The new trailer for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and man is a beauty. The film is the highly anticipated follow up to Andrew Dominik's amazing 2000 debut Chopper. I think 7 years is long enough to wait so this thing needs to come out now. It's set to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival in a few weeks. Really wish I could go. If you can't make it feast your eyes on the trailer below instead.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Monday, August 13, 2007
Thursday, August 09, 2007
So, in case you are wondering, I am still sadden by the passing of the great Michelangelo Antonioni and I have been watching a handful of his films recently. Yesterday was Blow-Up and L'Avventura. I will have to honest. Don't get me wrong I love black and white films. love them. Something like Mike Nichol's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? I couldn't even picture in color. And while I love his trilogy of L'Avventura, La Notte, and L'Eclisse, you some how wonder how they would look in color. Antonioni was similar to someone like Seijun Suzuki, in the sense that his knack for color created a whole other character to his films and made my love for them even stronger. Look at Antonioni's brilliant Il Deserto rosso (Red Desert). The colors are amazing. He actually made his crew paint most things over to make the colors more vibrant. And when I say most things I mean even blades of grasses which his crew painted to look greener. Nonetheless I love all his work I have seen (and own in one shape or form) including the films mentioned above and of course the beautiful The Passenger. I have been dying to see the much criticized Zabriskie Point so that I could form my own opinion of it but I seems to be very hard to find a widescreen copy of it (most things out there are on a full screen transfer...I mean why bother with a film shot 2.35...I can wait).
So I miss the guy. I really hope positivity comes out of his passing such as more of his films to hit the dvd shelves. That would be nice. We will see.
So I really do plan to catch up on my film reviews. Next post, promise.
Friday, August 03, 2007
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