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Post by Ace on Sept 15, 2006 15:00:25 GMT -5
For those in Canada that get Rogers
TIFF 2006 PRESS CONFERENCE BROADCAST SCHEDULE
Seraphim Falls Press Conference:
Sept.13 – 10:30pm Sept.16 – 7pm
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Post by Yuliya on Sept 15, 2006 15:49:25 GMT -5
Really, it's so bad they can't get the Navy Seals to do it and yet they still do it with their lead actor? Isn't this what stuntmen live to do? Insane. Perhaps it's unsafe to employ a crazy Navy Seal, and a sane one is, well, is not insane. -36 C is -33 F. It's not unheard of, though it's really very cold. In relatively the nothern parts of Russia, where people are used to cold winters and snow is not considered a reason for national emergency, schools usually closed if temperature fell below -33 C. I think there was one day like that during my entire school period, but I was sick on that day anyway. Anyway, it's not the air temperature that presents the problem. Right, it will cause frostbite if one is exposed for a certain period of time. Faster if it's windy. But it won't happen that fast. What presents the problem is the water, which is seldom colder than 0 C (32 F). (Does altitude affect the freezing point?) Submerged in such cold water, one lasts for about 4 minutes. And -36 C is very dangerous if one is wet.
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Post by Ace on Sept 15, 2006 17:43:18 GMT -5
Daily Mail Is Liam punch drunk?
09/15/2006
TWO of Ireland's biggest Hollywood stars were photographed brawling outside a Toronto restaurant, but as the the pair do so well, they were only acting for the cameras.
Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson hooked up at the Toronto International Film Festival and had dinner at posh eatery, Soto Soto, in the Canadian city's trendy Yorkville area where stars such as Demi Moore, Brad Pitt, Cillian Murphy and Jennifer Lopez have been hanging their hats this week.
Inside the cosy Italian Trattoria, they guzzled red wine and ate pasta, as starstruck onlookers gaped at the two screen legends.
'It was really a kick seeing Pierce and Liam hanging out together,' one onlooker said. 'They drank and ate and the whole restaurant could hear the laughter coming from their table.
'They weren't shy about refilling their wine glasses and I think they both had a buzz on by the time they finally left the restaurant.'
Brosnan and Neeson, an amateur boxer in his youth, were promoting their new western, Seraphim Falls.
It is the first time the two have shared the screen together and the movie is getting alot of buzz.
But when the dynamic duo exited the restaurant, they were met by a throng of snappers.
'Pierce and Liam came out onto the street and started smiling and posing, and Pierce said, "you don't think I'd have dinner with this guy?" and then the two of them started hamming it up and having a fake fight,' an onlooker said.
Brosnan even puffed on a cigarette. 'Make no mistake, these guys were having a lot of fun. I can only imagine what kind of time they had filming that movie,' said the onlooker.
Despite the laughter from their table, the source said, 'both were perfect gentlemen with impeccable manners.' Seraphim Falls, shot in New Mexico, is the story of a U.S. Civil War Confederate colonel who fails to put down his weapon and instead hunts down a man to settle a grudge. Neeson will play an army colonel called Carver, who wants to murder Brosnan's character, Gideon, a former Union soldier.
Brosnan is currently filming Marriage, a 1940s-set drama and will start on another installment of the comedy Mrs Doubtfire.
Neeson will play Abraham Lincoln in a Stephen Spielberg movie about the U.S.
president's life and will also start work on the next installment of the Chronicles of Narnia in 2007.
Copyright © 2006 Daily Mail. Source: Financial Times Information Limited - Europe Intelligence Wire.
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Post by Ace on Sept 15, 2006 21:29:34 GMT -5
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Post by Yuliya on Sept 15, 2006 22:14:52 GMT -5
Cheer up; for me it won't even load.
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Post by Ace on Sept 15, 2006 23:28:53 GMT -5
Gah that TIFF Press Coinference is really annoying me. The "test.mov" will download and play but the main part just starts and stops and pftt. Now will it download with any downloading program I have and the urls shown by the "source" (at least I think those are them) won't even open up and play
rtsp://marsqt1.marsdd.com/qtmedia/tiffpc300/seraphim.mp4 rtsp://marsqt1.marsdd.com/qtmedia/tiffpc100/seraphim.mp4
Pftt.
