Hate to post two items in a row with question marks in the headline, but that’s all we have to work with on a slow news day. ScreenRant cobbles together fresh rumors for a story they’ve been following since January. A few months ago, McQueen’s widow said she’d like to see Daniel Craig portray the King of Cool. That sounded like brilliant casting...
Monthly Archives: May 2009
This may — or may not — be an artist’s conception or ‘spy photo’ of a CG representaion of a Mech unit device/apparatus/contraption to be featured in James Cameron’s Avatar. It comes via Alex Billington at First Showing, with the caveat that he has no idea if it’s the real deal or not but he wants to trust his sources at MarketSaw...
Thanks to vcb for pointing us to the new trailer for The Burning Plain. Having seen the movie a few weeks ago, I can say that you won”t find the usual intricate structure and scripty flourishes we’ve come to expect from other screenplays by Guillermo Arriaga (Babel, 21 Grams, Amores perros). For his directorial debut, Arriaga streamlines his story with a...
Trying to provide a video sampler today of the major award-winners at Cannes, but it hasn’t been easy finding a representative clip from Kinatay which earned Best Director honors for Brillante Mendoza. I wondered how this video could possibly have much appeal as a promo, until I read that much of the movie is just like what we see here. Shaky night shots of a...
Though Jane Campion’s Bright Star came away from Cannes with no awards, its premiere generated respectable reviews and established good buzz for Abbie Cornish. More accessible and Academy-friendly than many of the more audacious films at the festival, it managed one trick that hopefuls like Taking Woodstock and Tetro did not: Bright Star made a graceful splash...
I’m by no means fluent in either French or German, but somehow the sense of this scene comes across to me with most of the meaning intact. Maybe it’s because she’s explaining death to a child, and the language is simplified to my level of comprehension. Or maybe the universal clarity is a sign of great cinema? ...