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Post by sparklingblue on Jan 29, 2007 18:09:12 GMT -5
Susan, can you remember where you read the article? Because I would feel somewhat vindicated in my disbelief of this if it came from The Sun. I have no clue when it might come out over here. I'm fully prepared to wait for the DVD. But mine will for sure come from amazon.com as soon as it is available!
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Post by susan on Jan 30, 2007 15:07:49 GMT -5
Here's the link: www.teenhollywood.com/d.asp?r=141317&c=1055(hope it works) amazon.com sounds good, but it's getting really expensive with the shipping and tax and everything (I fear). At least one understanding soul in this country... (no hug available, sorry)
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Post by Ace on Jan 30, 2007 16:09:32 GMT -5
This and other links to interviews are up on my Seraphim Falls site. MovieWeb: Pierce Brosnan is a Killer in Seraphim FallsIt's ironic that in his post-Bond career, Pierce Brosnan is at his toughest and most rugged. Brosnan braves the gamut of temperatures. He's naked in the snow, immersed in a freezing river, and bloodied in a hellish desert. Seraphim Falls is his most physically challenging role to date. We had to ask the Bond questions and, to his credit, he was professional and forthcoming. Pierce had nothing but admiration for Daniel Craig's success. It was obvious that he would have loved the opportunity to play a more dangerous Bond. But Pierce has moved on. He plays a psychopathic kidnapper in the upcoming "Butterfly on a Wheel", and reprises his role as Thomas Crowne in "The Topkapi Affair", the current title to the sequel to "The Thomas Crowne Affair". This is a film about revenge and the toll it takes. Have you ever wanted to seek vengeance? Pierce Brosnan: Never revenge, forgiveness...yes. Forgiveness is the mightiest thing to come to terms with. You don't happen to be referring to Barbara Broccoli [producer of Bond franchise]? (Laughs) So how do you feel about all the acclaim Daniel Craig is getting? Pierce Brosnan: He's a great Bond and deservedly so. It's there for the taking. I'm proud and honored that I was part of that legacy. I haven't seen the film and I will see the film. Daniel, I thought he was a great choice. I thought they were courageous, shockingly courageous. But life moves on. Is it liberating to know that your Bond days are behind you? Pierce Brosnan: Oh yeah, the day the phone call went down and they had changed their mind; there was a shock. Then there was a great relief, because it does come with a big responsibility. You become very complacent to have a role like that. It locks you. You're doing one every two years. So it kind of tightened and focused my attention on what I want to do with my career, the choices I make. How did you prepare for such a raw physical performance? It's definitely the toughest we've ever seen you. Pierce Brosnan: I've spent some time in the outdoors, camping, finding my way. I've had training reading maps. I was going to go to the army, so I moved towards the military in my youth. I really enjoyed that part of the filmmaking. I knew it was going to be tough and that was a challenge. I knew I was in capable hands. John Toll [cinematographer] is majestic behind the camera with that landscape. That landscape, the spirit of Santa Fe [New Mexico], we were all were blessed by it. But still, some of the scenes are incredibly hardcore. Cutting the bullet out of your arm, being naked in the snow, that scene where you cross the river, why not have a stuntman do that? Pierce Brosnan: It's exciting. People want to see something. They go to the movies to be turned on, excited, to feel the fear of raging hydraulics. I was tethered on wires for some of it, and you think that's safe; but the wire can tangle your leg or can tangle your neck. The man who went over the falls for me, Mark, he did an amazing job going over those waterfalls. The next day I had to go in on the bottom of the waterfalls, tethered on wires. He was on my wire and got knocked down by the waves. He got held under, but nobody knew. He was in four foot of water drowning cause the wire held him underneath. They were all concentrating on me and he was down there. How many takes did you do of the water scene? Pierce Brosnan: Two or three, tops, its like a thousand knives in your head. Those hydraulics in that kind of water is ferocious. How did you deal with the cold? Pierce Brosnan: Whisky...whisky shots. Whisky came into play. I'd get trashed, eat a lot. Luckily there was no dialogue. So that was me, just drunk. I was a drunken actor in the cold. Don't write that, it's not true. (laughs) Do you think your audience will accept you in this role? Or in a western specifically? Pierce Brosnan: I showed this film to twelve and thirteen-year-olds. They loved it. They ate it up. It was in Malibu at a friend's house in a screening room. My five-year-old saw it too. I rotted his psyche for the rest of his life. He was in my arms sobbing. Where does it stand in the world of cinema? I think it stands proudly. I think it is a graceful film. I think it has a dignity, a style, and an eloquence that will stand the test of time. I think it speaks about the meaninglessness of war. It comes at a point when the history of this country is torn in the confusion of war. Ultimately it is a piece of entertainment, which you hope resonates with an audience and they have a good time at the cinema. It doesn't have to be the kind of hurly-burly filmmaking that we have in the world right now. Could Gideon have killed Carver [Liam Neeson] any time he wanted to? Pierce Brosnan: He avoided doing it. He doesn't want to kill. But he could have... Pierce Brosnan: He could, yes. How would the film have been different if the men weren't from opposing sides in the civil war, if they had been civilians? Pierce Brosnan: It would have diluted the impact this film has. That war created such a clef in the soul of this country. It was a war of ideology and you feel it. It just wouldn't have the same impact if it had been civilians. These are men, soldiers, who are mangled by war. My character is reclusive and looking for faith. Liam's is fierce in his resolve to seeing my death. So where do you go from here? Pierce Brosnan: Stay employed, stay excited, stay entertained, stay in the game as long as you can. Be able to look at your hand and say I created these five roles, these five films, which had character, growth and some meaningfulness. What can you tell us about "Butterfly on a Wheel" with Maria Bello and Gerard Butler? Pierce Brosnan: I play a psychopath really. I think he is a psychopath. He's a very angry man. You're not sure if he is a hit man or a terrorist. You don't know who he is, but he is angry with these people; and one day he challenges Gerard Butler. Are you ready to film the sequel to "The Thomas Crown Affair"? Pierce Brosnan: We've set sail. Seraphim Falls is in limited theaters on January 26th and is rated 'R' for violence and brief language.
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Post by fati on Jan 30, 2007 17:21:18 GMT -5
This is VERY intersting interview indeed!! From there I could see he did risck his life in playing this character by going nacked on the snow and being on the cold water, I bet he had to drink whiskey to keep him warm! lol I also notice he is a very thoughtful man too, I adimere him more each day!
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Post by Ace on Jan 30, 2007 19:21:14 GMT -5
NY Magazine Seraphim Falls is an antiwar Western in which one man (Liam Neeson) pursues another (Pierce Brosnan) through frigid snow-capped mountains, high deserts, and dry lake beds under a scorching sun: primal landscapes, primal emotions, primal men in a primal fight to the death. There, I’ve used the word primal more than my press kit does. Given that the movie is one long chase—Neeson’s motive withheld until the end, the monotony broken only by the slaying of one member of his posse after another—the film is surprisingly gripping. The director, David Von Ancken, and his cinematographer, John Toll, do magical things with the ever-shifting light, and there are splendidly weird turns from Anjelica Huston as a snake-oil salesperson and Tom Noonan as a wagon-train Evangelist. No one who sees the first fifteen minutes of Seraphim Falls can doubt that Brosnan is the movies’ supreme grunter: He is to acting what poor Monica Seles was to tennis. He added grunts to his feats in his Bond movies, presumably to make 007 seem more human, but they were too jarring in that high-style context. Here, they make for a powerful soundtrack. The movie opens with him taking a bullet in the shoulder (aggghhh!), rolling down an embankment (uggghh arrrr), tumbling into a raging river (raahruuuf!) that dumps him over a falls (yaaaaaaaaah), digging the bullet out of his shoulder (arf%^Sssss$#yyy!) with a big knife and then cauterizing the wound (ayyyeeeeeeeeee!!!). I’m not being facetious: This is very impressive stuff. If his acting career ever stalls, he could make a fortune dubbing kung fu pictures.
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Post by Myrtle Groggins on Jan 31, 2007 0:53:37 GMT -5
amazon.com sounds good, but it's getting really expensive with the shipping and tax and everything (I fear). Isn't Amazon still doing free shipping with orders of $25 or more? Still looks like they are. My last purchase from them was a few weeks ago and it was still a great bargain. I can't say the same for my Barnes & Noble order where they tacked on everything but the kitchen sink. Seraphim Falls isn't playing in my area. Nearest I could find is 500 miles away and in a neighboring state. Shucks!
