The movie poster campaign for Blindness has really caught our eye, no joke intended. The stark whiteness that blankets all the artwork for this Cannes opener is both arresting and plot appropriate. (click the poster for the large version)
The plot is simple: An epidemic of white blindness has rendered the population visionless. Except for one woman…
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July 7th, 2008
Categories: Movie Posters, Science Fiction, Movie Previews, International Cinema . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: No Comments
UPDATE (07.31.08): Read my review of Sixty Six on filmcritic.com.
ORIGINAL POST
What’s more uncomfortable than being a 12-year-old? How about being a 12-year-old preparing for a Bar Mitzvah? Wait, it gets worse. Your Bar Mitzvah is the same day as a major event that has the country in its grip. This is Sixty Six, a 2006 production finally getting […]
June 29th, 2008
Categories: Movie Posters, Trailers, Comedies, Movie Previews, International Cinema . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 1 Comment
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Rachel Weisz. Natalie Portman. Norah Jones. Jude Law. This is definitely not a collection of unattractive people. This is the cast of […]
June 27th, 2008
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Just wanted to catch everyone up on more goodies from the buzz-nutty Coen Brothers’ dark comedy, Burn After Reading. Clooney, Pitt, McDormand, Malkovich, Swinton… Imagine if these hacks could recruit some real quality talent?!
Brad Pitt and his greatest wardrobe accessory, 1990s hair
George Clooney and Frances McDormand at a Fargo screening (not really)
Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich!
The pillows […]
June 26th, 2008
Categories: Trailers, Comedies, Movie Previews, International Cinema . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 1 Comment
You can’t get much better than this cast: Penelope Cruz, Sir Ben Kingsley, Dennis Hopper, and two of our all-time unsung cinema heroes, Patricia Clarkson (movie crush) and Peter Sarsgaard. You could choose three movies from each of their resumes and have one hell of a film festival. Now they’re all in Elegy, from director Isabel Coixet […]
June 12th, 2008
Categories: Independent Film, Trailers, Movie Previews, International Cinema . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 1 Comment
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One of the first news items we covered here at The Lobby was the Weinsteins’ acquisition of Woody Allen’s Cassandra’s Dream. So […]
May 28th, 2008
Categories: Contests, New on DVD, International Cinema . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 205 Comments