variety.com - 11/17/2008
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Paramount Release date: Dec. 25 A shimmering melancholic romance about the most unusual of criss-crossing lovers -- a man (Brad Pitt) who ages from infirmity to infancy, and a woman (Cate Blanchett) who grows old like we all -- "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is imagery wizard David ...
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 ...
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Review
blog.spout.com - 11/21/2008
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blog.spout.com —
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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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: A Clarification
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 going ...
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Benjamin Button Screening and Q&A
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Variety’s (Sort of) Benjamin Button Review
Awards Daily —
Wither Todd McCarthy? JustJared points us to this Benjamin Button review in Variety written not by Todd McCarthy ...
New 'Benjamin Button' Posters and the First Fawning Review
Get The Big Picture —
The first official review of
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has been
published over at
Variety, and critic Robert Abele says the new
David Fincher
film starring
Brad Pitt has a chance to become "a category-sweeping juggernaut,
with Fincher on track to score his first Academy nomination.”
Abele also notes that Fincher has "fashioned an
effects-laden but character-driven epic that recalls the sweetly doomed,
emotional glamour of Hollywood's golden era." ...
Early Buzz: Benjamin Button - IndieWire is Unimpressed, Variety Predicts Fincher’s First Academy Nomination
/Film —
IndieWire’s Eugene Hernandez has seen David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and admits “that Benjamin Button is, on first viewing, hardly a lock for best picture,” but that “the attention that will justifiably be paid to its considerable technological achievements could sweep it into the higher profile categories.”
For example, Forrest Gump (also written by Eric Roth) was popular with the Academy because of the film’s technical achievements. Hernandez encourages readers to watch WALL-E again “for a much more ...
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