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BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE Opening Day Locations

post from Rama's SCREEN on 02 July 2009 08:45:19 PM. © Rama's SCREEN

I had fun watching the action-packed adaptation BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE (check out my review), the movie will be opening in select cities next Friday, July 10th! Check out the complete opening day schedule for all theater locations it will be showing near you, after the jump… OPENING DAY MARKETS, 7/10:Los AngelesMann Chinese 6 / [...]

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THE COLLECTOR Poster

post from Rama's SCREEN on 02 July 2009 08:27:14 PM. © Rama's SCREEN

I didn’t know about this movie until now and it actually opens in a few weeks, by the end of this month. MTV has the poster for the upcoming horror flick THE COLLECTOR directed by Marcus Dunstan written by him and his friend Patrick Melton. So when the trailer hits the web and it says [...]

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Shane Meadows' horror film

post from Filmstalker on 02 July 2009 07:17:59 PM. © Filmstalker

After watching Le Donk at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2009 it surprised me to remember that he's been talking about doing a horror film. So after films link Le Donk, Dead Man?s Shoes and This Is England, he's still talking about making a horror film, Beware the Devil, a film that's going to be one of his ?bigger ones?....Visit Filmstalker for the full story. Restricted feeds to protect content.

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Public Enemies: The Four Failures

post from Digital Poetics on 02 July 2009 06:50:00 PM. © Digital Poetics

As a fan of many Michael Mann movies, as well as the Crime Story series, I wanted to like Public Enemies. Any of the FourFailures below could, in fact, be strengths, in another movie. So these are not meant to suggest that all movies with these features are failures, but rather they are failures in this particular movie:

1. The Expected. The movie is full of the Expected, but doesn't seem aware of it. Tough to overcome the fact that at some point the audience ceases to be forgiving of the so many piled-up re-worked set-pieces just because it's a Johnny Depp, etc. etc. At some point, truth will out. The movie must stand or fall on its own merits, not because it's a Michael Mann film, or a Johnny Depp picture. Worst instance: the race in Florida, where Dillinger's girlfriend Billie gets mad because she has been reminded Dillinger might die, and he simply says something to her like "Don't worry baby, the world's ours, I'm lookin' to the future" (I only saw it once and didn't take notes so that's not a real quote) and then suddenly she's happy again and seems suddenly to have forgotten that just a few seconds ago she was REALLY UPSET that he might die because he's the FBI's most wanted, etc. etc. etc.

2. Digital. Why digital, which is still a technology that calls attention to itself as a technology? It is not yet "invisible" and so still is loaded and over-coded with meanings that will, someday, be shed as the technology replaces analog as natural, inevitable. The choice--like the film--is incoherent. At times, it seems as if Mann is going for a sort of raw, Dogme 95 look, with the shaky camera, the occasional fast zoom. But these are sporadic, and mostly unmotivated.

3. Too many characters. This criticism seems as absurd as Emperor Joseph's criticism of Mozart in Amadeus as writing music with "too many notes." On its face, this is a silly criticism. But at some point, the movie becomes not much more than groups of pasty-faced guys running around shooting each other, with little dramatic effect. There are simply TOO MANY of them.

4. The Non-Angle: What is the movie about? What angle does it take? What is its general stance toward the subject matter? Some incoherent movies (thank you Robin Wood) are amazingly good, such as Taxi Driver or Dressed to Kill. But not Public Enemies (and who can deny that this is a very dull name for a film?) It doesn't really seem to be about Dillinger, who comes across as no more talented, brave, psychotic, greedy, maladjusted, or bored with conventional life as any of the other characters (with the exception of Baby Face Nelson). It doesn't seem to be about the so-called "fine line" between the good guys and the bad guys (a tired old approach to crime movies if ever there was one). It doesn't seem to be about how the Depression created the atmosphere for a sort of criminal that by-passed Capitalism and Communism and Fascism to accumulate wealth and fame. The movie sort of seems to be about Celebrity, but only in a few scenes. And it sort of seems to be the coming irrelevance of bank robbery in a era of electronic communication, but again, only in a few underdeveloped scenes.

I had to write this fairly quickly, before I completely forgot about this movie.

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Trailer Roundup

post from Row Three on 02 July 2009 06:49:14 PM. © Row Three

Once again, I have a nice assortment of trailers to peek at and we?re going to start off in style.[...]

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Kick-Ass Pic and Details On Comic-Con Debut

post from FilmoFilia on 02 July 2009 06:38:09 PM. © FilmoFilia

Today we have a new pic from “Kick-Ass,” which features 11-year-old super-assassin named Mindy Macready/Hit Girl (Chloe Moretz).Also, /Film is reporting that the new Matthew Vaughn film will be premiering brand new footage from the film at the 2009 Comic Con (San Diego). The “Kick-Ass” panel will take place on Thursday, July 23rd towards [...]

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First Matt Damons The Informant Poster

post from FilmoFilia on 02 July 2009 06:36:32 PM. © FilmoFilia

Here’s the first poster for the upcoming Matt Damon’s “The Informant” directed by Oscar winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh.In the movie, the US government decides to go after an agri-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president turned informant Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon), who is the highest-level [...]

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Planet 51 trailer online

The first full trailer for Planet 51 has arrived online, it had a very distinct feel then and looked fantastic. Now the trailer changes the focus somewhat and it goes from something a little quirky to a little more stock, but don't write it off, it's looking really good and a lot of fun. Planet 51 tells the story of an astronaut from Earth who heads off on a mission to investigate a far off planet. When he gets there he finds that the planet is inhabited with what he would class as green aliens, but they're living in the...Visit Filmstalker for the full story. Restricted feeds to protect content.

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The Universe Doesnt Hate Us: No Heathers Sequel

Every time Winona Ryder does something that interests the movie press (something that doesn't involve getting arrested) she talks about a Heathers sequel. Listening to Ryder, you'd think there was a packaged project all ready to go, waiting in a studio exective's office with a white sheet thrown over it, just waiting to be revealed like a classy sculpture. Not so, said original director Michael Lehmann when interviewed by Movieline. In fact, Lehmann seems totally confused about Ryder's assertion that a sequel is really, truly, honestly happening. What about her claim that "for some reason the writer Dan Waters and director Michael Lehmann don?t want to talk about it??Winona?s been talking about this for years ? she brings it up every once in a while and [screenwriter] Dan Waters and I will joke about it, but as far as I know there?s no script and no plans to do the ...

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Summer of Sound Film Festival [Vancouver]

I love the Vancouver International Film Centre but if at all possible, I?ve become even more[...]

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