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With lots of festivals starting soon and just 4 months for filmmakers to get their films out in time for the next Academy Awards, here's a list of some of the films premiering soon to look forward to.

ACROSS THE UNIVERSE (Director: Julie Taymor)

A dock worker Jude (Jim Sturgess) travels to America in the 1960s to find his estranged father.

Apparently, its an original musical film. In addition to the main characters singing, Eddie Izzard sings The Benefit of Mr Kite and Bono sings I Am the Walrus and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/acrosstheuniverse/

AMAZING JOURNEY: THE STORY OF THE WHO (Paul Crowder and Murray Lerner)

Musical documentary.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RWgT2R8P528

L'AMOUR CACHE (Allesandro Capone)

Starring Isabelle Huppert.

THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD (Andrew Dominik)
Bradd Pitt, Casey Affleck

Delves into the private life and public exploits of America’s most notorious outlaw.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/theassassinationofjessejames/

ATONEMENT (Joe Wright)

Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's (Keira Knightley) lover (James McAvoy) of a crime he did not commit. Based on the British romance novel by Ian McEwan.

http://www.empireonline.com/futurefilms/film.asp?id=11344

BATTLE FOR HADITHA (Nick Broomfield)

An investigation of the massacre of 24 men, women and children in Haditha, Iraq allegedly shot by 4 U.S. Marines in retaliation for the death of a U.S. Marine killed by a roadside bomb.

BATTLE IN SEATTLE (Stuart Townsend)
Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, Ray Liotta

Activists arrive in Seattle, Washington en masse to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization. Riots and chaos ensue as demonstrators successfully stop the WTO meetings.

BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD (Sidney Lumet)
Ethan Hawke, Philip Seymour Hoffman

When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelery store the job goes horribly wrong.

http://trailerspark.blogspot.com/2007/07/before-devil-knows-youre-dead-trailer.html

BEFORE THE RAINS (Santosh Sivan)
Linus Roache

BILL (Melisa Wallack, Bernie Goldmann)
Aaron Eckhart, Jessica Albi

A guy fed up with his job and married to a cheating wife reluctantly mentors a rebellious teen.

BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT (Ridley Scott)


THE BRAVE ONE (Neil Jordan)
Jodie Foster

A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/thebraveone/

CAPTAIN MIKE ACROSS AMERICA (Michael Moore)

CHAOTIC ANA (Julio Medem)
Manuella Velles, Charlotte Rampling

The story-journey of Ana during four years of her life, from 18 to 22.

(Spanish language)

CLEANER (Renny Harlin)
Samuel L. Jackson, Ed Harris, Eva Mendes

A former cop (Jackson) who now earns a wage as a crime scene cleaner unknowingly participates in a cover-up at his latest job.


Selected reviews to follow once they have been screened.
 
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DARFUR/DARFUR
Don Cheadle

THE DARJEELING LIMITED (Wes Anderson)
Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman

Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other.

Closes the London Film Festival.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/thedarjeelinglimited/

DEATH DEFYING ACTS (Gillian Armstrong)
Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta Jones

On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.

DEFICIT (Gael Bernal Garcia)

Two different social classes get together at a family gathering in Mexico. Based on the TV project "Ruta 32".

LE DEUXIÈME SOUFFLE (Alain Corneau)
Daniel Auteil, Monica Bellucci, Eric Cantona, Michel Blanc, Jacques Dutronc, and Daniel Duva

Remake of Jean-Pierre Melville's 1966 film.

DIARY OF THE DEAD (George A. Romero)

DISENGAGEMENT (Amos Gitai)
Juliette Binoche

Ana is reunited with her estranged Israeli stepbrother Uli when he travels to France for the death of their father. She decides to return to Israel to search for the daughter she gave up at birth some 20 years ago. Crossing frontiers by car, train and boat, Ana and Uli end up in the turmoil and emotion of the military-enforced disengagement of Israeli settlers from Gaza in 2005.

EASTERN PROMISES (David Cronenberg)

The film follows the mysterious and ruthless Nikolai (Viggo Mortensen), who is tied to one of London's most notorious organized crime families. Also stars Naomi Watts.

Opens the London Film Festival.

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809794102/video/3182401/

ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE (Shekhar Kapur)

An exploration of the relationship between Elizabeth I (Cate Blanchett) and the adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen).

