Kenneth Lonergan's MARGARET, starring Anna Paquin as a teenager in turmoil

Man, New Yorkers will be arguing about this movie long after the rest of the country forgot they never knew about this movie.

http://cityarts.info/2012/07/11/their-own-private-911/

as we say so often here, "sod the rest of the country, if we are indeed part of it."

Loud and clear.

anyone watch the extended cut yet?

also c'mon, no one is going to waste time arguing with Armond. Isn't this his second pan of the movie?

finally got a firm August release date on Netflix

Streaming or disc?

disc came out yesterday i think? at least my pre-ordered blu ray shipped from amazon~

Isn't this his second pan of the movie?

Well, the movie's fans refuse to let it leave screening rooms.

Netflix release dates don't coincide with everyone else's.

NYC chauvinism can't be the only thing that's making me pull a "Morbs on QT" stance on this movie, can it?

3-hr cut of this is def. superior to the theatrical.

The film shows the Upper West Side to be kind of a horrible place IMO

xp in what ways?

"Subplots" feel much better-integrated and more fleshed out, for starters.

Also, I'm glad I took the time to read a wiki synopsis of The Tales of Hoffmann.

I have seen the Archers' film of it, so how will that help?

Otherwise I'd have not picked up on the neat little parallels, eg. the three lovers.

is the version on itunes the director's cut or the theatrical release?

2 1/2 hours so I guess it's not the directors cut....annoying

Fox has insured that no one will have a good experience acquiring this film.

Bah, stupid phone wouldn't let me mention that I saw on another forum the odd factoid that this film has made more in its limited Australian engagement than in the rest of the world combined.

Maybe Paquin has some weird following there amongst Campion fans or something? I got nothing.

Is Ruffalo:Australia::Hasselhoff:Germany ?

It's playing at Nova which has 15 screens and the management likes to use their surplus screens to push films/distinguish themselves. Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind played there for over a year.

So, I watched the extended cut. I never saw the 2 1/2 hour version, but loved this movie. It sucks that it's so hard to see it correctly.

extended cut turned Edelstein around something fierce: http://www.vulture.com/2012/07/edelstein-dont-miss-margaret-directors-cut.html

damn.... looking fwd to this

can't wait to see the extended cut

So it's an extended cut and not a director's cut, right? That is, the best they can do? Did Lonergan supervise its, er, extension?

well it was probably an earlier cut of Lonergan's or one that was submitted with his approval. The studio are hardly going to ask him to recut the entire movie to his desired version at this stage given all they they have already lost financially. plus he could take another year to do it, i dare say.

can't wait to see the extended cut of this. criminal that it was only released on one screen for 2 weeks in the UK

Does the longer cut shed any more light on the scene where Paquin tells Damon she's had an abortion? Unless I missed something, I think the shorter cut leaves it ambiguous as to whether this is a lie.

According to that Edelstein review it does

i kinda liked that ambiguity.

can't wait to see the extended cut of this. criminal that it was only released on one screen for 2 weeks in the UK

It started out with that run, but ended up extending to many other screens when it was such a sell-out at the Odeon Panton St (where it played for a couple of months I think)

Does the longer cut shed any more light on the scene where Paquin tells Damon she's had an abortion? Unless I missed something, I think the shorter cut leaves it ambiguous as to whether this is a lie.

― Jeff W, Friday, 13 July 2012 14:57 (1 week ago) Bookmark

Having now watched the extended cut, i preferred the ambiguous version

and Edelstein is way off base about the new running time suddenly turning it into a masterpiece or whatever. There's some nice little added moments in there but all the truly great stuff was already present

Sounds sort of like the similarly wrong reaction to the extended cut of "Almost Famous." Some nice stuff put back in, but most of the good stuff was there already, and some of the stuff put back in makes the good stuff not as good.

im v curious 2 watch the shorter cut - feel like i'll give it some more time tho, i just watched the extended cut a few nights ago - i dont think it's a masterpiece but there'er a lot of great scenes - number none, i think you're the 1st person ive read of that prefers the shorter vers

Lonergan was on the radio the other day saying it wasn't true that he intended for it to be longer in the first place – claims that this longer cut just comes from him being asked if he wanted to do one, and thought that it would be interesting to explicitly show some of the stuff that he chose to hint at in the theatrical cut.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01kkr4n

Full cut playing here!

So the existing (150-minute) cut is a mixed success. The last half hour made me look away several times.

look away from what? the only thing I thought that misfired completely in the last act was Jean Reno's resolution.

the Damon-Paquin relationship, the resolutions -- a mess

I sisn't think the Damon thing was gonna go there it's true, but I like his "You stupid..."

Yeah that felt like the good sort of ad-lib (whether it actually was or not)

LOL, the conspiracy to keep this from people's eyes continues: Now selling for $999 on Amazon.

Link

Amazon's exclusive and stock ran out. The reissue isn't happening until October.