iTunes Exclusive Episode The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby

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Well, thanks for having me.
Do this review.
Even though I didn't get to see it, it's kind of hard to do what he wants.
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Normally when we do in all teams, it's exclusive.
It's usually to review something, and this addition is no exception.
We are here to review a movie that I was able to see.
Thanks to our friends at Allied Integrated Marketing.
A movie called the Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby.
This is also, I tune's exclusive.
Number 49.
We're going almost there.
Almost there.
You know, when this thing comes out, we just might reach it.
We will actually because we have quite a few.
We're going to have, we've got a surprise.
We're going to surprise Empire.
Well, but they're going to see it because they're all going to go up at the same time.
Exactly.
We'll be over the 50 mark by the time this, you hear this, which is awesome.
And our friends in Allied Integrated Marketing are a huge part of that.
We cannot think these guys enough.
But this movie starts Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy as a young couple.
Connor Ludlow and Eleanor Rigby that is her name in the film.
And that her name is addressed.
When we first meet them, they're just happy as large.
Couldn't be happier to be together.
Very in love, very young, very free.
And that's a young couple you're talking about.
Correct.
Then tragedy strikes.
And we don't know at first what the tragedy is.
We find out as the film goes on.
And it's how each of them deal with the tragedy.
Eleanor ends up there.
You see, that's it.
You're looking for it.
I thought we'd come up sometime.
It would.
Eleanor ends up moving in with her family.
Her father Julian played by the great William hurt.
Oh, really?
Yes.
Her mother played by the great Isabelle Hubert.
And her sister played by Jess Weixler.
I hope I got that writer Weixler.
There's an eye in there.
So I don't know how that affects everything.
Basically moves in with her family to try to get her to herself together.
Connor ends up moving in with his father.
Play by the great Sierra and Hines.
Okay.
And he's he's the owner of a struggling bar with his best friend.
Uh, Stuart, who was played by the great Bill Hader.
This is just keep coming.
I know.
And it's how they each deal with things and and how ultimately they deal with each other.
Now let me go ahead and say first of all, there are three different versions of this film.
Writer Dr. Ned Benson originally did two separate films.
He did his story in one film.
He did her story in another film.
The film debuted at the Toronto Film Festival this year.
And was so.
Lotted by the critics that he started cutting again and cut the two together.
Into what they call the they and are the them edit.
And that is the edit that I saw courtesy of our friends at Allied Integrated Marketing.
They got vetted by the critics. They said it wasn't great.
No, they it was lotted by the critics.
They loved it.
Okay.
And so he decided to start messing with it again.
And he came up with a third cut of the film.
Now the his and hers versions aren't going to come out until later in the fall.
All right. So there's going to be three of them.
There is three.
Okay.
But they're going to release two more.
Yeah.
The them version releases on September the 19th.
So that sets everything up.
Let's start with Ned Benson fairly new to the game. He wrote and directed this film.
And how would you say the direction?
Well, it it always tends to be a little bit of an advantage when you can direct your own material.
Because as a director, you you already have the vision in your head of you know as the writer.
Moving into the directors role. You already have that in your head.
The director, you already know the direction that the story needs to go and because you wrote it.
Okay.
I thought it was it was very very well directed.
I was a little apprehensive going into this film.
Because I didn't know what to expect.
You know, I'd seen the trailer.
And the trailer doesn't really tell you a lot.
The title is a little more existential.
It's not like, you know, she disappears and people go looking for her.
It's more about her evolution as a person.
And how she just she wants to just disappear from everything else.
I thought the director's vision was was dead on.
There was never a time where I was like,
I was involved through the entire film.
And then the them cut is two hours solid.
It's two hours and two minutes long.
So, you know, don't don't take the large soda.
If you don't have a, you know, I thought it could afford it because you really don't want to miss a frame of this movie.
It's not like you're going to be lost.
You're just going to miss out.
I think it is more than anything leading into the performances.
I'm just going to say this right now.
Jessica Chastain is an walking, talking, living, breathing acting clinic.
This is the same woman that was in zero dark 30.
Who was the hardest nail.
And this, she's very vulnerable.
She's very her range of emotion is insane.
What is the hardest thing?
I could be still like the most normal person in the five to cook was nest in the next minute.
And she does.
Okay.
There's a little because her father played again by the great William heard.
And I am now reaching the age where William heard is looking old and it kind of freaks me out.
But he plays a professor at a university who's also a therapist who's trying to kind of help her through this whole thing.
And I don't, again, I'm not going to say what the tragedy is because I really want you to see the film and really wrap your brain around it.
Because right after that first scene, we're off to the races.
And I'm not even going to say how because I want you to be there in the moment watching this film because there's so much to it and going into it, knowing just enough to be dangerous.
I think benefited me as a moviegoer.
A friend of the show Dave Scott was with me and he and I at the end of the film were both like, this is amazing.
James McAvoy, there was never a point in this film where I went, I'm watching Professor X.
There was never a moment.
To me, he became Connor Ludlow.
He became this guy who's trying to get out from him because his father owns one of the most popular restaurants in New York.
His father also, his third wife has just left him.
So there's that dynamic.
Well, let me kind of ask this.
How do you know that there's a tragedy but you don't know what it is?
They reveal what it is.
I'm not going to say what you said at the beginning.
There's a tragedy but you don't know what the tragedy is at the beginning.
Because what happens in scene two would lead you to believe something has gone horribly wrong.
Because we dive right into the deep end.
Okay.
And I never felt like I never felt I was out of it by not knowing what happened.
It kept me wondering.
Okay.
And you never quite, you get the, the bird's eye view of what's happened.
But you never get the details.
Which I think benefits you because I don't think knowing the details of said tragedy that happens.
I don't know that it feeds the film.
I think it would take away from it because you really need to be enthralled in what these two people are going through.
Like what's going on here?
What's going on here?
It's like when somebody, it's like, is it kind of like when you had that good friend or coworker?
All of a sudden something strikes them and you're going, okay, something's wrong.
What's wrong here?
Is it that same kind of thing?
If it's that kind of situation?
And you also have, yeah, I mean, it doesn't take away from it at all.
Okay.
And the great violin Davis is in this who plays one of, one of the
characters college professors who identifies with her but doesn't quite understand
because Eleanor never truly tells her what's going on.
And it's, the, the interaction between them is amazing.
The chemistry between macavoy and chest pain is undeniable.
These two on screen together were absolute magic.
If I had to describe this movie in two words, it would be tragically beautiful.
Okay.
That's the only way I can describe this.
You're looking at them in that act and really get this score that they were married
and they've been married for 20 years.
Absolutely.
I mean, in the film there, they were together for seven years.
Okay.
Now what, what was the look of the film like?
It, it fit because it, you know, it's filmed in New York.
Okay.
So the city will always be a character whenever you film anything in New York City.
You always tell yourself New York's never that empty.
Oh, yeah.
Because they always portrayed on film like it's just this wide open space.
Yeah.
I've been to New York City.
You're always shoulder to shoulder.
But it's, it's beautiful looking.
It's, I never thought to myself that the presentation of the film took it.
I was never taken out of it.
From the opening scene of the film where you kind of go, okay.
And then when, when the deal hits, you just, you're, you're, you're, put your
seat belt on because here we go.
Okay.
Um, the performance is, again, amazing.
I mean, there's nobody in this film that I didn't think was great.
Any super standout that the, what if you had to say the one who just deserves an Oscar
full.
Chastain.
Chastain.
By, by a country mile.
She is, she is ridiculously good.
Like you, you, you, you, you almost just want to reach into the screen and hugger
at certain points.
And there's same thing for McAvoy.
Okay.
Because they're dealing with this thing in different ways.
But at the same time, they're dealing with it together.
But even though they're not around each other, they're dealing with it together.
And I will tell you this, Dave and I both said this.
When this was over, I want to go watch the other two cuts.
Alrighty.
I, I do.
I want to watch the other two because I want to see.
Like you know, there's more to this story.
I wasn't disappointed.
But I want to know the rest of the story as Paul Harvey once said.
God rest of the story.
Does it leave you hanging on this film?
I mean, does there any question?
No.
Okay.
I wouldn't say that it's the the old good movie of the year.
But at the end, you kind of go.
Alright.
We're cool.
So most of the questions are answered.
Is what you're saying?
The, there's still the question of.
What the nature of the tragedy truly was.
Okay.
Which I think maybe answered in the other two cuts.
I don't know.
But again, we won't know for a little while because he's only releasing the them cut now.
Um, any downfalls in the movie.
It got a little slow in a couple of points.
