With Liu Fendou’s Ocean Flame about to have its North American premiere as part of the Toronto International Film Festival interest is running high on the unusual underworld drama. Produced by Simon Yam - who also has a support role - the film tells the story of one of the most wildly dysfunctional romantic relationships possible. Here’s how TIFF describes it:
Recently released from prison, shameless blackmailer Yao relives the story of how he came to meet and fall in love with Li Chuan, a waitress at a quaint beachfront coffee shop. Pulling her out of her simple existence, Yao quickly lures Li Chuan into his criminal world, forcing her to join his prostitution ring in order to keep him in her life. As romance gives way to jealousy and heartache, Yao’s actions lead to fatal consequences – consequences he must desperately find peace with so many years later.
Yes, that’s what you should do with someone you love: turn them into a prostitute. Ouch. The film has drawn a Cat III rating in Hong Kong so you know it’s not pulling back from the difficult material and the English subtitled trailer is looking impressive. Take a look at it below the break.
So, you’d think. Why isn’t Capoeira part of the Olympic Games?
Can’t answer that, but whatever is happening in Beijing right now, there is some place where you’ll find love for Brazil’s traditional martial art. And is it just Capoeira? Taekwondo, Jackie Chan-style megaton bursts of energy, the more “if your teeth hurt, don’t go to the dentist, I’ll knock ‘em for you” Jung Doo-Hong-ish realism, and what do you know, even some creative stunts. In this short interview we subtitled, you can see Im Soon-Il, lead of 스페어 (Spare), talk about some of the action we’ll see in the film, including b-boying techniques like the “thomas (you know that pommel horse fundamental?).” Im is a Seoul Action School alumni, and went through a harsh audition along with 80 people. So… no CG, no stuntmen, no wires, no stars who needed to be trained, no rock or hip hop trying to interfere with the mood (music is a healthy mix of traditional Korean sounds, treated with modern sensibilities, as you can hear from the trailers)… just good old fashioned ass kicking. And since it’s the Olympics, some gymnastic in the middle. Sounds yummy.
Film opens this August 28. You can find the video below the break, along with all the old trailers.
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Because there just aren’t enough technicolored westerns about vegetarian cowboys sworn to protect the interests of cattle in India we have been very pleased to provide a steady stream of images and trailers from one such film: the upcoming Indian western Quick Gun Murugan. We posted the first trailer for the film back on my birthday - so happy birthday to me - and now we’ve got a second trailer in which our hero gets killed, goes to heaven, is reincarnated to do battle with the evil purveyors of meat-based McDosa’s and sprouts an octet of arms, a six gun in each and every one of them. Yes, I’m excited to finally see this one.
Quick Gun Murugan is a western spoof with attitude, featuring outlandish songs, outrageous melodrama and crazy action sequences including a classic duel in a traffic jam. The film tells the story of Quick Gun Murugan - a South Indian karmic cowboy whose duty is to protect vegetarianism and cows. When faced with a world-conquering arch-villain restaurant owner who wants to create the ultimate McDosa chain using beef, Quick Gun enters into an epic battle of vegetarianism vs. non-vegetarianism that spans time and space, from a small South Indian village to an Indian heaven and then finally to a cosmopolitan Mumbai across 15 years.
These trailers are essentially the film’s international sales reel split into two parts, which means that you get some quirks in the pacing and narration as these things are generally put together fast while the film is still in production. So the presentation’s a little bit odd but the actual film itself looks absolutely insane in the best possible way. Both trailers in the Twitch Player below the break.
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Very fun news from the mouth of director Rian Johnson. After trying his hand at film noir (Brick) and the comedic con man film (The Brothers Bloom) Johnson says his next effort will be a dark science fiction project in the gritty Philip K Dick mold titled Looper. Time travel will be a factor and looking at what he’s got to say about this I have no doubt that when Johnson references Dick he’s referencing the real Dick as opposed to the Spielberg, Woo or even Scott Dick. The only thing tempering this bit of fantastic news? I was actually invited to the edit-bay session where Johnson told people this but couldn’t go because I live on the wrong side of the continent. Mutter, mutter, mutter ...
