I figured they would have stopped making movies altogether after The Simpsons, but these trailers prove otherwise.
Goya's Ghosts - Milos Forman's new film (first Courtney Love, now Natalie Portman. when is he gonna learn?)
Lust, Caution - Ang Lee's new film starring Tony Leung
The Darjeeling Limited - Wes Anderson
No Country for Old Men - The Coen Brothers
King of Kong – documentary from Seth Gordon
The Boss of it All – a comedy by Lars von Trier
Margot at the Wedding – Noah Baumbach's new film
There Will Be Blood – P.T. Anderson does Days of Heaven
Day Night Day Night - another film (see Paradise Now) about a suicide bomber's last days
2 Days in Paris - another film about Paris
No End In Sight - another film about the U.S.' failed "strategy" in Iraq
This Is England - another film about English skinheads who take in a kid who doesn't fit in anywhere else
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I'm glad the name "Francisco" is not in the title of Goya's Ghosts. Gotta stink up the name if that happens. Hopefully it won't be too bad. From the trailer, I think Javier Bardem worries me more than Natalie Portman.
Lars Von Trier proves to be the evil genius of filmmaking.
I really look forward to see King Of Kong. Donkey Kong was the first video game I ever owned.
I saw Goya's Ghosts last night, and I must say I was pleasantly surprised. It may have been one of those instances where I had such low expectations (especially for the acting) that I left thinking it was better than it actually was, but the overall film was better, in my opinion, than Milos Forman's last two films (which isn't saying much, I guess).
The last 30 minutes were a mess and there were quite a few things in the film that were unnecessary - at the expense of some things that probably should have been there.
One thing that was missing was Forman's usual blurred line between good and bad, where he makes you care about a character who is not necessarily likeable or honorable. I think he tried to acheive this with Javier Bardem's character, Brother Lorenzo, but spent too much time developing different sub-plots to make the audience really empathize with him - which makes the ending a little problematic.
The overall message of the film is definitely relevant today, and I feel the film could have been much worse had someone else directed it. It also could have been quite a bit better.
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