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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Behind the Candelabra

Isaac Marchionna said:
Agreed. Absolutely gorgeous film, both the production, and the cinematography.
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I was intrigued and drawn to watch it because of the off beat casting but stayed for cinematography and the story. Great fun. Damon, Douglas and Lowe were all great. Weird that nobody talks about it here. Not enough explosions I guess? :-)
 
Mike McDonough, Robbie Ryan an a whole bunch of other cinematographers all over the world are making stunning, life-like images with Red cameras... But they are not promoted or discussed here either.

Hard to criticize red or reduser for the general human preference for big names and big explosions. :)
 
Can't wait to see it myself. I was at RED Studios when they were shooting some of it last august. We kept our distance, but the '70s attire was a hoot.
 
Ryan De Franco said:
Mike McDonough, Robbie Ryan an a whole bunch of other cinematographers all over the world are making stunning, life-like images with Red cameras... But they are not promoted or discussed here either.

Hard to criticize red or reduser for the general human preference for big names and big explosions. :)
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What has Robbie Ryan shot on RED? Just curious. I loved "Fish Tank" and "Wuthering Heights".
 
Hey Nick--Robbie Ryan was a terrible example, forgive me, but he has shot a few Red shorts. Including a friend's short film, yet to be released. Don't want to distract from this thread any more though.

Back to Liberace!
 
You can not possibly go wrong with the 70s... Well, maybe you can, but not tonight.
 
Joe Taylor said:
What was with that story that Steven Soderbergh was retiring from filmmaking? That depressed me to no end but that story now is so 2010. Today the guy is as busy as ever and if he's not directing 2-3 features a year for himself he's off somewhere else producing 5-6 for his friends.
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Maybe he is retiring from "filmmaking" and now only doing Digital Cinema making:smile::smile:
 
Beautiful looking film & amazing acting...
 
this film had great buzz at cannes..don't know why they wouldn't release it in theaters first..
 
Lewis-M Soucy said:
Saw it last week in Cannes, wow! Just awesome! Wish they released it theatrically in the US, really... Too gay? Well, didn't scare me to be honest. Amazing piece of acting, Douglas would have gotten the Oscar for sure...
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I don't think anything is too gay here anymore... Not sure why it didn't get theatrical release. I kinda see that it may not really entice mainstream audiences, especially at this time of year when it's time for all the summer blockbuster action movies.

Anyway, I put this in my Netflix queue ages ago, don't know when it's going to show up. It's on HBO on-demand, and I'll probably just do that, I just haven't made time to watch. Maybe this weekend.
 
Not to be a wet blanket, but: I was underwhelmed. It's a story about an old, famous, rich and powerful man who seduces and keeps an attractive, young and naive man, they have some fun, the older man meets a new and better model gets bored with the old one, tries to dump him, the younger man gets a lawyer, they settle out of court. If the younger man were a woman no one would make this film, it's tired. What saves it is the good acting and that it's Liberace, someone most of us know but know little about. Unfortunately all I really learned about him is that he used his wealth for control over others, he was vain, and he had a penchant for porn. Wow. This is a good TV movie, nothing more imo.
 
Eric Emerick said:
What saves it is the good acting and that it's Liberace, someone most of us know but know little about. Unfortunately all I really learned about him is that he used his wealth for control over others, he was vain, and he had a penchant for porn. Wow. This is a good TV movie, nothing more imo.
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Well, that was also Scott Thorson's book 25 years ago. Nothing really changed. What is impressive is that they managed to recreate the sets and the look of Las Vegas during that era, and I think the casting was very good.

No question, it's a real downer of a film, and you can see where the commercial appeal of a guy who's been dead for 26 years is very small at best. However, the ratings for HBO were through the roof -- reportedly, it was their biggest audience for a made-for-cable movie in ten years -- so I think Soderbergh achieved what he wanted to achieve.

BTW, the visual effects of gluing Michael Douglas' head on the pianist were pretty spectacular. Like a lot of Soderbergh films, the VFX work was really, really effective.
 
Jeff Kilgroe said:
I don't think anything is too gay here anymore... Not sure why it didn't get theatrical release. I kinda see that it may not really entice mainstream audiences, especially at this time of year when it's time for all the summer blockbuster action movies.

Anyway, I put this in my Netflix queue ages ago, don't know when it's going to show up. It's on HBO on-demand, and I'll probably just do that, I just haven't made time to watch. Maybe this weekend.
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It's got a theatrical release in the UK. I'm sure it will get one in the rest of Europe too.
 
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