Upcoming Films...

I'm so disappointed with the complete lack of originality in hollywood and quite frankly, pissed at the amount of remakes they produce every other year, from classics to foreign hits. I can understand if by remaking a film, they enhance the quality of the newer picture but in the case of Låt den rätte komma in (Let the right one in) - a beautiful, unique, inimitable story from Sweden - I cannot fathom the necessity of such a duplication. Recreated for an American audience, no doubt. I'm insulted. Hollywood continues to foster the stereotype that americans are too uncultured for foreign films, or that we're too thickwitted and lazy to be bothered to read subtitles. -___-

Any intrigue I have ffor this film is on behalf of the two young actors whom I adore, Chloe Moretz and Kodi Smit- Mcphee. Although, I keep asking myself, why couldn't this pairing come about for a different film?


Anyway...here are the films I am looking forward to: I've already posted most of these on facebook but I'm trying to update my blog more frequently.



127 hours- Directed by Danny Boyle. "The film is based on the true story of Aron Ralston, the American mountain climber who amputated his own arm to free himself after being trapped by a boulder in Robbers Roost, Utah for nearly five days in May 2003. James Franco stars as Ralston. The film will be released in the United States on November 5, 2010. The film's score is composed by Boyle's previous collaborator on Slumdog Millionaire, A.R. Rahman."



I'm usually not squeamish about the gore I see on tv or films (severed limbs and the like) but to hear in horrific detail, the process of amputating your own arm; I felt so queasy and light-headed.





"Sofia Coppola’s (Lost in Translation) new film Somewhere tells the story of Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), “a bad-boy A-List actor stumbling through a life of excess while living at Hollywood’s legendary Chateau Marmont Hotel. His days are a haze of drinks, girls, fast cars and fawning fans. Cocooned in this celebrity-induced artificial world, Johnny has lost all sense of his true self. Until, that is, his 11-year-old daughter Cleo (Elle Fanning) unexpectedly shows up and unwittingly begins to anchor him. Johnny’s fragile connection to real life slowly revives in her presence. So when the time comes fro Cleo to leave, his sense of loss is palpable, but the gift of hope she has also brought him leads to a beautiful, poetic denouement imbued with all of Coppola’s remarkable powers to conjure mood and atmosphere.”"




"Catfish centers on a riveting mystery that is completely a product of our times, where social networking, mobile devices, and electronic communication so often replace face-to-face personal contact. Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman’s grounded documentary is a remarkable and powerful story of grace within a labyrinth of online intrigue."



Heartbreaker- I avoid romcoms like the plague but I'll only see this for Romain Duris and Vanessa Paradis.

There are many other forthcoming film releases I'd like to share but many of them don't yet have their accompanying teasers or trailers.