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Post by Larvalee on Sept 14, 2009 8:27:11 GMT -5
Can't wait to see your pictures and hear all the details of your experience!!!  Thanks for sharing betablue! I trust you will give us the answer to our quote quiz then too??  |
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Post by Mitzi on Sept 14, 2009 10:51:17 GMT -5
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Post by Melty_Girl on Sept 15, 2009 1:33:16 GMT -5
More Cillian... Funny -- Mitzi, these photos were thrown up on Flickr by a friend of The CillianSite, but you're so fast on your web searching that you found them before we could get our page built! See cilliansite.com for this and more photos from TIFF, plus an exclusive Perrier's Bounty review and a story of going to see Cillian at the premiere. I hope everyone enjoys these pieces -- we're excited about 'em. ETA: permanent url is www.cilliansite.com/news/blog/20090915-exclusive-perrier-s-review-and-premiere-coverage |
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Post by Mitzi on Sept 15, 2009 2:17:22 GMT -5
More Cillian... Funny -- Mitzi, these photos were thrown up on Flickr by a friend of The CillianSite, but you're so fast on your web searching that you found them before we could get our page built! I did not know that this is your friend, Meltygirl.  Just I'm took a photo from Flickr, there is free content. Many thanks for the review and a story of going to see Cillian at the premiere. |
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Post by Melty_Girl on Sept 15, 2009 2:31:33 GMT -5
I did not know that this is your friend, Meltygirl. Just I'm took a photo from Flickr, there is free content. Very true -- no worries. Glad you enjoyed them! |
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Post by emma286 on Sept 15, 2009 6:27:46 GMT -5
Gotta make this quick, 'cause I'm still on a public computer, but let's just say that we got a few pictures that would have WireImage grass-green with jealousy. Just saying. Can't upload them here, but we really lucked out. Will keep you posted. 'Til then, howzabout a quote? Would be something of a spoiler to reveal the speaker, but it's not Cillian, Brendan, or Jim, and when I found out who it was I was very pleasantly surprised: "There are certain things I like to keep mysterious and enigmatic. 'Cause that's me way, man. That's me way." Gotta go. There's a lineup for this machine. Laters! Thanks for mentioning Betablue! Look forward to hearing your further update. And many thanks yet again Mitzi for including all those great pics! |
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Post by sabine on Sept 15, 2009 16:44:10 GMT -5
Seabreeze, I was wondering when you would show up to piss on the parade. Took you long enough. And, God help us, Cillian sniffs? How dare he? Let's have him shot at dawn. Really, is that best you can come up with? For the rest of us, it is so great to see new pictures, read new interviews and have a new film to look forward to. Very exciting! |
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Post by betablue on Sept 17, 2009 23:48:22 GMT -5
Got a couple pictures linked below, guys. C'mon over: I'm too tired to bite...! (Just thinking of Achilles and Apollo and the other doggies in "Perrier's Bounty"!) As I mentioned, my friend and I were in the corner near the fence. Odd thing: in some of the professional photos on WireImage, Getty, etc., my friend appears as the person farthest to the right. The man on my right is in the photos. I am not in the photos. Guess the photogs had their anti-betablue filters firmly in place this year...! "Hey there, buddy," said I. "Hey-- HEY...!" said Cillian, smiling. "How's it going...?" May write more on the film later. For now, I'm just thinking simply in terms of marketing, and I'm thinking it's gonna be a tough sell. Cillian, Jim Broadbent, and Brendan Gleeson are absolutely fantastic in it, but North American audiences could easily smack into a language barrier. Simply, though the language has a poetry and eloquence nearly reminiscent of the dialect Anthony Burgess created for "A Clockwork Orange," if people don't get into the rhythm of it, they'll have a hell of a time understanding what's being said. Which is incredibly sad, as what is being said is very funny and very moving by turns. A second point: moments of intense, if brief, violence, both on a visual and an auditory level, are very disturbing. Again, I'm just trying to think as a marketer, but during one scene in particular, when-- shades of "Inglourious Basterds"-- a character (NOT MICHAEL  ) takes a baseball bat to the head, you could feel a pall drop over the energy level in the audience, particularly at the second screening, at the Scotiabank Theatre. It took a chunk of time for the film's momentum to re-build after that.... In general, though, I think this is easily some of Cillian's finest work. He's funny; he's passionate (and romantic); he's even a man of action. Michael really grows as a character, and Cillian's scenes with Jim Broadbent are incredibly good. So, as I was saying, a bajillion words ago, c'mon over. My friend took the first two photos; I took the last four. The final one I'm particularly fond of.... cillianspace.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=pictures&thread=1 |
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Post by sabine on Sept 18, 2009 1:54:59 GMT -5
Great photos, Betablue. Thanks for sharing them.
