room ( 2005 film )
the room that merits our attention this week is the bow room which served as lady catherine’s dining room at rosings in the 2005 film .
jane austen’s film and tv locations - the bow room at burghley house, the location for the dining room at rosing in pride and prejudice 2005 .
we had an enthusiastic audience on saturday, april 23, 2005 and we will be showing
the room
again. (may 28, 2005 )
jane austen’s film and tv locations - the bow room at burghley house, the location for the dining room at rosing in pride and prejudice 2005. | austenonly
last week we talked about burghley house and its fantastic heaven room which was used as the location for lady catherine de bourgh’s drawing - room at rosings in the 2005 film adaptation of pride and prejudice .
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[ … ] as we have seen in on our previous two posts about burghley as the setting for rosings in the 2005 production of pride and prejudice starring keira knightly, burghley house was used as the setting for lady catherine’s drawing room and her dining room. [ … ]
shot on 8mm b / w - film. room deals with memory and narration through a room in an abandoned old people’s home. the storyteller is trying to remember the particular room’s past, how it was furnished; the life of the person who lived there and the exterior of the building .
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the aristocrats for years, comedians have amused themselves seeing who can tell the filthiest version of this joke, which was commemorated in the 2005 doc of the same name .
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it was jessica simpson vs britney spears in the audition room battle of the blonde pop stars .
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the fact that its studio gave this film basically no distribution or marketing push only goes to further prove the film' s premise of human foolishness .
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the room is, as you can see, quite dark. it faces north and while these painted rooms worked well in sunnier climes, as seen, no doubt, by teh 5th earl of exeter on his grand tour of europe, the decoration does cast rather a gloom in the cold lincolnshire light. the room was originally designed by the 5th earl as a state dining room, but its chilly aspect meant that it gradually fell out of use: the kitchens were a long way away and the food was invariably cold when it reached the hungry diners waiting in this room! eventually it evolved into a second billiard room and then into a music room until 1990 when the painted surfaces of the room were extensively restored. the room is now fitted up for display and the dining table is set up as it would have been for a formal dinner during the victorian era. the west wall, below… .
wiseau says that he received ”almost a hundred” e - mails thanking him for the film. ”that’s when i say, ‘let’s just show the room once a month, midnight screening, ”’ he explains .
in andrei tarkovsky' s trippy film stalker, the zone is a forbidden wasteland where the usual rules of perception and physics are not sacrosanct. in the heart of the zone is
the room ,
and inside the room is where, so it is said, one' s deepest wish becomes a reality .
cyndi williams' s performance in kyle henry' s room is a searing articulation of post - traumatic stress disorder .
recently divorced meg altman and her daughter sarah have bought a new home in new york. on their tour around the mansion, they come across the panic room. a room so secure, that no one can get in. when three burglars break in, meg makes a move to the panic room. but all her troubles don' t stop there. the criminals know where she is, and what they require the most in the house is in that very room .
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the room has even infiltrated the halls of cinematic academia. ”it is one of the most important films of the past decade, ” says ross morin, an assistant professor of film studies at st. cloud state university in minnesota. ”it exposes the fabricated nature of hollywood. the room is the citizen kane of bad movies. ”
during a toast, a large mirror in the dining room inexplicably shattered (
seven years bad luck ?
) .
on an early september afternoon, angelina jolie sat in a sunlit room in a scenic mountainside hotel, clearly feeling relieved .
suddenly, a curtain was pulled open in the hospital' s waiting room by nick' s colleague dr. alan harrison :
back with us, nick ?
nick awoke and asked about helena, and learned she was recovering in room 308 from six hours of surgery. he entered her hospital room, sat by her bed, and kissed her right hand .
the room is pure unintentional camp. somehow 14 years later it' s still popular and is now considered a cult classic .
: the second act of the film involves the use of very limited time travel. however ,
expertly moody and foreboding, room is somewhat less than the sum of its parts, but is nonetheless compelling viewing along the way .
we had an entusiastic audience on tuesday, april 6, 2004 and we will be showing
the room
in okland again .
this independent arthouse film about a cross - country road trip from narcissistic and vain producer / director / actor / writer vincent gallo was critically derided and scorned when originally shown at the cannes film festival .