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Post by Myrtle Groggins on Jan 31, 2007 1:02:16 GMT -5
I could live with no TV promos if only it'd be playing in the Atlanta area-or in GA-or in the south, for that matter! Debra I know what you mean. I checked for Atlanta and realized Georgia wasn't on the list. I looked for other southern states and found it playing in Texas. I'd have to go clear across my state and up to Dallas to see it. Man! What were they thinking? There wasn't even a listing for Florida. Why bother to make the movie if most of the country can't see it? The country is a whole lot larger than 10 states. Edited to correct what could have been construed as my traveling 500 miles to see this film. I didn't. Don't have the energy. Besides, I figure if they can't bring it closer to me, than they don't want me to see it at the theatre.
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Post by Ace on Jan 31, 2007 1:15:15 GMT -5
It's supposedly expanding into 25 more markets over the next 3 weeks, so as they say keep checking your local listings -- and the Sony website. Right now they still have the theaters for Jan 26 but hopefully they'll update when and if they get new theaters: www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/seraphimfalls/theaters/
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Post by Ace on Jan 31, 2007 1:25:20 GMT -5
Ah the knife passing out story -- it's his character that passes out and I believe after Contact Music and WENN (where Teen Hollywood gets many of it's stories) got though with his description and did some judicious cutting it was him passing out. Typical for them. Myrtle, Amazon still has free shipping for orders over $25 but that's just for shipments within the U.S. Also many countries have additional taxes on good shipped from outside so it can really add up. Then again the U.S. dollar is so cheap now compared to the Euro and Pound that some of the costs are offset in the exchange rate. Ace
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Post by fati on Jan 31, 2007 7:00:07 GMT -5
NY Magazine No one who sees the first fifteen minutes of Seraphim Falls can doubt that Brosnan is the movies’ supreme grunter: He is to acting what poor Monica Seles was to tennis. He added grunts to his feats in his Bond movies, presumably to make 007 seem more human, but they were too jarring in that high-style context. Here, they make for a powerful soundtrack. The movie opens with him taking a bullet in the shoulder (aggghhh!), rolling down an embankment (uggghh arrrr), tumbling into a raging river (raahruuuf!) that dumps him over a falls (yaaaaaaaaah), digging the bullet out of his shoulder (arf%^Sssss$#yyy!) with a big knife and then cauterizing the wound (ayyyeeeeeeeeee!!!). I’m not being facetious: This is very impressive stuff. If his acting career ever stalls, he could make a fortune dubbing kung fu pictures. Oh my gosh!!!!!!!! Pierce is playing the tough guy in this one!
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Post by sparklingblue on Jan 31, 2007 7:46:33 GMT -5
Ah the knife passing out story -- it's his character that passes out and I believe after Contact Music and WENN (where Teen Hollywood gets many of it's stories) got though with his description and did some judicious cutting it was him passing out. Typical for them. Ahh, a kindred spririt! I didn't believe a word, but it's always interesting how they are trying to sell their stuff with fitting quotes pulled from somewhere and edited down to match their makeshift context. ;D Yup! Myrtle, Ace is right. Germany does not qualify for the free shipping at amazon.com. I pay around EUR 12 on import duties and approx. the same for shipping when ordering DVDs from the US. I always try and order several DVDs because it makes me think that I'm saving some money. Haven't calculated it all though, so as to not destroy my illusion.
