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Post by Ace on May 1, 2007 12:35:25 GMT -5
Seraphim Falls opening at Cinemas Palme D'or in Westfield Palm Dessert Ca on March 4th. Exclusive Engagement STARTS FRIDAY, MAY 4 - in 6-track Dolby Digital Sound - (12:30-3:00)-5:30-8:00-10:30
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Post by Ace on May 1, 2007 12:37:21 GMT -5
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Post by Ace on May 3, 2007 15:49:07 GMT -5
From the Beacon Journal for those in Cleveland Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque -- (Aitken Auditorium, 11141 East Blvd.; 216-421-7450) Seraphim Falls, 7 tonight, 9:35 p.m. and Sat., May 5, 9:35pm Cleveland Scene:Western Union By Michael Gallucci In Seraphim Falls, Liam Neeson and his posse hunt a battered Pierce Brosnan in the months following the Civil War. The film offers few clues about the cause of their beef till the end -- when the two stars square off in a desert showdown, and the line between protagonist and villain becomes blurred. Part John Ford Western (dig those spacious skies!), part Cold Mountain travelogue (characters pop in for scene-tying vignettes), Seraphim Falls is a modest stunner. Date/Time: Thu., May 3, 7:00pm, Sat., May 5, 9:35pm
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Post by Ace on May 4, 2007 14:13:09 GMT -5
Three of the Root TV steaming interviews have been put up on YouTube
PIERCE BROSNAN BRAVES THE RAPIDS
LIAM AND PIERCE PUT THEIR SURVIVAL SKILLS TO THE TEST
NO GUN TWIRLING FOR BROSNAN AND NEESON
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Post by Ace on May 8, 2007 2:23:46 GMT -5
Sun Valley, Idaho Magic Lantern Cinema Location: 1st Ave & 2nd St., Ketchum Idaho Telephone: 726-4274 URL: www.magiclanterncinemas.comSeraphim Falls Rated: R Showing: Starting Friday, 5/4: 7:00, 9:20 Sunday: 7:00 Monday/Tuesday: 4:30
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Post by Ace on May 10, 2007 7:56:41 GMT -5
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Post by Ace on May 11, 2007 18:43:07 GMT -5
CanWest: Brosnan and Neeson play enemy soulmates in Seraphim Falls Katherine Monk, CanWest News Service Published: Thursday, May 10, 2007 They wink at each other across separate breakfast tables. They embrace at the end of the day. They explore mutual loves and share the same personal geography.
Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan are clearly soulmates - of a sort - but in their new movie Seraphim Falls, which hits DVD May 15 after a rather short theatrical stint, the two strapping Irishmen play sworn American enemies.
Set against the backdrop of a nation torn asunder by the Civil War, Seraphim Falls features Brosnan as a man on the run. After leading a Union regiment into the South and burning rebel homesteads to the ground, Gideon (Brosnan) is now trying to flee from a vengeful widower named Carver (Neeson), who blames Gideon for the loss of his wife and baby.
When we pick up Gideon's trail, he's wounded and fighting to survive winter conditions with little more than a bowie knife and a big helping of intellectual wit. He's also injured and bleeding badly, which means the blood trail will lead the pack of vigilantes straight to his campfire if he doesn't come up with a plan.
With a resume that includes a long engagement as 007, it's a no-brainer that Brosnan's character will figure something out just in time - and after a few scenes, it's clear Seraphim Falls is really the old west equivalent of a movie such as The Fugitive - where one smart guy is trying to evade another smart guy until the grand finale.
"I think a comparison to The Fugitive is bang on. In fact, that's why I liked this script so much, because it really created sense of chemistry between the two men. They were connected by pain and love, and that's dramatically rich territory for any actor - but it's also quite rare to find male characters who are as complex as these two," says Neeson, in his rich, soft brogue.
Brosnan says there's also a desperation behind the connection, because technically, Carver and Gideon really only have each other.
"This is a movie about loss. Gideon has lost two sons. Carver has lost a wife and child. These men have been at war their whole lives and that's all they know. Carver's lust for revenge is the only thing that gives him purpose - and for Gideon, the guilt of what happened keeps him looking for redemption."
A widower himself after his first wife, Cassandra Harris, died in 1991, Brosnan says the movie gave him a big pool of personal tragedy to dive into. "Gideon is suffering from loss, and one can bring one's own losses into a part like this."
"For me, playing Gideon was a lot more draining that I first imagined. It wasn't the shoot - which was a lot of fun for both Liam and I because six-shooters and horses are what you fantasize about as a boy - but the arc of the story," he says.
"My life post-Bond is about character. I feel incredibly lucky to have played Bond, but equally lucky that it ended when it did. I feel I've finally jettisoned the baggage that goes along with a franchise that big, and been able to shift into a stage of my career where I can experiment and challenge myself without worrying," he says.
"I think a movie like The Matador marked a sharp left turn - and in retrospect, I think I look extremely smart for taking such a role on the heels of playing an iconic character like Bond. It released me," says Brosnan. "But that's the way my career has always gone. I guess you could say it's just the crazy luck of the Irish."
Neeson smiles at the phrase and places one of his large hands on the side of his bristly chin.
"This is a crazy line of work, really, when you think about it. A lot of it comes down to playing, because it's not moving boxes or driving a truck or anything - it's about being with 200 people and making something together. At times, I'd go for a walk and turn back and see people just hanging out in the middle of nowhere and it seemed ridiculous. It was surreal, but the job is to make it real - somehow," says Neeson.
"Fortunately, that was easy with Seraphim Falls. Pierce is a wonderful partner to play scenes with, and we're both of the school that less is more."
kmonk@canwest.com © CanWest News Service 2007
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Post by Xenia on May 14, 2007 1:06:50 GMT -5
I so can't wait till tuesday to buy this movie...
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Post by Ace on May 14, 2007 11:26:13 GMT -5
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Post by sparklingblue on May 16, 2007 7:58:56 GMT -5
::jumps up and down:: It's already on the way to me! In the meantime I'll read all the DVD reviews (thanks for those!)
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Post by Myrtle Groggins on May 17, 2007 14:44:48 GMT -5
I requested this movie for my birthday, so I'll have to wait until then to have it in my hot little hands. Thanks for the reviews.
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Post by Ace on May 19, 2007 2:05:46 GMT -5
I got it for my Birthday too, just had to wait a couple weeks after. From The Irish Echo (re-printing what was in the January issue for the May 16-22 issue) Fierce BrosnanActor looks to transcend 007 legacy with complex characters By Karen Butler kbutler@irishecho.com Irish actor Pierce Brosnan says he deliberately took on a variety of roles in between his outings as dashing secret agent James Bond to defy being typecast once he stopped playing the film icon. The Pierce Brosnan file Born: May 16, 1953 in Drogheda, Co. Louth Raised: Navan, Co. Meath and moved to London when he was 11 Nickname: "Irish" Family: First wife, actress Cassandra Harris, died of ovarian cancer in 1991, married actress Keely Shaye Smith at Ashford Castle in Cong, Co. Mayo in 2001. The couple has two sons together. Career: After graduating from the Master's program at London's Drama Center, Pierce took small roles in film and television until he was cast as a thief-turned-private detective in the hit TV drama, "Remington Steele" in 1982. Later starred in "Golden Eye," "Tomorrow Never Dies," "The World is Not Enough" and "Die Another Day." Named People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive in 2001. Quote: "Typecasting is the actor's straightjacket. How can you be an unexpected surprise? I'm always trying to do that." After "GoldenEye," the former "Remington Steele" sleuth starred in "Dante's Peak" and "Robinson Crusoe." He followed up "Tomorrow Never Dies" with "The Thomas Crown Affair" and "Grey Owl," and headlined "The Tailor of Panama" and "Evelyn" after he made "The World is not Enough."Brosnan's genre-hopping strategy seems to have paid off. Since his 007 gig ended with the 2002 release of "Die Another Day," the 53-year-old Drogheda native has been busier than ever and he's not just playing sexy leading men, either. Last year, Brosnan earned rave reviews and a Golden Globe nomination for his delicious portrayal of a jittery -- possibly insane -- hit man in the black comedy, "The Matador." His gritty new western, "Seraphim Falls," casts him as a former Yankee captain hunted across the American west by an ex-Confederate colonel (played by Ballymena-born actor Liam Neeson,) seeking to avenge his wife and children who were killed in the last days of the U.S. Civil War. Gristled and grey-bearded, Brosnan's resourceful character, Gideon, fights to survive against extraordinary odds. This is not a character audiences have seen Brosnan play before and the actor appears to relish the opportunity to remind them his talents extend past romancing women, driving fast cars and ordering perfect martinis. "I had these men as blueprints to see (how to) traverse these waters, so I wanted to try to -- in between films -- find work that is different and characters, which would at least have some residue after the curtain had dropped on my career as Bond." Go west Throughout much of "Seraphim Falls," Gideon endures incredible hardships as he tries to escape Neeson's Col. Carver and his well-paid posse. For most of the movie, neither Gideon nor the audience knows exactly why he is the focus of Carver's relentless pursuit. "It's a horse of a different color for a western, really. It has a kind of moral tale to it, a spiritual undertone or current which was developed as we made the film and, for me, anyway, it became kind of a spiritual quest -- a kind of John the Baptist in the wilderness," he noted. "(It is about) these two men who are deeply scarred and mangled by the savagery of war ... That never was lost on me." Over the course of the two-hour film, which has very little dialogue and features Brosnan in many scenes by himself, Gideon is shot, stabbed, frozen and starved. He travels alone for hundreds of miles, many of them on foot, is nearly drowned in a waterfall, falls down the side of a mountain and kills just about anyone who tries to rob him of his life. So, why does a man as attractive and charming as Brosnan is, opt to tackle a physically grueling, emotionally draining, morally ambiguous role like this, instead