Maybe the server is just overloaded and they'll be available for download in a few days when TIFF ends.
I at least got the eTalk! Giammarco interview to play in stops and starts, now only to get it to download. According to my Media Player - the whole show registers as a total of 24 minutes and 84mb though.
Here's the direct link to cut and paste into your media player:
mms://ctvbroadcast.ctv.ca/video/2006/09/14/ctvvideologger2_500kbps_2006_09_14_1158275148.wmv
Grrr
Ace
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Post by Lauryn on Sept 17, 2006 19:01:45 GMT -5
A review from The Hollywood Reporter 9/18/2006
Seraphim Falls
By Michael Rechtshaffen
Bottom line: It's all very impressive looking, but this Civil War-era Western moves at a painstaking trickle. TORONTO -- Irishmen Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan play opposing soldiers in the post-Civil War entry "Seraphim Falls," a beautifully shot (by Oscar-winning cinematographer John Toll) but dramatically empty pursuit picture set in the untamed West.
A first feature by busy TV director David Von Ancken, the sparsely written film has the visual resonance of a John Ford Western but ultimately moves slower'n a tumbleweed in a vat o'molasses.
Even two such charismatic actors as Neeson and Brosnan, all scruffy but no less photogenic, are hard-pressed to inject some much-needed vitality into their sparse lines, which have a habit of drifting off into those wide open spaces.
Technical attributes aside, this Icon Prods. effort looks to have an uphill climb at the boxoffice, even with its name actors.
From the outset, Brosnan's Gideon is a wanted man. Just exactly what he's wanted for is unclear, but it is very clear that Neeson's Carver, a former Confederate Army colonel, wants him dead, and he's even hired a posse of trackers to get the job done.
But even after taking a bullet to the shoulder, Gideon proves to be one tough hombre, constantly eluding Carver and his men during a prolonged pursuit across snowy mountains and down into the savannas before slowing to a virtual crawl in the stifling New Mexican desert.
Along the way there's no shortage of grisly blood-letting -- it is the wild West after all -- but by the time director/co-writer (with Abby Everett Jaques) Von Ancken gets around to revealing the motivation for the Javert-Jean Valjean-type pursuit, the viewer has been exposed to one too many methodically slow, existential "chase" sequences to muster up much compassion.
Although the film carries an obvious anti-war message that comes sharply into focus in the final minutes (during which Anjelica Huston comes out of nowhere as a cure-dispensing pistol in a crimson dress (could she be ... Satan?), "Seraphim Falls" ultimately fails to engage.
One ends up caring a lot more for the numbers of innocent horses who are shot, disemboweled or otherwise abused (presumably stunt horses were employed) than their two-legged counterparts.
Even Oscar-winning editor Conrad Buff ("Titanic"), who has an arsenal of action movies in his resume, isn't able to effectively kick-start this one, and the situation isn't helped by Harry Gregson-Williams' droning rumble of a score.
Seraphim Falls Samuel Goldwyn Films/Destination Films Credits: Director: David Von Ancken Screenwriters: David Von Ancken, Abby Everett Jaques Producers: Bruce Davey, David Flynn Executive producer: Stan Wlodkowski Director of photography: John Toll Production designer: Michael Hanan Editor: Conrad Buff Costume designer: Deborah L. Scott Music: Harry Gregson-Williams Cast: Carver: Liam Neeson Gideon: Pierce Brosnan Madame Louise: Anjelica Huston Hayes: Michael Wincott Parsons: Ed Lauter Pope: Robert Baker Kid: John Robinson Henry: Kevin J. O'Connor MPAA rating R Running time -- 115 minutes
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Post by Ace on Sept 17, 2006 21:25:08 GMT -5
FRom The Onion's AV Club Blog:
TIFF06 – Day 8 posted by: Noel Murray September 15, 2006 - 12:48am
Movie notes:
Even though it had zero buzz, I was looking forward to Seraphim Falls, because its director, David Von Ancken, has helmed some visually exciting TV series like Cold Case and Without A Trace, and directed a short film, Bullet In The Brain, that’s pretty darn cool.
