July, August 2002

Here is a collection of observational tidbits on various items in the production of films.

 

08-14-02 - Roger Avary has finally decided to release a teaser poster for his new film, The Rules of Attraction. It's a stellar poster, surely to cause some panic amongst parents, the MPAA, and politicians everywhere. Fantastic. You can access this rather sexually perverse poster by clicking HERE.

08-13-02 - So, in continuation of yesterday's short piece, I now ask what films are we to look forward to in the next few months? There are so many that you can't help but be excited. And for your information, I used Jeff Wells' latest column as the primary resource for this information.

The potential excellents: Solaris, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Adaptation, Catch Me If You Can, About Schmidt, Gangs of New York, and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

The other potentials: Frida, 8 Mile, Heaven, The Rules of Attraction, Punch Drunk Love, Chicago, and Dogville.

Of course others will arrive and there are some that I purposely left off this list. I may be completely ignoring independants, yes I know, but I know so little about those forthcoming films that I can't possibly have extreme expectations for them.

08-12-02 - What's been really noteworthy so far this year? Spiderman, the first viewing of Attack of the Clones, Road to Perdition, and Minority Report, which is unquestionably the best film I've seen so far this year. Forgive me if I'm forgetting some, but there seems to have been pretty bare-bones film-pickings so far this year. Other movies have been good (Insomnia, Panic Room), but more-or-less forgettable.

08-11-02 - It's been far too long. Therefore I think I'll add new items fairly quickly to catch up on a couple of things. First, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring two-disc DVD came out last week. I chose to not purchase it, instead I'm waiting to buy the mega-release in November. We still had a viewing party at our house the night it came out, and we were witness to an astounding video transfer, a great audio mix, and some rather redundant extras. That's okay, because the four-disc set is gonna hit a homerun.

07-01-02 - The teaser poster for The Matrix Reloaded was released online today and will be appearing in your local theater in the coming few days. It shows the familiar scroll from the computers that run the machine-created reality in the film. And that's all it shows. Yawn. Boring. It doesn't tease me at all, rather it makes me wonder if there is a black hole of creativity in The Matrix Trilogy marketing department. Couldn't they have thought up something a little more enticing? It is perhaps the very definition of a poor teaser poster.

 

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