Saving Mr Banks - Reviews coming in...

[DAME]

Posted: 10/20/13 at 7:54pm

Nice one from Variety
http://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/film-review-saving-mr-banks-1200745274/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breakingnewsalert

[N2N Nate.]

Posted: 10/20/13 at 8:12pm

Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/10375018/Saving-Mr-Banks-first-review.html

Hollywood Reporter: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie/saving-mr-banks/review/649638

Hitfix: http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/review-tom-hanks-and-emma-thompson-play-out-another-kind-of-disney-fairytale-in-saving-mr-banks/1

Playlist: http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/bfi-london-film-festival-review-saving-mr-banks-with-emma-thompson-tom-hanks-20131020

[CapnHook]

Posted: 10/20/13 at 9:43pm

I'm very pleased to read that it's not a royal F-up. I'm trying my best not to get my hopes up on this film. These reviews are helping...so far, at least.

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 12:05am

Here is a clip of Walt and P.L. meeting for the first time.


Walt Disney meets P.L. Travers in first clip from 'Saving Mr. Banks' -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 6:26am

I have a few friends who have seen this already. One, admittedly is an editor at Disney who has seen it multiple times, and although he hasn't confirmed it, I think he's editing the trailers for this movie.

All of them have told me the movie is excellent. They've also told me it's darker in tone than they thought it would be, which is fine with me.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 10:49am

Interview with Richard Sherman

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 12:00pm

More great buzz for the film.


Cheers, Tears and Awards Buzz for the 3-Hankie ‘Banks’

[DAME]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 12:29pm

There are some Academy and union screenings starting next week in NY and LA.

[Wildcard]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 1:11pm

Saw the movie a while back. It's a very good movie though not the year's best picture for me. Emma Thompson will likely get a nomination for it. It's really her movie which makes me happy since they say women her age don't get good roles in Hollywood. Tom Hanks is pretty much in a supporting role. Naturally, the storyline is skewed to favor Disney as my readings after seeing the movie have shown that the outcome of events didn't really end as the movie would have you believe.

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 2:42pm

"Tom Hanks is pretty much in a supporting role."

I'm glad to know that it is because after seeing his brilliant performance in 'Captain Phillips' I was hoping he would be nominated for both roles. He can compete for Best Supporting Actor in this film.

[finebydesign]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 5:02pm

The script for this film was made a big splash a while back the film is probably pretty good.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 8:01pm

"It's really her movie which makes me happy since they say women her age don't get good roles in Hollywood."

They say that. People believe it. People constantly repeat it as if it were proof incontestable.

But is it true?

This year's oscar hopefuls include Streep (64), Blanchett (44), Bullock (49), Dench (7, Thompson (54), Adams (39), Delpy (43), Winslet (3, Bejo (37), and in supporting roles Winfrey (59), Squibb (83), Hawkins (37), Roberts (47), Paulson (3, Spencer (43) and Martindale (62).

Hardly the Mickey Mouse Club.

In contrast, female oscar hopefuls under 35 could probably be counted on one hand: Exarchapolous, Lawrence, Nyong'o, Mulligan and maybe one or two others.


Sorry about the unintentional emoticons above. That sunny face is an eight.





Updated On: 11/9/13 at 08:01 PM

[nygrl232]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 9:34pm

Most of the Best Actress Oscar winners over the last ten years were under 35. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Best_Actress_winners_by_age

Updated On: 11/8/13 at 09:34 PM

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 11/10/13 at 4:26pm

by the way I forgot to include Julia Louis Dreyfus (52) among the women who've gotten the best roles on screen this year .

True about younger oscar actresses, but if you look beyond the single Academy winner and the more interesting roles for women in any given year, I still disagree that mature women are not given the best roles. For instance, last year's best actress nominees included the youngest and oldest ever nominated, a child in a breakthrough performance and an octogenarian legend lighting up the screen, and while a young star won (for her third great role in as many years), the fourth and fifth nominees were 35 and 45. Not nominated hopefuls included Cotillard (37) and Weisz (43), bona fide movie stars at the height of their careers. The year before that, you had Streep and Close, both in their 60s, Viola Davis, in her mid to late 40s, one actress in her 30s and another in her 20s. And the year before that you had three young actresses competing with Bening and Kidman. The year before that you had Streep, Mirren and Bullock competing with the young Mulligan and younger Sidibe. Clearly,these talents represent a range of roles.

According to Forbes Hollywood's ten highest paid actresses (2011) were Angelina Jolie (3 Sarah Jessica Parker (4, Jennifer Aniston (44), Reese Witherspoon (36) and Julia Roberts (46), followed by Kristen Stewart (23), Katherine Heigl (34), Cameron Diaz (41), Sandra Bullock (49), Meryl Streep (64) - that makes one out of ten in her 20s, two out of ten under 35 (one just a year under 35), and 5 out of 10 in their 40s.



Updated On: 11/10/13 at 04:26 PM

[nygrl232]

Posted: 11/10/13 at 5:22pm

But the younger ones tend to win, was my point. Just an observation. As for age, we're too obsessed. Not sure where all that crap comes from.

[Jonwo]

Posted: 11/11/13 at 7:55pm

Saw a screening today and its a very good film, as has been mentioned its actually darker than you would expect but this is balanced with hilarious moments, Emma Thompson as PL Travers is excellent as is Tom Hanks as Walt. Disney themselves do poke some fun about itself in this film which I didn't expect them to do and the fact that Walt is depicted quite fairly with flaws intact rather than the Uncle Walt image.

I think it will be nominated for awards, not sure it'll win but I hope that if this does well financially, we might see more of these type of films from Disney, maybe the Jim Henson biopic.

[nygrl232]

Posted: 11/12/13 at 1:00am

Bet they cast Ryan Gosling as Jim Henson.

[pli1018]

Posted: 11/15/13 at 9:42pm

Just caught this today and really enjoyed it. I'm a big Disney fan, but one that fears the company has lost its sense of humor. The film proves they still have it, to a degree. I was relieved to see Walt not portrayed as this Christ-like figure, but I don't know how much further they would have gone had he been the focus of a film. I doubt there will be any sort of Walt biopic being made any time soon.

This is absolutely Thompson's movie and she, like Travers, commands your attention and keeps this film moving. She brings so much humor to such a cold figure but also rips your heart apart, it's the kind of role any actress would kill for. (Streep was the first choice) She is superb in this and will certainly be nominated, as will the film. Wins? I don't know, though the past two Best Picture winners had an element of the "magic of movies."