New Movies You're Looking Forward To

[Ian]

Is that the sequel already?!

[fish]

Yep.

The Girl Who Played With Fire is the second of the trilogy.

My guess is that the third, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, is also not that far from release. In fact I just found a German copy on Amazon here, http://www.amazon.com/Kicked-Hornets-Luftslottet-sprangdes-Swedish/dp/B0033HWZS2?tag=dogpile-20, but it doesn't have English subs.

[Ian]

Wow. Have they all already been released at the cinema in Sweden, then? I didn't realise we were that far behind!

[fish]

In fairness to distributors around the world, I think all three were released within 2009 and dvd's also released without much delay. Maybe they just wanted to get it all out there quickly to avoid a clash with the US remake.

(That may also contribute to the lack of dvd's with English subtitles, but then that's only a conspiracy theory I have. )

[triddy]

Actually, the films were originally made for television, if I remember correctly only the first one, the one you call the dragon tattoo, was intended to be shown in cinemas and stuff. But then it turned out to be hugely popular, so they quickly decided to throw all of them out there. They premiered only a few months after eachother, and the dvd's came really quickly aswell.

Personally, I hate them - the first one was ok, but I turned off the second one after 20 minutes . I am never going to blame hollywood for showing pointless violence again, because the swedes are now the ones who have perfected that art...

[Ian]

lol Wow. I didn't realise they'd all been done.

I don't mind a bit of pointless violence.

[fish]

I don't mind a bit of pointless violence.

I can accept it if it's essential to the story, (ie. it has a point).

There are a number of "confronting" scenes in Dragon but I think they are essential in understanding exactly why Lisbeth is the person she is. Obviously i haven't seen the other two films yet so I can't comment on them, but I would like to think they follow the same example. At least I hope they do.

[fish]

I've decided I want to buy "Metropia" which I think is released on dvd in May.

Metropia
Remember those weird looking heads behind Alexandra and Theo?


It's in the middle section of this clip, right before Alex talks about Beyond The Night.
http://www.dualzone.com/Program-2-Swedish-Directors__Ww92neQkXPo.html

Here's the cover,


and the link to its page on Wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropia_(film)

and a Youtube clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDeQWv9_Ef0


Has anyone, (aside from Alex and Theo), seen it?
Any reports/reviews?

[Rebecka Fan]

Hot Tub Time Machine.

[Ian]

Any good, Kyle?

Sounds strange, fishy!

[Ian]

I'm quite keen on the notion of "Pride and Prejudice With Zombies". It sounds just demented enough to be a lot of fun. Plus, y'know... Natalie Portman.

[fish]

..."Pride and Prejudice With Zombies"...

And I thought you were kidding.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1374989/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzowFJTApfY



(Loved P & P with Keira as Elizabeth. )

[Ian]

It sounds like it could be fun. "Cowboys and Aliens" could be equally bonkers too (aliens attack the Wild West, with Harrison Ford!)

Well at least they sound a bit DIFFERENT.

Kick-Ass sounds like it's fun, I may even be moved to go the cinema in the next couple of weeks. It's outraged the narrowminded, which is always a good sign.

[fish]

Can't wait for this to come out.

"Our Day Will Come". (Notre jour viendra)
Release date 15th Sept 2010 in France.



Synopsis:
Redheaded teen Rémy (Olivier Barthélémy) is bullied by his soccer teammates and drawn into fights with his younger sister and mother in their cramped apartment. After a flare-up of domestic violence, he flees home and is tracked down by a bitter guidance counsellor, Patrick (Vincent Cassel), also a redhead. Patrick looks upon Rémy’s sullen insolence with both sympathy and disdain and decides to toughen him up. The two redheads realize that they are out of place in twenty-first century France. They have no country, no people and no army. Together they plot to take on the world in a hallucinatory quest for a land of imagined freedom.

The past months have seen the name Romain Gavras (son of Costa-Gavras the acclaimed director of Z and Missing) inserted into cinema’s hipster lexicon with the controversial and provocative music video “Born Free” by the outspoken and politically charged singer M.I.A., in which redheads are persecuted by the military.

Now with this highly anticipated feature debut, Gavras has proven he is able to effectively break out from the short form. Using the abstract notion of a tribe based on hair pigment, he examines the politics of race and class in an Old World country desperately clinging to its traditional way of life.

Cassel’s guidance counsellor is played with seething arrogance as he forces Rémy into outlandish situations, like having him imitate a Russian boxer in order to get a date with a teenaged girl. Much of Gavras’s ease with the two actors comes from their past involvement with Kourtrajamé, the Parisian art and filmmaking collective that he founded with Kim Chapiron (director of the gonzo horror film Sheitan, also starring Cassel and Barthélémy).

In Notre jour viendra, Gavras crafts a hypnotic road trip through a world of pompous morality, and sets the story against an ugly backdrop of factory towns. It makes for gritty and provocative filmmaking that will haunt you long after you’ve left the theatre. –TIFF.net

http://mubi.com/films/32284

This is the French film in which Alex has a small role as an English girl.

Redheads against the world, eh?
I know who's going to win that fight.
Just remember when you take over the world Snaps, I was on your side.

[snaps]

A very rare photographic treat in response. Gingers Rule OK!! We may be hot but we are also subtle and spicey The Rules are: We Win! Let your imagination run loose. Make your own film inside your head Definately a triple strength Kleenex one. Err ... for mopping up all those tears of course!