20 response about Danny Boyle’s Newest: “Slumdog Millionaire” »

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   Yikes, I was posting about this at the same time that you were. I actually hit “Publish” and realized you had done the same.

   What I love about Danny Boyle is both how great of a director he is and how each of his films are so different from one another. 28 Days Later is one of my all-time favorite horror movies. Millions was a beautifully crafted, family appropriate film. The first three-fourths of the sci-fi thriller Sunshine was fantastic. And who doesn’t love the 90s drug classic Trainspotting?

   This should be fantastic. At its core, it is a love story, and I have no problem admitting I like a good story about love lost and how people react to it (i.e. Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera).

   Comment by Jonathan B. — August 29, 2008 @ 11:09 am
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   I’m a big Boyle supporter for the same reason Jonathan - all his films are so different.

   I’m looking forward to this and if I’m remembering right, I also recall reading something about a November release. If someone can confirm/correct that, it would be much appreciated!

   Comment by Marina Antunes — August 29, 2008 @ 11:28 am
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   November 28th, I believe.

   Comment by Jonathan B. — August 29, 2008 @ 11:34 am
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   I’ll likely have a ticket to SLUMDOG, but it conflicts with MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA. The joys of TIFF scheduling.

   Given the modern UK Chameleon directors, I’ll take Michael Winterbottom over Danny Boyle.

   But I do like Boyle’s films quite a bit - usually the first 2/3 of ‘em are better than the last third though. Boyle generally has issues with pacing and endings…..but damn, I love his visual style.

   Comment by Kurt Halfyard — August 29, 2008 @ 12:29 pm
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   SLUMDOG for me had no conflicts so I’ve got it in my schedule.

   Comment by John Allison — August 30, 2008 @ 6:49 am
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   this reeks of Millions so I am staying away

   Comment by rot — August 30, 2008 @ 7:59 am
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   You know, I should have hated Millions with a passion, but something struck me with just the right chord on that film, even the super sappy/false ending never bugged me like it should have. Guilty pleasure, I guess.

   Comment by kurt — August 30, 2008 @ 9:24 am
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   TIFF ticket exchanges anyone?

   Tickets I am exchanging:

   Afterwards Sun 7th 3:15pm - 1 ticket

   Wrestler Tues 12pm - 2 tickets

   Synecdoche Sept 11th 12:15 pm - 1 ticket

   Pontypool Fri 12th 5pm - 1 ticket

   Acolytes Sept 10th 6:45 pm - 1 ticket

   Tickets I want

   Wendy and Lucy Sun 7th 12:45pm - 2 tickets

   Of Time and the City Sat 13th 6:30pm - 1 ticket

   Rocknrolla Sat 13th 2:45 pm - 1 ticket

   Disgrace Sat 13th 10 am - 1 ticket

   Comment by rot — August 30, 2008 @ 9:15 pm
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   rot, you are failing as an intellectual if you exchange Synecdoche or The Wrestler for Rocknrolla

   Comment by Henrik — August 31, 2008 @ 3:52 am
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    Actually I am failing as an intellectual but it has nothing to do with this exchange. Maybe you haven’t tried to schedule 20 some films into nine days but believe me there tends to be very little wiggle room for what films fit what slots. Synecdoche and Wrestler are extra tickets, I am definitely going to those films, Synecdoche is probably my most anticipated of the festival. I think I need Rocknrolla on the last day of the festival if only as some contrast to the sort of stuff I will be seeing.

    Henrik, did you see Flame and Citron, was it any good?

    Comment by rot — August 31, 2008 @ 7:30 am
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    I guess if the tickets are spare it makes much more sense.

    I did see Flame and Citron and it is dreadful. I think Ole Christian Madsen deserves jailtime for kidnapping a story like that and history itself, to serve his own petty ambitions. Making a bad movie is one thing, but as it is now, nobody will be able to make an actual movie about the Flame and the Citron, which should be punishable.

    Comment by Henrik — August 31, 2008 @ 8:15 am
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    what about Kristian Levring’s Fear Me Not? Another entry from Denmark at the festival that I am intrigued by.

    Comment by rot — August 31, 2008 @ 6:36 pm
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    I don’t know what that is. Probably had a different title when it came out here, but I’ve never seen a film by Levring.

    Comment by Henrik — September 1, 2008 @ 5:39 am
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    well I got it on my schedule now and might review it here… apparently it is disturbing.

    Comment by rot — September 1, 2008 @ 2:39 pm
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    Danish films are often disturbing in one way or another. Anyone see OFFSCREEN?

    Comment by Kurt Halfyard — September 1, 2008 @ 4:46 pm
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    In Danish its called Den du frygter, and it is the director that did The King is Alive. I don’t know him but it sounds interesting.

    Comment by rot — September 1, 2008 @ 6:11 pm
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    I met Nicolas Bro when he was in Iceland shooting The Good Heart and he said that when Offscreen screened on some festival in the states a guy who teaches FBI agents asked to show the film in his class cause apparently it was the most accurate rendition of a stalker the guy had seen on film.

    Comment by swarez — September 2, 2008 @ 4:02 am
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    Note That Slumdog just got a distrib/release date: Nov. 28th

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/movies/01arts-DANNYBOYLEFI_BRF.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

    Comment by Kurt Halfyard — September 2, 2008 @ 8:17 am
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    Offscreen falters in its closing minutes, and really, really starts to resemble IRREVERSIBLE, but I do enjoy watching the Bro/Boe team. Heck I was a fan of Allegro, which amusingly the shoot of which is self-contained within the ‘real’ aspects of OFFSCREEN. Funny.

    Comment by Kurt Halfyard — September 2, 2008 @ 8:19 am
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    A few more photos: http://reelsuave.com/2008/08/31/hi-resolution-pictures-from-slumdog-millionaire/

    Comment by Marina Antunes — September 3, 2008 @ 3:13 pm

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