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dangermousie(In addition to already playing Shoot ‘em Up and 3:10 to Yuma which are already playing).
Here they are in order from most interested to least:
Eastern Promises
With: Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl
About: While trying to learn the identity of a dead prostitute, a hospital midwife (Watts) encounters a mysterious crime boss (Mortensen) who illuminates a path through London's underbelly that may lead to her answer.
Why: Where do I start? It’s my most anticipated Hollywood movie of the year. I love David Cronenberg and thought History of Violence should have won every award there was, so the mere thought of him and Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts doing another movie together fills me with glee beyond measure. Add in Russian mob, and some amazingly good early buzz and YES. Oh YES.
Atonement
With: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai, Brenda Blethyn
About: Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's (Keira
Knightley) lover (James McAvoy) of a crime he did not commit.
Why: You are kidding, right? Right? (Btw, my icon is from it and made by the amazing![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alexandral)
Se, jie (Lust, Caution)
With: Tang Wei, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Lee-Hom Wang
About: An espionage thriller set in WWII-era Shanghai, in which a young woman, Wang Jiazhi (Tang Wei), gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee (Tony Leung).
Why: You have seen my LJ and you wonder? I love period movies, war movies, Asian movies, Tony Leung movies, Ang Lee movies, love movies, and movies with hot men. And this has all of the above. Btw, this is rated
NC-17. Whaaaaa? But it’s for explicit sexuality, so my ‘whaaaaa’ is not an upset one :P
Love in the Time of Cholera
With: Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt
About: Florentino (Bardem), rejected by the beautiful Fermina (Mezzogiorno) at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.
Why: It’s Gabriel Garcia Marquez! On Screen!
Enchanted
With: Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, Susan Sarandon, James Marsden
About: When she falls in love with a prince, a peasant girl (Adams) is banished from her animated kingdom by the evil queen (Sarandon). She winds up in the very real New York City, where she falls in love with someone else, though her prince -- and the queen -- are heading her way.
Why: Fractured Fairy Tales FTW. Plus, yummy James Marsden.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
With: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard
About: Facing a lean winter, Jesse James (Pitt) brings in a couple new recruits, one of whom, young Robert Ford (Affleck), will grow resentful of the legendary outlaw, and ultimately betray him.
Why: I adore Westerns. And Brad Pitt with a gun.
August Rush
With: Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
About: A young musical genius is aided by a mysterious stranger in his effort to find the parents (she a classical musician, he a rock band singer) from whom he was separated at birth.
Why: I loved the trailer like mad. Plus, angst and OTPishness and hotness. It’s like a kdrama come to life ;)
Lions for Lambs
With: Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford
b>About: A congressman (Cruise), a journalist (Streep) and a professor (Redford) are drawn into an investigation of two injured American soldiers in
Afghanistan.
Why: Yummy cast (yes, I like Tom Cruise) and I love political movies.
December Boys
With: Daniel Radcliffe, Teresa Palmer
About: Four boys take a reprieve from their orphanage and head to the South Australian coast. As their summer progresses, tensions mount after hearing a rumor about a local couple who is keen on adopting one of the boys.
Why: To see Mr. Harry Potter without his broomstick and wand :P
Cassandra's Dream
With: Colin Farrell, Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell
About: In south London, a scheming young woman (Atwell) looks to financially captialize on the rivalry she's created between two Cockney brothers (Farrell and McGregor), who each turn to crime in order to prove their commitment to her.
Why: Story sounds interesting and Ewan AND Colin? YES.
Silk
With: Keira Knightley, Michael Pitt.
About: The story of a married silkworm merchant-turned-smuggler in 19th century France traveling to Japan for his town's supply of silkworms
after a disease wipes out their African supply. During his stay in Japan, he becomes obsessed with the concubine of a local baron.
Why: I like period flicks.
Across the Universe
With: Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess
About: A British boy named Jude (Sturgess) comes to the U.S. in the 1960s and falls in love with an American girl named Lucy (Wood).
Why: Always game fot a musical.