Let’s put the Cormac McCarthy and Viggo Mortensen factors aside for a moment. You see, I don’t need them to get excited about John Hillcoat’s upcoming feature film The Road. All I need is Hillcoat himself. I absolutely adore Hillcoat’s bleak western The Proposition - my review here - and the simple fact that he’s working on anything at all, never mind a film based on such good source material with such a good cast, is more than enough to make Todd a happy boy. Making Todd even happier? USA Today have run a profile on the film, a grimly realistic look at life after an apocalyptic event, and ran an even half dozen brand new stills from the feature with it. No worries about Hillcoat softening his approach to satisfy the Hollywood suits financing this one. Nope.
It’s got a bunch of hysterically funny stuff in it and yet left me wanting more and I can’t quite decide whether director David Gordon Green - a bizarre choice for this sort of film on a few levels - is its greatest strength or it’s greatest weakness. Check that - James Franco is clearly the film’s greatest strength so Green could be, at best, number two. It’s new stoner-action comedy Pineapple Express and it’s the subject of my column over at Showcase this week.
As the list of announced titles for the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival grows, so does the selection of TIFF related movie trailers in the TIFF Trailer Park! Want to check out the latest docs? The newest Gala announcement? A selection of Japanese animation? We got it all in there, and lots more all sorted out according to the relevant programs. If you want to know which films are worth hitting, this is your place to start. Fifteen more titles added in the most recent update, so get in there and get browsing.
And if anybody out there could figure out how to download the trailers for Kore-Eda’s Still Walking and Jia Zhang Ke’s 24 City and upload them into the player here, I’d be most appreciative. I’m all out of ideas, myself.
I am shocked. Shocked I tell you, that no one here has yet told everyone about the second wave of announced titles at this year’s Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. Giddy-up Buckaroos cause this lineup is going to kick you stronger than an ornery bronco! ... ... ... okay… .... stopping with the cowboy lingo now… So what else have they added to their already stellar roster of films this year?
Chilean Superheroes? Check.
Autistic Thai Chicks Kicking Ass? Yes please.
The Muscles from Brussels? You had me at ‘the’.
Naked Lesbian Wiccan Frolicking? If there is a better type of frolicking I haven’t heard of it.
Hot damn, there is so much good stuff going on at this year’s fest. And word is there is still MORE room to fill. TWITCH will be in Drafthouse if full effect this year. I think I am going to overload my senses on the first day alone. The official press release, including titles and descriptions, is below the fold.
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Well, well, it seems Quentin Tarantino is up to his old casting tricks and this time he may have even topped himself. Remember the eyebrows raised when John Travolta was cast in Pulp Fiction after years of nothing but crappy straight to video work? Well, hold on for this one ...
The UK’s Telegraph is reporting that Tarantino has just cast pop starlet Britney Spears in the role of Varla - a lesbian killer (as in a killer who is lesbian) - in his upcoming remake of Russ Meyer’s Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!. If this works - which I have my doubts about - it could be a brilliant move. If not, Tarantino has just opened himself up to a massive amount of derision.
In other Tarantino casting news, word is also circulating that he’s cast his friend, director Eli Roth, to a significant role in his upcoming Inglorious Bastards. I assume Roth is taking the Peter Hooten role - which he’d actually be a decent match for - because Bo Svensen and Fred Williamson he aint. I suppose the good news here, for Tarantino fans, is that if he’s at the casting stage for both of this films already it means that he might actually stop talking about them and actually make them sometime soon.
