Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010)

[Jeff]

The Fall Release schedule in today's New York Times now lists October 22 as the date.

NYT hasn't exactly been known for the accuracy of their release schedules lately. I wouldn't be terribly surprised to see Shutter Island moved back to 2009, but until Variety reports it, I'm not counting on it.

[thirtyframesasecond]

Fair to suggest this might be the "surprise film" at the London Film Festival?

[Mr Sausage]

Every time I glance at the title for this thread I think I'm seeing "Shitter Island." Every single time.

[Sloper]

The long-awaited follow-up to Shit Island, presumably?

[lacritfan]

Every time I glance at the title for this thread I think I'm seeing "Shitter Island." Every single time.

If Michael Bay decides to make a sequel to The Island then Shittier Island would be a pretty good title.

[hot_locket]

Every time I glance at the title for this thread I think I'm seeing "Shitter Island." Every single time.

If Michael Bay decides to make a sequel to The Island then Shittier Island would be a pretty good title.

I'm not sure I follow your logic. What you're proposing is the equivalent to Aquafina releasing a new line of bottled water called "Spring Waterier Spring Water". I guess what I'm saying is, once you've reached a certain level on the shit-scale, you're going to be dealing with an exorbitantly shitty pile of shit either way, and any distinction between slightly shittier and slightly less-shitty seems unnecessary.

Anyway, sorry for going off-topic. If this needs to be moved to a new shit discussion thread, I understand.

[Awesome Welles]

Fair to suggest this might be the "surprise film" at the London Film Festival?

My money is on Where the Wild Things Are.

[dadaistnun]

Soundtrack:

Disc: 1
1. Fog Tropes (Orchestra of St. Lukes, conducted by John Adams)
2. Symphony #3: Passacaglia - Allegro Moderato (National Polish Radio Symphony, conducted by Antonio Wit)
3. Music For Marcel Duchamp (Philipp Vandre, prepared piano)
4. Hommage a John Cage (Nam June Paik)
5. Lontano (Wiener Philharmoniker, conducted by Claudio Abbado)
6. Rothko Chapel 2 (UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus)
7. Cry (Johnny Ray)
8. On The Nature Of Daylight (Max Richter)
9. Uaxuctum: The Legend Of The Mayan City Which They Themselves Destroyed For Religious Reasons - 3rd M (Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra; Peter Rundel, conductor)
10. Quartet For Strings And Piano In A Minor (Prazak Quartet)

Disc: 2
1. Christian Zeal and Activity (John Adams / Edo de Waart & San Francisco Symphony)
2. Suite For Symphonic Strings: Nocturne (The New Professionals Orchestra, conducted by Rebecca Miller)
3. Lizard Point (Brian Eno)
4. Four Hymns, II For Cello And Double Bass (Torleif Thedeen & Entcho Radoukanov)
5. Root Of An Unfocus (John Cage)
6. Prelude - The Bay (Ingram Marshall)
7. Tomorrow Night (Lonnie Johnson)
8. This Bitter Earth / On The Nature Of Daylight (Dinah Washington & Max Richter)

[Tom Hagen]

What, no "Gimme Shelter"?

[Matt]

Penderecki? Schnittke? Are you sure this isn't a Kubrick movie?

[flyonthewall2983]

Was kinda hoping Martin would use Howard Shore do the music for this one, as this kind of film would be up his alley.

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

Penderecki? Schnittke? Are you sure this isn't a Kubrick movie?

That was EXACTLY what I was thinking.

[Polybius]

Nice promo still of Michelle.

[hot_locket]

Any new buzz on why this was delayed?

[oh yeah]

Use of Penderecki? Uncannily symmetrical mise-en-scène (see 0:28 in this trailer for a particularly striking example)? A shot of a man embracing a woman as she literally decomposes in his arms (2:02 in same trailer)? All of this in an architecturally fixated horror film in which the central location of terror is cut off from outside communication?

Hm, I know Marty loves Kubrick, but he really must've been watching The Shining a helluva lot lately...

[tavernier]

NY Times interview with Scorsese

[bearcuborg]

Anyone else notice the change in the trailers?
1st: http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/06/10/ ... er-island/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
2nd: http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/10/02/ ... er-island/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The shot at the end with Leo embracing a woman who vanishes. :-k

[tavernier]

A.O. Scott's review

[HarryLong]

every detail and incident in the movie, however minor, is subjected to frantic, almost demented (and not always unenjoyable) amplification

Sounds like Scorcese is back in CAPE FEAR mode.
Maybe he should just avoid the thriller genre.

[Foam]

When was the last time you had to wait until the final sentence of a film to understand all the details?

Possibly replacing "sentence" with "sequence", was this not the narrative trope of choice during the 00s?

[nsps]

every detail and incident in the movie, however minor, is subjected to frantic, almost demented (and not always unenjoyable) amplification

Sounds like Scorcese is back in CAPE FEAR mode.
Maybe he should just avoid the thriller genre.

The film is in many ways about perception, and the various amplifications are quite brilliant, especially in hindsight.

[jojo]

Film's getting some pretty subpar reviews around town.

I pretty much expected that anyway. I'll just have to see for myself.

[Matt]

Seems like a pattern that Scorsese has: to follow an acclaimed, signature work with one or two minor, messy films:

Taxi Driver followed by New York, New York (though I think everyone knows at this point that cocaine is the real auteur of that film).
Raging Bull followed by The King of Comedy
Goodfellas followed by Cape Fear
Casino followed by Kundun and Bringing Out the Dead

so now I'm guessing he'll have another fallow period followed by the "return to form" of Sinatra followed by the "interesting but manic and flawed The Wolf of Wall Street (or something).

[tajmahal]

Seems like a pattern that Scorsese has: to follow an acclaimed, signature work with one or two minor, messy films:

Taxi Driver followed by New York, New York (though I think everyone knows at this point that cocaine is the real auteur of that film).
Raging Bull followed by The King of Comedy
Goodfellas followed by Cape Fear
Casino followed by Kundun and Bringing Out the Dead

so now I'm guessing he'll have another fallow period followed by the "return to form" of Sinatra followed by the "interesting but manic and flawed The Wolf of Wall Street (or something).

Agreed, except for King of comedy, which, for mine, is one of Scorseses best films. Rupert Pupkin is a wonderful creation.

[nsps]

Bringing Out the Dead is also one of his best films.