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La Mirada Announces Special Guests
La Mirada Film Festival 2010 is delighted to announce multi award winning actor ANTONIO DE LA TORRE and acclaimed director JOSE ANTONIO SALGOT as special guests of the 2010 festival. Antonio de la Torre will present the films, Fat People (Gordos)...
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Box Office Theory 1.01
The devil is in the details.
It's been said that Nicole Kidman's manicure in Cold Mountain was what did her out of an Academy Award. Her character Ada Monroe was meant to be a hard-working frontier woman, washing her own clothes, hoeing her own vegetables - oh, and it's also the middle of the Civil War. So why has she got perfectly polished, clean and groomed fingernails? Similarly, Hilary Swank's hairdo in Amelia could be accused of keeping audiences away in masses from the biopic. Something's gotta be responsible; the film's been out a week and they're staying away.
Another film to be avoided is Franklyn - a messy and disjointed comic book story starring (and here's an indication of how it misses the mark) Ryan Phillippe. A critic from The Guardian in the UK described the film as "up itself" which is succinct if not entirely accurate! If you can make sense of it please email me.
I was lucky enough to see half an hour of Avatar before I interviewed Aussie star actor Sam Worthington on the red carpet of the IF Awards. Avatar has been the subject of more internet chatter than Blair Witch and Jennifer's Body combined and a lot of that chatter so far, has been negative. They're all haters, I say. James Cameron may be a weirdy beardie egomaniac but you can't argue that he hasn't made popular and excellent films.
THE JAMES CAMERON TOP 5:
Aliens
Terminator 2
Terminator
Solaris (as Producer)
Titanic
I took my two dwarves to see Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs - the title of which they profoundly did not understand and still do not understand having seen the film but fortunately titles matter little for small ass-kicking girls under 10 years-old. They loved it and this film is going to be massive for the Australian summer. I don't think it really matters whether the characters are engaging or the message contains truth: kids just wanna see it for that moment when a giant pancake flattens the school. During the screening a rainstorm blew up and as we left the cinema I kept expecting a giant meatball to go rolling down the main street. Enjoyable if not overly memorable.