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'Finally, came the evening's climax and highlight: a performance of Reich's "Music For 18 Musicians", one of the most sustained and beautiful feats of contrapuntal music—the Matterhorn for mallet instrumentalists. At its core lie two syncopated xylophones keeping up a steady melodic pulse, while around it amass marimbas, a vibraphone, a violin, a cello, bass clarinets, soprano voices and two pianos, all fading in and out but keeping the same quick, shimmering tempo, passing in, through and around one another, like intersecting shoals of fish, or as if the orchestra had formed a single organism and we were hearing its breath. Like surgeons attending the same patient, the musicians stand mostly—I haven't see so many quietly pistoning elbows since Kraftwerk played at MoMA. Occasionally one will leave, or move to another instrument: at one point, the vibraphone player got up and joined Reich at his piano to provide some top notes, like someone espying a spare body part at an orgy. You think that too sexual a simile for music so mathematical? Reich's time in Africa in the early seventies paid off; his absorption of black rhythms have placed him accidentally but fascinatingly close to the mainstream of modern pop and dance music. His music moves from the hips — it's funky. When London DJs spotted the crossover between classical minimalism and Deep House—the trance-like rhythms, the cyclical repetition—it was Reich's work they sampled and pillaged. Radiohead's Johnny Greenwood performed a portion of Reich's "Electric Counterpoint" at Glastonbury this year, and has an album of the full work coming out this month. Glass builds impossible castles in the sky, great teetering structures that seem to just hang there, unattached to anything except one man's will that they exist. But Reich is connected to the ground. He burrows and builds. It's only afterwards that the size and beauty of what he has built hits you, and when it does it hits you in the solar plexus.'
Sep 12, 2014
From my review for Intelligent Life:—
Sep 8, 2014
'I'm a little worried ahead of meeting Al Pacino how crazy he's going to be. On the evidence of his latest film: very crazy. The film is actually two films. One is a production of Oscar Wilde's play Salome. The other is a documentary about the making of the first in the style of his previous Looking for Richard, a marvelous mosie around the highways and byway of Shakespeare's Richard III that set up a marvellous consonance with Pacino's early roles, with Shakespeare's anti-hero emerging as a kind of prototype gangster: Corleone with a crown.As Herod in Salome, he holds court in the declamatory, reach-for the-rafters style of his work after Scent of a Woman. Jessica Chastain plays the Biblical temptress who has John the Baptist beheaded — her first film role. Or so Pacino could claim in 2006 when he started filming. By the time he was done, in 2011, another five filmmakers had beaten him to the punch and cast Chastain in their films. One of his collaborators even had time to write and publish a book about Pacino's travails with the project, which finally, after losing American distribution, premieres at the South Bank Centre on the 7th, where Pacino will also appear in person, alongside Chastain, to talk about the project. You half expect to look up and seem him personally threading the film through the projector.
"It has plagued me," Pacino tells me when I meet him at his house in Beverly Hills, a large mansion house hidden from the street by carefully groomed shrubbery and trees. In the sitting room, CNN plays on a large plasma TV. Above the fireplace, a poem written by Pacino to his 14-year-old daughter Olivia. Next door, a room with some gym equipment and a painted portrait of Pacino, of whom there is no sign until, from upstairs sounds a loud yelp, followed by a faintly recognizable "Oooooh…" Pacino has just stepped on his daughter's pet dog. "My children are all over the place," he explains, leading me to the large, white verandah deck out front, where a chess set sits by one of the windows. The house is a rental. He's been here about ten years now. "I've always expected to go home to New York, and I'm still expecting to go," he says. He is wearing a black v-neck t-shirt and gym pants, a leather necklace and bracelet, his goatee trim and dark; his hair tousled and bed-headish. Talking, he runs his hand through it, as if to check it's still there, or untangle it. He doesn't seem crazy — or anything like the kohl-eyed wild man who drags his production of Salome through hell, high water, and bad reviews in his behind-the-scenes doc, a fascinating collision of Wilde's Salome and Pacino's celebrity in which nobody quite emerges the winner. Pacino is seen arguing with his producers over whether it should be two films or one ("fuck em"). He frays the nerves of his editor with hundreds of miles of footage. "Al doesn't know what he'd doing," confides one of his collaborators who retitled the project Salomaybe. It's by far the more compelling performance — not Pacino as Herod, but Pacino as Pacino, brooding and wild-eyed, the emperor calling his own bluff, wondering aloud if he can make the centre hold, or if he isjust high on his own powers of bamboozlement.
You know what it is, is you get a little moody, and you just take the mood and enlarge it because you know the cameras are rolling," he says. "You know it may be good for the film, but I'm glad you felt it because there was some stuff going on. To be honest, I didn't know where I was going. I thought, why am I doing this? Many times. I still do. I could feel the 'why' as I watched it. I could feel, what's Al on about? What is he doing? I know what I was trying to do. I think I was trying to bring an obsession to light. There's something about it that it just takes you over, because it's about that thing, that passion, that unrequited passion that drives us sometimes and destroys us. I love that. It just ruins your life."
— from my Sunday Times interview
Aug 16, 2014
Aug 12, 2014
Aug 9, 2014
My Woody Allen top ten
1. Annie Hall
2. Purple Rose of Cairo
3. Sleeper
4. Manhattan
5. Zelig
5. Stardust Memories
6. Manhattan Murder Mystery
7. Bullets Over Broadway
9. Bananas
10. Radio Days
REVIEW: The Hundred Foot Journey
From my Guardian review:—
'A snobby French restuarateur. An Indian chef who cooks with splices from his dead mother. A cute French waif who rides a bicycle through idyllic rural France. Young love! Old recipes! With cardamons on top! Sounds like a Lasse Hallström movie. This one comes to us from Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey, who turned Richard C Morais's book into bestseller. The title refers to the distance between two restaurants, but it turns out to mean so much more than that. It's symbolic of the gulf that separated cultures, peoples, individual human hearts, and, in most probably, the contractually agreed distance that had to be maintained around the parking spaces of its superstar-producers during filming. Helen Mirren plays the forbiddingly proper Madame Mallory, owner of the hugely successful Le Saule Pleureur restaurant, in the absurdly picaresque town of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val, where she serves immaculate portions of classical French cooking, to a clientele that includes the President of France. Her noise hoists even higher in the air, when, into the abandoned restaurant on the opposite side of her quiet, rural road, moves a boisterous family of Indian emigrees, headed by Papa Kadam (Om Puri), to set up an Indian restaurant. How they can afford it, when they have just moved out from under the flight-path at Heathrow is something of a mystery, but up it goes, a big garish thing, with a cut-out of the Taj Mahal in front, and the name "Maison Mumbai" spelled out in huge fairy-lights, so we find it magical, but with the 'U' on the blink, to make sure we find it quirky. Poor India. The country was just inches from a clean getaway — Ghandi was a distant memory, Monsoon Wedding had just about blown over — and along comes Slumdog Millionaire and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel to revive the whole sorry trope of the sitar-strumming, mystically inclined subcontinent. Naturally, Papa Kadam spends much time communing with his dead wife, whose spices are sprinkled into the dishes of his eldest son Hassan (Manish Dayal), a gifted chef and Papa's secret weapon in the restaurant war to come. "Curry is curry is it not?" sniffs Mirren in one of several lines which cunningly alert us as to the correct direction of our sympathies. "Its called subtlety of taste," says Mirren after Hassan sprinkles spices onto pigeon fermier rôti aux épices douces. Boo Hiss! Down with French gastro-snobs! "Its called meanness of spirit," replies Papa Kadam. Yay for Indian spices and color and fairy-lights with a single letter on the fritz! All the food looks amazing — shot in swishy slo-mo by cinematographer Linus Sandgren, it is swept onto tables to full with orchestral accompaniment — but the movie so stacks the deck against snobs, vaguely and variously defined as "anyone wishing to use a cook-book","French people who insist on speaking French", and "people who don't like loud music or curry", that it's hard not to feel a little sympathy for the poor, black-hearted creatures. Why shouldn't madame Mallory object to the blasting of bombastic Indian house music, modeled on 'Jai Ho', day and night? And why should she be forced to watch Hassan sprinkle cardomons into bœuf bourguignon and applaud him for the heresy?'
