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LA Film Fest
	Topic by: weezy Posted: June 20, 2008 - 10:27 AM PDT Last Reply: June 20, 2008 - 3:05 PM PDT

author	topic: LA Film Fest
weezy	post #1  on June 20, 2008 - 10:27 AM PDT   Anyone going? I'm trying to wade through the many screenings and figure out what I want to watch!
underdog	post #2  on June 20, 2008 - 3:05 PM PDT   > On June 20, 2008 - 10:27 AM PDT weezy wrote: > --------------------------------- > Anyone going? I'm trying to wade through the many screenings and figure out what I want to watch! > --------------------------------- Funny review from James Rocchi on the opening night film, Wanted, as quoted on our GreenCine Daily blog: "When Wanted [site] was announced as the opening night film for the Los Angeles Film Festival, there was a mild outbreak of head-scratching over the choice; why start a film festival loaded with independent and foreign film with a big-studio action movie?" writes James Rocchi at Cinematical. "The fact is that the opening-night LAFF premiere of Wanted - directed by a Kazakh director who made his name in Russia, loosely based on a series of comics by a Glasgwegian Scot, starring America's most notable movie starlet opposite a Glasgow-born lead actor and shot with Prague standing in for Chicago - doesn't say much about the LAFF as a film festival and doesn't say a single thing about LA as a real city, but it says plenty about LA as a company town with a global span. Wanted's a corporate product, but, thankfully, it's an excellent one - the two-fisted, double-barreled high-octane guilty pleasure summer action movie you've been waiting for. Wanted is speedy and spiffy and shiny as a bullet, and it's got about as much actual weight when it stops moving."