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Live in Chicago? Wanna see (500) DAYS OF SUMMER early? Capone has all the details!!!
Hey everyone. Capone in Chicago here, coming off an incredible high after last night's extremely successful HUMPDAY screening. The film's director, Lynn Shelton, actually sat and watched the film with the wildly enthusiastic crowd, and she could not have been more pleased with the response to her wonderful movie or the questions from you guys after the screening. Big thanks to everyone who came and wrote about it afterwards. But the summer isn't even halfway over and we still have many films to show you before the season is complete.
We've been extremely lucky this summer in that we've been able to make nearly every screening a 100 percent AICN reader audience event. I'm not a big fan of the cattle-call process of overbooking a screening and then running the risk of turning people away. One of the films I've been dying to screen this summer ever since I heard about how great it played at both Sundance and SXSW was (500) DAYS OF SUMMER, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel. I finally saw the film myself a few weeks back, and now I'm kind of desperate to show it to AICN readers, but the opportunity to arrange a dedicated screening just wasn't available this time. So what I've managed to do instead is secure 100 seats (50 Admit-Two passes) for a screening of (500) DAYS OF SUMMER on Tuesday, July 7 in Chicago (the exact location will only be given to contest winners). The people running the screening are going to set aside all 100 seats for the AICN winners, so nobody will get turned away unless you show up late.
Here's how to secure a pass good for you and one guest: Send me an email at capone@aintitcoolmail.com with the subject line "THIS IS NOT A LOVE STORY". In the body of the email, I need your Name, whether or not you're bringing a Guest (guests' names are not required), and the answer to the following question (read carefully): What is your favorite film featuring an unconventional love story? Remember we'll only have 50 winners for this contest, so I'm weighing your creativity heavily on this one. Keep your answers BRIEF--limit your answers to 75 words or less (no matter how tempted you are to go over the limit). And if you win, it's kind of critical that you actually show up since your presence will be missed. So if there's even the slightest chance you can't make it, don't enter the contest. Winners will receive an email from me later this week. Good luck, everyone! Hope to see you there.
-- Capone
capone@aintitcoolmail.com
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YAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I have never heard of this movie!
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Just sayin'
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But I may watch for Zooey.
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Can't! Unfortunately, I am leaving on the day of the screening for a conference.
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was great, i want zooey so fucking bad
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surprised the hell out of me, it was extremely funny
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Did anyone else go to the Chicago screening for this three weeks ago? Roger Ebert was in attendance.
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I had passes, but didn't use 'em.
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It strangely reminded me of Annie Hall. In a good way. It may be my favorite rom-com ever...which sounds like faint praise, I know, but there have been good ones, people. This is a GREAT one. Actually, it's more of an anti-rom-com in a way. But it's definitely tied with "Up" as my favorite movie I've seen this year so far.
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this was the biggest emotional gauntlet of a film I've ever experienced. funny, sad, sweet, beautiful, angry, traumatic. wow.
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Not to be critical, because I love the screenings and all the films I've been able to go to thanks to Capone, but tonight I went to my second screening of this in the Chicago area and Fox Searchlight is offering free passes on their site for this screening and others, it doesn't seem like something that needs it. Anyway, best of luck to those going, it's a very entertaining film.
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I just checked again and it says this one is filled on Fox Searchlight's site, so I guess this is worthy of contest-ness, etc. Landmark is certainly better than River East too.
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. . . but my GOD it blows my mind how so many fanboys seem to ejaculate all over their monitors whenever there's a talkback involving her. I like to think she'd be creeped the fuck out by all of you.
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That's how forgettable this movie is to me.
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I saw it last night here in NYC. It was similar to the film Peter and Vandy I saw screened a few months ago. The story moves back and forth through Deschanel and Levitts relationship, tell bits and pieces of the story out of chronological order. Well done, I recommend it.
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'nuff said.
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Very entertaining flick, but still pretty lightweight. The one thing that has really stuck with me is the soundtrack. Whoever the music supervisor was really put together a great collection of songs, and married them perfectly to the visuals. As for Zooey - she gets on my fucking nerves. She only plays one role, over and over. One of these days, she's going to be too old to play the quirky artsy chick, and then she'll be out of a job.
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