We Own the Night
With: Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes
About: Though nightclub owner Bobby (Phoenix) and his police officer brother Joseph (Wahlberg) haven taken decidedly different paths in life, a near-fatal incident causes them to unite in a deadly confrontation with the mobsters who run Bobby's club.
Why: I’d watch Joaquin Phoenix paint a fence. Throw in brothers on different sides of the law? I am so in.
The Christmas Cottage
With: Peter O'Toole, Jared Padalecki, Marcia Gay Harden
About: A look at the early life of Thomas Kinkade (Padalecki) and the motivating factors that helped him become one of America's most collected painters.
Why: Am curious to see Sam Winchester on the big screen…
American Gangster
With: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe
About: In 1970s Harlem, Frank Lucas (Washington) constructs a heroin empire by stashing the drug inside the coffins of soldiers returning from Vietnam. Once he is dethroned by Det. Richie Roberts (Crowe), the former kingpin turns informant, the duo sets out to take down law enforcement agents and foreign nationals who are part of his syndicate.
Why: I love the cast and I love mob stories. And I love Ridley Scott.
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
With: Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Geoffrey Rush
About: England's Queen Elizabeth (Blanchett) struggles to maintain her powerful reign in the face of conspiracies to overthrow her and a budding
relationship with explorer Sir Walter Raleigh (Owen).
Why: I’ll be honest, I hated ‘Elizabeth,’ because of its ahistorical, simplistic mess. I’ll probably hate that one too. But I can’t resist Clive Owen in a ruff.
Here they are in order from most interested to least:
Eastern Promises
With: Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl
About: While trying to learn the identity of a dead prostitute, a hospital midwife (Watts) encounters a mysterious crime boss (Mortensen) who illuminates a path through London's underbelly that may lead to her answer.
Why: Where do I start? It’s my most anticipated Hollywood movie of the year. I love David Cronenberg and thought History of Violence should have won every award there was, so the mere thought of him and Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts doing another movie together fills me with glee beyond measure. Add in Russian mob, and some amazingly good early buzz and YES. Oh YES.
Atonement
With: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai, Brenda Blethyn
About: Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's (Keira
Knightley) lover (James McAvoy) of a crime he did not commit.
Why: You are kidding, right? Right? (Btw, my icon is from it and made by the amazing
alexandral)Se, jie (Lust, Caution)
With: Tang Wei, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Lee-Hom Wang
About: An espionage thriller set in WWII-era Shanghai, in which a young woman, Wang Jiazhi (Tang Wei), gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee (Tony Leung).
Why: You have seen my LJ and you wonder? I love period movies, war movies, Asian movies, Tony Leung movies, Ang Lee movies, love movies, and movies with hot men. And this has all of the above. Btw, this is rated
NC-17. Whaaaaa? But it’s for explicit sexuality, so my ‘whaaaaa’ is not an upset one :P
Love in the Time of Cholera
With: Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt
About: Florentino (Bardem), rejected by the beautiful Fermina (Mezzogiorno) at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.
Why: It’s Gabriel Garcia Marquez! On Screen!
Enchanted
With: Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, Susan Sarandon, James Marsden
About: When she falls in love with a prince, a peasant girl (Adams) is banished from her animated kingdom by the evil queen (Sarandon). She winds up in the very real New York City, where she falls in love with someone else, though her prince -- and the queen -- are heading her way.
Why: Fractured Fairy Tales FTW. Plus, yummy James Marsden.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
With: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard
About: Facing a lean winter, Jesse James (Pitt) brings in a couple new recruits, one of whom, young Robert Ford (Affleck), will grow resentful of the legendary outlaw, and ultimately betray him.
Why: I adore Westerns. And Brad Pitt with a gun.
August Rush
With: Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
About: A young musical genius is aided by a mysterious stranger in his effort to find the parents (she a classical musician, he a rock band singer) from whom he was separated at birth.
Why: I loved the trailer like mad. Plus, angst and OTPishness and hotness. It’s like a kdrama come to life ;)
Lions for Lambs
With: Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford
b>About: A congressman (Cruise), a journalist (Streep) and a professor (Redford) are drawn into an investigation of two injured American soldiers in
Afghanistan.
