Costello film premiering Toronto , Sept.5th

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 3:51 pm

see

The film that Elvis `plays himself` in is debuting soon.

http://www.cyanpictures.com/

The Toronto Film Festival screenings of I Love Your
Work have now officially been set for:

- Fri. Sept 5, 6:30pm, Bader (450)
- Sat. Sept 6, 12:00pm, Elgin (1358)
- [Press/Industry Screening:] Fri. Sept 5, 9:15 am,
Varsity 1 (204)

Additional details of the movie at

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0322700

Post by **BlueChair** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 4:07 pm

Awesome!

Too bad the rest of the cast looks pitiful, but maybe I should check it out.

LessThanZero · Post by **LessThanZero** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 4:07 pm

Blue, that's just not fair.

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 4:07 pm

Just a reminder about this -

see
http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/2003/film ... hed&id=102

I Love Your Work , the movie Elvis
`cameos`in is premiering in the Toronto Film Festival
this Fri. Sept.5th - will he be there , I wonder?

Post by **BlueChair** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 5:17 pm

Tickets were sold out when I went to the box office today. Though I was more interested in other films that were playing (also sold out, unfortunately). Costello cameo or no Costello cameo, the cast of the film kind of nausiates me. Joshua Jackson??

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 1:27 pm

Don't hate them because they're beautiful, BC!

Actually, the cast sounds pretty darn good. (Though I have to say I'm dissapointed that EC's part is only another cameo. I actually thought he was going to be guy who's work was loved.)

You don't like the beautiful and talented Christina Ricci? She's one of the best, most interesting young actresses around.

Also, I've got to say that Giovanni Ribisi is an excellent actor at both comedy and the opposite. I first spotted him on one of the very few episodes of "Friends" I've ever seen (it was the only one I liked enough to bother watching all the way through) and in a small part in "That Thing You Do" -- and then he went on to a great bit in "Saving Private Ryan" (no doubt where he made the connection with director Adam Goldberg). More recently, he did a really amazing turn as Mikal Gilmore in the HBO movie "Shot Through the Heart."

Franka Potente is pretty good, too.

RE: Josh Jackson. Well, he was funny spoofing himself in "Oceans 11". Otherwise, don't know, really. (Never watched "Dawson" for more than ten seconds -- no interest in teen soaps that don't feature monsters and superheroes). Still, unless I take a distinct dislike to them, I try not to keep a very open mind when it comes to actors, they can surprise you....

I can remember when everyone thought Johnny Depp was just a mediocre pretty boy because he started on a crappy TV series ("21 Jump Street").

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Sat Sep 06, 2003 6:24 pm

Reports don`t mention Elvis being at this so he missed seeing the following

http://www.digitalhit.com/fest/tiff/2003/2/photos/12

and
http://www.digitalhit.com/fest/tiff/2003/2/photos/15

and

http://www.digitalhit.com/fest/tiff/2003/2/photos/19

...... bet he`s sorry!

Post by **BlueChair** » Sat Sep 06, 2003 10:42 pm

Wow.

I'm sorry too!!!!

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Sat Sep 06, 2003 10:46 pm

I just realized I had to turn the brightness up on my monitor.

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 2:28 pm

Still no sign of Elvis at his movie , I Love Your
Work , at The Toronto Film Festival.

So he missed hanging out with this lot...
http://www.digitalhit.com/fest/tiff/2003/3/photos/10

....which is a pity , considering some of the
old stiffs he`s been photographed with lately.

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 5:58 pm

see
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... lm_work_dc
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Film Review: 'I Love Your Work'
Thu Sep 11, 8:44 PM ET

By Kirk Honeycutt

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - "I Love Your Work" is a
movie directed and co-written by an actor, Adam
Goldberg , that features many of his actor
buddies. So what's it all about? It's about how awful
it is to be an actor or, worse, a movie star and how
an acting career can damage one's fragile psyche.

Before you can even accuse the moviemaker and his pals
of navel gazing, a "narcissism expert" appears on a TV
talk show and turns to the movie's protagonist to
lecture him about listening to other people and
getting over his egocentricity. Of course, he doesn't
listen to her.

However much this movie may speak to the current
generation of actors, it has little to say to
moviegoers. Goldberg's direction is all flash and no
substance, and his story and characters offer little
reason for viewers to empathize with such self-pitying
characters. Because Goldberg borrows -- or believes he
is borrowing -- from the stylistic flourishes of
filmmakers ranging from David Lynch and John
Cassavetes to Martin Scorsese and the French New
Wave, the movie may stimulate cineastes who look for
"references" in movies rather than originality.
Otherwise, "I Love Your Work" will have little life
off the festival circuit.

Giovanni Ribisi plays Gray Evans, a movie star whose
life and marriage to fellow movie star Mia (Franka
Potente )) is falling apart. As Mia accurately points
out to Gray: "You hate the business. You hate the
rags. And you hate being a celebrity." No one bothers
to ask why Gray pursues a career guaranteed to bring
him so much grief.

Goldberg and co-writer Adrian Butchart try to
establish layers of reality in order to play peekaboo
with the narrative structure. So there is a movie
being made within the movie. Gray's obsessions and
fantasies may or may not be real. And he suffers many
mental mix-ups wherein his wife turns into his
ex-lover Shana (Christina Ricci ) and Shana gets
confused with Jane (Marisa Coughlan ), the young
girlfriend of one of Gray's fans, John (Joshua Jackson
). But since no level of reality is given any
substance or plausibility, the movie feels void of
narrative purpose.

Gray, who exists on a diet of booze and tobacco,
apparently goes to a premiere nearly every night. Yet
every time a photographer's flash goes off, his face
has the startled, horrified look of a deer caught in
the headlights of an on-rushing car. Gray sees
stalkers everywhere, to the amusement of his security
expert (Jared Harris), who pads his bank account
nicely by following up on every obsession. And every
time Elvis Costello leaves a message on the answering
machine for Mia, Gray goes into a jealous rage.

Meanwhile, Gray and Mia live a strange movie-star
existence as they inhabit a cool, sterile loft above
an aging movie theater. The only real twist to this
film comes when the movie star essentially stalks a
fan. Gray's spying on John and Jane allows him to
fantasize about what a "normal" life would be like.
Yet he gleams no wisdom from his intrusion into their
lives. Instead, his continual delusions and flawed
memories offer Goldberg the opportunity to wallow in
an impressionistic style, courtesy of cinematographer
Mark Putnam's crisp, gloomy lighting, designer Erin
Smith's antiseptic decors and editors Zack Bell and
John Valerio's jumble of images culled from Gray's
confused mind.

Goldberg's actors work hard, but the overwrought
melodrama betrays their efforts. Ribisi, who has never
looked less like a movie star, is too weird and
affected from the opening scene to pull you into his
character's turmoil and troubles. Potente, who does
look like a movie star, comes off with dignity at
least as a women struggling to cope with a failing
marriage. Jackson, Coughlan and Ricci, all playing
quasi-figments of Gray's imagination, can do little
more than pose and react.

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 5:43 pm

Here`s the latest from the producers of this movie -

http://www.cyanpictures.com/

I Love Your Work
A star stalks his fan. Starring Giovanni Ribisi,
Franka Potente, Joshua Jackson, Christina Ricci, Jason
Lee, Vince Vaughn and Elvis Costello. Premiered at the
Toronto Film Festival.

January 04, 2004

After months and months of print problems, we finally
managed to lock the final version of ILYW, closing the
bond and burning copies for the list of distributors
we've been keeping on the hook since Toronto. With the
film in their hands, we can (at long last!) seriously
begin distribution discussions. We're thrilled to say
ILYW has just been admitted into competition at SxSW,
which should help us regain any momentum we lost due
to our post-Toronto technical-glitch slowdown.

see also
http://www.sxsw.com/film/?PHPSESSID=490 ... 80ef9500a5

SXSW FILM CONFERENCE & FESTIVAL 2004
March 12-20 · Austin Convention Ctr
4th at Trinity · Austin TX

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So that means it will be well in to
the summer before anyone outside the movie industry
gets to see this film.

10 · Post by 10 » Wed Jan 07, 2004 3:12 am

Christina Ricci. Yes.

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:47 am

I hope Elvis plays himself better than he plays other characters! Mind you, having seen him play himself in Larry Sanders, probably not!

Misha · Post by **Misha** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 2:10 am

Vince Vaughn??? Now we're talking....mmmmmm

Is it wrong that I want Elvis to leave me answering machine messages?

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 6:04 am

Misha - no. However Celine wants to say a special message for you. Have you got one for her?

(in case you're wondering what I'm on about - not for the first time I imagine - check out the this is hell thread on the annex).

Misha · Post by **Misha** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 8:07 pm

VG---was that a white glove that just hit my cheek?

Hmmmm, where the hell did I put that fencing sword......