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Levy
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 This year's first contender: Atonement After seeing it I am pretty sure Knightley is a top contender for Best Supporting Actress honors. Also James McAvoy could have a shot at Best Actor. Additional nominations for Make-Up, Cinematography, Editing (though I found it a bit confusing at times), Adapted Screenplay, Costumes and Art Direction are in the cards, quite possibly even Best Picture and Director. The women in the screening I attended absolutely adored the movie.
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xiayun
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Re: This year's first contender: Atonement That's nice to hear.  Two weeks until Venice! So Keira is supporting not lead? Or will this be more like Kidman for The Hours? _________________Recent watched movies: American Hustle - B+ Inside Llewyn Davis - B Before Midnight - A 12 Years a Slave - A- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - A- My thoughts on box office
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Levy
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Re: This year's first contender: Atonement
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Christian
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Re: This year's first contender: Atonement I like the whole "book within a book" aspect of Atonement and I am intrigued to see it filmed. The character Cecilia (played by Keira) is not the main character of the book, but is the subject of Briony's "atonement" that the latter carries from when she was 13 until in her 70's.
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Jonathan
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Re: This year's first contender: Atonement I had my eye on this right after the Oscars, but I've become weary since it apparently got appointed the status of Oscar frontrunner by followers of the race, so I wanted to hold off on anything until other people actually saw it. It appears to be the real deal, nice.
And like Xia said Keira will probably be put in Lead ala Kidman in The Hours.
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Jonathan
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Re: This year's first contender: Atonement Also, which Briony do you think stand the best shot: Ronan, Garai, or Redgrave?
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Ishmael
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Re: This year's first contender: Atonement Nice to hear another positive reaction. A clip from the film has just been made available. And there are a number of featurettes also: AtonementJames McAvoyJoe WrightKeira KnightleyDunkirkThree Brionys... all found on the IMDb board.
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Christian
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Re: This year's first contender: Atonement Positive* Jon wrote: Also, which Briony do you think stand the best shot: Ronan, Garai, or Redgrave? Some reviews I have read have Redgrave as a glorified cameo?  _________________A hot man once wrote: Urgh, I have to throw out half my underwear because it's too tight.
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Jonathan
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Re: This year's first contender: Atonement ValleyGuyChristian wrote: Positive* Jon wrote: Also, which Briony do you think stand the best shot: Ronan, Garai, or Redgrave? Some reviews I have read have Redgrave as a glorified cameo? Well, that's hardly ever stopped veterans before, no? *COUGHCOUGH williamhurtCOUGHCOUGH* 
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Raffiki
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Re: This year's first contender: Atonement My most anticipated movie of the year as of now.
I really want to read the book before I see the film.
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Rod
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Re: This year's first contender: Atonement Well I think Away from Her/Once are the first contenders but...
The trailer doesnt really show much, but at least the performances look great.
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Levy
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Re: This year's first contender: Atonement xiayun wrote: That's nice to hear. Two weeks until Venice! So Keira is supporting not lead? Or will this be more like Kidman for The Hours? I would put Keira in supporting. The female lead is Briony - problem is that she's played by three different actresses, so there's not really a female lead in the movie. Keira has a big role in the early part of the movie but then its focus shifts to McAvoy in the war and Briony in the hospital. They would be foolish to put Keira into the lead category IMO
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Levy
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Re: This year's first contender: Atonement Positive* Jon wrote: Also, which Briony do you think stand the best shot: Ronan, Garai, or Redgrave? Most impressive was Ronan, the biggest impact has Garai. Redgrave has maybe five minutes screentime. The best chance would probably have Garai, though I don't think any of them will be nominated. That's the problem when one role is cast with different actors.
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Re: This year's first contender: Atonement When does this come out btw?
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Levy
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Re: This year's first contender: Atonement In the Uk in september, in Germany november and in the US in limited release on december 7th
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Re: This year's first contender: Atonement This could be a monster (and end up winning BP, who knows?).
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Levy
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Re: This year's first contender: Atonement Just found this on flickr. This is the amazing Dunkirk set in which the beach scene takes place that Empirew (rightfully) raved about. 
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knightleyfan
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Re: This year's first contender: Atonement will you all (who have seen the atonement movie) give any spoilers? i have read the book, but i just want to know where a particular scene from the trailer is in the move
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Levy
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Re: This year's first contender: Atonement knightleyfan wrote: will you all (who have seen the atonement movie) give any spoilers? i have read the book, but i just want to know where a particular scene from the trailer is in the move You can PM me if you want to know something. The structure of the movie is very faithful to the structure of the book.
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knightleyfan
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Re: This year's first contender: Atonement k i gave you a PM! thnks in advance!
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Christian
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Re: This year's first contender: Atonement Levy wrote: Just found this on flickr. This is the amazing Dunkirk set in which the beach scene takes place that Empirew (rightfully) raved about. Can you say Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction locks?  _________________A hot man once wrote: Urgh, I have to throw out half my underwear because it's too tight.
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Levy
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Re: This year's first contender: Atonement Daily Telegraph wrote: Next Wednesday evening, the eyes of the entire film world will focus on English director Joe Wright. To the incessant flash of photographers' clicking cameras, he will stroll along a red carpet into the imposing Palazzo del Cinema in Venice and enter its auditorium, where the whole room will rise to applaud him. His new film Atonement, an adaptation of Ian McEwan's brilliant award-winning novel, has been chosen to open this year's Venice Film Festival. At 35, Wright is the youngest director to receive that accolade.
It will be an impossibly heady night, but the aftermath promises even more. Critics who have seen Atonement have reacted with breathless superlatives, and its showing at Venice and subsequent release will almost certainly catapult Wright into the ranks of world-class film directors. Quote: And Jason Solomons, in The Guardian, says the beach scene at Dunkirk could even be "the best single shot in British cinema."
He writes: "Wright introduces us to the carnage with a magnificent tracking shot that winds its way through a minefield of devastation. Wright's achievement in that shot, with his cinematographer Seamus McGarvey, sums up the whole film: brilliantly, elegantly simple.
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Jonathan
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Re: This year's first contender: Atonement Yeah, if it goes over well in Venice and Britain when it opens this just might become our first Picture lock. I can feel the race's simmer growing to a boil...
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Raffiki
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Re: This year's first contender: Atonement I just checked the book out from the library.
*tries to hold in excitement*
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Levy
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