Comments on: Dark Future:

By: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year « Create Ring. Insert Hat. Done.

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year « Create Ring. Insert Hat. Done. — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:45:54 +0000

[...] Heidi MacDonald Dark Future, THE BEAT, January 3, 2007 [...]

By: Cary_Coatney

Cary_Coatney — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 06:22:59 +0000

And David Lynch’s new The Inland Empire will make it the perfect movie going trifecta this weekend.

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By: John A. Walsh

John A. Walsh — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 02:42:51 +0000

Both directors were recently on CHARLIE ROSE along with BABEL director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. All three were on for an hour long conversation. If you can, find the episode. Excellent interview.

By: Marz Richards

Marz Richards — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:51:29 +0000

So is a cheeseburger made from a cloned cow automatically a double cheeseburger?

By: Rich Johnston

Rich Johnston — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 08:19:53 +0000

One thing – the character “Jasper” played by Michael Caine is based on Steve Bell…

By: dave roman

dave roman — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 05:51:10 +0000

I hope to see both soon! Great reviews

By: Dan Kois

Dan Kois — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:20:45 +0000

CHILDREN OF MEN is the best movie I have seen in years. Good call.

By: Chris Rice

Chris Rice — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:37:33 +0000

Dammit. Everyone beat me to Devil’s Backbone. I’ll third these two nods.

I took my daughter to see Pan (she’s a very mature 10), and we talked about it for an hour afterwards. It’s about a lot of things, but mostly about the effect of war on people, and particularly on children. It is an astonishing film, and you can’t help but leave with way too many thoughts in your head.

By: Jimmie Robinson

Jimmie Robinson — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:15:59 +0000

I’ll also second The Devil’s Backbone, brilliant stuff and marks his range beyond the American boardroom-driven work.

Heidi, thanks for the mini-reviews on these films. I’ll run out to catch these when (or, if) they grace my local theaters, which might be soon since my region does pretty well with small screen, low distribution films.

By: The Dane

The Dane — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:36:57 +0000

If you’d like to see something else by Guillermo del Toro that’s nowhere near as fluffy as his English-language stuff, check out El Espinazo del Diablo (i.e., The Devil’s Backbone). It’s a dusty, gorgeous ghost story set in the civil war in Span from early last century. And way cooler than his American-produced films.