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Post by Lauryn on Feb 1, 2007 0:19:33 GMT -5
From www.chud.comEXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: DAVID VON ANCKEN (SERAPHIM FALLS)01.26.07 By Devin Faraci Seraphim Falls opens with Pierce Brosnan, swaddled in furs and high in the snowy mountains, making fire. Suddenly he’s shot in the shoulder and so begins a chase movie unlike any you’ve seen in quite some time. Brosnan, a former Yankee officer, is being chased by Liam Neeson, a former Confederate, down the mountains, over the plains and into the barren desert. Westerns are rarely made anymore, and when they do happen, they’re usually places where astonishing scenery is put on display – Seraphim Falls is a film like that, a movie where the landscape constantly vies to take your attention away from the main action Director David Von Ancken is a first time feature helmer, but this isn’t his first time behind a camera. He’s directed shorts in the past, and his IMDB filmography is filled with well-known TV shows, but for Seraphim Falls he took the challenge of mounting a production in the outdoors, subverting our expectations and making a terrific modern entry in the Western genre. The film goes into limited release this Friday. I had a chance to get on the phone with Von Ancken last week… Landscapes are a major part of the film. When did that become an important part of the story for you?I think it’s an important part of the story from the very first shot, and I always knew it would be the third main character of the movie. It’s what they inhabit, and it’s part of their hardship. Where did you find these great locations?We shot all over the state of New Mexico, from Taos to Santa Fe to Pueblo – up and down New Mexico. And we shot the water sequences in Oregon. You’re up in the mountains in the snow, you’re out in the desert in the heat, and your actors are really out there in the conditions. How receptive were Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan to getting out there?They knew from the beginning, because they read the script, what the deal was, and they were extremely cooperative and made it work. Obviously they’re traveling through these landscapes, but they’re also traveling through Western movie archetypes. At the end, when they get to the desert, it reminded me of El Topo.There are a number of archetypes that they go through, but it’s really a simple sort of quiet movie that we were trying to go for. It’s placing these complex characters in a simple, quiet landscape that would let them be, and let us tell the story from behavior from the beginning. You open the film and there’s almost no dialogue – it’s a bold way to open the movie. Was there a concern about opening the movie in that way?No. I’m coming from LA, where people need to have dialogue for everything, and they definitely don’t want you to make a Western, because nobody goes to see them. But this is something that transcends the old fashioned Western and goes for something contemporary. Pierce doesn’t say his first word for 26 of 27 minutes, and when you take an actor known for his way with dialogue and put him in a movie where he’s by himself… I guess you saw that in Cast Away, but you don’t see that much. You see it in those early Clint movies, those Sergio Leone movies, where you have moments of quiet. What were some of the Westerns that influenced you?When Sergio Leone was working with Clint. Once Upon a Time in the West. Some of Clint’s early movies like High Plains Drifter, Outlaw Josey Wales. These are movies I watched in a drive-in in upstate New York as a kid. Even Jeremiah Johnson with Redford. They have a quietness to them and a moral center with these strong yet complicated characters who have to sort things out for themselves. I’m imagining that, in Hollywood terms, this is a low budget picture.It’s under 20 million. Does your experience as a TV director help you get in there and get your days and get in on time and in the budget?Certainly the number of shows I’ve shot in the last year were essential. But the funny part is that I thought I would have the luxury of more time now that I was doing a feature, but it turned out to be the opposite. We used only available light and shot outside with a cinematographer named John Toll, who is very gifted at shooting available light. But in doing so, you’re tying yourself to the setting sun. We had 47 days, and for 46 of those we had no cover, so when the sun sets, you’re done. We had to move even faster than TV, if you can imagine. Doing your first feature with John Toll’s a pretty good way to start out. What’s it like working with a real master of his craft? Is it tough being the new guy and telling this Oscar winner what to do?John’s a real professional. In his world, the director is the boss. It’s different from TV, where you had groupthink in a lot of things; here you had one person who was responsible for it all. He’s a no-nonsense guy, and he came to me and said he’d cut his rate. Even a guy as talented as John doesn’t get to shoot many Westerns, many outdoor films, and definitely not many films that rely on available light. Ever, really. Why was it important for you to do a picture that was outdoors?It wasn’t something I consciously went after. I had a story in my mind, and it wasn’t even necessarily set in the West. It was a simple, allegorical, anti-war themed story that we’re never going to beat the audience over the head with, but it’s there, and it’s there consciously. When you want to do something like that, and you sit and think, ‘Where am I going to set this?’, you really come to the Western quickly because it’s one of the places where you can avoid society easily. I didn’t want to go to the archetypes of the saloon and the wooden sidewalks like that – I wanted to let the John Ford-esque landscapes talk with the characters about what the movie means. I consciously stayed away from any elements of society. There’s one sequence in a railroad camp, but it’s the only time you see anything man-made.
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Post by Ace on Feb 2, 2007 14:13:52 GMT -5
Lauryn, I think the SMA gives you a new potential phrase for your Julian usage. Chicago Sun Times: At last, Brosnan at home on the rangeFebruary 2, 2007 BY MIRIAM DI NUNZIO Weekend Editor There's nothing quite like a Western to pique the interest of Pierce Brosnan. The actor, forever associated with a certain suave secret agent in a tuxedo, couldn't be further from that image in his latest film, "Seraphim Falls," a post-Civil War era Western co-starring Liam Neeson. In "Seraphim Falls," Brosnan is almost unrecognizable underneath a hefty beard and the garb of a mountain man named Gideon, who is running from a heinous war and his inner demons. Hot on his heels is a former Confederate colonel named Carver (Neeson) who is pursuing Gideon for equally torturous reasons. » Click to enlarge image Audiences pick up Gideon (Pierce Brosnan) already on the run in David Von Ancken's "Seraphim Falls." All of this is played out against the snow-capped mountains of New Mexico and its unrelenting salt flats. Not exactly the lavish casinos of Europe where Brosnan spent a good deal of his film career as James Bond. The Western is a dream come true for the 53-year-old Brosnan, who talked to the Sun-Times about his latest film now at theaters. Q. Why did this script finally get you to say yes to a Western? A. Well, it has an old-fashioned style of its own that intrigued me. It is in parts quite Fellini-esque. It's a morality play in some regards about two men who've been broken by war, and the residue of that suffering. It's quite an anti-war film in that regard. At this point in my career, I make films for myself, films that make me happy. Q. Tell me about the soul of Gideon. A. In some respects, you can't talk about him without talking about Carver. They're really both one and the same. They're very much lost and adrift in the world. Particularly Gideon. He's reclusive and living in the mountains, too scared to put a bullet in his own brain, seeking survival and death at the same time. What a marvelous character study. Q. Gideon is such a cally demanding role. How much fun was it for you to run around in the snowy mountains and dive into rapids? A. It was so cold it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey. We shot that water scene in Oregon during what turned out to be the toughest winter in decades in Oregon. Of course. But that's the fun of making movies. Q. Any injuries to report? A. I got away unscathed on this project. I love horses and riding, so that part was second nature. Q. What about that monstrous knife that Gideon wields so easily? Did you have to get special training in its use? A. It was a big knife, wasn't it? No, I didn't require any instruction. But I kept it. It's my memento from the film. My sons adore it. Q. What was it like to create the character of this very lonely, desperate man? A. The character was so well-written to begin with. But it was interesting to go to work and you're the only actor on set that day. It's a weird sensation when it's only you and the crew. (Laughs) I didn't have any other actors to bother me. It was mine, all mine! Q. Is the Western still a potent film genre? A. I really think it is. Anything is potent if it's well-made and made with intelligence, made with the audience in mind. And this film does all that.
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Post by Lauryn on Feb 2, 2007 14:30:33 GMT -5
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Post by Ace on Feb 2, 2007 16:30:57 GMT -5
S-l-o-w-l-y I Turned. I also notice that the SMA picks the prize item from his films to keep. Bond tuxes (and cars), Julian's boots and Gideon's knife (and my what a knife it is). I know he wanted some of Crown's paintings but they were too expensive, so I wonder what he wound up keeping from that film? Ace
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Post by Lauryn on Feb 2, 2007 16:59:25 GMT -5
I'm ignoring that.
I'd have asked for the Shelby Mustang. McT can ride around in the tractor. I'll bet Rene Russo kept that dress --- and the pasties that they gave her to wear between tit flashes, LOL!
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Post by Yuliya on Feb 2, 2007 17:06:12 GMT -5
I also notice that the SMA picks the prize item from his films to keep. Bond tuxes (and cars), Julian's boots and Gideon's knife (and my what a knife it is). I know he wanted some of Crown's paintings but they were too expensive, so I wonder what he wound up keeping from that film? Mahogany shoe trees?
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Post by sparklingblue on Feb 4, 2007 21:42:40 GMT -5
Maybe a bowler hat?
PS: I just asked in the Q&A. Maybe I'll get an answer.
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Post by Ace on Feb 8, 2007 22:37:28 GMT -5
Seraphim Falls opens in San Francisco this weekend at the Kabuki 8 and Redwood City.
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Post by steeleinc on Feb 8, 2007 23:21:09 GMT -5
Far as I can tell, it's still not playing anywhere in GA :-(
Debra
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