CIAO Trailer
Co-written by Yen Tan and Alessandro Calza and directed by Tan, Ciao is a subdued, intimate Eric Rohmer-ish drama about two strangers who spend a weekend together following the unexpected death of a mutual friend. During that brief time period, remembrances, emotions, and surprising new discoveries take place. Co-writer Alessandro Calza plays the [...]
WERE THE WORLD MINE Trailer
Co-written by partners Cory James Krueckeberg and Tom Gustafson (from Gustafson’s 2003 short Faeries) and directed by Gustafson, Were the World Mine tells the story of small-town teen Timothy (Tanner Cohen), who happens to be gay, ostracized, and in love with his private school’s top jock (Nathaniel David Becker). Timothy’s sole means of escape is [...]
Berta Singerman Recites “Camino de la Patria”
Argentinean stage legend Berta Singerman — actually born in Russia — made only three films, one of which in Hollywood: Nada más que una mujer / Nothing More Than a Woman, the 1934 Spanish-language version of the Fox production Pursued (itself a remake of The Painted Woman).
Singerman, who died at the age of 97 in [...]
LATTER DAYS Clip: Mormons Vs. Gays
Californians will be voting on Proposition 8 this coming Tuesday. Considering how religious beliefs are the engine behind the anti-gay marriage proposition, and that according to numerous reports the Mormon Church has been fighting the fight to make sure that gays and lesbians never have their unions recognized by the state, I thought it only [...]
Patti Smith Indicts George W. Bush
The above clip, in which Patti Smith indicts current US president George W. Bush is from Steven Sebring’s Patti Smith: Dream of Life, which will be out on DVD in January 2009.
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MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA Trailer
TRICK ‘R TREAT Trailer
Daniel Craig in QUANTUM SOLACE Trailer
SAVING MARRIAGE Trailer
Paul Rudd, Seann William [...]
MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA Trailer
Directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa apparently revolves around culture clashes between New York City zoo animals and their African buddies. I’ll probably wait for the Samoyedan version to come out before I venture into a movie theater playing this film.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa voices: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, [...]
TRICK ‘R TREAT Trailer
Written and directed by Michael Dougherty, Trick ‘r Treat is set in a small town that "is about to be taught a terrifying lesson that some traditions are best not forgotten."
In the Trick ‘r Treat cast: Brian Cox, Anna Paquin, Quinn Lord, Dylan Baker, Moneca Delain, Tahmoh Penikett.
Trick ‘r Treat opens in the [...]
Daniel Craig in QUANTUM SOLACE Trailer
Daniel Craig is back as James Bond in Quantum of Solace, directed by unlikely choice Marc Forster and written by Robert Wade, Neal Purvis, and Paul Haggis. The plot of the new Bond involves water supplies in an unnamed South American country, terrorists, the CIA, gay Martians, and horny women. Well, perhaps I’m mistaken [...]
UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US: Norwegian Black Metal at AFI FEST 2008
Don’t know what to do for Halloween?
Well, here’s a suggestion: Why don’t you go check out some Norwegian Black Metal Trick-or-Treaters?
Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell’s documentary Until the Light Takes Us, which offers a peek into the spooky world of Norwegian Black Metal, will be screened at the AFI FEST 2008 at 7:45 p.m. [...]
SAVING MARRIAGE Trailer
Directed by John Henning and Mike Roth, Saving Marriage presents the fight to rescue that much revered — and much disregarded, disrespected, ridiculed — institution that has been around (in various forms) for millennia. No, the film isn’t about Britney Spears getting hitched in Vegas and then getting the marriage annulled two days [...]
Paul Rudd, Seann William Scott in ROLE MODELS Trailer
Directed by David Wain from a screenplay by Wain, Paul Rudd, Ken Marino, and Timothy Dowling (story by Dowling and William Blake Herron), Role Models stars Rudd and Seann William Scott as two energy drink spokesmen sentenced to community service, which consists of mentoring a couple of brats.
Sure, bills have to paid, babies [...]
THE HAUNTING OF MOLLY HARTLEY Trailer
Co-written by John Travis and Rebecca Sonnenshine, and directed by Mickey Liddell, The Haunting of Molly Hartley follows a teenager at a private girls’ school — the poor, lamented, haunted Molly Hartley of the title (played by Haley Bennett) — who, just as she’s about the become of legal age, discovers what the future has [...]
THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS Trailer
Written and directed by Mark Herman, probably best known for the 1998 drama Little Voice, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is based on John Boyne’s World War II-set novel about a boy, Bruno (Asa Butterfield), whose father (David Thewlis) is the top dog at a Nazi concentration camp. One day, Bruno befriends a [...]
BREAKFAST WITH SCOT Trailer
Directed by Laurie Lynd and adapted by Sean Reycraft from Michael Downing’s novel, Breakfast with Scot — which opened today in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York — stars Tom Cavanagh and Ben Shenkman as an upscale, "discreet" gay couple (one of them used to be a hockey player; the other one is a [...]
Robert De Niro in WHAT JUST HAPPENED? Trailer
Directed by Barry Levinson, What Just Happened? was adapted by producer Art Linson from his own novel, which in turn was inspired by the goings-on during the making of The Edge, a 1997 thriller directed by Lee Tamahori, written by David Mamet, and starring Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, and Elle Macpherson.
What Just Happened? [...]
Anne Hathaway in PASSENGERS Trailer
Written by Ronnie Christensen and directed by Rodrigo García, Passengers centers on a grief counselor (Anne Hathaway) working with a group of plane-crash survivors who finds herself up to her neck in some pretty weird mystery when her clients begin to disappear.
Also in the Passengers cast: Patrick Wilson, Andre Braugher, Dianne Wiest, [...]
SAW V Trailer
Co-written by Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, Saw V is the directorial debut of production designer David Hackl. (The last three Saws were directed by Darren Lynn Bousman.) The plot has something to do with the Hoffman character (Costas Mandylor) carrying on "the jigsaw legacy" while trying to "eliminate all loose ends." The [...]
FEAR(S) OF THE DARK Trailer
Peur(s) du noir / Fear(s) of the Dark features several intertwined stories focusing on nightmares, phobias, and the like. The Fear(s) of the Dark segments were written and directed by graphic artists Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, and Richard McGuire. Blutch, Burns, and di Sciullo also co-wrote [...]
Edward Norton, Colin Farrell in PRIDE AND GLORY Trailer
Co-written and directed by Gavin O’Connor, Pride and Glory chronicles the breaking apart of a family filled with police officers after one family member (Edward Norton) starts investigating the murder of four New York cops. The trail leads to the police department itself and to a web of corruption involving his brother (Noah Emmerich) and [...]
ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM Trailer
Believe it or not, there’s a serious global financial crisis going on. So, how about some escapism?
What better video clip to watch at this time than the trailer of Alex Gibney’s 2004 Academy Award-nominated documentary feature Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room? Doesn’t the title alone make you think of those [...]
Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning in THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES Trailer
Set in 1964 South Carolina, during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of a 14 year-old motherless white girl (Dakota Fanning) who learns about life from several black women, among them Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson, Academy Award nominees Queen Latifah and [...]
Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore in HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU Trailer
In the romantic comedy He’s Just Not That into You young and attractive women fall for guys who don’t seem (I guess seem is the key here) to care all that much about them. Or at least not the way they (the women) want them (the guys) to.
Directed by Ken [...]
GÉRARD PHILIPE: A MAN NOT AN ANGEL Clip
Michel Viotte’s Gérard Philipe: Un homme, pas un ange, co-written by Viotte and Gérard Bonal, is a 2003 50-minute documentary made for French television. Gérard Philipe, quite possibly the most celebrated — and best-looking — male French film star of the 1940s and 1950s, died of liver cancer in 1959 at the age [...]
CITY OF EMBER Trailer
Directed by Gil Kenan and adapted by Caroline Thompson from Jeanne Duprau’s book, City of Ember is set in the city of the title, whose great lights have begun to fail. At that point, a couple of teens (Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway) set out to find a way to keep the [...]
QUARANTINE Trailer
Directed and co-written by John Erick Dowdle, Quarantine is a remake of Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza’s 2007 Spanish horror-thriller Rec, winner of two Goyas (best editing, David Gallart; best new actress, Manuela Velasco). Now set in 2008 Los Angeles, Quarantine depicts the battle for survival inside an apartment building that has been [...]
