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There’s a trailer out for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. At the moment it only seems to be available in Spanish, but I’ll update as soon as I find one in English, which I assume would be soon. In the meantime, I don’t mind watching and listening to this trailer because I could sit and listen to people speaking in Spanish all day long. *swoon*
I’ve been very curious (no pun intended!) about this movie ever since I heard the premise. I really look forward to seeing it, what do you think?
(Thanks to everyone who alerted me to this video!)
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832 days ago
YES! Shiloh is in the trailer in the movie theater. If you remember the pictures of Shiloh with Brad on the set (I think in a pink sweater) then you will recognize her right away.
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831 days ago
Thanks Sherry for the clip. I don’t need to know Spanish to see Brad Pitt (pardon my drool) body. I agree with who ever it was who said BP’s walk being unmistakable. It’s so true. I love every thing about his acting. He is pretty eye candy but his acting is right up there with the Pacino’s, Hackman, De Niro’s etc. I thought some of his best acting was in Babel. I bawled like a baby during the phone call w/his kids.
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831 days ago
Angie on Going for the Gold
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080524/ap_en_mo/film_cannes_festival_competition;_ylt=AooJE2vFx7xT5cHaOoeudiymG78C
Eastwood’s missing-child drama “Changeling” was among 22 movies in the running for the top honor, the Palme d’Or, on Sunday at the 61st Cannes Film Festival.
“Changeling” earned high marks from critics, who raved about Angelina Jolie’s performance.
While such well-known figures as Penn, Helen Mirren and Holly Hunter have won best-acting honors at Cannes, the festival often singles out up-and-coming performers, such as 2007 best-actress winner Do-Yeon Jeon for the South Korean film “Secret Sunshine.”
Jolie, a supporting-actress Oscar winner for “Girl, Interrupted,” said she’s happy to see lesser-known performers take Cannes honors. “If that happens and it goes to somebody that it boosts their career, that’s great,” Jolie said. “Winning is not the important thing. It’s fun to be here with something we are actually very proud of.”
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831 days ago
under mod: Angie on Going for the Gold in Cannes
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831 days ago
I love Angie’s talent being validated, don’t you?
http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2008/05/cannes-compet-1.html?cid=116171816#comment-116171816
Jolie’s performance as Collins is one of her best in years; no doubt channelling some fierce maternal instinct but at the same time dialing things down quite a bit, she very nearly transcends her somewhat otherworldly physical appearance and embodies a classic heroine…Amy Ryan is her usual goods-delivering self as an inmate who hips Collins to the loony bin’s secret purpose, and her exchanges with Jolie flesh out the film’s powerful feminist sub-theme…The directorial mastery here culminates in a genuinely wrenching coda set in a police station, which brought real unashamed tears to my eyes.
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831 days ago
Clint says Angie like Bette Davis & Katherine Hepburn (only a couple more reviews):
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/23/arts/dupont.php
“Changeling” is the rare Eastwood film with a heroine. Jolie, as Collins, is as fearless as Hilary Swank was in his “Million Dollar Baby.” In “Girl, Interrupted,” Jolie played a young girl in a mental institute, interned for good reason.
“Of course I saw Angelina in “Girl, Interrupted,” said Eastwood. “She’s a tremendous actress. Sometimes she’s taken for granted because you see her in the tabloids. But she’s terribly smart, like a lot of the actresses of the past – Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn, Susan Hayward – and she’s one of the prettiest women in the world.”
“It was an age when children were seen and not heard. At the dinner table they couldn’t talk; they would be sent to the kitchen so the adults could talk. My father was the first in his family to allow kids – my sister and myself – to participate,” said Eastwood, who was born in 1930.
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831 days ago
if you go see indiana jones new movie, they show the trailer for the curious case of benjamin button, it looks GOOD
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831 days ago
That’s an interesting trailer. When is the movie supposed to be shown in the US? It might take some time before they show it here in the Phils, but then again, these days we get them shown at the same time as other countries, like Indy is showing here now too. Oh well, I can’t wait. Ligaya, thanks for all those links and interviews.
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831 days ago
I’m happy to share them, Isacutie.
Major bummer – tonight hubby & I went to see the trailer & Indy Jones. No trailer! Now I have to call around to see wshere it’s playing.
