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Movie Trailer - 'New York, I Love You'

25 August 2008 10:21 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

Anthology films usually attract more people to be in their casts than in their audiences. For some reason, whether it's the lack of one linear storyline or whatever, movies like Four Rooms and Coffee and Cigarettes routinely star some of the world's best talent and recruit some of its best directors (although Coffee and Cigarettes was directly entirely by Jim Jarmusch).

Paris Je t'aime was released in 2006 as a love song to Paris, and included segments directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, Tom Tykwer, Walter Salles, Gus Van Sant, and Wes Craven, among many others. That film inspired the follow-up New York, I Love You, which you can't really call a sequel, but it's not a continuation of the storyline. It's kind of an American reimagining, if I can use my least favorite movie term.

I kind of wish this film featured the work of the Paris directors, frankly, although

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Colin Boyd

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Interview: Steve Coogan on 'Hamlet 2'

22 August 2008 3:03 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Filed under: Comedy, Interviews, Cinematical Indie

Steve Coogan, 42, is perhaps best known for his TV persona, the part-arrogant, part-clueless sports announcer Alan Partridge. And though Coogan could go on playing him forever, he has instead used his budding American film career to branch out, try different things. His collaborations with "serious" director Michael Winterbottom were a good start; 24 Hour Party People (2002) and Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2006) earned rave reviews here in the States. He appeared opposite big stars such as Jackie Chan (Around the World in 80 Days) and Ben Stiller (Night at the Museum, Tropic Thunder) and answered the call of a handful of cult directors, making small appearances in films by Jim Jarmusch (Coffee and Cigarettes), Sofia Coppola (Marie Antoinette) and Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz).

His name appears alone above the title of his new film, Hamlet 2, in which he plays Dana Marschz, a washed-up

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

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In The Future Wealth Will Be Measured In Mushrooms.  A Trailer For Truffe.

20 July 2008 11:00 AM, PDT | From TwitchFilm.net | See recent Twitch news

In a near and uneasy future, global warming has had an unexpected impact on the city of Montreal. Very suddenly, the ground of the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district has begun sprouting vast quantities of precious, pricey truffles. They are an immediate sensation worldwide with gourmands, bringing prosperity to Montrealers. When a fur-stole factory sets up shop in the neighbourhood, no one doubts that it’s a front for a greedy corporation seeking a monopoly over the valuable truffles. Before long, the earth begins to give up the last of its riches and poverty returns to the working class. The enigmatic company does have one challenger—Charles (Roy Dupuis), an independent truffle-hunter with an exceptional sense of smell, permitting him to make great hauls of truffles. Ready to do anything to block the competition, the company sets in motion furious diabolical plots to undo Charles and his companion Alice (Céline Bonnier). Alone again the powerful organization,

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Todd Brown

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"Any Given Sundance" "Cops And Robert" "Long John Peter" "Office Spaceman"

4 May 2008 9:25 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Tonight’s lineup got me thinking about the use of guest voices in our Fox programs. Generally there are two big warning signs that a celebrity name in the credits presages a cringe-worthy, gimmicky cameo. One, it’s a non-actor, and two, he or she is appearing as themselves. Like every respectable rule, there are of course exceptions, but tonight’s Simpsons pretty much hammered home Koski’s Totally Unsupported, Unresearched Theory Of Animated Guest-Voice Suckitude. Here’s the thing, though: The Jim Jarmusch aspect could have been one of the highlights of this episode, if only Jarmusch hadn’t been involved. Most of his gags were actually quite good (Homer asking him who he was, his fade-out sequence, him yelling at the screen), but his potato-bland delivery, coupled with the none-too-subtle (though admittedly self-deprecating) namedropping, made the whole affair seem obligatory, as if it were written and then...

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2008 | 2005 | 2002 | 1999 | 1997

4 articles from 2008

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