Only two more weeks until year-end lists are done, which will also mean the official (if not actual) end to the moviegoing year. Thus, keep your eyes posted to the site for an onslaught of new reviews, which begins today with the ones linked to in this post, as well as the latest site-specific ones - for Bobby, The Dead Girl, The Painted Veil, and Curse of the Golden Flower - located directly below this post.
Coming Soon:
The Good German (Slant magazine)
The Pursuit of Happyness (Slant magazine)
The Holiday (Slant magazine)
Days of Glory (Slant magazine)
TV:
Pro-Life - Masters of Horror (Season 2) (Slant magazine)
Coming later today and/or sometime this weekend: my thoughts on Apocalypto and Blood Diamond.
Wow. So The Good German is worse than Pursuit of Happiness, and Will Smith actually gives an authentic performance. and I thought the only thing Pursuit had going for it was the typo in its title.
Glad to see a positive on Curse of the Golden Flower. Great update.
Posted by: Simon | December 01, 2006 at 11:38 PM
Well, they're both pretty bad. But at least The Pursuit of Happyness is content with being just a big, cheesy, uplifting melodrama. The Good German, on the other hand, actually thinks it's about something when it's not, which gives it a pretentiousness that compounds its pointlessness...
Posted by: Nick | December 02, 2006 at 12:01 AM
Only two weeks? Isn't that, y'know, before the year end? :P
Not that I should, but I kind of pre-emptively agree with the above two, they both look like ... TRAPS!
Distribution of Zhang Yimou kind of worries me; was that a press screening for Curse? Earlier I heard buzz about Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles but I'm yet to notice it actually in theatres, which is a shame because Yimou is a director whose work I'd especially like to catch in theatres if at all possible.
Posted by: Joseph Young | December 02, 2006 at 05:40 AM
HA! Yes, there are more than two weeks to go in 2006, but after the end of this coming week, I'll be done seeing all of the year's notable releases - which, obviously, is what's necessary before filling out year-end lists.
As for Curse, yeah, it was a press screening. The film comes out on December 14th, and if you're interested in seeing it, a theater is definitely the place to do so.
And Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles did come out, at least in NYC, in September for a couple of weeks, though unfortunately I failed to catch it.
Posted by: Nick | December 02, 2006 at 07:56 AM
You know, when I saw the preview for [i]The Pursuit of Happyness[/i], I thought Smith showed some actual humanity and nuance. Sadly, though, when the trailer alones looks like it wants to win the Oscar, it isn't a good sign for the film in question.
Posted by: rob | December 04, 2006 at 10:38 AM