Saw this trailer two time in the theater this year.
Looks like a stunning gangster film.
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MESRINE: KILLER INSTINCT - the first of two parts - charts the outlaw odyssey of Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel), the legendary French gangster of the 1960s and 1970s who came to be known as French Public Enemy No. 1 and The Man of a Thousand Faces. Infamous for his bravado and outrageously daring prison escapes, Mesrine carried out numerous robberies, kidnappings and murders in a criminal career that spanned continents until he was shot dead in 1979 by France's notorious anti-gang unit. Thirty years after his death, his infamy lives on. Mesrine was helped along the way by beautiful and equally reckless Jeanne Schneider (Cecile de France), a Bonnie to match his Clyde. Mesrine made up his own epic, between romanticism and cruelty, flamboyance and tragedy. Both a thriller and a biopic, KILLER INSTINCT explores the man behind the icon.
Okay, so technically I'm not feeling gushy inside for this film ... it would be kind of disturbing if I did feel that way or any of you felt that way for any Holocaust based documentary, but I'm intrigued about this film: A FILM UNFINISHED http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568923/
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At the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film, having sat undisturbed in an East German archive, was discovered. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May 1942, and labeled simply “Ghetto,” this footage quickly became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record of the Warsaw Ghetto. However, the later discovery of a long-missing reel, inclusive of multiple takes and cameraman staging scenes, complicated earlier readings of the footage. A FILM UNFINISHED presents the raw footage in its entirety, carefully noting fictionalized sequences (including a staged dinner party) falsely showing “the good life” enjoyed by Jewish urbanites, and probes deep into the making of a now-infamous Nazi propaganda film. A FILM UNFINISHED is a film of enormous import, documenting some of the worst horrors of our time and exposing the efforts of its perpetrators to propel their agenda and cast it in a favorable light.
I don't necessarily feel gushy about this film but I'm trying to stay positive about its potential because of the warm personalities of the film's two leads:
Country Date
USA 22 January 2010 (Sundance Film Festival)
USA 12 March 2010 (South by Southwest Film Festival)
USA 10 April 2010 (Dallas International Film Festival)
USA 21 May 2010 (Seattle International Film Festival)
Czech Republic 3 July 2010 (Karlovy Vary Film Festival)
Canada 27 July 2010 (Fantasia International Film Festival)
Netherlands 13 January 2011
So this technically isn't a movie trailer but as a trailer, it's personally my most anticipated cultural event this year: http://www.thinkwithportals.com/
The trailer for Portal 2. The sequel to one of the most innovative and original computer games of all time.
Makes me happy and gushy all over!
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Thu 12 Aug, 2010 04:23 pm
One of my most anticipated films of all this year has come in trailer form: The Illusionist by French director Sylvain Chomet, the director of The Triplets of Belleville: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0158984/
I like browsing the Apple trailer site every now and then and came upon this seeming gem of an unexpected remake.
Instead of Hollywood remaking an Asia horror or crime film, House of Flying Daggers and Hero director will be remaking the Coen Brothers' cinematic debut Blood Simple: A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/sony/awomanagunandanoodleshop/
Found one, Tsar! Probably won't make you feel 'gushy inside' and might not even be any good LOL. Skyline looks like fun, though...if you like loud, if you like pretty, if you like crap that blows up!! (Who doesn't???)
It looks might impressive and the directors, the Strause brothers, do have a talent for special effects: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0833779/ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0833780/
I just hope they spent some time on properly percolating the story and the characters of the film and not just place all of their concentration on the special effects.
I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that this one will be an excellent popcorn flick.
Wow! That's an impressive list of films they've worked on!!!
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Sat 28 Aug, 2010 10:42 am
Read the review for My Dog Tulip in this week's Time Out New York. I kind of wish I didn't have to wait to this Wednesday (Sept. 1st) before it hits the cinema.
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“Unable to love each other,” J.R. Ackerley (Plummer) notes drily, “the English naturally turn to dogs.” To be fair, the middle-aged misanthrope, who wrote the eponymous memoir from which this animated feature is adapted, roundly includes himself in that slap and tickle of an edict. Love his four-legged friend he does, with an intensity fortunately matched by his anxious, highly intelligent Alsatian, Tulip. Just the mere hint of a walk sends the canine into gales of joy, which propels her to toss groceries around their kitchen as if they were “roses, strewn.”
My Dog Tulip has opened today in limited release in NYC. Guess what I'm doing after work!
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Wed 8 Sep, 2010 05:07 pm
This movie trailer makes me feel gushy because my daughter Katrina was the casting director. It is a short film and won the "Best Short" award at the 2010 Buffalo Niagara Film Festival.
Thanks, tsar. I am very proud of my daughter. She has been a casting person for the last few years for television and movies. Lately she has been casting a film for director Steven Soderbergh.
