The Art of Crying/Kunsten at Græde i Kor (2006) - Fog's South Jutland incest drama adaptation is a deeply affecting masterpiece

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+ 3rd Best Movie of the Year
+ Best Danish Movie of the Year + Best Drama of the Year + Best Adaptation of the Year

'When dad is happy he forgets to kill himself' reads the tagline on this ominous Danish poster for Peter Schønau Fog's The Art of Crying

In 11 year-old Allan's family in Southern Jutland, his father Henry regularly gets 'poorly' and has to be 'comforted' by Allan's sister Sanne, while their mother leaves them on sleeping pills. But when funerals hit their small town, Henry gets an occasion to shine; by getting everyone to cry with his eulogies.

The Art of Crying is written by Bo Hr. Hansen (Word of God/Gud Taler Ud (2017)), adapting Erling Jepsen's (Frygtelig Lykkelig (2004)) same-titled, autobiographical 2002 novel, and directed by debuting Danish master filmmaker Peter Schønau Fog (You Disappear/Du Forsvinder (2017)).
It is an exceptional, original, heartbreaking and often awfully funny film, which manages eminently to catch the dilatory cadence of the people and region it takes place in, and their rather chilling gloom, especially as it plays out in Henry's intimate and also overly intimate relationship with death. Dark humor also runs as an invisible current through the flat landscapes and the people that move around in them, and through Jepsen and Hansen's dialog.
The film's superb quality of course also stems from first rate performances all-round: Especially Jesper Asholt's (Truly Human/Et Rigtigt Menneske (2001)) portrayal of the terribly destructive Henry and Jannik Lorenzen (Young at Heart/Ungt Hjerte (2016)) and Julie Kolbeck as his two unlucky children are fiercely real in their deeply moving performances.
The Art of Crying is likely the best Danish film in years.

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Watch a short clip from the film here, in which Allan and his milkman father Henry are out on a visit  

Cost: 16.5 mil. DKK, equaling approximately 2.53 mil. $
Box office: 2.2 mil. $
= Huge flop (returned 0.86 times the cost)
[The Art of Crying premiered 9 September (Toronto International Film Festival, Canada) and runs 107 minutes. The funding includes 8.2 mil. DKK in state support. The film was the 18th highest-grossing in Denmark in 2007 with 2.2 mil. $ from 228,303 admissions, an impressive number in the small country, but although it was screened at at least 15 festivals and released regularly in a few countries, it hasn't registered foreign grosses (besides 16k $ in Mexico). The film won an AFI award, 2/4 Bodil award nominations (Denmark's film critics' award), the Nordic Council film prize, 8/11 Robert awards (Denmark's Oscar) and many other honors. It was also Denmark's entry for the 2008 Oscars, but it was snubbed. Fog returned with You Disappear/Du Forsvinder (2017). Asholt returned in Temporary Release/Ledsaget Udgang (2007), Lorenzen in April 9th/9. April (2015). 1,996 IMDb users have given The Art of Crying a 7.5/10 average rating.]

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Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006, documentary) - Excellent doc. of Jim Jones' terrible, incredible deeds

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Photographs of the shocking mass suicide are made to be reflected in color in cult leader Jim Jones' shades on this chilling poster for Stanley Nelson's Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

The story of Jim Jones, a poor boy from Indianapolis, who founded Peoples Temple, which embraced everyone and uprooted lives, relocating to San Francisco, then fleeing to small South-American country Guyana, where more than 900 members, including Jones and over 300 minors, died in a mass suicide/mass murder which is among the biggest of all time.

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple is written by Marcia Smith (A Place of Our Own (2004)) and Noland Walker (Amen: The Life and Music of Jester Hairston (2013)) and directed by great American documentarian Stanley Nelson (Freedom Summer (2014)). 
It is a very fine documentary, which after a short introduction gives a small look into Jones' odd behavior as a child, before we follow his Christianity and Marxism-based church, as it develops, with a surprising mass of footage of services, preachings and other events. This is intercut with interviews of survivors and family members of followers of the cult. The sometimes paradoxical explanations of events from the subjects are not questioned, and I could also have handled a longer, deeper dealing with the frightening Jonestown tragedy.
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple is fascinating and deeply disturbing.

