blog.spout.com - 11/21/2008
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To borrow a line from Lou Lumenick : The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is this year’s Forrest Gump . This is not really arguable. In addition to sharing a screenwriter (Eric Roth), Robert Zemeckis’ 1994 Best Picture winner and David Fincher’s 2008 Best Picture ...
weblogs.variety.com - 11/24/2008
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weblogs.variety.com —
I saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
on Saturday (following the aborted Thursday screening ), and
have been trying to sort it out ever since. David Fincher and screenwriter Eric Roth (Forrest Gump) have delivered an historic ...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Review
awardsdaily.com - 11/23/2008
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awardsdaily.com —
Today’s screening was held in the swanky Paramount
theater. In attendance for the Q&A was director David
Fincher, screenwriter Eric Roth and most of the heads of the tech departments. I don’t want to jinx the movie by ...
Benjamin Button Screening and Q&A
incontention.com - 11/23/2008
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incontention.com —
Taraji P. Henson in The Curious Case of
Benjamin Button UPDATED (5:30 p.m.): Alright, now that I’m
home and away from the shuffle, I can unfold some further thoughts on this. Judging by the mood of the room — mostly guild members and industry types, ...
‘Button’ drops (UPDATED with audio)
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Shorts, fests, etc, 11/21.
GreenCine Daily —
... ], occasionally I actively loathed it, but mostly I just felt genuinely disappointed that it seemed so lacking in genuine feeling," writes Karina Longworth at the SpoutBlog. "I'm a realist - I understand that the masses will probably go the other way on this one, and I won't begrudge them that. But as a critic, it is my job to clearly state, for the record, what ignited that loathing and disappointment." ...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Review
Thompson On Hollywood —
... So when the movie reaches its climax, it is extraordinarily moving (although some find the movie cold and dispassionate). It may pack a more powerful punch the older you are and the more people you have lost. In that case it will score with the Academy, who will also recognize the skillful filmmaking on display. ...
Nobody Goes To See Oscar-Bait Movies Anymore, They're Too Popular [Big Box Movies]
Gawker —
... why the Buttons and Australias of this world are still getting made, when the last four Best Picture Oscar winners were far smaller—and, most importantly, cheaper—in scale. Big budget box office thumps like The Last Samurai ($140 million) and Memoirs of a Geisha ($85 million) should have been the death knells of this creaky old idea of Holiday Prestige cinema. (Plus, nobody likes the Japs!) But here we're faced with Button, an FX-laden Magical Negro-besotted bit of Gumpery (though, Variety ...
More Weigh in on 'Benjamin Button' and a Listen to Desplat's Score
RopeofSilicon.com —
... in a magical past.
Mike Goodridge (Screen Daily):
The curious thing about Benjamin Button is the questionable profundity of this lengthy saga. Is it a meaningful parable about love and time or is it just a gigantic shaggy dog story? With that in mind, you can't help but look at your watch occasionally and wonder whether some plot meanderings, while always pleasant, have any bearing on the story whatsoever.
Karina Longworth (Spout):
To borrow a line from Lou Lumenick: The Curious Case ...
More Early Buzz: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
/Film —
... Karina Longworth of Spout: “Watching ‘Benjamin Button,’ occasionally I actively loathed it, but mostly I just felt genuinely disappointed that it seemed so lacking in genuine feeling.” … “This film will likely make a lot of money and win a lot of awards, and yet is so phony and cloying and gimmicky that its success will some day be seen by some as a tragedy.” ...
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How Brad Pitt Almost Played The 'Button' Baby
cinematical.com 1/2/2009 — This past week, a whole lot of you probably took in a screening of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (I took the girl to see it last night), and you've probably shared your opinions with friends, family and significant others. Some feel it's ...
All About The Benjamin
mgoer.blogspot.com 12/22/2008 — A baby is born looking like a tiny, wizened old man: deaf, half-blind, with wrinkled skin and arthritic joints. But as the years pass, he grows steadily younger. He becomes a sailor, traveling around the world, from Florida to Russia and doing a ...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Film Review
slantmagazine.com 12/21/2008 — Benjamin's very blankness gives the film a beguiling measure of dreamy, fabulistic wonder, one that entrances even as Roth's script regularly missteps. by Nick Schager
Oscar Watch: Early Benjamin Button Review
weblogs.variety.com 11/13/2008 —
One of my industry spies has emailed me an early review of David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, starring Brad Pitt as the man who ages backwards. This confirms my instinct sight unseen: this movie is in the hunt for multiple ...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Movie Reviews, Pictures
rottentomatoes.com 12/24/2008 — Synopsis: Director David Fincher and Brad Pitt team up for a third time with this adaptation of a F. Scott Fitzgerald short story. Pitt plays a man who is born 80 years old, but instead of aging, he grows... Director David Fincher and Brad Pitt team ...
New “Benjamin Button” TV Spot and Poster
filmofilia.com 11/13/2008 — A new TV spot for the upcoming “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, has been released. Poster is already showing up in some theaters and Defamer snapped this...
Brad Pitt: New Benjamin Button Poster!
justjared.buzznet.com 11/16/2008 — Check out these new promo posters featuring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett for their new reverse-aging love tale, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button . Thanks, JoBlo !
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button opens on Christmas Day and was directed ...
Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The
deep-focus.com 1/17/2009 — There's a frightening symmetry to the process of aging that David Fincher, making his cruellest picture since Se7en , illustrates to eerie effect in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button . That the film's titular, time-unstuck protagonist is ...
Finally - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Finally Posters!
firstshowing.net 11/21/2008 —
Paramount has finally released two official posters for David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button a mere month before it's set to arrive in theaters. I first heard about what they looked like a few weeks ago and even at that time ...
Paul Newman's Will Released —
Extra 11/21/2008
Screen legend and philanthropist Paul Newman's will has been released by RADAR magazine. Newman's Own Foundation will receive his three Oscars -- the first for his performance in 1986 for "The Color of Money," plus an honorary statuette awarded ...
Should the HFPA split into two groups? —
Variety.com 11/21/2008
Award Central: Voters overwhelmed with assessing TV and film -- While the Oscars are all about movies, and the Emmys focus exclusively on television, the Golden Globes ambitiously cover it all.
In an age where both mediums and their stars seem to be ...
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