Thanks for posting these reviews.
After reading this review I have a better insight to the "EYE~~" and think it might do very well in the senior audience.
There is a lot of rich elderly thinking about 'the passing time' and 'life's past do's' and a lot of 'Old Money' worrying how it will be handled.
With a respected cast, as this, it just might draw a crowd.
That said, with Ed's bio. it amazes me he can be this ignorant as to not PR anything (at the least it would be cheap advertising for EOTS). I remember reading that he offered reading IHUB for insight, well Ed read this, Despite your silence we shareholders still have a chance through the Box-office for you have given no support at all.
Lastly how many of the Elderly follow Tweeter. LOL
Hope you have a safe flight and if you do pick something up you'll do more than TWEET, thank you. Duke
Review: ‘The Eye of the Storm’
Geoffrey Rush, Charlotte Ramping & Judy Greer make splendid spectacle of a not-very-lovable mom's final days
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
PUBLISHED: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2012, 3:14 PM
UPDATED: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2012, 3:09 PM
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From left: Charlotte Rampling, Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis in 'The Eye of the Storm'
Title: 'The Eye of the Storm'
Trailer: A family convenes around their rich dying mother. Director: Fred Schepisi (1:59).
Film Info: Not rated: Sexuality, language. Lincoln Plaza, Cinema Village.
Unlovable, emotionally stunted Australian aristrocrats feast on a deep dish of greed in “The Eye of the Storm,” Fred Schepisi’s sly, stately comedy-drama that will please fans of BBC melodramas. But even on its own merits, its mild manner has sneaky stings.
Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis are Basil and Dorothy, who return to their mother Elizabeth’s (Charlotte Rampling) deathbed with about as much delicacy as a wine-stained doily. Elizabeth was a horrific parent, so her grown children are eager to return the favor and coldly scoop up her money.
But Elizabeth — whose betrayals of Dorothy years before could hardly be forgotten — is fading in and out. And she’s giving her earthly treasures to her nurses and staff, which is driving the distracted actor Basil and forever single Dorothy mad.
Schepisi, a Down Under filmmaker seemingly everywhere between 1982 and 1990 (“Barbarosa,” “Iceman,” “Plenty,” “Roxanne,” “The Russia House”), brings his old pro’s hand to this adaptation of Australian Nobel laureate Patrick White’s novel. And Rush and Davis — pros themselves at delectable deviousness — can make the unfurling of a napkin into a tour de force.
In a sumptuous setting, this creamy-vowelled pair — along with Rampling, satirically dotty in the present-day scenes and tragically heartless in flashbacks — keep all elements of “The Eye of the Storm” firmly in sight.
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