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    Lionsgate films are bringing out a film about Leonard Cohen, that Canadian singer-songwriter great. the film which should be out very very soon features interviews and performances with him with guests playing in Sydney includingNick Cave, Rufus & Martha Wainwright, Beth Orton, Linda & Teddy Thompson, Antony, Handsome Family, U2 and Javis Cocker

     

     

    blog here:

     

    http://www.lionsgatedirectors.com/lunson/index_flash.html

    ooops... missed it..... was it any good?

     

    interesting. very much about politics with politicians trying to be cool and failing completely by dancing along to the things are getting better song and looking like complete eejits!!, death of Versachi and Princess Diana, and also a bit on the Spice Girls (peter mandelson knew each one and had the album!!!)

    Every year, a new artist appears making radio-friendly music without swear words and sells a huge amount of albums.

    Decent reviews, lots of airplay and usually a Brit Award for their troubles. It happens every year.

    These records appeal to people who only buy a few albums a year:

     

    James Blunt

     

     

    the manager in the office where i work (that is arse about most of the day for peanuts :lol: ) doesnt know much about pop music. very high brow guy, but know that James Blunt has naughty words in the album version. probably the only pop trivia he knows :lol:

    i'd probably let them off, but say a band that aint really liked and aren't really on the right bill (like 50 Cent at Reading for example) then i MIGHT contemplate throwing a plastic bottle (which doesn't hurt compared to a Snickers bar, trust me)

     

    but surely you might hit all the ladies he brings on (that is if it's anything like the videos :lol:)

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/35/Nachopost.jpg

     

    oh dear oh dear oh dear. could be off to TV for you or smaltzy ex-genius land

    the reviews from imdb:

     

    Nacho Libre appears to have been made exclusively for Jack Black fans. Clearly many critics are not among them. One who is is Carina Chocano of the Los Angeles Times, who writes: "Black is a gifted physical comedian with surprisingly expressive eyes and an even more surprising tender streak." But Chocano is in the minority. The headline of Liam Lacey's review in the Toronto Globe & Mail effectively sums up most of the others: "Muy estupido -- and just not that funny." Fellow Torontonian Geoff Pevere of The Star was equally unimpressed, writing: "While I certainly wasn't expecting much from Nacho Libre ... I certainly wasn't expecting the sensation of embalming fluid coursing through my veins that set in within 10 minutes. Make no mistake: you can feel your heart rate declining." Kyle Smith in the New York Post predicts that "half of the audience (at least) is going to sit in bewildered silence. The rest will laugh roughly every 8.4 seconds." And Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune concludes that the movie's just not something to get worked up over. "The film is easy to take and easy to forget," he writes

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    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7b/Cache_Haneke.jpg

    Hidden (Caché) is released on Monday

     

    probably not in features!! but hell what a film!!!

     

    Interactive Features:

    Interactive Menus, Scene Selection, Theatrical Trailer, Making Of Feature, Filmography, Featurette

     

    Review:

     

    Writer/director Michael Haneke delivers a masterpiece of unsettlement with Hidden (Cache).

     

    Life seems perfect for Georges (Daniel Auteuil) and Anne (Juliette Binoche), a bourgeois Parisian couple who live in a comfortable home with their adolescent son, Pierrot (Lester Makedonsky). But when an anonymous videotape turns up on their doorstep, showing their house under surveillance from across the street, their calm life begins to spiral out of control. Subsequent videotapes arrive, accompanied by mysterious drawings, and gradually Georges becomes convinced that he's being tormented by a figure from his past. But when he confronts him, the man assures Georges he is innocent. A growing sense of guilt begins to rise in Georges as he recalls his less-than-angelic childhood, yet for some reason he's unable to be completely honest with Anne. Soon, their happy home is an emotional battleground, leading to a climax that is breathtaking in its ferocity and ambiguousness.

     

    Though Haneke's film works first and foremost as an insidious thriller, it is also a powerful commentary on the urban paranoia and racism that continue to permeate modern society. Without using a score, and keeping his camera detached and static, Haneke nonetheless establishes a nearly unbearable level of tension. Not for the squeamish, Hidden remains a work of menacing brilliance, and was the winner of the Best Director award at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

     

    Special Features:

     

    Making Of Featurette

    Interviw with director Michael Haneke

    Theatrical Trailer

    Filmographies

    After the 2nd film flopped amazingly well, there's pretty much no hope whatsoever for a threequel and praise jesus for that *claps the american public for not going to see it*

     

    Whole 9 yards:

    Total US Gross $57,262,492

    Production Budget $24,000,000

     

    Whole 10 yards:

    Total US Gross $16,323,969

    Production Budget $30,000,000

    Worldwide Gross $16,689,454

     

    when has that ever stopped then in DTV land :lol:

     

    well suppose when they've run out of Bring It On sequels and want to do something else with a 1 star cast. :lol:

    I thought the whole 9 yards was a dire attempt at a film and i would rather burn out my eyes and stick rusty forks in my ears then have to sit through the whole 10 yards

     

    yeah heard it was c**p, lets hope there's not a dtv threequel. that will be so bad. and no doubt Brucey will pass on it he will be replaced by some random bloke you've never heard of.

    So what do people think of the these two films. I think Nine Yards was much better than Tine yards. I am going to watch Nine tonight as it is on ITV 1 at 11:20ish. May recorded it incase a fall a sleep!

     

    well think i'm gonna watch Save the last dance with Julia Stiles for the billionth time :lol:

     

    however gonna have a look to see what the reviews for Bounce, Counsulting Adults, Carla's Song, and Outrageous Fortune are like.

     

    Think I'm gonna record Heat on BBC 3. think it might be a film to save!!!

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    On page 23 of this weeks Screen International is a review of the new film by John Cameron Mitchell called Shortbus staring Sook-Yin Lee (below), Paul Dawson, Lindsay Beamish and featuring 3 men having sex whilst singing the star-spangled banner.

     

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Sook-Yin_Lee.jpg

     

    The review states:

     

    After 9 songs and A Hole In The Heart, actors having real sex is beginning to feel like the norm, and Shortbus uses its raunchy action to point out that sex is a huge part of most people's lives.

     

    however whats your opinion on filmmakers incorporating real sex acts in their films? do you think that its needed to portray reality? should it just be confined to R18 releases? or is it dangerous as it will just make hardcore producers become more exploitative and extreme. your opinions...

     

    Note: John Cameron Mitchell also did this:

     

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/Hedwig_and_the_Angry_Inch.jpg