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| A close-up on film's best season - Denver Post Posted: 12 Sep 2010 12:16 PM PDT  Left, Jesse Eisenberg and Joseph Mazzello in "The Social Network." Center, James Franco in "127 Hours." (Columbia Pictures Chuck Zlotnick ) Sitting in the patron line for a sneak peek at "Black Swan" at the 37th Telluride Film Festival over the Labor Day weekend, Oscar-winning animator Ralph Eggleston was singing the praises of "The King's Speech." Director Tom Hooper's sharp period piece features Colin Firth as King George VI, whose stutter was an impediment to leadership. Geoffrey Rush plays Lionel Logue, his Australian speech therapist. "It's going to win best picture," he said with a confidence born either of winning an Oscar or being a voting member of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Both performances are very likely to be on shortlists for acting awards. In a nice twist, Sid Ganis, former president of the academy, was at  Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1." (Warner Bros. Pictures ) "Sid and Nancy," Eggleston joked, "my favorite movie." Along with the Venice Film Festival and the jam-packed Toronto International Film Festival (which began Thursday), Telluride's annual shindig is a harbinger of fall movies and the launch of fervid award- season prognosticating. This year's sneak previews are candidates for honors]s: Danny Boyle's "127 Hours," about Aron Ralston's fight to free himself from a Utah canyon, starring James Franco as the outdoorsman; and Darren Aronofsky's on-pointe psychological thriller, "Black Swan," featuring a terrific Natalie Portman as a possibly unhinged ballerina. More than a few Telluride hits would be a good fit for the Starz Denver Film Festival (Nov. 3-14). And Denver Film Society festival director Britta Erickson was in the mountain town checking out a tantalizing screening or three. Aspen Film honchos Laura Thielan and George Eldred were taking a "busman's holiday," said Eldred, before their fall fest launches Sept. 29 (tickets on sale Wednesday, aspenfilm.org). What follows are some of fall's most noteworthy films, screening in theaters or during a festival. A caveat:  Daisy and her dad in "Waiting for Superman." (Paramount Pictures ) September "The Tillman Story": Amir Bar-Lev's telling documentary recounts the dogged efforts of Pat Tillman's family in trying to uncover the facts (not the rousing political fictions) of his death. The NFL player turned Army Ranger was killed by "friendly fire" in Afghanistan. Friday "The Town": After the impressive debut "Gone Baby Gone," actor Ben Affleck directs his second feature. He also stars in this gritty drama about a gang of Boston robbers who begin to doubt one another when one of them falls for a bank manager. Cast: Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner and Blake Lively. Friday For a good time, call Hester Prynne.  Jesse Eisenberg, left, and Joseph Mazzello in Columbia Pictures' "The Social Network." ( | Merrick Morton) Emma Stone plays a nice girl whose reputation is altered when she does a gay schoolmate a favor in "Easy A." The teen comedy gets high culture (tweaking Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter") and youth culture (the Facebooking, the tweeting, the faux bravado). John Hughes would be pleased. Friday Still feeling the need for greed? The Gekko's back, and we don't mean Geico's pitch- lizard. We mean slithery insider-trading Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), who returns in Oliver Stone's update to his 1987 film that declared "Greed Is Good." "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" finds Gekko leaving prison, perhaps chastened, definitely lonely. His daughter (Carey Mulligan) wants nothing to do with him. His future son-in-law (Shia LaBeouf) is fascinated. What good can come of that? "Wall Street" begins a season of movies that wrestle with the economy including "The Company Men," "Freakonomics" and "Inside Job." Sept. 24"Never Let Me Go": An adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's sci-fi tinted novel features Andrew Garfield, Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley as schoolmates whose lives are entwined in disturbing ways. Sept. 24. "You Again": Boasting that the "claws come out" isn't the most sisterly hook for this comedy, starring Kristen Bell as a sis who learns her bro is marrying her former high-school tormentor. But casting Jamie Lee Curtis and Sigourney Weaver as the groom's mom and the bride-to-be's aunt, who, you guessed it, were one-time rivals, is catnip. Sept. 24 Mountain highs. Another fall, another very fine slate of films at Aspen Filmfest. Among them: Colorado native Derek Cianfrance's brooding beauty about the pangs of married life "Blue Valentine." The fest opens with Sam Taylor Wood's John Lennon flick, "Nowhere Boy." Members of Lennon's first band, the Quarrymen, will play. Also screening: "The King's Speech"; "Marwencol," Jeff Malmberg's festival-lauded doc about a man who works through a trauma by constructing a town of dolls and then photographing them; "Thunder Soul," a crowd- pleasing portrait of an African-American high-school stage band. Sept. 29-Oct. 3 October But can he give good face? Arguably the zeitgeist-iest of flicks in a season of them, David Fincher's "The Social Network" takes on the creation of Internet behemoth Facebook. Jesse Eisenberg portrays founder Mark Zuckerberg in a close-up sure to change his profile. Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake also star. Oct. 1 "Buried": A guy in a box — for 94 minutes. Really? Yes, but the fella is the impressive Ryan Reynolds, and the box is in Iraq. Time is running out for the contract driver in this Sundance Film Festival hit of a thriller. Oct. 1 A horse is not just a horse, of course. It's fun when a movie makes you forget you already know how it ends. The movie is the galloping "Secretariat." The titular steed won the Triple Crown in 1973. Yet this knowledge won't hobble the pleasure of watching Colorado denizen Penny Chenery (Diane Lane) believe in a horse and, better, herself. John Malkovich portrays sartorially challenged trainer Lucien Laurin. And the PG-rated live-action film may outpace for best family-appropriate flick all the others coming in 3-D. Oct. 8 "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest": Hacker hero Lisbeth Salander faces a trial for murder in the third installment of the gripping Swedish adaptation of Stieg Larsson's Millenium Trilogy. With Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist. October date yet to be determined "It's Kind of a Funny Story": Indie lights Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden ("Sugar" and "Half Nelson") undertake something different in directing and adapting Ned Vizzini's novel about a kid who checks into a mental hospital. Indelible Zach Galifianakis (also appearing this fall in "Due Date," out Nov. 5) plays a patient. Oct. 8 "Last Train Home": Last year, the folk at the Boulder International Film Festival had the good taste to program Lixin Fan's poignant documentary that follows one couple (among China's estimated 130 million migrant workers) as they leave their far-flung workplace to return home for Chinese New Year. Oct. 8 Reading, writing and what the heck? One of the finest documentaries of 2010, Davis Guggenheim's "Waiting for Superman" focuses on the problems of public education and the bedeviling promise of charter-school lotteries. Oct. 15"Hereafter": That unstoppable force Clint Eastwood takes on the unmovable fact — death — in this tale of three people tussling with mortality. Matt Damon, Cecile de France, and Frankie and George McLaren star. Oct. 15"Conviction": Betty Anne Waters became a dogged champion of her brother (played by Sam Rockwell) when he was sentenced to life in prison for murder. Waters herself has found an on- screen champion in Hilary Swank, who portrays the Massachusetts wife and mom of two who went to law school to free her brother. Oct. 15 "The Company Men": A great cast takes on the Great Recession in this drama about work, loss and, in some cases, recovery. Cast: Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Craig T. Nelson. Oct. 29 November The main event. Move over, young wizards, in this town the big-screen to-do is the Starz Denver Film Festival. This year, the fest adds a day, moves up a week and begins on the Wednesday after the general election. So once you've licked your wounds or opened the bubbly, it's time to commit to 12 days of international and American cinema brought to you by the astute programmers of the Denver Film Society. Here are some movies we hope make it to town, talent in tow: "Black Swan," "Blue Valentine" and "The King's Speech." Just confirmed: Coloradan Aron Ralston's triumphant story, "127 Hours" makes for a perfect night at the opera house. Nov. 3-14 Tyler Perry gets serious. A mogul in the making, the director-writer-performer has been headed for a leap from African-American drag-dramedy to something deeper. After all, his Madea films have never been short on real-life hurt. Last year, Perry was an executive producer of "Precious." Now he's tackles Ntozake Shange's landmark poem/play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf." Among the cast of this ensemble dirge and celebration: Whoopi Goldberg, Janet Jackson, Kimberly Elise and Anika Noni Rose, to name a few. Opens Nov. 6 The end is nigh. In a world swamped with movie reboots and sequels, one franchise has retained its magic. Now wizards Harry, Ron and Hermoine face their grimmest challenges yet in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One." There will be loss. Nov. 19 Also coming to a screen near you. September: "Alpha and Omega 3D". . . "Jack Goes Boating" . . . "Winnebago Man". . . "Around a Small Mountain" . . ."The Sicilian Girl" . . ."Heartbreaker". . . "Bran Nue Dae" . . . "A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop" . . . "Lovely Still" . . . "Legends of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole 3D" . . . "Catfish" . . . "The Virginity Hit." October: "Freakonomics". . . "Let Me In". . . "Case 39" . . . "Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould". . . "Ready, Set, Bag". . . "In My Sleep" . . . "My Soul to Take 3D" . . . "Sweethearts of the Prison Radio" . . . "Stone" . . . "Life As We Know It" . . . "The Freebie" . . . "Kings of Pastry" . . . "Red" . . . "Jackass 3D" . . . "Paranormal Activity 2". . . "Cool It" . . . "Enter the Void". . . "Saw VII 3D" . . . November: "Megamind". . . "Due Date" . . . "Unstoppable" . . . "The Next Three Days" . . . "A Film Unfinished" . . . "Morning Glory" . . . "My Dog Tulip" . . . "Army of Crime" . . . "Skyline" . . . "Fair Game" . . . "Waste Land." This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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