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Magnolia (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Magnolia is a 1999 motion picture, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, which tells the story of a peculiar interaction among several individuals during one apparently normal day in the San Fernando Valley, California. Two songs were written expressly for the film: "You Do," which was based on a character later cut from the film, and "Save Me," which closes the film; the latter was nominated in the 2000 Academy Awards and Golden Globes and in the 2001 Grammys. This is used as line of dialogue in Magnolia, and the song was a major inspiration for the film. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Magnolia_(movie)   (2204 words)

Show Boat (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This was the only film version of Show Boat to be given a road show presentation, and the only one of the three film versions to run over two hours (the stage version ran three hours originally, and was filmed in 1936 and 1951 at a length of slightly less than two hours). Magnolia is forced to bring up her young daughter alone, but is reunited with the repentant Ravenal after twenty-three years. Filmed in MGM 's typical, lavish style, this version is the most financially successful of the film adaptations of the play, and is one of MGM's most popular musicals, though arguably one of the studio's less inventive ones. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Show_Boat_(film)   (2149 words)

Magnolia and the Signs of the Times: A Theological Reflection The film is operatic in its magnitude and scope, and it moves between stories without urgency, allowing the deeper emotions of the characters to slowly surface. Much of the film is shot in exquisite close-ups revealing in some of the characters their past sorrows and defeats, while in others, their struggle for authenticity in the present. As I watched the film, I was reminded of The Brothers Karamazov, by F. Dostoyevsky, where the lives of the brothers in the novel reflect and resist the structures of sin ascribed to the life of the father. www.unomaha.edu /jrf/magnolia.htm   (3404 words)

Magnolia Movie Review by Anthony Leong Part of this is due to the fact that many of the high-profile films of the fourth quarter (such as "Snow Falling on Cedars" or "Cradle Will Rock") that have yet to be seen in wide release, and so I must hold judgement until I have made the 'rounds'. The film then jumps from character to character, spending only a few minutes each time, as they each are pushed to the edge of despair by circumstances out of their past, seemingly beyond their control. "Magnolia" is far from perfect-- rife with a number of terrific moments, this is a film that could have benefited from a tighter script, which would have made it the best film of the year. members.aol.com /aleong1631/magnolia.html   (1443 words)

DVD Review: Magnolia(Platinum Series) The film's release was somewhat badly done to put it lightly, and the film hardly saw much business at the box office. Although "Magnolia" is honestly a bit much at 188 minutes, Anderson's stunning visual style and excellent screenplay are carried even further by performances from many of his usual actors that are excellent. Pictures from the film are on the two front sides, and once it's opened, there are listings for the chapters on both disc one and two. www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews/magnoliadvd.html   (1707 words)

Guardian Unlimited Film | Reviews | Magnolia (1999) Magnolia gives us a poignant picture of loneliness and disappointment, an all-star cast who reinforce the argument that there should be a best ensemble Oscar, a frog storm[!] and a point where Cruise, Moore et al break into song in one of the greatest moments in recent film history. Magnolia was a brilliant movie; too bad for some folks that you have to have a brain and an attention span to enjoy it. I found Magnolia to be a film of rambling rubbish, and one of the music tracks from the film's soundtrack was lifted straight off the soundtrack of the The Thin Red Line (the track Journey to the Line). film.guardian.co.uk /Reader_Review/0,4163,-81820,00.html   (3571 words)

Magnolia review The film may be too long and somewhat pretentious, but in the end one willingly gravitates to the pain. At the apex of this film we find two old men dying of cancer who have cast a circle of destruction around them. Her music is compelling and to use it in this way was a disservice to the film and to her. www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/magnolia.html   (864 words)

Magnolia (1999): Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman - PopMatters Film Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) One of the most refreshing aspects of the film is its willingness, in a po-mo culture which seems focused only on the present, to revitalize history and demand that we look to the past if we are to imagine any future. It is not so much that the sons and daughters have forgiven the sins of their fathers, but rather have forgiven themselves for the role they had believed themselves to play in those sins, and in doing so redeemed themselves from the past and might move towards a future happiness. Magnolias philosophical ruminations on chance, interconnection, and causality, and on happiness, forgiveness, and redemption opens a door, if only for a brief time, onto a vision of subjectivity and the human condition rarely seen in film. www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/m/magnolia1.shtml   (1092 words)

Magnolia: Cinephiles Movie Review Magnolia, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights) is a film which explores several dramatic events as they occur simultaneously to a series of characters. Magnolia is composed of one extreme situation after another, where all characters suffer from some form of personal crisis. However, the film's strength lies in the economy of its narration: each of its scenes pulls the viewer directly into the heart of all conflict, a choice which tries to compensate for the overwhelming diversity of all its stories. www.cinephiles.net /Magnolia/Film-Synopsis.html   (299 words)

