Last night was the kick-off with just one film, Silver Linings Playbook, but today the real meat of the fest is served with films screening all day and all evening. Sliff’s main venues are the the Hi-Pointe Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium, Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium and the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville, Il
The entire schedule for the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival be found Here.
http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff-2012
Here is what will be screening at The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival today, Friday, November 9th
Chained plays 7:00pm at the Tivoli Theatre with director Jennifer Lynch in attendance (read the Wamg interview with Ms Lynch Here
At the end of an afternoon excursion, Sarah Fiddler and her young son step into a taxi to head home. They never get there. The cab...
The entire schedule for the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival be found Here.
http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff-2012
Here is what will be screening at The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival today, Friday, November 9th
Chained plays 7:00pm at the Tivoli Theatre with director Jennifer Lynch in attendance (read the Wamg interview with Ms Lynch Here
At the end of an afternoon excursion, Sarah Fiddler and her young son step into a taxi to head home. They never get there. The cab...
- 11/9/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Watch the brand new trailer for A Late Quartet starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, Mark Ivanir and Imogen Poots. The film will be in theatres November 2, 2012 and is having it’s world premiere tonight at the Toronto International Film Festival. I’m a huge fan of chamber music and I know a string quartet involves years of absorbing rehearsals and performances – I’ll be eager to see how the film plays out tonight at the festival and during the upcoming awards season. You can read The Hollywood Reporter’s review Here.
On the eve of a world renowned string quartet.s 25th anniversary season, their beloved cellist, Peter Mitchell (Christopher Walken), is diagnosed with the early symptoms of Parkinson.s Disease. When Peter announces he wishes to make the upcoming season his last, his three colleagues find themselves at a crossroad. Competing egos and uncontrollable passions threaten...
On the eve of a world renowned string quartet.s 25th anniversary season, their beloved cellist, Peter Mitchell (Christopher Walken), is diagnosed with the early symptoms of Parkinson.s Disease. When Peter announces he wishes to make the upcoming season his last, his three colleagues find themselves at a crossroad. Competing egos and uncontrollable passions threaten...
- 9/10/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Great Winter Studio Dump-Off continues with Fox's "Simply Irresistible", an insufferable romantic comedy starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as a mopey restauranteur whose newfound magical cooking technique spices up her love life.
Not even a whole vat of Chef Emeril's "essence" would make this glop palatable.
Despite the enticing title and Gellar's proven drawing power, this seriously muddled first film by successful producer Mark Tarlov (from an equally problematic first script by former lawyer Judith Roberts) will likely prove most unappetizing for its targeted twentysomething audience.
Gellar has been given mousy brownish hair for the role of Amanda Shelton, a not-so-talented chef for her late mother's struggling TriBeCa restaurant. While it has belonged to her family for the better part of this century, the Southern Cross has been having trouble making its recently jacked-up rent and the future's not looking rosy.
Enter a mysterious, impish farmers market merchant (playwright Christopher Durang), who sells Amanda a magic crab, et voila, she starts whipping up culinary masterpieces in the restaurant's tiny kitchen, much to the pleasant surprise of her loyal sous-chef, Nolan (Larry Gilliard Jr.), and her aunt/hostess Stella (Betty Buckley).
Soon business is booming, and more importantly, things start to really cook between her and Tom Bartlett Sean Patrick Flanery), a starchy exec at Bendel's who's in charge of overseeing the opening of the New York fashion institution's chichi in-store restaurant.
Aiming for something of a '40s romantic style combined with a hint of '30s screwball comedy and a '90s independent-minded sensibility, "Simply Irresistible" ends up being an unfocused mishmash.
The punchlines sag with a leaden lethargy, the scenes feel stifled and repetitive, and Roberts' mechanical, anemic script has an annoying habit of having characters discuss what has transpired in the previous scene. Why the Henri Bendel people would agree to extensively lend their respectable image to the convoluted plot -- it ain't "Breakfast at Tiffany"'s -- remains the picture's singular intriguing aspect.