Watch a very candid and interesting interview with Jim Jones' surviving son Stephen Jones decades after the tragedy here

Cost: 0.8 mil. $
Box office: 148k $
= Box office disaster (returned 0.18 times the cost)
[Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple premiered 26 April (Tribeca Film Festival, New York) and runs 86 minutes. Nelson reportedly edited down 400 hours of audio tape recordings from cult members as well as a big collection of 16 mm footage recorded by a cult member who happened to be a professional filmmaker. The film opened #82 in 1 theater in North America to a 7k $ first weekend and peaked at #65 and in 5 theaters, grossing 148k $. It won an award at Tribeca and was also screened at festivals in the UK, Greece and Poland. It was shown in April 2007 as part of co-financier PBS' American Experience documentary series. Nelson returned with Wounded Knee (2009, documentary). Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple is certified fresh at 94 % with a 7.5/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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Ira & Abby (2006) or, Marriage Never Works

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+ 2nd Worst Movie of the Year

A not very informative nor aesthetically pleasing or memorable poster for Robert Cary's Ira & Abby

Ira leaves a stranded relationship and his many years of fruitless therapy, as he starts a new, impulsive relationship to the very different Abby, and the two decide to get married quickly. - Too quickly.

Ira & Abby is written by Jennifer Westfeldt (Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)), who also plays Abby in the film, and directed by Robert Cary (Anything But Love (2002)). It is a very bad example of a quirky New-Yorker indie movie of crossing fates, - a type of movie that has masterpiece examples such as Woody Allen's Anything Else (2003) and Raymond De Felitta's City Island (2009). This one isn't funny, romantic or compelling dramatically. Mostly it serves as a reminder for us as to why it is that we don't live in New York, whose therapy-padded, infantile adults are the subjects of Ira & Abby.
Supporting actors Frances Conroy (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010-13)) and Fred Willard (Everybody Hates Chris (2009), TV-series) are sympathetic here, but also they have, - just like everyone else in this film, - a hopeless marriage.
Ira & Abby is a downright marriage-hating film, which is hard to enjoy at all for us who don't share this opinion. This doesn't mean that it doesn't also strike on an odd truth or two, but it doesn't really help it, since it is both boring, uncinematic and depressing, while it does so.

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Here's a video of Westfeldt and Jon Hamm, who also has a small role in Ira & Abby, who talk about their relationship, (they were together for 18 years before splitting up in 2017), and their movie together, Friends with Kids (2011)

Cost: Estimated 3.5 mil. $
Box office: 563k $
= Box office disaster (returned 0.16 times the cost)
[Ira & Abby premiered 23 June (Los Angeles Film Festival, California) and runs 104 minutes. Shooting took place in New York. The film opened #57 in 7 theaters to a 36k $ first weekend in North America, where it never attained a higher position although it widened to 20 cinemas, grossing 211k $ (37.5 % of the total gross). This was the film's 2nd biggest market. The biggest was Mexico with 244k $ (43.3 %), and the 3rd biggest was Central America with 54k $ (9.6 %). The film was only released in 5 markets. Cary returned with Save Me (2007), his last directorial effort to date. Westfeldt returned in 5 TV-series and a TV movie in the following years and theatrically in Friends with Kids (2011). Chris Messina (The Newsroom (2012-14)) returned in Medium (2007, TV-series), Security (2007, short) and theatrically in Towelhead (2007). Ira & Abby is fresh at 67 % with a 6.1/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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Inland Empire (2006) - Dern stands out in Lynch's nightmarish art film epic

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+ Best Art Film of the Year + Best Character Study of the Year + Best Comeback Actress of the Year: Laura Dern

The brights lights of Los Angeles are glamorous on top, - but below lies terrifying darkness. - So this powerful poster for David Lynch's Inland Empire seems to infer

Hollywood star Nikki Grace wins a lead in a new movie, which, however, turns out to actually be a remake of an old, cursed film, which was never completed in the past.

Inland Empire is written and directed as the 10th feature from Montanan master filmmaker David Lynch (The Straight Story (1999)). It may well be Lynch's last major theatrical work, if we choose not to count Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014), which is made up of deleted scenes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992).
Laura Dern (F Is for Family (2015-17)) gives a lead performance which deserves praise; fearless and deeply disquieting, it leads us on the epic excursion into a reality that in both fascinating and deeply disturbing ways crackles down for our protagonist. We sense that we are moving in clearly defined story universes in Inland Empire, which are merely presented mystically and in inexplicable ways to us. In this way the film is never pretentious nonsense, (although Lynch novices may think so and are therefore adviced against beginning their journey into the man's body of work with this particular film.)
SPOILER A very specific criticism: There is a scene in Inland Empire of Dern relating stuff to a man with glasses, which is simply too long.
If this turns out to be the last real movie in Lynch's oeuvre, it somehow seems fitting, since Inland Empire must be the most radical, strange and unsettling film of his since his debut, Eraserhead (1977). Both are fiercely original and rare works that require a lot from their audiences and deserve several revisits. Inland Empire is truly an art film, which at times resembles a performance or an exhibited art piece; it has unforgettably unpleasant scenes and an eccentric and original ugly video aesthetic.

