Is it smart marketing to take three brief samples of annoying behavior and combining them for a triple punch of lengthier annoyance? Alex Billington at firstshowing.net says he usually doesn’t like to post clips and I’m starting to feel the same way. I’m not wild about the new studio trend of showing us so many teases as sneak peek promos that we begin...
Monthly Archives: May 2009
It looks as though there is some kind of disconnect between how the reception of Inglorious Basterds is going so far, at least according to Goldstein, who looks at the internet and concludes that those who like Harvey Weinstein are showing favorable reviews. Those who don’t are showing non-favorable reviews. Goldstein seems sure the movie is bad: The reviews keep...
::: SPOILER ALERT ::: (but it’s all over the news by now anyway) I know it’s not cinema but what the hell. It’s is a horrifying thing that Adam Lambert was passed over on American Idol for the much lesser Kris Allen. It’s a stupid choice, whether it was America’s or the Idol producers’ — maybe they thought they couldn’t market...
Time’s Richard Corliss looks back at 70 years of Cannes premieres and comes up with his Top 10 favorites: The Third Man, 1949 The Wages of Fear, 1953 La Dolce Vita, 1960 Taxi Driver, 1976 Tree of Wooden Clogs, 1978 sex, lies, and videotape, 1989 Farewell My Concubine, 1993 Pulp Fiction, 1994 A Taste of Cherry, 1997 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, 2007 Here’s...
Good news for Von Trier fans, according to the Hollywood Reporter: “Since it premiered at Cannes on Monday, we haven’t been able to stop ‚Ä®talking or thinking about ‘Antichrist,’ ” IFC Entertainment president Jonathan‚Ä® Sehring said.‚Ä®‚Ä® …The film’s marketplace potential remains to be seen.‚Ä® The sheer...
“Inglourious Basterds premiered in Cannes yesterday, and all we got was these 3 lousy clips.” That might make a cute T-Shirt slogan, but I’m not feeling amused or very encouraged by what I’m seeing here. I’ll reserve judgment until I see the film — and no amount of lukewarm reviews will keep me from buying a ticket. Sorry to report...
So much more fun when the Feature Animation category isn’t already locked down in May, isn’t it? As patrick c. says in the comment #1, could this be the year the field expands to 5 nominees? Plenty of candidates: 9 Astro Boy Battle for Terra A Christmas Carol Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Coraline The Fantastic Mr. Fox FoodFight! Ice Age: Dawn of the...
(click to supersize the superstars) From Screen Daily: The critics are in rapture again. Returning to the noir territory of Bad Education, Almodovar casts his adored muse Penelope Cruz in Broken Embraces, a 1980s-set melodrama. Sheer, luxuriant noir all the way – apart from a brief Women on the Verge-style film-within-a-film – Broken Embraces is a ravishing...
Steven Spielberg has secured rights to film the life story of civil rights leader Martin Luther King. “We are all honored that the King Estate is giving us the opportunity to tell the story of these defining, historic events,” Spielberg said. “It is our hope that the creative power of film and the impact of Dr. King’s life can combine to present...
Two directors with distinctly different attitudes about women. (AFP) ::: SPOILER ::: The Danish provocateur’s new movie casts Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe as a couple who retreat to a log cabin to work through their grief at their baby son’s death — but she loses grip on her senses, dragging him into an orgy of hallucinations and crazed sexual...