Here’s the trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s Che starring Benicio Del Toro. I still haven’t made up my mind if it’s great or merely very good, but I look forward to giving it another spin.
Che is set to play (in two parts…I think) for a one-week Oscar qualifying run in Los Angeles and New York beginning [...]
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In the interest of making sure I got to the theater on time for an early 6pm screening of Che, I cut my afternoon film schedule off after one film. It turns out the seating was reserved (hence the aisle and seat number on my ticket) so I needn’t have bothered. Oh well. It’s all [...]
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Back in 2005 when Steven Soderbergh wrote the forward for a book about lo-fi band Guided by Voices, he asked author/band member James Greer to write a rock opera for him that he hoped would star Catherine Zeta-Jones as Cleopatra.
It sounds like a joke, but apparently Soderbergh is ready to roll on the project and [...]
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I’ve deliberately been avoiding my newsfeed for the last week or so. Random news items were a logical source of filler when I first decided to start posting daily, but it turns out news can be all consuming. I could spend all of my limited blogging time simply combing the feeds for nuggets of information, [...]
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AFI announced yesterday that two highly anticipated films, Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler and Steven Soderbergh’s Che will be making their West Coast premieres at the 2008 AFI Fest.
Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival, The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke will screen November 1 at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Che starring Benicio Del Toro [...]
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Forget about the rumors that Magnolia would be distributing Steven Soderbergh’s Che. Variety’s Pamela McLintock is reporting this morning that IFC has picked the film up for distribution in North America and plans a one-week Oscar qualifying run in NY and LA in December.
IFC will then release the film in theaters and through video-on-demand in January. [...]
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The Argentine, part one of Steven Soderbergh’s Che Guevara biography starring Benicio Del Toro as the controversial revolutionary pulled in “substantially more than expected” during its public premiere in Spain according to one of the film’s bookers. Variety called the $2.5 million and $7,683 per screen average “non-spectacular but very encouraging.”
The trade notes that Che [...]
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Benicio del Toro in Steven Soderbergh’s Che
Steven Soderbergh’s two-part biography Che, Clint Eastwood’s Changeling and Darren Aronofsky’s Wrestler have joined Lawrence Cantet’s Cannes jury prize winning The Class at The New York Film Festival which runs September 26 to October 12.
Shown in two parts totaling 4 1/2 hours at Cannes, Che does not have a [...]
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