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daisy duke melts men by wearing a tiny pink bikini or microscopic denim shorts, but she also beats up boofheads in bar room brawls .
four of the office cast members were interns on late night with conan o' brien (1993): angela kinsey in 1993, mindy kaling in the winter of 1999, john krasinski in summer of 2000, and ellie kemper in spring of 2005 .
we had an enthusiastic audience on saturday, april 24, 2004 and we will be showing
the room
in new york city again .
what puts
the room
in a class of its own is its overabundant idiocy. while you' re still gasping at one of the film' s moronic lines or vagrant plot knots, another one rises up to smack you in the head .
julia isn’t having a grand time with life lately. then she starts having visions of a large room, like an open loft. she doesn’t know
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today we are going to consider another room at burghley, whose rose garden is shown above and whose magnificent oriel window in the great hall is shown below… .
viewers are geniuses: the film leaves the viewer to figure a lot of the very complex plot out on their own .
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mistaken for gay: the pair speculates that this is bound to happen, what with the extended time they spend by themselves in a hotel room waiting to come out .
the room, has been maligned as one of the most inept movies ever made when in fact it is a sardonic comedy about sexual politics in the age of terror .
a divorced woman and her diabetic daughter take refuge in their newly - purchased house' s safe room, when three men break - in, searching for a missing fortune .
part 21: (house committee room, daytime) fernando wood reveals to congressman clay hawkins that he has become aware of hawkins’ plans to sell his vote on the amendment .
the final destination series is somewhat notable among horror fans in that there are currently no survivors (with the exception of kimberly corman and thomas burke from final destination 2). alex and clear were the survivors of the first film but in between the course of the first and second film alex had died. clear dies in the second film. and as for the third, fourth and fifth film every one dies in the end (although the deaths of wendy, kevin and julie can only be seen in premonition) .
the room now contains articles that had to be removed or put out of shot during the filming of pride and prejudice: this bust, below, of the duke of wellington would have been highly anachronistic for a film set in 1796, when he was merely a colonel serving in the netherlands and india .
interstellar is also great because the plot, at least part of it, is based on real science. physicist kip thorne acted as science adviser on the film, and he had a say in how the wormholes and black holes in the film looked. the result is possibly the best wormhole scene on film to date, outside of contact, which also incorporated thorne' s vision of wormholes .
the series is notable among horror film fans for it' s inventive death scenes and that the franchise is like typical slasher film series (like friday the 13th, scream or the texas chainsaw massacre) only there' s no actual killer, just death itself .
the film’s so - bad - it’s - freakin’ - awesome vibe has attracted a devout army of aficionados whose membership includes the cream of hollywood’s comedy community. role models star paul rudd and arrested development ‘s david cross are both fans, as is jonah hill, who uses a still from the movie as his myspace photograph. heroes star kristen bell hosts room - viewing parties at her house and last year attended the film’s monthly laemmle screening with rudd, hill, and shaun of the dead director edgar wright. ”there is a magic about that film that is indescribable, ” she says .
kyle henry is a writer / director who hasn’t written a movie since 2005. and if his last effort, room, is any indication, that’s a good thing. that’s not fair, the movie’s not a total waste. it does show promise. unfortunately, it gets right up to the moment of truth, stops at the precipice, then laughs in the face of that promise and says, “suckers! ”, then turns tail and runs while the credits roll, leaving the audience saying, “wait, what? ”
it was revealed that the scene in the hotel room was only a fantasy masturbatory sequence that bud experienced as he thought about daisy, his lost love and the only woman he ever loved .
jane austen film and tv locations: sudbury hall, derbyshire. pemberley interiors for the bbc' s pride and prejudice (1995) part i
if we were ranking the top sunglasses - related, never - ending fight scenes, we' d list this film much, much higher .
nicolas winding refn ‘s the neon demon is a beautifully shot yet polarizing film. it’s either shallow, pretentious, sensationalistic and self - indulgent or a bold haunting hypnotic work of suspense. i’m still not sure if i liked it or not, but it has certainly remained with me since my viewing of the film over the weekend. my reaction is typical — the movie has gotten a very mixed reaction from critics and film geeks .
