Taking Woodstock Trailer

"Some hippie thing is going to get cancelled unless we find a place for it." Taking Woodstock is a comedy directed by Ang Lee starring Demetri Martin. The only thing i hope is that this film stays loyal to the real Woodstock scenery- nudity. We'll see. Opening June 5, 2009.

Summary: Taking Woodstock is the new film from Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee - and it’s a trip! Based on the memoirs of Elliot Tiber, the comedy stars Demetri Martin as Elliot, who inadvertently played a role in making 1969’s Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the famed happening it was. Featuring a standout ensemble cast, and songs from a score of ’60s musical icons including The Grateful Dead, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and Country Joe and the Fish - plus a new recording of “Freedom” from Richie Havens - Taking Woodstock is a joyous voyage to a momen . . . to read more go to apple.com

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Whatever Works Trailer

Whatever Works is an upcoming film by Woody Allen, and it seems hilarious, witty, and smart. Opening June 19, 2009.

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Gossip Girl, the singer

"Gossip Girl's" Taylor Momsen is in a band called Pretty Reckless. Yes, and she is okay. In this video the 15-year-old showed off her raspy voice at The Annex, a club in the lower east side of NYC. According to Rolling Stone, the band has signed with Interscope Records and will be opening for the Veronicas at U.S. gigs this Summer.

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past Film Review

Even before seeing Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, I knew it would have the perfect Hollywood ending. And I was right, it did.
The handsome Matthew McConaughey plays Connor Mead as the heartless, yet charming womanizer whom has the edge of being a professional photographer. The downside to this Mead character is that deep inside he is still in love with the girl of his childhood dreams—Jenny Perotti, (Jennifer Garner). Having said that, Jenny is also, and still, in love with him, even after he ‘broke her heart,’ one morning that he did not wake up next to her.

The two haven’t seen each other for quite some time, but come face to face with each other, and their feelings, during the wedding rehearsal of Mead’s younger brother Paul played by Breckin Meyer. Being the womanizer that he is, Mead drinks one too many cups of straight scotch and makes it clear for everyone that love is a theory, and that marriage should become illegal. It is unclear if the ghosts began to appear because Mead was too drunk, or just too careless about where his life was going as a heartbreaker.

Mead engages on a number of unrealistic trips in the company of women ghosts, all taking his through a certain time of his life—past, present, and future. Emma Stone gives a comical performance as the ghost of the past, Allison Vandermeersh. Allison becomes Mead’s escort through some of his fondest past memories. Memories of heartbreak; Jenny decides to dance with Pete Hastings—some jock kid—instead of Mead, and he runs out feeling desolate, and into the car of his uncle Wayne (Michael Douglas). Memories of wisdom; Uncle Wayne decides that it is time to teach Mead how to avoid heartbreak and thus creates him into a womanizer like himself. Advice like, “the most powerful one is the one that cares less.” And so, Mead lives his bachelor life through those very words, until he comes face to face with his future and sees Jenny getting married to another guy. This shakes Mead to the very core because he believes that she was always suppose to be with him.

All the while that Mead is going through the stages of life, problems are occurring in the present, and Paul’s bride-to-be discovers that Paul slept with one of her best friends, and decides to call off the wedding.

The next day Mead wakes up and makes it his business to save the wedding, and he does because he wakes up a completely different person. A person who is ready for marriage and who believes in love. And here is the Hollywood ending; Mead saves the wedding, gives a heartfelt toast to the bride and groom, and gets the girl of his childhood dreams, Jenny.

Mark Water’s film Ghost of Girlfriends Past was okay, but not. It was funny, but not really. It was a love story, but it wasn’t. It was, however, a false advertisement of what womanizers’ like Connor Mead can’t obtain—a clean slate.

2 stars

picture: www.filmofilia.com

Interview with the cast of Rudo Y Cursi

I recently got an internship with beatcrave.com and my first assignment was to help decipher an audio interview with some of the guys from the new and upcoming Mexican film, Rudo Y Cursi (the film premiers in the May 8th). The AP Review published a review on the film late last night saying, "[The film] is enormously hackneyed in concept yet surprisingly enjoyable in execution."

After the interview I developed a huge interest, and will be watching the film this weekend. Mean while, read what Carlos Cuaron (film producer), and cast members Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal, had to say about soccer, success, and banana plantations.

Do you guys remember the very first day you each met?

Diego: My father has told me that they came to visit us at the hospital [when I was born], but my father is like a professional liar. I don’t even know if he remembers when I was born. He has created a whole atmosphere, and in that atmosphere and in that fantasy; Gael came to visit me with his parents. [Our parents] were doing a theatrical play together called Tis Pity She’s A Whore by John Ford, and when Gael came to this world they were rehearsing and opening the play. I guess [at that time] my father and my mother where trying to make a baby, and it lasted for a long time, but I have a feeling that when I came to life when they were in performances. So they were really close to each other.

The story is about two young people gaining success, why did you choose football and singing as their claim to fame?

Carlos: In Mexico, three million and a half watched this big Mexican film. A National team game in Mexico is watched by maybe 80 million people. It is a big difference. That’s why, el Cursi , wants to be a singer because it is either football or singing, what gets you the fame and money and girls, and everything fast and easy. Well, not easy, but fast.

Gael: We went the wrong way. We should have been football players or singers.

Are you as good at playing soccer as you are in the movie?

Gael: As good as in the movie, no, because if not I would be a professional football player. I mean, I like playing a lot, but I’m not—I’m okay.

Who’s the best player?

Diego: There is no way to answer that unless there’s a ball.

Gael: The least worst is me.

Diego: That is what he thinks, but no.

Gael: I was the one casted as the football player; he was the goalkeeper.

Diego: There’s just one goalkeeper—I’m just saying I’m the taller one, and I needed to be the goalkeeper.

The movie talks about expecting success. Do you think that people expect success, but we are not prepared for failure?

Carlos: It depends what you think of success. If success is the material part: You are a good journalist, and become successful, and work for the New York Times, and become a millionaire, well the characters are losers. But if success is more about the human side, in this case, about learning that there is nothing as endearing as having a sibling, then you’re a winner. So it really depends on how you focus on success. To me, success is not to have three million people watching my movie in Mexico City, but the fact that I actually shot my movie. Then I was successful, the rest is the movie.

How would you guys define success?

Gael: Yeah, like that as being happy.
Diego: Being happy, being able to love and be loved. You know; be next to those you want to be next to. Being able to chose where you want to be and having the freedom of choosing whom you want to be, and with whom you want to be surrounded by. I think that is success.
Gael: That’s corny. But it’s true. These characters had all the elements to be happy, and it is interesting that everyone thinks ‘when they were successful,’ but it’s rather when they were famous, not successful. Fame doesn’t equal success. It’s amazing when you get known for the things you like doing. And recognized for the things you like to do. But the fact that you are doing them is what’s successful.

To read the rest of the interview, visit beatcrave.com

And, enjoy the trailer below:

source: beatcrave.com, ap review, picture; wordpress.com

Julie & Julia trailer

The multi-award wining Meryl Streep and talented AMy Adams joins forces a second time in Nora Ephron's upcoming film Julie & Julia. The trailer gives the film a comical vibe, but I still haven't mad up my mind about spending $11.50 on it. The film is scheduled to hit the theaters on August 7th.

earthquake.

A minute ago, in Los Angeles; the earth shook, again.