FILM/FILMMAKING
THE CUTTING EDGE
Documentary about the art of film editing.
“The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing,” a lively, occasionally illuminating tour of the “invisible art” of film editing, ultimately feels more like a textbook primer than an exhaustive study. Film buffs and general viewers alike will find much to enjoy when pic preems in December on Starz, with video release through Warners scheduled for 2005.
TROPIC THUNDER – R
Trailer for Tropic Thunder on TrailerAddict.
In the action-comedy Tropic Thunder, Ben Stiller plays pampered action superstar Tugg Speedman, who is cast in the biggest, most expensive war movie ever produced. He sets out to Southeast Asia with a “Who’s Who” of celebrity co-stars. They include Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), an intense, three-time Oscar-winning actor; Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), star of the popular gross-out comedy franchise “The Fatties”; multi-platinum hip-hop-star-turned-entrepreneur-turned-actor Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson); and first-timer Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel). Soon after the production begins the actors are thrown into a real-life situation and are forced to become the fighting unit they’re portraying, in order to find a way out of the jungle in one piece.
SIDE BY SIDE
Trailer for Side by Side on TrailerAddict.
The documentary investigates the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation. We show what artists and filmmakers have been able to accomplish with both film and digital and how their needs and innovations have helped push filmmaking in new directions. Interviews with directors, cinematographers, colorists, scientists, engineers and artists reveal their experiences and feelings about working with film and digital–where we are now, how we got here and what the future may bring.
THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT
That’s Entertainment! Trailer – Directed by Jack Haley Jr. and starring Fred Astaire, Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly. That’s Entertainment! is a 1974 compilation film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
THE PLAYER – R
A studio script screener gets on the bad side of a writer by not accepting his script. The writer is sending him threatening postcards. The screener tries to identify the writer in order to pay him off so he’ll be left alone, and then in a case of mistaken identity gone awry, he accidentally gives the writer solid ammunition for blackmail. This plot is written on a backdrop of sleazy Hollywood deals and several subplots involving the politics of the industry.
THE ARTIST – PG13
Hollywood 1927. George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky’s the limit – major movie stardom awaits.
Trailer for The Artist on TrailerAddict.
LIFE ITSELF
Acclaimed director Steve James (Hoop Dreams) and executive producers Martin Scorsese (The Departed) and Steven Zaillian (Moneyball) present Life Itself, a documentary film that recounts the inspiring and entertaining life of world-renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert—a story that is by turns personal, funny, painful, and transcendent. Based on his bestselling memoir of the same name, Life Itself explores the legacy of Roger Ebert’s life, from his Pulitzer Prize-winning film criticism at the Chicago Sun-Times to becoming one of the most influential cultural voices in America.
Trailer for Life Itself on TrailerAddict.
SUPER 8 – PG 13
During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.