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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Bradley Rust Gray’s Jack and Diane
We have a teenage lesbian vampire themed film on the list in Mary Harron's The Moth Diaries and forming the perfect tandem in 2011, we have a teenage lesbian werewolf romance via The Exploding Girl helmer Bradley Rust Gray. With his last film, Gray demonstrated his knack for getting inside the mind of his characters, and he'll continue the skin-deep, transformative process with a Riley Keough and Juno Temple pairing.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Miracle
Kore-eda can take a story that you'd normally find sentimentality and craft it so that it is void of sappiness. I don't need to mention the merits of the filmmaker, but when thinking of the story above I'm thinking back, for different reasons, to films in his filmography: After Life (1998), Distance (2001) and Nobody Knows (2004). Re-teaming with his Air Doll star Joe Odagiri, when Kore-eda "delivers"...his films have the ability of lingering on.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Jodie Foster’s The Beaver
Despite the less than convincing trailer, this hasn't diminished my interest for the Kyle Killen's solid, top vote-getter in 2008's Black List (number 24 spot last year).
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Cary Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre
Promising a much darker interpretation of the Charlotte Bronte classic, this fresh coat of paint to a film that has been remade one too many times comes from a director whose debut film announced the arrival of one extremely talented filmmaker. Focus Features quickly signed him up for Sin Nombre and did the same with this Brit List project which will only confirm his visual prose and strong sense of story-telling. Oh and Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Judi Dench, Imogen Poots, Sally Hawkins and Jamie Bell make up the cast giving a robust reason to look forward to the beginning of the year movie options.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Nick Cassavetes’ Yellow
An indie addiction drama from the director who gave us My Sister's Keeper, The Notebook and John Q? Yup - the Cassavetes name can now be re-associated with independent film. Alpha Dog (the first time where I really took notice of Ben Foster) was Nick Cassavetes' more significant film of his filmography, and my thinking is with a rather large ensemble pitching in and a reunion with Foster for this to generate plenty of buzz.