While Gellar works hard to imbue her underdeveloped character with a rooted, vulnerable determination and Flanery has his flappable moments, the three-named pair fail to generate any necessary sparks. There's more electricity in an ice cube.
SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE
20th Century Fox
Regency Enterprises presents
A Polar production
Director: Mark Tarlov
Screenwriter: Judith Roberts
Producers: John Fiedler, Jon Amiel and Joe Caracciolo Jr.
Executive producers: Arnon Milchan and Elisabeth Robinson
Co-producer: Brian Maas
Director of photography: Robert Stevens
Production designers: John Kasarda and William Barclay
Editor: Paul Karasick
Costume designer: Katherine Jane Bryant
Music: Gil Goldstein
Casting: Hopkins Smith Barden
Color/stereo
Cast:
Amanda Shelton: Sarah Michelle Gellar
Tom Bartlett: Sean Patrick Flanery
Stella: Betty Buckley
Lois McNally: Patricia Clarkson
Jonathan Bendel: Dylan Baker
Gene O'Reilly: Christopher Durang
Nolan Traynor: Larry Gilliard Jr.
Running time -- 95 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Not even a whole vat of Chef Emeril's "essence" would make this glop palatable.
Despite the enticing title and Gellar's proven drawing power, this seriously muddled first film by successful producer Mark Tarlov (from an equally problematic first script by former lawyer Judith Roberts) will likely prove most unappetizing for its targeted twentysomething audience.
Gellar has been given mousy brownish hair for the role of Amanda Shelton, a not-so-talented chef for her late mother's struggling TriBeCa restaurant. While it has belonged to her family for the better part of this century, the Southern Cross has been having trouble making its recently jacked-up rent and the future's not looking rosy.
Enter a mysterious, impish farmers market merchant (playwright Christopher Durang), who sells Amanda a magic crab, et voila, she starts whipping up culinary masterpieces in the restaurant's tiny kitchen, much to the pleasant surprise of her loyal sous-chef, Nolan (Larry Gilliard Jr.), and her aunt/hostess Stella (Betty Buckley).
Soon business is booming, and more importantly, things start to really cook between her and Tom Bartlett Sean Patrick Flanery), a starchy exec at Bendel's who's in charge of overseeing the opening of the New York fashion institution's chichi in-store restaurant.
Aiming for something of a '40s romantic style combined with a hint of '30s screwball comedy and a '90s independent-minded sensibility, "Simply Irresistible" ends up being an unfocused mishmash.
The punchlines sag with a leaden lethargy, the scenes feel stifled and repetitive, and Roberts' mechanical, anemic script has an annoying habit of having characters discuss what has transpired in the previous scene. Why the Henri Bendel people would agree to extensively lend their respectable image to the convoluted plot -- it ain't "Breakfast at Tiffany"'s -- remains the picture's singular intriguing aspect.
While Gellar works hard to imbue her underdeveloped character with a rooted, vulnerable determination and Flanery has his flappable moments, the three-named pair fail to generate any necessary sparks. There's more electricity in an ice cube.
SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE
20th Century Fox
Regency Enterprises presents
A Polar production
Director: Mark Tarlov
Screenwriter: Judith Roberts
Producers: John Fiedler, Jon Amiel and Joe Caracciolo Jr.
Executive producers: Arnon Milchan and Elisabeth Robinson
Co-producer: Brian Maas
Director of photography: Robert Stevens
Production designers: John Kasarda and William Barclay
Editor: Paul Karasick
Costume designer: Katherine Jane Bryant
Music: Gil Goldstein
Casting: Hopkins Smith Barden
Color/stereo
Cast:
Amanda Shelton: Sarah Michelle Gellar
Tom Bartlett: Sean Patrick Flanery
Stella: Betty Buckley
Lois McNally: Patricia Clarkson
Jonathan Bendel: Dylan Baker
Gene O'Reilly: Christopher Durang
Nolan Traynor: Larry Gilliard Jr.
Running time -- 95 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
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