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/elizabeththegoldenage/

EMOTIONAL ARITHMETIC (Paolo Barzman)
Gabriel Byrne

The film probes the intricate possibilities of love and madness and the shadows the past throws upon the present.

ERIK NIETZSCHE - THE EARLY YEARS (Jacob Theusen)

Written by Lars von Trier, story follows a shy young man in his quest to become a film director.

FADOS (Carlos Saura)

A tribute to fado music.


FAR NORTH (Asif Kapadia)
Michelle Yeoh, Sean Bean

A soldier's unexpected arrival affects two women's simple existence.

FOUR WOMEN (Adoor Gopalakrishnan)

FUGITIVE PIECES (Jeremy Podeswa)

A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.

THE GIRL IN THE PARK (David Auburn)
Sigourney Weaver, Kate Bosworth

Enduringly traumatized by the disappearance of her 3-year-old daughter 15 years ago, Julia Sandburg has cut herself off from anyone once near and dear to her, including her husband Doug and her son Chris, who tried for years to penetrate her wall of isolation and despair, without success. But when Julia meets Louise, a troubled young woman with a checkered past, all Julia's old psychic wounds painfully resurface, as does her illogical and increasingly irrational hope that Louise may be the daughter she lost so long ago.
 
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HAVE DREAMS, WILL TRAVEL (Brad Isaacs)
Val Kilmer, Matthew Modine, Lara Flynn Boyle

Set in the 1960's, a magical tale of two 12-year-olds embarking on an adventure to find new, cool parents and escape their neglected, overly adult existence.

HONEYDRIPPER (John Sayles)
Danny Glover

Story about a music club in 1950s Alabama.


THE HUNTING PARTY (Richard Shephard)
Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Dianne Kruger

TV News reporter Simon Hunt and cameraman Duck have worked in the world’s hottest war zones: from Bosnia to Iraq, from Somalia to El Salvador. Together they have dodged bullets, filed incisive reports and collected Emmy awards. Then one terrible day in a Bosnian village everything changes. During a live broadcast on national television, Simon has a meltdown. After that, Duck is promoted and Simon just disappears. Five years later Duck returns to Sarajevo with rookie reporter Benjamin to cover the fifth anniversary of the end of the war. Simon shows up, a ghost from the past, with the promise of a world exclusive. He convinces Duck that he knows the whereabouts of Bosnia’s most wanted war criminal “The Fox.” Armed with only spurious information Simon, Duck and Benjamin embark on a dark and dangerous mission that takes them deep into hostile territory. It’s the scoop of a lifetime but will they live to report it?

http://www.apple.com/trailers/weinstein/thehuntingparty/

I'M NOT THERE (Todd Haynes)
Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw

Ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where seven characters embody a different aspect of the musician's life and work.

http://uk.media.movies.ign.com/media/873/873844/vids_1.html

IN BLOOM (Vadim Perelman)
Uma Thurman, Evan Rachel Wood

A woman's survivor's guilt from a Columbine-like event twenty years ago causes her present-day idyllic life to fall apart.

IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH (Paul Haggis)

A career officer (Tommy Lee Jones) and his wife (Susan Sarandon) work with a police detective (Charlize Theron) to uncover the truth behind their son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.

http://wip.warnerbros.com/inthevalleyofelah/

INTO THE WILD (Sean Penn)
Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn

After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount_vantage/intothewild/

IT'S A FREE WORLD (Ken Loach)
Kierston Wareing, Juliet Ellis

Angie may not have much formal education, but she’s got energy, wit and ambition, and above all she is in her prime. Her life has been a mess and she’s fed up with it all. She now has a point to prove This is her moment. Angie sets up a recruitment agency with her flat-mate Rose, working in a run down area populated by gang leaders, employment agencies and migrant workers looking for jobs. This is a tale set against the reality of the Anglo Saxon miracle of flexible labour, globalisation, double shifts and lots of incredibly, happy consumers.

THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB (Robin Swicord)
Kathy Baker, Maria Bello, Marc Blucas, Emily Blunt, Amy Brenneman, Hugh Dancy, Maggie Grace, Jimmy Smits, Kevin Zegers and Lynn Redgrave

Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen, only to find their relationships -- both old and new -- begin to resemble 21st century versions of her novels.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/thejaneaustenbookclub/

JOY DIVISION (Grant Gee)

Musical documentary.

