Almodovar's The Skin I Live In - Teaser Trailer

Pedro Almodovar's latest Spanish melodrama reunites him with Antonio Banderas, who appeared he launched in a series of zany / kinky / dark comedies & in the late 80s (notably, 1986's Matador & 1990's Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down).

Based on Thierry Jonquet's novel Mygale, Almodovar will apply his offbeat melodramatic sensibilities to this revenge thriller about a plastic surgeon's (Antonio Banderas) hunt for the man who raped his daughter (Elana Anaya). Pretty standard territory for Almodovar...

I'm a big fan of Almodovar's more heartfelt work (particularly Talk to Her), and his films are always gorgeous and polished, but I found 2009's Broken Embraces self-indulgent, self-important, high on style and low on substance. It also strangely undermined Penelope Cruz's talent by turning her into countless reincarnations of male fantasies.

Happy to give The Skin I Live In a fair bash, though.



I love how there is always somehow a trace of Almodovar's background in underground, punk & comic books in his style.

HappyThankYouMorePlease - Trailer

Written / Directed by & starring How I Met Your Mother's sensitive frontman / narrator-with-flopsy-hair, Josh Radnor. So this is the spiritual cousin to Zach Braff's Garden State, which is a pretty good legacy to build on. Looks a tad Oprah-soulful ('let's be people who deserve to be loved'), but nonetheless I want to go to there.




Cool alternate poster after the cut:

Sharlto Copley, Matt Damon & Jodi Foster in Neill Blomkamp's Elysium

Neill Blomkamp has put (rumoured) District 10 on hold & roped in Sharlto Copley, Matt Damon & Jodie Foster (impressive) to star in his new sci-fi mystery, Elysium. All we know is that it is set in the distant future, on a foreign planet, with - of course - socio-political undertones. But apparently that's wrong, cause IMDB describes it as follows: "Aliens come to earth to do battle with man kind so they find peace on earth and live like human beings."

So basically we know nothing, except it probably has aliens. And the less we know, the better. Probably. After District 9, anything Blomkamp does next is news. He only has to not screw it up to become huge.

I searched the web for a trailer and found this:

Elysium Trailer - Watch more amazing videos here

Yeah... I don't think that has anything to do with the Blomkamp film... Thankfully.


THIS, however, apparently does:



Interesting... The initial promotional trailers for District 9 were clever in that they hinted at the film's content while including very little footage from the actual film. This is likely along the same lines, and certainly piques my interest as much as the high profile cast.