And Seraphim Falls gave me about what I’d hoped for: an ambitious-but-not-too-unwieldy western yarn, with a handful of well-staged showdowns. (Including the first 20 minutes, which consists of a long, mostly wordless chase.) Pierce Brosnan plays a retired Union colonel who’s being hunted down by a vengeful Confederate (played by Liam Neeson), and their personal post-Civil War war plays out from the snowy mountains to the blistering hot desert, stopping off at a series of familiar western situations. The movie’s undone by a dopey ending—suffused with faux-Peckinpah mysticism—but it’s mostly a brisk, unpretentious genre piece, and I for one can’t get enough of those. …
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Post by Ace on Sept 17, 2006 21:29:23 GMT -5
Here's a pretty funny review that's not really a review but does manage to give away several spoilers and surprises, so I'm just going to give the first couple of paragraphs and link to the rest. Smart Gals Guide to WesternsWhen I decided to go to Seraphim Falls, I didn't realize I'd agreed to go to a Western flick. To be honest, I'd looked for the movie description in the TIFF catalogue, and glanced at the picture of the ruggedly handsome Pierce Brosnan and before I knew it was agreeing (without realizing what I was agreeing to). I figured that Pierce, despite his rather haggard appearance in the promotional shot, would end up cleaning up nicely (as he does in all his movies), don his usual tuxedo and martini, and all would be right with the world. It would be all about character growth…inner strength, quick wit and dashing charm. Three minutes into the film I realized how terribly wrong I was. I was at a gun-toting, horse-slapping, platoon-spitting Western. [Me: platoon? LOL! -- that's spitoon dear - she really isn't a Western watcher] Being an open minded woman, I decided to sit back and take some notes. After all, it's not everyday that I get the opportunity to watch a Western flick, and the fact that Pierce and Liam (Neeson) were sitting in the audience, made it feel that much more worth a try. I'm not a movie-reviewer, so I won't bore you with the details of the movie itself – so instead, I've chosen to create a 'Smart Gals Guide to Westerns' to help 'womenfolk' like myself prepare for a special night with their guy, a bucket of popcorn and a little Dirty Harry. It's all about knowledge sisters…. Ten Points
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Post by Lauryn on Sept 17, 2006 21:51:54 GMT -5
FRom The Onion's AV Club Blog: TIFF06 – Day 8 posted by: Noel Murray September 15, 2006 - 12:48am Movie notes: Even though it had zero buzz, I was looking forward to Seraphim Falls, because its director, David Von Ancken, has helmed some visually exciting TV series like Cold Case and Without A Trace, and directed a short film, Bullet In The Brain, that’s pretty darn cool. And Seraphim Falls gave me about what I’d hoped for: an ambitious-but-not-too-unwieldy western yarn, with a handful of well-staged showdowns. (Including the first 20 minutes, which consists of a long, mostly wordless chase.) Pierce Brosnan plays a retired Union colonel who’s being hunted down by a vengeful Confederate (played by Liam Neeson), and their personal post-Civil War war plays out from the snowy mountains to the blistering hot desert, stopping off at a series of familiar western situations. The movie’s undone by a dopey ending—suffused with faux-Peckinpah mysticism—but it’s mostly a brisk, unpretentious genre piece, and I for one can’t get enough of those. … You say tomato, and I say tomahto You say brisk, and I say plodding. Well, those first two reviews out of the gate were helpful, LOL!
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Post by Ace on Sept 17, 2006 21:59:42 GMT -5
Critics are just not in the business to be helpful. I've been reading a ton of TIFF reviews and one person's genius is another persons blah. Have you seen reviews on The Fountain and Bobby for the most schizophrenic of reactions? But fairplay to Fischer of Moviehole/Dark Horizons, he was the first to review it. He really liked it but also had issues with ending so I wonder if that will be tweaked. Ace
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Post by Lauryn on Sept 17, 2006 22:03:36 GMT -5
Brave girl. Well, at least we know it's the real thing and they're not just doing some faux ranchero brush-clearing photo-op.<wink> Though if the SMA had bothered to scrub up, maybe Prada might have have chipped in for some fashionable leather chaps. Or maybe a Palomino. Did wonders for Roy Rogers, not to mention Cleavon Little.
