Monday, May 23, 2011

Hanna's Silent 3Dimensional Clueless Vamp-Hill-Adventure

IMDB is a great source of joy. Especially if you stumble upon something that interests you in such a way that minutes, hours, whole lifetimes seem to have passed in a couple of seconds. Actually it's just your attention span on digital speed leaving you with bloodshot eyes and a feeling of loss and wasted time that makes you want to kill yourself. But sometimes psychological backlash is not so severe and kills less of your brain-cells than you think (but still more than you wish for).

In this case of utterly useless information-spreading I want to direct your attention unto some upcoming films that might interest you. One of them is HANNA. I've seen it in a Sneak Preview two weeks ago. Scheduled for May 26 in Germany this is one of the weirdest films I've ever seen. It surprised me a lot. If you get the chance to see it OV, do it. Because Eric Bana has the most perfect German accent and a lot of the other actors have really bad ones, including the psychotic Reeperbahn-club owner slash assassin, which makes him an even more psychotic person. He whistles his own tune, too. I'm pretty sure this movie won't do well with Box Office #s but will gain some scholarly attention. Really worth watching, trust me.



The other big news is that Silent Hill: Revelation 3D started filming a couple weeks ago. I got tricked by a really good looking fan-trailer that is right here:




The 2nd movie-adaptation of the Silent Hill video game series seems to deal primarily with Heather and the storyline of Silent Hill 3. Just let's hope that director Michael J. Bassett does this one as well as Christophe Gans did with the previous adaptation, still one of the best videogame adaptations out there. And it makes so much sense to shoot it in 3D, too, with all the oblique camera angles and shifting of worlds/consciousness. I'm really looking forward to that one, scheduled somewhen in 2012 and having Malcolm McDowell (Clockwork Orange) on board.

Also with Malcolm McDowell on board is Amy Heckerling's Vamps, which marks her second collaboration with Alicia Silverstone as female lead, after 1995s Clueless. Richard Lewis and Sigourney Weaver also join this Vampire RomCom. Not much more information about this one, though.

2 comments:

  1. SpiegelOnline (ja, ja!) hüpft auch schon vor Vorfreude auf und ab bezüglich Hanna (oder wie der Film im Deutschen dann wohl heißt: "Wer ist Hanna?"), die Leser sind eher wenig angetan. Hmm... http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/0,1518,764708,00.html

    Oh, should I've written this in English? Well, ehm ... translate.google.com? ;)

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  2. yes, you should have. but don't beat yourself up about it. This is supposed to be an international-audience-appealing blog, to attract an international audience, thus your Krautlanguage is of no use to me, although our Kraut grows from the same roots, which are kind of like Lars von Triers's roots, as he first shockingly and then happily discovered and talked about at some length in his Cannes Press Conference regarding his upcoming flick Melancholia. The point of this follow-up-comment is a) don't beat yourself up and b) yes, please comment in English and c) yes, of course you are supposed to watch HANNA, because that is what that part of the post was all about and d) that I thank you so much for commenting to some of my posts, because that makes me believe I'm not the only person out there, actually: out here, where I am the only person around, as far as I can see, so this is a second-thought-bummer and e) when will you reply to my e-mail about The Road and f) why the hell does Oprah think she can just leave everyone after 25 years?

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