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Beyond the Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Beyond the Sea (film), a 2004 film starring Kevin Spacey about the life of singer Bobby Darin. Beyond the Sea is also the title of an episode from The X-Files (season 1), named for the song (see above), which features prominently. Beyond the Sea (album), the fifth full-length album by the power metal band, Dark Moor. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beyond_The_Sea   (146 words)

Beyond the Sea In Beyond the Sea, Kevin Spacey as Bobby Darin talks to the ghost of his kid self, a pint-sized Virgil leading Spacey's decrepit Dante into the hell of vanity projects. Truth is, Beyond the Sea is the Kevin Spacey story without as much closeted homosexuality and just the same amount of delusions of grandeur and aspirations towards artistic martyrdom. It's difficult to articulate every way that Beyond the Sea goes bad; sufficed to say that the only thing that keeps it from being a kitsch classic on a par with Oliver Stone's Alexander is that we're too busy cringing to laugh. www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/beyondthesea.htm   (463 words)

BEYOND THE SEA Sea in the title, is a movie cobbled together so curiously, the studio “forgot” to slap a screenwriting credit on the back of their For Your Consideration screener. Darin, an asshole perfectionist, is at the end of his career, making a non-existent film about his life story, and the kid playing the younger version of himself (William Ullrich) tells him he’s doing it all wrong before suggesting how their tale should be told. Sea’s protagonist (that might be an understatement: digging Darin up and tossing his salad wouldn’t be too far removed from the lathering love-fest that’s happening here). www.sick-boy.com /beyondthesea.htm   (602 words)

Beyond the Sea By the film’s closing sequence, when Ullrich criticizes Spacey, admonishing him that this is not the way the story ends, “Sea” hits unpredictable notes of nostalgia and celebration that could never exist in a literal telling. It is not wrong for the film to spend time here, but suddenly the energy, life and showmanship that has brought “Sea” this far disappears, and we’re left with a series of emotional peaks that amount to four or five climaxes. After all, as Ullrich and Spacey come to understand in the film’s final scene, this is not the movie of Darin’s life but of Darin’s legend, and the film’s numerous fantasy sequences and performances hit that nail on the head. movies.zertinet.com /2004/beyondthesea.htm   (762 words)

village voice > film > Beyond the Sea by Dennis Lim A bizarrely misshapen shrine erected in memory of semi-forgotten crooner Bobby Darin, Beyond the Sea may be the worst biopic of the season. To watch Beyond the Sea is to marvel at the particular recipe of obsession and delusion that willed it into being. One excuse: Beyond the Sea is haphazardly framed as a fictitious autobiopic. www.villagevoice.com /issues/0450/lim2.php   (566 words)

Beyond the Sea (2004): Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, John Goodman, Bob Hoskins - PopMatters Film Review Given at least one of the film's premises -- that singing and dancing is actual work -- the existence of its full-on musical numbers, with folks bursting into song and dancing in the street, all done up in vibrant costumes and waving their arms exuberantly, makes charming sense. Beyond the Sea is all about staging -- it opens with Darin walking through the back halls and kitchen of the Copa, camera tracking Goodfellas-style -- as a PA announces, "We're walking." The film goes so far as to remark on its own clever artifice within, quite ineffectively. Partly structured as a film that Bobby's making about his own life, it includes an early moment when someone notes that he is, after all, too old to "play himself" (Spacey being near 50, this is manifest throughout, especially when he plays the artist as a young man). www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/b/beyond-the-sea.shtml   (1030 words)

KINNOPIO - Beyond the Sea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Beyond the Sea was released in 2004, a year packed with filmmakers’ dream projects (Alexander, The Passion of the Christ) and historical biographies (Ray, Finding Neverland, De-Lovely, Kinsey). There are moments early in the film when there is a bit of a disconnect between Spacey and the character; it’s harder during these scenes to believe we’re watching the singer himself rather than a well-known actor impersonating him. Beyond the Sea is most heartfelt after this moment, as Darin tries to erase his past by selling most of his possessions, changing his appearance, and living in seclusion. home.earthlink.net /~kinnopio/reviews/2004/beyondthesea.htm   (834 words)