Writer-director Eduardo Sanchez created a sensation right out of the gate as one of the co-creators of The Blair Witch Project, the film that launched the first person horror trend that is still going strong today. If he’s been fairly quiet since, well, it’s hard not to blame him. After all, how do you follow up something as huge as Blair Witch? Well, Sanchez is back now with his third feature, a stranger-in-a-strange land horror film titled Seventh Moon. Since it’s just been confirmed that the film will have it’s world premiere at the 2008 edition of Fantastic Fest, I’ll quote from festival director Tim League’s notes on the film:
Seventh Moon opens with Melissa (Amy Smart, STARSHIP TROOPERS, BUTTERFLY EFFECT, MIRRORS) and Yul (Tim Chiou) enjoying the first days of their Honeymoon on vacation in China. Yul is an American of Chinese descent, but only has a marginal grasp of the language and culture. He convinced Melissa, however, to forego the tropics for a more adventurous honeymoon: a guided tour of China during the Seventh Moon ghost festival. By the looks on their faces, they made the right choice. Good food, good shopping and a fantastic celebration of Chinese culture replete with music, dancing, drinking and elaborate parades and ceremonial offerings. If you look beyond their happy faces to the corners of the frame, however, you notice that perhaps the Americans are not as welcome as they feel. They are a bit too loud and tipsy for what is clearly a sacred event. Disrespect at a shrine ends in angry glances. An inappropriate loud joke results in a harsh barking rebuke. The tone of unease is subtle but undeniable.
Intoxicated and exhausted, the newlyweds climb into their chartered taxi and drift off to sleep en route to Yul’s grandmother’s house in rural Axian. When they awake, their driver has abandoned them in the middle of nowhere and very strange stirrings are audible in the fields near the road.
Shot on location in China with its characters stranded in a culture they don’t really understand this looks to be a disorienting, unsettling bit of work. Don’t believe me? Well, we’ve got the very first look at the film’s first trailer, which you can find below the break in the Twitch Player.
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Gô Shibata’s controversial 2004 film The Late Bloomer (Osoi Hito) appeared on the festival circuit a few years ago to much acclaim but subsequently disappeared. Now, in 2008, the film is on its way back into the public conversation with recent screenings in New York and an imminent North American DVD release by Tidepoint Pictures. Similarly themed films have both preceded (Chang-dong Lee’s Oasis) and followed (Crispin Glover’s It Is Fine. Everything Is Fine!) Shibata’s work but this does not really matter. There is no adequate cinematic frame of reference for the way in which The Late Bloomer explores disability and the frailty of the human body.
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As I write this, it’s about a week into the month long Lunar 7th Month, where the Chinese believe the gates of Hell are supposedly opened, and the “good brothers” (aka spirits both of the malevolent and the benevolent kind) roam the Earth as their vacation destination not by choice. They get to feast on the food offerings, and get pocket money from the Hell currency that humans provide, with entertainment either in the form of the more traditional Opera and puppet shows, or the glitz and glamour from Getai (“song-stage”) shows where singers belt out evergreens and the latest contemporary songs.
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Now this is one of those films which I’ve heard so much about but have never actually seen, might have something to do with hockey not being popular here in Iceland. But this is a big cult classic film in the states and the Alamo Drafthouse will be hosting a screening for it at the Chaparral Ice-rink in Austin august 16th.
Artist Jon Smith apparently hounded the people in charge to make this poster because it’s his all time favorite movie. And the result is this baffling silk screen poster, yes it’s silk screened, that I’m sure is going to go down well with folks, I just wished I could see it up close and personal.
As always you can get this labor of love over at mondotees.com for 30 bucks.
From the first Japanese horrors around the turn of the century to Lon Chaney and Nosferatu, the rise of horror films walked hand in hand with the history and development of the medium itself. Korea was no different, getting into the horror game straight from the beginning, but there’s a peculiar coda to it: it was in the form of a sageuk. 1924’s 장화홍련전 (The Tale of Janghwa and Hongryeon) directed by Kim Young-Hwan was in fact Korea’s first ever horror film, adapting a famous novel from the Joseon Dynasty, set during King Sejong’s reign. Or better, it was the first time an all Korean cast and crew shot a film at that home they couldn’t call home anymore, with the constantly looming shadow of Japanese Imperialism. If the Korean title seems familiar, you won’t be too far off the mark: not only it was remade over the years, once in the 30s and later in the immediate postwar. But Kim Ji-Woon borrowed its Korean title for that masterful little gem of a film called 장화, 홍련 (A Tale of Two Sisters). Famous sisters, all right.
