| Gilliam answers 'Tideland' critics | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 7:17:24 PM by Blog57 Team | | Disgusted with Terry Gilliams latest film Tideland? Ready to lynch the former Monty Pythoneer for grossing you out? Delighted but hopefully confused? Then see his film again, director Gilliam says. I do think its a film worth seeing a couple of times, the impish Gilliam says with a burst of laughter. I do think it makes a big difference the second time. Tideland, a British-Canadian co-production filmed primarily in Saskatchewan, opened in theatres a week ago. That is six weeks more than a year after it made its premiere at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival. The film has been savaged by critics, which Gilliam expected. Audiences are small, which the Canadian distributor, Capri Releasing, expected. And the response has been sharply divided, and often vociferous, which everyone expected.... | |
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| | | Understated 'Bridges' perfectly captures teens' lives | | Posted Friday, October 06, 2006 11:03:59 AM by Blog57 Team | | Writer-director Kat Candler - who studied creative writing at Florida State in the '90s before moving off to make indie movies in Austin, Texas - has a finely tuned ear for the way teenagers talk in day-to-day life. Her dialogue has nothing to do with the too-quippy-to-be-real banter heard on teen shows such as "The Gilmore Girls" and popcorn flicks along the lines of "She Drives Me Crazy." She doesn't dumb it down so the kids sound like the spoiled beach bimbos and himbos on "Laguna Beach." .... | |
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| | | NU runners seek repeat | | Posted Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:18:26 AM by Blog57 Team | | Nevada Union's boys cross country team was the only of the four teams in western Nevada County to qualify for last season's Sac-Joaquin Section meet, where it finished fifth. NU's chances of qualifying for the second meet appear better than the other three squads again this season as the Miners have more runners returning (seven) than NU's girls (two), Bear River's boys (two) and Bear River's girls (five). The Miners girls are loaded with promising newcomers, though, and the five returners for Bear River's girls were vital parts of the team last season. The Bruins boys are in one of the tougher positions, with just the minimum of five runners filling out the team's roster. Nevada Union boys The loss of Andrew Primrose, who now runs for the University of Washington, did little to hurt the Miners' chance at repeating a berth in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I meet.... | |
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| | | DVDs Released This Week | | Posted Monday, September 11, 2006 9:06:25 PM by Blog57 Team | | "THE OFFICE: SEASON TWO": The "adventures" of Dunder Mifflin and its staff continue in this collection from NBC's Americanized version of the Ricky Gervais-created British sitcom, recently honored with a Television Critics Association award, as was star Steve Carell. He continues the role of office manager Michael Scott, whose illusion that he's liked by his staff masks how much the workers actually detest him; John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer and Rainn Wilson also appear. *** (Not rated: AS, P) "THE WILD": Animated movies about animals haven't been in short supply, and this one has distinct echoes of many of the others, but it also benefits from typical Disney charm. Kiefer Sutherland supplies the voice of a lion who pursues his son from a New York zoo to Africa after the cub stows away on an overseas voyage that rapidly turns from merely exciting to downright perilous.... | |
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| | | Jeff annexation foes discuss strategy | | Posted Saturday, August 19, 2006 5:01:38 AM by Blog57 Team | | Leaders of a citizens group formed to fight the annexation of their neighborhoods by Jeffersonville urged the 120 men and women at a meeting last night to speak against the proposal at a City Council meeting Monday night. "I don't know about you," Vanessa Smith, president of the Citizens Against Annexation told the crowd, "but I don't want to bankroll Jeffersonville the way they manage what they've got." .... | |
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| | | Tideland washes up short of expectations | | Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 7:04:41 AM by Blog57 Team | | Tideland (15) Directed by Terry Gilliam. Starring Jodelle Ferland, Janet McTeer, Brendan Fletcher, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Tilly. 118 mins. by Michael Joyce A movie that within the first few minutes has a 10-year-old girl help her father shoot up should prep audiences that this is a film where almost nothing is out of bounds. The 21st century has not been kind to crazed visionary Terry Gilliam. His dream was washed away before his eyes when The Man Who Killed Don Quixote fell apart (see the documentary Lost in La Mancha) and then Miramax interference messed up Brothers Grimm so much that it ended up as an anonymous effects-laden waste of everyone's time. On the evidence of his new film Tideland, he seems to have taken these sets backs rather badly. Tideland is a small budget, personal film that is by far the most twisted and warped vision he's ever committed to the screen.... | |
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| | | Nalick has a date at the Social | | Posted Friday, July 28, 2006 1:05:45 PM by Blog57 Team | | With her brooding and introspective lyrics, winding melodies and fiery bite, singer-songwriter Anna Nalick garners a lot of comparisons to '90s spitfire Fiona Apple. Heck, Nalick is even rocking Apple's smoky-eyed look -- all that's left is for Anna to drop a couple of four-letter bombs on live TV and lecture people about "emulating celebrities." Anna Nalick plays the Social, 54 N. Orange Ave., Orlando, on Sept. 3 with Joshua Radin. Tickets are $17 advance, $20 day of show. For more information, call 407-246-1419. on a mission The first socially conscious hip-hop group, A Tribe Called Quest has a new album out of remixed hits. Catch the tribe at the House of Blues on Sept. 24. beverage of choice From controversial rapper to playing a cop on prime-time TV, times have sure changed for Ice-T.... | |
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| | | Strange tale of a hugely successful band torn apart and almost totally rebuilt | | Posted Sunday, July 23, 2006 7:06:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | The tale of how Creedence Clearwater Revival became John Fogerty vs. Creedence Clearwater Revisited is long and sad on both sides of the surface. After leaving the band in '71, founding member Tom Fogerty died of intravenous AIDS, and his younger brother turned his back altogether on the music that made him a household name. The revolution in swamp rock really only lasted five years! But in 1995, in a vacuum of legitimate performance of CCR songs, drummer Doug (Cosmo) Clifford and bassist Stu Cook found themselves with the itch, and formed a band with a (slightly) new name, a living mirror of their own youth. John Tristao has taken over for Fogerty's pipes, and Revisited plays Ed Fest tomorrow night. Question: Are you a fan of the Big Lebowski? Cosmo: Oh yeah, of course.... | |
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| | | A classic, or just crazy? | | Posted Thursday, July 06, 2006 5:35:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | If you know the name Terry Gilliam, then you're obviously aware that any film with his name on it isn't going to be business as usual. Gilliam has made his name with films full of weirdness, whimsy and wonder. And if you've seen, say, Robin Williams' giant flying head in a castle on the moon (in "The Adventures Of Baron Munchhausen"), or the cosmetic surgery gone awry of "Brazil," then you know that Gilliam is perfectly happy to be as mad as he wants to be. This is, after all, a man who could take Brad Pitt and cast him as a jibbering lunatic in "12 Monkeys." .... | |
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| | | Will 2008 be a year of bridges? | | Posted Sunday, July 02, 2006 3:02:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | Is there any hope? Is there a light at the end of the tunnel, or is it just another oncoming train? I got another lesson in just how deep the red and blue divide is on Wednesday as the wire services reported on the Supreme Court ruling that largely upheld most of a state redistricting map Democrats had heckled as an illegal partisan power grab. Headlines for the exact same Associated Press story varied depending on where the newspaper was located. Red states leaned toward something like Most of Texas redistricting upheld by High Court, while blue-state papers went with headlines like Justices strike down part of Texas redistricting plan. It was one of the clearest examples of the gaping chasm in this country that seems to grow wider with each passing day.... | |
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