Haven’t seen yet but want to very much! I dont miss any new version of this marvilous novels about Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson.
Director:Guy Ritchie
Writers (WGA):Michael Robert Johnson (screenplay) and
Anthony Peckham (screenplay)
Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 film in which important elements, including the protagonists Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, are borrowed from the well-known stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. The film was directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey and Dan Lin. The screenplay by Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham and Simon Kinberg was developed from a story by Lionel Wigram and Michael Robert Johnson. Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law portray Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, respectively.
Date:25 December 2009
“Idiots and Angels” is Bill Plympton’s latest feature film, a dark comedy about a man’s battle for his soul. Featuring the music of Tom Waits, Moby and Pink Martini, it’s a much darker and more mysterious film than his previous comedies.
Plympton’s life-long fascination with animation led to the eventual genesis of “J. Lyle”. “Making ‘The Tune’, I had a lot of ideas I realized wouldn’t work with animation, but would be lots of fun with real people! I took those ideas and made ‘J. Lyle’. Besides, my hand needed a rest after drawing ‘The Tune’. Live action is so much quicker. I was working on ‘The Tune’ for about two years and now I’m done with ‘J. Lyle’ after less than a year!” Like “The Tune”, “J. Lyle” has been financed entirely by the animator himself.
Plympton’s second live-action feature,”Guns On the Clackamas”, a behind-the-scenes look at an imaginary disastrous Western, was shot in Oregon and New York. Plympton says the idea came from the 1937 movie “Saratoga”, in which star Jean Harlow died during the filming and a stand-in was used to finish. “It was supposed to be a drama,” says Plympton, “but it ended up being funny. Every time Harlow’s stand-in was in a scene, a box or something blocked the view.”
Plympton has now completed another animated feature, titled “I Married a Strange Person”. It’s a heartwarming story of a newlywed couple on their wedding night. Grant, the husband, starts experiencing strange, supernatural powers and Kerry, his wife, can’t cope. Whenever Grant thinks of something, it becomes reality, yet he doesn’t know where these magical powers come from. Once again Bill Plympton has single-handedly drawn and financed an animated feature extravaganza – only this time it’s for adults and the unpolitically correct. Get ready for the most bizarre animated film of the 90’s!
Plympton’s short films continue to be shown in animation festivals around the world, and he has also released a comic book featuring “The Sleazy Cartoons of Bill Plympton”. “Plymptoons”, a video collection of Bill’s short films, is available in online stores.
Christmas, the time of the pretty decorations , the flowing bright lights, great christmas parties, meetings with friends and wonderful gifts, is coming and I believe to be jolly to all of you. Have you prepared Christmas presents for all of your loved ones already?
If you are still hesitating in your choice Gift Baskets is really great idea that be sure will bring an endless amount of joy and affection to all though it were your family, fiends or co-workers.
New Year Holiday is very special time and I guess no one cant also manage without good music and favorite Christmas movies these great days.
I would like to put here the list of my favorite Christmas movies; I am enjoyed so much to watch them on Video during the Christmas Holiday.
Number one is – White Christmas, of course.
2. Miracle On 34th Street (1947)
3. It’s a wonderful Life (1983)
4. Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer (1964)
5. Santa Claus is Coming to Town (1970)
Situational comedy South Park leads you towards a funny world of jokes, cartoons and satires. Created by Parker and Matt Stone, South Park episodes have attracted millions of fans over last two decades. Its 13th edition is now being broadcasted on Fox. Neatly written shows of South Park episodes are filed with endless witty one-liners, and an incessant collection of politically-incorrect comic situations. This original animated series is a comedy in its true sense and is with persistently off-the-wall story twists and situational comic relief for adults. For loves of oddball humour, South Park is definitely a worth watching.
Toilet comedy is represented in this forceful form in animated series South Park episodes. This type of comedy is low, base, but extremely funny and not to be taken too seriously. Brave creators of this show have “attacked” just about every topic with its irreverent humour including religions, heaven, hell, God, Satan, homosexuality, abortion, politicians, global warming, stem cell research, sport stars, Paris Hilton, Saddam Hussein, missing children, child molesting, gun control. The concept of South Park episodes revolves around the days in the lives of four friends who live in a wacky society filled with characters that were made by the artists in a way that they implicitly portray certain prominent or common members of the American society.
