Summer Film Preview
JUNE 24
My Sister's Keeper (Nick Cassavetes)
John's son is a great director of actors, so it should be fun to see
what Alec Baldwin and Jason Patric do for him here. On the other hand,
John's son's movies are otherwise terrible, so this shouldn't be any
fun at all.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Michael Bay)
Even though the writers of Star Trek (and Fringe!) are
behind this, let's not kid ourselves. "Michael Bay" is practically in
the dictionary, and we all know what it means.
JUNE 26
The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
The toughest female director in Hollywood tackles Iraq. Expect a
box-office hit, because if there are two things America loves, it's
strong women and movies about Iraq.
Surveillance (Jennifer Lynch)
David's daughter, notorious author of The Secret Diary of Laura
Palmer, directs her first film since Boxing Helena. Word on
the blogosphere is "meh."
JULY 1
The Beaches of Agnès (Agnès Varda)
If your grandmother had a flickr page, and also happened to be
Jacques Demy's widow, and also once dressed up like a potato at the
Venice Biennale... her flickr page still wouldn't be quite as goofily
moving as Varda's cineautobiography. Sorry. Man, we wish Agnès
Varda was our grandmother.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Carlos Saldanha, Mike Thurmeier)
The third installment of Dreamworks' franchise will be in 3D, so
we're sure you'll get to see that squirrel go crazy trying to hang onto
his acorn, except this time he'll pop out into your face or something.
Get your wallet out!
Public Enemies (Michael Mann)
Johnny Depp, as John Dillinger, and Christian Bale, as G-Man Melvin
Purvis, face off in Mannworld, a bright-dark place of masculine codes
and epic showdowns. Will this movie feature a totally anachronistic
throbbing synthesizer score like Last of the Mohicans did? God,
we hope so so hard.
JULY 10
Bruno (Larry Charles)
In 2006, Sacha Baron Cohen taught us that Americans were racist.
This time, we think he's going to teach us that we're homophobic. Thank
you, sir! May we have another?
Humpday (Lynn Shelton)
Bromance? Mumblecore? Mark Duplass? We like some of those
things.
I Love You, Beth Cooper (Chris Columbus)
Chris Stepmom Columbus? Pass. Wait, the screenplay is by a
Simpsons writer? Eh, still pass. (My Life in Ruins is by
a former Simpsons writer, too.)
Soul Power (Jeffrey Levy-Hinte)
Did you know the Rumble in the Jungle had an accompanying concert?
If you saw When We Were Kings, you did. And will want to see
this concert doc.
JULY 15
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (David Yates)
If this isn't about vampires, what do we care?
Somers Town (Shane Meadows)
This is England director Meadows returns with another
carefully realized study of working class Brits falling in love and
butchering the King's English.
JULY 17
500 Days of Summer (Marc Webb)
Remember after Mysterious Skin, Brick and The Lookout,
when everyone was all like, "Ooh Joseph Gordon-Levitt is so effin
talented", and then he hasn't taken an interesting role since? Maybe
this will be the one that makes us say, "Oh yeah, remember how effin
talented JGL is?" Or maybe it'll be his turn as Cobra Commander in the
upcoming G.I. Joe movie.
JULY 24
All Good Things (Andrew Jarecki)
The arguably opportunistic director of Capturing the
Friedmans comes back with a fictional small-town mystery. We're not
sure how we feel about that, but we're happy that Ryan Gosling, Frank
Langella and Philip Baker Hall are in it.
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