Glastonbury (Julien Temple, 2006)
14 June 2007
This week in Slant Magazine: The film is about change, but did new culture come from Glastonbury, or did Glastonbury adapt to the culture? Without an answer to this or many similar questions, Glastonbury is a pretty spectacle with no documentary weight.
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Glastonbury (2006) ~ directed by Julien Temple; produced by Robert Richards; cinematography by Terry Flaxton, Ben Smithard, and Temple; edited by Niven Howie and Tobias Zaldua; with Björk, David Bowie, Billy Bragg, Nick Cave, Michael Eavis, Steven Patrick Morrissey, and Joe Strummer ~ Glastonbury DVD, in stores June 12.
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Big (Penny Marshall, 1988)
Recently in Slant Magazine: In later years, the same storyline has come up—as in 2004's 13 Going on 30 or the remake of Freaky Friday—but that was kid's stuff. Marshall's film is gold.
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Big (1996) ~ directed by Penny Marshall; written by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg; produced by James L. Brooks and Robert Greenhut; cinematography by Barry Sonnenfeld; edited by Barry Malkin; original music by Howard Shore; with Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard, Jared Rushton, and David Moscow ~ Big: Extended Edition DVD, in stores May 8.
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That Thing You Do! (Tom Hanks, 1996)
Recently in Slant Magazine: If ever there was a movie that did not need to be two-and-a-half hours long, it's That Thing You Do!
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That Thing You Do! (1996) ~ written and directed by Tom Hanks; produced by Jonathan Demme, Gary Goetzman, and Edward Saxon; cinematography by Tak Fujimoto; edited by Richard Chew; original music by Howard Shore; with Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler, Johnathon Schaech, Steve Zahn, Ethan Embry, and Tom Hanks ~ That Thing You Do!: Tom Hanks' Extended Edition DVD, in stores May 8.
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The Guns of Navarone (J. Lee Thompson, 1961)
Getting behind in the summer months means I have to play catch up.
Recently in Slant Magazine: Bad-ass violence, hard-edged characters, little commentary. Navarone survives on its performances—and the sense that it is more than the moment in which it was made. A cold, hard caper.
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The Guns of Navarone (1961) ~ directed by J. Lee Thompson; written and produced by Carl Foreman; photographed by Oswald Morris; edited by Alan Osbiston; original music by Dimitri Tiomkin; with Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, David Niven and Stanley Baker ~ The Guns of Navarone: Collectors Edition DVD, in stores May 8.
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