Aarón Fernández makes him feature film debut in this tale of hope and betrayal set in Mexico City. It's also the first film for lead actor Eduardo Granados whose pivotal portrayal is one of the strongest in recent memory.
Today we get the poster one sheet and trailers (you'll find below) for Stefan Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiters. As part of the Best Foreign Pictures long list picked by Austria, Sony Pictures Classics releases this as part of its 2008 arsenal in February.
Mike Newell is a director who's dabbled in many genres over the years. Although he's worked steadily in both television and film since the mid- sixties, Newell jumped over to the A list with the smash hit, Four Weddings and a Funeral, which introduced the world to Hugh Grant. Since then he's directed a string of mostly successful American films, including Donnie Brasco, Pushing Tin, and Mona Lisa Smile. In 2005, he directed his largest scale film to date, Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire- and now turns his attention to another book to film adaptation, Gabriel García Márquez's classic Love in the Time of Cholera.
An intriguing documentary about an experimental art project that connected people all over the world, 1000 Journals traces the artist named "Someguy" as he sends 1000 empty Journals into the world to be filled and returned to him. The idea catches a lot of people's attention over a website and inspires people and the doc shows how people seek a physical and spiritual connection in a world dominated by technology. A scrapbook/journal becomes an object of desire and imagination making for a touching film that will resonate with everybody, especially those who participated in the project.