A Top 10 VanRamblings’ favourite at the recent Vancouver International Film Festival, the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Like Crazy is due to open in Vancouver on Friday, November 18th. VanRamblings has two tickets for anyone wishing to attend the advance screening of Like Crazy at Leonard Schein’s Fifth Avenue Cinemas, 2110 Burrard Street, 7 p.m., on Wednesday, November 16th. This is the romantic film of the year — be sure to bring some hankies along, cuz you’re gonna cry. For two tickets, just post an e-mail to VanRamblings, by clicking here, and we’ll e-mail you the passes for you to print from your computer. Get there early!
The latest movie trailer for Steve McQueen’s upcoming NC17-rated Shame, a surefire Oscar contender, has just appeared on the web. Here it is …
Hollywood Elsewhere’s Jeffrey Wells saw Jason Reitman’s new Diablo Cody (Juno) penned Young Adult last night, and he’s impressed …
- (a) it’s very ballsy, very well written, very uncompromising, very brazen — a leap forward for Reitman and Cody both;
(b) it’s darkly funny during the first two-thirds to 75%, and sometimes hilarious;
(c) it’s a kind of Jason Voorhees horror film about a raging blind woman, about egotism and myopia and the absolute mania of the self;
(d) as I thought about it during the after-party I began to realize it’s more than just a character study or a black comedy, but a cautionary tale about a kind of egoistic Kardashian-like malignancy afoot in the culture right now;
(e) Jack Nicholson’s Bobby Dupea character in Five Easy Pieces bears a certain resemblance to Charlize’s Mavis Gary; ditto Isabelle Adjani’s Adele Hugo in Francois Truffaut’s The Story of Adele H.
Young Adult is set to open in Vancouver on Friday, December 16th.
And last for today, as the rains pelt down, we’ll leave you with a song, Rihanna’s Umbrella, as interpreted by Lauren Doss, a Brighton, England based singer-songwriter who records under the name Mechanical Bride.
