"Zodiac" again

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"Forget Fight Club and Se7en. If you're looking for the real reason to consider David Fincher a major-league American director, all the evidence is right there in Zodiac. [This] is at once an epic true-crime police procedural and a genuinely chilling study in the nature of unfulfilled obsession. I should know: I've seen it three times already." -- from Toronto Star critic Geoff Pevere's 10 Best of the Year piece ("Skepticism was a Convincing Force," 12.28). I've seen Zodiac seven times -- four times in a theatre, the regular DVD once, and the Director's Cut DVD twice. I'll be posting an audio chat with Fincher on Wednesday or thereabouts.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on December 29, 2007 at 8:09 AM

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romeoisbleeding says ...

I will look forward to hearing Fincher. Thanks for posting this. The manager at the book store I work at has been on a Zodiac kick the last few weeks and watched it 8 times. I think I have still seen it more than he has.He is a major film buff. Sees about 10 movies a week. Anyway..he came up with an interesting idea. If you were teaching a class and wanted to show 2 views of what life was like during that period of time it would work to screen the old Julie Christie movie Petulia and then Zodiac back to back. And then let the discussion begin. Two dead on period movies that depict that time so perfectly.

Posted by romeoisbleeding at December 29, 2007 8:43 AM

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Mike Ock says ...

Wells should just blow David Fincher already. Seriously.

Posted by Mike Ock at December 29, 2007 9:55 AM

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GKLondon says ...

Of all the commentaries I've ever listened to, Fincher's have always been my favourite, even for minor works like Panic Room. He is one of those people who you don't doubt that he knows everything there is to know about whatever he is talking about.

Alfonso Cuaron, Paul Thomas Anderson, and now David Fincher. You interviewed my top three directors working right now in just over a year. Thanks Jeff. I've listened to the Cuaron piece almost more times than I've watched COM.

I also loved your full sit down with Lubezki. I hope the Fincher INT is as involved while managing to be as informal.

And Mike Ock, besides the fact that if anyone deserves to be blown, it's Fincher, do I smell a hint of jealousy in your post?

Posted by GKLondon at December 29, 2007 10:26 AM

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