Monthly Archives: March 2009

French trailer for Coco Avant Chanel is inexplicably in French! But that only makes it prettier. HD here. House of Chanel art director Karl Lagerfeld supervised re-creations of the legendary designer’s attire. Director Anne Fontaine’s adaptation of Edmonde Charles-Roux’s biography “L’irreguliere” will focus on Chanel’s early...

Starring Julie Delpy Directed by Julie Delpy Written by Julie Delpy Produced by Julie Delpy Original Music by Julie Delpy “A 17th century Hungarian countess embarks on a murderous undertaking, with the belief that bathing in the blood of virgins will preserve her beauty.” …nuff said. ...

From the BBC (mildly spoilerish): 1939 is set between present-day London and the idyllic Norfolk countryside in the lead up to the Second World War… At a time of uncertainty and high tension, the story is centred around the formidable Keyes family, who are keen to uphold and preserve their very traditional, English way of life… The eldest sibling Anne Keyes...

From writer/director Greg Mottola (Superbad), late ’80′s nostalgia starring Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale) whose nostalgia-friendly face has also landed him the role of Beat Generation poet Alan Ginsberg in the true-life 1944 murder thriller, Kill Your Darlings. It’s a face we should get used to seeing, since Eisenberg has no less than 7...

Thanks to ever-resourceful glimmer for the lead to this Village Voice interview with Stephen Soderbergh about The Girlfriend Experience, starring “sleepy-eyed adult film starlet Sasha Grey” and xxxploring his latest xxxperiment in cinematic xxxpression: “structured improv.” But don’t expect Happy-Ending-Go-Lucky because those who’ve...

um, nearly missed the boat on this one, but I can say my intention was to give those of us in the US 10 fewer days to wait until August 28th. Opens in the UK next week, so we’ll soon know if it’s as much fun as it looks. Whether CGI or whatever, that’s a pretty cool movie replica of the actual MV Frederica, the former passenger ferry from which Radio...

After years of rumors and false starts, Johnny Depp will finally begin filming on The Rum Diary March 30th. Depp has been spotted this week in Puerto Rico sporting a ’60′s haircut. Here’s the plot synopsis with casting inserted: 1960: Divorced alcoholic and struggling novelist PAUL KEMP [Johnny Depp] decides to kick around San Juan until his ship comes...