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"The Best of Youth" (Miramax's six-hours movie)

post #1 of 17
2/26/05 at 12:22pm
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At 2004 Palm Springs International Film Festival , "The Best of Youth" (a six-hours epic) won the Audience Award, thumbing its nose at "The Barbarian Invasions" , "Infernal Affairs", "Good Bye, Lenin!" and a host of other hyped films.

Surprisly, Harvey (I cut the shit so it works!) Weinstein says that he love this movie so much, so he will release this movie UNCUT. If he love a movie that much, this movie should be very good.

Miramax will release this movie in two parts on 3/2/05(each 3 hours long). Unlucky, this movie is getting minimal publicity(mostly due to the battle between the Weinsteins and Disney?). This Sunday's NY times has a article to talk about it, though.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/movies/27scot.html


More detail about this movie.
http://filmforum.com/films/bestofyouth.html
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post #2 of 17
2/26/05 at 4:22pm
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PETER TRAVERS loves it.
http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/...on=6.0.12.1040
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post #3 of 17
2/27/05 at 7:45pm
Six hours... sounds like a challenge, I'm in.
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post #4 of 17
2/27/05 at 7:49pm
Yeah, I read about this in the Regal Cinema Art paper. I have to say I was very surprised to see the running time.
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post #5 of 17
2/27/05 at 9:14pm
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The more surprise thing is that Harvey Weinstein doesn't cut it. :P

BTW, it is Miramax's international trailer
http://www.mymovies.net/player/play....2&sec=trailers
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post #6 of 17
2/27/05 at 9:18pm
That's not surprising at all. You just choose to hear about and latch onto those well-known disagreements that have been publicized. Weinstein doesn't cut everything, you know. For a while there, Miramax was a powerhouse, and those days are long gone.

That said, I do know for a fact that they publicized the hell out of this thing, almost one year ago, but it got shelved due to the onslaught of contract negotiations and not knowing what to do (as in publicity and selling it to the public, especially a fickle American one who'll see Diary of A Mad Black Woman in droves) with an almost 06 hour film.
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post #7 of 17
2/27/05 at 9:35pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Yando
Weinstein doesn't cut everything, you know.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Yando
That said, I do know for a fact that they publicized the hell out of this thing, almost one year ago, but it got shelved due to the onslaught of contract negotiations and not knowing what to do (as in publicity and selling it to the public, especially a fickle American one who'll see Diary of A Mad Black Woman in droves) with an almost 06 hour film.
Yes. Harvey Weinstein said that he wanted this movie to become another "City of God" at 2005 Oscar. It seems like that contract negotiations destorys every plans; this movie is getting minimal publicity.

Anyway, for a 6 hours foreign-language movie, getting US theatrical release is already a victory.
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post #8 of 17
2/28/05 at 7:34am
It's released in two parts. Or at least is was on its brief and succesful theatrical run in London.
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post #9 of 17
3/7/05 at 11:47pm
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It gets $7,490 at opening weekend($9,490 at 5-days opening)

http://www.variety.com/index.asp?lay...=BOLASTWEEKEND

It is a strong number because this movie only has 3 screenings per day.

http://filmforum.com/films/bestofyouth.html
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post #10 of 17
3/27/05 at 7:53pm
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The movie is doing quite well thus far( for the movie that only has 3 screenings per day).
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/...estofyouth.htm

In the first two weekend, it was shown in "Film Forum"(in New York). Now, this is showing in Royal Theaters( in Los Angeles ).
http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=1


The theatrical run in "Royal Theaters" will be finished on 3/31/2005; "Music Box Theatre" (in Chicago) will open this movie on 4/1/2005.
[url]http://www.musicboxtheatre.com/BestofYouth.html
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post #11 of 17
4/1/05 at 5:03pm
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Roger Ebert gives the six-hours epic movie "The Best of Youth" 4 stars.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/...VIEWS/50310004

BTW, the theatrical run in "Royal Theaters" (in LA) is finished . "The Best of Youth" opens in two theaters in this weekend.

"Balboa Theater" (in San Francisco)
http://www.balboamovies.com/program/index.html

"Music Box Theatre" (in Chicago)
http://www.musicboxtheatre.com/BestofYouth.html
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post #12 of 17
4/1/05 at 5:52pm
Ah, this needs to come to DC!
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post #13 of 17
5/16/05 at 2:50pm

Italian cinema - 'The Best of Youth'

The Best of Youth: showtimes for the USA:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346336/cinemashowtimes
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post #14 of 17
6/3/05 at 1:34am
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fabfunk
Ah, this needs to come to DC!

It's your time~~~~
http://www.afi.com/silver/new/
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post #15 of 17
11/9/05 at 1:41pm

Region 1 announced

Region 1 announced here:
http://www.dvdempire.com/exec/v4_ite...item_id=767849
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post #16 of 17
11/9/05 at 5:25pm
I would say that showing this in two parts is the only feasible way of marketing it.
Hell, I don't know if I would care to spend Six Hours in a theater watching one movie without a break.
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post #17 of 17
11/9/05 at 6:44pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dudalb
showing this in two parts.

This is what Miramax/Harvey Weinstein was doing when they released this movie in theaters.

And It enjoyed a strong run in few theaters.
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=bestofyouth.htm
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