Big weekend for me as far as the Oscars go, I finally saw War Horse at this past Sunday's Q&A screening, but I am under a strict embargo until a few days before the film releases so I won't be giving any personal comments or opinions on the film until later. But that doesn't stop me from reading and relaying what others have written after New York and Los Angeles folks also saw it this weekend and aren't being quite as clandestine. Additionally, more screeners arrived allowing me time to watch Roman Polanksi's Carnage, a film I enjoyed enough to not watch once, but twice in a 36 hour period. I also saw Cameron Crowe's We Bought a Zoo at the sneak screenings on Saturday, gave Drive a second look, watched Pariah for the first time (it's quite good), just reviewed Tyrannosaur (read that here) and dug into documentaries...
- 11/28/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
By Sean O’Connell
hollywoodnews.com: Steve Spielberg’s “War Horse” sprinted out of the Oscar gate over the weekend, holding public screenings in 10 major markets on Sunday afternoon that were followed by an exclusive Q-and-a with the award-winning legend.
You can see highlights here on MSN’s official site.
And while most of our nation’s reviewing press are under “embargo” from filing official reviews, the Telegraph in the U.K. jumped the gun with a review that heaps praise on the drama several consider the new frontrunner in Oscar’s Best Picture race.
“The film is genuine in its emotion, unflinching in its reality, epic in its grandiosity, effective in its performances, and imaginative in its storytelling,” critic Joe Marino writes.
“My sole complaint is a lack of compelling storytelling during the first 20 minutes, but otherwise War Horse is as flawless a movie as we’ve ever seen from the director,...
hollywoodnews.com: Steve Spielberg’s “War Horse” sprinted out of the Oscar gate over the weekend, holding public screenings in 10 major markets on Sunday afternoon that were followed by an exclusive Q-and-a with the award-winning legend.
You can see highlights here on MSN’s official site.
And while most of our nation’s reviewing press are under “embargo” from filing official reviews, the Telegraph in the U.K. jumped the gun with a review that heaps praise on the drama several consider the new frontrunner in Oscar’s Best Picture race.
“The film is genuine in its emotion, unflinching in its reality, epic in its grandiosity, effective in its performances, and imaginative in its storytelling,” critic Joe Marino writes.
“My sole complaint is a lack of compelling storytelling during the first 20 minutes, but otherwise War Horse is as flawless a movie as we’ve ever seen from the director,...
- 11/28/2011
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
"Damn you, Spielberg, for getting me choked up with your Au Hasard Blockbuztar," tweets Aaron Hillis. Search for "War Horse" on Twitter and you could spend quite a while combing through the results before you'll find one that doesn't mention tears, weeping or outright blubbering. Though it doesn't open until Christmas Day, Steven Spielberg's War Horse is being shown to the media and industry now because, suggests Anne Thompson, the New York Film Critics Circle, like a state eager to draw early attention to its Republican primary, has moved its day of voting to this Tuesday. In other words, the Nyfcc will be announcing its awards for the best film of the year, performances and so on, with a full month of 2011 yet to go.
But at Deadline, Pete Hammond suggests that the "unusual strategy" Dreamworks and distributor Disney are pursuing isn't hinging on a single band of critics.
But at Deadline, Pete Hammond suggests that the "unusual strategy" Dreamworks and distributor Disney are pursuing isn't hinging on a single band of critics.
- 11/27/2011
- MUBI
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