inspired in part by her growing love for cambodia — where she would eventually buy a house, become a citizen in 2005 and work for environmental conservation, education and other causes — jolie started working with the united nations as a goodwill ambassador in 2001, devoting more and more of her time to humanitarian efforts around the world that continue to this day .
kyle henry' s room is one of those rare american indies that confidently and successfully propose their own narrative logic, drawing viewers into a mental puzzle that may not contain a single clear solution .
steven bochco made more creative elbow room on network television with ypd blue, which debuted amid
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hype before settling into what it was one of the last important primetime cop series .
lady catherine, who was played by dame judi dench, is always shown in a sack dress (this purple confection was on show at burghley house in the bow room tin 2005 - 6, and it was magnificent) which would also have be seen as old fashioned in 1796. i can only conclude that the filmmakers wanted to depict lady catherine as grand and slightly set in her ways, which character traits were reflected in her choice of food and of dress. qutie a clever conceit, bearing in mind how stubborn the old bat could be…. .
the film opens with two engineers and entrepreneurs, abe and aaron, building electronics in aaron' s garage. after achieving some success with their latest project — a room temperature superconductor — they discover it has an unexpected side - effect: creating time loops. everything they place inside the box runs back and forth through time for roughly 1300 iterations .
once again i should like to thank the burghley house preservation trust, the house manager and the room stewards for all their kindness and assistance shown to me when i visited burghley to prepare this post .
julia barker lives in houston, is married with two children, and barely makes ends meet. she also has begun having visions of a room - - stark, vacuous and industrial. after waking up from a minor car accident near george bush airport, julia follows her vision to new york city. once there, she searches for the room, which insinuates itself more and more forcefully into her consciousness .
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the hard work was worth it as simpson shocked the mostly all - male crew when she first walked on the baton rouge, louisiana, film set .
showgirls (1995) this much - reviled film got new life as a midnight movie in 1996: audience choreography and mimicry of the camp dialogue ensued .
part 16: (white house reception room, early evening) mary lincoln cautiously greets leading radicals in the receiving line for the grand reception and engages in a particularly tension - filled conversation with thaddeus stevens .
the science - fiction psychological thriller was the debut film of writers / directors eric bress and j. mackye gruber. it used chaos theory as the premise of its ludicrous plot (similar to a negative reversal of it' s a wonderful life (1946) ), stated in the film' s opening :
meanwhile, the cult of the room grows. increasingly, the laemmle sunset 5 shows the movie on two screens, due to demand. fans have begun to re - create scenes and post them on youtube. wiseau is mulling the possibility of turning the film into a broadway musical and would like to dub it in french and spanish for a possible european theatrical release. he also, ambitiously, wants to screen the room at the staples center, which has a seating capacity of 20, 000. ”we live in america. so everything is possible! ” he says .
the aliens in this film, called mimics, are beautifully imagined as a mass of dark tentacles with a head. by beautiful, i mean absolutely frightening .
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it seems odd that a mountain lion would break into a second floor motel room, but the city of pasadena does warn that the wild predators frequent the city. the imagery in the neon demon is often times not so subtle but in your face. the image of the mountain lion tearing up the motel room is surreal, and i think this is one way that refn is setting up audiences for what is to come .
