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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 17, 2017 6:22:38 GMT
Discussion, review, news, pics, etc.
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 17, 2017 23:34:31 GMT
OOTF producer on Bale's style of preparation: Paste: Especially, in the case of Scott Cooper, when the actor you’re giving that freedom to is Christian Bale. Marshall: Yeah, I—I’ve got a good Christian Bale story. I did Out of the Furnace with Scott Cooper. I was an executive producer and AD on that film, and Christian, when he first came to Pittsburgh, I went to see him in, the day he arrived. And eventually he just showed up with like—like a shoulder bag, you know? He’d shown up to Pittsburgh to be a steel worker. A couple of pairs of jeans and a couple of t-shirts, and he was being in character. We said, “We’ll take you into some of the neighborhoods where we’ll be shooting,” and he’s like, “Oh, I’ve already been there.” He’d been in town two or three weeks. We were there in Pittsburgh to film, and we didn’t even know. He’d actually flown on his own and was just wandering around the streets.
Paste: Wow.
Marshall: That, to me, is like a whole different type of actor that takes that on himself, to go to the neighborhood. He’s like, “No, I didn’t want to do it the day before shooting, I wanted to—I really want to get into it, and understand the neighborhood and the feel and the vibe.” www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/10/what-i-learned-from-terry-gilliam-and-seven-other.html
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 1, 2017 4:43:43 GMT
From Mark Kermode's 3 stars out of 5 review: With little in the way of originality, and much that is mockably macho, Out of the Furnace requires a fair amount of heavy lifting from the cast to elevate it from well-worn mundanity. Under Cooper's direction (his years as an actor have clearly paid dividends) the ensemble rises to the challenge. Bale is terrific, constantly keeping his emotions in check, his performance seemingly dragged from some deep well of pain and regret, his immersion in the character total. A heartbreaking scene with Zoe Saldana is particularly affecting, as the former couple face up to their lost future not with histrionics but with finely tuned understatement.
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 9, 2017 23:05:17 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 21, 2017 22:00:03 GMT
Appeal for Academy attention for the film by Braddock's Mayor John Fetterman: Even Mr. Fetterman, recently elected to a third term, knew that the film, a harrowing revenge story, would not be an easy sell this season.
“’Furnace’ would be a tough watch for how it unflinchingly reflects an unbearably dark, unforgiving, reality that is nearly devoid of possibility,” he writes, in an essay printed in Variety. “This is the time of the year where folks wants to see the good citizens of Bedford Falls save George Bailey, or Charlie Brown and the gang love a little tree no one else wanted.”
But, he adds in a straight-out appeal to Oscar voters, “Out of the Furnace” and its makers “beautifully captured the unvarnished reality of what happens when a family, a town and an honorable way of life are allowed to fail.”
Please, he asks, don’t let that achievement be overlooked when it comes time to dole out the little gold men: “It’s unlikely the opinions of a third-rate, small-town mayor carry much weight with those who make movie award nominations. However, it truly would be an injustice for this film, director, and these actors not to be formally recognized on behalf of the Braddock community they have so powerfully presented.”
Academy members in Beverly Hills and Malibu paid attention when Bill Clinton gave his thumbs up to “Lincoln” last year. Maybe the 6-foot-5 tattooed Mayor of Hell can also catch their eye.carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/17/the-mayor-has-a-request/
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 22, 2017 14:35:28 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Apr 1, 2017 6:30:01 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Apr 10, 2017 20:42:14 GMT
Stephanie Zacharek's review from Village Voice: www.villagevoice.com/film/somber-drama-out-of-the-furnace-is-earnest-to-a-fault-6440248The picture is earnest to a fault, coming off like an exploration of how "the little people" live, so carefully written that it veritably trumpets how remote it is from the grittiness of its subject matter. You can almost hear the gears humming: Out of the Furnace is calibrated to move us, which isn't the same as drawing us invisibly and quietly into its world.
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[A great Bale mention:]
But it's Bale who's most surprising. Typically, he's a conscientious, thoughtful actor — maybe too thoughtful, as evidenced by the way his veins throb in his temples throughout those stolid, boring Batman performances. He's so intense, he can even control the rate at which blood flows through his body. But, oddly enough, even in this very serious-minded role, he's much looser and more relaxed than usual. His scenes with Saldana are the finest: He may be a heavily tattooed working guy, hardened by the usual life struggles, but his tenderness with her makes him seem almost fragile, a garden flower with muscles. In these moments, he's more like the old Bale, the one who was so extraordinary and perceptive in Gillian Armstrong's 1994 Little Women. Cooper may have gone overboard in delineating the hardships of blue-collar life in Out of the Furnace. But he has a gift for getting actors to put some muscle into their work, and enough finesse to make sure the sweat doesn't show.
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Post by The Low Dweller on Sept 18, 2017 20:38:32 GMT
anthony bourdain got inspire by out of the furnace: source
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Post by Tuulia on Nov 12, 2017 21:15:00 GMT
(Governors Awards, last night)
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Post by RhodoraO on Dec 15, 2020 1:38:02 GMT
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