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Today: Battlestar Galactica season 3 finale, Rome final episode.
Opening this week in Sydney: Das Leben der Andersen (aka The Lives of Others), Becoming Jane.
Rowan Wood, the Australian director of Little Fish (starring Cate Blanchett, which I saw recently, and loved) has just added Jean Tripplehorn (Big Love) and Embeth Davidtz (Junebug) to the cast of his next film, Winged Creatures, which follows the lives of a group of people who are witnesses to a brutal murder suicide in a fast food restaurant. The film's ensemble cast already includes Guy Pearce, Forest Whitaker, Kate Beckinsale, Dakota Fanning, and Jackie Earle Haley. (Dark Horizons) [imdb]
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yate's 1961 novel about post-war disillutionment, is being adapted for a film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. Sam Mendes (American Beauty) will direct the story of a young, ostensibly content suburban couple with two children in the mid-1950s who find themselves caught between their true desires and the pressure to conform -- with explosive consequences. (Variety) [imdb]
Edward James Olmos (Battlestar Galactica) is set to direct a a bilingual drama that explores U.S.-Mexico border issues and the far-reaching socio-economic effects of the two nations' foreign-policy decisions. Based on the novel "The Crystal Frontier" by Carlos Fuentes. (Moviehole)
Mark Kermode at the Guardian reviews Danny Boyle's Sunshine:
"There's a strikingly similar blend of science and theology in Sunshine, in which whizz-kid physicist Capa (played by the ethereally blue-eyed Cillian Murphy) comes face to face with his maker in the shape of a dying sun. Just as the enigmatic monoliths from 2001 act as creative gods to the earthlings, so the sun serves as both the giver of life and the source of all knowledge in Boyle's soul-searching movie."
NYT's Franz Lidz profiles actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, star of Mysterious Skin, Brick and the upcoming The Lookout.
"Six years after abandoning television to attend college (and three years after abandoning college to pursue a movie career), this slender Southern Californian with the softly hooded eyes is one of the hottest young stars in the indie firmament."
Scott Timberg at the LA Times looks at the surge in apocalyptic fiction, including Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" and Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men:
"It's not just Mel Gibson, Feral House and the "Left Behind" books anymore. Long the province of the paranoid left and Christian right, apocalypse has moved indoors, and it's going highbrow."
Opening this week in Sydney: Das Leben der Andersen (aka The Lives of Others), Becoming Jane.
Rowan Wood, the Australian director of Little Fish (starring Cate Blanchett, which I saw recently, and loved) has just added Jean Tripplehorn (Big Love) and Embeth Davidtz (Junebug) to the cast of his next film, Winged Creatures, which follows the lives of a group of people who are witnesses to a brutal murder suicide in a fast food restaurant. The film's ensemble cast already includes Guy Pearce, Forest Whitaker, Kate Beckinsale, Dakota Fanning, and Jackie Earle Haley. (Dark Horizons) [imdb]
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yate's 1961 novel about post-war disillutionment, is being adapted for a film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. Sam Mendes (American Beauty) will direct the story of a young, ostensibly content suburban couple with two children in the mid-1950s who find themselves caught between their true desires and the pressure to conform -- with explosive consequences. (Variety) [imdb]
Edward James Olmos (Battlestar Galactica) is set to direct a a bilingual drama that explores U.S.-Mexico border issues and the far-reaching socio-economic effects of the two nations' foreign-policy decisions. Based on the novel "The Crystal Frontier" by Carlos Fuentes. (Moviehole)
Mark Kermode at the Guardian reviews Danny Boyle's Sunshine:
"There's a strikingly similar blend of science and theology in Sunshine, in which whizz-kid physicist Capa (played by the ethereally blue-eyed Cillian Murphy) comes face to face with his maker in the shape of a dying sun. Just as the enigmatic monoliths from 2001 act as creative gods to the earthlings, so the sun serves as both the giver of life and the source of all knowledge in Boyle's soul-searching movie."
NYT's Franz Lidz profiles actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, star of Mysterious Skin, Brick and the upcoming The Lookout.
"Six years after abandoning television to attend college (and three years after abandoning college to pursue a movie career), this slender Southern Californian with the softly hooded eyes is one of the hottest young stars in the indie firmament."
Scott Timberg at the LA Times looks at the surge in apocalyptic fiction, including Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" and Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men:
"It's not just Mel Gibson, Feral House and the "Left Behind" books anymore. Long the province of the paranoid left and Christian right, apocalypse has moved indoors, and it's going highbrow."