Aug 6, 2014
And for my next trick.....
Book news. My Scorsese retrospective is at the printers, and should be in book stores by late September. Not wishing to loiter, and a firm believer that the devil finds work for idle hands, etc, I am about to embark on a sequel, for the same publishers, this one a retrospective of the films of Woody Allen, which aims to break away the encrustations and embellishments of "reputation", blow away the cobwebs, and flush out the living, breathing filmmaker underneath — in particular the antic seventies auteur who broke the fourth wall like it was wet tissue paper, threw his camera around with Godardian abandon and raised all sorts of merry hell in the editing suite, but who somehow gets omitted from the mucho-macho Dirty-Dozen-style group portraits that traditionally make up film histories of that decade. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls & Tiger Lillies, as it were.
Jul 23, 2014
Screengrab: Anticipated movies of the Fall
Jul 3, 2014
Best American movies of the last 25 years
A recent Twitter exchange left me all abuzz about my favorite American movies of the last 25 years. After some thought, I have refined the list, which now reads as follows:—
AvatarAvatar for its timely understanding of asymmetric warfare; Before Sunrise because from small acorns etc; Boogie Nights rather than There Will Be Blood for the pleasures of polyphony; Brokeback Mountain for the bottomlessness of Ennis' pain; Eternal Sunshine for its seamless mixture of melancholy, cinematography and ingenuity; Fargo for its formal perfection and use of snow; Goodfellas because it was the closest Scorsese ever came to an account of his Hollywood years; Groundhog Day because because because; Heat rather than Last of the Mohicans for being ultimately the more expressive of Michael Mann's gestalt; Hoop Dreams because it made reality feel as shapely as fiction; The Hurt Locker for it's apolitical excitements; Memento for the revelation that all noir goes backwards; Miller's Crossing for its brains; Mystic River rather than Unforgiven for it's final scene; Pulp Fiction for being better a Godard film than Godard ever made; Rushmore rather than the others for the intimacy of its cast; Schindler's List for the mystery it made of goodness; The Social Network for it's sublime union of Fincher and Sorkin; and Toy Story 3 for its sweet, pleasurable ache, like tiredness felt in the back of a car headed home.
Before Sunrise
Boogie Nights
Brokeback Mountain
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Groundhog Day
Hoop Dreams
The Hurt Locker
Miller's Crossing
Mystic River
Pulp Fiction
Schindler's List
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
Jul 2, 2014
The fine art of being swept up, up and away
From my column about film scores for Intelligent Life:—
'If there's any big news from the world of film scores over the last few years, it is the replacement of the old symphonic model represented by Williams — the last of an old guard that includes Bernard Hermann, Jerry Goldsmith and Elmer Bernstein — with a generation fully cognizant of the musical challenge presented by the minimalism of Michael Nyman, Glass and Steve Reich, as well as the ambient experimentalism of someone like Brian Eno. As cinema screens have grown ever busier, film scores seem to have emptied out. There's much less 'Peter-and-The-Wolfing', which is to say big themes, spelled out in strings, pegged to specific characters — Lara's Theme, from Doctor Zhivago, for example. Instead you'll find more layering, more washes of sound, less melodies, more rhythms. The work of Thomas Newman is less hummable than it is hypnotic, often marking out empty space with spare, reverb-heavy two-part piano melodies, which step up or down an interval, then hold, as if poised on the edge of something vast. It's horizontal music —the natural accompaniment of landscapes, making him perfect for the empty earthscapes of WALL-E, and the oceanic ambience of Finding Nemo. Mychael Danna did something similar with his Moneyball score: a work of pure, glittering expectation, like a wet lawn at dawn. That's his Gorecki-like ascent of chords you can hear building in the trailer for the new Christopher Nolan epic Interstellar. Stylistically, Williams most immediate heir is Michael Giacchino, who has something of Williams ear for high-vaulting melodic intervals, and is thus a perfect fit for any film that puts a low premium on the forces of gravity. That makes him a busy man, right now — he wrote the beautiful cloud-bound waltz for Up and will be working on the next Star Wars —but not as busy as the French composer Alexander Desplat, whose name so superbly evokes the image of a tomato hitting a wall, and who this year scored the unlikely trio of Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel, Godzilla, and Angelina Jolie's forthcoming world-war II drama about Olympic track star Louis Zamperini, Unbroken. Desplat likes to combine the lush romanticism of Georges Delarue with a rhythmic, backbone of mallet instruments, harps and timpani that somehow recall the inner workings of a grandfather clock: not for nothing did he score David Fincher's backward-ticking biopic, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.'
From James Wolcott's excellent appreciation:-
'Paul Mazursky loved and appreciated actors because he began as one, studying with famed acting teacher Lee Strasberg and appearing on screen in Stanley Kubrick's debut film Fear and Desire and Richard Brooks' The Blackboard Jungle, which daggered the fear of juvenile delinquency into America's breast. Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), Mazursky's nostalgic valentine to theater aspiration and bohemian freedom, brims with affection for acting and actors, the intertwining of vanity and insecurity that twists nerves into knots, when every audition might be the Big Break or another stop on the road to rejection. Such a cast: the improbably young Christopher Walken and Jeff Goldblum, Ellen Greene, Antonio Fargas, Lois Smith, Lenny Baker as Mazursky's autobiographical hero, and Shelley Winters as the Jewish mother of all Jewish mothers, not a suffocater and castrater like Alex Portnoy's gorgon mom looming loudly outside the bathroom door, but a giant matzoh ball barreling down the track. Mazursky's comedies were at their characteristic best when they remained rooted to the stage floor, allowing themselves lots of breathing space for improv, giving the actors elbow room to splay. In 1975, "psychobabble" entered the popular parlance, and Mazursky's urbanites spoke psychobabble fluently, a therapy-speak that derived from the fifty-minute hour on the analyst's couch or chair--a ritual for which Mazursky himself was thoroughly immersed, casting his own therapist to portray one in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Blume in Love, and Willie & Phil, and playing a shrink himself in the ill-fated Faithful (out of kindness we will pass over the fount of wisdom that was real-life psychologist Penelope Russianoff in An Unmarried Woman, whose soothing banalities had reviewers blowing kazoos)--and glossy-magazine trend pieces that furnished the soundbite morsels of cocktail chatter. Jill Clayburgh dancing-prancing around her spacious, sun-filled Upper East Side apartment in t-shirt and panties in An Unmarried Woman was an emancipation proclamation that might have sprung from the pages of New York magazine, where sexual liberation and attractive real estate appeared inseparable for the gal and guy on the go.'
