New Cinema Wallpaper of the Day
Sunday, August 2, 2009

I still feel that Adam Sandler’s best perfomance was as Barry Egan in Punch-Drunk Love with his perfomance as George in Funny People coming in second. He realizes George as a human character in a real world while still throwing in his trademark approach to humor, singing, voices and irony. The human depths he brings to the table and explores gives his performance a built in edge as it then makes it more immersive for the audience to laugh and feel sad alongside him.

Be sure to check out the official site (link) and all its many goodies!

Caption:
George (ADAM SANDLER) gives a Thanksgiving toast to his hosts in writer/director Judd Apatow’s third film behind the camera, “Funny People“, the story of a famous comedian who has a near-death experience.

Photo By:
Tracy Bennett

Image Source:
Official still that was used in the original international release of the film. © 2009 Universal Studios. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Related Links:
::: Official Site
::: IMDb Profile

New Cinema Wallpaper of the Day
Saturday, August 1, 2009

The dynamic between Seth Rogen and Aubrey Plaza in Funny People is great and one of the highlights of the film. I’m not entirely sure how I feel about the 3rd act but I do wish the film had more scenes and shown interplay between Ira and Daisy. Overall this is one of the warmest and most entertaining films I’ve seen this year and in many respects Judd Apatow finest hours in celluloid. Definitely a film to run out and see immediately.

Be sure to check out the official site (link) and all its many goodies!

Caption:
Comics Ira (SETH ROGEN) and Daisy (AUBREY PLAZA) in writer/director Judd Apatow’s third film behind the camera, “Funny People“, the story of a famous comedian who has a near-death experience.

Photo By:
Tracy Bennett

Image Source:
Official still that was used in the original international release of the film. © 2009 Universal Studios. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Related Links:
::: Official Site
::: IMDb Profile

New Cinema Wallpaper of the Day
Sunday, July 19, 2009

You know this really is an absolutely terrific picture taken by Tracy Bennett! Give yourself 10 points for every comedian featured on the picture frames behind several of the main cast (including the cut off ones)! Can’t wait to see this dark stand up comedian melodrama!

Be sure to check out the official site (link) and all its many goodies!

Caption:
(L to R) Roommates Leo (JONAH HILL), Ira (SETH ROGEN) and Mark (JASON SCHWARTZMAN) in writer/director Judd Apatow’s third film behind the camera, “Funny People“, the story of a famous comedian who has a near-death experience.

Photo By:
Tracy Bennett

Image Source:
Official still that was used in the original international release of the film. © 2009 Universal Studios. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Related Links:
::: Official Site
::: IMDb Profile

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New Cinema Wallpaper of the Day
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

I’m not a fan of school rampage movies or those that dwell on its subject matter at all. Having said that Denis Villeneuve’s black and white film , Polytechnique, serves as a torch in the form of cinema to offer remembrance and a deep soulful look at the Ecole Polytechnique Massacre and the lives it ended, touched and changed forever. It’s a very powerful film and easily the most moving one I’ve seen this year. Films that deal with tragic events and especially those that deal with this type are really impossible to pull off or bring about anything worthwhile, yet here we get this torch given to us by Villeneuve our own lives are forever changed and moved by watching it. With this torch he allows us to experience this event and lives lost while prompting reflection in how we will live out our days before our own curtain comes down. In so many films death is treated rather emotionally innocuous and here each death carries weight and sadness that you feel. It’s a very harrowing and soul searching film that understands the weight of the story its carrying. By no means is this the easiest film to sit through but it’s one of the most important films of 2009.

Villeneuve weaves some non-conventional narrative choices into it that at first have you scratching your head wonder what is going on before he starts to connect everything in very inspired fashion, just beautifully done.

I saw this in the official Cannes Directors’ Fortnight (link) section and do believe it will be one of the films selected for the Academy Awards’ foreign-language film selection.

Related Coverage:
::: Cinema is Dope: Best of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival

SYNOPSIS:

Based on the true events that occurred on December 6, 1989, at Montreal’s Polytechnique School…

The movie tells us about that specific day through the eyes of two students, Valerie and Jean-Francois, whose lives were changed forever when a young man entered the school with one idea in mind: to kill himself and take with him as many women as possible.

Image Source:
Official stillsthat were used in the original international release of the film.

Related Links:
::: IMDb Profile