Why Koreans opted for horrors of the past in a present full of horror, and essentially kept going back to that until the Golden Age of the 60s started pumping out contemporary horror films, might have to do a lot more with cultural issues outside the film canon than simple technological matters. But it’s ironic that TV, the medium which was supposed to steal viewers from the big screen, started the game once again with a very similar background. Although finding the very first horror on TV might be hard, due to the impervious conditions of TBC’s early archives and the lack of info about 60-70s Korean TV, what was likely to be the first bonafide hit on TV dealing with horror was a simple but tremendously successful idea called 전설의 고향 (Hometown of Legends).
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As the opening of the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival draws nearer expect a fistful of major announcements to come rolling down the line over the next couple weeks, the first of which came today in the form of a slew of Asian and Spanish language titles. The big guns? Mamoru Oshii’s Sky Crawlers, Takeshi Kitano’s Achilles and the Tortoise and Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s Still Walking. Check the complete announcements below the break!
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One of the interesting things about David Goodis’s career, Steve Seid mentioned by way of introduction to François Truffaut’s Tirez sur le pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player, 1960), is that—even though Goodis’s first connection to filmmaking occurred in 1947 with Dark Passage and The Unfaithful—attempts to adapt his work have continued to the present day; Seid recently met someone working with Goodis’s 1951 novel Cassidy’s Girl. Along the way, going all the way back to 1954-1955, the French have been particularly attracted to Goodis’s novels and—of the twelve existing feature adaptations—eight have their roots in French filmmaking.
The earliest was Pierre Chenals’ Section des disparus made in Argentina during the mid-50s, continuing on with Henri Verneuil’s Le Casse (The Burglars, 1971), René Clement’s La Course du Lièvre à Travers Les Champs (And Hope To Die, 1972), Jean-Jacques Beineix’s La Lune Dans Le Caniveau (Moon in the Gutter, 1983), and Francis Girod’s Descente Aux Enfers (Descent Into Hell, 1986). The French outdid the Americans, picking up and running with Goodis’s work, even though Goodis is a Philadelphian and his writing is set in specific American locales. François Truffaut’s Shoot the Piano Player—the best known of the Goodis films ("and perhaps even the best")—is included among these French adaptations.
Seid credited Detroit author Mike White, who has written extensively on Goodis and who administers Cashiers du Cinemart, as “nearly a counselor” on the PFA series. White generously helped Seid locate certain of the films and agreed to introduce Shoot the Piano Player. His generosity, in fact, has extended to Twitch, to whom Mike has offered his written notes on the film. Thanks, Mike!
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PFA curator Steve Seid reiterated that David Goodis—in the wake of the 1947 film adaptation of his novel Dark Passage—quickly secured a contract as a studio writer in Hollywood; but, had a rapid downfall and by 1950 moved back to Philadelphia. “The irony is that you can see in a single double-bill the entire output from his time in Los Angeles,” Seid quipped. Other filmic adaptations like Jacques Tourneur’s Nightfall eventually lead Goodis’s work back to Hollywood; but, not the author himself.
Seid then introduced Dan Hodges, a San Franciscan author specializing in film noir, whose work will be included in the forthcoming 4th Edition of Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style. Hodges is also a key figure in the San Franciscan film noir salon The Danger & Despair Knitting Circle.
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A third trailer for the Bollywood animated film Roadside Rome, a co-production between Yash Raj Films and the Walt Disney Company, has arrive online at the official site. We already met the character Romeo and Laila back in early July. In this trailer, we are introduce to Charlie Anna played by Javed Jaffrey and he doesn’t seem too friendly. You’ll find three trailers below on our Twitch player after the break.
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Yes, boys and girls, it’s Wednesday and that means it’s time for the weekly Twitch Video Player Top Ten! The ongoing Tony Jaa saga keeps the Ong Bak 2 promo reel in the top spot, followed closely by a sword wielding Korean pop star while the mighty chin takes a major tumble all the way down to number ten. Here we go!
