Trailers: Medicine For Melancholy, Gomorrah
Here are a couple more trailers worthy of your attention. The first is for Barry Jenkins’ Medicine for Melancholy, the indie film about the day after a one-night stand between two African-Americans in San Francisco. It originally made a splash at the most recent SXSW Film Festival and I caught up to it at LAFF. The trailer is a little misleading with the bouncy tune that doesn’t appear in the film, but keep an eye out for this one. You might recognize the male lead as Daily Show correspondent Wyatt Cenac.
Gomorrah (or Gomorra, depending on who’s doing the spelling) won the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes. It weaves together five stories about the rampant organized creim in Naples, Italy.
Both Gomorrah and Medicine for Melancholy have been picked up by IFC Films for distribution, but neither has been given a release date.
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Yup, I wanna see both of those
Sorry for being off topic, but don’t you just love it when idiots try to sound smart? Case in point:
Our vision isn’t your grandfather’s ‘Moby Dick,’ ” Cooper said. “This is an opportunity to take a timeless classic and capitalize on the advances in visual effects to tell what at its core is an action-adventure revenge story.”
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992634.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
It seems like this fella has the definition for the phrase “at its core” completely backwards.
I’ve been dying to see this since first mention of them…
alynch, that Variety piece reads like an Onion article.
My other favorite quote is about how they intend to stay true to the novel and only make small structural changes … like making Ahab less obsessive. That’s like saying, “Is there any way we can make Hamlet more sure of himself?” That article is just one howler after another.
Melville’s masterpiece is at its core an action-adventure story.
Make Ahab less obsessive?
So I take it Ahab will be the “good guy” vs. that big bad whale?
Brilliant!
(EDIT 5 minutes later: I usually let sarcasm and dumbfounded indignation speak for itself, but in this particular case, let me just say to anyone who may think I’m agreeing with Cooper about Moby Dick, my first line was just shocked dismay at such idiocy. Sorry, I had to clear that up preemptively just in case. The fool! Oh, and having the hack who made Wanted make any version of Moby Dick is enough for me to want to quit the human race for at least a day.)
No worries Alexander, your sarcasm came through loud and clear.
seriously alynch. “Hamlet is so depressing, can we give him a comic sidekick?”
“We’re staying true to the spirit of Shakespeare’s work, it’s just that Othello goes to anger management classes and only hurts people who truly deserve it.”
Those are two very good trailers. ‘Bout time San Francisco was given a cinematic love/hate letter.