South Park is the longest running situational comedy show of America. If you have missed some of south Park episodes, no need to be half hearted. You can watch them online too. There are scores of websites offering south park episodes for free. They will help you to watch your favourite episodes once again. The best part of these sites is they provide the complete sessions without any cut. One of the best websites to watch south park episodes is comedy central which is providing high quality south park seasons without charging you even a single penny.
Frankly saying the idea of a flying house is not new at all but however it’s attractive for all ages and all the times without exaggeration.
Now I mean the wonderful movie fantasy of a flying house which was born out by director Pete Docter’s when he thought about escaping from life when it becomes too irritating. He has found the means of doing it. Actor and writer Thomas McCarthy started to write the story about Docter and Bob Peterson in 2004. Docter selected an old man for the main character after drawing a picture of a grumpy old man with smiling balloons.
The two men thought an old man was a good idea for a protagonist because they felt their experiences and the way it affects their view of the world was a rich source of humor. Anyway if you haven’t watched yet this fairy movie you should hurry to do so. Up! Movie was released on May 29, 2009 in North America and scheduled for release on October 16, 2009 in the United Kingdom. This is director Pete Docter’s second film, and features the voices of Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Bob Peterson and Jordan Nagai.
The 96-minute film, “The Man Beyond the Bridge” which Goan filmmaker Laxmikant Shetgaonkar made with assistance from the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), has been given the Discovery award by film critics at Toronto Film Festival, voted in the Discovery category.
In a statement, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) said, “The Prize of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI Prize) for Discovery is awarded to Laxmikant Shetgaonkar for ‘The Man Beyond the Bridge.’ ”
“A widowed forest ranger Vinayak develops an intimate relationship with a mentally ill woman, risking becoming an outcast. Director Shetgaonkar, immersed in the culture of the region, tells his tale with grace and attentiveness, taking the villages traditions and beliefs seriously, while casting a jaundiced eye on those who exploit them.”
The jury consisted of Diego Lerer (Argentina), Jan Schulz-Ojala (Germany), Hynek Pallas (Sweden), Kirill Razlogov (Russia), Denis Seguin (Canada) and Jorge Gutman (Canada).
The film critics’ body has been giving this award for the past 18 years.
‘The Man Beyond the Bridge’ was one of the half a dozen Indian films that featured at the 34th annual festival. It was slated in the Discovery category. Set in the Western Ghats, the film is slated for release later this year.
James Cameron has created really unrestrained planet. On it live rhinoceros plant-eating, saber-toothed spider-tigers, rat-monkey-dogs, the predatory plants, enormous trees and still god knows what. And also Na’vi live on a planet of Pandora are four-meter elves with ears and tails which fly on dragons and hunt with the bows and the arrows poisoned by neurotoxin. All it is realized in technology of photorealistic 3D and looks as live.
Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), the marine-veteran with the paralyzed feet, is sent to exploit natural minerals on a planet of Pandora. Pandora is also home to the Na’vi, a sentient humanoid race that is more physically capable than humans, although considered primitive. It will be a story of contact with another’s civilization. Snippy earthlings with rifles have come on a planet on which wise savages live in harmony with the nature. Earthlings use avatars, indistinguishable from present Na’vi, and one of them becomes the bridge between two civilizations.
The budget of a film is 190 million. Cast: Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Zoe Saldana, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel Moore.
Release Date: 17 December 2009.
At last we had a chance to look at the first official images of characters from Alice in Wonderland. Johnny Depp as Mad Hatter , Helena Bonham Carter as Red Queen, Anne Hathaway as White Queen.
“It has been Burton-ized” is how producer Richard Zanuck describes the director’s vision of the Lewis Carroll classic to USA Today’s Susan Wloszczyna
However the most interesting that the edition gives the first synopsis of a film which as it is found out, will be not just the next screen version of the book of Lewis Carroll how a sequel to it.
