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Five clips from David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises. Also, star Viggo Mortensen talks about the film and the Russian prison tattoos he sported as his character. [imdb]
Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. will star in Joe Wright's (Pride & Prejudice) next film, The Soloist, based on the true story of Nathaniel Ayer (Foxx), a virtuoso violinist and homeless schizophrenic who develops a friendship with an LA Times columnist, Steve Lopez (Downey Jr.). (Guardian) [imdb]
Clips from 3:10 to Yuma.
Dennis Lim profiles Lust, Caution and talks with its director Ang Lee:
“‘Brokeback’ is about a lost paradise, an Eden,” Mr. Lee said this month, taking a break from a final sound-mixing session in Manhattan. “But this one - it’s down in the cave, a scary place. It’s more like hell.”
Movie Marketing Madness spells out what the NC-17 rating in the U.S. means for Lust, Caution.
Heroes season 2 spoilers here and here.
Peter Bergergal at The Boston Globe looks at steampunk:
'In their embrace of the toothy cog and the sooty pipe, this guild of steampunk hackers represents a rebellion of sorts against our iPhone moment. It's a time of technological wonders: flat-panel TVs you can hang like paintings; forms of instant communication to almost anywhere in the world; and phones no bigger than a wallet that play music and help you find your way in a forest. But in all this new technology there is nothing lasting to appreciate: Each new version is obsolescent the moment it appears, and all of it is literally superficial, with its innovations hidden in silicon chips behind hard plastic.'
David M. Halbfinger on Neil Jordan's The Brave One, James Wan's Death Sentence, and the return of the revenge movie:
“The reason I wanted to do it was because of the kind of nameless fears people in Western society have at the moment,” [Neil] Jordan said in a phone interview from Dublin. “If I was tapping into anything, I was tapping into that. I see a lot of films attempting to deal with the political situation - the Iraq war, or the post-9/11 sensibility - in terms of ways dealt with in the 1970s. And to me the paradigm doesn’t work. And I think it’s because people at the moment in the West are afraid of the very structure of their society falling to pieces. They’re afraid, and they don’t know why.”