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Remains of the Day: Shutter Island and A Prophet Serve More Jail Time
Glad the weekend is here. Here are eight and 1/2 news items that we didn't have enough time to cover but are worth mentioning here for August 21st.
TIFF Picks 09: Shirin Neshat’s Women Without Men
Invited to compete in Venice (where the buzz will officially begin), I believe the project was born out of visual artist Shirin Neshat's ongoing video and short film work and thus culminating into a stitched feature-length film. Participation on the project includes cinematographer Martin Gschlacht (Revanche) and the musical composer is the great underused Ryuichi Sakamoto (Oscar winner for The Last Emperor and Babel).
Samuel is at ‘The Age of Reason’
Samuell is set to start filming L'âge de Raison (“The Age of Reason”) next month with Sophie Marceau toplining the fantasy comedy.
Tommy Lee Jones is on Both Sides of the Camera for ‘Sunset Limited’
Until now, we thought he was sailing away on the Ernest Hemingway book-to-screen translation of Islands in the Streams, but instead he'll be switching over to another legend American writer's work directing Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset Limited.
Remains of the Day: Underwhelming Trailers for Capitalism, Avatar and Wolfman
Three trailers. 2 Misses and one that was so-so. Here is a look at eight and 1/2 news items that we didn't have enough time to cover but are worth mentioning here for August 20th.