(Still wondering on your quote. Do tell!)
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Post by emma286 on Sept 18, 2009 4:23:40 GMT -5
Same here. Many thanks for sharing your views on the movie (found them really interesting to read) and for the piccies  |
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Post by rollergirl on Sept 18, 2009 11:18:00 GMT -5
Okay- those are great pics, betablue. But... Im definitely confused as to why you didn't post them here.
Am I to assume that your forum is the 'anti-Cillian' forum? I make that pseudo-assumption based on the fact that you and Seabreeze seem to be the only members (pitying you if you intended to start a genuinely NICE Cillian forum with her as your first member- talk about toxic repellant) thus far. I have to say that I wouldn't feel compelled to join a forum where negative rants about Cillian are the joke du jour. And why didn't you say all that insightfully personal stuff to his face while you had the chance...? Just curious. I'm trying to be nice about this. I don't feel compelled to join a forum headed by someone who calls herself iron-fisted, a gargoyle, and perhaps just wishes textual revenge on those who have disagreed with her here.
Still, though, nice pics. Cillian looks wonderful and healthy and married.
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Post by betablue on Sept 18, 2009 13:41:25 GMT -5
Okay- those are great pics, betablue. But... Im definitely confused as to why you didn't post them here. Am I to assume that your forum is the 'anti-Cillian' forum? I make that pseudo-assumption based on the fact that you and Seabreeze seem to be the only members (pitying you if you intended to start a genuinely NICE Cillian forum with her as your first member- talk about toxic repellant) thus far. I have to say that I wouldn't feel compelled to join a forum where negative rants about Cillian are the joke du jour. And why didn't you say all that insightfully personal stuff to his face while you had the chance...? Just curious. I'm trying to be nice about this. I don't feel compelled to join a forum headed by someone who calls herself iron-fisted, a gargoyle, and perhaps just wishes textual revenge on those who have disagreed with her here. Still, though, nice pics. Cillian looks wonderful and healthy and married. We have no moderator over here. I've heard it said a number of times: we can't contact the old mods. When threads go off-topic, there's no one to steer discussions or clean up posts. I got curious: I wondered how easy it would be to start a fresh board. Pretty easy, as it turns out. Please think of the labels as self-effacing, if anything. In real life, I am not only an odd mix of outspoken and civil, I am also square-shouldered, short, and very strong. Something of a gargoyle, you might say. You don't have to join the board. I didn't set it up as an attack, or anti, site. Heck, if I had, I would have said something nasty about the pictures myself, wouldn't I...? I adore Cillian as much as a gargoyle can-- hell, I just went some nine hundred miles to glimpse him again in person, to support him at a red-carpet event, and to see a film whose release in the States is up in the air. As for "insightfully personal," I'm an editor, not a journalist. I had no appointment for an interview. They were moving up the carpet, special-presentation events at TIFF always set the screening times back, and the volunteers had some two thousand people to stuff into the Ryerson. I never expected to have more than a chance to say "hi" and to hope that he might remember me. I'm very grateful for the moment I got. I'm very sorry, rollergirl, if I'm coming off as either a flake or a braggart. I think the pictures came out well for someone who's an idiot handling even the simplest of cameras. I'm grateful to my friend for her pictures. Things have been a bit rocky over here at the old board (and, yes, I admit that some of that rockiness has been my own darn fault). I simply wanted my pictures posted where an active moderator was present. Even if that moderator were me. Hope any of this makes sense--! We're back from Toronto; I posted the pictures, in fact, within twenty minutes of arriving home last night. I'm glad you enjoyed seeing them. I had a thrill getting them. It was a very nice trip. (And-- y'know-- the more I think about it, the more I think I labeled myself "iron-fisted" because I had "Whip It" on my brain. I'd requested tickets for it as part of our film festival package, and I was feeling a little "What was I thinking...?" about doing that. Going all the way to Toronto to see a general-release comedy about Ellen Page joining a roller-derby team-- WHAT?!? Then we saw it, and the cast was there, and it was a blast. A combination of "Rollerball" (the old one) with "The Women" (the even older one), with a great pro-empowerment message for young women. I loved it. So maybe you can blame "Iron Maven" for my self-tag at the new board. ) This ran long, didn't it...? So: feel free to pop over and see the pix, rant or rave about them here or there, as the mood takes you, and please: I may be a (very weird) aunt (and a [not-so-]great aunt), but I'm not an anti. 'Cause that's me way, man. That's me way. (By the way, do I PM the answer to the quote trivia TO someone...? If so, to whom...?) |
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Post by betablue on Sept 18, 2009 14:52:44 GMT -5
Sorry for the double post-- Here's one from inside the Ryerson. (Have plenty more like it, but I'm afraid that while I'm thinking "less" when the camera is set for "RED EYE," the camera is thinking "more." A touch of Rippneresque irony there, no...? ) Cross-posted at the new site.  Shifts in skin-tone are entirely the fault of the camera owner, who neglected to read the entire "Ulysses"-sized manual before operating the dang thing in a dim setting with a limited understanding of flash and ISO. *Ahem* |
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Post by rollergirl on Sept 18, 2009 15:43:22 GMT -5
Why's that? Because someone might say something nasty about them? Ironically, the only person likely to do that is your good buddy Seabreeze.
Look, I'm not trying to be a jerk here and I really appreciate both the pics you have posted and the review of Perrier's Bounty, which sounds so much better than I expected. But I can't help laughing at the irony of one of the more... ahhhh... controversial posters here being concerned about the lack of moderation on this forum. That's humorous to me. I think that the posters here have done, for the most part, a good job policing this forum and keeping topics in line, AND keeping things positive and enjoyable, despite the best efforts of some to do the opposite.
Again, though... nice pics. Thank you for contributing something extremely positive.
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Post by betablue on Sept 18, 2009 17:53:27 GMT -5
You're very welcome, Rollergirl. Glad you're enjoying the pictures! As for the owner of the quote ("...'Cause that's me way, man....") (Keep your eyes leftward if you don't want to know): S P O I L E R The Grim Reaper, or Death (voiceover by the wonderful Gabriel Byrne)
E N D * S P O I L E R I'd forgotten-- or blocked out the fact-- that he was in the cast. When I saw his name in the credits, I practically cheered. I asked director Ian Fitzgibbon at the second-screening Q&A if said actor, who's a brilliant writer in his own right, had contributed anything to the narration. (No, as it turns out. The script is purely the work of "Intermission"'s Mark O'Rowe.) |
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Thanks for sharing betablue! I trust you will give us the answer to our quote quiz then too?? 
Just I'm took a photo from Flickr, there is free content. 
) takes a baseball bat to the head, you could feel a pall drop over the energy level in the audience, particularly at the second screening, at the Scotiabank Theatre. It took a chunk of time for the film's momentum to re-build after that....