Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Junebug

my profile | my password | search | faq & rules | forum home

»	Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE » Community » Film Handlers' Movie Reviews » Junebug

Author

Topic: Junebug

Paul Linfesty
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1383
From: Bakersfield, CA, USA
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 08-21-2005 01:35 PM

Refreshing look at returning home, this little indie flick breaks down a lot of stereotypes. Chicago art dealer seems right at home and at ease when coming to new husband's hometown in the rural south. He's the one who seems uncomfortable by it all, having left it all behind. The film avoids showing the characters as either objects of riducule or as folksy full-of-wisdom types. Beautifuuly shot on Super 16.

| IP: Logged

Leo Enticknap
Film God

Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000

posted 09-21-2005 05:00 PM

WARNING: Plot spoiler follows

Agreed. Saw it in Santa Barbara during my West Coast trip last week. I was leaning toward Red Eye myself, but the friend I was with is a PhD student in film studies at UCSB, and she wasn't inclined to let me get away with Hollywood brain anaesthesia!

I thought it was very clever in that the film managed to make jokes about the rural/urban cultural divide (e.g. the artist playing games with the posh art gallery madam which she just didn't get) without being disrespectful to any of the characters.

I feared that the baby was a gonner from around half way through reel 2, though: being into slimming while 8 months pregnant is not exactly compatible with a happy ending.

Was I just imagining things or was there a vertical negative scratch (white tramline) right the way through the whole film, just right of the centre of the screen? It wasn't just on one reel, meaning that the scratch must have been on the 16mm element used for enlargement - if it was on the 35mm interneg used to strike the print I saw, then surely only one reel would have been scratched?

| IP: Logged

Adam Martin
I'm not even gonna point out the irony.

Posts: 3686
From: Dallas, TX
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 09-21-2005 07:05 PM

quote: Leo Enticknap
Agreed. Saw it in Santa Barbara during my West Coast trip last week. I was leaning toward Red Eye myself, but the friend I was with is a PhD student in film studies at UCSB, and she wasn't inclined to let me get away with Hollywood brain anaesthesia!

But you would have seen Red Eye at the Arlington, which is beautiful enough inside to ignore the movie.

| IP: Logged

Leo Enticknap
Film God

Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000

posted 09-22-2005 04:19 AM

We checked it out, but it wasn't showing any films that week. The entrance courtyard looked amazing, but that was as far as we got. The Fiesta, where we eventually ended up, had Red Eye as well - an OK but unspectacular 4- or 5-plex.

| IP: Logged

All times are Central (GMT -6:00)

Printer-friendly view of this topic

The Film-Tech Forums are designed for various members related to the cinema industry to express their opinions, viewpoints and testimonials on various products, services and events based upon speculation, personal knowledge and factual information through use, therefore all views represented here allow no liability upon the publishers of this web site and the owners of said views assume no liability for any ill will resulting from these postings. The posts made here are for educational as well as entertainment purposes and as such anyone viewing this portion of the website must accept these views as statements of the author of that opinion and agrees to release the authors from any and all liability.