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Post by piercebrosnanhot on Jul 7, 2011 15:50:44 GMT -5
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Post by piercebrosnanhot on Jul 7, 2011 16:06:11 GMT -5
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Post by piercebrosnanhot on Jul 7, 2011 16:21:42 GMT -5
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Post by piercebrosnanhot on Jul 7, 2011 16:30:30 GMT -5
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Post by Ace on Jul 8, 2011 7:07:15 GMT -5
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Post by piercebrosnanhot on Jul 16, 2011 16:18:46 GMT -5
HOW WAS THE MOVIE?DID YOU SEE IT?
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Post by piercebrosnanhot on Aug 6, 2011 5:19:51 GMT -5
'Salvation Boulevard' spurs excitement, opposition
'Salvation Boulevard' religion satire creates excitement, and opposition When producer Cathy Schulman sought financial backers for her religion-skewering satire "Salvation Boulevard," responses were "polarized," she recalls. "People either absolutely didn't want to come anywhere near this subject matter, or else they were really excited to be part of the conversation. You hope with a movie like this that it might have some impact on the national dialogue about the evangelical movement."
Schulman, who produced the Oscar-winning "Crash," optioned Larry Beinhart's novel. She says Pierce Brosnan jumped at the chance to expand his post-James Bond resume by going over the top as the corrupt charismatic leader of a "mega-church."
"Pierce was the first actor to sign on," Schulman says. "He was instantly excited by this idea of playing Pastor Dan Day."
Brosnan learned to deliver fiery sermons, Schulman says, by attending Los Angeles' Crystal Cathedral in disguise. The once-wealthy fundamentalist church went bankrupt this summer.
To direct the project, Schulman hired George Ratliff on the strength of his fundamentalist documentary, "Hell House." Ratliff, who grew up in a family of evangelical Christians, understood the characters' nuances from the inside out.
"I needed someone who was a vision keeper because, for this kind of project, you have to have a writer-director who can really sees the subject matter and can push it all the way through," Schulman says.
To round out the cast, Schulman recruited Greg Kinnear, Marisa Tomei and the unexpectedly hilarious Oscar winner Jennifer Connelly.
"When you get a piece of material that takes on something controversial, it's easier to attract actors than when you offer them something they've already seen before," Schulman says. "One of the great things about 'Salvation Boulevard' is that each character stands for a different place on the spectrum of all things having to do with faith and religion."
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Post by piercebrosnanhot on Aug 6, 2011 5:28:22 GMT -5
Movie Review: Salvation Boulevard A talented cast founders in a farcical satire on religion which is intermittently humorous in-between some goofy happenings. A screwy scenario has Pierce Brosnan’s evangelist, Dan Day, a dapper reverend with the gift of gab, cajoling his congregation of Christian churchgoers. Planning to enlarge his parish, the pastor meets with an atheist scholar (Ed Harris) to discuss a book and accidentally shoots him. To make it look like suicide, he finds a scapegoat in gullible Carl Vanderveer (Greg Kinnear), a dimwitted, trusting, congregational follower who becomes Dan’s patsy for the crime. Director- co-screenwriter George Ratliff’s spoof is based on Larry Beinhart’s novel. Pierce Brosnan is hammy as a charlatan preacher desiring Carl’s wife. Jennifer Connelly is Carl’s piously religious wife Gwen, and miscast Marisa Tomei hams it up as Honey Foster, a security guard who’s a weed smoking hippie in “Salvation Boulevard” which is in need of salvaging.
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Post by piercebrosnanhot on Aug 6, 2011 5:33:03 GMT -5
'Salvation Boulevard' Film Review: A Fine Ensemble Weaves a Religious Farce
The opening moments of "Salvation Boulevard" dictate the movie's wry tone - in a video testimony, Carl (Greg Kinnear) compares his former days as a Grateful Dead "Deadhead" to his new life as a church follower of Evangelical Pastor Dan Day (Pierce Brosnan). It seems Deadheads and churchgoers are both fond of community parties, and both find salvation in their leaders. This theme of "devoted followers" at times takes on a darkly comic, but mostly farcical role in director George Ratliff's "Salvation Boulevard." "Salvation Boulevard" premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival and has a stellar cast - Brosnan, Kinnear, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Marisa Tomei, Ciaran Hinds, Isabelle Fuhrman, Jim Gaffigan and Yul Vasquez. Brosnan plays the charismatic, bigger than life Pastor Dan, whose mega-church congregation includes Carl and his wife Gwen (Connelly) - an avid follower of Pastor Dan, and Gwen's teen daughter, Angie (Fuhrman). Ciaran Hinds is Gwen's devoted, ex-marine father, while Jerry Gaffigan plays Jerry, Pastor Dan's loyal assistant. Following a religious debate between Dan and bestselling atheist author Dr. Paul Blaylock (Harris), Blaylock asks Dan and Carl to accompany him for a drink. When an outrageous accident occurs during their meeting, Carl finds himself as an innocent caught between the law, the church, ambitions and beliefs. As Carl tries to do the right thing, he causes a chaotic domino effect in his own life.
There is a wealth of characters in Larry Beinhart's novel, "Salvation Boulevard." (Beinhart's earlier book, "American Hero" was adapted into the political satire, "Wag the Dog.") The film's producer Cathy Schulman ("Crash") thought that Sundance indie director Ratliff ("Joshua") would take to this religious themed material, and shared with him the book. Coming from a religious background, Ratliff tonally knew how to walk the line of skewing those obsessed with religion without lambasting religion itself.
In a roundtable interview with Ratliff last week in Los Angeles, the director commented upon his roots of being part of a West Texas Christian family, with his three brothers and one sister still "firm believers." Ratliff had also directed the documentary, "Hell House" which examined an evangelical congregation's Halloween "Hell House," a tableaux of horror scenes concerning homosexuality, abortion and AIDS. Ratliff was praised for the film's fair portrayal of the Evangelicals, while art house lovers saw it more as a satirical horror/comedy. Naturally Ratliff took to the subject matter, and with co-writer Doug Stone, adapted Beinhart's book, albeit straying from the novel. Ratliff says he understands the need to have faith and believe in something in one's heart. Yet with his film, "Salvation Boulevard," he makes no amends for poking fun at the notion of "blind" Christian faith, and getting caught up in one's ambitions, in this case the building of a mighty Christian housing community. There's also parallel Deadhead humor as well. One Deadhead in particular is a campus security officer named Honey (Marisa Tomei, in a light-hearted, charming turn). Honey befriends ex-Deadhead Carl in his search for truth, but also wishes he'd return to his Deadhead days. Atheist Paul (Harris) also gets in a few zingers towards Pastor Dan, but is just as much depicted as a celebrity spotlight chaser.
Ratliff wants the viewers to take from the film what they will regarding religion. Yet by dancing lightly on all sides of religion, musical cults and greedy developers, the film's farcical beats don't resonate as much as one would hope, given such a fine cast. Still, "Salvation Boulevard" does have its moments of funny and wicked frivolity.
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Post by piercebrosnanhot on Aug 6, 2011 5:37:15 GMT -5
SALVATION BOULEVARD – The Review A great cast wasted in SALVATION BOULEVARD, a misguided and dreary excuse for a comedy that Greg Kinnear, Pierce Brosnan, Jennifer Connely, Marisa Tomei, and Ed Harris all somehow signed up for. Did these fine actors even read the script or was the chance to goof on the hypocrisy of religious evangelicals too good to resist? HELL HOUSE was director George Ratliff’s 2001 documentary about a Texas church’s Halloween spook house that featured, instead of ghosts and goblins, suicide, date rape, incest, and botched abortions. For his narrative feature debut, Ratliff again targets Christians, a broad subject but a tricky one for satire especially when painted with an equally broad brush, and he fails miserably. Those anticipating a biting and funny satire of the God business need to look elsewhere. Kinnear stars as Carl Vanderveer a reformed Deadhead who wanders stoned into the Church of the Third Millennium to use the bathroom and soon finds himself a born-again follower of Pastor Dan (Brosnan), a charismatic preacher who may or may not be as phony as his part-time southern accent. Ed Harris plays grumpy atheist author Dr. Paul Blaylock who debates Pastor Dan at public forums until the reverend accidentally shoots him in the head with an antique pistol. Inspired by a scene from the Ridley Scott movie LEGEND (!), Pastor Dan decides to make Carl the fall guy for the shooting so his dream of building a combination mega-church and theme park can move forward. The source novel SALVATION BOULEVARD by Larry Beinhart was apparently much more serious in tone but Ratliff’s adaption is all over the map, alternating between ultra-broad comedy, light-hearted satire, and somewhat violent action. Try as they might, this cast can’t compensate for the lousy script. Kinnear is a likeable guy who plays his hapless role well enough but he’s so bland I never bought him as even a former Deadhead and his criminal predicament doesn’t hold water (why are the police so quick to dismiss him?). Sympathy is lost for Carl quickly and putting this confused character at the center of the film was a mistake. The biggest waste is Brosnan, an actor I usually like and who played off Kinnear so well in MATADOR a few years ago, but he never gets a grip on this character. The