slantmagazine.com - 12/21/2008
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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
moviesblog.mtv.com - 12/19/2008
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David Fincher may be best known for dark,
gritty films such as “Se7en,” “Fight Club,” and “Zodiac,”...
but the acclaimed auteur has actually been angling to direct a movie set in the culinary world for many years now, ...
EXCLUSIVE: David Fincher Reveals Ingredients For Keanu ...
splashpage.mtv.com - 12/16/2008
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'Heavy Metal' We’re extremely excited about the announcement
that David Fincher , Zack Snyder and Gore Verbinski...
still intend to direct segments of a new “Heavy Metal” animated feature , but it’s probably for the best that we temper our enthusiasm ...
David Fincher Remains Ready To Rock With ‘Heavy ...
rottentomatoes.com - 12/24/2008
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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 ...
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Slant Likes Benjamin Button
Awards Daily —
... Slant Mag’s Nick Schager gives Benjamin Button high marks - the reviewer seems torn but decides, ultimately, that Fincher makes the difference: ...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, round 2.
GreenCine Daily —
... , an era-spanning epic whose sweeping, poignant romance doesn't seem a natural fit for a digital-era auteur whose films are generally typified by cool, sleek, exacting meticulousness," writes Nick Schager in Slant. "And yet that measured, distant disposition is, in fact, what prevents his latest from sliding into the mawkishness for which it so often seems destined." ...
Pushing My "Button," or, the Unbearable Lightness of American Relevance
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... But it's the framing device, set in a hospital room again the backdrop of Hurricane Katrina, that I find most offensive. Clearly Katrina is meant as a metaphor on multiple levels -- my fellow Slant Mag writer Nick Schager rightly calls it "a tacky symbol of the unpredictable, unchangeable future" -- and it produces an apt "teetering-at-the-end-of-world-by-flood" tension that evokes far more expert examples of Magical Realism (Cien Años de Soledad, for one). And yet -- Katrina was a genuine catastrophe, ...
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cinematical.com 12/25/2008 — I saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button weeks ago, and yet every time I tried to think about it -- whether it was to contemplate a decision in David Fincher's direction, a deviation from F. Scott Fitzgerald's story, a moment in Eric Roth's ...
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aintitcool.com 12/1/2008 — Hey, everyone. “Moriarty” here. Nothing lasts. A simple truth, but one that I think most of us do our best to keep at bay most of the time. We struggle to achieve various goals and joys in our lives, and when they finally arrive, when we finally ...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: A Clarification
blog.spout.com 11/21/2008 — 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 ...
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screendaily.com 11/24/2008 — Dir: David Fincher. US. 2008. 166 mins. One of the most eagerly anticipated end-of-year studio films, David Fincher's The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button is a wildly ambitious fantasy which contains many intriguing elements and superb production ...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Review
weblogs.variety.com 11/24/2008 —
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 ...
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 the Better Benjamin Button Poster That Never Was
slashfilm.com 12/23/2008 —
Most people I talk to agree that The Curious Case of Benjamin Button theatrical character posters are ugly and boring. I wonder why Paramount Pictures/David Fincher chose not to use the piece of promotional art which can be seen below (found in ...
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 ...
Benjamin Button Screening and Q&A
awardsdaily.com 11/23/2008 —
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 ...
David Fincher Completely Dismisses 'Se7en' Sequel
getthebigpicture.net 1/5/2009 — While speaking at a question and answer session for 'Benjamin Button', David Fincher shot down the notion of a 'Se7en' sequel rather succinctly: "I would have less interest in that than I would in having cigarettes put out in my eyes."
No Ambulance For Brad Pitt On 45th —
Latest News on omg! 12/19/2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Emergency vehicles arrived in Brad Pitt's LA neighborhood of Los Feliz on Thursday night - but they weren't for the "Curious Case of Benjamin Button" star, Access Hollywood has confirmed.
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