Great. so all those news of ARR collaborating with Dido weren't rumors. Great news. looking forward to seeing what they have come up together.
/Jahanzeb --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, pratap <pratap_elen...@...> wrote: > > > > 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 â" > director of Trainspotting, > 28 Days Later and of > course Slumdog Millionaire, > which snuck into Telluride two years ago â" 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 â" 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 â" 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/Â Please do not add me in YM. I only use > this account for the group... >
