CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED – All winners have been notified. Thanks for your interest in The Secret World of Arrietty! —————————————————————————————————————————————- Go,See,Talk is partnering with Walt Disney Pictures to give 75 Dallas area film fans FREE passes (good for you +1 guest) to an “Advance Screening” of The Secret World of Arrietty starring Saoirse Ronan, Will Arnett and Carol Burnett. The screening will take place in DALLAS, TX on Saturday February 11th at 10:30AM and winners will be notified no later than Friday February 10th. So how do you claim/win them?? Simple. Leave an answer to the following question in the comment section (remember to include your email address) and we’ll send you your FREE ticket…but it’s first come, first served so act fast!
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USA Film Festival & Angelika Film Center Host 'A Tribute to STUDIO GHIBLI'
As many of you already know I am a HUGE fan of the works and films of Studio Ghibli. That said, I wanted to let all you Dallas area film fans with a fondness for the works of Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata and the gifted story tellers from Studio Ghibli know about a 2 day event sponsored by the USA Film Festival. This weekend on January 21st and 22nd, The Angelika Film Center will be hosting 11 of the studio’s most famous and popular films in all new 35MM prints. (FYI, all films will be show in English except for Castle in the Sky) The Angelika will be showing: My Neighbor Totoro,…
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Full List of Nominations for The 65th Annual BAFTA Awards
The Golden Globes are behind us, the Academy Awards just a few weeks a head of us but the one awards event filling the gap between self-congratulatory (Globes) and career defining (Oscars) are the Orange BAFTAs. The British organization just released their official list of nominations this morning and lots of this year’s great/favorite films are rightfully being recognized. There are always going to be a number of films that lead the pack in every awards ceremony but The Artist is most definitely the one to beat this year as it has 12 nominations. Right on the heel’s of Hazanavicius’ silent crowd pleaser is the slow-burn spy film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with 11 nominations…
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Interview…’Dead Poets Society’ Writer Tom Schulman
Dead Poets Society (1989), starring Robin Williams and Ethan Hawke, makes its way to Blu-ray on Tuesday (01/17/2012). This movie won 13 awards, including an Oscar for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. It was also nominated for 17 other awards. It was my honor and privilege to interview the screenwriter of Dead Poets Society, Tom Schulman. What follows is the transcription of my interview with Tom. While I expected him to be cordial, I was not expecting him to be extremely nice. Tom is an accomplished screenwriter, with some amazing movie titles under his belt, yet he made me feel right at home. Tom was very humble;…
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G-S-T Review…The Iron Lady
Editor’s Note: Go,See,Talk presents this review of The Iron Lady from our guest contributing writer Bill Graham. Have a look at what he had to say about the Meryl Streep’s period piece and offer your thoughts below. There’s little question going into The Iron Lady what to expect from Meryl Streep. No. The mystery is the film surrounding her performance as Margaret Thatcher. That’s, ultimately, the shame. Instead of using a straight-forward narrative tale, it balances flashbacks of her rise from mere grocer’s daughter to the first female Prime Minister of England with her current state of dementia and everything that entails. Phyllida Lloyd is at the helm of this melodrama that seems to merely exist as a textbook of…
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G-S-T Review…Contraband
Editor’s Note: Go,See,Talk presents this review of Contraband our guest contributing writer Bill Graham. Have a look at what he had to say about this Mark Wahlberg actioner and offer your thoughts below. Heist films typically come down to how the protagonists will pull it off. Rarely is there drama about if they will succeed. Which means the idea behind the heist has to be intelligent enough to stand on its own. Everything before and after is just noise in the case of Contraband. Violent and dumb, this material is elevated to passable entertainment because of the actors within. Mark Wahlberg, J.K. Simmons, Kate Beckinsale, Giovanni Ribisi, and Ben Foster pepper the…
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Ohhh, Look…Amazing Promo Art for Super-Hero Found Film 'Chronicle'
It seems that found-footage films have certainly found their audience and established a niche market. Whether the end product is good or bad they allow a filmmaker to get their story (also either good or bad) out to the public on a relatively small budget. For me it can be rather hit and miss but one genre not yet explored by this style of filmmaking is that of comic books/superheroes…until now. Chronicle is a film about three high school kids coming to terms with their superpowers and developing them to their almost endless possibilities. Pretty interesting concept if you ask me. To go along with such an intriguing premise is 20th Century…
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Universal Pictures Celebrates 100 Years of Movie Memories
Universal will mark its 100th anniversary in 2012, and will commemorate its centennial with a yearlong celebration honoring the studio’s rich film history and cultural legacy. The campaign draws its inspiration from Universal’s extraordinary and diverse library of films, many of which will be highlighted throughout the year, and is designed to engage fans of all ages in the art of moviemaking. The following is the official press release from the studio. In it Universal lays out their plans for their centennial celebration, plans for their theme parks as well as a new logo and more. Read on!
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Dallas Symphony Hosts “Masters of Film Music” with James Newton Howard
James Newton Howard’s diverse and expansive musical resume has taken audiences from the stone age to outer space and from the depths of the earth to the top of the Empire State Building. This week, Oscar-nominated composer James Newton Howard will be coming to Dallas to play a very limited engagement with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. This special 2 night event will feature Howard playing a number of his most famous themes at the Meyerson Symphony Center from January 13th -14th. In celebration of his upcoming performance, we at G-S-T want to take a brief look back at the amazing career of one of the finest working composers in the film world.
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G-S-T Review….Pariah
Pariah is the feature length adaptation of Dee Rees’ semi-autobiographical short of the same name. A bold and honest film that wears its heart on its sleeve, Pariah makes no pretense and only asks the viewer to accept it as openly as the story is being told. The first time writer/director shares some of her own experiences with a fair amount of fiction and the result proves to be one of the most genuine and inspiring films of 2011.