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Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: Unknown
Box office: 4 mil. $
= Uncertain
[Inland Empire premiered 6 September (Venice Film Festival, Italy) and runs 180 minutes. Lynch co-financed the film himself, (he has only revealed that it had a budget of under 100 mil. $), and shot it over a 3-year period in California, including Los Angeles, and in Poland, - without a script. The actors were given pages of freshly written dialog on the day of shooting them and never knew exactly what Inland Empire was about. It was shot with a Sony digital camcorder by Lynch himself, - the first time he has worked in digital video instead of film. He also edited it himself and stayed involved in its distribution. It opened #52 to a 27k $ first weekend in North America in 2 theaters, where it peaked #44 and in 15 cinemas (different weeks) and grossed 861k $. The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were France with 609k $ and the UK with 542k $. It was likely made for somewhere between 1-5 mil. $, but that span is too great to establish whether it was a theatrical hit or flop. Lynch campaigned for Dern to be nominated for the Best Actress Oscar without luck. The film did win an award in Venice. Lynch has stated on the occasion of his Twin Peaks revival season (2017) that he had made his last feature. In between the two major projects, he has made at least 26 short films. Dern returned in Year of the Dog (2007). Inland Empire is fresh at 73 % with a 7.2/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) - McQuarrie and Cruise succeed with another masterly M:I thrill ride

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+ Best Action Movie of the Year + Best Fight Scene of the Year: Bathroom fight scene + Best Car Chase of the Year: Paris chase + Best Big Hit Movie of the Year

A slick poster for Christopher McQuarrie's Mission: Impossible – Fallout, which seems to have all the right elements

Ethan Hunt and the IMF team are overseen by a very critical CIA big sister, as a captured nuclear expert has helped some bad people develop 3 plutonium bombs that need to be secured as soon as possible.

Mission: Impossible – Fallout is the 6th movie in the M:I franchise, written and directed as the 4th film by New Jerseyite master filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie (The Way of the Gun (2000)), following the series' first masterpiece, which McQuarrie also directed, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015). Fallout arguably tops that film.
Tom Cruise (Rain Man (1988)) returns, still a movie star in a league of his own, although his days of leading major action movies may be numbered, - but only because age creeps up on even the best. Not that it hinders his powerhouse performance here. Fallout also brings back Rebecca Ferguson (The Greatest Showman (2017)), who handles drama and bad-ass fight scenes with equal adeptness; Simon Pegg (Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)), who has become an integral chummy member of the IMF team by now; Alec Baldwin (Blue Jasmine (2013)), SPOILER who has a moving death scene; Sean Harris (Trespass Against Us (2016)) as a returning lunatic villain; Michelle Monaghan (Perfume (2001)) as Hunt's detached soulmate; and Ving Rhames (Surrogates (2009)), still a big lump of lovely as Luther. Fresh star faces include Vanessa Kirby (Wasteland (2012)), who is sexy while exuding intelligence as the White Widow, Angela Bassett (This Means War (2012)) as CIA boss Erika, and finally Henry Cavill (I Capture the Castle (2003)) as the film's second, punchy heavy, Walker.
Cavill's beefcake macho radiation is a great fit for the movie, SPOILER and Cruise's taking on Superman himself is perhaps the greatest scoop for Fallout. A bathroom fight scene featuring the two of them, trying to secure a third, very violent male, may well be the year's coolest fight scene.
Fallout supplies the insane action sequences we are expecting from an M:I movie, - my favorite contemporary franchise by far, - with heart-pumping car and motor bike chase scenes in Paris a showstopper, just as the finale's helicopter battle and its aftermath is truly spectacular. The wide lens photography (by cinematographer Rob Hardy (Ex Machina (2015)) in this portion, - and an incredible parachuting scene earlier on, - is astounding, fabulously good-looking.
The plot also has the clever ideas, espionage twists and double plays that make us pay attention throughout, from the fantastic twist beginning (with CNN's Wolf Blitzer) onwards.
Mission: Impossible – Fallout is a larger-than-life terrific action thrill-ride with top-notch sound work and a pounding, truly glorious score by Lorne Balfe (13 Hours (2016)). It is the year's best explosive mass offering in cinemas, and I need to see it again up against the preceding Rogue Nation, - they both outrank just about any other action tentpole put out there in the 00's and 10's.

