I think I'll have to see that new Bill Murray/Robert Duval movie

[grasswire]

Robert Duvall and Bill Murray star in this 1930s-set drama, based on the legend of a mysterious Tennessee hermit who threw his own funeral while he was still alive.

Genre:Drama

MPAA Rating:
Starring:Bill Murray, Robert Duvall, Lucas Black, Sissy Spacek, Bill Cobbs, Shawn Knowles, Andrea Powell, Scott Cooper, Lori Beth Edgeman, Blerim Destani

Director:Aaron Schneider

Running Time:1:40

Release Date:Opened Aug 13, 2010

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear grasswire!

Oh, yes!

I don't remember the name, but I do recognize the cast.

I'm going to get it on DVD once it comes out that way...

It looks terrific!

:hi:

[Seneca]

2. Get Low

Looks well worth it. Great acting and writing, which is harder to come by in the Age of CGI and Bombast.

[Flaxbee]

3. Leonard Maltin on The Huffington Post put Get Low and 4 others

on his "must see" independent movies list. They all sound interesting / good to me.



GET LOW
Robert Duvall gives a rich, cliché-free performance as a 1930s backwoods hermit who announces his intention to stage his own funeral--while he's still alive. Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek head a superb costarring cast in this film that was inspired by a real-life incident. It marks the feature directing debut of longtime cinematographer Aaron Schneider.


THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
Lisa Cholodenko, who's made such entertaining films as High Art and Laurel Canyon--with great roles for women--scores once again with Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as a longtime couple whose teenage children are curious about the man (Mark Ruffalo) who donated the sperm that brought them to life years ago. No polemics here--just solid entertainment about a modern family.


LIFE DURING WARTIME
Not many writer-directors would tackle a sequel to their best-known film more than a decade after the fact--and recast all the leading roles--but then, Todd Solondz has never stuck to the rules. This follow-up to Happiness offers the same heady mix of deadpan humor and heart-rending humanity as it explores a myriad of interconnected lives.


HUGH HEFNER: PLAYBOY, ACTIVIST AND REBEL
If your only image of Hefner is that of an aging man surrounded by youthful babes, this compelling documentary--made, not incidentally, by a woman (Oscar-winning documentarian Brigitte Berman)--may open your eyes. With vivid archival footage, it chronicles his battles over censorship, freedom of speech, breaking the color barrier (on his TV show and in his nightclubs), and much, much more.


THE EXTRA MAN
Kevin Kline has one of the best screen roles of his career as a world-class eccentric who takes a younger man (Paul Dano) under his wing and introduces him to his cockeyed life in Manhattan. Writer-directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini celebrate the oddballs who make New York City unique in this deft adaptation of Jonathan Ames' novel.

[grasswire]

4. I didn't even know about "The Extra Man"

...and I adore Kevin Kline.

[hippywife]

6. I heard an interview with him

on NPR a couple of Saturdays ago and I thought it sounded good. I got the book from the library. It's a good book, and I'm interested to see how they handle the erotic segments for the movie.

:hi:

[MilesColtrane]

5. Oh, fuck.

A sequel to Happiness?

I want to know who's financing this one so they can be completely dead to me.