ultimately, it really doesn’t matter whether the comedy in the film is intentional or accidental. wiseau always planned for the room to provoke a reaction and entertain, and it has certainly done both those things. and how many other independent filmmakers can claim to have entranced — and even influenced — such a roll call of comedic luminaries? ”anything that i’ve seen that many times seeps into my subconscious, ” says david wain. ”in the same way that steve martin or woody allen movies became part of my vocabulary, that’s what happened with the room. i’m laughing just thinking about it! ”
the room opened at a handful of cinemas in l. a. on june 27, 2003. the director, who self - distributed the movie, offered a free soundtrack cd for ticket buyers, and promoted the film with a tv and print campaign that compared the room to the work of tennessee williams. wiseau rented a billboard on highland avenue, which featured a close - up of his glowering visage, and submitted the film to the academy awards, without success. cast member robyn paris recalls the film’s premiere screening as ”a big deal. tommy rode in a limousine. there was a spotlight set up. it was pretty packed. everyone in the theater was crying with laughter. ” not everyone found the film so amusing, however. variety critic scott foundas noted that it ”may be something of a first: a movie that prompts most of its viewers to ask for their money back — before even 30 minutes have passed. ” foundas also called wiseau ”a narcissist nonpareil whose movie makes vincent gallo’s the brown bunny seem the apotheosis of cinematic self - restraint. ”
oh, what a room! thank you so much for this series set inside burghley house, julie. i’m enjoying it immensely, and you’re making it swiftly move up the list of “places to visit next. ”
early in the film, there' s a striking image. we see a vast empty room, with rows of what look like abandoned lunchroom tables. then we see the room when it was enron' s main trading floor, with countless computer monitors on the tables and hundreds of traders on the phones. two vast staircases sweep up from either side of the trading floor to the aeries of lay and skilling, whose palatial offices overlook the traders. they look like the stairway to heaven in that old david niven movie, but at the end they only led down, down, down .
a man gets violently drunk and is chained to the wall in a police station. his friend comes and bails him out. while the friend is making a telephone call, the man disappears from an empty city street in the middle of the night. the man regains consciousness in what looks like a shabby hotel room. a bed, a desk, a tv, a bathroom cubicle. there is a steel door with a slot near the floor for his food tray. occasionally a little tune plays, the room fills with gas, and when he regains consciousness the room has been cleaned, his clothes have been changed, and he has received a haircut .
henry' s film is beautifully shot and extraordinarily well acted by williams, whose face alone says everything about the plight of working mothers who can no longer make ends meet .
century, the global staging of a wedding last spring reminds us of the popular fascination that this particular royal dynasty continues to hold. the ensemble of the film: acting ,
if the room is the citizen kane of bad movies, that makes tommy wiseau the orson welles of crap. wiseau — who speaks with a thick, schwarzeneggerian accent — directed, wrote, and produced the film. the muscled auteur also plays the cuckolded johnny, and, when not exposing his ivory rump in the film’s sex scenes, gives a performance that’s both heartfelt and berserk. in one scene, a vein - poppingly distraught wiseau howls the line, ”you are tearing me apart, lisa! ” the moment — a favorite of room fans — is reminiscent of both james dean’s ”you’re tearing me apart! ” howl in rebel without a cause and marlon brando screaming ”stella! ” in a streetcar named desire. at least it would be, if those actors had chosen to play their parts as deranged austrians .
the story behind how she beat spears for the role in the audition room face - off shows simpson is not as silly as viewers of her bare - it - all reality tv program, newlyweds: nick and jessica, portrayed her .
writer / director rian johnson' s modern - day film noir (with hard - boiled 40s lingo), was set in a southern california (san clemente) high school .
a shorter version of this article appeared in film ireland, issue 138, autumn 2011. thanks to cc for the copy, as for thoughtful contributions and sp for paris screening .
poorly written, acted and executed, yet entertaining to an extent amidst all the disaster. the room, though sacred and notorious for one tommy wiseau, is so terrible it' s great in its cult - like way. 1 / 5
the male characters were like the girlfriends of other films. they’re plot devices. they’re there to tell a certain part of the story mechanically. in the end, the film is all about women, ” refn says, pointing out that the guys disappear about halfway through the movie. “they were no longer needed in the film, so i took them out. ”
quite possibly the single nerdiest film ever made, and one that brings technical jargon to a new art form, it is also one of the most believable via its starkly straightforward presentation .
from being hit by a large truck which kills her friends. everyone is taken in for questioning and after hearing of the events of the first film they all storm off. soon after
the direction was about as average as average gets, resulting in a movie that looks like the epitome of what an independent movie looks like. if you’ve seen one you’ve seen them all, and room offers not one ounce of originality or style .
