Press Conference: "Changeling" With his fifth film in competition at the Festival de Cannes, Changeling, Clint Eastwood was present to meet the press today. Flanked by screenwriter Joe Michael Straczynski, actress Angelina Jolie and producers Brian Graze and Robert Lorenz, the...
Competition: "Changeling" by Clint Eastwood Five years after premiering Mystic River at the Festival de Cannes, Clint Eastwood returns to Competition with Changeling, a thriller which takes place in the late 1920s in a working-class suburb of Los Angeles. Angelina Jolie stars as Christine...
Nice to actually see Joe in such esteemed company (the still photos practically all seem to be of Clint and Angelina)!
Amy -- "In my line of work you gotta keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kinda catapult the propaganda." - George W. Bush, May 24, 2005
On Tue, 20 May 2008 20:01:16 -0600, Wes Struebing <strueb@carpedementem.org> wrote:
Well, of course. The writer doesn't count nearly as much as the
director, the actors, etc.
(that's sarcasm, people - just in case someone thinks I'm actually
serious about that)
And you're saying what I keep saying to myself, over and over, as I read this stuff. I mean, Clint Eastwood is a fine director, and I've nothing but respect for good actors, but let's be real -- this movie could have been made successfully by any number of directors and any number of actors, in which case it would just have been another performance of the same thing. If we adhered to Hollywood logic, we're refer to "Burbage's Hamlet."
-- Josh
"My name is not Strangelove. I don't know about Strangelove. I'm not interested in Strangelove. What else can I say? . . . Look, say it three times more, and I throw you out of this office."
Aleks A . -Lessmann 22 May 2008 08:50:55 [ permanent link ]
On Tue, 20 May 2008 07:51:20 -0700 (PDT), Dan Dassow wrote:
L'ECHANGE (CHANGELING)
The commentator of "El Pais" (Spain's most selling daily paper, I think) liked the movie, most of all the atmosphere put by Clint Eastwood and said the script worked "like a Swiss clockwork".
Other commentators didn't like Angelina Jolie that much, but the movie is getting a lot of praise from what I read. Many are talking as this movie as being the same coin, opposite side as "Mystic River", which I btw didn't like.
Well, seems JMS will be allowed to stay on A movie position - now, about that work with the Wachoskys, after the dud that "Speed Racer" seems to be all around... How about sticking with A-Class directors?
(in article <de80ae07-f778-4570-9bc0-5158c120b06c@f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>):
On May 24, 10:20 am, Giovanni Wassen <exta...@gmail.com> wrote:
Josh Hill <userepl...@gmail.com> wrote:
-- this movie
could have been made successfully by any number of directors
Ever heard of Uwe Boll?
Oh. Dear. God. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Bill (trying desperately to regain composure) <<
Aw, come on, now -- you can't leave us hanging. Which of his works makes you react like this?
But if we're going to suggest directors who could have ruined "the Changeling," I nominate Roger Christian (Battlefield Earth).
Amy -- "In my line of work you gotta keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kinda catapult the propaganda." - George W. Bush, May 24, 2005
Aleks A . -Lessmann 30 May 2008 08:05:55 [ permanent link ]
On Mon, 26 May 2008 21:25:13 GMT, Amy Guskin wrote:
Aw, come on, now -- you can't leave us hanging. Which of his works makes you
react like this?
I hope all of them. The only thing I'd save is the first scene from "Postal". But a whole movie? I suppose Boll's work is what they show at Guant namo as first level of that particular hell...
On May 26, 5:25 pm, Amy Guskin <aisl...@fjordstone.com> wrote:
Ever heard of Uwe Boll?
Oh. Dear. God. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Bill (trying desperately to regain composure) <<
Aw, come on, now -- you can't leave us hanging. Which of his works makes you
react like this?
I bought Bloodrayne primarily for Kristianna Loken and Michelle Rodriguez. I figured it couldn't be *that* bad. It's so bad I have never watched it a second time. Not even with my thumb on fast forward :S
