{"id":634,"date":"2007-09-06T21:51:09","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T02:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/06\/theatrical-picks-for-9707-310-to-yuma-and-pierrot-le-fou-for-st-louisans\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T16:27:49","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T21:27:49","slug":"theatrical-picks-for-9707-310-to-yuma-and-pierrot-le-fou-for-st-louisans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/theatrical-picks-for-9707-310-to-yuma-and-pierrot-le-fou-for-st-louisans\/","title":{"rendered":"Theatrical Picks for 9\/7\/07 – 3:10 to Yuma<\/i> and Pierrot le fou<\/i> for St. Louisans"},"content":{"rendered":"

In wide release, we have 3:10 to Yuma<\/a><\/i><\/b>, the latest in a series of attempts over the last decade or so to bring the western back. Most of these attempts have been massively unsuccessful, but from the advance buzz, 3:10 to Yuma<\/i> and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford<\/i> (opening in two weeks in limited release) could make this the year that changes that. Russell Crowe takes on the role of a captured outlaw, while Christian Bale assumes responsibility for getting him to the train station in time for the 3:10 train to Yuma, where he’ll be tried. The film is a remake of the 1957 film of the same name<\/a>, directed by Delmer Daves and starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin–I haven’t seen the original, so my point of reference is that it sounds sort of like High Noon<\/i> in reverse. I’m planning on going to see it on Saturday. In the meantime, here’s the trailer, and here’s an extremely positive review from CinemaFusion<\/a>. (It’s sitting fairly pretty on Rotten Tomatoes, too, with a score of 82% Fresh).<\/p>\n

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Other wide releases this week are Shoot ‘Em Up<\/a><\/b><\/i>, which looks like it could be all kinds of terrible, but also all kinds of fun, what with Clive Owen, Monica Bellucci, and Paul Giamatti largely tasked with shooting stuff up, and The Brothers Solomon<\/a><\/b><\/i>, apparently the latest in the increasingly annoying category of stupid buddy comedies. However, it does have Jenna Fischer in it, and she’s so adorable on The Office<\/i> that I hesitate to scratch it completely off my “rent sometime after I’ve watched everything else” list.<\/p>\n

On the limited release side of things, there’s Hatchet<\/a><\/b><\/i>, which would be a prime example of the sort of horror movie I HATE, and In the Shadow of the Moon<\/a><\/b><\/i>, a documentary about the 1960s-1970s Apollo moon missions which looks quite interesting. But if you live in St. Louis, you have the opportunity to see Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le fou<\/a><\/b><\/i> at the Tivoli in the Loop. This film is out of print on DVD, who knows when it’ll be back (but hopefully the theatrical rerelease means it’ll be put back on DVD soon), and I only wish I were in St. Louis right now to see it, because I haven’t and I REALLY REALLY want to. It’d probably be a little fanatical, though, to travel 800 miles to see one film, though, wouldn’t it? Yeah, that’s what I thought. I keep trying to see if it’ll turn up in Austin, but my knowledge of where to look for classic rereleases in Austin is shoddy at best. Here’s the Post-Dispatch’s item on the film<\/a>. And here’s the trailer, but I warn you, trailers for Godard films are not really very helpful at finding out what they’re about (although I’m starting to question more and more if “what is it about” is a helpful question to ask about a film anyway). The title card that says “Belmondo and Karina in a Godard film” is all I need to know about it to Want.It.Now.<\/p>\n

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(On a tangentially related subject, I just ran across a trailer that had been removed from YouTube due to copyright violations–I mean, okay, yeah, I suppose trailers are copyrighted. But how in the world does “fewer people see the trailer” translate into “more people see the film”? Trailers are marketing materials and marketing materials are more effective the more people that see them, right? So you should post them everywhere that’ll take them, right?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In wide release, we have 3:10 to Yuma, the latest in a series of attempts over the last decade or so to bring the western back. Most of these attempts have been massively unsuccessful, but from the advance buzz, 3:10 to Yuma and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (opening in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[491,111,492,69,488],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":920,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/best-of-2007-or-yay-more-lists\/","url_meta":{"origin":634,"position":0},"title":"Best of 2007; or, Yay More Lists!","author":"Jandy","date":"January 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, it's that time of year. 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