primer is a 2004 independent film, written and directed by shane carruth. (also produced by shane carruth, starring shane carruth, edited by shane carruth, shane carruth as director of photography and with a soundtrack composed by shane carruth .) it was made on a minuscule budget of $ 7, 000, most of which went towards buying film stock. the film is a character - driven drama about two engineers who unexpectedly create a time machine, and an examination of how time travel (and the power it confers) affects them and their friendship .
the controversy - provoking film ended with a shocking, melodramatic plot twist to explain bud' s complex personality and downer mood throughout the film. bud' s intense guilt about abandoning her and his continuing crisis of masculine insecurity were informed by the appearance of the deceased daisy (in his mind only !) - as bud had been masturbating alone to his memory of her .
enron: the smartest guys in the room tells the inside story of the spectacular rise and fall of one of the most scandal - ridden corporations in american history. based on the best - selling book of the same name, this film takes a look at the collapse of the once seventh - largest company in the united states, where executives misappropriated billions of dollars, leaving investors scrambling and ruining the life - savings of thousands of employees .
it isn' t an easy film, but the world' s already got plenty of easy and easily digestible films. nervy and confounding pictures, however, we could use more of .
the original title for the first film was flight 180. had this title been kept, it wouldn' t have made as much sense with the rest of the films in the series .
a mobster in therapy, having problems with his mother ,
was how the sopranos initially sparked, according to creator david chase, though he was thinking about the premise for a feature film .
second hand storytelling: half the reason the film is so mind screwy is because several key events are described rather than shown — and the characters doing the describing would rather be laconic than descriptive .
the remainder of the film demonstrated the repercussions of his intrusive changes that often brought unexpected side - effects or results. evan became a number of different alternate individuals with varying futures, for example :
the character david wallace is named after literary writer david foster wallace. michael schur is a fan of his, and even owns the film rights to his magnum opus ,
infinite jest
.
everyone has an agenda. that' s what it seems like to collin, a man used to being in charge who, after going on the run, wakes up to find himself in a stark white room with seemingly no... see full summary »
outland was in the vanguard for its use of layered front - screen projection. plus, it has one of the first gruesome images in mainstream film of a man popping like a tomato in space .
the film was accused of having an overly - protracted and lengthy story until the final 10 - 15 minutes. recurring symbols included mirrors (and mirror images of originals) and a mystery doppelganger woman .
but she is looking for the right thing to spark her interest. asked if she has ever considered trying to tackle a big - budget studio franchise film, like a superhero movie, she paused .
the day before, jolie' s latest directorial effort, the emotionally wrenching cambodian - genocide drama
first they killed my father ,
had its north american premiere at the telluride film festival. the crowd gave the film the kind of reception any director would dream of, with cheers and tears in equal measure, while critics took to twitter to proclaim it jolie' s best work as a director .
the only trustworthy individual in the entire film, hardbodies' manager and ex - greek orthodox priest ted treffon (richard jenkins), linda' s boss, agreed to help her find missing employee chad .
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she’s alone in a strange place and has a few adventures, and by “adventures” i mean she meets a loser in a bar, takes him back to her motel room for the night, then runs into an old friend from texas who has changed her name and is now a struggling actress in new york. while searching for this mysterious room, she stumbles into some kind of support group, then sneaks out again. at her friend’s insistence, she contacts a real estate agent in hopes she can help julia find this room, but, again, has no luck. then someone hands her an envelope on the street with a big red arrow on it. this is the key, she decides, and follows a series of chalk arrows around town until she gets to the place she is sure she’s been searching so desperately for .
when p aranoid treasury agent harry realized that he had killed chad, believing him to be a spy, he tried to board a plane to venezuela (a country that didn' t allow extradition) but was arrested and held in a detention room at washington - dulles airport .
in the season three opener ,
gay witch hunt
, michael holds a homosexual meeting in the conference room. the writers wrote for michael to hug oscar nuñez. but steve carell improvised when he kissed nuñez. the shock and horror on oscar' s face is legitimate .
it... may be the longest 75 - minute film in the history of cinema - - there was a clock check 25 minutes in, after thinking' this has got to be almost over.'