1. Ong Bak 2 Promo Reel (11604)
2. Ninja Assassin Behind the Scenes (5490)
3. Ashes of Time Redux Trailer (1346)
4. Martyrs Trailer (923)
5. Mum and Dad Trailer (909)
6. SSD Trailer (708)
7. Genius Party Beyond Trailer Two (601)
8. The Divine Weapon Trailer (496)
9. Tokyo Gore Police Promo (466)
10. My Name Is Bruce Trailer (428)
Yes, it was just yesterday that we commented that Spanish maverick Alex de la Iglesia’s next project would be a big budget adaptation of Edgar Jacobs’ The Yellow M. What we failed to mention at the time - because we didn’t know it at the time - is that Iglesia has been hard at work over the last year directing a new sci fi sitcom for Spanish television. Titled Pluton Verbenero this looks like pretty vintage stuff for Iglesia, though I expect the sex and violence to be softened somewhat for the television audience. Scheduled to hit the airwaves in September there do not yet appear to be any promo clips available but I have turned up a quality behind the scenes reel that gives a very good look at the set and some work-in-progress footage. Check it below the break.
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Who wants a movie with Tadanobu Asano having a guitar battle with space aliens to reclaim the drum kit that is the source of his power? I do! I do! Throw in the fact that the piece was directed by Asano himself - just the second directorial effort from the international star - and written by Shinji Aoyama and I’m sold well before I even get to the other people involved in R246 Story. That the other contributors include the likes of Shido Nakamura is purely a bonus in my books. We’ve been tracking this one for a while and now we’ve got a full theatrical trailer to go along with the two earlier teasers. Tasty. Check them below the break.
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Jane Morton, a psychiatrist from Dublin in deep mourning following the accidental death of her husband and son, is assigned to work on the case of Dorothy Mills, a teenaged girl in a small village who tried to strangle a baby. After miraculously surviving a car accident, Jane discovers a village darkened by strange events and meets a very nervous Dorothy, who swears she never touched the baby. After analyzing the teenager, Jane makes a diagnosis of multiple personality disorder until the day that Dorothy speaks with the voice of David, Jane’s dead son.
The buzz around Agnes Merlet’s possession film Dorothy Mills has been building slowly but steadily for a good while now with all who have seen it coming away both impressed and disturbed. We first wrote about the film in these pages back in early July but at the time all that was available to share was a French dubbed version of the trailer. Now, however, there’s lots more. We’ve got that trailer with the proper English audio track plus four new clips. Check them all out below the break.
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Long known for producing serious art-film Poland seems determined to shake their staid image with production house Vision leading the charge. The outfit was responsible for the first Polish slasher film, Pora Mroku, earlier this year and know their poised to release a full on psycho-sexual thriller titled Unmoved Mover or Nieruchomy Poruszyciel. Written and directed by Łukasz Barczyk this film, much like Pora Mroku, showcases a pretty compelling fusion of technical skills and Eastern European formality with a desire to go toe to toe with the west. The trailer is a bit hyperactive in the editing and music but there’s some very compelling stuff in there. Check it below the break.
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Not sure which country receives production credit on this one, really - it’s a hodge podge of different investment groups across the Nordic region - but Niko and the Path to the Stars is the latest animated feature from Denmark’s A Film, the same production house behind both Terkel in Trouble and Journey to Saturn. The story of a reindeer hoping to join Santa’s sleigh team Niko is worlds more family friendly than either of those other films and has already attracted attention from the Weinstein Company here in North America. And after taking a look at the brand new trailer it’s not hard to see why the film would be attracting attention: it’s polished, quality stuff. The days of America and Japan dominating the animation world are rapidly coming to an end ... check it out below the break.
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Is there anybody out there better at making fun of themselves than the British? Sure, lots of people are good at making fun of other people but when it comes to smart self-mockery it’s got to be the UK all the way. They’ve made the uncomfortable pause an art form unto itself over there, ditto the slip of the tongue and the absurdly hilarious dimwit taking himself far too seriously. Enter Jerzy Cannon. The creation of writer-director Guy Pearson as brought to life by co-writer Paul Meagher, Cannon is a would-be rock singer who never was. But that’s not stopping him from making his own feature film. Oh, no. Here comes Unsuccessful Failure: The Untold Story of Jerzy Cannon and it’s a pretty safe bet that if you’re at all fond of Steve Coogan or Armando Iannucci you’re going to want to check out the trailer below the break.
