Trailer week on LiC continues with John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt now available at Apple. It’s HD-licious.
I wasn’t too excited about this on on paper because the subject matter doesn’t grab me, but I like the ’60s milieu and of course the cast is impossible to argue with. Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman appear to [...]
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I don’t know Lou Lumenick of the NY Post. I don’t care for his reviews or his employer, but I’m willing to give him the benefit of a doubt. Even so, I’m trying to imagine how this story can be spun so he doesn’t come off looking like a complete asshole. Here’s Ebert’s version of events.
We’ll [...]
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Miramax would like to remind you that Mike Leigh’s charming Happy-Go-Lucky is coming to limited release on October 10 with expansions planned for subsequent weekends. In the mean time, you can get your very own Daily Dose of Happiness Happy-Go-Lucky widget:
Sally Hawkins plays Poppy, an unfailingly optimistic schoolteacher whose glowing worldview is challenged on all sides when [...]
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Here’s what’s been cooking in the trades the last couple of days:
Adam Arkin joins Richard Kind and Michael Stuhlbarg in Joel and Ethan Coen’s upcoming dark comedy A Serious Man now shooting in Minnesota. Variety
Steven Soderbergh is apparently developing a film on the life of flamboyant pianist Liberace starring Michael Douglas. Richard LaGravanese (The Bridges [...]
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It must be Trailer Week here at LiC. Here’s one for Tom (Run Lola, Run) Tykwer’s The International. Originally a planned summer release and on LiC’s list of anticipated 2008 films, it looks like this one is getting dumped in February 2009. If the movie is anything like the generic trailer, I’m not surprised.
The International stars [...]
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John Malkovich dictates his ‘memwahs’ in Burn After Reading
They are two brothers who have a knack for combining genres and styles into hybrids that can only be described by using their last name as an adjective. Their films are set in a recognizable approximation of reality, but certain elements have been tweaked and exaggerated. Unexpected [...]
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