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Watch a video from the movie's Paris premiere here

Cost: 178 mil. $
Box office: 372 mil. $ and counting
= Too early to say
[Mission: Impossible – Fallout premiered 12 July (Paris, France) and runs 147 minutes. Production was delayed due to a salary issue between Paramount and Cruise, who would only take the same or a higher salary that Universal paid him for The Mummy (2017), (which was 13 mil. $ + an unknown gross percentage. This got resolved, and shooting took place from April 2017 - March 2018 in England, including London, Paris, France, India, New Zealand, United Arab Emirates and Norway. The long shoot is explained by the fact that Cruise injured his leg in London, halting production for 7 weeks, costing a reported 80 mil. $, which was paid for through insurance and so didn't affect the overall costs. Cavill's reshoots for Justice League (2017) conflicted with Fallout's production, and his mustache as Walker became problematic: McQuarrie initially offered to remove it in exchange for 3 mil. $, which they claimed it would cost to add it in post, but Paramount retracted the offer, and Warner Bros. instead had to cut out the mustache from Justice League's Superman digitally. The film opened #1 to a 61.2 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it stayed atop for another week and is now poised to be beaten from the spot by The Meg. It was the best M:I opening domestically yet and the 2nd biggest of Cruise's career. Overseas, it has been especially successful so far in South Korea with a giant 43.5 mil. $ gross, and the film has yet to open in 4 markets, of which the last is pivotal: Lithuania (17 Aug.), Italy (29 Aug.), Greece (30 Aug.) and China (31 Aug.). The film must aim at beating its predecessor's 682.7 mil. $ - at least. An estimated 140 mil. $ are being spent on global marketing of it. It has raced into the #157 slot of IMDb's user-generated Top 250, sitting between Trainspotting (1996) and No Country for Old Men (2007). McQuarrie's next job as director has not been announced yet. Cruise returns in the much awaited Top Gun: Maverick (2019). Mission: Impossible – Fallout is certified fresh at 97 % with an 8.3/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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I Feel Pretty (2018) - God bless Amy Schumer

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+ Best Comedy of the Year + Best New York Movie of the Year

Amy Schumer looking great but more importantly looking as if she feels like a million bucks fills out the poster for Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein's I Feel Pretty

Renee is a young woman in New York, who works on the online side of a major, upscale cosmetics company and struggles with low self-confidence. When she hits her head in a spinning class accident, the result is a booming self-confidence, as Renee is certain that her looks have suddenly drastically improved.

I Feel Pretty is the feature directing debut for writer-directors Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein (Never Been Kissed (1999)), who have been writing partners for over 20 years. The film is a high concept comedy (think Freaky Friday (2003), Shallow Hal (2001), Trading Places (1983) or Big (1988), the latter of which is actually used actively in two very funny scenes in the film), which seems like it could have come from a typical joke from the film's propellant star Amy Schumer (Snatched (2017)).
But whereas Schumer's on-stage act would have made crude payoffs off of the 'fat girl in the spinning class' accident', the filmmakers wisely create sympathetic characters with issues that ring true here, present them with sincerity and never ridicule. I Feel Pretty feels like the perfect film for Schumer, who is terrific, and whose character's body insecurity reflects feelings and problems that so many will identify with the world over. There is a sorry irony in the fact that Schumer's wildly hyped first film Trainwreck (2015) was cruder and less meaningful but a bigger hit, while I Feel Pretty is a more buoyant, rounded and resounding film - but also a much more criticized and less commercially successful one.
Renee builds a romantic relationship with Rory Scovel (Good at Life (2015), TV movie), who also feels very real as Ethan, who does zumba and has his own self-image insecurity. Renee leaves her crummy office existence with funny co-worker Adrian Martinez (Focus (2015)) to rule the company's reception with a surplus of positive energy that baffles its privileged, attractive CEO Michelle Williams (A Hole in One (2004)) and brother Tom Hopper (Leopard (2013)). In her free time, Renee also injects a new vivacity into her group of friends played by the very affable pair, Aidy Bryant (The Big Sick (2017)) and Busy Philipps (Vice Principals (2016-17)).
I Feel Pretty is a great time out whether you go by yourself or with friends, it is a real crowd-pleaser; it has many infectious laughs and an uplifting message of self-appreciation and a wider understanding of what can be pretty and attractive, which it hits home with a wealth of 
charm. Don't miss it.

