FilmCouch #37
THE BRAVE ONE--opening tonight--begs the question, has Jodie Foster lost her edge? Karina reports on movies that moved her from the Toronto International Film Festival 2007, ending tomorrow. (Brad Pitt actually makes the cut.)
Do edgy American filmmakers of yesteryear go soft after living in Hollywood for a few decades? We look at Neil Jordan’s new film The Brave One, starring Jodie Foster, and ask how it measures up to her grittier predecessor, Taxi Driver. Also, Karina shares her picks from the Toronto Film Festival, including the much-buzzed western, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Anton Corbijn’s Joy Division biopic Control, and two fresh Iraq-umentaries, Heavy Metal in Baghdad and Operation Filmmaker.
FilmCouch #37
The Brave One, Heavy Metal in Baghdad, Operation Filmmaker
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