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Peter Jackson presents DISTRICT 9 ! TRAILER !
District 9 is an upcoming science fiction film produced by Peter Jackson and directed by Neill Blomkamp. The film is set for an August 14, 2009 release date.[1] It takes place in Johannesburg, South Africa. The teaser trailer for the film was released with X-Men Origins: Wolverine[2] as well as Year One.
FROM THE MIND OF DIABLO CODY; Jennifer’s Body trailer.
Jennifer’s Body tells the story of a seemingly-perfect cheerleader whose life is thrown into disarray when she gets possessed by a demon, begins eating boys in her small town, then faces off against her best friend and the Satan-worshipping band that made her evil.
Daybreakers TRAILER !`
Edward Dalton is a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world’s population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.
Scene By Scene with Brian De Palma, Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch …
I’ve been aware of the this series for sometime and they finally started popping up all over YouTube (god bless them if even their Video Quality sucks). Last month, Kubrick71 posted some links on DVXUSER to this now defunct series and it reminded me to post it myself.
The series has the best interviews and scene analysis with such acclaimed filmmakers as De Palma, Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, …
Scene By Scene – Brian De Palma
Even better, check out Matt7333’s Channel on YouTube. Film junkie central. Awesome, awesome, awesome.
Soderbergh to make 3-D ‘Cleopatra’
For his next directing effort, Steven Soderbergh is plotting a 3-D live-action rock ’n’ roll musical about Cleopatra. reports Variety.
CHRISTINE – John Carpenter’s visual peak.
John Carpenter’s Christine is a 1983 horror film about a supernaturally malevolent automobile and its effects on the teenager who owns it, adapted from a novel written by Stephen King. One of my favorite films of all time and John Carpenter’s most underrated and least talked about films.
The original theatrical One Sheet.
The movie starred Keith Gordon as Arnie Cunningham, the typical high school nerd with only one friend, a childhood companion named Dennis Guilder (John Stockwell, who is a director now; Turistas (2006), Into the Blue (2005)) a popular jock. Arnie’s life changes when he discovers Christine, a red 1958 Plymouth Fury. Arnie begins to restore Christine to her original beauty, but as he spends more and more of his time repairing her, those in his life notice that he is changing as well.
Arnie metamorphoses from timid and insecure to confident and assured. But this transformation is filled with an evil streak and a very jealous, supernaturally possessed car.
As the film develops, we discover the car the car has a deadly past. The previous owner, Roland LeBay, became consumed with Christine and he paid for it with his life. Dennis and Arnie’s new girlfriend, Leigh, played by Alexandra Paul, try to save Arnie from a similar fate. They realize that the only way to save Arnie is by destroying Christine. Christine, however, isn’t ready to give up Arnie without a fight.
I thought this was Carpenter’s last real good work and showed him at the top of his game in visual terms. After that, he seemed to have lost the edge. As much as I like his body of work, yes, even Vampires and Ghost of Mars, Carpenter seems to have peaked with this film. His glory years being from 1976 to 1983 when we were given the masterpieces The Thing, Escape from New York, The Fog (okay, campy, I know, but I love it), Halloween and Assault on Precinct 13, Carpenter gives us such wonderful visual language and efficiency in this film. A true Auteur of his time.
What I want to look at in the following scene, is Carpenter’s use of the P.O.V., Blocking and impressively, his use of generally longer takes that keeps the camera moving and actors staging in a constant flux, changing the frame and composition.
Finest smell in the world, except for maybe …