westworld offers up a mixture of early ‚äò70s pop psychology and a jaundiced view of unchecked technology. between this film and the stepford wives, it' s surprising that the animatronics industry didn' t go under .
this opening scene is also about setting the tone for the entire film. is this reality or is it something else? refn wants the viewer to keep asking themselves this question while watching his film. the final act of the neon demon answers the question, and the answer might not be what everyone was expecting or wanting. that in mind, refn has said that he felt the whole movie was about that last scene :
there are some changes in the set between the first season and the subsequent ones. the exterior of the building is completely different in the first season than what' s used afterward. also, the wall in between michael' s office and the conference room (the one, in which andy punches a hole) is much thinner in the first season. also, in the first season there is a door to the left of the break room door. now there is just a door between creed' s desk and oscar, kevin, and angela' s island .
the room is a san francisco - set love triangle involving a banker named johnny, his friend mark, and johnny’s fiancée lisa, who is sleeping with both men. the film does seem to be beset with problems. various subplots are inadequately resolved or simply disappear altogether, including the throwaway revelation that lisa’s mother is suffering from cancer. the film’s many rooftop shots feature an unrealistic san francisco backdrop, thanks to some less - than - impressive greenscreen work. there are lengthy, unerotic sex scenes, the last of which prompts a section of the audience to depart the auditorium temporarily in mock protest. finally, in one sequence, a sharp bone seems about to erupt from lisa’s neck for no reason at all .
the film taps into every person' s innate fears of space, and reminds us that the universe outside our planet is vast, empty, and hostile to humans. gravity stays with you long after watching it .
director jennifer chambers lynch' s (david lynch' s daughter) directorial debut film was an erotic and disturbing psychosexual work of incestuous obsession, using the armless venus de milo statue as a major symbol and metaphor .
after the reveal of the mountain lion in jesse’s room, keanu reeves’s character hank doesn’t jump to protect jesse. instead he blames her for leaving the patio door open. is the mountain lion a metaphor for how jesse had left the door open which had allowed monsters to come into her life ?
unbreakable (2000). shyamalan' s most unusual and most underrated film, a grave, dour superhero saga that eschews the usual spandex accoutrements. it also gets my vote for best (and least anticipated) ending .
the film opens on jesse (elle fanning) laying down in a blue dress covered in blood laying totally lifeless. or as refn has described it, “elle fanning lying on the couch, covered in blood. death and beauty. snow white just died. ” moments later we realize that jesse isn’t dead, the scene was created for a fashion photoshoot. its this imagery that inspired the rest of the film. refn told ew the following :
and the day of the triffids adds a second element of horror beyond killer vegetation: a meteor shower leaves a large part of the population blind. the film works best in detailing the breakdown of society following a widespread calamity .
women around the world may have been envious of her body, but simpson has never been comfortable showing it off, whether she is shooting a scene in a film or video clip or relaxing on a beach during a holiday .
jolie' s path to
first they killed my father
had begun in 2000, when she traveled to cambodia to star in a very different kind of film, the action blockbuster
lara croft: tomb raider .
, editing, music, narrative disables critique and takes us to empathy. this is a quite arbitrary outcome, the same plot process could work for opposite ends: guevara' s asthma, gramsci' s hunchback, gandhi' s debilitating hookworm infection. unsurprisingly the english of a conservative disposition love the film, seemingly it is exotic enough for americans too. the effect is widespread, a friend who saw the film in a cinema in north paris, a
and this magnificent 19th century silver racing trophy, together with, on the window sill, a silver model of the 3rd marquess of exeter as colonel of the northamptonshire regiment, made in 1888, were not seen in the film .
the air of world - weary sadness that hung over the denizens of the 12th precinct made barney miller feel different from other sitcoms, quieter in personality and more offbeat cops in action via inaction, dragging themselves around the squad room like drones in an office otherwise made colorful by the perps coming in off the street .
