I’m a sucker for long tracking shots. Orsen Wells, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scrosese, Brian DePalma, Paul Thomas Anderson, and most recently Alfanso Cuaron had a few all-in-one tracking shots in last year’s Children of Men. One of the big buzz talking points at the Toronto Film Festival was a five minute sequence from Joe Wright’s Atonement. Even people who didn’t love the film were talking about this one shot.
Our friends at Mad About Movies have pointed us to PVC-1, a film which premiered at Cannes. The movie tells the story of a Colombian woman who is taken hostage and turned into a ticking time bomb, all in one 85 minute [...]

The Weinstein Co has finally released the theatrical trailer for Michael Moore’s new controversial documentary Sicko. The trailer seems to focus mostly on the horrifying stories of the real people who have been screwed by the profit motivated American healthcare industry. Everyone who has seen the film so far has said that these segments are sometimes heartbreakingly emotional. We also get to see Moore in a boat trying to bring 9/11 rescue workers with respiratory problems to the only American occupied place with free healthcare, Guantanamo Bay. Check it out after the jump.

Michael Moore’s new film attacking the American Heath-care system has premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to rave reviews (heck, even Fox News loved it). Cinematical has posted two new theatrical posters from the film, as seen above. Click on them to see a higher resolution version. I love the film’s new tagline (”Get Well Soon”). For those who are interested, Salon.com has a great article on the film and Moore’s Cannes press conference. Variety is also running a piece that has a quote from Moore commenting on his critics’ relentless attacks:
“People say I’m the propagandist, but I’m the one voice marching against the lies that are put on the [...]

On Saturday, we posted the movie trailer for James Gray’s New York City-based Russian mob story We Own The Night. We noted that the film showed promise, and went as far as comparing it to Martin Scorsese’s The Departed. Well, apparently the film takes place in the last millennium, because the film’s theatrical poster (via: IMPA) shows the movie’s stars, Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes and Robert Duvall with the Twin Towers and the New York City skyline in the background. Obviously the Twin Towers have appeared in movie marketing since 9/11, but as far as I know, only in 9/11 related films and documentaries (World Trade Center, United [...]

Speed director Jan de Bont has been shopping his latest film at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Stopping Power (a colloquial and euphemistic term used to describe the ability of a particular weapon to stop the actions of an individual by means of penetrating ballistic injury) stars John Cusack as an American tourist whose daughter is kidnapped. Variety describes the film as:
“An average dad who just happens to be an experienced test pilot, he engages in a cat and mouse hunt for his daughter, and the pic culminates in a 51-minute, real-time chase involving cars, helicopters and jets.”
A 51-minute chase sequence? That sounds intense. So far the $50 million [...]

Are you an early adopter? I bought my first DVD player for like $400. I’m that guy. But I’m not just an early adopter when it comes to technology. I also take the same philosophy with writers, directors and actors/actresses. And one of the actresses we’ve been watching for a couple years now (ever since seeing her in the midnight showing of Hard Candy at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival). But you probably know Ellen Page as Kitty Pride from X-Men: The Last Stand. She was also in An American Crime which we saw at this year’s Sundance, but we’re still trying to forget about it. But one thing is [...]

What if The Departed took-place in New York Cit, followed the inner workings of the Russian mob and instead involved two brothers? It would probably look a lot like We Own The Night. It probably helps that the film also stars our favorite foul-mouthed Boston cop Dignam. And that’s actually not an insult but a compliment. The Departed was the best movie of last year, and this looks like it could be close to that level (well, you never know from just a trailer).
The film is written and directed by James Gray (Little Odessa, The Yards) and premieres at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Robert Duvall, [...]

The first press screening of Michael Moore’s new documentary Sicko has taken place at the Cannes Film Festival. So before I go to bed, I thought I’d take a look at the early response, considering this is by far the biggest buzz film of this year’s festival. And the preliminary response is extremely positive. How positive? Fox News is even praising it. You read that correctly. The conservative television news network calls the documentary “brilliant and uplifting”. Let’s take a look at the coverage around the web thus far:

I know we’ve been doing a lot of Michael Moore coverage this week, but again, his movie is about to premiere at Cannes (this JUST IN: First Reaction: Michael Moore’s Sicko is “brilliant and uplifting”). A lot of people have negative feelings for the political documentary filmmaker. I thought I’d share this story I found in the NY Daily News.
Fans and detractors of Moore know the most popular anti-Michael Moore website on the internet is a site called MooreWatch. The website’s tagline is “Watching Moore’s Every Move”. Webmaster Jim Kenefick recently wrote about the difficulty he was having paying his wife’s medical bills. His conservative readership guided him to a [...]

Samuel L. Jackson is in talks to star as a mysterious super-villain named The Octopus in Frank Miller’s big screen adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit.
The story will focus  an ambitious young cop named Denny Colt, who is murdered in the line of duty and is mysteriously reborn as the masked man known as the Spirit. The Spirit’s nemesis is named the Octopus, a meek lab assistant who becomes psychotic and kills anyone that sees his face. He plans to wipe out all of Central City. Miller announced at the Cannes Film Festival that Jackson is his number one choice for this role. Casting The Spirit may take a while [...]

If you’ve watched the news this past week then you’ve probably heard something about the US Investigation into Michael Moore’s trip to Cuba. It’s been a hot topic of conversation, in most part because his new film i question will debut at the Cannes Film Festival this week. The following e-mail was sent from Michael Moore to his mailing list (which I am proudly part of). I thought you might be interested in hearing about the situation involving the film from the filmmaker himself. Check it out after the jump.

300 star Gerard Butler has signed on to join Nicolas Cage in the Brian De Palma prequel to The Untouchables. Variety reports that Butler made a brief appearance at the Cannes Film Festival to announce the news and say how “unbelievable” the script was.

The Cannes Film Festival is revving up, and promotion has begun on Wong Kar Wai’s debut English language film, My Blueberry Nights. Yesterday we posted a new set of production photos. Today we have the theatrical teaser trailer. Alas, no Natalie Portman or Rachel Weisz footage to be found. But it’s worth the peep none the less. There is a lot of buzz around this film at the festival leading up to it’s premiere.

I’ve just recently become addicted to HBO’s hit show Entourage. Word has begun to spread that HBO will be filming some scenes for a future episode of the series later this week on the Croisette. So why are the guys at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival?
My best guess is that the fictional movie within the show, Medellin, a Pablo Escobar epic penned by Paul Haggis, has either gotten into the festival or is in the film market (a section of the festival devoted to the sales of indie films). We discovered in the last episode that the boys were going to produce the film independently. It will be interesting [...]

Last month we gave you a first look at a trashy looking Natalie Portman in My Blueberry Nights. With the film set to make it’s premeire at the Cannes Film Festival, we have been provided with a few more production photos. Check out the new photos after the jump. As always, left click to enlarge.