Jun 29, 2014
Jun 28, 2014
REVIEW: TRANSFORMERS: AGE of EXTINCTION (dir. Bay)
From my Guardian review:—
'Extinction really does seem to take an age in this film, its running time distended to a lumbering 144 minutes by Bay's love of check-out-my-shot slow-motion, so we catch the exact angle with which the Transformers pirouette through the air, and the exact number of inches by which they fail to miss an overhead bridge, and the precise scatter-pattern of cratering masonry that results. Extinction really does take an age in this film — the Debbie Does Dallas of destruction porn. The real progenitor of these films is not Steven Spielberg, or even Irwin Allen, but Smokey and the Bandit, Honkytonk Freeway, and all those other Kentucky-fried, demolition derbies that littered up the back end of the seventies with their multiple shunts, pile-ups and smasheroos. "That was insane!" says one young scientist after the Autobots have torn up much of Chicago's Michigan avenue, "It was awesome but it was insane!" It is also curiously boring. One of the stranger aspects of the Transformer oeuvre is that you can watch all four movies back to back, find your eyes comprehensively boggled, your ears played like timpani, and yet discover that your pulse has not deviated once above a steady 60 bpm. Bay has all the attributes of a great action director except the ability to instill fear in an audience. He wants us thrust back in our seats, not on the edge of them, overwhelmed with awesomeness not fretting over what is going to happen next. The summer blockbuster may originally have pitched battle against outsized antagonists — gigantic Death Stars, giant sharks — but their protagonists were pint-sized, Davids plucking up the courage to face Goliath. "Aren't you a little short to be a stormtrooper?" asked a skeptical Princess Leia. ""I don't want to ever feel you could kill that shark," Spielberg told Roy Sheider while shooting Jaws, filling out his cast with uber-nerds, beta-males and lily livers. Bay's snickering giganticism, together with his withering disdain for anything that smacks of weakness, make him very much the man of America's imperial hour. The Transformer movies delivers a Hobbesian vision of man and machine, in which Goliaths are thumped by even bigger Goliaths, only to be creamed by even more vast uber-Goliaths, in infinite regress. Does the inside of Dick Cheney's head look like this?'
Jun 26, 2014
The Actor Who Broke The Movies
From my essay for The Atlantic:—
'... Budd Schulberg's original speech — "I could've been a contender. I could've had class and been somebody. Real class. Instead of a bum, lets face, it, which is what I am" — is streamlined by Brando into the more idiomatic, "I coulda had class, I coulda been a contender, I coulda been somebody — instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it" with the emphasis now falling on Molloy's appalled self-recognition. For The Godfather, he reduced the Don's scripted exchanges by half. "You come into my house on the wedding day of my daughter and you ask me to do murder and you say 'how much shall I pay you?'" becomes "you come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do murder for money", the alliterative disgust of "murder for money" now irresistible, although the real kicker to the scene is, of course, the cat: a stray Brando had spotted on the set, scooped up, and cradled in his lap throughout, the very control required to be so gentle, while so angry, frightening in itself.
Brando touched everything. In that scene in The Godfather alone he touches the cat, his hair, his chin, his cheeks, the chair. He peels hard-boiled eggs in Streetcar, fondles a quarter in The Wild One, picks up Eve Marie Saint's gloves in Waterfront, plays with puppies in Zapata, and lampshades in Last Tango in Paris. "He touched whatever he touched as if it were part of him," wrote David Foster Wallace in a wonderful passage in Infinite Jest, one of the most perceptive things ever written about the actor. "The world he only seemed to manhandle for was him sentient, feeling." Brando's fondlings were a both a means of centring himself in the here-and-now, an instance of rampant scene stealing, and a means of rendering fond communion with the universe, his playful epicureanism often serving as an uncanny premonition of death. Those puppies in Zapata are almost the last thing he touches before he is mown down by federal agents, just as Don Corleone's last act, before the attempt on his life, is to pick out fruit from a vendor's stall ("he points so as not to disturb the vendor display" notes Mizrahi, with pleasing delicacy). Its telling that when asked to name their favorite movies in the 2008 presidential election, John McCain picked Zapata, while Obama went for The Godfather, the rebel and the patriarch, both picks telling you much about the extent to which that presidential contest was fought out between conflicting notions of paternal authority: McCain's maverick instincts honed in the shadow of his famous admiral father, Obama's more patient paternalism a simulacra reconstructed in the absence of his.'
Jun 24, 2014
25th ANNIVERSARY: BATMAN (d. Burton)
"They're saying to me, these record guys, it needs this and that, and they give you this whole thing about it's an expensive movie so you need it. And what happens is, you get engaged in this world, and then there's no way out. There's too much money. My major concern is that there is so much awareness and hype. I keep thinking, 'I hope there's a movie attached to all of this'." — Tim Burton
What is hype, exactly? Where does it come from? Newspapers use the word to refer to the the publicity blitzes concocted by the studios —"studio hype." The studios, on the other hand, use it to describe the self-induced feeding frenzy of the press — "media hype." The film director, meanwhile, sits in the middle, observing that it has a "life of its own." Hype, it seems, is something a catch-all, a nonce-word, covering a multitude of sins, none of them ever your own. I anticipate, you expect, others hype. It's a bit like trying to work out where air comes from. Even its commonly presumed etymology is fake: "We live in a world of hyperbole," said a Doubleday editor in 1980. '"Hyperbole has become so common that we now refer to it by a cozy contraction. We call it 'hype.' We decide to apply it, as if it were a wax compound for shining up a car." But hype is not a shortening of "hyperbole" but of ''hypodermic needle'', and refers to the hopped-up state of drug users; when newspaper columnist Billy Rose praised a 1950 movie for having "No fireworks, no fake suspense, no hyped-up glamour," his assumption was not that hype was something applied to a movie's surface, buffing it up to a nice shine; but something internal, intravenous — which is much the way it works in Hollywood: As Will Rogers once remarked, "The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself", in which case the blockbuster is the only species of movie in which the hype is at its loudest within that movie itself. One of the more curious aspects about the hype for Batman, for instance, is that it never quite cleared. After all the hype, that's what Batman turned out to be about: it was about hype.
"Tell your friends, tell all your friends," whispers Batman to his first criminal catch, before letting them go, having realised that the benefits of good word-of-mouth far outweigh the benefit of having two more petty criminals behind bars. He then gets involved with newspaper photographer Vicki Vale ( Kim Basinger), who ensures that Batman's name is spread city-wide, and it is the quality of Batman's media coverage, far more than his actual deeds, that most enrages the Joker, flushing him out of hiding. "Can someone please tell me what kind of a world we live in where a man dressed as a bat gets my airtime!" he complains, before shooting up his TV set. "Wait'll they get a load of me!" he says and hits back with a PR campaign of his own, hijacking the airwaves to run a series of advertisements for himself — parodies of the hard-sell adverts of the fifties, with Batman in the opposite corner, representing the matte-black, soft-sell eighties. This is how the central battles in Batman are played out, not on the streets, but at press conferences, across the airwaves and in the newspapers. It is a PR war for the soul of Gotham city, and it resembles less the battle between two superhero colossi, than it does a presidential race, with two candidates endlessly finessing their public personae. What kind of a movie it is where all the villain wants to do is be more popular than its hero? It goes some way to explaining why Jon Peters had so much trouble trying to inject some genuine antagonism into the actual meetings between the Batman and The Joker: they're like two presidential candidates who have somehow slipped their entourages, and accidentally met, away from the spit and fury of the hustings, only to find themselves getting along fine. There's nothing between them personally. It's all for the folks back home.
The one thing you don't see much of in Batman, though, is folk. For all the energy that Batman and the Joker expend to win the hearts and minds of Gotham, it's a strangely underpopulated place: at a press conference in front of the town hall, a gaggle of extras do their best to suggest a pullulating crowd, but Burton's heart is not really in it — he doesn't really have the bullying instinct for crowd scenes. He can't summon the demagogic charge that you catch off all the great popular film directors — Capra, a great rouser of rabbles, or Hitchcock, never happier than when losing his heroes in a sea of faces. Nothing signalled Steven Spielberg's entry into their hallowed company better than the crowd scenes in Jaws, with their ebb and flow of push and panic; there's even a nun in there, just to remind us that this is the seventies. The thrill of the crowd pushes straight past Burton, who much prefers the sequestered darkness of the bat cave or the lonely eyrie of Batman's perch atop a skyscraper — he is one of cinema's natural loners, like Nicholas Ray. But he is no action director, and everything in Batman — its stop-start pace, its sputters of visual wit, its hero's entrapment within a costume that gives him all the mobility of a neckbrace — suggests sulky self-sabotage on it's directors part: revenge on a hero he just didn't get. There's not much to get, but you do need an honest instinct for hero-worship to shoot a comic-book, and Burton's temperament is naturally mock-heroic; he can't fake the tones — the athletic heft, the blockbuster high style — needed to sweep a movie like this along. Despite what he thought, "Death Wish in a batsuit" is almost exactly what it should have been. Reading the re-writes ordered up by Peters, its not to hard to figure out what was going on: the producers were using the Joker to smuggle back into the movie all the showmanship they felt their recalcitrant director was refusing to provide, and the movie belongs, in the end, to them. "Have fun, cause the party's on me!" shouts Nicholson at the end, a version of Peters' own high-rolling largesse, distributing cash to the greedy Gothamites, in what amounts to the movie's last word on the delicate art of winning public favour: we can be bought.
And they were right — up to a point. The summer Batman opened was a one of the blockbuster's landmark summers, just as 1984 had been before it, and whose records its casually smashed. "There's a point beyond which no one can project," said one Box-office analyst, "Anticipation is so high, the question this summer seems to be, how high is high?" The anticipation was guaranteed, however, if for no other reason than that 1989 saw the tidal wave of sequels set loose on the mid-eighties finally engulf cinemas — Lethal Weapon 2, Ghostbusters II, Karate Kid III, A Nightmare on Elm Street V, Star Trek V: The Final frontier, Friday the 13th part VIII, The Return of the Musketeers, Eddie and the Cruisers: Eddie Lives, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Police Academy V, The Fly II and Back to the Future II. "We're thinking of calling it The Abyss II," said Fox's Tom Sherak, entrusted with the task of promoting one of the seasons few non-sequels, James Cameron's The Abyss. If for nothing else, 1989 deserves a place in the history books as the year in which fewest people had an original idea for a movies than at any other time in Hollywood's history. What this meant for cinema-goers was an equally dense barrage of promotional campaigns, all vying for their attention. That year, the discerning movie-goer could choose between entering the James Bond License to Thrill sweepstakes to win a weekend getaway to Key West, the Indiana Jones Pepsi-Cola sweepstakes, and a Honey, I Shrunk the Kids McDonald's promotion. You could win a trip to Tasmania courtesy of Young Einstein, you could follow the Great Balls of Fire publicity junket to Memphis. You could trot along to the Hollywood palladium to listen to Bobby brown and Run DMC sing the Ghostbusters theme, and try and win yourself the Ectomobile, all the while chewing on your Slimer Bubble Gum. Or you could go for a replica of The Batmobile, courtesy of a promotion on MTV, and jig around to 'Batdance' by Prince — "an ode of the movie," as he called it, which is rock-star speak for "they didn't use any of my tracks in their lousy movie but you might as well have them anyway." Alternatively, you could always go see a movie. Or the movie, for Batman soon became the blockbuster to see, unless you wished to announce your recent decision to join an order of Trappist monks.
It opened in 2,194 cinemas and took $42.7 million in its first weekend, "the biggest opening weekend in history" proclaimed Warner Brothers, and proceeded to take $100 million in under ten days — another record, breaking Hollywood's four-minute mile. But it also slid from pole position faster than any movie that has ever made that much money, too, taking just $30 million in its second weekend, a drop of about 25%, and the weekend after that, $19 million, a drop of 36%.. Blockbusters never used to fade like this — E.T.  had stayed at the top for 10 weeks (see graph), and increased its grosses as it went along, while Back to the Future had stayed up there for 13. But Batman came and went in the blink of an eye — that year, even Look Who's Talking had greater staying power at the number-one spot. The most popular movie of all time was also just flavour of the month. Far more so than Jaws, it marked the beginning of the long, slow erosion of audience word-of-mouth — asked how much influence he thought the negative reviews in Variety and Time would have, Peters responded, "none" — and with it, a crucial shortening of the audience's reaction times, which is to say our ability to respond to a movie, and then signal our collective approval or dislike by either staying away, or flocking to it in greater numbers. Who could tell, looking at Batman's grosses, and their tail-off, to what degree people had enjoyed the film or not? More importantly, who was even interested in concluding anything from grosses of $251 million? "The audience can smell it faster than we can sell it," Spielberg had said of E.T.'s release. As of 1989, we had just a little less time in which to do so. The art of selling bats had caught up with the art of smelling rats.From my book Blockbuster
Jun 22, 2014
1. Under The Skin
2. Grand Budapest Hotel
3. Boyhood
4. We're The Best!
5. Edge of Tomorrow
1. Updike, Adam Begley
2. Five Came Back, Mark Harris
3. The Wes Anderson Collection, Matt Zoller Seitz
4. The Panopticon, Jenni Fagan
5. Bark, Lorrie Moore
1. Morning Phase, Beck
2. G I R L, Pharrell
3. Are We There, Sharon Van Etten
4. The Voyager, Jenny Lewis
5. Stay Gold, First Aid Kit
1. True Detective
2. Silicon Valley
3. Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
4. The Americans
5. Mad Men
1. Ralph Fiennes, Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Angelina Jolie, Malificent
3. Matthew McConaughey, True Detective
4. Tom Hardy, Locke
5. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Jun 11, 2014
REVIEW: THE ROVER (dir. Michod)
From my Guardian review:—
'It's time to put away those Edward Pattinson jokes — the kid can act. He showed more attachment to the elephant in Water for Elephants than costar Reese Witherspoon, but then he probably knew better how it felt: Twilight turned him into the most gawped at mammal on the planet. He cut like a blade through the first film, cheekbones set to stun, as pale as a rock-star-in-recovery, summoning a palpable sense of threat. The series emasculated Edward as it wore on, shoving him to the side of the action, while Bella grew increasingly impatient— it was the only vampire series in which the vampires were afraid of the virgins, and exploited Pattinson's greatest flaw as an actor: his passivity. He was coolly dissipated in In David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis as a megastar essaying the end of the world in blacked-out limo shades, but the film, and the role, both stayed well within the confines of the comfortably numb. In his new film, The Rover, Pattinson tries a different tack in his pursuit of a world seen without yellow contact lenses: he acts his socks off.
When we first see him, he is face down in the Australian outback, bleeding out into the dirt. He's been abandoned by his brother (Scoot McNairy), who heads up a gang of thugs making their getaways in a truck, with another member bleeding in the back. What they have done, or even who they are, is never made clear. The film, directed by David Michod, is set "ten years after the collapse", in a future where resources like petrol and water have gone much the same place as the world's reserves of narrative exposition. You could waterboard this movie and still not get much more out of it. The whole thing is told in the mythic-elliptic style first pioneered in the spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone and later retrofitted as pulp by George Miller in the Mad Max films — where the post-apocalypse means never having to explain yourself. So we never find out the exact circumstances that led to Pattinson being left for dead, or why he is speaking in a Southern White Trash accent, while everyone else speaks Australian, or why he is being hunted by squadron of American soldiers. Did he desert? What is important is that he crosses paths with Guy Pearce, about whom we know even less, except that a) He never cracks a smile. B) He looks pissed even before the gang make off with his car. And c) He wants it back. That's how mythic he is, his character carved out in the dust cloud left by his actions. He's the Man With No Ride Home.
For the first 20 minutes or so, all this enigma flashes brilliantly in the mid-day sun. The director David Michod draws his two plot-lines together as if gathering a noose, the sense of suspense brought to a head by a wonderful of shot of Pearce sitting in a dimly-lit bar, his eardrums pounded by karaoke, as a car tumbles past the window behind him, unheard, in the blinding sunlight — it's the kind of shot that makes you yelp with joy, it's so damn good. There follows a chase, with Pearce in hot pursuit, the camera slung down at fender level, as it was for Spielberg's Duel, which ends with a tense stand-off between the two vehicles, now stationary at 30 yards distance, the camera lodged just behind the front tyre of one, watching to see who makes the first move.
What Michod has made, you realise, is a kind of Western — one of those zero-sum Peckinpahs in which men, like scorpions, sting each other to death beneath a baking sun — and would that it were anywhere near as good as those electrifying first twenty minutes. The rest of it is a road movie that runs out of road, as Pearce, now with a captive Pattinson in tow, attempts to turn him against his brother and get that car back. That's it. I would happily deliver more spoilers but the whole thing is so studiously minimal, that you are now in possession of as many facts about this movie as I am. "You must really love that car," says the madam of a local brothel which, like everyone, claws out an existence servicing mankind's baser needs from a ramshackle out-house tucked to the side of the highway. The soundtrack, meanwhile features an assortment of ambient twangs and shivers that can best be described as the world's first didgeridoo gang-rape. It's all enough to make you wonder if post-apocalyptic road movies aren't for Australian directors merely a way of toning up, like Shakespeare for Brits, of movies about losing your virginity for the French.'
Jun 5, 2014
From my Guardian review:—
'Oh to be a teenager in love, suffering from stage four cancer! Adapted from John Green's bestselling YA novel about love-struck cancer teens — a piece of doomed-love romanticism served up with bright-eyed, almost evangelical zeal — the film is dubious in the extreme, morally and ethically objectionable from just about every angle. It elevates cancer sufferers to the same exalted state of higher being to which tuberculosis-sufferers were once hoisted by Keats and Byron, or vampires by Kristen Stewart fans. It's Twilight on chemo. It's a few inches shy of launching a fully-fledged romantic death cult. It's the swoony, drop-dead hit of the summer. You'll love it.'
Jun 2, 2014
For Intelligent Life:—
'It's the contrast between face and voice that does it. The face is round, pure, with two dimples holding her smile in place—it is the face of childhood yearning, Juliette Gréco EPS and moon-gazing through suburban windows. But the voice is something else: about half an octave lower than you expect, luxuriantly so, with unexpected notes of sanguinity and self-amusement—it is unambiguously the voice of a woman, if not fully grown, then bearing a secret apprehension of the oncoming battle between dreams and their disappointment. Yes, the world will let me down, it seems to say, but must we talk about this now? Such was the paradox powering Carey Mulligan's performance in "An Education" in 2009: that a young actress whose gamine charms sent critics into gauzy reveries of Audrey Hepburn nonetheless packed the pipes of Rita Hayworth, or—better yet—Jenny Agutter. Since that first spring of Hollywood's infatuation with her, Mulligan has carefully plucked the petals from any career playing English roses, avoiding costume dramas like the plague, instead playing a broken torch-singer in Steve McQueen's "Shame", and making pit-stops in Nicolas Winding Refn's ultra-violent "Drive" and "Inside Llewyn Davis", where she rained down cold fury on the Coens' luckless hero. If a great leading film role has eluded her—she seemed more like Daisy Buchanan's better-read elder sister in Baz Luhrmann's gaudy, tricked-out Gatsby—onstage Mulligan has broken into long, galloping runs. She was a terrific Nina in a 2007 production of "The Seagull", and as Karin in Bergman's "Through a Glass Darkly" in 2011, caught perfectly the pain of someone suicidal denied suicide...'
May 29, 2014
One of the great things about kid's movies is that these days, they are one of the few places where movie stars are willing to play to type. The rest of the time, they're too busy proving themselves actors, don't you know, getting all Method with fake noses and funny accents that allow them to 'disappear' into roles. Whoever decreed that it is the job of the star to disappear? But if fame turns humans into cartoons; cartoons allow the famous to be themselves. Eddie Murphy may wish to put his days playing the ass behind him, but literally playing an ass in the Shrek movies loosed some of his most inspired shtick since Axel Foley hung up his badge. Tom Hanks may spend a good proportion of his time putting dents in his nice guy image in movies like Captain Phillips but seeing him snap back into his Dudley-do-right persona in the Toy Story movies had the snug satisfaction of an old well-loved pair of slippers. These days, Angelina Jolie is busy filling out her boots as movie director and philanthropist; but channeling her inner momma grizzly onscreen in A Mighty Heart and Changeling, she unveiled a talent for over-acting that was barely hinted at in her previous incarnation as action-movie dominatrix in films like Wanted, Salt, Mr and Mrs Smith, whose minimalist acting style seemed to suit her down to the ground. Rumor has it that she wants to play Cleopatra, but really she's the Sphinx. A fame-enamelled Goddess who wears her beauty like a mask, she's a geek Dietrich, her contempt for the male invertebrates who prostrate themselves at her feet, angling their cameras up her torso, matched only by the self-control with which she hides it. Not completely: a single raised eyebrow, a scintilla of a smirk, and the game is up. (You thought she was a puppet of the male-gaze in the Lara Croft movies? She was taking notes.) If contempt is her key-note, then in Malificent she plays it like a flugelhorn: face as white as parchment, cheekbones remolded into Max Headroomish fenders, a pair of huge horns leaping from her head, like a cross between a stag and a supermodel, she leaves Elle Fanning likea gnat-smudge on the windshield. It's Hannibal Lecter vs Tinkerbell. "There is evil in this world," sighs Jolie, in a dulcet English accent that plumes like a single drop of blood in water, "hatred and revenge", before giving a bashful giggle, as if the very idea of decency were fit for no more than a smile. In an age when acting newbies apply darkness like eye-shadow or an adhesive tattoo — yes, I'm talking you, Natalie Portman — Jolie's velveteen perfidy is the real thing: Wicked Stepmother Interrupted.