JUNO (Jason Reitman)
Jennifer Garner

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual and bizarre decision regarding her unborn child.

LARS AND THE REAL GIRL (Craig Gillespie)
Ryan Gosling, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer

A delusional young guy strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/mgm/larsandtherealgirl/

THE LAST LEAR (Rituparno Ghosh)

About a clash of stage and screen cultures.

LOU REED'S BERLIN (Julian Schnabel)

Musical documentary.

LOVE COMES LATELY (Jan Schütte)
Otto Tausig, Rhea Perlman, Tovah Feldshuh, Barbara Hershey

Based on the stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer.

LUST, CAUTION (Ang Lee)
Tang Wei, Tony Leung, Joan Chen

Espionage thriller set in WWII-era Shanghai.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/focus_features/lustcaution/
 
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MAD DETECTIVE (Johnnie To, Wai Ka Fai)

MAN FROM PLAINS (Jonathan Demme)

Documentary about Jimmy Carter.

MARGOT AT THE WEDDING (Noah Baumbach)
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nicole Kidman, Jack Black, John Turturro

Story about coming to terms with one’s family and oneself.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount_vantage/margotatthewedding/

MARRIED LIFE (Ira Sachs)
Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, Pierce Brosnan, Rachel McAdams

A 1940s-set drama where an adulterous man plots his wife's death instead of putting her through the humiliation of a divorce.

MICHAEL CLAYTON (Tony Gilroy)
George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/michaelclayton/

THE MOTHER OF TEARS (Dario Argento)
Asia Argento

Part three of the "Three Mothers" trilogy which takes place in Rome and has to do with Mater Lachrymarum (The Third Mother).


MY WINNIPEG (Guy Maddin)

NEW YORK CITY SERENADE (Frank Whaley)
Freddie Prinze Jr, Chris Klein

Two down on their luck childhood friends struggle to figure out their lives.

NIGHTWATCHING (Peter Greenaway)
Martin Freeman

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting THE NIGHT WATCH.


NOTHING IS PRIVATE (Alan Ball)
Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, Maria Bello

A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist and her strict father during the Gulf War. Based on Alicia Erian's novel "Towelhead".

THE PAST (Hector Babenco)

A couple decides to split after 12 years together. The man (Gael Garcia Bernal) finds it easy to move on, but difficult to prevent his ex from hounding him, or the new women in his life.

POOR BOY'S GAME (Clement Virgo)
Danny Glover

On his release from prison for the brutal beating of a black man, Donnie (Rossif Sutherland), a young white boxer, is coached by his victim's father, George (Danny Glover) for an upcoming fight against a talented and vengeful opponent, Ossie (Flex Alexander).


THE PRINCESS OF NEBRASKA (Wayne Wang)

RAILS & TIES (Alison Eastwood)
Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden

A train accident puts a family on their own collision course.

RECLAIM YOUR BRAIN (Hans Weingartner)

A TV producer (Moritz Bleibtreu) takes sweet revenge on the business.

REDACTED (Brian De Palma)

A montage of stories about U.S. soldiers fighting in the Iraq conflict, focusing on the modern forms of media covering the war.

RENDITION (Gavin Hood)
Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep, Alan Arkin

A CIA analyst questions his assignment after witnessing an unorthodox interrogation at a secret detention facility outside the US.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/rendition/

RESERVATION ROAD (Terry George)
Mark Ruffalo, Joaquin Phoenix

http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/rendition/

SHADOWS (Milcho Manchevski)

A close call with the Grim Reaper changes things for a doctor.

SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL (Roger Spottiswoode)
Roy Dupuis

A film adaptation of the Romeo Dallaire autobiography Shake Hands with the Devil.

SILK (François Girard)
Keira Knightley, Michael Pitt, Alfred Molina

The story of a married silkworm merchant-turned-smuggler in 19th century France traveling to Japan for his town's supply of silkworms after a disease wipes out their African supply. During his stay in Japan, he becomes obsessed with the concubine of a local baron.



SLEUTH (Kenneth Branagh)
Michael Caine and Jude Law

A millionaire detective novelist matches wits with the unemployed actor who ran off with his wife in a deadly serious, seriously twisted game with deadly consequences.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/sleuth/

STUCK (Stuart Gordon)
Mena Suvari, Stephen Rhea

A young woman commits a hit-and-run, then finds her fate tied to her victim.

SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO (Takashi Miike)

Set during "The Genpei Wars" at the end of the 1100s, the Minamoto and Taira gangs face off in a town named Yuda, while a deadly gunman (Ito Hideaki) comes to the aid of the townsfolk.

THE SUN ALSO RISES (Wen Jiang)
Joan Chen, Anthony Wong, Jaycee Chan

A polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones, shifting between a Yunnan village, a campus, and the Gobi Desert.
 
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THE TAKE (Brad Furman)

After he's shot during a heist in East L.A., an armored-truck driver (John Leguizamo) wrestles with rehabilitation and tracking down the man (Tyrese Gibson) who committed the crime.

TERRA (Aristomenis Tsirbas)

Animated film about a peaceful alien planet faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on Terra. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teenager, will do everything she can to stop it.

THEN SHE FOUND ME (Helen Hunt)
Helen Hunt, Colin Firth, Bette Midler, Matthew Broderick

A New York schoolteacher (Hunt) hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her real one, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with the father (Firth) of one of her students.

A THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD PRAYERS (Wayne Wang)

A Chinese man travels to America to visit his estranged daughter after her recent divorce. Though his trip starts off as a mission to see his daughter remarry, he sparks to an Iranian woman who, despite their language barrier, captures his heart.

THE VISITOR (Thomas McCarthy)

THE VOYEURS (Buddhadeb Dasgupta)

YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH (Francis Ford Coppola)
Tim Roth, Bruno Ganz

A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, a timid professor is changed by a cataclysmic event and explores the mysteries of life.
 
Maltin said:
BATTLE IN SEATTLE (Stuart Townsend)
Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, Ray Liotta

Activists arrive in Seattle, Washington en masse to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization. Riots and chaos ensue as demonstrators successfully stop the WTO meetings.
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A Hollywood version of the Seattle riots, what next? Reclaim The Streets - The Movie featuring Brad Pitt?

:e
 
Of the above films, I'm most looking forward to The Brave One, Eastern Promises, Honeydripper and In the Valley of Elah.

Also looking forward to seeing Blade Runner at the cinema.
 
Maltin said:
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE (Director: Julie Taymor)

A dock worker Jude (Jim Sturgess) travels to America in the 1960s to find his estranged father.

Apparently, its an original musical film. In addition to the main characters singing, Eddie Izzard sings The Benefit of Mr Kite and Bono sings I Am the Walrus and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/acrosstheuniverse/
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Dubversions brand new all time favourite film, no doubt. :D
 
MY WINNIPEG (Guy Maddin)

Never heard of this and I'm a Maddin obsessive. :)

I hope the THE MOTHER OF TEARS will be a return to form for Dario Argento, but I'm not getting my hopes up. The trailer looks like this doesn't follow the Technicolor style cinematography and art deco design of SUSPIRIA and INFERNO, which would be a shame.
 
jodal said:
I'd add 3:10 to Yuma to that list.
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I'm happy for you to add it. The reason I didn't include it, is that I don't believe that it is premiering at a film festival and that's what all of the above films have in common. I was wondering whether to add others, but will probably wait until the LA Times have their Fall Sneaks preview. It took me long enough to do the current list!

I'll add a link to my thread on 3:10 To Yuma which has the trailer.

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=211403&highlight=yuma
 
My Winnipeg

Reno said:
MY WINNIPEG (Guy Maddin)

Never heard of this and I'm a Maddin obsessive. :)
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I couldn't find anything on it when I created the list (it's not even listed on IMDB) but just found this on the Toronto website:

"Guy Maddin's very personal portrait of his hometown is a poetic meditation - a docu-fantasia - on Winnipeg's history as well as Maddin's own childhood. Filmed partly in the house where he grew up, the film will be presented with the live narration by Maddin himself. Surreal, hilarious and bizarrely touching, this may be Maddin's most unique piece to date."
 
Just looking through Variety's film festival preview issue and can see that "Eastern Promises", "Lust, Caution" and "Reservation Road" are all coming to the London Film Festival.
 
