Four time Oscar winner Clint Eastwood shines in the first trailer for Robert Lorenz’s Trouble with the Curve. I have to admit I’ve been  somewhat skeptical of another nomination coming for Eastwood’s performance, which would be his third for acting – his first since Million Dollar Baby (2004), but after seeing the trailer I’m liking his odds a whole lot more. Trouble with the Curve looks to be more than just another sports film, as the trailer hints at it also being both a romantic/comedy (between Amy Adams and Justin Timberlake) and a father/daughter family drama. There seems to be a whole lot of emotion (that I wasn’t expecting) coming from this little trailer, and it looks as if we have another film to start getting excited about. Eastwood plays an aging scout suffering from vision problems whose daughter (Adams) tags along on a long road trip to act as his eyes while he does his thing, a skill based on years of intuition and gut instinct. Trouble with the Curve also stars John Goodman and Robert Patrick, and will hit theatres September 28th.
What do you think?
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 I love the films of Clint Eastwood.
Well most of them.
In my book, Clint Eastwood: Evolution of a Filmmaker, I state, had anyone ever told me in the seventies that one day Eastwood would be among the great directors in film history, a two-time Academy Award winner for Best Director, I think I would have laughed in their face. At that time he was thought of very much as a movie star, an actor of limited ability, and an actor who had an interest in directing. By 1976 that interest in directing had led him to helm the thriller Play Misty for Me (1971), the strange little romance Breezy (1973) and the outstanding western, The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) which Orson Welles called a magnificent film and chastised audiences and critics for not noticing Eastwood’s gifts as a director. Eastwood continued making films, Bronco Billy (1980), Honky Tonk Man (1982), personal films that were a trade-off for doing yet another Dirty Harry film or something the studio wanted him to do. Knowing the success of those studio financed his little films, he did them without argument, allowing himself the freedom to make his own films unwithered by studio brass. His movies came in on time and under budget, so the studio had no reason to complain. It would be another twelve years before the critics and audiences really sat up and took notice. Read more on On the Oscar Chances for Clint Eastwood…
A few new stills have arrived from David Cronenberg’s (Eastern Promises) upcoming film, Cosmopolis. Cosmopolis is a a contemporary thriller that stars Robert Pattinson (as a 28-year old financial whiz kid and billionaire having a really bad day), Paul Giamatti, Juliette Binoche, Sarah Gadon, Samantha Morton, Kevin Durand and Mathieu Amalric, and hits theatres August 17th.
Have a look at the new pics after the jump…
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 If that sneaky on set glance at Daniel Day-Lewis walking with Steven Spielberg that’s been going around for a while isn’t enough for you, well today is your lucky day my friend. Entertainment Weekly has debuted the first true image of DDL playing the title role in ‘Lincoln’, and it’s a nice big picture that really hits home how transformative the man can be. You can see the full image after the jump, and I’m pretty sure you’ll be impressed. Stay tuned for a potential Trailer in the coming weeks, but for now this first look will have to do. You can check it out in all of its glory below…
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 Julie Delpy has a low-key charmer here in the comedy of manners ’2 Days in New York’. A sequel to ’2 Days in Paris’, Delpy has substituted her relationship with Adam Goldberg for a new one with Chris Rock, and the results are just as entertaining as they were last time (and perhaps a little bit more satisfying here). Delpy’s work behind the camera and in front of it deserve commendation, but for me the highlight of the film is Rock’s quietly exasperated performance. In many ways, he’s playing the Woody Allen role here (in fact, one can argue that Delpy does too), and it makes me wish that Allen casts him in a lead role real soon. In fact, Delpy’s made the movie very much like the Wood man, and that’s not an accident (it’s also got a French-ness to it, which also goes along with Allen’s work). While not on the level of his finest work, this does have the same sort of mellow appeal that his more second tier efforts have, and I mean that as a compliment. Watching Delpy and Rock deal with her character’s intrusive family that’s on vacation for a few days in the Big Apple creates a lot of opportunities for humor. The film doesn’t always hit its mark, but it does so more often than not and that makes it easy to like. The movie is opening this Friday, and I have no problem recommending it to you in this Earl Review. It deserves your time…
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 This week we’re beginning to get back into the swing of quality Blu-Ray and DVD releases here in the column. It’s still not the most amazing assortment of titles (a true return to form comes next week), but it’s far better than we’ve gotten these past few weeks, so I’m very pleased, as I’m sure you all are too. For this week’s top choice, I’ll admit to not really having too much of a choice in what to make my PICK OF THE WEEK due to only one flick really speaking to me in any real way, but I’m very pleased with my selection nonetheless. The film in question is actually one of the few documentaries that I’ve cited this highly so far in the column during 2012. Curious what it is this time around? Well, it’s: Read more on Joey’s DVD Picks of the Week (8/7/2012)…
An article in a Chicago newspaper states The Master will play at both Venice and TIFF before the film opens in early September, though neither festival officials, or anyone at Weinstein will comment.
Director/writer Paul Thomas Anderson has been to TIFF before with Boogie Nights (1997) as a work in progress, which still knocked critics out, and Punch Drunk Love (2002) which also drew a strong response. Read more on The Master could play at TIFF?…
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 I enjoyed ‘HappyThankYouMorePlease’ just fine when I first saw it, but a few revisits of the flick has made me warm up to the movie even more. Writer/director/star Josh Radnor is an emerging talent (especially behind the camera), and he looks to be clearly headed in the right direction with his next film ‘Liberal Arts’. After the jump you can see the first trailer for the movie, and it seems like a real crowd pleaser to me. He’s costarring with the likes of Elizabeth Olsen, Richard Jenkins, and Allison Janney, which is never a bad thing. Take a gander below and see what you think…
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