Red Riding Trilogy

[Ezee E]

Trailer (http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/redriding/)

This trilogy got raves at Telluride. I didn't get to see any of them since I was working up a theater that wasn't showing it.

Three films, directed by Julian Jarrold, James Marsh (Man on Wire), and Anand Tucker.

Limited release in February, but I'm putting it on my Netflix. Looks great.

[Acapelli]

the poster's pretty cool

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/20100108_ridingtrilogy_560x863 .jpg

didn't realize this had already aired on british television. will check this out soon

[Dillard]

Trilogy coming to the Lagoon in Minneapolis for a week in mid-march. I am so excited! I wonder how well-attended these will be and whether I should try to get tickets beforehand. Anyone seen these yet?

[number8]

Yeah, I did. 1980 is the best.

[EvilShoe]

Yeah, I did. 1980 is the best.
How can it not be? It has Paddy.

[Dillard]

Yeah, I did. 1980 is the best.
Meaning, did you like the trilogy as a whole? Posted comments elsewhere?

[D_Davis]

I watched the first one, and didn't care for it much. It has some great atmosphere, but I was just totally uninterested in the story. I'll watch the other 2 eventually.

[number8]

Meaning, did you like the trilogy as a whole? Posted comments elsewhere?

As a whole, it's okay. 1983 is really terrible (not surprising, from the director of LEAP YEAR), which brings the whole thing down, but the good thing is that each film is completely standalone, so it's not even a Godfather III type of situation where it fucks with the previous ones. It's just one extra movie that's just bad.

I did like how each movie has its own groove. 1974 is very old school Bogie noir, with the reporter protag who gets beat up at every plot twist. 1980 is the choking, Zodiac/Memories of Murder kind of hardcore procedural, which I just love. Too bad they went for some Ron Howard melodrama redemption bullshit for 1983.

[Spinal]

I watched the first one, and didn't care for it much. It has some great atmosphere, but I was just totally uninterested in the story.

I left with the same feeling. Some nice moments, but I never felt like the film justified its own existence. What exactly is it we're supposed to take away from it? It's not particularly edifiying, exciting or provocative. It has very little insight or humor and few surprises. It's pretty well acted and moderately entertaining, but I don't feel inspired to jump right into the other two.

Rebecca Hall was the highlight for me.

[NickGlass]

Rebecca Hall was the highlight for me.

I find myself saying this whenever I see a film featuring her. Except for Frost/Nixon, and the shallow, eye-candy treatment of her character is one of the reasons why I dislike the film.

[Spinal]

I confess that I did not recognize her until I looked it up when I got home.

[Ezee E]

Oozing with atmosphere, and just what I expected, there's some fine filmmaking in the Red Riding: 1974. Garfield is serviceable as the hero but its everyone around him that made me like this. Cannot wait for 1980 now since it's considered the best by a wide margin.

[Boner M]

Hmm, I'll watch 1980 on the basis of Considine and 8's MoM/Zodiac comparison, but I found 1974 mostly uninvolving; I'll confess I wasn't really paying attention to the particulars of the story once it became clear that it was just going to mechanically follow all the requisite noir beats. Garfield and Hall are very good, but meh overall.