Beyond the Sea (2004): Reviews Spacey's brazen casting isn't as beyond the pale as it ought to be. The film never gives you a real sense of what drove Darin on, fighting a heart ailment (from childhood rheumatic fever) and fighting an industry and press that wanted to pigeonhole him. Beyond the Sea, with all its gaping faults, is the genuine article. www.metacritic.com /film/titles/beyondthesea   (1023 words)

Beyond the Sea ‘Beyond the Sea’ looks at the life of a music icon of the fifties and sixties, Bobby Darin, From his first hit ‘Splish Splash’ through such classics as Beyond the Sea, Dream Lover and his iconic Mack the Knife, his music enthralled a generation. In this biographical film Darrin is played to a tee by the talented Kevin Spacey who also co-wrote and directed the film. Many critics have denounced this film as a mere ego project for Kevin Spacey but after all is said and done his love for this film shows through. www.hometheaterinfo.com /beyond_the_sea.htm   (1111 words)

Las Vegas Mercury: Beyond the Sea Undeterred, he has a huge hit with the inane ditty "Splish Splash" before the age of 20, cheered on by his adored mother, Polly (a typically over-the-top Brenda Blethyn), a retired vaudeville singer who tells her son his absent father was a dangerous gangster. Prancing and warbling "Mack the Knife" in acid yellow suits and cranberry shirts (the film's colors are eyeball-searing), Spacey is like the mortifying uncle who insists on dancing with the young'uns at family parties. Beyond the Sea is the latest in a long line of career disasters for Spacey (Pay it Forward, K-Pax, The Life of David Gale), whose 1999 Oscar for American Beauty seems to have messed with his head. www.lasvegasmercury.com /2004/MERC-Dec-30-Thu-2004/25561719.html   (544 words)

Beyond The Sea film review Released at the same time as Ray, Beyond The Sea - taken from the title of one of Darin's biggest hits - is bound to draw comparisons with the far superior biopic of soul singer Ray Charles. The success of a film about a real person can be measured in different ways, though the best barometer is if it conveys a thorough understanding of who they are. Beyond the sea is where Spacey might want to go if his year gets any worse. www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/reviews/beyond_the_sea.html   (642 words)

Review: Beyond the Sea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Beyond the Sea, Spacey's bio-pic of the singer/songwriter/actor, plays like a conventional melodrama, complete with a star-crossed romance, troubled marriage, and late-innings comeback. Beyond the Sea is saved by energetic musical numbers, and gets a nod above Ray because it is more than 30 minutes shorter. Beyond the Sea offers a disclaimer stating that, although the events in the film are based on factual occurrences, changes have been made and the result may not meet with the approval of the survivors. movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/b/beyond_sea.html   (720 words)

beyond the sea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Then there’s Beyond The Sea, actor-director Kevin Spacey’s belated Valentine to crooner Bobby Darin, a small film featuring a passionate, larger-than-life performance by Spacey which transcends the customary Lifetime three-hanky flashback. Having Bobby Darin sing Beyond the Seas as he chases down and courts Sandra Dee (Kate Bosworth) while shooting a film in Rome not only rocks, it makes sense within the context of the film. I’m not sure who the target audience for Beyond the Sea is. It’s a vanity project, but it’s not one done in vain. www.lightviews.com /beyond_the_sea.htm   (796 words)

BEYOND THE SEA review by Mark Walters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) That said, it's sometimes hard to accept him at certain points in the film, simply because it's so obvious that Spacey is too old to be playing the age he's supposed to be on the screen. Overall BEYOND THE SEA is a pretty honest telling of Darin's life, at least from a personality point of view. There are some unusual moments in the film, particularly when the story stops down for a few impromptu dance numbers. www.bigfanboy.com /pages/reviews/filmreviews/2004/beyondthesea/beyondthesea.html   (1202 words)