DVD Review - Magnolia : Film Music CD Reviews- November 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) Composer Brion was asked for 'something slow but fast, scary but romantic, sad and happy, is this possible?' Their working relationship once the film was cut together stemmed from Anderson gesticulating with his hands to articulate the emotion he wanted carried across these sequences now they had been blown apart and inter-cut with one another. In the film's most controversial sequence, Anderson's pre-conceived musical approach is illustrated at a far higher volume level than most of Brion's mix-challenged score. The film won and was nominated for numerous international awards, but noticeably none for music. www.musicweb.uk.net /film/2000/Nov00/DVD_magnolia.html   (648 words)

JoBlo reviews the movie "Magnolia"-- Comments3 Movies like Magnolia are more akin to paintings than research papers; you don't need to analyze or justify everything, you just soak it in and in the end, you know you've witnessed something beautiful. The only flaw in Magnolia is that with only three hours of film, you don't get nearly as deep into each of the fascinating characters as you would like. Magnolia is easily one of the best films of 1999, and one of the most important films of the decade. www.joblo.com /magnolia3.htm   (1545 words)

Magnolia . Tucson Weekly . 01-10-00 Throughout the film, signs pointing towards this verse appear with the insistent immediacy of a plague of boils. Magnolia tackles the opposite problem: it all occurs in one day, and over an hour of the film occurs in "real time," but it still manages to pack in the pertinent back story for a plethora of characters without ever resorting to awkward exposition. Basically, Magnolia is a collection of somewhere between five and 10 (depending on how you count them) distinct stories that all reach emotional climaxes during the time it takes for the game show What Do Kids Know to air. www.filmvault.com /filmvault/tw/m/magnolia1.html   (981 words)

Magnolia (1999)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) MAGNOLIA is indeed a sort of tree with varying branches of people, situations, and irony. His prior film had many of the same human aspects of right and wrong, life and death, but were guised by the porn industry. John C. Reilly is the centerpiece of this extraordinary film. us.imdb.com /title/tt0175880   (765 words)

Making Sense of a Movie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) (One reading of the film’s title is that it refers to a major avenue running through the valley.) A wunderkind at 30, with three films under his belt, he has already been granted “final cut” authority, a privilege typically reserved for filmmakers with decades of experience. Film is too powerful a medium for us to sit silently in the dark alone. It may not be the film for you or yours, but it is one that invites us into a conversation about ideas that matter, about the very fabric of our lives. www.ransomfellowship.org /R_Magnolia.html   (3081 words)

"Magnolia" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies MAGNOLIA is a profoundly moral film that serves as a case study of original and actual sins running amok. And at the end of the film, in a climax that is sure to blow most viewers away, God physically imposes himself on the characters and people are either forgiven or not. That is why, nearing the end of the film, a plague is sent from the sky, in a remarkable scene of falling frogs. www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/pre2000/magnolia.html   (3495 words)

Orlando Weekly - Film Review - Magnolia "Magnolia" is an imaginatively directed, sharply written trip, driven by the bravado performances of a superb ensemble cast that includes Anderson regulars Julianne Moore, William H. Macy, Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Television is a kind of unifying theme throughout the film, and it's on TV that we first see Frank T.J. Mackey (Cruise), a handsome, supremely arrogant, pointedly sexist motivational speaker who lures paying male customers to his "Seduce and Destroy" seminars through a cheesy come-on and a phone number that reveals his philosophy: 1-877-TAME-HER. Once there, hooting customers are treated to a chauvinist floor show, with the ponytailed, headset-wearing Mackey gyrating his hips and instructing his students in the ways of dominating the females in their lives. www.orlandoweekly.com /film/review.asp?rid=1354   (690 words)

MAGNOLIA | Jon Brion @ Cinemusic Online: Ezine for Film Score Lovers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) Anderson's MAGNOLIA is a circus of a drama- moving at breakneck speed through at least 10 different characters and their seemingly painful and/or morally corrupt lives. MAGNOLIA is filmed by a director who's clearly unafraid to take chances. However, the film moves so fast that creating different cues for all the different scenes would be impossible for any composer to put together in the short amount of time one has to score a film. www.cinemusic.net /reviews/2000/magnolia.html   (768 words)

Magnolia : filmcritic.com Movie Review Whether or not they are true (one involves the old story of a boy who attempts suicide by jumping from his roof, only to be shot in the stomach by accident on the way down, thus being murdered), they set the tone for the far more bizarre events to come. Magnolia rolls its opening credits to the tune of "One Is the Loneliest Number" and begins as a study of exactly that. And that's too bad, because otherwise Magnolia is a world-class film that would have been a shoo-in for the best of the year. www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/0/1d8c05988206b7a98825684b00083eed?OpenDocument   (575 words)

magnolia - film review Without introduction or explanation, we are presented with (among others) a dying cancer patient, a child game-show contestant, a neurotic junkie and her estranged father, a clumsy cop, and a self-styled sex-god fronting seminars that teach inadequate men to 'seduce and destroy'. With consummate patience, the film then teases connections from this random group, unravelling relationships and parallels that they have spent their lives covering up or denying. It's only as you reach the end that you realise the film is focused around that most American of subjects, the relationship between children and their fathers. www.dowse.com /movies/magnolia.html   (383 words)

