Arts This Weekend at the Movies
posted by July 27 at 15:01 PM
onFirst, some news:
Karen Allen is going to return for the next Indiana Jones movie. Even better: Spielberg has stated that the movie will feature no CG. Nice.
Now onto movies that are actually open, beginning with, of course, The Simpsons Movie. From Andrew Wright’s review: “[W]arts, post-freshness dating, needless Green Day cameos, and all, the simple fact is that I laughed more here—particularly in the first 20-minute chunk—than at any other movie this year. I’m not booing, I’m saying Boo-urns.”
Also opening: Talk to Me (“With a better script, and more life in the camera, Talk to Me might have become the movie everybody is talking about,” says Charles Mudede); Sunshine (“The term “visionary” gets batted around a lot when it comes to the sci-fi genre, but in its final, blazing moments, Boyle’s dazzling, triphoppy space opera comes closer than most,” says Andrew Wright); No Reservations (“Crack my shell, Eckhart! Crack it!” says Lindy West); Steve Buscemi’s Interview (“When you come to despise the only faces you’re given to watch, it’s hard to keep caring,” declares some jackass); My Best Friend (“Despite a promising black-comedic concept and the presence of the dependably wonderful Daniel Auteuil, that inner dimension just ain’t happening here,” says Andrew Wright); and The Trials of Darryl Hunt (“Every American should see this movie,” according to Christopher Frizzelle.
And finally, a couple interviews: Andrew Wright sat down with Sunshine director Danny Boyle, and Charles Mudede had a conversation with Talk to Me director Kasi Lemmons.
Comments
I'm more excited by Stardust than Sunshine.
My friends and relations who saw Stardust loved it!
I still love Marion Ravenwood (was that her name? Ok, maybe I don't love her that much but I'm glad she's coming back)
Y'know, the rapid-aging scene at the end of "Last Crusade" is recognized for its pioneering use of CG techniques.
I'm just saying.
Was it? If I recall correctly the aging scene was pretty much a straight up stop motion animation, similar to some of the ILM effects in Poltergeist, but I guess I could be wrong.
Wow... I loved Karen Allen! She was awesome in the first movie.
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