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Watch Schumer present the film and a trailer for it on Ellen here in this video

Cost: 32 mil. $
Box office: 88.4 mil. $ and counting
= Box office success (2.76 times the cost)
[I Feel Pretty premiered 19 April (Australia, Israel, Lebanon, Singapore) and runs 110 minutes. STX Entertainment bought the North-American distribution rights at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival for 15 mil. $. The film opened #3, behind holdover hits A Quiet Place and Rampage, for a 16 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent another 2 weeks in the top 5 (#3-#4) and grossed 48.7 mil. $ (55.1 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were the UK with 7.1 mil. $ (8 %) and Australia with 6.8 mil. $ (7.7 %). The film gets no French release, as the French rights have been sold to Netflix, who debuted it on their streaming platform there on 20 July. It has one market left to open in: Italy on 22 August. Kohn/Silverstein do not have an announced next project yet. Schumer is set to star with Steve Carell and Nicole Kidman in Rebecca Miller's upcoming She Came to Me, which has no production or release dates out yet. I Feel Pretty is rotten at 34 % with a 5.1/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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The Illusionist (2006) - A good ensemble makes Burger's period magician indie worthwhile

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Stars appear in desaturated sepia tones on this dreary poster for Neil Burger's The Illusionist

In Vienna in 1889, magician Eisenheim impresses the inhabitants and the city's chief inspector with his incredible illusions. But he gets into a fix when he attempts to reignite his relationship with the duchess girlfriend of prince Leopold.

The Illusionist is written and directed by Neil Burger (Limitless (2011)), based on the short story Eisenheim the Illusionist (1990) by Steven Millhauser (Edwin Mullhouse (1972)).
Burger has crafted a supernatural romantic period drama, which becomes compelling thanks to its good actors; Edward Norton (The Red Dragon (2002)), Paul Giamatti (Saving Mr. Banks (2013)), Rufus Sewell (Extreme Ops (2002)), Eddie Marsan (Tyrannosaur (2011)), Jessica Biel (Accidental Love (2015)) and Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Anna Kareninia (2012)) as young Eisenheim are all good.
Unfortunately the film ends very dissatisfactory, without real illumination for its audiences. - The illusions are so incredible that one concludes that the magician must have supernatural abilities. SPOILER In this light it is not sufficient that the ending simply suggests that Eisenheim and the duchess 'merely' duped everyone.
Apart from this, I also found that Philip Glass' (A Bronx Sole (2006)) recognizable score feels a bit overly familiar at this point in film history, and the photography (by Dick Pope (Topsy-Turvy (1999)) and visual  concept, - one of browning everything up and setting it in a vignette light, - only struck me as pseudo-refined.

Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: 16.5 mil. $
Box office: 87.8 mil. $
= Big hit (5.32 times the cost)
[The Illusionist premiered 22 January (Sundance Film Festival, Colorado, USA) and runs 110 minutes. Shooting took place in the Czech Republic, including Prague, from April - May 2005. The film opened #20 to a 927k $ first weekend in 51 theaters (a good 18k $ average) in North America, where it peaked in 1,438 cinemas and at #5 (different weeks), behind holdover hit Invincible, new-comers Crank and The Wicker Man and holdover hit Little Miss Sunshine, leaving the top 5 again the next week, grossing strong 39.8 mil. $ (45.3 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were Spain with 12.5 mil. $ (14.2 %) and Mexico with 7.2 mil. $ (8.2 %). Roger Ebert gave the film a 3.5/4 star review, translating to two notches better than this one. It was nominated for 1 Oscar, Best Cinematography, which it lost to Guillermo Navarro for Pan's Labyrinth. It was also nominated for an Independent Spirit award, won a National Board of Review award and many other honors. Burger returned with The Lucky Ones (2008). Norton returned in The Painted Veil (2006), Giamatti with a voice performance in Asterix and the Vikings (2006) and in the flesh in turkey Lady in the Water (2006); Biel in 7th Heaven (1996-06)) and theatrically in Home of the Brave (2006). The Illusionist is certified fresh at 73 % with a 6.9/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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