jezebel.com - 12/21/2007
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Though the Screen Actors Guild showed no love for Tim Burton's film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, critics sure feel differently about the musical...
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Sweeney Todd a Gruesome Critical Darling
Evil Beet Gossip —
... in its effects and radical in its misanthropy, expressing a breathtakingly, rigorously pessimistic view of human nature. It is also something close to a masterpiece…What you see is as dark as the grave. What you hear — some of the finest stage music of the past 40 years — is equally infernal, except that you might just as well call it heavenly. Man, I thought I’d go see this film, but gorier than Saw ? I’m not sure if I can handle that. Jezebel has more of the reviews compiled here . This entry was posted on Friday, December 21st, 2007 at 12:11 pm and is filed under ...
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Sweeney Lies
blog.spout.com 12/20/2007 —
At the Kansas City Star , Robert W. Butler brings up an issue that I’ve been thinking about a lot: with music minimized in the massive TV campaign behind Sweeney Todd (see a totally music-free spot above), aren’t they worried that ...
Helena Bonham Carter Asked Depp To Be Godfather
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NYT Calls Sweeney Todd "Masterpiece, Genius"
weblogs.variety.com 12/21/2007 — The NYT's A.O. Scott calls Sweeney Todd "close to a masterpiece." Wow. This is one hell of a great review, in every sense.
Tim Burton makes fantasy movies. Stephen Sondheim writes musicals. It is hard to think of two more optimistic genres of popular art, or of two popular artists who have so systematically subverted that optimism. Mr. Sondheim has always gravitated toward the dissonance ...
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
rottentomatoes.com 12/21/2007 — THEATRICAL RELEASE Dec 21, 2007 Wide MOVIE CONSENSUS Full of pith and Grand Guignol grossness, this macabre musical is perfectly helmed and highly entertaining. MOVIE SYNOPSIS JOHNNY DEPP and Tim Burton join forces again in a big-screen adaptation of ...
A Meeting with Mrs. Lovett —
ComingSoon.net - Movies 12/18/2007
ShockTillYouDrop.com talked to Helena Bonham Carter recently in London about starring as Mrs. Lovett in director Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street , opening in theaters on Friday, December 21. In the film and musical, ...
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