Re: What does "Limited Release" really mean?
- From: dsl@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dennis Lewis)
- Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 19:49:03 GMT
On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 09:44:44 -0500, Willyboy wrote:
>
>I tell you, I'm going to be really peeved if this movie fails
>to screen in Cincinnati. ...
The Weekend section in Friday's Times-Union had a Knight-Tribune News
Service article on December movies. The OBmotss sections of that
article:
.... Best gay cowboy movie since "Ride the High Country":
"Brokeback Mountain"
Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal star as a couple of lost cowpokes who
ride herd in Big Sky Country and who fall in love under the stars,
eating beans and huddling in the cold.
Ang Lee recovers from the clunky "Hulk" with a film that's a
heartbreaking romance and a tip of the old Steton to the glorious
tradition of the Hollywood western. Opens Friday, Dec. 16.
.... Best pop-musical update of an opera:
"Rent"
This year's "Moulin Rouge." [Oh God, that means in another year it'll
be on Logo every other day. -- DSL] Like that film, this
grunge-fabulous adaptation of the Jonathan Larson musical, starring
Jesse L. Martin, Rosario Dawson and Idina Menzel as struggling artists
living and loving in Manhattan's Alphabet City during the '80s, is
based on Puccini's "La Boheme." Modern bohemia seen through the eyes
of indie filmmakers, alt-songwriters and pole-dancers.
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Not necessarily MOTSS, but noteworthy:
.... Best multi-volume fantasy epic shot in New Zealand, featuring
elves:
"The Chronicles of Narnia"
J.R.R. Tolkien's Oxford colleague C.S. Lewis [no relation to soc.motss
beloved D.S. Lewis, though I will claim Damian Lewis as kin if I can
pay enough to a historian to reroute the family tree -- DSL] wrote
seven wonderful books about four bratty British kids who enter an
armoire and come out the other side into a magical kingdom of talking
animals, witches and satyrs. Disney is hoping for a franchise that
crosses "Lord of the Rings" and "Harry Potter," and they might have
it. And kidniks couldn't care less about the Christian allegory. Opens
Friday, Dec. 9.
Best Ziyi Zhang period piece, sans martial arts:
"Memoirs of a Geisha"
Although it may seem weird that "House of Flying Daggers"' Zhang, who
is Chinese plays a Japanese geisha, and that the other female leads
(Gong Li! Michelle Yeoh!) also are Chinese film stars and not
Japanese, this looks to be a classy adaptation of the Arthur Golden
novel. "Chicago"'s Bob Marshall directs, and has reportedly stopped
himself from running the cast through a rousing song-and-dance number.
("I Wasn't Born to be a Kyoto Geisha," anyone?) Opens Friday, Dec. 9.
Best geopolitical mosaic:
"Syriana"
This year's "Traffic" stars George Clooney, Jeffrey Wright and Matt
Damon [not to mention hunky Dr. Bashir from "Star Trek: Deep Space 9,"
otherwise known as Alexander Siddig, otherwise known as Siddig el
Fadil <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0796502/> -- DSL] and probes the
tangled web of global oil in the way that Traffic explored global
drugs. No surprise: It's written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, who
won an Oscar for the "Traffic" screenplay. Tense as a John le Carre
novel, as urgent as today's headlines. Opens Friday, Dec. 9. ...
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