Why: Yummy cast (yes, I like Tom Cruise) and I love political movies.
December Boys
With: Daniel Radcliffe, Teresa Palmer
About: Four boys take a reprieve from their orphanage and head to the South Australian coast. As their summer progresses, tensions mount after hearing a rumor about a local couple who is keen on adopting one of the boys.
Why: To see Mr. Harry Potter without his broomstick and wand :P
Cassandra's Dream
With: Colin Farrell, Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell
About: In south London, a scheming young woman (Atwell) looks to financially captialize on the rivalry she's created between two Cockney brothers (Farrell and McGregor), who each turn to crime in order to prove their commitment to her.
Why: Story sounds interesting and Ewan AND Colin? YES.
Silk
With: Keira Knightley, Michael Pitt.
About: The story of a married silkworm merchant-turned-smuggler in 19th century France traveling to Japan for his town's supply of silkworms
after a disease wipes out their African supply. During his stay in Japan, he becomes obsessed with the concubine of a local baron.
Why: I like period flicks.
Across the Universe
With: Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess
About: A British boy named Jude (Sturgess) comes to the U.S. in the 1960s and falls in love with an American girl named Lucy (Wood).
Why: Always game fot a musical.
We Own the Night
With: Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes
About: Though nightclub owner Bobby (Phoenix) and his police officer brother Joseph (Wahlberg) haven taken decidedly different paths in life, a near-fatal incident causes them to unite in a deadly confrontation with the mobsters who run Bobby's club.
Why: I’d watch Joaquin Phoenix paint a fence. Throw in brothers on different sides of the law? I am so in.
The Christmas Cottage
With: Peter O'Toole, Jared Padalecki, Marcia Gay Harden
About: A look at the early life of Thomas Kinkade (Padalecki) and the motivating factors that helped him become one of America's most collected painters.
Why: Am curious to see Sam Winchester on the big screen…
American Gangster
With: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe
About: In 1970s Harlem, Frank Lucas (Washington) constructs a heroin empire by stashing the drug inside the coffins of soldiers returning from Vietnam. Once he is dethroned by Det. Richie Roberts (Crowe), the former kingpin turns informant, the duo sets out to take down law enforcement agents and foreign nationals who are part of his syndicate.
Why: I love the cast and I love mob stories. And I love Ridley Scott.
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
With: Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Geoffrey Rush
About: England's Queen Elizabeth (Blanchett) struggles to maintain her powerful reign in the face of conspiracies to overthrow her and a budding
relationship with explorer Sir Walter Raleigh (Owen).
Why: I’ll be honest, I hated ‘Elizabeth,’ because of its ahistorical, simplistic mess. I’ll probably hate that one too. But I can’t resist Clive Owen in a ruff.
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Date: 2007-09-11 11:41 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-09-12 01:16 am (UTC)hmm another elizabeth movie.... clive owen is irresistable *due to him i saw "shoot'em up"*
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Date: 2007-09-12 05:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-12 09:47 am (UTC)I'm very very keen on Lust, Caution! I read that critics weren't everly keen, but I don't care! Given the fact that it's adapted from a Zhang Ai Ling novel and it stars Tony Leung is enough provenance for me!
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Date: 2007-09-12 12:17 pm (UTC)August Rush also looked like something I wanted to check out, when I saw the trailer; haven't seen anything for the others, though. Well, except for Across the Universe, but somehow it didn't really take me.
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Date: 2007-09-12 04:07 pm (UTC)Plus(though Atonement has since been added) they're the only ones I've actually seen trailers of.
Most movies are simply too long for me to endure the theaters for these days, though. No matter how captivated I am, after around an hour 45, I need to move around some. Then there's the fact that the theater doesn't have a pause button for bathroom breaks.
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Date: 2007-09-12 06:15 pm (UTC)I want to see Cassandra's Dream (or, frankly, any Ewan movie) but I fear it won't even come out here. Or if it does, like Miss Potter, and only come out in select cities.
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Date: 2007-09-13 03:55 am (UTC)All the movies listed were supposed to be the ones opening in the US theaters, but no idea how wide...
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