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December 18, 2007
Happy
Posted by poland at December 18, 2007 12:45 PM
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This one I like. I also like the approach of the Picturehouse. Happy Holidays right back to them :D!
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at December 18, 2007 05:47 PM
totally off topic, but amused me so I figured I'd share. Definitely goes on way too long, but I gotta give props for their commitment to the subject matter:
Posted by: martin at December 18, 2007 07:48 PM
Picturehouse is one of my favourite production house logos. What ever happened to Manderlay though? They had one where a tiger walks through a black and white jungle and it was kind of great.
Posted by: KamikazeCamelV2.0 at December 18, 2007 08:30 PM
Mandalay changed their logo. Or you can blame Gruber going to shootout for the lack of tiger awesomeness.
Posted by: IOIOIOI at December 18, 2007 09:03 PM
Fuck Picturehouse!
They never even shipped screeners of "La Vie en Rose," "The Orphanage" and "King of Kong" to BFCA members this year.
Cheap bastards.
And while Cotillard may have been fine, "La Vie en Rose" sucked the big one.
What a hoary bag of musical biopic cliches.
If "Rose" had been a Hollywood movie, it would have been laughed off the screen, "Walk Hard" style. (And that was supposed to be funny.)
Posted by: movieman at December 19, 2007 04:35 PM
movieman, given your comments, I'm sure Picturehouse is quite happy that you didn't get screeners for their movies. I can't imagine they really care whether or not the Broadcast Film Critics give their films any awards.
Posted by: gradystiles at December 19, 2007 07:53 PM
La Vie en Rose is one of the year's worst movies. It's a discombobulating mess. I guess it's not Piaf's fault that her life followed the biopic blueprint, but geez did anything happen in her life that wasn't like a movie?
Posted by: KamikazeCamelV2.0 at December 20, 2007 03:32 AM
I'm sure you're right about that, Grady.
The BFCA obviously doesn't matter a whit to Picturehouse. It's always nice, though, when distributers and studios play by the rules and dutifully send out "fyc" screeners during awards scene to every major critics organization doling out awards.
For the record, I'm a big fan of "The Orphanage," even though I think P might be overselling the Guillermo del Toro angle. It's a lot closer to Dario Argento's Gothic shockers than it is to "Pan's Labyrinth" or "The Devil's Backbone." And I enjoyed "King of Kong" as well. I just don't think it's in the same doc league as a "Lake of Fire" or even "Sicko."
Posted by: movieman at December 20, 2007 06:38 AM
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