February rundown

February is usually a crap month, but some decent attractions are being offered over the next few weeks. It's worth visiting Factory Girl on February 2nd, certainly for Sienna Miller and Guy Pearce's performances as Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol. (Even Hayden Christensen, playing a close approximation of Bob Dylan, is pretty decent.) If you live in a big town, The Lives of Others, a masterful, deeply moving drama, is the one to catch on 2.9. Billy Ray's Breach is apparently the one to see on 2.16; two above-average French films, Days of Glory and Avenue Montaigne, are also worth visiting; Craig Brewer 's Black Snake Moan, a pulpy Southern-fried redemption drama, is the only 2.23 release I've seen -- it played much better than expected at Sundance. That's six films -- a good month for DVDs

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on February 1, 2007 at 5:18 PM

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Breedlove Author Profile Page says ...

i just got home from 'seraphim falls' and really enjoyed it. definitely recommended for fans of the genre. jeff, as i said in my e-mail to you, you should do a big fat 2007 preview, looking ahead at the next 11 months. everyone is oscared-out.

Posted by Breedlove Author Profile Page at February 1, 2007 5:43 PM

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Noah Author Profile Page says ...

Factory Girl is the same movie as Marie Antoinette. Edie Sedgwick is the Paris Hilton of her time, we get it. Hayden Christensen does such a poor job as "Bob Dylan" that he single-handedly ruins the film. This film didnt know whether it wants to be about Edie, who is not interesting at all or Andy Warhol, who is. If Hickenlooper wanted to make a Warhol movie, he should've just done it because Edie Sedgwick is not interesting enough to have a whole film based around her. Sienna Miller is decent and Guy Pearce is pretty good, but the movie is about nothing in general and nothingness in specific. I thought The Man From Elysian Fields was really great and it's sad to see Hickenlooper regress like this.

Posted by Noah Author Profile Page at February 1, 2007 6:19 PM

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Devin Faraci Author Profile Page says ...

FACTORY GIRL is almost grotesque in its badness. I like to believe that there is a decent cut of it somewhere in the last few months, since the movie doesn't seem incompetently made, but the cut I saw was pretty rotten. If I wasn't exhausted I would write my review now, but it'll wait for the morning.

Posted by Devin Faraci Author Profile Page at February 1, 2007 11:59 PM

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Zoidberg Author Profile Page says ...

I am liking Sienna Miller more and more....
Not only is she an actress of great promise, but she's popped up on various late night talk shows over the past week, and she appears to be a fucking RIOT, in terms of personality. A lot of charm there.

I hope to see more of her.

Posted by Zoidberg Author Profile Page at February 2, 2007 12:51 AM

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T. S. Idiot Author Profile Page says ...

Our Sienna surely has a bad rep, but she is quite charming and intelligent in the extras for Casanova.

Posted by T. S. Idiot Author Profile Page at February 2, 2007 11:36 AM

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GML Author Profile Page says ...

Is it possible to give an unbiased opinion on Hayden Christensen's acting? Everything I see seems to be an over-reaction for whatever reason. He seems to me to be an actor with the potential to become a very good actor. I haven't seen Factory Girl yet but I don't find him bad in any of his other roles to date. There's something very likable and appealing about his on screen presence. Oscar worthy? Maybe not but I think he'll be around for awhile. Then again maybe that's my biased opinion.

Posted by GML Author Profile Page at February 3, 2007 8:37 AM

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