BBC - Movies - interview - Kevin Spacey But he cuts a pretty mean figure on the big screen too, in his most recent roles in K-Pax, The Shipping News and The Life of David Gale, and his Oscar winner performances in The Usual Suspects and American Beauty. Beyond The Sea, which he stars in and directs, affirms his life-long appreciation for singer and actor Bobby Darin. Beyond The Sea is released in UK cinemas on Friday 26th November 2004. www.bbc.co.uk /films/2004/11/23/kevin_spacey_beyond_the_sea_interview.shtml   (730 words)

CNN.com - Review: 'Beyond' good, thanks to Spacey - Dec 17, 2004 But in this film he inhabits Darin to the point where you can't escape a feeling of awe for his performance -- and a deep respect for his commitment to telling the story of this remarkably talented performer. Interspersed throughout the film are many of Darin's greatest hits, including "Splish Splash," "Mack the Knife" and the title song. And even though this is young Ullrich's first film, he has been singing and dancing on Broadway in numerous musicals for the last four years and his expertise is evident. edition.cnn.com /2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/17/review.beyond/index.html   (786 words)

dvdfuture.com :: Review - Beyond The Sea (2004) The length of the film, the feeling that Darin reached a real maturity later in life, or simply that in the ten years wait to get his film to the screen, Kevin Spacey had gotten too old to do a credible job as a teen idol. "Beyond The Sea" starts out with a kind of "Mack The Knife" intro that is stopped short by a tuxedoed Bobby Darin(Kevin Spacey) yelling cut in a crowded nightclub. He is not even happy with the film's beginning until a young lad playing the boy Darin causes the adult to think it over and decide the movie should begin on the streets where he grew up in New York City. www.dvdfuture.com /review.php?id=723   (1102 words)

Kevin Spacey talks about BEYOND THE SEA When BEYOND THE SEA is released in theaters, there will be many people out there that learn for the very first time who Bobby Darin was. Kevin Spacey has crafted a film that is very personal and important to him, and was only able to do so through years of patience and careful planning. And once they got behind the film, they got behind it a way that I don't think the movie could've been made the way it was made without them. www.bigfanboy.com /pages/interviews/kevinspacey/spacey.html   (4056 words)

Beyond the Sea - Film Reviews - Film - Entertainment - theage.com.au Yet, Beyond the Sea is also very much a movie about the absence of personality and the impossibility of truth. In an odd way, this miscasting becomes part of the film's subject, as if Spacey viewed his performance as a tribute to Darin's own artificiality: every aspect of the character as portrayed here is pure contrivance, from his stage name to his toupee to his "swinging" image, modelled slavishly on that of Frank Sinatra. In the end, the film is a fantasy of immortality without substance, a condition that remains unsettlingly close to death. www.theage.com.au /news/film-reviews/beyond-the-sea/2006/07/12/1152637737526.html   (709 words)

The Music Box: Beyond the Sea (Film - Movie - DVD Review) There’s no question that Beyond the Sea was a movie that Spacey had wanted to make for quite some time, and his love for Darin’s music as well as his admiration for Darin himself radiates with luminescence throughout the film. However, the biggest surprise of Beyond the Sea is that Spacey not only can carry a tune, but he also has a vocal timbre that bears an uncanny resemblance to Darin. Yet, Spacey so relishes playing the role of Darin that it’s nearly impossible not to be captivated by his performance, and although Beyond the Sea occasionally stumbles, Spacey’s devotion to the project is enough to carry it through its bumpier moments. www.musicbox-online.com /bd-sea.html   (482 words)

DVD Verdict Review - Beyond The Sea Beyond that is the fact Spacey looks too old to play Darin in his 20s; call me stubborn, but I couldn't get past the fact it was a 40-something actor in a 20-something role. The performances in Beyond The Sea are seasoned and polished; it's a shame that the screenplay (by Spacey and Ladder 49 scribe Lewis Colick) seems to lose steam half way into the story. Beyond The Sea is not a bad movie, but it is wildly uneven without much complexity. www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/beyondsea.php   (834 words)