. every aspect of his film falls so far short of the normal and the natural that wiseau aspires to replicate. although audiences' laughter tends to be scornful and disparaging, not life - enhancing, the joke may be on us -
the fact is that wiseau has succeeded where so many big - screen hopefuls have failed. he has made his mark. true, it may not be quite the one he intended. but he has proved, without a doubt, that there is a place — that there is room — in hollywood for tommy wiseau .
christopher orr is a senior editor and the principal film critic at the atlantic. he has written on movies for the new republic, la weekly, salon, and the new york sun, and has worked as an editor for numerous publications .
part 33: (hotel, washington, late night) the disheveled, exhausted lobbyists are gathered in their hotel room. seward enters with lincoln in tow. the men are stunned. bilbo even curses. lincoln discusses strategy with them and begins firing off a series of critical directives, especially regarding a pennsylvania democrat named alexander coffroth .
thank you so much for this whole series of posts re the film and tv show locations – i’m enjoying all the posts and appreciate your attention to detail. many details you’ve pointed out are of elements i never noticed before even after countless viewings !
there are many different iterations of this wells text, from orson welles' s radio play to the esoteric 1978 rock opera featuring members of the moody blues to spielberg' s 9 / 11 - informed film version. but this one is still the best .
it was an auspicious launch into the awards - season fray for the film, which was released by netflix on friday via streaming and in 10 theaters nationwide and has been selected by cambodia as the country' s official entry for the foreign - language oscar .
with her lawyer' s advice, katie copied all of her husband osbourne' s financial records from his computer onto a cd and began to empty his accounts. when the lawyer' s secretary accidentally left the disk on the floor of the locker room at a health club called hardbodies, two idiotic employees cooked up a preposterous scheme to make some quick money :
the film was co - written by michael cimino, who would later make the deer hunter, and steven bochco, who' d later make, among other things, hill street blues. the director, douglas trumbull, is one of the most respected special - effects wizards out there, getting his start with short films for the 1964 world' s fair and still working on projects such as tree of life. i mention all this so you' ll keep your mind off the dreadful joan baez song that nearly ruins the entire film .
the film' s plot twist was revealed when their discussion came to a close. when he returned to the scene of the rape, an ambulance had already arrived at the scene, and he sadly kissed her corpse on a stretcher. the film' s ending gave greater meaning to everything that came before, including the sex scene. it was revealed that daisy had in fact died as a result of the incident (choking to death on her own vomit) -
i was dead
- and was later taken away in the ambulance .
late - night showings of cult films such as the rocky horror picture show and the big lebowski are known for their rowdy and strange behavior too. but people who go to see rocky horror and lebowski think those films are good. tonight’s movie, an obscure, five - year - old drama called the room, holds a different place in the hearts of those present at west hollywood’s laemmle sunset 5. ”it’s absolutely terrible, ” says chris bonk, a talent - agency assistant who has seen the film more than 15 times. ”the script is not the best. the acting is certainly not the best. the music is horrible. ”
everyone has an agenda. that' s what it seems like to collin, a man used to being in charge who, after going on the run, wakes up to find himself in a stark white room with seemingly no power over his surroundings. as collin struggles to understand his current predicament he is vexed by three entirely different beings: the hulking cal, who attempts to physically intimidate him by battering him into submission; the confusing claudia, who batters his mind by talking in circles always keeping the truth just out of reach; and the alluring clover, who tries to charm him into her way of thinking. collin is forced to trust one of them. if he chooses wrong, he may never get out of the room .
his secrecy has been key to the film’s success. (as wain puts it, ”part of the fun is guessing: who is this guy? where is he from? why did he shoot on a greenscreen instead of going up on a roof? ”) his ed wood - like innocence and enthusiasm for moviemaking has helped as well: rudd declined to talk about the room for this article because he didn’t want to ”mock somebody else’s stuff. ” and lo truglio later got back in touch, concerned that he had been too harsh about wiseau. ”it is a guilty pleasure in every sense of the word, ” he says of the movie .
my viewing has prompted a deep dive into interviews and analysis of the film, and i thought i’d share some of the insights into the neon demon ending, the symbology and metaphors both obvious and more hidden. i’ll also attempt to answer some of your the neon demon questions .
past the initial premise and some cool - for - its - day opening computer graphics, escape from new york is a film that' s actually better in your memory than in reality—though nothing can take away from the chandeliers fixed to the hood of isaac hayes' s car .
