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An excellent review of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.
Oh, awesome. I've been looking forward that movie since I first watched the trailer good 2-3 months ago. I could *so* do with a frothy good-natured screwball comedy just about now. Plus, the cast is to die for. Amy Adams! Frances McDormand! Ciaran Hind! LEE PACE ZOMG!
It's opening in "limited engagement" this weekend, and God knows what that'd mean in my neck of the woods.
This is a really interesting dialogue for anyone who is interested in Errol Morris and Werner Herzog
That's awesome. Thanks! I'd heard about the tension, too: something about Herzog wanting to dig up a grave to verify something? I knew they were friends back in the 70s (Morris finishing Gates Of Heaven was why there is a documentary of Herzog eating his own show, for instance), but I don't remember the details of their break.
Ciaran Hinds cast in the Escape to Witch Mountain remake.
I hope they make a better version of the book than that first Disney effort. I was highly disappointed in that film after really loving the book.
At least in the dialogue it appears that Errol was made at Werner for filming a movie in Plainview. I kind of love those two coots.
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I hadn't read the whole thing when I wrote the last post. They talk about it down towards the bottom.
Also, I found that my friend Scott wrote about this only yesterday on the Screengrab: [link]
Yeah, I love those guys, too. Even though EM sorta pissed me off with Vernon, Florida.
Even though EM sorta pissed me off with Vernon, Florida.
Why's that?
Even though EM sorta pissed me off with Vernon, Florida.
but..but...the Double Gobble!
Maybe I'm a little sensitive about Morris's tone in the movie. The family farm is near Vernon, FL on the Alabama side, and I grew up around people like those in the movie (and, for all I know, I'm related to half of them). I can't help but read a certain "look at the rubes" tone throughout, and I'm not sure if the movie has any other point.
I get that. I did like Vernon, but not as warmly as Gates of Heaven or the Thin Blue Line. His last four movies have not been nearly as dear to me -- ISTR being really offended by Mr. Death, but can't remember what it was about it. Maybe it was too over the top.