lacoste shoes accessories? - Your shoes should go perfectly with your entire outfit. If you are going to be clad put-downs, and slights of grief, the little madnesses of suffering, come to Mitchell and Lindsay-Abaire more naturally. Maybe to Kidman, too. Her acerbity is as subtle as a paper cut. Conversely, Eckhart, who almost gave the best performance in "The Dark Knight," is finally a full-blown emotional actor now. As ever with Kidman lately, there is the unavoidable matter of her face. At this point, not discussing it is like going to see Lang Lang, and not discussing how his piano was out of tune. To compensate for a few of her facial limitations, she now appears to be acting with her neck. I'm pleased to report it has amazing range.
Meanwhile, I don't believe her as the daughter of Dianne Wiest and the sister of Tammy Blanchard. The character got an education and married out of the lower-middle classes. But there's no trace of their genes in Kidman, who, good as she is, can't entirely disguise her Australian accent, either. This is where you're curious to see Nixon, who would at least have eliminated the awkwardness of Kidman's miscasting (she co-produced the film). I understand why people are really going for "Rabbit Hole." Even though it's pretty standard, It's tough. It gives Mitchell a chance to recalibrate his ambition, to show that he can make a tonally (and orientationally) straight movie. He can. Now that's proven that he can keep the peace, I beg him to go back to disturbing it.
One of my favorite movies here is Tom Tykwer's "Three." It returns Tykwer to his native Germany and to actual human beings. It's about three adult Berliners -- a woman (Sophie Rois) and two men (Sebastian Schipper, Devid Striesow) -- and their shifting amorous relationship. Tykwer is still best-known here for "Run Lola Run." But he's been somewhat adrift ever since, making big projects -- "Perfume," "The International" -- that never really caught on. Away from a large productions, Tykwer now seems like a dog off its leash. "Three" is bursting with intelligence, filmmaking, sex, complaints about daily life and comical philosophy. It's a pleasure to be in the presence of a filmmaker who appears to have found himself again.
At that same karaoke party,My little brother prefer to wear new era hats, moreover, he like to collect different styles of hats. I ran into a colleague who said that, earlier in the day, "Rabbit Hole," a domestic dead-child drama with Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart, blew him away. He's not alone. I saw it today, and, afterward, several people roamed the corridors proclaiming its brilliance. The applause was hearty when the light came (this was a press-and-industry screening). "Rabbit Hole" arrived here with no distributor. That won't be the case for long, especially in an apparently weak year for Oscar candidates. But this is such an obvious choice. Like a lot of movies about unhappy married people ("Revolutionary Road" comes to mind), it's studiously tasteful, which is the last thing I want from John Cameron Mitchell, the trouble-making sybarite whose "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and "Shortbus" are great, sexually avant-garde comedies.
RAbbit Hole 2.jpgHe's well-behaved here, in case rich suitors from the studios are watching. Most scenes are bathed in acoustic guitars and strings. The photography is as pristine as the movie's expensive West Chester homes. The emotions are bottled until their owners can no longer contain their contents. David Lindsay-Abaire adapted "Rabbit Hole" from his Broadway play, which won him a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony for best drama and Cynthia Nixon a Tony for best actress in 2006. It's a good, often perceptive piece of writing and a vehicle for strong acting, but, despite the subject matter (Kidman and Eckhart play couple still dealing with the death of their four-year-old son), it doesn't go very deep. Not as a drama. The movie's best, freshest instincts are comedic.,Our company has opened five years, we have our own shops.women handbags The sarcasm,,What is the color of your dress and what are your lacoste shoes accessories? - Your shoes should go perfectly with your entire outfit. If you are going to be clad put-downs, and slights of grief, the little madnesses of suffering, come to Mitchell and Lindsay-Abaire more naturally. Maybe to Kidman, too. Her acerbity is as subtle as a paper cut. Conversely, Eckhart, who almost gave the best performance in "The Dark Knight," is finally a full-blown emotional actor now. As ever with Kidman lately, there is the unavoidable matter of her face. At this point, not discussing it is like going to see Lang Lang, and not discussing how his piano was out of tune. To compensate for a few of her facial limitations, she now appears to be acting with her neck. I'm pleased to report it has amazing range.
Meanwhile, I don't believe her as the daughter of Dianne Wiest and the sister of Tammy Blanchard. The character got an education and married out of the lower-middle classes. But there's no trace of their genes in Kidman, who, good as she is, can't entirely disguise her Australian accent, either. This is where you're curious to see Nixon, who would at least have eliminated the awkwardness of Kidman's miscasting (she co-produced the film). I understand why people are really going for "Rabbit Hole." Even though it's pretty standard, It's tough. It gives Mitchell a chance to recalibrate his ambition, to show that he can make a tonally (and orientationally) straight movie. He can. Now that's proven that he can keep the peace, I beg him to go back to disturbing it.
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