My favorite Jolie roles:—
My favorite Jolie roles:—
1. Girl, Interrupted
2. Gia
3. Malificent
4. Salt
5. Mr and Mrs Smith
6. Kung Fu Panda
7. Playing by Heart
8. Wanted
9. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
10. A Shark's Tale
REVIEW: We're the Best! (dir. Moodysson)
From my Guardian review:—
'... The film repeatedly pulls of something of the same trick: channelling punk's sneer in the direction of more charitable embrace, Moodysson has fashioned a sweet, spirited misfit anthem — a spirited ode to anarchy, teen spirit and home-made haircuts. He may be the only film director in whom the legacies of Ingmar Bergman and ABBA might be said to be, if not reconciled, then put on the same page, hawk-eyed observation of his fellow humans duking it out with the equally acute desire to join them when they bum-rush the dance-floor. Just recently, it's looked like Bergman had the upper hand, with Moodysson going on a prolonged dark tear, making films on sex trafficking (Lilja 4-Ever), pornography (A Hole in My Heart) and globalisation (Mammoth). We're The Best! sees him returning to the warm-hearted vitality, and suburban mileu, of his 2000 film, Together, about life on a hippie commune in the seventies as viewed through the eyes of it's latchkey kids. You'd call it a coming-of-age film except the ages were reversed: the adults squabbling like kids, the kids sombre and purposeful, like miniature adults. That reversal is present in softer, refracted form, too, in We're The Best, which boasts its share of unsorted out parents, negotiating their forties by arguing about politics, getting drunk and playing spin-the-bottle. Bobo's mother, in particular, seems to be emerging from her divorce a newly-born 13-year-old, sobbing on the bed when her latest boyfriend breaks up with her. Bobo administers a hug, then makes dinner for herself by popping fish-sticks in the toaster. Bobo's grown in the opposite direction, you realise: desexualized to the point of boyishness, she stares at her squashed-potato face in the mirror in a manner both deeply unimpressed and mutely accepting of what she sees —— "nyeah," the look seems to say, "What are you going to do."
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In 2007, Indian companies acquired more than $18bn worth of western companies. And in the past four years, the Indian economy has grown by 9% every year.
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Definition of diffuser in English:
diffuserSyllabification: dif·fus·er
Pronunciation: /diˈfyo͞ozər /
(also diffusor)
1A thing that diffuses something, in particular.
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1.1An attachment or duct for broadening an airflow and reducing its speed.
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Redwater Rustic Grille - South
- Address:
9223 Macleod Trail S.
Calgary, AB T2H 0P6Neighborhood:
- Cuisine:
CalifornianPrice: CAN$30 and under
Redwater Rustic Grille - South
- Dining Style: Casual Elegant
- Website: http://www.redwatergrille.com/
- Phone: 4032534266x
- Hours of Operation:
Lunch: Monday - Friday: open from 11:30am Dinner: Monday - Thursday: 5pm - 10pm, Friday - Saturday: 5pm - 11pm, Sunday: 5pm - 10pm
- Payment Options: AMEX,Diners Club,MasterCard,Visa
- Cuisine: Continental, Californian
- Dress Code: Smart Casual
- Accepts Walk-Ins: Yes
- Additional Details: Banquet/Private Rooms, Bar Dining, Bar/Lounge, Fireplace, Full Bar, Gluten-free Menu, Patio/Outdoor Dining, Private Room, Wine
- Catering: We are pleased to offer Private Spaces on-site for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Please inquire with Nicole for more details (email@example.com)
- Private Party Facilities: In behind the elegant main dining area and outstanding circular wine cellar, lies a Private Dining Room that can accommodate up to 18 people. Whether it is for a family celebration or an important corporate presentation, our Private Dining Room offers an intimate setting. Illuminated by the burning glow of our fireplace, our Fireside Room is a comfortable scene for semi-private groups of up to 25 and privately holds 50. Just steps away from the main hustle and bustle, the Fireside Room offers guests a softer, warmer dining atmosphere. Within the lounge, our raised areas feature club chair seating and can accommodate smaller groups of up to 10 for an evening of fine wine and dining. The lounge can also offer a great cocktail atmosphere for groups of up to 40.
- Private Party Contact: Chelsea Fennell 4032534266x
- Entertainment: In our lounge there are two TV screens that broadcast all of the Calgary Flames hockey games.
- Special Events: We are pleased to host all types of special functions. We have two Private Dining Rooms; Our Boardroom accommodates 18, and the Fireside Room can seat up to 50. We can also book out sections of the restaurant or lounge. Please inquire with Nicole for more details.
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Redwater Rustic Grille's market driven menu is a fresh interpretation of contemporary West Coast Cuisine with signature dishes and innovative creations. A favorite destination for wine-lovers and foodies alike, Redwater's wine menu features specialties from smaller boutique wineries, many of which are not found elsewhere in the city. The large selection of wine complements the executive chef's menu of seasonal robust dishes. Burnished cherry wood, travertine tile, soft lighting and the large oval glass wine cellar create an ambiance of casual refinement. Servers are warmly professional and their enthusiasm for great food and wine is infectious. Redwater is a proud recipient of the 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 Wine Spectator Awards. Dress: Smart Casual.Continued
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Redwater Rustic Grille - South reviews from OpenTable diners
168 reviews since June 3, 2014
- Food4.3Service4.4
- Ambiance4.1Noise LevelModerate
special occasion (103)notable wine list (64)good for groups (60)romantic (59)fit for foodies (56)neighborhood gem (46)great for lunch (44)hot spot (22)great for outdoor dining (14)great for brunch (9)kid-friendly (9)late-night find (9)vibrant bar scene (5)scenic view (2)Show More
- It is ok.RebeccaDined on 9/27/2014Food seems to be in decline. we went there a while back and food seems not quite as good as i remember from the first time, still good just not as good.Special Features:
- Excellent experience!OpenTable Diner Since 2009Dined on 9/27/2014I have a dairy allergy and our waitress was extremely helpful and knowledgeable about the menu. No manager came to the table so I didn't feel like a spectical but as each plate was set in front of me i was reminded that the food was dairy free. I had the lamb which was phenomenal. I often feel in restaurants that the dairy free options are normal options minus the tastiness, however this lamb was the best meal I have had in a restaurant in probably 2 years. There was also a dairy free dessert option (very rare) of sorbet which was creamy and flavorful. It was a great evening with great food and excellent service. If you have a gluten or dairy allergy this is a great option. (My gluten and dairy eating husband also loved his meal).Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Good but slowCoonerDined on 9/27/2014It took asking our server after over an hour had passed from ordering to start our meal.Special Features:
- OpenTable Diner Since 2011Dined on 9/27/2014The staff went above and beyond to ensure our dining experience was top-notch.Special Features:
- OpenTable Diner Since 2008VIPDined on 9/23/2014WOW - fabulous food - wine and service - will be back again and again!!!Special Features:
- noproblemDined on 9/20/2014This was our second dinning experience at Redwater Rustic Grill. Overall, a very good experience. There must of been a problem with our second visit with our main meal because we waited a while for the food to arrive. But the food was hot and was what we ordered.Special Features:
- Definite mustOrlandofanDined on 9/18/2014I came here with coworkers for lunch. We ordered Lobster Tacos, Stuffed Meatballs and Braised beef Poutine - loved the meatballs and poutine. I have ordered the Butternut Squash Agnolotti before and had to order it this time too. My coworkers ordered Beet salad with salmon, Ahi Tuna salad, and C.A.B. sandwich - everyone loved their entrees. And we ordered the Creme Brûlée and Colossal Carrot Cake to share, I absolutely loved the creme brûlée. Service was great, very personable, food came quick, will be back!Special Features:
- AmazingAnon333Dined on 9/14/2014The experience was fabulous. Our reservation from open table was there and our table was ready when it was supposed to be. The food was splendid and the timing was impeccable. Our server Matt was kind and knowledgeable. Red Water Grill never missed a beat making sure we had food on our table all the way from the time we sat down to the time we left. I cannot say enough good things about this restaurant; the menu, the staff, the ambiance, everything is top-notch. My steak was perfectly cooked and was smothered in a beautiful, from scratch, brandy and veal stock peppercorn demi glaze. I am very particular about the level of doneness of my steaks and the chef nailed it. Pricing is reasonable considering the level of food and ambiance.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great FoodOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 9/12/2014Great food, service was little on the slow side, but server apologized. Loved being able to reserve a table, so no waiting, and guaranteed a table at time requested.Special Features:
