I really do not think I can put into words adequately how much I enjoyed Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire (Our Review) at this years Toronto International Film Festival. If I had only been able to see this one at the festival I would have actually thought that the trip had been worthwhile.
The one sheet came out a few days ago and I’m not really a fan of it. I much prefer the following picture:
It truly sums of the sense of hope and thrill for life which Slumdog instills in its audience. The one sheet does not really convey much other than the game show aspect.
I know you are probably rolling your eyes by now at how much I’m gushing over this one but it truly deserves it. I’ve watched the trailer twice now and I still get goosebumps when I watch it.
If you have the chance please go out and catch this in the theatre. It is getting a limite release to start and is slowly expanding. I’m really hoping that it hits Saskatoon on the 26th of December. I’m already planning on annoying the family by wanting to drag them out to it on Boxing Day.
Release Schedule – Thanks go to /Film for creating the list.
Week #1: Wednesday, Nov. 12
1 Los Angeles
2 New York
3 Chicago
4 San Francisco
5 Washington D.C.
6 Toronto
Week #2: Friday, Nov. 21st
7 Boston
8 Dallas/Ft. Worth
9 Philadelphia
10 San Diego
11 Seattle
12 Denver
13 Baltimore
14 Minneapolis
15 Phoenix
16 Vancouver
More after the jump.
Week #3: Wednesday, Nov. 26th
No new markets
Week #4: Friday, Dec. 5th
17 Atlanta
18 Detroit
19 Indianapolis
Week #5: Friday, Dec. 12th
20 Sacramento
21 St. Louis
22 Austin
23 Milwaukee
24 Hartford/New Haven
25 Madison
26 Ann Arbor
Week #6: Friday, Dec. 19th
27 Houston
28 Miami/Ft. Lauderdale
29 Kansas City
30 Cleveland
31 Columbus
32 Orlando
33 Charlotte
34 New Orleans
35 Louisville
36 Portland
37 Rochester
38 Salt Lake/Boise
39 Honolulu
40 Albany
41 Albuquerque
42 Boca Raton/W. Palm Beach
43 Cincinnati
44 Dayton
45 Nashville
46 Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill
47 Asheville
48 Charlottesville
49 Lansing
50 Northampton/Springfield
51 Montreal
Week #7: Friday, Dec. 26th
52 Buffalo
53 Fresno
54 Las Vegas
55 Tampa/St. Pete
56 Champaign/Decatur/Springfield
57 El Paso
58 Harrisburg, PA
59 Memphis
60 Norfolk/Newport News
61 Oklahoma City
62 Omaha
63 Providence
64 Richmond
65 San Antonio
66 Spokane
67 Tulsa
68 Baton Rouge
69 Birmingham
70 Colorado Springs
71 Corpus Christi
72 Grand Rapids
73 Knoxville
74 Lexington
75 Pittsburgh
76 Reno
77 Sarasota
78 Syracuse
79 Tucson
80 Anchorage
81 Des Moines
82 Ft. Myers
83 Gainesville
84 Ithaca
85 Jacksonville
86 Portland, ME
87 Santa Fe
88 Tallahassee
89 Calgary
90 Edmonton
91 Halifax
92 Kitchener
93 Ottawa
94 St. John
95 Victoria
96 Winnipeg
This looks so f’n right. Might have to make the drive to Cleveland or Pittsburgh for this sucker.
Sold. The Ting Tings on the soundtrack helps, but wow, GREAT poster. I know it’s not even close to the same movie, but I get a warm fuzzy vibe from the poster like I do with “My Blueberry Nights.”
Wow… I have the opposite effect from the poster but then I’ve seen the movie and it just doesn’t match what I want for it. Maybe I’m being too harsh on the poster. I’ll wait and see what the next few one sheets look like.
Like everything else about the movie, the music is also pitch perfect. There are very few soundtracks that I seek out and this is going to be one of the few.
It really is rare for me to get this into a movie but it caught my full attention. I like a lot of movies but its a rare few that are so strong that I don’t stop thinking about them for days on end.
Why is it that this movie keeps midly annoying me. I traded my ticket in at TIFF (admittedly due to a conflict with a different film), and this trailer is looking a lot ‘Gump-ish’ for me. Against all odds Mr. Boyle sold “MILLIONS” to me, a film that I should have gagged on, and to this day haven’t been able to parse why I liked it instead of disliking it. I hope that Slumdog can do the same, but there is a lot of earnest ‘movie-ness’ (people running to catch trains, looking at the camera for a single tear, etc. etc.)
I know we usually agree John, but I’m not so sure on this one…
(I dig the poster though, like andrew said, it’s got the My Blueberry Nights colour palette. It’s as if they fused My Blueberry Nights with Run Lola Run. ha.
Danny Boyle’s films always have pitch perfect music. 28 Days Later and Millions – some awesome, awesome music there.
Wow, the still shot and one sheet don’t look like they are from the same film at all. Colour palette, actors, intensity, saturation, urban vs rural… nothing is the same.
But, I’m glad it will be coming to Toronto. We are getting a whole whack of festival faves including Let the Right One In, Ashes of Time Redux, JCVD and now this one all within the next few weeks.
Here is a short clip…
I’ve only actually seen Gump once and don’t really remember too much about it. There is a lot of dark storytelling in Slumdog that I don’t believe was in Gump at all. For me what makes this one such a success is that it isn’t all happy fluffy feelings throughout the entire movie. You watch these kids grow up in one of the nastiest places in the world and yet the movie is still able to hit a perfect pitch between being dark, unhappy and then light and happy. You really care about the three main characters not because of it being forced on you but because you witness how they grew up.
I’m trying to stay away from spoilers and everything and I really look forward to either agreeing or arguing with you Kurt (or anyone else for that matter) but I have a feeling that no one will be able to change my mind on how good it is. Perhaps if I’m lucky and it does show up in Saskatoon I’ll have a chance to reconfirm my feelings.
Just as an FYI, and not to change the subject to Gump (again), but…
GUMP:
Mental diabilities
Child physical/sexual abuse
Bullying
Vietnam war
Death of a best friend
Learning to live as a paraplegic
Death of a mother
Drug abuse/addiction
Single motherhood
Aids
Death of a wife
Single Fatherhood
Not exactly fluffy, happy-go-lucky topics. And no they’re not covered in a light way either. No it’s not “Born on the Fourth of July” or “Philadelphia,” but it ain’t exactly kids stuff either.
I’m more inclined to stand with Kurt on this one. Something about this bugs me – might be the fact that I hate Who Wants to be a Millionaire. I do love me some Boyle so I’ll definitely be checking it out but the trailer and poster rub me the wrong way. The clip is much better.
I am getting up early tomorrow to make a 10am screening on my day off. It better be worth it.
But that one sheet is fucking awful. Just awful.
@Matt – You sound like me. There’s a 10Am screening I’m going to in 2 weeks time. Hopefully it’ll be worth the trip!
You can check out the official site now also at: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/slumdogmillionaire/
Well I will say I liked it, but I didn’t love. Though after watching Slumdog it is pretty clear Danny Boyle is a fan of City of God.