The Coco bio and Tautou casting coup were announced in Cannes, and now Empire has word (via Variety) that Warner Bros has stepped up to produce and finance. Karl Lagerfeld, art director of the fashion house Chanel founded, will be overseeing the costumes, most of which will be re-creations of Chanel’s own designs and which will therefore totally outclass Sex and...
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Three soldiers return from Iraq and embark on a road trip from New York to Vegas. “Forced to grapple with old relationships, broken hopes and a country divided over the war, TK, Cheever and Colee discover that home is not quite what they remembered, and that the unlikely companionship they’ve found might be what matters the most.” (IMDb) Directed by...
Saturday we saw an unauthorized version of the ‘Good’ trailer. Today we upgrade with a link to the official trailer and some new stills. ‘Good’ premieres at TIFF Monday, Sept 8th, and screens again on the 10th and 12th. Best news of all — answering a question we had this weekend — today we learn that ‘Good’ will be released...
The NYTimes has excerpts from Woody Allen’s “Spanish Diary” during the production of Vicky Cristina Barcelona. A few excerpts from the excerpts: MARCH 5 Met with Javier Bardem and Pen√©lope Cruz. She’s ravishing and more sexual than I had imagined. During interview my pants caught fire. Bardem is one of those brooding geniuses who clearly will...
One of the best, most moving, intimate, rousing, humble, and beautiful speeches I’ve heard from a convention platform. Maybe she should be running for president. — Andrew Sulllivan, Atlantic Monthly Michelle’s historic speech tonight was the first step in an end-around against the Republican attack machine. Her words and manner made it so those who might...
Tallied up the numbers late last night as soon as we hit 2300 votes. Interesting how consistent you guys have been all year in your sustained enthusiasm for the top dozen titles. The 5 films at the pinnacle of this chart emerged within the first hour of voting, and barely varied in position as other titles found traction and shuffled in the rankings. The relative...
The game’s afoot. USA Today is reporting that casting will be complete in “six or so weeks” for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes reinvention starring Robert Downey, Jr. as the legendary detective. Based on an upcoming comic book Holmes story written by producer Lionel Wigram (as as tool to get the movie made), this latest incarnation promises (or...
While we were wrapped up in the spectacular closing ceremonies of the Olympics, Brad Brevet at Rope of Silicon found an international poster for Che, and cleans up the Spanish-language trailer. As Brad points out, it’s coming down to wire for Che to find a float to ride in time for this season’s Oscar Parade. Premiering May 12 at Cannes, Che has two more high-profile...
(Official trailer) Adapted from a play by Glaswegian playwright C.P. Taylor. His most successful work was probably Good (1981), in which a liberal German professor Halder whose moral cowardice and subtle corruption leads to his involvement with the Nazi war machine and Auschwitz, in the world of the Third Reich (the title is of course ironic: Halder always see himself...