This Week in TFT: UNKNOWN, KABOOM and an Oscar Podcast
A brand new week here at The Film Talk folks – here’s what we’ve got coming up: Tony Youngblood on KABOOM, Brandon Nowalk on NEVER SAY NEVER and, though it pains me to even mention it, Gareth and I will be discussing this past Sunday’s Oscars.
Episode 161: UNKNOWN / Glenn Kenny on SHUTTER ISLAND
Here it is – we investigate TAKEN 2, aka UNKNOWN, and special guest film critic Glenn Kenny talks about a film that had a profoundly personal effect on him: SHUTTER ISLAND.
THE EAGLE: Love, Honor, and Obey
You could blame the monumental waste of Kevin Macdonald’s THE EAGLE on CENTURION‘s release last year, which preemptively renders its successor both outclassed and unnecessary, if the bulk of its ineptitude didn’t reside in the script. Yes, Jamie Bell heroically tries to balance an ensemble led by a statue and filled out with Donald Sutherland’s paycheck [...]
A Second Opinion on BLUE VALENTINE
I spent the afternoon watching the Liam Neeson thriller UNKNOWN with Jett at the Regal Green Hills. I don’t want to reveal my impressions until Jett and Gareth get a chance to review it on the upcoming Film Talk podcast; but for now, let me co-opt a Jett phrase and say, “Oh boy.” I also [...]
Episode 160 – John Barry Remembered / SOMEWHERE / THE GREY ZONE
Here it is – our tribute to the great John Barry as well as an investigation of the new Sofia Coppola film SOMEWHERE and a look back at Tim Blake Nelson’s THE GREY ZONE.
COLD WEATHER: The Big Wake-Up
Ironically, and here I’m talking about the artistic technique and not a pretend embrace of, say, Chuck Norris, Aaron Katz’s COLD WEATHER validates mumblecore by rejecting it. The first act is your standard mumblecore setup: a low-ambition young white male moves in with his sister, gets a routine job, meets an ex, all while making [...]
9 Movies to Mend a BROKEN-HEART
As last week’s This Week in TFT revealed, I was supposed to write about the global financial crisis documentary INSIDE JOB for my next TFT article. Because of an important podcast release of my own — the 50th episode of THEATRE INTANGIBLE – and some personal drama, I missed the last screening of INSIDE JOB [...]
COYOTE REQUIEM and the Creation of Place
Affiliate Post: Long time listeners to the show will know that Gareth and I are huge fans of the indie sacri-drama GAIA: DAUGHTER OF CHAOS;
Episode 160 Recording This Sunday
As always I’m amazed Gareth and I have been able to transcend our logistical difficulties* to record 159 episodes of The Film Talk.
INTOLERABLE CRUELTY & THE LADYKILLERS: Bush League Coens
Seven or eight years ago, about the time of our conflict with Saddam and the Iraqis, the Coen brothers made two films so bad they closed up shop to recharge. At least, that’s the story ‘round these parts.
Reason No. 384 why I love the 21st Century: Angie Dickinson and Lee Marvin in Steve Reich’s CLAPPING MUSIC
Via Metafilter it’s POINT BLANK’s Angie Dickinson and Lee Marvin performing Steve Reich’s CLAPPING MUSIC.
ANOTHER YEAR: Seasonal Affective Disorder
While THE KING’S SPEECH loudly, laughably declared it has a voice this weekend, sweeping the guild awards and hoodwinking a lot of people who should know better into thinking it’s more than a shallow, concave, lumpy golddigger, ANOTHER YEAR quietly expanded, a genuinely humanist portrait of middle-aged British people discovering the therapeutic power of friendship, [...]