film attempts to show how lucrative a business religion can be, and how easily a con artist can swindle the last dime from a lost, hopeless throng but Pastor Dan is a true believer when no one’s around and there’s no evidence that he’s a cynic or hypocrite in terms of his faith, so I’m unclear how exactly we’re supposed to judge his character. We never witness him plotting or executing any real deception (aside from framing an innocent man of course). We never experience his slick showmanship behind the scenes, or see how onlookers morph into disciples because the script is too busy getting bogged down with car chases and shootings and yelling and eye rolling from the rest of the cast as well as a weird, unnecessary subplot about Hispanic gangsters. Ms Tomei is wasted as a cute but cliched hippy chick with the hippy name of Honey Foster who, like Carl, is a former Deadhead (you can tell she’s a hippy because of her hairy armpits). The one performance that stood out was Jennifer Connelly as Carl’s wife Gwen, a tense zealot with a skeptical teenage daughter and an opinionated dad. Connelly grounds the movie in reality with her scenes as a believer but she’s not in the film enough to save it. SALVATION BOULEVARD is one of those movies you find at your neighborhood Red Box and wonder “Gee, with this A-list cast, I’m surprised it didn’t play theater”Â. Then you actually watch it and think “Gee, why did this A-list cast agree to appear in such worthless crap?” Unfortunately SALVATION BOULEVARD will be playing in some theaters and I’m telling you to at least wait until it gets to the Red Box so you’ll save some money and won’t waste a night on the town. There’s probably a great satire to be made about the whole mega-church phenomenon, which has plenty of bizarre elements on its own, but SALVATION BOULEVARD isn’t it.
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Post by Ace on Aug 12, 2011 8:46:02 GMT -5
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Post by piercebrosnanhot on Aug 13, 2011 11:03:30 GMT -5
THANKS ACC FOR THIS LINK!!
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Post by piercebrosnanhot on Aug 16, 2011 9:58:41 GMT -5
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Post by Ace on Jul 9, 2012 17:50:11 GMT -5
They really took their time... www.movieweb.com/news/exclusive-salvation-boulevard-dvd-debuts-september-18thEXCLUSIVE: Salvation Boulevard DVD Debuts September 18thSony Pictures Home Entertainment is releasing Salvation Boulevard, starring Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear, on DVD September 18. We have an exclusive first look at the cover art and release details for this dark comedy, centering on a new Christian (Greg Kinnear) who is framed for murder by his pastor (Pierce Brosnan). Take a look, as faith simply doesn't cut it anymore! Pierce Brosnan (Die Another Day, Mamma Mia!) and Academy Award nominee Greg Kinnear (Best Supporting Actor, As Good As It Gets, 1997) star in the dark comedy Salvation Boulevard, available on DVD September 18th from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Set in the world of fundamentalist Christians and mega-churches, born-again Christian Carl (Kinnear) witnesses his evangelical pastor, Dan Day (Brosnan), accidently shoot a man in the head. Framed by the pastor and forced to run, Carl must now tangle with his family, the devout mega-church followers, a Mexican crime lord and Pastor Day himself. The all-star cast also includes Academy Award nominee Ed Harris (Best Actor, Pollock, 2000), Academy Award winner Jennifer Connelly (Best Supporting Actress, A Beautiful Mind, 2001), Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei (Best Supporting Actress, My Cousin Vinny, 1993), and Ciarán Hinds (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, There Will Be Blood).
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Post by eaz35173 on Jul 9, 2012 18:44:26 GMT -5
Finally!!
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Post by rosafermu on Jul 10, 2012 1:46:29 GMT -5
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Post by rosafermu on Jul 11, 2012 13:35:10 GMT -5
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Post by eaz35173 on Aug 16, 2012 8:44:28 GMT -5
Just got notice from Amazon.com that Salvation Blvd. is available for pre-order for $24.29. Release date is still Sept 18th.
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Post by rosafermu on Aug 16, 2012 14:28:06 GMT -5
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Post by rosafermu on Sept 13, 2012 8:41:40 GMT -5
Singing a song !!! Attachments:
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