in the end, betrayal, greed, and violent murders were the results of their misguided scheme. harry was being followed throughout the entire film by a lawyer' s agent hired by his wife sandy - she was secretly planning to divorce harry and was also having an affair .
in the film' s most notorious, explicit and controversial scene of unsimulated fellatio at the finale, bud and daisy were in a starkly - white hotel room - both lonely and needy individuals who were attempting to connect and speak to each other. after kissing and fondling of her naked breasts, as he stood before her at the side of the bed, he undid his belt buckle, released his pant' s fly, and she took his male member into her mouth to begin the infamous' blow - job' scene - as he held himself. as she pleasured him in her mouth, they still engaged in a conversation about their love for each other .
sunshine isn' t just a dynamite science - fiction film; it is a marvelous look at a group of desperate people coming together to face an impossible challenge. the score by john murphy and underworld is absolutely what i want to be playing when my body is liquefied by solar flares .
yes, midnight - movie maniacs love rollerball because it has james caan killing people with a spiked glove in a psychotic roller derby. but beyond the popcorn spectacle, the movie is actually a well - thought - out (and wonderfully shot) dystopian film with great performances and fantastic interior spaces .
this is not a political documentary. it is a crime story. no matter what your politics ,
enron: the smartest guys in the room
will make you mad. it tells the story of how enron rose to become the seventh largest corporation in america with what was essentially a ponzi scheme, and in its last days looted the retirement funds of its employees to buy a little more time .
the most shocking material in the film involves the fact that enron cynically and knowingly created the phony california energy crisis. there was never a shortage of power in california. using tape recordings of enron traders on the phone with california power plants, the film chillingly overhears them asking plant managers to
get a little creative
in shutting down plants for
repairs .
between 30 percent and 50 percent of california' s energy industry was shut down by enron a great deal of the time, and up to 76 percent at one point, as the company drove the price of electricity higher by nine times .
early in the film, jesse meets three women: jena malone who plays make - up artist ruby, and her two model friends gigi (bella heathcote) and sarah (abbey lee). each of the women represent a different aspect of beauty. refn explains as much in an interview with slant :
whedon' s futuristic wild west of space pirates and psychic ing√©nues shows how an ostensibly benevolent government can transform into an evil empire. despite the will of the entire internet, there will never, ever be a sequel, even though orson scott card has called this the best science - fiction film ever .
in commercial travel ,
final destination
is a quasi - industry term that refers to a passenger' s ultimate intended location. for the franchise, it' s an obvious metaphor for death; the ultimate fate or
destination
that everyone has. the title carries this double - meaning specifically concerning the events of the first film. however, it may vaguely apply to the next 3 films in the way that the subsequent events are all possibly byproducts of a ripple - effect created by the survivors of flight 180. the 5th film of course is the big exception as it takes place prior to the crash .
tommy wiseau insists that he ”really doesn’t know” how the film fared at the box office on its initial release. however, one industry source states that the combined gross from the two - week run at two theaters — the laemmle fallbrook and fairfax — was just $ 1, 900. michael rousselet, a young screenwriter who seems to be patient zero of the film’s cult, says he first caught the movie at an ”absolutely empty” theater. ”it was like our own private mystery science theater, ” he says. ”i was calling friends during the end and saying, ‘you have to come to this movie. ’ we saw it four times in three days, and on the last day i had over 100 people there. ” soon, screenings of the room were thick with both laughter and cutlery. ”the spoon thing probably started during the fourth screening with my friends, ” says rousselet. ”i was like, why is there a spoon in the picture frame? every time it came up, i’d scream ‘spoon! ’ so we brought spoons. ”
room is a 2005 independent drama film written and directed by kyle henry and starring cyndi williams . the screenplay concerns a woman who abandons her family to follow a vision . 
room is a 2005 independent drama film written and directed by kyle henry and starring cyndi williams. the screenplay concerns a woman who abandons her family to follow a vision.
room is a 2005 independent drama film written and directed by kyle henry and starring cyndi williams. the screenplay concerns a woman who abandons her family to follow a vision.