Stumbled across this little clip today and thought it worth posting for several reasons…
1) Naked chicks getting it on.
2) I like Robert Forster
3) The last 5 seconds of the clip intrigues me and gets me to want to see what happens next (much like the hockey puck scene in the surprisingly decent Paul Walker film, “Running Scared.”
4) Kevin Wheatley is in the movie and I got to meet him last year at Toronto After Dark. He’s a super cool guy who wrote, directed and starred in a potentially great movie that unfortunately fell a little flat, Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell (MP review)
Anyway, here’s the clip. Rise (aka Rise: Blood Hunter) will be released on DVD October 9th.
As you know, I’m not a big fan of the horror genre, but the good ones usually relly are pretty good. Hatchet (IMDb) is a film that’s been talked about a lot lately and I’ve heard a lot of good things about (though not from our Cinecast co-host, Kurt, who apparently hated it). Judge for yourself though, as Movieweb has released some exclusive clips of the film and also interviews with some of the cast members (including Robert Englund) and director. I’ll post the clips here, but you can go over to MovieWeb if you’d like to see the interviews as well.
We’ve mentioned this film before, but it bears repeating now that it has screened for some critics. The Bob Dylan biopic, I’m Not There premiered yesterday at the Venice Film Festival and apparently has critics raving. Consider this on my most anticipated list for fall 2007. It’s got Oscar bait written all over it and most inviting for me, is the unorthodox cast of characters to play Dylan at various stages of his life: Bale, Ledger, Gere, Ben Whishaw, Marcus Carl Franklin.
…a black actor in his early teens, Marcus Carl Franklin, plays the musician as he arrives as an unknown in New York at the age of 20, while 57-year-old Richard Gere represents him at the age of 32. Heath Ledger and British actors Christian Bale and Ben Whishaw take on other periods.
Most intriguing to me of the six actors to play Dylan in the film, is the spectacular Cate Blanchet. There is some early Oscar talk already about Blanchett’s performance and of that I have no doubt. The director, Todd Haynes, recently did a press interview, and here are a couple things he had to say via The Guardian:
…the representation of Dylan in the mid-60s was always meant to be played by a woman. “I felt it was the only way to resurrect the true strangeness of Dylan’s physical being in 1966, which I felt had lost its historical shock value over the years.
Cate was scared; she told me many times that this was a very scary challenge for her. It took her a long time to commit to it … I told her it’s good to be terrified, that you’re taking a risk and sometimes that’s really when the surprises happen. I guess it at least convinced her to give it a shot.”
The film mixes black-and-white footage with colour sequences and real news footage of American protests in the 1960s and scenes from the Vietnam war. Richard Gere (57), who is playing Bob Dylan at age 32, describes the script as “bizarre.” Sign me up! Here’s a clip of Blanchet as Dylan (followed by the teaser trailer in the unwrap link):
Normally I don’t go for these pre- released clips of a movie, as I like to walk into a theater totally fresh. But since I don’t give a wet fart about the plot or story of the Saw franchise anymore, I took a gander at this obviously illegal, online, 5 minute clip of the movie that was shown at comic-con a couple weeks back. Because I’m a sick little boy, I just like to see the individual kill scenes in the movies, so I had no problem watching this one. Sorry if this is old news, but I thought you might think it’s worth a look.
this clip has obviously not passed post production yet, but you get the idea.
As always, I never watch these things before I see the movie because I like to go in fresh, but the interview ones are cool. The first is my boy Paul Giamatti (he likes it when I call him “G thang”) talking about his character and the weapons he gets to use and more. The rest are more interviews from the other stars (Belucci and Owen) and the director and a few clips from the movie.
Can’t wait for the film which opens wide release on September 7th. See you at the theater!
Thanks to movieweb for the embeddable code.
As Kurt and I discuss in this week’s Cinecast, The Invasion is out next week and all of the previous versions of this film are now out on DVD. The Invasion of the Body Snatchers is one of those stories that can be told and retold every 15 to 20 years and its exciting everytime.
Anyway, thanks to MovieWeb, there are six small clips of the newest incarnation starring Nicole Kidman. I don’t like to watch these clips that get released (I like to go into the movie completely fresh) so I haven’t seen any of these. But anyone who is interested, take a look and feel free to leave your thoughts in the comment section.
Here’s a great zombie short to whet the appetite of any zombie film whores out there (like me). I can never get enough: good, bad, short, long - anything zombie is good. Well, thanks to Twitch, here’s a little Italian Zombie short film that is available through YouTube in three parts. There’s almost no dialogue (I wish I knew Italian and could understand the radio broadcast). I’ve only watched the first part so far; but I like it. Here’s part 1:
If you can read Italian, here’s the main page over at splattercontainer.com with the streaming video in its three parts as well as a couple of streaming behind the scenes videos and also what appears to be some sort of interview with someone involved with the making of the film (probably the director).
You can see part two and three by reading the rest of this story…
Check out this clip from the upcoming film, Captivity, starring Elisha Cuthbert. Remember before clicking over that the title of this post is “particularly nasty.” That might be a bit of an understatement:
