Catches Up With You
I’ve no excuse for missing Robert Redford‘s The Company You Keep at last September’s Toronto Film Festival. Except that I said to myself when reviewing the schedule, “Okay, I’d like to see the Redford but not right this second because I need to see this, that and the other film first. But I’ll get to it.” And here it is March and I still haven’t seen it, although there are L.A. and N.Y. screenings happening as we speak. The NYC junket is just around the corner. Sony Classics is opening it limited on 4.5
The Rotten Tomatoes score stands at 63%. I’m told it’s not all that riveting in thriller terms but is otherwise intelligent and smart written and impassioned as far as it goes. And you know Susan Sarandon will be rock-solid as Bernadine Dohrn, so to speak.
I am glad to know it is coming out soon. Was thinking about it the other day, wondering if I had somehow missed this one.
The sideshow of TheBeef’s increasingly bizarre behaviour will provide a nice distraction in the press tour. He seems to be doing the “typical franchise star taking low-key, gritty roles to establish cred” thing but taking it to an extreme that suggests he’ll end up trashing his career in the process.
What happened to the Redford of Quiz Show, A River Runs Through it and The Horse Whisperer, even Legend of Bagger Vance, who at the very least was a visually spectacular filmmaker? Ever since Lions for Lambs he’s made dull looking message movies.
CONSPIRATOR POWER. The REAL movie about Honest Abe, a ZILLION times better (and better-looking) than Spielberg’s schoolboy snoozer.
Also this is gonna rule all just on the basis of the archival footage of God Redford with that AWESOME dark-stache with Hostess Yellow and BURNS look he had going in the ’70s.
All shall bow.
Lincoln doesn’t really have a part to play in The Conspirator. The film is hardly about him. It is, rather, an agonizingly dull and pedestrian message movie straining to create parallels between the immediate post-Civil War period and the post-9/11 period with an empty James McAvoy performance at its center.
I swear I got a glimpse of Sam Elliott in the trailer. Sold…
@Eloi – “increasingly bizarre behavior”. Huh. Who gives a fuck what, who, when where, and why Shia’s fucking up somebody or something. Watch the movie – ignore the tabloids. IMHO…
The Beef better get with the program or he won’t able to play Condorman or Captain Marvel or the King of the Smurfs or whatever it is that young actors are supposed to do these days to reach their potential.
I like The Beef. Posting private emails from other actors on his Twitter and pissing off Spielberg probably isn’t the way to achieve career longevity tho.
That said, Franco’s as mad as a brush and he does alright.
>CONSPIRATOR POWER. The REAL movie about Honest Abe, a ZILLION times better (and better-looking) than Spielberg’s schoolboy snoozer.
You’re joking, right? I’m not a huge Lincoln partisan, but it’s a vastly, vastly better and more interesting film than the Conspirator.