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Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
Scotty Burke It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review
Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
OneEightNine Media Holy Sh#t. The film is impressive. Not from a storyline or budget angle but from a directing stand point. I literally went to IMDb while watching the film just to look up who directed it- because I wanted to put more of his film-catalog on my must watch list. I have a feeling this film will get him noticed. He captures the 70s era perfectly and does what few directors really know how to do, use character development within the confines of the story. Plus the camera angles, lighting and etc are completely on point. I could go on and on. What's his name directed the heck out of this movie and I can not wait to see more from him. The lead actress does an incredible job as well. You can tell she has a lot of respect for her craft. I could go on and on but I have like 20 other films I need to review.
secondtake Christine (2016)A small market local television station in Western Florida in the 1970s might be the epitome of tawdry, pathetic America. Or so it appears here, where a rag-tag crew of struggling journalists and talking heads patch together a low budget news show every day. And ratings are going down.Christine (played by Rebecca Hall) is a second string reporter in this wishful situation. Her life is full of compromises, and her efforts to excel at her work are awkward and sometimes sad. But she has determination, and works hard. When two of her colleagues are chosen over her for promotion, it's just another reminder that life sucks.First point to make here: don't read anything about the big point of this movie ahead of time. I was lucky to not have a clue what this was all leading up to, and it was a final terrific punch to a slow, empathetic lead up. By empathetic I mean that the movie makers (writer Craig Shilowich and director Antonia Campos) have shown the situation for what it was. It took a lot of restraint to keep this from turning to parody, or to become critical, or even to be highly dramatic in a kind of glitzy way. There is a steady, almost disappointing feeling to it all. Not a single character seems irable, and yet every one is perfectly ordinary and nice. Even the incompetence throughout is a normal kind of mediocrity, mixed with sprinkles of hope and humor. And people are generally good to each other even as they strive to move up (and out of Sarasota). It's a realistic construction of a mise-en-scene that will not sparkle or create intrigue or move you in particular. Until the end.And that's pretty amazing. The dullness and the acting might strike you as just bad— as if this movie just plain sucks. But it's not the movie, but the subject, that is so uninspiring. Stick it out, if you like it at all. ire Hall's acting, which is remarkably nuanced.
gtyoshida The real Christine Chubbuck (played by Rebecca Hall) committed suicide in 1974 during a live morning news show broadcast from a local TV station in Sarasota, Florida. While her struggle with mental depression no doubt triggered this decision, the underlying theme of this movie carries a powerful message about choices facing career women in modern day America. Christine is happiest when she sings along to her car radio, shows off her sly sense of humour as host of the human interest news segments, and puts on puppet shows for children hospitalized with intellectual disabilities. But she is also driven with ambition and fights tooth and nail with the TV station manager (Tracy Letts) who wants to change the news format and refuses to help advance her career. She uses work as an excuse to avoid intimate friendships with the news anchor, George (Michael C. Hall), her young director and irer, Jean (Maria Dizzia), and her likable co-worker, Steve (Timothy Simons). Her mother, Peg (J. Smith-Cameron) also a working woman who has found comfort in casual sex and marijuana, blames mental depression for robbing her daughter of the physical embraces she desperately needs but Christine is a career women struggling to find her own sexual norms and in the end chooses to kill herself rather than abandon this dream. Ironically, the movie ends with the theme song from the "Mary Tyler Moore" show playing in the background. If you like offbeat characters, you will enjoy the movie "Christine".
jacekjankowski Christine. Young woman working as a news reporter craving for promotion. Underestimated, stressed, hardly socializing, drowning in swampiest places of her life as the movie progresses. Heavy and hard movie that is made pretty well over all in the style of early 80's with its heavy and dense mood that is going from bad to worse.
