I Wouldn’t Link to This
Except that I love Cate Blanchett that much:
And while I’m linking to previews, how gorgeous is this (and then there’s the stuff that isn’t Gong Li):
And although I thought the teaser was all that was needed, this trailer is just incredible, and still sends shivers up my spine:
And if this doesn’t have the world’s coolest poster, I dunno what does (and besides, it’s by the Director of Run Lola Run
And then there’s this. A theme this evening is the Harry Potterization of movies. Movies have sucked for nigh three years now but now they’re surging back and damn if they don’t all have that Harry Potter element:
And then there’s the material on the new James Bond. But I refuse to watch any of it. I’m saving myself, you see.
October 22nd, 2006 at 3:28 am
I have long been impressed by Guillermo del Toro, the director of Pan´s Labyrinth. He is unpretentious, really seems to love the fantasy genre and does not need 200 million to make a good looking movie. His “American” movies such as Hellboy and Mimic are classy genre B-movies of the sort that Hollywood ought to produce every other week, but for some reason cannot.
October 22nd, 2006 at 9:54 am
Yeah this looks really really good. I saw Hellboy but I don’t think I saw any of his other stuff. But some of the trailer looks like Labyrinth (with David Bowie?) but without the 80s.
October 23rd, 2006 at 2:52 am
Mimic was good - superior B-grade SciFi, and it has Mira Sorvino. I’ll keep an eye out for the other two, which I haven’t seen.
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:10 am
On the subject of Harry Potter, I wnet past the sign for Platform 9 3/4 at King’s Cross last week, and I gave it a wave on behalf of ninme’s Potterheads. Though since I was running for the train I didn’t linger.
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:52 am
Do they still have platform passes for the hoards of train-spotting schoolboys, or have security concerns killed that? I wonder what they do now?
October 23rd, 2006 at 5:29 am
I was running (OK then, jogging meaningfully) and I didn’t notice any barriers so no passes would be needed. You just stand around inhaling particulates from the diesels - though King’s Cross trains are now I think of it pretty well all electric now, I rather think.
I think trainspotting’s too basic an urge for kids to just abandon it, security or no.
October 23rd, 2006 at 10:02 am
And yet it isn’t done here. Why is that? Discuss.
October 24th, 2006 at 4:54 am
It is odd, most train buffs in the US watch but don’t collect.
October 24th, 2006 at 9:17 am
Well in the US they’re into models.