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Hey, everyone. “Moriarty” here.
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
I’m such a dummy, missing all the screenings of this. Even if I don’t end up liking it, I’m sure it’ll be worth seeing. Noah Baumbach’s just recently hit his stride as a filmmaker, and with this cast, I’ve been curious since the very first announcement. I’ll definitely be seeing this over the course of the long holiday weekend at some point...
Hey everyone. Capone in Chicago here.
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
Capone’s rocking it for AICN in Chicago, week in and week out, and today, he’s got interviews with the filmmakers behind all three of the big titles hitting theaters today.
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
See? Another person taunting me with festival talk. I like Bungion Boy. He’s a good New York spy for us... a guy who manages to get into all manner of film events, and who always offers up cogent reports on what he saw. He’s a guy with a real history here at the site.
This new review is a double-header, one press screening and one test screening. I’m interested in both films he saw, and I’m glad, as always, to get him weighing in...
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
Fabfunk’s been an occasional contributor for a long time, and it’s always nice to hear from him, especially when he’s weighing in on a film I want to see as much as I want to see this one. Great cast. Interesting writer/director. Sounds good to me.
So how was it, Fabfunk?
I caught a NYC screening of Noah Baumbach’s latest, “Margot At The Wedding”.
I have to preface my comments with the suggestion that, if you haven’t seen “The Squid And The Whale”, you’re probably wasting your life away (and you probably paid money to watch “Transformers”, you philistine) and you should really do so. Baumbach came up in the mid-nineties amongst the group of intellectual upper-class film chroniclers that were subsequently steamrolled by the quirk machine at Sundance that ignored Whit Stillman and his ilk in favor of eggheads like Ed Burns. As a result, Baumbach’s earlier films, dealing with youthful insecurity and post-college jitters, have only now been rediscovered now that he’s altered his perspective for “Whale”, arguably his very bets effort.
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
It’s strange... we ran a review the other day for MARGOT AT THE WEDDING, where our reviewer claimed to have been to a test-screening. I’m not sure where he saw it, though, since it hasn’t actually test-screened yet. I think he was much sneakier than he originally said.
I have high hopes for this one. I think it could be a real breakthrough for Jack Black, who finally appears to be freed from the expectation of shtick, and I’m always up for a great Jennifer Jason Leigh performance. I’m not sure I’ve had a chance lately to gush about how brilliant she is, but I am shamelessly in love with her work.
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
Noah Baumbach’s coming on strong these days, and I’m hoping MARGOT AT THE WEDDING continues that ascent for him. I love the cast, and I’m itching to see this one as soon as possible. Check out this early reaction:
I saw writer-director Noah Baumbach's new film MARGOT AT THE WEDDING at a tiny preview screening almost a week ago. The greeter told us we were the first audience, but they must have been pretty confident because with an October release they were cutting it fine for any re-shoots, and we were shown what looked like a completely finished print – music, credits, the works. We were given comment cards to fill out our opinions but there wasn't even the usual discussion group afterwards, which struck me as odd. Apparently they're hoping to premiere at either Venice or Toronto, the latter being the more likely option. They said they would have even been ready to screen at Cannes, but are waiting for a later festival premiere to build Oscar buzz. I think they know they have a gem on their hands with this one.
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