Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, and director John Patrick Shanley arrive at 2008 AFI Fest
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The 2008 AFI Fest kicked off officially last night in Hollywood with the world premiere of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams. Because of the last minute scheduling of [...]

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It seems quaint today, but this movie simply scared the bejeebers out of me when I was a lad.

Happy Halloween!

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Once again Jennybee is Jenny-on-the-spot with a trailer heads up. This time it’s for Danny Boyle’s much-buzzed Slumdog Millionaire over at Yahoo.
After successful runs at Telluride and Toronto, the Oscar hype around Slumdog continues to grow. Click the image below to link to the trailer page.

AFI Fest is having a tribute to Danny Boyle on Friday, [...]

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Here’s a 5-minute peek at the upcoming sci-fi remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still with Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly. I’m not feeling it. How about you?

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Elizabeth Banks and Seth Rogen in Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Because it’s Halloween, the multiplex is crammed with a lot of low-grade horror crap this weekend. Consider Let the Right One In or Fear(s) of the Dark if they’re in your neighborhood instead:

Zack and Miri Make a Porno. For every Kevin Smith worshipper, there’s [...]

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Yahoo has the trailer for Laurent Cantet’s 2008 Palme d’Or winning film The Class.
 
Click to see trailer at Yahoo
France’s official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar opens in New York and Los Angeles on December 25. It’s also playing at AFI Fest which officially begins Thursday.
Thanks to Jennybee for the heads up!

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Benicio Del Toro in Che
Hey there LA area LiC readers. How’d you like to see the sold out Gala presentation of Steven Soderbergh’s Che at the historic Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood at 6pm on Saturday, November 1, 2008?
I’ll make it easy on you. Send an email with “Che Ticket” in the subject line to: craig@livingincinema.com [...]

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More Loose Ends: 10/29/08
We last heard from Vince Vaughn in connection to the upcoming Couples Retreat and now it appears he’s in line for Sunny and 68, a “drama with comic overtones” to be directed and co-written by Gavin O’Connor (Pride and Glory). Vaughn plays a poker pro who bottoms out and returns home to [...]

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Awards season picked up a little steam today with a batch of nominations from the International Documentary Association and the British Independent Film Awards.
The 2008 IDA Documentary Award nominees are:

Kassim the Dream - the story of Ugandan child soldier turned World Champion boxer Kassim “The Dream” Ouima (Coming to AFI Fest).
Man on Wire - this [...]

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Turns out the movie business keeps rolling whether you’re paying attention to it or not. Here’s a handful of recent casting announcements featuring interesting actors in not-so-interesting projects.
Amy Adams is set to star as NPR correspondent Jacki Lyden in a film based on Lyden’s memoir Daughter of the Queen of Sheba. A fixture at NPR [...]

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Anthony DeMarco in Jake’s Closet 
Like the recent Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In, writer/director Shelli Ryan’s feature debut Jake’s Closet takes a segment of the horror genre, in this case zombies, and uses it to explore the traumas of childhood. While not as literary or effective as the terrific Tomas Alfredson film, it [...]

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Gus Van Sant and his Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black have been attached to an adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for a while now, but the film is now apparently one step closer to reality. Borys Kit reports in THR that Fox Searchlight has picked up the project which tells the [...]

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Hey everybody. It’s time for another Monday Watercooler where you get to talk about what movies you’ve managed to see lately or whatever else is on your mind moviewise.
First up for me is Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York. I don’t think you can really do justice to a movie like this after just one viewing, [...]

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Philip Seymour Hoffman, Michelle Williams and Tom Noonan in Synecdoche, New York
One of the great pleasures of going to the movies is watching an artist set caution aside to make something big and powerful and true. Whether or not they completely succeed is sometimes beside the point. In the case of Synecdoche, New York, Oscar-winning [...]

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Here’s the international teaser trailer for the next Harry Potter movie. Though I’ve always been vaguely disappointed in them, I’ve still managed to read all the books and see all the movies. I can never remember which is which, but there has to be something to them right?

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