After "Control"

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Santa Monica's Aero theatre as a mostly-younger crowd filed out of a special showing of Anton Corbijn's Control, which opens 10.10 in NYC and on 10.19 in Los Angeles -- Sunday, 10.7.07, 9:38 pm.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on October 8, 2007 at 12:09 AM

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malibugigolo says ...

Wells to Malibugigolo: I'm not sure if I'm getting the gist or following the thread correctly, but the film is set in Seattle and was shot in Vancouver. And don't flatter the Lifetime folks so much. They'd like to be able to make something this good, but it doesn't seem within their grasp. If it was, they wouldn't be the Lifetime channel. You don't seem to understand what a tower of power Susanne Bier has become over the last five years. She's not just this "talented" Danish director. Every film she makes has a current that probes and runs deep. She understands families, and how vulnerable the family dynamic can be. She's dwelling & coming these days from a kind of Bergmanesque place (i.e., not where he was in the '50s and early '60s, but where he was from the late '60s to late '70s...something like that).

WELLS: WHAT?!

Bergman digs so deep in Winter Light he makes slicing off bore marrow funny. You went too far??
I admit I went too far, but the "TOWER OF POWER" comment, did you're son talk about the first nice pair of plus 30 tits he's seen and that was running through your mind?

I'm still fighting off Berg fans who don't think he's 1st 3 movies on Crit aren't the best product of the best DP that he worked with...

have a good one dude.

Posted by malibugigolo at October 8, 2007 1:38 AM

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malibugigolo says ...

I love the tower of power line.

still taken...

massive.

Posted by malibugigolo at October 8, 2007 1:42 AM

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EDouglas says ...

Wells, I've been told by the Weinstein Company that it's only opening in New York on Weds the 10th and that it's not opening in L.A. until the 19th. Have you heard or seen differently?

Posted by EDouglas at October 8, 2007 4:25 AM

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gruver1 says ...

Wells to Douglas: Yes, 10.19 in L.A., 10.10 in NYC. Hence, the film will be opening "within days" (i.e., soon) in these cities.

Posted by gruver1 at October 8, 2007 7:33 AM

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T. Holly says ...

People will multiply the sum of this movie's plot.

My exit polling shows that people didn't have one ioda The Heartbreak Kid was about the difficulty or impossibility of relationships and marriage.

Posted by T. Holly at October 8, 2007 7:41 AM

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Gabriel says ...

Attended the screening, saw Jeff there...and loved the hell out of this film. The photography was everything I hoped it would be, and the sequence leading up to Curtis' death couldn't have been more perfect.

Posted by Gabriel at October 8, 2007 7:47 AM

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