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DP/30: Sneek Peeks On Day One, TIFF 2012

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  1. The Pope says:
    September 8, 2012 at 10:56 am

    Looking forward to all of these. It will be interesting to see Gleeson in a couple of years. Undoubtedly, he will fill out a bit. And not just physically. He has screen presence, but alongside McFadden you can see how new to this game he is. Speaking of which, why isn’t McFadden a bigger star? In those short clips, he oozes.

    I saw Anna Karenina the other day and while I admire its daring ambition, the conceit collapses early on and what you end up with is the most opulent pantomime. Still, Wright has to be commended for not presenting ‘just another literary adaptation.’

  2. sanj says:
    September 8, 2012 at 1:02 pm

    wow – you got Keira Knightley .

    hope you post these dp/30’s faster …

    Jennifer Lawerence – Adam Sandler – Ryan Gosling – Adam Sandler are all there – did you get a chance to interview them ?

  3. berg says:
    September 8, 2012 at 1:39 pm

    did you mention that Adam Sandler was there

  4. The Pope says:
    September 8, 2012 at 3:22 pm

    Just read that a Korean film, Pieta won at Venice. And some people are already going around saying it won because of a technicality that prohibited Michael Mann and his jury from giving more than 2 awards to one film, i.e., The Master. With Phoenix and PSH sharing Best Actor and Anderson winning Best Director, they found they couldn’t give it the treble. So, Pieta was given the Golden Lion instead.

    Call it out now. This is BS. If Mann and his Jury wanted to give The Master the Golden Lion, they would have and they would have given Kim-Ki Duk the director of Pieta, Best Director. But you know what? They didn’t. So there.

  5. sanj says:
    September 8, 2012 at 4:13 pm

    Adam Sandler showed up to the press conference … he’s basically himself – Selena Gomez also there but didn’t say much …

    HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA Press Conference

  6. LexG says:
    September 8, 2012 at 10:45 pm

    KEIRA LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK AT HER!!!!

  7. SamLowry says:
    September 10, 2012 at 4:47 am

    “I’m used to it,” indeed.

    A rapid flinch response is usually an indicator of childhood abuse…or maybe I’m just reading too much into it.

  8. sanj says:
    September 10, 2012 at 4:55 am

    so while i wait for DP to put up the new dp/30’s – i ended up watching 6 tiff 2012 press conferences – over 3 hours of video .

    Argo and Cloud Atlas had the biggest casts – seems like a waste for some actors who have 2 minutes of talk time during a 1 hour conference –

    i now have a good idea the difference how actors talk with big groups vs a dp/30 .

    hey DP – some new tiff 2012 updates would be nice …

    alao pretty amazing how quickly nobody talks about last years tiff movies still being good or whatever …

  9. indiemarketer says:
    September 11, 2012 at 7:01 pm

    Bend It Like Poland

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