RNL
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Post by RNL on Feb 25, 2006 3:32:20 GMT
1. Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) 8/102. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) 4/10
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Post by Capo on Feb 25, 2006 14:04:16 GMT
1. Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005 I'm very pleased that you liked Good Night, and Good Luck., which, due to its political intentions, I wasn't sure whether or not you would. Its framing qualities and structural complexities, not to mention the finest ensemble cast of last year, made it everything I'd wished for and more.
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Post by RNL on Feb 25, 2006 17:59:24 GMT
The thing about Good Night is that it's not argumentatively political, it's not a lecture.
It was amusingly ironic to see no less than eight people walking out of a film which emphasises the power of the medium to educate and inform, and the futility of demanding entertaining distractions.
The cinematography was absolutely amazing throughout.
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Post by ronnierocketago on Feb 25, 2006 18:30:05 GMT
CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND (2002) - ***1/2
GOOD NIGHT, GOOD LUCK (2005) - ****1/2
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Capo
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Post by Capo on Feb 25, 2006 19:25:58 GMT
I love the silences throughout Good Night. Clooney says in March's issue of Sight & Sound that in order to evoke the feeling of the period, they had a lot of silences, because, as he says, "back then people talked less." Not so sure if that's correct, but I love the silences anyway; there was one moment where you could hear the soundtrack music, and the whole studio, full of people, was clapping and cheering, but you couldn't hear them. It reminded me of that moment on the chicken farm(?) in The Pledge, where you see a silenced wide angle of someone recieving tragic news.
With all that cigarette smoke, it almost felt like a Wong Kar-Wai film. It's tightly edited, too, with its bookended speech being as brief as possible; no theatrics about spelling it out to us that the film is also applicable to today's world, like Spielberg's Munich tries to do. Really tense stuff, I think, and intelligent enough to walk the fine line between mutual understanding (not spelling things out for us) and entertainment (less a historical document than an effective examination on the power, or perception, of power itself).
Now that you like this, I must recommend a film which, until now, I haven't wanted to push upon you (and others) for fear of overpraising it: Kongkabale / King's Game, which would be difficult to find anyway (I saw it at a film festival last November) until a release, assuming it will ever get one. It has that same quiet feel of an observing camera as Clooney's film, and is just as tense.
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Post by Vercetti on Feb 25, 2006 19:29:10 GMT
I have Confessions of a Dangerous Mind to see. I'll post it in this space whenever I see it. Good Night, and Good Luck.
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Post by Mike Sullivan on Mar 2, 2006 15:47:10 GMT
I reserved my copy of, "Good Night and Good Lcuk" which should see it release in Mid March. i can't wait, and since both Capo and Wet Dog have so highly regarded it, I'm sure this is going to be essential viewing.
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Post by Pherdy on Mar 21, 2006 14:39:40 GMT
Confessions Good Night but not a tenth of a star higher. stylish but hardly immortal. it could easily survive this years other okay-films but will not stand out for long I'm afraid.
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Post by Mike Sullivan on Mar 24, 2006 1:12:28 GMT
Good Night, & Good Luck (2005) A masterwork, wonderfully excecuted with a great ensemble cast, taut editing and direction and a wonderful screenplay which along with afew other elements makes a fitting tribute to Edward R. Murrow and his times and creates an image of what broadcast journalism can strive to be. Many people complain that Clooney didn't stress the true threat of what McCarthy could do if he went after you. Some people also say it's arogany to say that Murrow killed McCarthy single hadnedly, that perhaps it was when the Junior Senator went after the Army in the U.S. Senate. Those are debatable topics. I for one knew damned well the threat that Murrow and Co. was going into and I did enter the film with agood idea of the nature of the McCarthy hearing, so perhaps I enjoyed it all the more because of that. But even then, the purpose of this film isn't just to describe the history of the encounter but to show us the nature of broadcast journalism in general and to show us that now more than ever, we need an Edward R. Murrow.
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Post by mikola on Apr 27, 2006 19:04:26 GMT
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Post by Boz on Aug 17, 2006 17:54:29 GMT
Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
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Post by Anasazie on Nov 26, 2008 4:26:00 GMT
1. Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) 5/10 2. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) 4/10
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