Carrie’ Only Among Rock Hall of Intermittently Effective Fame Nominees
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2013 Nirvana, Ronstadt ‘Carrie’ only among Rock Hall of intermittently effective Fame nominees irvana, Linda Ronstadt, Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, and The Replacements are among first-time nominees to the NRock and Roll Hall of Fame. The hall of fame announced its annual list of nominees Wednesday morning and half the field of 16 were first-time nominees. YES, Link Wray and The Zombies also received their first nominations. More than 600 voters will determine the class of 2014. Inductees will be announced in December and a ceremony will be held next April in New York. The induction will be aired on HBO in May. Nirvana is nominated in its first year of eligibility. If selected for induction, the band would enter the hall of fame almost This photo released by Sony Pictures shows Chloe Moretz in a scene from the horror film, “Carrie.” — AP exactly 20 years after frontman Kurt Cobain’s suicide at age 27. Ronstadt receives her first nomination not long after she shared ou will know her name,” scream the posters for the new Up until that epic conflagration - which seems to play out at news that she has Parkinson’s disease. Fans have long questioned big-screen version of “Carrie,” as if anyone could forget twice the length it did in the first film, and with far more overkill - her absence from the hall’s roster of stars. Similarly, long-denied “Yit after seeing Brian De Palma’s brilliant 1976 movie or “Carrie” sustains interest as a moody psychological/paranormal YES joins the list after Rush finally struck a blow for prog rock with reading the original Stephen King novel. Aimed at captivating a drama with a melancholy undertow that at times tilts into genuine its induction earlier this year. new generation of viewers unfamiliar with the tale of a cruelly pathos. If the film never quite shakes off the feeling of having been Repeat nominees are KISS, LL Cool J, N.W.A., Cat Stevens, Deep unloved high-schooler who unleashes telekinetic revenge on her constructed from a well-worn blueprint, it has a sensitive inter- Purple, The Meters, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Chic. It’s classmates, director Kimberly Peirce’s intermittently effective third preter in Peirce, who offers a fresh, intelligent spin on certain key the eighth nomination for Chic since 2003, but comes as co- feature eschews De Palma’s diabolical wit and voluptuous style in aspects of a largely familiar tale. founder Nile Rodgers is enjoying widespread attention after his favor of a somber, straight-faced retelling, steeped in a now-famil- Notably, De Palma’s luridly funny sensibility is little in evidence; collaboration with Daft Punk earlier this year. KISS, LL Cool J and iar horror-movie idiom of sharp objects, shuddering sound effects Peirce has excised every dirty chuckle and whisper of camp from Stevens return to the list after absences of several years. — AP and dark rivulets of blood. the material, nudging the story in a more textured, realistic direc- While it can’t hope to match the galvanizing impact of its pred- tion. Both the hateful Chris Hargensen (Portia Doubleday) and ecessors, Peirce’s film works for a considerable stretch as a deriva- conflicted good girl Sue Snell (Gabriella Wilde) are fleshed out with tive but impressively coherent vision. a touch more nuance than usual. Cultivating her telekinetic pow- Certainly there’s a case to be made for revisiting “Carrie” now, ers, in “Exorcist”-style levitation scenes. Between “Carrie” and given the alarming prevalence of teenage bullying, public cyber- “What Maisie Knew,” Moore is on a bit of a bad-mama roll, and humiliation and fatal acts of retaliation in the post-Columbine era. rather than trying to compete with Piper Laurie’s fire-and-brim- Chief among the film’s selling points are an intensely committed stone bellow, she acts with a hushed, feverish intensity. Chloe Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore, enacting a subtler, more For her part, Moretz can scarcely be blamed for falling short of psychologically insidious take on the mother-daughter relation- one of the most iconic performances in horror cinema; Spacek ship immortalized by Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie. may have given the remake her blessing (as has De Palma), but no That twisted character dynamic looms over the proceedings other actress could capture that hauntingly lost quality she from the opening childbirth scene, which quickly familiarizes the brought to the role of Carrie White. By contrast, Moretz, superfi- viewer with the film’s menstrual color scheme and establishes cially deglammed with a strawberry-blonde mop, is still rather too Margaret White (Moore) as a dangerous religious fanatic, who comely to resemble the pimply, slightly overweight figure receives her infant daughter as divine punishment for her sexual described in King’s novel, and her efforts to look downcast and sins. Years later, the girl has grown up to be the painfully shy and withdrawn strain credulity at first. Still, the actress is canny and awkward Carrie (Moretz), whose crucible of suffering onscreen sympathetic enough that she eventually slips under Carrie’s skin. begins and ends with an outpouring of blood. “Carrie,” a Sony/Screen Gems release, is rated R by the Motion In one of a handful of shrewd 21st-century innovations devised Picture Association of America for “bloody violence, disturbing by screenwriters Lawrence D Cohen and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, images, language and some sexual content.” Running time: 100 Carrie’s locker-room humiliation at the hands of her female class- minutes. MPAA rating definition for R: Restricted. Under 17 mates is captured on video and quickly goes viral, setting off a requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.— AP chain of events that will ultimately bring about the story’s fiery prom-night climax. Muse gets unsettlingly close in new concert film Members of the band Nirvana shown in a 1991 file photo, use frontman Matt Bellamy had to be more than just from left, Krist Novoselic, David Grohl, and Kurt Cobain. camera-ready for “Muse - Live at Rome Olympic Stadium.” The British rock band’s new concert film was —AP photos M shot in 4K, which meant a whole new level of detail. “There’s weird things like hair and stuff that you probably would never pay attention to,” Bellamy said. “It’s so much more noticeably sharper that it’s almost unsettling at first.” “Muse - Live at Rome Olympic Stadium,” directed by Matt Askem, is the first concert film released in the new ultra high definition format. Also called 4K, UHD has a much better resolution than regular HD and is con- sidered the next technological leap in film and television. Thousands of movies have been shot in 4K, but almost all of them have been shrunk down to HD format before being screened. Exceptions include Sony’s 2011 remake of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” and Will Smith’s sci-fi adventure “After Earth.” Fans will get a first look at the Muse film Nov 5 when it debuts in 20 cities around the globe, before expanding to 700 theaters worldwide the next day in 2K and 4K. Bellamy said in a phone interview Wednesday from Costa Rica that the band was File photo shows members of the band Kiss, from left, Gene inspired by U2’s use of then-new technology in the 2008 concert This photo released by MUSE shows Muse performing in their Simmons, Paul Stanley and Tommy Thayer perform during a film “U23D,” so they decided to kick up the production values 4K Ultra High Definition concert film, “Muse - Live at Rome concert in Mexico City. and aim for something a little more grand.—AP Olympic Stadium, “ in July 2013.—AP.