Movie Trailers
Fall is right around the corner (sorry), and there's a slew of films I'm rather excited about seeing. Gosh I hate these late summer doldroms. Here's some links to a few trailers:
Everything is Illuminated - from first time director Liev Schreiber, based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. Salon has a review here.
Oliver Twist - directed by Roman Polanski (which makes it a must-see), the film adaptation of one of the few Dickens novels I could stomach (yes, I realize his genius, purely a matter of taste).
Proof based on the Pultizer prize winning novel of the same name. Director John Madden (Shakespear in Love) scares me though.
Factotum (warning: trailer is sorta graphic) based on the novel by Bukowski. Not sure what to think about this one. Will wait for Mesh' opinion.
Little Manhattan - I'm gonna see this and I'm not going to feel bad about it. I'm going to remember what it was like to be 11, and I'm going to remember Mexico. My family will know what I'm talking about.
Don't Come Knocking (another graphic trailer, sorry, it's those dang international theaters) the new Wim Wenders flick. I'll see it just for Tim Roth. But Tim Roth, Sam Sepherd, AND Wim Wenders...
Green Street Hooligans - will be dumb, may be fun
Walk the Line - Johnny Cash biopic. Scares me.
CSA: Confederate States of American - this one is sure to be real popular over at Little Geneva, but not for the reasons the film makers hoped.
Thumbsucker - might just be a bad Napolean Dynamite ripoff.
The Constant Gardner - absolutely will see. Looks intense.
| By Josiah Roe | 10:15 PM
Comments
I love fall movies! My list is full of plenty of independents and this year includes:
The Chumscrubber, Junebug, Pretty Persuasion (a mix of heathers meets election), the constant gardener, and Saint Ralph.
I am also most excited to see more independent films from the local group. I really enjoyed the rebel film festival and two local films (shoot, sorry boatright, forgot the title something about sinners) and the doc on eric schelf (sp?). I am looking forward to the rebel film festival. I don't know what's playing on Arts and education council's fall movies (have they announced that already?) but I always enjoy those as well. I haven't really enjoyed a movie this year since Garden State, but I think the best movies are fall movies! Thanks for the links to the trailers.
Posted by: nautimous at August 10, 2005 10:47 PM
I read "Everything Is Illuminated" when it first came out and enjoyed it, although I'm skeptical about how it will translate to film. Foer's second (new) novel "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" is great though!
Posted by: CRM-114 at August 10, 2005 10:53 PM
Wait! Sinners are everywhere? right?
Posted by: nautimous at August 10, 2005 11:05 PM
close naut....Sinners and You.
Great post, Josiah. But why are you afraid of Walk the Line?
Posted by: sboatright at August 10, 2005 11:43 PM
Acckkkk...sorry, anyway, (shameless plug for you) isn't it showing sometime soon at the Hunter's film series?
Posted by: Nautimous at August 10, 2005 11:45 PM
(Why do I feel like I'm in an infomercial?)
Why yes it is, Greg. Thanks for asking.
(turn to audience)
And while other companies would charge over $1000 for all you see here, you can get this fantastic...
(Someone finally changes the channel.)
So anyway.....yes, it will be showing on Thursday, October 20.
Posted by: sboatright at August 11, 2005 12:01 AM
And, don't forget the first twenty people will receive the handy dicer slicer hide your bald spot lose that stubborn belly fat chopper! ::: smile, showing off product:::::::
Eck, it's late!
Posted by: nautimous at August 11, 2005 12:05 AM
Josiah, check out the trailer for "The History of Violence" a new film from David Cronenberg. Also check out the trailer for "V fo Vendetta" from the makers of the Matrix. Both look really interesting to me. Let me know what you think.
Posted by: Todd at August 11, 2005 10:48 AM
Many of the films I'm most excited by have already been released in New York and L.A.: "Broken Flowers," "Grizzly Man" and (especially) "Junebug" all look fascinating. (I'm intrigued by "Junebug"'s use of a Howard Finster-styled artist as the link between Red religion and Blue art culture.) It's comforting -- that's the only word, really -- to see a new Cameron Crowe on the horizon; it at least indicates that I will have a soundtrack to wear out through Christmas. And let's be honest: we all want to see "The Aristocrats," even though most of your wives will stop you from such a viewing offense.
Posted by: mesh at August 11, 2005 2:42 PM
Ditto on those three movies Mesh. "Grizzly Man" looks like a particularly haunting piece. Hopefully I can catch this stuff in Iowa.
Posted by: Todd at August 11, 2005 6:05 PM