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It was in some ways ironic, the fact he (supposedly) wasted his own life in an effort to prolong it indefinitely. Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty was just one of the many rulers who though the Son of Heaven could choose when it was time for his last curtain call. He was a ruthless, solitary leader who, despite enjoying one of the longest reigns in Ming history (over 40 years), helped put the finishing touches on the path that led to the Ming’s decline. He promoted and lauded self-aggrandizing symbols of corruption like Yan Song, and eventually moved righteous subjects like Ha Rui to impeach him. It’s perhaps poetic justice, then, that Jiajing’s life ended with a measly mercury overdose, quite unbecoming of his status and very likely dealing with Sun Ssu Miao’s alchemy work and its sulfur and mercury-based dreams about elixirs of long life. It would make for a great, almost Shakespearean drama you’d think – well, it actually did, in Zhang Li’s masterful 大明王朝 1566 (The Great Ming Dynasty 1566). But that’s another story.
What’s really interesting is how films can sometime become their makers’ own elixir of immortality, and that’s not simply dealing with the legacy of their work. La Strada certainly made Fellini immortal in our 1.85:1 sized, 24 frames per second memories, just like it did for Kim Ki-Young and his insanely good 하녀 (The Housemaid). But I was thinking more of people like Manoel de Oliveira, still as energetic as he was 40 years ago, hitting his 100th birthday right this year; I was thinking of Im Kwon-Taek, past his 70s and sticking to the bare minimum in lovely trips of energy like 천년학 (Beyond the Years).
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A few days ago, Imagi’s creative director Felix Ip posted some pictures for the sci-fi animated film Gatchaman at his blog site. As promised to show more, he recently posted three additional pictures which features the Phoenix spaceship and a glimpse of the superhero team. For the record, the pictures is actually CG render screen shots, not concept art painting that I mistakenly mention before. The shots were taken from a work in progress teaser so what you see here are subject to change for the final product. More to come soon at the official Imagi site according to his post.
Fans of Spanish maverick Alex de la Iglesia won’t have long to wait for his next film. Word is now out that Iglesia’s next will be an adaptation of Edgar Jacob’s classic crime comic The Yellow M. The budget is large and Kenneth Branagh has signed on to play the lead role which should inspire confidence as Branagh generally doesn’t do crap and seems perfectly suited for this sort of retro-throwback film. Of course people said the exact same thing about Branagh and Wild, Wild West and the sad reality is that an excellent cast couldn’t stop Iglesia’s English-language debut, The Oxford Murders, from turning out to be an absolutely atrocious film. If this one turns out to be a train wreck as well I’d be willing to wager that’ll be the end of Iglesia working in English ...
Yes, yes, this should have been announced a few days ago but it’s summer and I’ve been away from home more often than not and such is life. Anyway. We had one glorious copy of the new North American DVD release of Spaced to give away and for your shot at it all you had to do was name the two members of British comedy outfit The League Of Gentlemen do not appear in guest roles on Spaced. And here’s where it got tricky ... the League, you see, has a founding member is purely a writer / producer and never appears on stage or screen. And so the correct answer to the question is Jeremy Dyson (the non-performer) and Steve Pemberton. All you people who mentioned Paul Hays? Sorry, not actually a member.
Getting it right and the first name out of the hat was Melissa Stark and so the DVDs are hers. Congratulations!
While a major round of searching for freshly released trailers for films involved in the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival lies in my near future today saw a trio of big titles added to our growing library of TIFF-related trailers. How big? How about Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married, one of the festival’s Gala presentations? Not enough? How about Ed Harris’ western Appaloosa? Still not enough? Well then, how about the Michael Cera starring rom-com Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist? That last one got the longest look from me not just because I’m a sucker for Cera but also because it plays in a lot of ways - and I mean a LOT of ways - like a dry run for Cera’s upcoming role in the lead of Edgar Wright’s adaptation of Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life.
You’ll find all three trailers below the break, or hit the link below to launch the full Trailer Park.
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