- Great Food, but service was offlovewineDined on 9/12/2014As usual, food and wine were amazing at Redwater. For the first time, I have to complain about the service. Our server was great and very knowledgeable with food pairings. The restaurant itself did not seem abnormally busy, our server was busy and did apologize for it. There was a lot of dead time while we waited for a wine menu, food, drink/ refills, desserts, and even the bill. We ended up being there for over 3 hours. Normally, I would not complain about it but we were there with our 9 and 5 year old daughters. Also found a miscommunication? in the kitchen. We received double order of gluten free buns, as well as a second round of entrees and desserts made their way to our table even after we had eaten.Special Features:
- Always a LOVE experience3ducksmomDined on 9/12/2014We've been many times and every time I want to order one of everything on the menu. I can always feel good about what I've eaten here. We took a couple who has never been before and they were impressed. From the appetizer down to the amazing roasted marshmallow martini for dessert, the food was delicious as always. Peggy is our favourite server and creates such a pleasant experience in every way.Special Features:
- Absolutely fantasticAnniversaryLoveDined on 9/11/2014My husband and myself went there for our wedding anniversary and were treated like royalty! From the time we walked in the front door till the time we left it was amazing. Our server was amazing and knew just when to stop by...we would highly recommend to our family and friends and we will definately be back:-)Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Good foodOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 9/4/2014The food was very good and the server was friendly. Because of the design, it tends to be noisy in the restaurant area.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Excellent food, wine and service!OpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 9/4/2014This is a very high quality and consistent restaurant! One of Calgary's top restaurant....but a bit of a secret of gem!Special Features:
- Disappointing birthday dinner!mackinopDined on 9/2/2014Kids meals were delivered 10 min after ordering (great), we then waited more than an hour after that for first signs of adults meals. Seafood pasta was not as described and had to go back (full of grey looking salmon). Had to wait another 15min for replacement. Steak was delivered bare on the plate (literally steak on a plate) 10 min later, steak is gone and still waiting for side. We all enjoyed my partially cooked asparagus for dessert. Two hours of frustration rather than relaxation and enjoyment. No offer to make it right other than "sorry" from server. No visit from manager.
- Good for business or casualClassyDinnerVIPDined on 9/2/2014I have been here several times. The place has good food, friendly servers and quick service. It is not one of those crazy loud downtown restaurants and a great place to have business meetings if you work close by, or your client is nearby.Special Features:
- Uninteresting menuDisappointedDined on 8/29/2014Uninteresting menu (doesn't require fifty characters of written English to express that opinion clearly).I would recommend this to a friend.
- Warm and Cozy atmosphereOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 8/25/2014I was very impressed by the level of service we received at Redwater Rustic Grille south. I would definitely recommend it to everyone.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Celebrate special occasionsOpenTable Diner Since 2010Dined on 8/24/2014My husband and I came to Redwater to celebrate our anniversary. We haven't been to this restaurant in years. The service and food was excellent. It was fairly priced. There were a few families eating dinner and we didn't know that kids were welcome. It was nice to see that. Overall, we would likely return on special occasions.Special Features:
- love2dinelove2dineDined on 8/23/2014the redwater is very good restaurant where i feel comfortable to dine out. It is not first time dine there but is first time booking on line.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Dinner Dollar ValueSusieBDined on 8/23/2014For the most part dinner and wine were fine, service was good, however, the prawns and scallops were certainly lacking in size and presentation for the hefty price it came with. (3 small prawns and 4 scallops the size of a quarter seemingly dumped on a bed of about 20 pieces of asparagus-so I didn't gain any weight). The other meals were pasta. For 2 pasta meals, 2 seafood meals, one appetizer, 1 dessert and 2 bottles of wine @ $40 (pretty good wine actually). Bill was $220.00 plus tip. I consider that to be a fair value for wine and dinner (but do not order the seafood dinner if you are hungry). We will go back on occasion as we always do. Still enjoy the atmosphere.Special Features:
- Exceptional as usual.imafanDined on 8/21/2014Once again the Redwater was wonderful. The food was tasty and with the outstanding service can't be beat. It's relaxing to have a night out with great friends visiting and not feel like you have to leave so they can seat someone else.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- OpenTable Diner Since 2008VIPDined on 8/21/2014Fabulous - food - wine - service - I will be back again and again!!!Special Features:
- Good but crampedStephDined on 8/20/2014My boyfriend and I were looking for a classy place to have a couple steaks and a bottle of wine. The food was great, steaks well cooked. Service was alright, he seemed new at his job and didn't refill our wine glasses for us. The only real complaint was the table we were sat at, cramped and in the middle of a walk way so we were constantly being distracted and jostled by the servers. I'd recommend it but request a table in a more secluded spot.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- good foodHaleDined on 8/15/2014We had a business lunch where the food was excellent and the service quick and efficient.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Dinner OutDebsamomDined on 8/14/2014Absolutely amazing dinner!! Service was fabulous and I can't wait to go again.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Portions OKnuckincowtownDined on 8/12/2014I understand fine dining however, for a $40 steak dinner the portions are a bit small. One could easily fit the dinner on a bread plate & not the large dinner plate it is served upon. Although tasty in it's own right it would be nice to see a little more in the way of vegetables & other. It did seem odd to be at a fine dining establishment & see a baseball game on the tv screen in the restaurant. I think some nice piano music or other soothing music in the background would be perhaps better suited rather than a ball game. The ball game could be watched at Original Joe's if you need one that bad. Still will go back if to simply enjoy the great service provided by Kara (SP).Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- The respectable serviceluv4gfDined on 8/10/2014I have Celiac disease and every time I have been my disease is taken seriously. I am given seperate bread with a different knife because the servers are educated and care about dietary issues. Additionally, the food is too die for. Some of the greatest gluten free food I've had in CalgarySpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Always Exceptional Service and FoodgorillagirlDined on 8/8/2014We regularly visit Redwater with friends and for 'date nights'. Food is very consistent and wait staff is always friendly and knowledgeable. I have done functions in their private room as well and highly recommend this restaurantSpecial Features:
- Great food and great serviceNightoutDined on 8/8/2014Having been here numerous times it is one of our favorites. The food is always very good and is not stagnate. The shrimp appetizer is the very best and a staple for the restaurant. Service is very attentive without being overboard. I would highly recommend for lunches with clients as well as an evening meal with someone special. The wine list is extensive and the glassed wine room is the center of attention in the main dining room that is surrounded by booths. There is an outdoor patio that is glassed in from the elements for those that like outdoor dining. It has patio heaters for the cooler nights.Special Features:
- Consistently excellent!BertDined on 8/2/2014We try to get to the Red Water, McLeod Tr. whenever we visit Calgary. Love the wine list, steaks and starters.Special Features:
- food was very goodwine2foodDined on 8/1/2014I've been going to Redwater in the south many times since it has opened. Food is consistently been good and this time, the food did not disappoint. The service was off this time though. Waited a very long time to get our order placed. That's not typically the case, must have been an off-night.
