Comments on: TFT 109 – The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus / The Road / The Book of Eli / Up in the Air

By: Evu

Evu — Sat, 29 May 2010 22:02:57 +0000

the iImaginarium of doctor parnassus-ts true. it is easy to follow. It is a great movie & a great expirience as well

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:22:56 +0000

Up in the Air – I'm with Gareth.

By: Shlomo Porath

Shlomo Porath — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:01:49 +0000

Great episode. Up in The Air is one of the first cases where in a disagreement I'm closer to Jett's view than Gareth's…Gareth, your POV is fascinating, and made me doubt my entire view fo the film. I'm no longer sure I got the big picture Reitman was intending, but, either way, I felt like this was a very sloppily construced film. It's utterly unreal- the footage of the real people re-enacting their firing struck me as a very heartless addition, as Clooney/Farmiga/Kendrick exist in a cool, slick, Hollywood prestige picture version of real life. I felt like they were coldly exploiting those people. The disconnect between the fanciful, schlocky elements and the all-too-potent issue of people being fired was quite dispiriting. The film has three plot threads, two of which involve Clooney's quest for family, the third is his job, and there's a complete disconnect. I really liked Reitman's previous films, but this one struck me as really ill-formed, tonally more than anything. Clooney was miscast in that he gave it the glossy romantic feel…I'm not entirely convinced that was unintentended, though. Farmiga was fantastic.

I thank you for the illuminating view of the film, Gareth. I'm not sure I buy it, but I'm not often stopped dead in my tracks about a film and forced to rethink it. It doesn't change my view of the screenplay's failure, but it did force me to re-examine what exactly it was that failed to achieve.

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By: Ana

Ana — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:32:48 +0000

Hi Jett – I have really enjoyed the blog posts/comments/discussions so much over the last year and I have learned a lot from them too. Since I am not on Facebook, it has been a great way read about, consider and share perspectives on the world of film. I love the idea of calling in questions to the show too, it's just seems more limited in terms of participation. That said, I understand and trust that the show needs to develop in a way that is manageable for you and Gareth. I can absolutely go with the flow. I'm really glad that the podcast is continuing and I can always consider joining Facebook :)…

By: Ana

Ana — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:14:49 +0000

Really interesting idea Marty, I hadn't considered it either!!

By: Marty

Marty — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:53:15 +0000

I was surprised neither of you (or anyone in the comments) considered or brought up the other possible interpretation of the ending.

(It's set up when Anna Kendrick talks about what she'd do with 10 million air miles.)

By: Cole

Cole — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:07:08 +0000

Thanks so much for discussing The Road!

By: Jett Loe

Jett Loe — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:32:45 +0000

Hey there Ana -

glad you brought this up = i was going to ask our members in the Newsletter what they want/get out of TFT.

What I've found over the last couple of months is that after the duties of producing the show and the website, doing the social media work with twitter/facebook/current etc. and looking after other stuff such as our interaction with the members, (minding the store re: memberships, donations, perks etc.) I'm left with almost no time to blog.

So my question is what do people get out of the blog? Gareth is continuing to post which is great :) but am thinking perhaps my focus should stay with the show and getting people to migrate, (re asking questions/comments), to Ask The Film Talk so we can have that kind of member/listener integration -

thoughts?

By: Jett Loe

Jett Loe — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:29:37 +0000

Good question Chris – of course please do send in your questions as an mp3 or wav or quicktime, youtube vid, etc. to contact@thefilmtalk.com – anything i can grab audio out of – it's a good suggestion, i'm going to amend the Ask The Film Talk page to reflect it! :)