I didn’t know much about the film Chloe outside of the oddly fascinating yet congruently creepy poster, which is almost solely due to the fact that Amanda Seyfried is missing her goddamn nose in the thing. Oh sure its just a trick of light but try and deny that she doesn’t look like she escaped from Area 51 on that thing.
Anyways, I knew nothing other than the poster, and thus began a horrifying 2 minute journey through the international red band trailer for the film. In it I discovered that the film starred not only Amanda Seyfried, but Julianne Moore and Liam Neeson and it was directed by Atom Egoyan, a mix I wouldn’t wish on anything but the most egregious melodramas, and after sitting there slack-jawwed at what I was watching, I decided to do a little more research on the film.
You see, evidently Chloe is based on a French film called Nathalie…, in which a woman discovers that her husband might be having an affair and so decides the best way to trap him is to hire a prostitute to seduce him. A dumber solution to such a dilemma I can not imagine. And of course, the US version follows a very similar plot line with Moore enlisting Seyfried to seduce Neeson and that’s when things go horrib … well, you get the idea. But I think I’ll let the trailer speak for itself. Though, word to the wise, it is a red band so it is NSFW.
As a youth I used to live in the shelves of my local video store. Most summers I would spend my days down at the local strip mall (a scant 1.3 miles away) bowling for hours, reading comics off the rack at the drug store, picking out the most essential candy at the grocery store and finally wandering in the stacks, searching for the perfect movie to watch that weekend. All this time spent in the stacks lead to a curious skill of recognizing films based solely by their cover art, and I’d often know the plot of the films based off of the descriptions on the back. Soon it became a bit of a game for my friends to quiz me on what the films were about, but only the films I’d never actually seen and using simply the cover as a hint.
Of course, back then I was still very young and simply didn’t have the time nor the resources to watch every film I wanted to. So I would pick and choose which I would watch, often leaning heavily towards science fiction and fantasy films (my horror obsession didn’t really kick in until my early twenties). So how is it that I never watched a post-apocalyptic film about a nomadic swordsman? Simple, I hated the cover.
Nothing like a good German love triangle type drama to really cleanse the palate. Am I right or am I right? Right? The good news is Jerichow is a remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice. The bad news? The trailer is in German, so you’ll just have to trust me on that.
Interest level: Should be higher
Jerichow will open at the Landmark Edina Theatre on July 10th.
A few updates this week. Management mysteriously falls off the booking sheet one week before its scheduled release, replaced by Tyson!, a rather lethargic documentary on enigmatic boxing star Mike Tyson. Summer Hours gets bumped up two weeks, and Whatever Works one week.
Their are some exciting new additions though. First is the documentary Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg which is about television pioneer Gertrude Berg. Still Walking is an acclaimed Japanese drama that is slated for a September release, while $9.99 is an Australian stop-motion film that looks very promising. But the biggest addition is the film Cold Souls, which has an absolute monster cast and a killer premise in the vein of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I can’t wait for a trailer for it to finally be released.
*** – Denotes recommended viewing
All dates subject to change
05/15 The Limits of Control Uptown***
05/15 Angels and Demons Lagoon
05/15 Tyson! Lagoon (tentative) (NEW)
05/15 Tokyo Sonata Edina***
05/22 Brothers Bloom Uptown
05/22 Adoration Edina (tentative)
05/22 Gigantic Lagoon/Edina
05/22 Every Little Step Edina
05/22 The Girlfriend Experience Edina ***
05/29 Rudo Y Cursi Uptown
05/29 The Song of Sparrows Lagoon
06/05 Revanche Lagoon
06/05 Little Ashes Lagoon (tentative)
06/05 Summer Hours Edina (NEW DATE)
06/05 Easy Virtue Edina (tentative)
06/12 Away We Go Uptown/Lagoon ***
06/12 Enlighten Up! Lagoon
06/12 Departures Edina
06/19 Food Inc. Uptown
06/19 O’Horten Lagoon
06/26 Cheri Uptown/Edina
06/26 MOON Lagoon***
06/26 The Country Teacher Lagoon
06/26 The Stoning of Soraya M. Edina
07/03 The Girl From Monaco Uptown/Edina
07/03 Whatever Works Lagoon (NEW DATE)
07/10 Seraphine Edina (tentative)
07/17 The Hurt Locker Uptown (tentative)
07/24 500 Days of Summer Uptown/Lagoon 07/24 Betty Blue: The Director’s Cut Lagoon ***
07/31 In the Loop Uptown
07/31 $9.99 Lagoon (NEW)***
07/31 Shrink Edina (tentative)
08/07 The Cove Uptown***
08/14 Cold Souls Uptown (tentative) (NEW)***
08/14 Not Quite Hollywood Lagoon***
08/14 Adam Lagoon/Edina (tentative)
08/21 Lorna’s Silence Edina
08/28 Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg Edina (NEW)
08/30 The Bride of Frankenstein Edina (One Night Only) *** 08/30 It Happened One Night Edina (One Night Only) ***
Anna and I had an interesting conversation about people’s taste in movie earlier this week. You see we have a mutual friend that has rather eclectic taste. She’ll swing from one end of the pendulum to the next with ease, investing time and money in enjoying dreck likeTwilight yet turn right around and revel in Let the Right One In. Oh sure she feels guilty by many of the things she watches (her music and reading taste tends to be just as “diverse”) she lessens that guilt by enjoying plenty of high brow fare.
Now I have taken the position that I don’t care if someone wallows in the occasional awful film, so long as they routinely balance that out with more challenging and inventive fare. I know I find that kind of see-sawing viewing habits is far more stimulating then continually watching all to often pretentious art films for hours on end.
Anna takes a slightly different approach in that there are only two kinds of films she enjoys. This includes the rare guilty pleasure (these typically involve demons or possession or demon possession) and films that she loves unconditionally. In between is a wide range of films that may or may not waste her time but certainly waste her money.
My money is on trainwreck.
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