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Brenda1966
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07-03-2002

Friday, June 15, 2007 - 8:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Brenda1966 a private message Print Post    
I thought we used to have a thread for coming attractions...

Anyways, Ketchup, have you seen or heard anything about this new Will Smith film where he's the last man on earth? The previews looked very interesting.

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Friday, June 15, 2007 - 9:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
I think we usually just create a new thread for the movie that is coming out, then it's just the same thread to continue discussion in. Keeps it linear I guess.

Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 12:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
I saw the preview. Looks like The Omega Man to me. I've since learned that TOM(book)came after this movie's book.

Terolyn
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05-06-2004

Tuesday, June 19, 2007 - 5:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Terolyn a private message Print Post    
I remember that movie with Charleton Heston in it. Lived in a house with alot of lights.

Naja
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06-28-2003

Saturday, July 21, 2007 - 1:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
For any of you fellow horror movie lovers, the remake of the original "Halloween" is set to be out August 31. :-)

http://www.halloween-themovie.com/

Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Monday, July 23, 2007 - 7:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
THere's a trailer at youtube.com for Into the Wild in case anyone's interested.

Carlpsmom
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01-03-2004

Tuesday, July 24, 2007 - 8:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Carlpsmom a private message Print Post    
OK, now I feel old! I went to the theater for the original Halloween.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Tuesday, July 24, 2007 - 10:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Is "Into the Wild" based on Krakauer's book about the young man who went to live in Alaska and ended up...um....living in the school bus (Trying not to give spoiler if it's the same)?

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Tuesday, July 24, 2007 - 10:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Ok -- just found the trailer, and YUP -- it's the same! This is one movie I will DEFINITELY see! :-) Thanks for the heads-up Ketchup!

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 7:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
Has anyone seen the trailer for Cassandra's Dream? I don't know much about the film but Ewan McGregor's and Colin Farrell's accents are FREAKY!

Karen
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09-07-2004

Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 3:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
No Kitt, what is it?

Anyone else excited about the new Natalie Portman / Dustin Hoffman teamup? Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium?

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 3:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I think it looks like a lot of fun, Karen. I'm hoping to take the daycare kids next week.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 4:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
Cassandra's Dream is an independent movie, seems a bit of crime and a bit of romance. Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell are brothers from South London. Ewan's ok but the accent is really odd coming from him - for Colin it's just freaky weird! I just can't associate any accent with him other than his strong Irish one. Might be worth watching the movie just to see how well he pulls it off.

Nyheat
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08-09-2006

Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 11:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
Margot at the Wedding looks good, Jennifier Jason Leigh, Jack Black, Nicole Kidmen. The previews are running it looks like they filmed on Long Island in the Hamptons.

Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Saturday, December 01, 2007 - 2:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
Cloverfield has been seen! www.aintitcool.com

Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

Sunday, December 02, 2007 - 9:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Herckleperckle a private message Print Post    
I want to see (1) The Diving Bell & the Butterfly and (2) Savages.

The 11/30 Wall Street Journal (fantastic paper, btw) had this to say about the two movies:

'Diving Bell and the Butterfly' Is Vivid, Inspiring
Amalric Astonishes; Subversive Delights Lift Pathos-Free 'Savages'


First, the review of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly:

"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is unsparing and inspiring in equal measure. The camera immediately puts us in the position of its hero, a man regaining consciousness after a catastrophic stroke that has left him lucid but almost completely paralyzed. We see what he sees--foggily, at first--and hear the tumbling thoughts he can't communicate to those around him. When a doctor says, 'Don't be afraid,' we recoil from the ghastly irony. No fate could be more frightening (the diagnosis is a mercifully rare condition called locked-in syndrome), no premise for popular entertainment could be more improbable. Yet Julian Schnabel's magnificent French-language film, like it's true-life subject, transcends reality's prison with surreal buoyancy.

The source material is a slender but celebrated memoir of the same name by Jean-Dominique Bauby, who is played, in radiant good health as well as the deep freeze of immobility, by Mathieu Amalric. (In either mode it's an astonishing performance.) Before he was struck down at the age of 43, in 1995, Jean-Do, as his friends and associates called him, ruled the fashion roost as the dynamic and witty editor in chief of French Elle. After his stroke, he was taken to the Berck Maritime Hospital in the Pas-de-Calais, where rehabilitation specialists soon discovered that he could signal by blinking his left eye. Over the fourteen months that followed, Jean-Do managed, incredibly, to formulate and polish his manuscript in a mental notebook, then dictate it by blinking in response to letters on a chart. He died in 1997, two days after the book was published.