Alice (Mia Wasikowska ) is already 17 in this story. She attends a party at a Victorian estate only to find she is about to be offered one’s hand and heart in front of crowd she afraid, then the girl who is not suffering, most probable, public statements, run from the party and, following a white rabbit, again gets to the Wonderland , the place she visited in childhood and remembers nothing.
“We finished shooting in December after only 40 days,” Zanuck says. Now the live action is being merged with CG animation and motion-capture creatures, and then transferred into 3-D.
General release the March 5, 2010 .
We are waiting for those fun days when we can see this move on our personal computers.
“The woman is like the earth. She is not that you see on a surface. It is something very deep. Terrible riddle. A chasm. ” – Fanny Ardant.
She doesn’t look like a Frenchwoman; more likely, like an Italian. She became famous, when she was already after thirty. Really Fransua Trufaut has seen and has shown her to public in “The Woman Next Door” (Femme d’a cote) in 1981 and ” Confidentially Yours ” (Vivement dimanche!) in 1984. The passion – powerful, not sophisticated, genuine is the most important characteristic of Fanny Ardant, as an actress and as an individual.
In interview the actress prefers not to speak about her terms with Trufaut, avoiding inquiries: they were together until his death in 1984. Trufaut became the father of her second daughter Josephine. For two of them, Ardant and Trufaut, the freedom was above all. They have agreed that will not live together though their houses were absolutely nearby. “I adore the big families, but for me the love should remain something without a ring on a finger. I love the big houses, but not married couples.”
She never was married. She is 60 now and looks on 40 and still is not afraid to love. She always played strong and beautiful women. She is an actress of many venerable European directors: Patrice Leconte, Claude Lelouch, Ettore Scola.
She calls herself a fatalist. Considers that all is predetermined, therefore there is no sense to solve something or to struggle for something: “For me the life is a station. You get on a train and do not know, where it will bring you – to Timbuktu or to Lyons. That’s life… Magnificent passivity.”
Filmography
Les chiens (1979)
Les Uns et les Autres (1981)
The Woman Next Door (1981)
Desiderio (1983)
Confidentially Yours (1983)
Benvenuta by André Delvaux (1983)
L’amour à mort (1984)
Swann in Love (1984)
Next Summer (1986)
Mélo
Conseil De Famille (1986)
La Famiglia (The Family) (1987)
Love and Fear (1988)
Afraid of the Dark (1991)
Colonel Chabert (1994)
Sabrina (1995)
Beyond the Clouds (1995)
Désiré (1996)
Pédale douce (1996)
Ridicule (1996)
La cena (1998)
Elizabeth (1998)
Augustin, roi du Kung-fu (1999) – Herself
La débandade (1999)
Balzac: A Life of Passion (1999)
Le fils du français (1999)
Change moi ma vie (2001)
Le Libertin (2001)
No News from God (Sin noticias de Dios) (2002)
8 Women (2002)
Callas Forever (2002)
Nathalie… (2003)
L’Odeur du sang (2004)
El Año del diluvio (2004)
Emeth (2006)
Paris, je t’aime (2006)
La chambre d’ami (2006)
Bord Cadre (2006)
Le Beau Monde (2006)
Roman de gare (2007)
L’Ora di Punta (2007)
Hello Goodbye (2008)
Il Divo (2008)
The Secrets (2009)
Ashes and Blood (2009)
1997 César Awards Best Actress Pédale douce Won
1982 César Awards Best Actress The Woman Next Door (La Femme d’à côté) Nominated
1984 César Awards Best Actress Confidentially Yours (Vivement dimanche!) Nominated
2002 César Awards Best Actress 8 Women (8 Femmes)) Nominated
1993 Molière Awards Best Actress L’Aide-mémoire Nominated
1997 Molière Awards Best Actress Master Class Nominated
There are only three days for U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko (Kate Beckinsale) on catching the first in the history of Antarctica serial murderer before the continent will be covered with polar night for half a year. Warner Bros. released a trailer to the Arctic thriller Whiteout.
Whiteout is a 2008 film adapted from a 4-issue comic-book miniseries written by Greg Rucka with art by Steve Lieber, published by Oni Press in 1998. The story was collected as a graphic novel in 2001.
The finally release Whiteout in theaters on September 11th.