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Post by Ace on Sept 17, 2006 22:08:38 GMT -5
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Post by Lauryn on Sept 17, 2006 22:11:40 GMT -5
Critics are just not in the business to be helpful. I've been reading a ton of TIFF reviews and one person's genius is another persons blah. Have you seen reviews on The Fountain and Bobby for the most schizophrenic of reactions? Is it bi-polar disorder or just jet lag? I think I've actually seen the "Z" word (as in Zardoz) thrown around in the reviews of "The Fountain." But I called that first, sight unseen, and in this space, LOL! So he did. My apologies.
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Post by Ace on Sept 17, 2006 22:19:04 GMT -5
Critics are just not in the business to be helpful. I've been reading a ton of TIFF reviews and one person's genius is another persons blah. Have you seen reviews on The Fountain and Bobby for the most schizophrenic of reactions? Is it bi-polar disorder or just jet lag? Maybe it's just the affect of watching 5-8 films a day for a week and the need to be unique. ;D LOL! That you did and it has. It's so strange. A couple of months ago early advance screening had it proclaimed as a masterpiece and the best film of the year and then came the unexpected hissing at Cannes and then the very not good reviews and audience reaction and more film friendly Toronto. Ace
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Post by Lauryn on Sept 17, 2006 22:19:50 GMT -5
And I thought it was only the strangely Dickensian version of London in "Steele Searching" that didn't have mod cons. Boy was I wrong!
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Post by Yuliya on Sept 18, 2006 11:32:30 GMT -5
Along the way there's no shortage of grisly blood-letting -- it is the wild West after all -- but by the time director/co-writer (with Abby Everett Jaques) Von Ancken gets around to revealing the motivation for the Javert-Jean Valjean-type pursuit, the viewer has been exposed to one too many methodically slow, existential "chase" sequences to muster up much compassion. Javert-Jean Valjean-type pursuit? In what way? PB and Neeson won't meet or otherwise interact for the entire lengh of the movie; then PB will save Neeson's life and Neeson will let him go and commit suicide, unable to live in peace with himself? Or am I reading too much into the attempt to sound high-brow and educated? Did Javert-Valjean plot line made it to the musicle intact? I don't think I like this horse thing.
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Post by Ace on Sept 18, 2006 12:48:36 GMT -5
Along the way there's no shortage of grisly blood-letting -- it is the wild West after all -- but by the time director/co-writer (with Abby Everett Jaques) Von Ancken gets around to revealing the motivation for the Javert-Jean Valjean-type pursuit, the viewer has been exposed to one too many methodically slow, existential "chase" sequences to muster up much compassion. Javert-Jean Valjean-type pursuit? In what way? PB and Neeson won't meet or otherwise interact for the entire lengh of the movie; then PB will save Neeson's life and Neeson will let him go and commit suicide, unable to live in peace with himself? Or am I reading too much into the attempt to sound high-brow and educated? Did Javert-Valjean plot line made it to the musicle intact? I don't think I like this horse thing. I doubt they ripped off the entire story, the relationship itself has become almost shorthand for a description of chaser and chased. It's a Javert-Jean Valjean-type pursuit in that it's man on man for the most part and single minded almost maniacal on one man's part to accomplish his ends by almost any means possible as justice turns into something far uglier. Ace
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Post by Yuliya on Sept 18, 2006 16:04:05 GMT -5
Are you implying it's time for me to re-read Les Miserables? It's been long enough, but I don't remember enough interactions between them for justice to turn into anything. As far as I remember, Javert spent most of his life just trying to find Valjean; I don't even kn9ow what you mean by uglier.
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Post by Ace on Sept 18, 2006 16:10:29 GMT -5
Far be it for em to ever suggest anyone re-read Victor Hugo Uglier, in that Javert starts off by merely seeking a criminal for a rather petty offense and turning it into some psychological life grudge match in some bizarro belief that he's enacting justice. Ugly in that it consumes him as a man until the hunter is all he is. Or at least that's what I get from the story.
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