- OpenTable Diner Since 2008VIPDined on 7/29/2014Fantastic - food and wine and service.... I will be back!Special Features:
- OpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 7/26/2014It was a very enjoyable evening. The outside patio was a great place for a date.... :o)Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- RoopyDined on 7/25/2014Food was amazing as always! Took a little longer than usual, but the service and atmosphere was so good we didn't even notice until the waitress apologized for it. Awesome awesome awesome time.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- OverpricedWineandfoodloverDined on 7/25/2014We were first seated near the kitchen which was so noisy had to request to be moved. Steak came medium rare when ordered medium well. Waited 10 minutes for steak to be re-cooked and then came over done though it was a very good steak. Sourdough bread was amazing. Prawn scallop dish was Ok though scallops could have been grilled more, they were not hot by the time the got to the table. Overall the meal was OK but expected more for the price.
- Great!OpenTable Diner Since 2011Dined on 7/24/2014Incredible food, service and wine!! Dessert was only average. Everything else was amazing!!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Change of MindCanadianDined on 7/23/2014During the past 11 months we had a two not very good experiences at the Red Water Grille and so had chosen not to go back - didn't even come on our list of desirable places to meet and eat. Decided to try once more - - - Wednesday night was a complete change - a great menu, service excellent and food delicious.Special Features:
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Saliva is back with a brand-new album, Rise Up , as well as a brand-new singer, Bobby Amaru , who stepped in when original frontman Josey Scott left to pursue a career as a solo Christian artist.
You might argue that replacing a singer is the hardest personnel change a band can undergo. The lead vocalist of a band is by definition its frontman, and the face and personality most fans connect with. So it's not surprising Bobby Amaru tells ABC News Radio that he felt enormous pressure when he first joined Saliva: "you wanna do well, and then I [thought], 'I just wanna do my thing and not worry about what people say or think.' That pretty much got me through all that, and just touring and being on the road and winning people over every night."
Amaru says some longtime Saliva fans expected him to epically fail, but he changed their minds. "People [came to] the shows and [wanted] to see [me] fail, but then they'd come up after and [say] really good things, [like] 'Man, I came here thinking it was going to be awful and it was really great and I'm a fan again,' and stuff."
After playing some dates live with Saliva, the pressure was on to make a record. Amaru says he dealt with that stress by thinking, "'Okay, this is the most important thing.' We wanted to make the record fun and get back to what it was all about for the band."
Rise Up is available at retail and digital outlets now. Saliva has a few shows left on their headlining tour before hitting the festival circuit next month.
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For the last 18 months, I've been editor of Folio Weekly. That means I direct the story content of the magazine and edit all of its contents. I work closely with our small but might full-time staff and a large group of talented freelancers. Starting Dec. 9, I will be managing communications at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville
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When I'm not at work, I try to spend most of the time with my husband and our 8-year-old daughter. She and I have tended our growing backyard garden for the last five years. We also love attending community events such as First Wednesday Art Walk, food truck rallies, concerts, plays and other art events. I am a big fan of Downtown, so I look for opportunities to go to events and eat there as much as possible. And soon I'll be working there as well.
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I was thrilled to be asked to participate in a lunch conversation about Downtown Jacksonville. I'm a big fan of the work JCCI does, and I'm particularly excited by the JAX2025 project's goals.
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I don't know if it's hidden, but Downtown is ignored by a large segment of the community. It's not on their radar, or they're afraid of even going there. They don't realize what's already happening there and what more is in store. I'm excited to work for MOCA and let people know why they need to walk in those doors — and then try a restaurant and see a show or go to a club.
What community issue is on your radar that doesn't get enough attention right now?
Hemming Plaza needs a complete overhaul to signal to everyone that Downtown Jacksonville is the cultural center of Northeast Florida. We should gut the square and install an amphitheater to host concerts of all kinds, theater productions and more. And it could still be the center of regular events like First Wednesday Art Walk. Then a streamlined system must be put in place so that groups can easily book the space and create constant activity there.
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Somewhere, Rihanna must be gnashing her teeth and wailing. As we know, Rihanna and Chris Brown love to give clues into the status of their relationship and I don't mean they change their Facebook status to "It's Complicated." (Which would be so much more simple and helpful.) No, they do it all over Twitter. Their last exchange reeked of tit-for-tat with Rihanna tweeting after their latest breakup:
Settling is not an option! Nothing less than 100% loyalty, honesty, and respect!! Love ain't for kidz.
Wait a second, wasn't she dating Chris Brown?! Anyway, Chris seemed to respond with, "She's not mine if she's everybody elses." Which isn't quite grammatically correct, but gets the point across. And now here comes some MAJOR fuel to the twit-fire. And it wasn't even Rihanna or Chris who tossed the log on. It was Chris Brown's ex, Karrueche Tran. Yeah, the same one who got dumped for Rihanna.
It was recently Karrueche's birthday so she decided to celebrate by -- what else? -- posting a naked photo of herself on Twitter. Because nothing says "Happy birthday to me" like your birthday suit shared with thousands (nay millions) of strangers.
Brown and Karrueche celebrated her birthday together last year, before he broke up with Karrueche for Rihanna. Has it really only been a year since Chris and RiRi reunited? Seems like a century.
Anyway, back to Karrueche's nakedness. She posted a photo of her naked ass thrust into Chris Brown's face and wrote:
TBT my birthday last year. Who's face am I gonna put my ass in this year? Lmao I'm kidding. instagram.com/p/ZYzODQGTrP/— Karrueche Tran (@karrueche) May 16, 2013
The lack of class quickly got Chris's attention and he tweeted back "Happy birthday." Now you very well know this photo was shared with the world for the sole benefit of Rihanna seeing it. I'm a girl. I understand these things.
A source says that when Karrueche isn't trying to make Rihanna jealous she is apparently "kicking it" with Chris. A source told Hollywood Life:
He's been initiating contact with her, not the other way around. I wouldn't say Karrueche and Chris are together but they are talking and kicking it.
Ah, if only that meant both Karrueche and Rihanna were kicking Chris to the curb. But I don't think it does. As for love triangles, it's not exactly Casablanca, but I guess that's as close as Twitter gets.
Do you think Karrueche was just trying to make Rihanna jealous?
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I don't think any of the 3 stooges ("RiRi", beather brown & Tran) truly care what anyone else thinks - especially the 2 chicks.
Karrueche DOES NOT CARE ONE IOTA what Ri THINKS...Ri is the ONLY ONE THAT STARTS THE NONSENSE!!! CHRIS DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE WANTS, BUT HE DOES KNOW HIS LOVE FOR KARRUECHE, BOTTOM LINE, AND SHE AIN'T GOING ANYWHERE...
not classy at all
How about all 3 of them GROW UP! They sound like teens fighting over nonsense!!
That picture is from her birthday last year. She and Chris were dating then. The photo was tweeted May 16 which was this past Thursday- aka throwback Thursday. Don't believe the hype...


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Hudson Valley Restaurant Week runs from March 18 until March 31. It's a time when many participating restaurants offer prix fixe lunches for $20.95 and dinners for $29.95.
The annual event, in its sixth year, entices people to venture outside of their local areas to try new restaurants. It also brings tourists from outside the region to Hudson Valley towns and cities to see what they have to offer. Last year, the event drew more than 200,000 people to 160 restaurants.
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Q: What do you like about restaurant week?
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