Oscar Watch: Early Benjamin Button Review
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weblogs.variety.com — 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 Oscars: It's magic realism propelled by ...
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Early Buzz: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; New Television Trailer
/Film — ... Variety’s Anne Thompson published a gushing spy report: “It’s magic realism propelled by extraordinary filmmaking technology but it’s not remotely what I’d call cold. It creates a world of oddities and wonderful, off-kilter characters but the whole piece is anchored by a decades long relationship that gets strained, frayed, breaks and rebuilds into something profound and moving. The achievement is big and bold and ambitious and life-affirming, but the sentimentality is always toughened by the continual sense of loss and deep sadness ...

New 'Benjamin Button' TV Spot and One 'Glowing' Audience Reaction
RopeofSilicon.com — When Variety 's Anne Thompson first started blogging it was one more great industry blog to check out, but the damn thing has slowly degenerated into something of a cross between and insidery site that is extremely informative and unique, to a site that is trying to be like every other fanboy blog. I actually saw them promote an online widget for Twilight once. A freaking widget! So, when Anne posts a reader reaction to a screening of ...

Benjamin Button Reviews Start Seeping Out
SpoutBlog — Yesterday, Anne Thompson posted “an early review” of David Fincher’s The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, which she says was emailed by “one of [her] industry spies.” David Poland quickly huffed that “running an anonymous ‘friend’ as a ‘review’” is “just bullshit”, but for our purposes, skepticism over where the comments on the film (which are effusive regarding every aspect of the production) come from is neither here nor there. I’m ...

New 'Benjamin Button' TV Spot, Plus Positive Trade Buzz
:: The Playlist :: — ... . The person who wrote us we respect, but let's be clear, that doesn't mean we're anti-'Ben Button.' Hell, we're still super psyched to see it and holding out hope, but the opinion was genuine and from a well-respected source. [Anne Thompson image via ...

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The Backwards 'Button'
theplaylist.blogspot.com 11/17/2008 — There it is, in all it's glory (and not just a photo of a poster on a wall), you see the full, real version of it. Uh, not a whole hell lot else to say about it, right? It's kind of underwhelming, frankly, but push the stars we guess. Well, aside ...
There it is, in all it's glory (and not just a photo of a poster on a wall), you see the full, real version of it. Uh, not a whole hell lot else to say about it, right? It's kind of underwhelming, frankly, but push the stars we guess. Well, aside ...
The Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonGO TO MOVIES
I was born under unusual circumstances. And so begins The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans ...