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COMING ATTRACTIONS
Join us on Friday, February 12, at 10:30pm for a screening of "The Big Lebowski" (1998). For more information, please see our Friday Night Cult Flicks page. |
| Feature Films Coming to The Beach Theatre (list is subject to change) |
| CRAZY HEART (2009) (Rated R) | |
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STORY: “Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can’t help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician" - Written by Fox Searclight Pictures on IMDB.com
STARRING: Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Keane, Anna Felix, Paul Herman,and others. REVIEW: Title: "Stumbling toward salvation, one day at a time" [9/10 stars] "'Crazy Heart' is a simple but emotionally resonant movie about a 57-year-old alcoholic country singer whose career is on the skids. Bridges, Gyllenhaal and Farrell have never been better, and Duvall is always pure gold. This movie is Bridges' chance to give a master class in acting, and he does not disappoint for a minute, but he's not alone in the spotlight, and the depth of support he gets is what makes Crazy Heart worth watching." "A lifelong musician and many-talented artist (painting, photography, ceramics) whose thespian preeminence in Hollywood has yet to win him an Oscar, Jeff Bridges inhabits the songs he sings on screen as convincingly and seamlessly as he fits into the shambles of a life and mess of a body that is the film's protagonist. This musical integrity is important because Bad Blake is one of those disintegrating performers whose art has not faltered, though his life has. The songs he sings are his own, and when he's on stage, he's alive. The rest of the time he's lying, deceiving, or numbing out. A great line is when he's asked by Jean where his songs come from and he replies simply, 'Life, unfortunately...'" "Bridges' Bad Blake is so authentically blousy and pathetic he's hard to look at sometimes. He's always drunk and at an opening gig at a Pueblo, Coloradi[sic] bowling rink, throws up in a back alley between songs, while the young pickup band he's saddled with has to fill in. In Santa Fe, Jean shows up to do an interview, and a May-December romance develops as Bad woos Jean against her better judgment and plies her little boy with homemade pancakes (the boy is hungry for a man in his life and Bad oozes charm, when he's conscious). Gyllenhaal... gives a performance as a women warring inside with loneliness and need. Her scenes with Bridges are central to the movie, and the chemistry is strong between them." "'Crazy Heart...' manages to be pretty realistic about the degeneration that is terminal alcoholism. Here, however, it's not a slide into hell like Mike Figgis' 'Leaving Las Vegas.' Though only by the skin of his teeth, and with multiple ailments a car crash reveals, Bad is surviving... Maybe the fast-forward finale is a bit too upbeat, but the memory the movie leaves is, of course, of Bridges with a bottle, a guitar, and a sad sweet song, and of some of the year's best movie acting." - Written by Chris Knipp, 6 January 2010, on IMDB.com MORE INFORMATION: IMDB Listing | RUNTIME: 112 mins. | LANGUAGE: English | COLOR: Color | MOVIE WEBSITE: CrazyHeartMovie.com |
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