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Better take that last pee break before the movie starts.
...watches trailers through fingers (too many spoilers) and waits impatiently for the feature. He blogs daily at the Film Experience. Follow him on Twitter @nathanielr.
YOUR FEATURE PRESENTATION
If Danny Boyle was feeling any pressure about following up his biggest hit, Slumdog Millionaire (2008), it doesn't show. If anything the first minutes of 127 HOURS gleefully remind the audience of the exuberance of that Best Picture winner, as if this were its western cousin, complete with a similarly super-saturated color palette and a split screen homage to globalism. It's not immediately clear then or even by the end of the film, what large celebratory crowds all over the world have to do with the true story of adventurous rock climbing loner Aron Ralston (James Franco). But then, Boyle is less a cerebral filmmaker than a physical one; like Ralston, he's an adrenaline junkie.
127 Hours moves at such breakneck speed, with such joy of performance (Franco is sensational) and with such love of tricked up camera work, that when it does tumble with Aron down into a crevice, famously pinning his arm under a boulder where it would forever remain, the moment doesn't just play as terror. It plays like a weirdly hilarious affront to the very joy of movement, both human and cinematic.
There have been plentiful reports of people fainting at screenings of 127 Hours but I wouldn't worry. (I'm a wuss and I only had to cover my eyes once.) For a story that sounds grim in the summarizing -- man meets boulder is only carrying a bit of water, a video camera and a dull knife -- it's very funny in the telling.
More 127 Hours, new releases and Cher, AFTER THE JUMP...
Continue reading "Movies: Franco Falls and Cher Rises (...Again)"
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BARNEY FRANK VICTORY SPEECH: Says his win proves irrelevance of the Boston Herald.
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TAKE THAT: A new documentary on the British boy band is called Look Back, Don't Stare.
AMY WINEHOUSE'S RETURN: It's her party, and she'll cry if she wants to.
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'It Gets Better' project T-shirts.
Jackson, New Jersey mayor accused of anti-gay remark: "At least I'm not a homo."
Astronomers:
Saturn's rings behave like miniature version of Milky Way galaxy.
Don Draper: what?
Prop 8/Protect Marriage attorney Andy Pugno lost his race for California Assembly.
Bowdoin College alumnus and partner leave huge financial gift: "The estates of Bion Cram, a member of the Class of 1937, and his longtime partner John McCoy have bequeathed Bowdoin gifts totaling more than $17. 3 million, representing the most generous estate gifts ever made to the College. Cram, a retired stockbroker who lived in Kennebunk, Maine, and Indialantic, Fla., died in December 2008 at the age of 93."
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on why there's no iPad app: "the iPad's not mobile."
University of Michigan modifies ban on campus access for Andrew Shirvell: "He’ll now be allowed on campus, but he can’t have contact with Chris Armstrong, the openly gay student leader he has been attacking."
Men's Fitness meets Jersey Shore.
Polish marriage equality billboard campaign launched. Photos. Video.
Mitch McConnell says ousting Obama the "only way" to advance GOP agenda: “If our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill, to end the bailouts, cut spending and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won’t veto any of these things. We can hope the president will start listening to the electorate after Tuesday’s election. But we can’t plan on it.”
All 95 Congressmen who supported net neutrality lost in the elections on Tuesday.
Ryan Reynolds becomes part of Sesame Street's 'A-Team'.
In new memoir, Bush makes clear he approved the use of waterboarding.
Christina Aguilera sings the Burlesque theme song.
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Mixner: what's next for LGBT rights? "What is very clear is that is the national strategy of a delaying votes on our action items for freedom over the last two years turned out to be disastrous mistake. Many of us urgently begged for our President and our national organizations not to delay action or we would face a new Congress. Well, that is exactly what happened..."
YouTube duo do tribute to Madonna.
Australian policeman defuses situation with homophobic rhyme, inspires anger in Oz: "A group of rowdy street rappers were on the verge of arrest after one delivered an offensive line referring to police as "makin' bacon" during a confrontation outside a Fortitude Valley nightclub on October 8. However, Constable David Jay retaliated with a freestyle quip of his own, rhyming 'homo' and 'watching gay porn in slow-mo'...Shelley Argent, national spokeswoman for PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), said the officer should be disciplined for using derogatory words."
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In 1985, Takei pitched for a group that wouldn't allow him in its 'gang' today.
"Joining the gang was probably the best thing I ever did."
Bet Takei regrets this one, AFTER THE JUMP...
(via the daily wh.at)
Continue reading "Watch: George Takei's 1985 Boy Scouts Recruiting Ad"
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Check out these incredible photos of Comet Hartley 2 as it passes within 435 miles of NASA's EPOXI mission spacecraft today. These are some images that no human has ever seen before.
They are still trying to determine whether there was any damage done to the spacecraft as the comet passed.
The spacecraft traveled three billion miles to get close to the comet, which measures 1.5 kilometers across and was traveling at 27,000 mph.
Watch CNN's report, AFTER THE JUMP...
More photos at NASA's site.
Continue reading "Photos: Comet Passes within 435 Miles of Spacecraft - Incredible!"
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