Okay.
But never to the point where I was like, okay.
Where's the chase and how can we cut to it?
Like it was well past, but I think it could have been a little bit better past.
Um, I really, really, really enjoyed this film.
I thought Ned Benson as both a writer and director.
Again, when you're the writer and the director, the vision's going to be what he is.
Um, and it's a good thing in this case.
Family friendly?
No.
Not even a little bit.
Not even a little bit.
Not even a little bit.
Teenagers.
17.
You're walking a line teenagers.
I would say college age minimum.
Okay.
Because there's a lot of adult themes in this.
A lot of language.
Okay.
Um.
But it's an excellent, excellent, excellent film.
Is it a good date night movie?
Not for.
And I said this in my written review that's on the clubhouse podcast.com.
Not a first date movie.
Okay.
But it has been wife moving on for the night.
Yes.
Now, Dave and I both said they we felt like we kind.
It's not like it's a Debbie Downer movie.
Yeah.
But Dave and I both felt that we needed to probably go watch a Disney movie.
We're just to kind of get some balance there.
Because it is very, very dark.
It's.
It's a good for a bunch of friends and stuff going up movie night adults.
I don't think so.
I think it's more.
Go see it with your wrong terms significant.
Other.
And it's again.
It's a wonderful film.
But it's not.
It's like I said, it's not the feel good movie of the year.
But it's not like I walked out needing to go to therapy.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Like it was.
Like I said, you get to the end and you're like.
Okay.
You get to the end and you go.
This is kind of how this had to end.
This is how the ending of this movie had to happen.
William hurt just.
He'll get into your soul in this world.
Because he pays the father that he really wants to help us daughter, but he really wants
her to be her own woman at the same time.
I really enjoyed the work of Isabelle Hupert playing her mother.
Okay.
Also, Jess Weixler has her sister who has a son and she still lives at home with them.
The dynamic between her and Chastain, I thought, which really, really good.
Because, you know, Ellen is the sister that really wanted to be out there and do it on her own.
And, you know, Katie's the sister that's like, look, I'm the one that's been here the whole time.
And now you're just kind of kind of Walton.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, exactly.
Go see this movie.
But, well, let's go ahead and get the final analysis.
Because in the final analysis here on the clubhouse podcast,
we don't give you grades, thumbs up, thumbs down numbers.
Our empire, our audience is better than that.
It's a two-prong question.
They deserve better.
Question number one is, would you see this film again?
The answer to that is no.
Then we're done here.
If the answer to that is, yes.
Then how would you see this film?
Would you see it in first run?
Would you see it?
Full price, twilight, matinee, early morning, second run.
Would you wait for it on DVD?
Would you wait for it on cable?
Um, I don't see this being on broadcast.
I won't mention any time.
So, the big question run?
Would you see this film again?
Absolutely.
Because I've won it.
Not only would I see this again,
but I want to see the other two cuts before I see this again.
Because I think if I see the his version and the her version,
and then watch the them version again,
I think I'll get more out of it.
I think there's a lot of things.
Like I said, I don't think there were plot holes.
Yeah.
But I think that I'll gain a better understanding of the them cut
when I see the other two.
And how would you see this film again then?
I think that would pay for it on a matinee.
Okay.
And would you recommend it different for any of the empire members,
or would you say,
I would say if you pay for price,
you won't be disappointed.
So you may be twilight.
It did maybe hit the twilight hit dinner afterwards.
Okay.
Because I think if you go with the dates,
again, not on the first date kids,
because this will really kind of screw the mood up.
But if you go see it and then go have dinner together
and kind of talk about what you saw,
I think that's what this movie was meant to be.
Once he did the them cut,
because remember, he did the suit two separate cuts first.
And everybody loved it so much.
He's like, well, I guess I should do one combining the two.
So I'm very interested to see the other two cuts of the film.
I'm kind of hoping that the blue ray release has all three together.
They might do that, possibly.
You know, I think that would be really neat,
because I think selling them separately would probably be a bad thing.
Because I don't think you're going to get the full story.
Oh, then I do a three pack or something.
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
Yeah.
Because try to put three movies on one blue ray.
But again, September 19th is the release date for the them cut.
You're going to get to his and hers later in the fall.
We have not gotten an official release date on those two yet.
But I do want to see them the other two cuts.
And I'm not in the minority in that opinion.
All right.
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