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831 days ago
6/6/08 KUNG FU PANDA
6/27/08 WANTED
11/7/08 CHANGELING
12/19/08 BENJAMIN BUTTON
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831 days ago
What an exciting time for us fans, yes? Four movies coming up plus the twins. Shiloh plays Cate Blanchett as a baby in the B.Button movie, according to the IMDB website. She’s not listed in the credits on the site but if you dig deeper, the information is there. Mysterious, just like in the movie!
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831 days ago
hi guys have any of you read the story of benjamin button? its a very disturbing little tale and if you want to know the bare bones of it ..its about a baby who is born as a very old man and gets younger as he grows older..its not at all a comedy but very sad as it is hard for his father to accept this elderly man as his child..eventually during his middle age he is the same age as his father and his wife but of course as time goes on they grow old and he grows even younger and eventually he becomes a baby and everyone else is very old..its really an incredibly good story and i have always thought it would make a fabulous film..how excited was i when i heard it was brad starring in it? its going to be amazing and i cant wait..the trailer looks so good.any news on the palme d’or yet ? xx
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831 days ago
From festival’s official website (http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en.html):
61st Festival de Cannes Award to Catherine Deneuve and Clint Eastwood
President Sean Penn awarded a Special Award of this 61st Festival de Cannes to the French actress Catherine Deneuve and director/actor Clint Eastwood.
The Grand Prize was awarded by Roman Polanski to director Matteo Garrone for Gomorrah.
This must be a mistake.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080525/ap_en_mo/film_cannes_awards: French classroom drama wins Cannes’ top prize.
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831 days ago
Under mod: Clint won Special Award, no word on Angelina.
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831 days ago
UPDATE: my mistake, the Grand Prize & Palme d’Or are 2 separate prizes. SPECIAL PRIZE FOR CLINT, ANGELINA & CHANGELING SHUT OUT
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080525/ap_en_mo/film_cannes_awards
French classroom drama wins Cannes’ top prize
By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer 15 minutes ago
CANNES, France (AP) — The French film “The Class,” a frank tale about classroom life using real students and teachers at a junior high school, won top honors Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival. Directed by Laurent Cantet, “The Class” (”Entre les Murs”) was the first French film to win the main prize, the Palme d’Or, at Cannes since “Under Satan’s Sun” in 1987. The docudrama was shot in a raw,
Benicio Del Toro won the best-actor prize for “Che,” Steven Soderbergh’s four-hour-plus epic about Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara. Presented as two films, “Che” follows Guevara and Fidel Castro’s triumphant guerrilla campaign to overthrow Cuba’s government in the late 1950s and Guevara’s downfall and execution after trying to foment a similar rebellion in Bolivia in the 1960s. Del Toro, who co-starred in Penn’s “21 Grams,” also won in a unanimous jury vote, Penn said. “I’d like to dedicate this to the man himself, Che Guevara,” said Del Toro. He also thanked Soderbergh, “who got up every day, forced me to this. … He was there pushing it, and he pushed all of us.” Soderbergh directed Del Toro to the supporting-actor Oscar for 2000’s “Traffic.”
Sandra Corveloni was chosen as best actress for “Linha de Passe,” in which she plays the mother of four brothers struggling to make better lives for themselves in a Brazilian slum. It was her first role in a feature film.
The Cannes jury awarded special prizes to Clint Eastwood, who directed the competition film “Changeling,” and Catherine Deneuve, who appeared in two films at Cannes this year. Eastwood was shut out for key prizes with “Changeling,” his warmly received missing-child drama starring Angelina Jolie.
Eastwood, who delivered two best-picture and director Academy Award recipients with “Unforgiven” and “Million Dollar Baby,” has never won top honors at Cannes after five times in competition there since 1985. Jury president Penn won the best-actor Oscar for Eastwood’s “Mystic River,” which was shut out for prizes at Cannes five years ago.
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831 days ago
Under mod: Cannes final results, Special Award for Clint, Angelina/Changeling shut out.
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830 days ago
For those who may not have yet read the short story on which Benjamin Button was based (I’m one of those), here’s a link to it: http://www.readbookonline.net/read/690/10628/
Got it from one of the forum on B and A in the net.
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