weblogs.variety.com - 11/24/2008
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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 achievement, a masterful piece of cinema, and a moving ...
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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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
nypost.com - 12/1/2008
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December 1, 2008 -- DIRECTOR David Fincher is
not helping his movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin...
Button" with his imperious ways. "We are working our asses off trying to get Oscar nominations, and he is so abusive that it's crushing," said an ...
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DIRECTOR ACTS LIKE A DOPE- New York Post
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Monday Will Tell
Hollywood Elsewhere —
Monday Will Tell I'm down for a Reader screening tomorrow at 2 pm, and then a 7 pm Benjamin Button unveiling at MOMA's Titus with a David Fincher q & a to follow. Whatever and however I and my New York colleagues wind up responding the following morning, the L.A. crowd has gotten the first looksee and posted the first reviews, and that's that. Here 's Variety 's Anne Thompson .... "When The Curious Case of Benjamin Button reaches its climax, it is extraordinarily moving ," she ...
Variety Rings in on Benjamin Button
Awards Daily —
... might have been warmer and more emotionally accessible had it been shot on film. It has been argued that digital is a cold medium and celluloid a hot one and a case, however speculative, could be made that a story such as “Benjamin Button,” with its desired cumulative emotional impact, should be shot and screened on film to be fully realized. These are intangibles, but nor are they imaginary factors; what technology gives, it can also take away.
And Thompson:
Thus, while I admire the film’s amazing ...
One Last Wonderful International Benjamin Button Trailer
FirstShowing.net —
... (just click on "Score"). Anne Thompson's review on Variety (that we quoted above) goes on to say that "the movie is sadly beautiful, of a piece, as impeccably wrought as its ornate clock that runs counterclockwise." Give this final trailer a quick run through and let us know if Benjamin Button is still on your list of films to see to Oscar season. ...
(Mostly) Raves For 'Benjamin Button' Across The Board; Plus New Photos From David Fincher Film, But Is Film A Little "Cold And Dispassionate"?
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... potential trouble a few short weeks ago. Early reviews were mixed and some people were having problems with the technology pushing them out of the emotion of the story, and then an aborted digital screening on Thursday was fouled due to technical difficulties, which was not a good look. But that's all a thing of the past as now most of the major press outlets have seen the film over the weekend and they reviews are mostly full-on raves (with small caveats). Anne Thompson: "When the movie reaches its climax, it is extraordinarily moving." ...
More Weigh in on 'Benjamin Button' and a Listen to Desplat's Score
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... she is the real thing; and a strong single mother (complete with her own aphorism about life's unexpectedness to rival any box of chocolates line).
The comparison that also could be made is to another great work of art this season, the aforementioned Charlie K and his Synecdoche, NY. In each, we're watching a man with a tragic air hovering above him move through his life and loves, ultimately knowing that in both cases, the man is doomed.
Anne Thompson (Variety):
Still, the movie is sadly beautiful, of a piece, as ...
More Early Buzz: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
/Film —
... Anne Thompson of Variety: “an historic achievement, a masterful piece of cinema, and a moving treatise on death, loss, loneliness and love.” … “The actors are superb, especially Pitt and Cate Blanchett, who should earn Oscar noms.” … “the movie is sadly beautiful, of a piece, as impeccably wrought as its ornate clock that runs counterclockwise.” ...
‘Benjamin Button’ Early Reviews
We Are Movie Geeks —
... Film Editing, Makeup, Original Score and Visual Effects are virtually assured.”
Sasha Stone of Awards Daily says flat out “if I had to name the film that would probably have the best shot at winning Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Costumes, Art Direction it would be this one.”
Click here for The Hollywood Reporter’s rave, And Variety’s reviews here and here. ...
Is The 'Benjamin Button' Age-Gate Posit About To Raise Its Head?
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... First Anne Thompson suggested the same thing. "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." ...
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'Ben Button' Deluge Continues: More Photos, Yet Another Trailer..
theplaylist.blogspot.com 11/19/2008 — We hate to keep going on and on with " The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button " deluge, but this trailer we just found contains more footage we've never seen before. It's a variation on the TV spot that came out last week , it might be old-ish, but it ...
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 ...
Benjamin Button Reviews Start Seeping Out
blog.spout.com 11/21/2008 —
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 ...
Benjamin Button: World Exclusive
empireonline.com 11/22/2008 — The first word on David Fincher's latest masterpiece... You probably shouldn't read this. You should probably cocoon yourself, avoid speculations or declarations and queue for a ticket on Christmas Day (US) or 22 January (UK), when David Fincher's The ...
International Trailer: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
slashfilm.com 11/23/2008 —
A new international trailer has been released for David Fincher ’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button which I don’t believe I’ve ever seen before. Check it out below, or click on through to Bad Taste for the High Definition ...
The Best Picture Shuffle
awardsdaily.com 11/23/2008 —
Best Picture appears to be down to these titles:
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Revolutionary Road
The Dark Knight
The Reader
Frost/Nixon
Doubt
Rachel Getting Married
Gran Torino
And those could ...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button International Trailer
filmofilia.com 11/24/2008 — Here’s the new international trailer for Brad Pitt ’s “ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ” from director David Fincher , based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald . “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” also starring Cate Blanchett, Tilda ...
Listen to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Score
slashfilm.com 11/24/2008 —
Dreamworks has put Alexandre Desplat ’s entire score for David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button online on their For Your Consideration Awards site . Here is the complete tracklisting:
1. Postcards
2. Mr. Gateau
3. ...
Button's Lot Screening —
Hollywood Elsewhere
In Contention's Kris Tapley attended Saturday afternoon's industry screening of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and his three main responses are (a) "The verdict is a big thumbs-up"; (b) "I can't imagine less than 10 nominations -- Best Picture,...
Button Stopped —
Hollywood Elsewhere
Last night's Los Angeles DGA screening of The Curious Case at Benjamin Button was stopped after running a half-hour, according to In Contention's Kris Tapley . A "color channel on the digital projector" made the image look "washed out," and...
Fincher, Button, Rain —
Hollywood Elsewhere
It was raining this evening as I came out of the MOMA screening of Benjamin Button, so I bought a $15 umbrella for my walk back to 42nd and 8th Avenue. I put the damn umbrella on the floor of...
Where's The Beef? —
Hollywood Elsewhere
Last night Variety's David S. Cohen and Anne Thompson posted a story about the digital projection snafu that ruined last Thursday evening's Benjamin Button screening at L.A.'s DGA theatre. Three days after the incident feels like a long reporting, writing...
Benjamin Button Screening and Q&A —
Awards Daily
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 overboard and I don’t want to have the ...
Official Benjamin Button Posters Unleashed —
/Film
Paramount has finally released the official one-sheets for David Fincher ’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button . Last week we posted some iPhone photos of the posters on display at a multiplex, so I thought it was be only fair to follow-up with the official digital files, now ...
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