Most Anticipated Movie?

Intolerable Cruelty did have a great script, cut Catherine Zeta Jones really drug it down. Clooney was great as usual, but she really stunk it up. She has zero subtle comedy ability, if that makes any sense

 

Stuff like Troy would've topped my list a few years ago, but since the Lord of the Rings trilogy, any kind of Epic movie pales in comparison. Van Helsing, Troy, they just don't have it in comparison.

Spider Man was pretty good, but I'm not eagerly awaiting the second one for some reason. I'll be happy to see it when it comes out, but I'm not marking off days on the wall or anything.

 

I will second everything you've said here. Phillup Seymor Hoffman would have been an excellent choice. I hadn't even thought of him before. I don't know if it will come out either. When it does I hope it does the book justice.

 

Now here's a movie I really am interested in seeing, Saved!.

http://www.savedmovie.com/intro.html


Who's down with G. O. D.?


It's about damn time somebody made this movie. All the hard core young christians I meet seem to be like Mandy Moore in this movie.

 

I've never read the script, so that could be the case. I did like a few parts of the movie (Clooney scenes), but overall, I was disappointed (since I usually love the Coen's work, I have pretty high standards).

It's interesting that two scripts on that list that ended up getting made starred Catherine Zeta-Jones. Entrapment was on the list, too (though the movie had already been made by the time the list came out, the script they used was apparently nowhere near Ron Bass' original script).

 

By the time all the rights issues get worked out, they might be back on Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

 

Oh, I also forgot:

Dodgeball: The Movie

 

Has anyone heard about this small budget movie that was supposed to be released this summer. It was about these 2 people being stranded in the ocean with sharks all around them. It was supposed to be really good and scary. I heard they actually used real shark footage.

I don't remember the name of this movie. But it was supposed to be an excellent thriller.

Let me know the title if anyone has heard of it.

 

Found it. I wish the trailer was out on this one. It is called Open Water. The reviews sound make it sound great.

http://www.openwatermovie.com/

 

Here's a movie I'm really, really looking forward to seeing... Nine Songs, directed by Michael Winterbottom. Just may be the most sexually explicit mainstream film ever made. Check it out.



Cannes screening for most sexually explicit British film

Charlotte Higgins in Cannes
Monday May 17, 2004
The Guardian


Nine Songs: Winterbottom says of the most graphic scenes; 'We can always take that out'

The most sexually explicit film in the history of mainstream British cinema, containing unsimulated sex scenes including fellatio, ejaculation and cunnilingus, many in close-up, yesterday had its first screening at Cannes. Michael Winterbottom, the Lancashire-born director of Nine Songs, a love story, said: "I had been thinking for a while about the fact that most cinematic love stories miss out on the physical relationship, and if it is indicated at all everyone knows it is fake.
"Books deal explicitly with sex, as they do with any other subject. Cinema has been extremely conservative and prudish. I wanted to go to the opposite extreme and show a relationship only through sex. Part of the point of making the film was to say, 'What's wrong with showing sex?'"

The film revolves around a young couple in London, Matt and his American girlfriend Lisa. The sex scenes, which occupy more than half of the film, are intercut with scenes of bands playing, including Franz Ferdinand, the Dandy Warhols, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Super Furry Animals. The story is framed by shots of Matt flying over the desolate plains of Antarctica, as he remembers the relationship from afar.

The screening yesterday was at 10am, too soon after breakfast for many viewers. The grunt and huff-and-puff factor in the film is notably high, and the language is strong.

Matt is played by Kieran O'Brien, with whom Winterbottom has worked on a previous film, 24 Hour Party People. However, the woman playing Lisa has asked that her name not be used in coverage of the movie, although it does appear in the credits. "She's not an actress," said Winterbottom. "She really likes the film but she is going back to university and I think she wants to keep a low profile."

Despite the intimacy of the subject-matter, shooting the film was straightforward, according to Winterbottom. Having cast the two leads, a rehearsal was staged, after which they were given the opportunity to leave the project. "After a couple of days it was a case of that was what we were doing, and everyone adapted," he said. It was a matter of going "one step further" than the requirements of conventional, simulated sex scenes.

The film has not yet been given a certificate, though Winterbottom is optimistic. Of the fellatio-and-ejaculation scene, the one likely to give the censors most pause, he said: "We can always take that out."

In the film the couple also attend Michael Nyman's 60th birthday concert, with shots of the composer playing the piano at the Hackney Empire in east London. "I'm very pleased to be in the most sexually explicit film in British film history," said Nyman from Berlin yesterday, "especially as I am not doing anything sexual. I can't wait to see it."

Derek Malcolm, the Guardian's veteran film writer, said: "Nine Songs looks like a p*rn movie, but it feels like a love story. The sex is used as a metaphor for the rest of the couple's relationship. And it is shot with Winterbottom's customary sensitivity."

Winterbottom's previous work includes the 1996 Jude, an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel starring Kate Winslet and Christopher Eccleston, and Welcome to Sarajevo, about an ITN reporter's adoption of a Bosnian child. He is currently working on a football movie, Goal.


http://film.guardian.co.uk/cannes2004/story/0,14498,1218440,00.html




'What's wrong with showing sex?': Michael Winterbottom's Nine Songs

 

Roberto Benigni? He's sooooo 5 years ago