of taking the easy way out and playing a handsome hero in something lighter? "I thought we could pull something off that would be entertaining and elegant and eloquent. I'm very happy with the picture," he confided, adding, "I love the challenge of this film. "Being in the outdoors; there is nowhere to run, nowhere to hide," he explained. "The performance is there. It's just you on the call sheet more or less every day. I love the western genre. I grew up on it. I became an actor through watching Clint Eastwood and Steve McQueen. I wanted to be part of that mythology. It was a small dream that became bigger." He admits with a chuckle, however, that he occasionally wished his job wasn't quite so challenging. "There were days when I thought: 'Should I be throwing myself down this mountain? Should I be going into these frigid, dangerous waters?'" he recalled. "And then to work with a first-time director (David Von Ancken) is exhilarating and gives you passion and keeps you on your toes ... There were all these great ingredients and if you love your job and you've got the wherewithall to do it, you get out and do it. It's got to be done and it's a challenge. Handsome leading men, hopefully, I can go back and do that, as well. You also have to be aware that your body and your spirit changes and you have to have the courage to embrace that. You look down the road. Looks fade and change. You have to live with that ego and how do you set a foundation for this course." Brotherhood Another element of the project that appealed to Brosnan was that it gave him the chance to act in at least a few scenes with Neeson. "Liam is someone I've long admired ... I've watched his career just blossom," Brosnan said, adding that he would like to work with the "Michael Collins" star again, perhaps even on another western. Although Brosnan says he and Neeson never really discussed parallels between the film's backdrop of the American Civil War and the Irish Troubles -- nor did they get into how their real-life backgrounds might inform their performances -- Brosnan says he was always conscious of Von Ancken's fascinating casting decision. "We never broached that subject, but it was constantly there ... I would have the character of Carver in my mind and then that face would be Liam's and Liam the actor and Liam from Belfast and me from Co. Meath. I love the sweet irony of it," he said. "We never spoke about the Troubles and the huge pain they have caused Ireland." Asked why he thinks there has been such a long tradition of Irish and Irish-American actors and filmmakers associated with western pictures, Brosnan speculated that it is simply in their blood. "We're a nation of dreamers and travelers and we come with a great mythology of spirit and land and the heart and storytelling. And this country of America was built on the shoulders of many a man and woman from the old sod," he reasoned. "So, we permeate the landscape. I don't know. It's great to be Irish and it's great to be in the movie business and it's wonderful to see my name in the context of being an Irish actor." Brosnan will be seen later this year playing a sociopathic kidnapper in the screen drama "Butterfly on a Wheel." He is also expected to begin work soon on "The Topkapi Affair," a sequel to "The Thomas Crown Affair." This story appeared in the issue of May 16 - 22, 2007
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Post by sparklingblue on May 22, 2007 4:51:01 GMT -5
So, I saw it last night, thanks to DVD and fast mail delivery. Here are some of my thoughts about Seraphim Falls. Please be aware of spoilers, especially in the last paragraph! Let me start off with the most obvious: it was very good. It is one of these films that make such an impression it stays with me. Much like everybody else I loved the landscape, and the challenges it put the actors and thereby the characters through. And the actors were marvellous. Pierce even more so than Liam, and I'm not only saying that because I'm biased. Watching this was, for lack of a better expression, a strain for me emotionally. It was violent, but somehow that didn't seem to bother me as much as the sense of loneliness and the desperation you get from the characters, especially from Gideon. Carver seems to me, at least through a great part of the film, determined, obsessed, but he seems to be more alert to what is around him, not remote. Whereas with Gideon I got the feeling that most of the time he is not completely there, walking around in a kind of stupor of guilt, despair, loneliness, grief and exhaustion. It’s almost as if he’s already dead, and only the chase keeps him alive. When he has to kill for his own survival, he is quick and ruthless. But at the point where he realises that killing is required from him now, for a moment there is an expression on Pierce’s face as if he didn’t want to kill again, he has killed so often before, he doesn’t want to take another life. I almost couldn’t watch the scene in which Gideon removes the bullet. But more for the way Pierce screams than for the sight of it. It was so real. Frightening. A moment that really touched me was when Gideon is in the cabin with the little boy, and suddenly emotion comes through as he talks to the kid. There is some hint of a father's love there, and then the grief comes over his lost sons. Pierce plays it wonderfully. He made me cry in this scene. I also liked the ending. The appearance of Anjelica Houston didn’t bother me much. She comes out of nowhere, but in the desert, without water and exhausted, hallucinations happen, people don’t know what is real and what isn’t… Her character, whether you call her the devil, or temptation, or whatever people relate to her, seems to be the last test for Carver and Gideon. Life or revenge. A bullet or water and a horse. Killing the enemy or getting out of the desert alive. Both choose the bullet. But they don’t kill each other. Gideon even puts Carver’s gun to his own head in what I thought was another poignant moment. Instead Gideon gives Carver some water. There is forgiveness between them, the chase is over. Both throw away their weapons, walk away. I got the sense that they each are going to die alone somewhere in that desert.
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Post by Ace on May 23, 2007 13:00:31 GMT -5
That sure was quick delivery and I'm glad it was worth the wait for you. I couldn't agree more on your points, especially how much Pierce is able to convey through his eyes and movements and without dialogue. In the scenes with him and the children in the cabin you could feel every ounce of his loss and grief over his children and his lost life.
In distributing news Icon have announced they're opening SF in the UK (and as we knew before Ireland) on August 3rd. Hopefully there's still a theatrical audience for it that hasn't downloaded it off the internet or bought the DVD from the US.
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Post by Myrtle Groggins on May 23, 2007 22:21:20 GMT -5
I received my DVD today. I'll watch it over the weekend probably. I have to watch the first Pirates of the Caribbean DVD tonight (I've saw the second movie at the theatre last year) because we have tickets to see #3 tomorrow night and my daughter is insisting I need to see the first one before we go. So PB's SF has to wait until sometime over the weekend. Life is tough.
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Post by sparklingblue on May 24, 2007 4:08:56 GMT -5
That sure was quick delivery and I'm glad it was worth the wait for you. I couldn't agree more on your points, especially how much Pierce is able to convey through his eyes and movements and without dialogue. In the scenes with him and the children in the cabin you could feel every ounce of his loss and grief over his children and his lost life. In distributing news Icon have announced they're opening SF in the UK (and as we knew before Ireland) on August 3rd. Hopefully there's still a theatrical audience for it that hasn't downloaded it off the internet or bought the DVD from the US. Thanks. It was definitely worth waiting for. I paid extra for faster delivery, but this time there were no import duties on the package, so in the end it came to much the same price. I listened to the commentary the other night. It is very informative and easy to listen to. It was interesting especially to hear about the various out-takes and deleted scenes. The director should have listened to Pierce and insisted they stick them on the DVD. But the best about the commentary was Pierce's laughter. So it's August 3 in the UK. I wish it would come out in Germany at that time too. I'd love to see it on the big screen. What a birthday present that would be. Ah, well, I have the DVD. I shouldn't complain.
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Post by susan on May 27, 2007 12:39:00 GMT -5
I don't think it will come out in Germany at all. Unfortunately. But it was the same with "The Matador". I think they didn't even show it in the bigger cities. I'd be glad if you prove me wrong.
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Post by Ace on May 27, 2007 13:14:58 GMT -5
I haven't seen any release date for Germany, France, Spain, Italy etc If you want the DVD, and can play R1 discs on your player CD Wow is selling them and the ship free worldwide. They have sites for several counties in different languages but I don't know where they ship from and if there are any import duties. Has anyone here ever used them? Loaded 247 situated in Jersey UK also sells Seraphim and Region 1 discs. I have no idea of their shipping charges though.
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Post by susan on May 30, 2007 14:46:46 GMT -5
Thank you, Ace. I won it at ebay. I'm pretty excited, but with the holidays here it might take a while till I get it. It's a region 1, of course, but I hacked my player and it plays anything now.
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Post by susan on Jun 5, 2007 13:17:56 GMT -5
I got my dvd today and had to watch it immediately. I can totally agree with you, sparklingblue.
My overall impression is, that it is even painful to watch the movie. In the scene with the bullet there's so much pain it is even hard to watch it.
The Indian and the Lady selling her stuff seem somewhat out of place and out of time. But it doesn't really matter.
I also think they are finally both finished with the world and about to die somewhere alone. What a sad story.
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