Film Review: Beyond The Sea - Elites TV - Your Elite News Source With colorful ethnic types (courtesy of the Bronx) the film charts the singer's rise under the guidance of his loving mother (Brenda Blethyn), an archetype that goes back to The Jazz Singer (1927). Unlike De-Lovely, which wisely focused on the gay Cole Porter's unorthodox marriage, there is no distinguishing angle to set Beyond the Sea apart from its genre. But with the exception of "Beyond the Sea" and "Mack the Knife," you won't likely be humming the tunes afterwards. www.elitestv.com /pub/2004/Dec/EEN41c322e4367f3.html   (304 words)

The Enquirer - 'Beyond the Sea' feels like a vanity project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) That seems to be the entire point of “Beyond the Sea,” in which he plays the crooner from his rise to music and movie popularity in the ‘60s, through his turn as a folk singer during the Vietnam War, and up to his death following open-heart surgery in 1973. As in that earlier film, in which a dying Porter sits in a theater and watches his story unfurl onstage with an Archangel Gabriel figure next to him, “Beyond the Sea” begins with Darin making a fictional movie about his life, with a child version of himself (William Ullrich) guiding him through the highlights. Clearly “Beyond the Sea” is for Darin devotees only, who will not only ignore this and other eviscerating reviews, but they’ll probably already have seen Spacey on tour with a 19-piece big band, singing Darin’s songs live. news.enquirer.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041230/ENT02/412310308   (707 words)

Exclusive Interview - Kevin Spacey for "Beyond the Sea" I was never attached to that film and somehow in a lot of stories that I've read, it seems to be that the movie itself is being talked about as being this 15 year journey for me, which it wasn't. Once Spacey acquired the rights, his arduous journey in getting the film made began, yet given the actor's unique choices as an actor, Spacey denies that a growing lack of box office clout presented problems in getting Beyond the Sea financed. I think the musical form is a great form and I'm so happy that this year Beyond the Sea is not opening in a vacuum. www.darkhorizons.com /news04/beyond.php   (972 words)

Beyond the Sea - Film Reviews - Film - Entertainment - smh.com.au Beyond the Sea is a biopic about Bobby Darin, the Bronx crooner, with Kevin Spacey as both actor and director. Spacey has directed once before, the 1996 thriller Albino Alligator, but Beyond the Sea is mostly a vanity project, long on ambition to showcase his (considerable) talents as a singer, and short on any sense of depth. Many of the scene transitions are clever too, in a trompe l'oeil kind of way, but the film never becomes truly engrossing or moving. www.smh.com.au /news/film-reviews/beyond-the-sea/2006/07/12/1152637741389.html   (909 words)

Bobby Darin Beyond The Sea is currently in a limited release in Japan where fans there tell me it is receiving more good reviews than bad, will be shown at the Iceland International Film Festival in April, and the Faces of Love Film Festival in Moscow will open with the film on March 8. Beyond the Sea (* * * ½) The best interpretive singers are musical actors, so it should surprise no one that on this soundtrack to his upcoming Bobby Darin biopic, Kevin Spacey channels Darin's crooning with more intuition than most modern pop stars likely could summon. BEYOND THE SEA is directed by Academy Award(R) winner Kevin Spacey and stars Kate Bosworth, John Goodman, Bob Hoskins and Brenda Blethyn. www.drivingmrspacey.com /BobbyDarin.htm   (11195 words)

Kate Bosworth/Beyond The Sea Interview Following the film's world premiere at this year's Toronto Film Festival, Paul Fischer sat with Bosworth to talk about her unique career and this equally unique character. Yet you don't seem to care about finding films that have commercial viability which is unusual in a town where young, beautiful actresses tend to do that. Kate: It was very interesting actually because I'd been distanced from the film for a little while and I was so into that character and that [inaudible] that point in Berlin, not even like in LA or anything. www.filmmonthly.com /Profiles/Articles/KateBosworthBeyondSea/KateBosworthBeyondTheSea.html   (1673 words)

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