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The trailer for the film that closed the 2005 Cannes Film Festival is now online.

What do you do when your wife Iona Aylesbury (Kristin Scott Thomas) can’t tell the difference between a shrink and a shop, your eight year old son Orlando spray paints his rabbit’s name on the walls to get attention, while his gay godfather Stephen (Ralph Fiennes) lies half beaten to death in hospital. Your boss is drawing you into a scam which could cost you your career, your father Edward Aylesbury has an illegitimate love child with his former mistress Gloria (Penélope Cruz), her social worker Colin (Rhys Ifans) can’t help prying into her past and present, and your stepmother Penelope’s (Harriet Walter) bond with her dogs is your best role model of a loving relationship. Every family has secrets it hides behind the walls of its home - these are the dilemmas and secrets of Marcus Aylesbury (Damian Lewis).

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I saw Howl’s Moving Castle earlier this year and, while it’s not Miyazaki’s greatest film, below par Miyazaki is still streets ahead of much else in the animation field.

And now the film has a US trailer - much dubbing ahoy!

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Everything I’ve heard so far about 2046 sounds facinating. According to the IMDb:

He was a writer. He thought he wrote about the future but it really was the past. In his novel, a mysterious train left for 2046 every once in a while. Everyone who went there had the same intention…..to recapture their lost memories. It was said that in 2046, nothing ever changed. Nobody knew for sure if it was true, because nobody who went there had ever come back- except for one. He was there. He chose to leave. He wanted to change.

The film is playing in Europe now (19th December 2004).

Update

2046 has finally made it across the Atlantic (almost), courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics. Scroll down to see the US trailer.

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Michael Bay’s next action movie is The Island, starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson.

Lincoln Six-Echo (McGregor) is a resident of a seemingly utopian but contained facility in the mid-21st Century. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to “The Island” - reportedly the last uncontaminated spot on the planet - until he makes a terrible discovery that everything about his existence is a lie… and that he is actually more valuable dead than alive.

Together with a beautiful fellow resident named Jordan Two-Delta (Johansson), Lincoln makes a daring escape to the outside world he’s never known. Now with the forces of the institute that once housed them relentlessly hunting them down, Lincoln and Jordan engage in a desperate race for their lives.

Hmmm….

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If the trailer is anything to go by, this film is really not being done any justice by its synopsis.

The Beautiful Country follows the story of Binh, a shy Vietnamese man in his 20s who embarks on a personal journey with a young beautiful woman, Ling, aboard a refugee ship to America in search of a better life and Binh’s estranged American father.

The trailer reveals - or strongly suggests - that Binh’s father was a Vietnam veteran and that Binh is going to face quite an ordeal over the course of the film.

The synopsis also fails to mention that the film stars both Nick Nolte and Tim Roth and looks absolutely gorgeous.

Go watch it.

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After a dinner out, photographer Sophie Jacobs (Cox) and her boyfriend Hugh (Le Gros) stop at a corner store for a late night snack. While Sophie waits unaware in the car, Hugh is murdered in a violent robbery.

Haunted by guilt, Sophie goes on with her life as best she can: teaching photography at a local art college, meeting her mother (Archer) for lunch, and visiting her therapist (Dunn). But one day at school, a slide mysteriously appears in the projector’s carousel: an image of what looks like her car in front of the corner store the night of the shooting. Are these paranoid visions stemming from her grief and guilt, or does someone know something about the murder?

As her investigation deepens, more strange events start to occur, drawing into question exactly what happened the night of Hugh’s death. As Sophie struggles with her memory of that night, her life becomes like a photograph itself, an image refracted through a lens, with as much outside the frame as in.

November is a psychological thriller exploring a woman’s struggle to transcend trauma through a surreal blend of emotion and memory. The narrative and visual style are comprised of dreamlike moments and images stemming from Sophie’s subjective experience, blurring the line between reality and the unconscious.

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Heights follows five characters over twenty-four hours on a fall day in New York City. Isabel (Elizabeth Banks), a photographer, is having second thoughts about her upcoming marriage to Jonathan (James Marsden), a lawyer. On the same day, Isabel’s mother Diana (Glenn Close) learns that her husband has a new lover, and begins to re-think her life choices and her open marriage. Diana and Isabel’s paths cross with Alec (Jesse Bradford), a young actor, and with Peter (John Light), a journalist. As the interrelated stories proceed, the connections between the lives of the five characters begin to reveal themselves and their stories unravel so that Isabel, Jonathan, Diana, Alec, and Peter must choose what kind of lives they will lead before the sun comes up on the next day.

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From first time writer/director Alice Wu and Sony Pictures Classics comes Saving Face, a new film about a young woman’s complicated life and her pursuit of love amid the chaos.

For 28-year old New Yorker Wilhelmina “Wil” Pang (Michelle Krusiec), life is a juggling act between a promising career as a surgeon and her responsibilities as a dutiful daughter. Like the #7 train she takes to visit her Chinese family on a weekly basis, Wil is perpetually in transit between two worlds. The expectations of the Flushing, Queens society she is from and the desires that alienate her from it have made Wil content to live below the surface — even if it means playing an inadvertent game of charades with her widowed mother (Joan Chen) and the old world Ma represents. The masquerade is comic even in its pain as Wil tolerates Ma’s weekly set ups with eligible Chinese-American boys at the Friday Chinese socials; but it quickly becomes a farce when Ma’s mask cracks first.

One night, Wil comes home to find Ma on her doorstep - pregnant. Disgraced by the Chinese community, and with nowhere else to go, Ma moves in with her daughter, making it difficult for Wil to nurture a budding relationship with gorgeous dancer Vivian (Lynn Chen). As her carefully compartmentalized worlds collide, Wil is forced to find her mother a husband, placate her girlfriend, and choose between breaking a cycle of keeping up appearances, or risk losing the girl she loves.

Saving Face is a romantic comedy about a daughter struggling to understand her mother’s heart, which ultimately allows her to understand her own. It is the story of unspoken loves, contemporary and cultural taboos, and the journey of two women towards living their lives honestly.

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Nightwatch is a Russian fantasy epic, starting in the middle ages and continuing to the present day. From the trailer it looks spectacular.

Updated

The US website for Nightwatch is now online (here) along with an American friendly trailer

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The trailer for the worlds first ever serial killer superhero rock ‘n’ roll zombie road movie romance is now online - and looking like a lot of fun.

SEE! A serial-killer superhero with a cape made of human flesh!

HEAR! One-Man Band Rockabilly Legend HASIL ADKINS captured in his element!

SEE! Hot, half-naked green-skinned ZOMBIE GIRLS willing to do… just about anything?!?

HEAR! An exclusive and eclectic rockíníroll soundtrack!!!
featuring HASIL ADKINS, THE PHOTON TORPEDOES, PHANTOM CREEPS, THE SPECTRES, SUPERKOLLIDER, CHUCK McCANN & THE TOMBSTONE BRAWLERS, COUNT SMOKULA, MEDLAB, SAWZALL, GIMANTIS, ZAKAS, THE VOODOO ORGANIST
AND all new music by PAUL LEARY from the BUTTHOLE SURFERS!

SMELL! White hot molten cheese scalding and disfiguring pert young nipples!!!

After you’ve checked out the trailer, click here to see the poster for the film and here for a hot zombie chick courtesy of the same mad people.

Have fun.

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