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Wanna see JUNO with Ellen Page, Diablo Cody and Capone in Chicago? Sure ya' do! Click here to find out how!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I won't horn in on Capone's piece, but I just wanted to say that if you have the chance to hit this screening do it. JUNO is one of the best films I've seen this year and to see Ellen Page and Diablo Cody together talking about it? I wonder if Capone will be able to shake his puppy-dog crushes long enough to carry a conversation with these two beautiful ladies... so, I expect to hear how they had to call in the Chicago police and want a detailed report on the number of restraining orders filed against Capone by the end of this night. Enjoy!
Hey, everyone. Capone in Chicago here with a special Ain't It Cool News contest for those of you who live in the Windy City area. I've got a limited number of tickets to see one of the most talked about films at this year's Toronto Film Festival and one that seems almost destined to be one of the biggest little films of 2007. The movie is called JUNO, starring Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Allison Janney, J.K. Simmons, and Rainn Wilson. (How about that for a cast!)
The film doesn't open until mid-December (at least in Chicago), but I'm hosting a screening this Thursday, November 15 in downtown Chicago. As an added bonus, I'll be doing a little post-screening Q&A with Ellen Page (Kitty Pryde from X-MEN: THE LAST STAND; HARD CANDY; MOUTH TO MOUTH) and the film's writer Diablo Cody (who has had a really interesting life before writing this--her first--screenplay, and whose career seems to be actively blasting off as a result of this film).
We have a short window of time to make this contest happen, so I'll give tickets to the first people who respond. If you have any reason to think you can make this screening, DON'T ENTER THE CONTEST! If you live too far outside the city and are scared of traffic and how long it will take you to drive in and out of the city, DON'T ENTER THE CONTEST! If a family member is in ill-health or you've got the sniffles or work in a job that could suddenly require you to have to bail on this screening at the last minute, DON'T ENTER THE CONTEST. Because if you win a ticket and don't use it, a far more worthy AICN reader is denied, and you'll live with that guilt for the rest of your life.
If you still think you'd like to go, send me an e-mail at capone@aintitcoolmail.com with JUNO SCREENING CONTEST in the subject line, and give me your full name in the body of the e-mail. Each ticket is good for the winner and one (1) guest. Since this isn't an AICN-sponsored event, you have to arrive early. Don't send me an e-mail asking me how early is "early." Just get there early. Seating is not guaranteed to passholder! Winners will receive a pass from me via e-mail, and you'll have to RSVP to a phone number on the pass. Call the number, and bring a printed copy of the pass. Details about the time and place of the screening will be on the pass.
Feel free to beg a little in your e-mail, if you have a worthy reason you think you should be allowed to attend this screening, but really I'm probably just going to admit the first 30 or so people who respond. The contest deadline is 5pm, Tuesday, Nov. 13.
Good luck. Come say hi if you win, and I'll see you there.
Capone
capone@aintitcoolmail.com
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NEATO.
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It's a witty film, but there are some script issues. It's trite, predictable and becomes so obsessed with its own cleverness that the dialogue gets in the way of the storytelling at times. A lesser actress than Ellen Page (who is great in this) would've bungled the movie up.
All the same, a good film that's well worth watching.
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is the most Freudian thing i ever read on this site, considering that Ellen Page is involved. siko!
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Or is it the other way around? This movie looks great.
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One of the most annoying things I've read in ages. Nice pretentious name, lady. Another smug rich-kid poseur decked out in smelly, stained thrift-store duds name-dropping poseury LA locales. Ye Rustic Inn! Fred 62! She wears a smelly weave! Whoohoooo, what an ARTISTE.
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"Diablo Cody is originally from Chicago, Illinois and moved to Minnesota to live with her Internet boyfriend, Jonny (now her husband). While there she decided, on a whim, to take up stripping as a "hobby" of sorts. Meanwhile she was working in an ad agency and was not particularly fond of her job. Within a year she got a promotion at the ad agency which wore her ragged, and was something she did not particularly care for (it demanded organization, which is something she was not very good at). Eventually she quit her day job (with Jonny's blessings) and began stripping full time. During the course of about a year she went from "Amateur Night" (which was her first stripping experience) to a place she refers to in her book as Sheiks, then to Deja Vu, and so on. She then took up work as a phone sex operator before returning to stripping. Shortly thereafter she decided to quit stripping and she and Jonny married. They moved to what she refers to as "the 'burbs, and no one strips unless they're taking a bubble bath". Her step-daughter was the flower girl in the wedding and according to Diablo they are very happy."
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who is Diablo Cody?
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regardless of what came before, after Juno comes out Lohman will be the poor man's Page. It'll be interesting to see what happens to Page as she ages, but right now if she keeps picking the right roles she's going to sky rocket.
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Ellen Page will get a best actress nomination. She saved that movie from veering into the same preciousness that killed Little Miss Sunshine. As for Diablo Cody, you just get the sense that she's trying too hard, from her writing to the clothes she was wearing at the Toronto premiere. She practically screams, "Look at me! Look how hip and ironic I am!"
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I live in Chicago, but I've got class that night. *sob*
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why couldn't ellen page make it to the austin premiere? she was robbed of a best actress nom last year (which she would have won, imo) because hard candy would be too hard to explain to the prime-time oscar audience. she should get the nom this year, fo sho.
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meh.
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I mean, if Tarantino hadn't been a dude, he probably couldn't have gotten any more over-hyped and obnoxious...even though he's great and incredibly talented.Hype is obnoxious, but we're here at AICN, right? In about five seconds, there'll be a big story about a trailer for that Felcity-guy's monster movie. Not a movie, a trailer. A commercial for a movie.Ms. Cody is part of a long Hollywood tradition of inventing yourself. In the old days, film geeks loved John Milius when he called himself a zen, fascist surfer, even though he was a talented fat guy who was 4F because of asthma. Paul Schrader talked tough in print, but really talked with a lisp, got his butt kicked by James Caan and had all of Travis Bickle's creepiness without his energy. Even Tarantino talked about playing WELCOME BACK KOTTER board games with Tarantino and wanting to play the PLATOON board game with Oliver Stone (another method director)and dressing up like Chow Yun Fat and I remember thinking,"Wow, this guy sure can write and direct but guy's our age don't dress up like movie characters."And I like these guys.What's encouraging and redeeming by Ms. Cody is that she's also got, like, four screenplays ready to roll and a TV series about to go into production. It's the same as QT. He'd talk about his lunch box collection and getting into fights (somehow I think he was defending himself from guys making fun of his lunchbox collection more than barroom brawling)but he had RESERVOIR DOGS, TRUE ROMANCE, NATURAL BORN KILLERS, PAST MIDNIGHT and FROM DUCK 'TIL DAWN all ready, with PULP FICTION on deck.
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...Tarantino in the last post, but I can't be bothered with all details. Stupid lack of editing feature.
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...using the names of characters in the title of the article. You know, for not saying: SEE A MOVIE WITH KITTY PRYDE & THE STRIPPER WHO WROTE A BOOK.I mean, I've skipped more articles for that reason. Like the one where it was announced that David Boreanz might play the Sub-mariner in a comic book movie "DID YOU EVER SEE AN ANGEL UNDERWATER?" Interesting story (to me and probably only me)but I only clicked on it by accident.
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Were all the tickets given out? i would be le sad if I sent in my email too late.
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From Robert Rodriguez, and the guy that wrote Bunnicula, comes this action packed/splatter filled vampire duck movie. What happens when some on the run criminals and their hostages hold up in a Mexican strip club that's run by Count Duckula?! -
Couldn't care less about this movie, I'm just going to see her in person and find out if she smells like vanilla.
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