{"id":244215,"date":"2011-03-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/movie-review-katzs-latest-bores-mumbles-and-bumbles\/"},"modified":"2011-03-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T08:00:00","slug":"movie-review-katzs-latest-bores-mumbles-and-bumbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/movie-review-katzs-latest-bores-mumbles-and-bumbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Rese\u00f1a de la pel\u00edcula: los \u00faltimos aburridos, balbuceos y balbuceos de Katz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Por Scott Marcas | Cr\u00edtico de cine SDUN<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Movie<\/a>
Trieste Kelly Dunn and Cris Lankenau play sibling sleuths in Aaron Katz\u2019s \u201cCold Weather.\u201d (Photo courtesy of IFC Films)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mumblecore grows up (to a certain aesthetic degree) in \u201cCold Weather, \u201cAaron Katz\u2019s latest contribution to the film movement\/pseudo genre the Portland trailblazer helped to co-found. The term \u201cmumblecore\u201d\u2014coined by sound editor Eric Masunaga\u2014refers to a group of low budget, independently produced features filmed on location with digital video cameras and under natural light from a script largely improvised by a cast of non-professional actors. It\u2019s a stretch, but imagine, if you will, the lifestyle and philosophy put forth in Richard Linklater\u2019s \u201cSlacker\u201d filmed under material circumstances similar to those the Italian neorealist\u2019s encountered at the end of World War II. (Slackerealism?)<\/p>\n

Until now, mumblecore\u2019s core subject has been relationship dramadies, but Katz decides to channel literary master Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as a source of inspiration. Not only does \u201cCold Weather\u201d have a stor y to tell, the success of his earlier films afforded Katz a heretofore-cost prohibitive and\/ or deemed unnecessary tripod. The excessive close-ups remain, but without the palsy-cam cinematography one can actually get a clear picture of what the actors look like.<\/p>\n

The closest Doug (Cris Lankenau) has come to his dream of being a super sleuth along the lines of Sherlock Homes was a job in forensic science. Doug is a Doyle loyalist\u2014none of this revisionist Hollywood, Basil Rathbone nonsense for him. The authentic fictional sleuth did smoke a pipe to help the cogitative process, but it wasn\u2019t \u201ca ridiculous stupid enormous one\u201d nor did he wear \u201cthat stupid hat\u201d or spout screenwriter\u2018s taglines such as, \u201celementary, my dear Watson.\u201d Currently between gigs, Doug moves in with his sister Gale (Trieste Kelly Dunn) and enters his Cubist period working at an ice factory.<\/p>\n

Doug loans fellow iceman Carlos (Ra\u00fal Castillo) a collection of short stories and while both men exhibit enthusiasm over Doyle\u2019s work, their follow-up discussion leads to nothing more than an exchange of unsubstantiated opinions (\u201cMy favorite story was the one with the snake\u201d) and hyperbole (\u201cHolmes is the man!). Snobbish Doug may put down \u201cStar Trek\u201d conventions, but his limited grasp of a so-called idol makes him a perfect candidate to don pointy ears.<\/p>\n

When Doug\u2019s ex-girlfriend Rachel (Robyn Rikoon) turns up missing, he pulls together a band of junior bloodhounds to assist in his exercise in deductive reasoning. It takes almost forty minutes for the mystery to kick in and what we learn about these characters prior to that isn\u2019t of much dramatic interest. Nor is the unraveling of the \u201ccase\u201d and the logical explanations behind it. What clicks is the use of the terminally overcast city as a backdrop and the genuine character rapport, particularly the bonding moments between brother and sister. There are more gripping suspense dramas and finely etched character studies to be found, but you\u2019d be hard pressed to come up with a better example of mumblecore.<\/p>\n

\u201cCold Weather\u201d is currently playing exclusively at Reading Cinemas Gaslamp 15.<\/p>\n

\u201cCold Weather\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

Written, Directed and Edited by: Aaron Katz from a story by Katz, Brendan McFadden and Ben Stambler<\/p>\n

Starring: Cris Lankenau, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Ra\u00fal Castillo and Robyn Rikoon<\/p>\n

Rating: 2.5 out of 5<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Scott Marks | SDUN Film Critic Mumblecore grows up (to a certain aesthetic degree) in \u201cCold Weather, \u201cAaron Katz\u2019s latest contribution to the film movement\/pseudo genre the Portland trailblazer helped to co-found. The term \u201cmumblecore\u201d\u2014coined by sound editor Eric Masunaga\u2014refers to a group of low budget, independently produced features filmed on location with digital […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1292,"featured_media":244216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Movie Review: Katz's latest bores, mumbles and bumbles","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11549,11551,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-news","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}