Maltin said:
THE BRAVE ONE (Neil Jordan)
Jodie Foster

A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/thebraveone/
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The first trade review of this has been posted:

"Hell hath no fury like a woman with a grudge, and in “The Brave One,” Jodie Foster unleashes her rage on the mean streets of New York with the same mesmeric intensity and steely resolve that have characterized her very best performances. Foster’s pistol-packing turn as an avenging dark angel nearly sustains director Neil Jordan’s grim vigilante drama through a string of implausibilities and occasionally trite psychological framing devices, with deft support from Terrence Howard as a sympathetic cop."

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117934511.html?categoryid=31&cs=1
 
Outstanding thread Maltin!

Let's not forget...

Exodus

Moses is a member of the ruling class, son of populist politician Pharoah Mann. Pharoah has found the perfect solution for the Promised Land. All the unwanted elements of society – asylum seekers and economic refugees, the long term unemployed, sexual deviants, substance abusers, petty criminals and ethnic minorities – are forced to live in the Dreamland, a shanty town built on the site of a disused funfair. When Moses reaches adulthood, he discovers that his birth mother is a poor Romany woman, Levi, who gave him away as a baby so that he might have the chance of a better life in the Promised Land. Moses visits Dreamland and kills a guard after witnessing a violent attack on a young woman, Zipporah. It is his birth brother Aaron who helps him escape from the pursuing soldiers. Now in exile in the Dreamland, Moses falls in love and marries Zipporah, with whom he has a son. His father-in-law, Jethro, a gentle and dignified man who runs the ghetto school, is killed by Pharoah’s Pest Control forces whilst protecting a street child. Moses leads the construction of a giant funeral pyre for Jethro made out of rubbish and then burnt, challenging Pharoah to tear down the fence while a peaceful solution is still possible. Pharoah refuses. Moses leads a guerrilla war to liberate the inhabitants of Dreamland. He and his followers poison the sea, infect computers with deadly viruses and lethally contaminate foodstuffs. Many innocent people lose their lives. After a final act of atrocity, Pharoah surrenders and the Exodus out of Dreamland begins...

Premiering at Venice, well after it did in Margate.
 
Atonement

RenegadeDog said:
Well looking forward to Atonement. Brilliant book, and the trailer looks spot on.
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The first review I have seen looks very encouraging:

"Rarely has a book sprung so vividly to life, but also worked so enthrallingly in pure movie terms, as with “Atonement,” Brit helmer Joe Wright’s smart, dazzlingly upholstered adaptation of Ian McEwan’s celebrated 2001 novel. Period yarn, largely set in 1930s and ‘40s England, about an adolescent outburst of spite that destroys two lives and crumples a third, preserves much of the tome’s metaphysical depth and all of its emotional power. And as in Wright’s “Pride & Prejudice,” Keira Knightley -- echoed by co-thesp James McAvoy --proves every bit as magnetic as the divas of those classic mellers pic consciously references."

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117934523.html?categoryid=31&cs=1
 
Whilst the thread was meant to focus just on films premiering at the film festivals taking place around the world in the next 3 months, the title leads itself to highlighting all upcoming films. Here's a selection of 2007 films to be released in the US before the end of the year (some will be released here in '07, others in '08):

3:10 TO YUMA (see above)

AMERICAN GANGSTER (Ridley Scott)
Denzil Washington, Russell Crowe

In 1970s Harlem, Frank Lucas (Washington) constructs a heroin empire by stashing the drug inside the coffins of soldiers returning from Vietnam. Once he is dethroned by Det. Richie Roberts (Crowe), the former kingpin turns informant, the duo sets out to take down law enforcement agents and foreign nationals who are part of his syndicate.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/americangangster/

THE BUCKET LIST (Rob Reiner)
Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman

Two terminally ill men (Nicholson and Freeman) escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die.

CASSANDRA'S DREAM (Woody Allen)
Colin Farrell, Ewan McGregor

In south London, a scheming young woman (Atwell) looks to financially captialize on the rivalry she's created between two Cockney brothers (Farrell and McGregor), who each turn to crime in order to prove their commitment to her.

http://eric-c.blogs.allocine.fr/eric-c-117336-colin_farrell_dans_le_reve_de_cassandre__bande_annonce_vost_31_10_2007.htm

CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR (Mike Nichols)
Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Enigmatic Texas congressman Charlie Wilson (Hanks) and his CIA allies orchestrate that agency's most successful covert op: the arming of the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan during their war with the Soviet Union.

