As nerve-racking as the whole predicament is, it's surprising how much humor manages to sneak in, with A.R. Rahman's Western-sounding synthpop score building from tension to ultimate triumph (with a boost from the original Dido collaboration "If I Rise").
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117943437.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&nid=2562 Telluride and TIFF 2010. Danny Boyle's "127 Hours" by David Hudson tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly'; tweetmeme_style = 'compact'; tweetmeme_url = "http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/2230";; "Many tears were shed at the world premiere screening of 127 Hours at the Telluride Film Festival on Saturday afternoon," reports John Horn in the Los Angeles Times. "But few in the audience of some 500 cried harder than Aron Ralston, the hiker who famously cut off his right forearm and is the subject of director Danny Boyle's new movie. Boyle has described the film, which Fox Searchlight is releasing on Nov 5, as an action movie in which the hero doesn't move... Boyle appears to have taken that as a challenge." Ralson's "experience is disconcerting enough just to think about, and to see it recreated, in Mr Boyle's characteristically fast-moving, immersive style, is jarring, thrilling and weirdly funny," blogs AO Scott for the New York Times. "At a question-and-answer session after the first screening on Saturday afternoon, Mr Boyle — director of Trainspotting, 28 Days Later and of course Slumdog Millionaire, which snuck into Telluride two years ago — described himself as a thoroughly 'urban' type with no great love for or interest in nature. And the jangly, jumpy energy he brings to a story of silence, solitude and confinement gives the film an irreverent kick that deepens and sharpens its emotional and spiritual insights." "As a harrowing survival film, the picture is first-rate, and Boyle, star James Franco and two ambitious cameramen make the most of a tight space and the suspense of a terrifying ordeal," blogs the Hollywood Reporter's Jay A Fernandez. "A word about that climactic act: Yes, it's excruciating to watch, even as all of us knew it was coming, since Boyle and Franco play it very realistically.... But it's the sound design that really captures the divine agony of Ralston's suffering. What he did is some kind of miracle." "It's gut-wrenching in a queasy, horror-movie way — a shield-your-eyes-from-the-screen, chuckle-in-relieved-astonishment sort of experience, done incredibly well." Eugene Novikov at Cinematical: "James Franco, who is on screen alone for the vast majority of the film's short running time, is perfectly cast and excellent. A lot of 127 Hours' medical-procedure-like squeamishness actually comes from him — e.g. his look of stunned incomprehension as the dust settles and he first beholds his arm crushed under a boulder, and his still-disbelieving frustration as he realizes that it ain't gonna come loose." Hitfix's Gregory Ellwood is "moved and shaken" and notes that "Boyle is assisted by exemplary cinematography credited to both Enrique Chediak and Anthony Dod Mantle. AR Rahman, who famously collaborated with Boyle on Slumdog, is back for a second go around with new songs and compositions that eloquently fit the mood (most appear to feature Dido in the vocals). Rahman is also pitch perfect in his score for the film's most dramatic moment, helping Boyle create the unexpectedly uplifting conclusion." "I found some of Boyle's visual ideas to be running out of gas by the end of the film, and I imagine others might feel burdened by a sense of repetition, too," notes Kristopher Tapley at In Contention. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117943437.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&nid=2562 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Indian-Movie-BGMS/146146955399503 http://indian-music-bgm.blogspot.com/ Please do not add me in YM. I only use this account for the group...
