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TIFF Picks 09: Todd Solondz’s Life During Wartime
The characters in this part-sequel/part-variation on HAPPINESS struggle to find a place for themselves in an unpredictable and volatile world. The past haunts the present and imperils the future: ghosts circle and loom, trouble and console.
1st Look: Stills for Tom Ford’s A Single Man
We'll wait before official critical word from the Lido to push this title up as a high priority film to cover at TIFF, but Ford's A Single Man is among a dozen films competing in Venice and with Julianne Moore who looks great any decade setting (she was sublime in Savage Grace) on board and Colin Firth, who I never give enough credit to, but appreciated his loving patriarch bit in Genova, in the driver's seat, I think we might be in for a surprise.
Weinstein Prepare ‘Speech’ for 2010
If finances weren't on the rebound, the Weinsteins wouldn't be making announcements like this one - especially of the rights bought before the principal photography type.
A Win-Win Situation: IFC & Criterion releasing Hunger, Still Walking and Abdellatif Kechiche’s The Secret of the Grain
Ask me what my top film of 2008 was. Simple. Abdellatif Kechiche's The Secret of the Grain (see here). Ask me what my number 2 film of the year is. Simple. Steve McQueen's Hunger (see here).
Apparition Have Fraternal Feeling for Boondock Saints II
Has geek-fest Comic Con, essentially a convention that gets the fanboys all reeved up for movie trailers and the sort, become a legit place for film pick-ups? After Lionsgate plunked many millions down for the rights to Kick-Ass, Apparition and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group have made what I imagine was a fairly inexpensive pick up, for what could turn a quick profit because of its cult-like status.