FUNNY GAMES (Michael Haneke)
Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt

Two assailaints infiltrate a cabin in the woods and, with unexpected sophistication, put a vacationing family through a series of psychologically and physically abusive games.

I AM LEGEND (Francis Lawrence)
Will Smith

Robert Neville (Smith) finds himself the only healthy survivor of a biological attack, as his fellow New Yorkers have become zombies. By day, Neville hunts the undead who walk the streets; by night, he barricades himself in his home against the mob gathered outside.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/iamlegend/

THE KINGDOM (Peter Berg)
Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner

An FBI agent (Foxx) and his team are dispatched to a formerly off-limits Middle Eastern kingdom to find those responsible for a bombing that claimed the lives of American workers in Riyadh.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/thekingdom/

THE KITE RUNNER (Marc Forster)
Khalid Abdallah

After having spent over two decades in the U.S., Amir returns to present-day Afghanistan to see what has become of Hassan, his best friend from childhood and from whom he was separated after the Soviet invasion of their country.

http://www.empireonline.com/news/feed.asp?NID=20938

LEATHERHEADS (George Clooney)
George Clooney, Renee Zellwegger

An aging football legend (Clooney) and the hot college star he's drafted for his pro team (Krasinski) fight for the heart of an intrepid up-and-coming journalist (Zellweger). Oh, it all takes place in 1925.

LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA (Mike Newell)
Javier Bardem

Florentino (Bardem), rejected by the beautiful Fermina (Mezzogiorno) at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.

MR. MAGORIUM'S WONDER EMPORIUM (Zach Helm)
Natalie Portman, Dustin Hoffman, Justin Bateman

Edward Magorium (Hoffman), the eccentric, 243-year-old owner of the most fantastic toy shop in the world wills his business to his shy, awkward store manager (Portman). But her leadership is soon challenged by a dark, ominous presence in the shop.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/mrmagoriumswonderemporium/

SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (Tim Burton)
Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman

In 19th century London, Benjamin Barker (Depp) opens a barbershop upstairs from Mrs. Lovett (Carter), a baker of special meat pies; theirs is a sinister relationship.

THERE WILL BE BLOOD (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Daniel Day-Lewis

A story about family, greed, religion, and oil, centered around a turn-of-the-century Texas prospector (Daniel Day-Lewis) in the early days of the business.

http://www.worstpreviews.com/trailer.php?id=524&item=0

THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE (Susanne Bier)
Halle Berry, Benicio Del Toro

A recent widow (Berry) invites her husband's troubled best friend (Del Toro) to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/dreamworks/thingswelostinthefire/

Also soon to be released, but which premiered at earlier festivals are:

Sundance

In the Shadow of the Moon
Grace is Gone
The Savages

Cannes

No Country for Old Men (http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=211264&highlight=cannes)

(French language trailer)
 
Maltin said:
I thought this was a joke until I found the official site.

http://www.margateexodus.org.uk/home.php

PS. Thanks for the praise. :)
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Nah, I'd not spoil such a well crafted thread with a joke.

The making of it was an interesting community event. Not sure how good the film is though, be interesting to see what others think. I found it confused and a bit boring, and I'm in it.

And no that's not a joke either. :)

So do you get to many of this film festivals then?
Oh and you haven't mentioned any of the Swiss ones...
 
Locarno is quite special, a square just filled with seating with a large screen at one end. It's not the only one though, but the Swiss don't really bother to promote them, well not to English speakers.
 
anyone know if that blade runner final cut going to be in cinemas or straight to dvd... might have to buy that.... it's supposedly got extra scenes and what not....
 
soonplus said:
anyone know if that blade runner final cut going to be in cinemas or straight to dvd... might have to buy that.... it's supposedly got extra scenes and what not....
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The Final Cut is being premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday and I think it's getting a theatrical re-release here. I'm really looking forward to the DVD release which will also include the workprint which is supposed to be a very different earlier cut of the film.
 
that would be great, i've always wanted to see blade runner in a cinema...

i've heard the orginal theatrical release was some not to ridley scott's taste... i believe he was forced to give it a voice over narration to explain the 'complicated' story line and a 'happy ending'.... after thew opinions of some test screenings... probably interwesting to wacth in a historical sense, but i'd rather watch this 'final cut' jobbie
 
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