JoBlo reviews the movie "Magnolia"-- Comments4 In fact, the techniques it copies from previous films and film makers are those that I think are among the most effective. Magnolia is one of the most draining films I've seen in a long time. Magnolia is charged with the kind of compassion and bravery that keeps you glued to the screen, you relate to the characters, and you can feel the way it captures the insanity of modern life. www.joblo.com /magnolia4.htm   (3415 words)

Sundance, Half Way Over This film exposed the audience to the masterful singing styles of this otherwise unknown talent, who at one time was considered among the top 6 jazzmen of the time (1940's-1960's). The most miraculous thing about this film was that the director accidentally stumbled across the career of Mr Paris, and was fortunate to have 2 years to befriend Jackie and film his spots. The film was layered with backgrounds on the environment in each country, traditions within each countrty, and how it is all blended in true Sesame formula. southsidefilm.blogster.com /sundance_half_way.html   (1008 words)

Magnolia - Film Reviews - 2100 Productions - InterVarsity.org The great thing about "Magnolia" is not the clever synchrony of the relationships, but the sincere intensity of the relationships themselves. "Magnolia"'s strength is in its powerful presentation of guilt and the possibility of forgiveness for sins. Those films, however, were very tightly constructed; for all its operatic grandeur, "Magnolia" is in constant danger of coming apart at the seams, and ultimately...it does, with an ending so unbelievably flabbergasting that I didn't know whether to applaud its nose-thumbing audacity or cry over such ludicrous nonsense. www.intervarsity.org /2100/filmreviews.php?id=2756   (954 words)

FILM REVIEW: Magnolia -- Overripe and Wilted During the film, they basically run around, with every moment of their lives being a Major Event, occasionally encountering each other, with rather obvious plot developments and tired, ostensibly taboo-breaking revelations at every step. Just witness the opening sequence, a trio of unrelated vignettes about the power of chance, which are all hilarious; or the amazing montage of twirling cameras, which introduces all the characters during and after the opening titles; or the insanely elaborate tracking shots, showing the life backstage at the taping of TV quiz show. Aurally, Magnolia is as much of a treat: built around several gorgeous Aimee Mann songs, it’s as lovely to the ear as it is exciting to the eye -- and, regrettably, inert to the heart and mind. www-tech.mit.edu /V119/N67/Magnolia.67a.html   (1317 words)

Magnolia Pictures :: Film Details. Bubble is the first of six films Steven Soderbergh is directing for HDNet Films that will be shot in high-definition and released simultaneously in theaters, on DVD and on cable television. The first film of the group, Bubble, will open in theatres across the country on January 27 and will be shown digitally in Landmark Theatres where available. Magnolia Home Entertainment will release the DVD through retail outlets on Tuesday, January 31, immediately following the theatrical release, as Tuesday is the standard release day for DVDs throughout the retail market. magpictures.com /profile.aspx?id=da26979c-156e-48f9-a1f9-6552edbfb851   (579 words)

Amazon.com: Magnolia (New Line Platinum Series): DVD: Tom Cruise,William H. Macy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) Now that I've seen "Magnolia" on video and have finally been able to philosophically, intellectually and logically string together its elements, there is no doubt that this is one of the most wonderful accomplishments on film ever made. Whether you like the film on the whole or not, I guarantee that you won't be bored, which is the curse of all lousy movies. One of the best films of 1999, "Magnolia" conveys a moral without moralizing, is rich in metaphor and altogether captivating, with an ending that may take you aback, if indeed, you haven't been paying close attention (there are at least two clues during the film, admittedly obscure, but there nevertheless). www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003CWTI?v=glance   (3504 words)

Magnolia The Bible verse referred to in the film, Exodus 8:2, says, "And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs." There are dozens of references to this verse scattered throughout the film. In addition, "magnolia" is a name coined by author Charles Fort for a theoretical place where frogs and other unusual things might fall out of the sky. In the original screenplay, the three meet in a diner at the end of the film and it is revealed that the Worm had killed the man discovered by Officer Jim Kurring in Marcie's apartment. www.rottentomatoes.com /m/magnolia/about.php   (1109 words)

Magnolia . Weekly Alibi . 01-17-00 His breakout film, Boogie Nights, was not only a bravura bit of filmmaking, but it established Anderson's cheeky sense of humor. Anderson's follow-up film, Magnolia, shares a number of similarities with its predecessor (not the least of which is its stellar ensemble cast). Magnolia is a sprawling, dazzling, frustrating and ultimately brilliant bouquet of a film that manages to be both epic and intimate at the same time. www.filmvault.com /filmvault/alibi/m/magnolia1.html   (936 words)

Review of "Magnolia" (1999) Something happens at the end of Magnolia that will be talked about and pondered over for years to come, dividing critics and public alike into those who see no relevance in the event, and those who see it as the most original and innovative sequence in recent movie history. While Altman’s film was bitter and pessimistic, Anderson shows a great deal of affection for each of his creations. Nobody in the film’s huge cast ever falters, and Anderson leads them with such a sure hand that it’s no surprise that they make up the best ensemble performance I’ve seen in years. www.filmaholic.net /reviews_magnolia.html   (510 words)

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