A blinking left eye inevitably recalls My Left Foot, the fine Jim Sheridan film with Daniel Day-Lewis as the severely disabled writer and painter Christy Brown, or, possibly Javier Bardem's quadriplegic longing for death in The Sea Inside. (Or, more distantly, the horrors of total disability in Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun. But The Diving Bell and the Butterfly soars beyond the genre, just as the delicate dazzler of Bauby's title flies on the wings of his memory and imagination. (The diving bell is emblematic of his encasement.) The movie has done what those who've cherished the book might have thought impossible--intensified its singular beauty by roving as free and fearlessly as Bauby's mind did.

The images are sumptuous, when they aren't claustrophobic--vistas of the beach at Calais, where the patients, strapped in a wheelchair, is surrounded by his wife and children; fantasies of flight, of skiing on virgin snow, of beautiful women, of the hospital's storied past, of convivial company and food (good Frenchman that he is, Bauby still nurses an oyster fetish), of Parisian streets and canopies of trees, accompanied by a lyrical theme from The 400 Blows. (The soundtrack as a whole is terrific.)

Such visual fugues may come as no surprise: Mr. Schnabel had already established himself as a painter of note before he revealed himself as a gifted filmmaker--the previous proofs of those gifts being Basquiat and Before Night Falls--and his cinematographer, Janusz Kaminski, is a distinctive artist in his own right. What's remarkable is the grace and authority with which the film depicts Bauby's three lives--his subjective point of view, peering out at his surroundings through his one good eye; an objective account of devoted care-givers ministerings to him, of friends and loved ones visiting him; and, at the film's core, the unquenchable flow of dreams, desires, language, sardonic humor and crystalline intelligence that constitute the core of the man.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, adapted brilliantly by Ronald Harwood, is far from a one-man show. It's fully populated, and impeccably acted, by a cast that includes Max von Sydow as Bauby's father, locked in his bourgeois apartment by advanced age and weakened legs; Emmanuelle Seigner as Celine, his devoted though terrified wife (who must serve as go-between during a phone call from his mistress); Marie-Josee Croze as Henriette, his lovely speech therapist, and Anne Consigny as Claude, the amanuensis (meaning from HP: one who writes down the words of another) who shares, with Bauby's children, the dedication of his book. Although this Claude is outrageously glamorous, Henrietta has a glorious response when her patient lets her know he wants to die. It's one of the many moments that leave you gasping."


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Max von Sydow and Mathieu Amalric (before the stroke)

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Anne Cosigny and Mathieu Amalric

Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

Sunday, December 02, 2007 - 10:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Herckleperckle a private message Print Post    
Now, the review (in the same WSJ piece) of The Savages:

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"I can't begin to count the ways in which The Savages pleased me, but the very best of them is the way Tamara Jenkins' comedy stays tough while sneakily turning tender.

The Savages, sans, quotes, are a family to which the term dysfunctional does insufficient injustice. They function, but very sadly, and in the father's flagrant case, very badly. Lenny Savage, a nasty old reprobate played with pitiless brio (meaning from HP: vivacity) by Philip Bosco, is careering into dementia after coming apart in a grisly Arizona retirement community, at several crucial seams. Lenny's plight requires immediate action by his daughter, Wendy (Laura Linney), and/or his son, Hon (Philip Seymour Hoffman), but they're trapped in parallel companies of the theater of the absurd--she as a would-be playwright in Manhattan, wasting herself on a married man, he as a lovelorn professor in Buffalo, writing a book about Brecht and droning on to blank-faced students about principles of drama. ('Looks like the Unabomber lives here,' she says of her brother's bleak house.)

The main dramatic principle of The Savages couldn't be simpler--use a parent's decline, and the desperate issues it entails, to force the children to take stock of their lives. Those issues are familiar, and wrenching. What does Lenny need, assisted care of a nursing home? Where to find a decent facility? How to pay for it? But the contemporary problems of a serviceable plot aren't what make this movie such a pathos-free surprise, or such a subversive delight. At every step of the way Ms. Jenkins puts her people through changes as fascinating, in their free-form fashion, as the Lava light that holds Lenny in befuddled thrall. ('What does it do?' he demands to know.)

What the wonderful cast does is define ensemble acting. Ms. Linney has never been lovelier, or more affecting. Mr. Hoffman has never been more likable than when the usually laconic Jon, seized by a brief spasm of joy, joins Lotte Lenya in a Kurt Weill-Bertolt Brecht song on his car radio. One budding Internet wit has suggested that 'Philip Bosco may deserve an Osco.' I'd say make it Oscos all around."


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Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney

Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

Monday, December 03, 2007 - 9:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Herckleperckle a private message Print Post    
Saw the previews for this, and the images of a destroyed NYC evoked that latent fear we probably all have since 9/11. But, different premise. And, knowing Will Smith, this one has got to be good:

I Am Legend

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Synopsis from Moviefone:

Robert Neville (Will Smith) is a brilliant scientist, but even he could not contain the terrible virus that was unstoppable, incurable, and man-made. Somehow immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and maybe the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone. Mutant victims of the plague—The Infected—lurk in the shadows…watching Neville’s every move…waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Perhaps mankind’s last, best hope, Neville is driven by only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood. But he knows he is outnumbered…and quickly running out of time.

Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

Monday, December 03, 2007 - 10:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Herckleperckle a private message Print Post    
One more---that looked really good in the previews:

Atonement
atonement

james mcavoy and keira knightley
James McAvoy and Keira Knightley

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Saorise Ronan and James McAvoy

Joe Wright, the BAFTA Award-winning director of 'Pride & Prejudice,' has reunited with his filmmaking team and his Academy Award-nominated actress, Keira Knightley, for another classic British romance, starring James McAvoy (BAFTA Award nominee for 'The Last King of Scotland') opposite Ms. Knightley. Christopher Hampton (Academy Award winner for 'Dangerous Liaisons') has written the screenplay adaptation of Ian McEwan’s best-selling 2002 novel Atonement. Shot on location in the U.K., the film’s story spans several decades. In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony’s vivid imagination. Robbie Turner (Mr. McAvoy), the educated son of the family’s housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony’s headstrong older sister Cecilia (Ms. Knightley). Cecilia, he hopes, has comparable feelings; all it will take is one spark for this relationship to combust. When it does, Briony – who has a crush on Robbie – is compelled to interfere, going so far as accusing Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and Robbie declare their love for each other, but he is arrested – and with Briony bearing false witness, the course of three lives is changed forever. Briony continues to seek forgiveness for her childhood misdeed. Through a terrible and courageous act of imagination, she finds the path to her uncertain atonement, and to an understanding of the power of enduring love.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, December 03, 2007 - 11:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I didn't really like the book so I'm not sure if I'll go and see this. Probably wait until it's on cable.

Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

Monday, December 03, 2007 - 3:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Herckleperckle a private message Print Post    
Mamie, you mean Atonement?

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, December 03, 2007 - 4:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Yes, Atonement. It was an okay book but it had raves and I just didn't like it that much.

Brenda1966
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07-03-2002

Monday, December 03, 2007 - 7:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Brenda1966 a private message Print Post    
About Savages... here's a reviewer who I really enjoy reading and trust his opinions. He says the movie is really a drama and they are mismarketing it as a "dark comedy"

He does give it a good review.
http://www.reelviews.net/master.html

Konamouse
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 3:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Konamouse a private message Print Post    
The Dark Knight

Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 11:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Herckleperckle a private message Print Post    
stst2

Stephen Sondheim's award-winning musical thriller comes to the big screen in this adaptation directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Sacha Baron Cohen, Timothy Spall, and Alan Rickman. Embittered at having been wrongly imprisoned and determined to seek vengeance against his accusers due to the grim fate that befell his wife and daughter while he was incarcerated, ex-convict Sweeny Todd (Depp) returns to his hometown and opens a modest barber shop. The one thing different about Todd's shop, however, is that no one who walks in for a trim is ever seen again. Subsequently branded "The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" by the frightened community, Todd continues with his murderous exploits with a little assistance from his amorous accomplice Mrs. Lovett (Bonham Carter) - whose popular meat pies are proven to have a most unsavory ingredient. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide