What are you most excited to see in 2011?

I have no idea what’s coming out at the moment.

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Yeah. In real life he is an academic. He’s a rancher in real life as well. There’ a reason why he has made a career out of playing the world battered country sheriff—because he looks the part and talks the part and acts the part. However unfair that my be to him.

I think that he’ll do a fine job though. My criticism was for selfish reasons, in that he didn’t match the image I had in my head while reading the play. I imagined Robert Jenkins (who played a similar role in The Visitor—maybe too similar) to play the professor (White) and Forest Whitaker to play Black. They both seemed made for the roles:

Although this doesn’t look bad either:

Tree of Life
Meek’s Cutoff
Hanna
Contagion
Super 8

Bela Tarr’s swansong: THE TURIN HORSE

-True Grit
-Black Swan

- Tree of life
- Black Sawn

One Day (Hou Chi-jan)
Sucker Punch (Snyder)
Mishen (Zeldovich)
Dau (Khrjanovsky)
History of the Arkanar massacre (German)
A Useful Life (Veiroj)
Norwegian Wood (Tran)
Mysteries of Lisbon (Ruiz)
Rubber (Mr. Oizo)
Under the Skin (Glazer)

other stuff I can’t remember

“And probably most of all, Michael Mann’s new series, Luck.”

Luck is a new show from David Milch (Deadwood, John from Cincinnati, NYPD Blue). Mann will just be directing the pilot.

Well, the pilot then. :)

The Tree of Life
The Green Hornet
Midnight in Paris
Hugo Cabaret
A Dangers Method
On The Road
The New film with those Muppets
Rango
Bridesmaids

Tintin & Red State might be good.

I’m going to have to say that my most anticipated film of 2011 is Jason Eisner’s “Hobo with a Shotgun” starring Rutger Haur. Its not quite the new year but I’m going to see Black Swan in a few hours which will be my last film seen in theatres of 2010. I rarely went to the movies this year but I’m hoping I’ll have the chance to see some great flicks in theatre in 2011.

The Tree of Life!!!!

a dangerous method
tree of life
thor
captain america
go-go tales (i know it was made in 2007, but its finally coming to anthology film archives next week)

Oh I already commented about a half an hour ago but I forgot to write that I’m excited about Juan Diego Solanas new film “Upside Down” featuring Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess.

The Illusionist

An undiscovered Tati piece!

we need to talk about kevin

The Tree of Life
Tintin
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Sucker Punch
Twixt Now and Sunrise
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Rango

The Tree of Life- Terrence Malick
Sucker Punch- Zach Snyder
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- David Fincher
Amour- Michael Haneke
Melancholia- Lars von Trier
A Dangerous Method- David Cronenberg
Contagion- Steven Soderbergh
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (has not gotten a theatrical release in Dallas yet)
Miral- Julian Schnabel
The Green Hornet- Michel Gondry
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2- David Yates
Somewhere- Sofia Coppola (no Dallas release until January)
Blue Valentine- Derek Cianfrance
Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall- Matthew Vaughn
X-Men: First Class- Matthew Vaughn
Scream 4- Wes Craven

SUCKER PUNCH! that early teaser with The Lords Of Acid song really sold me the movie.

Porno Melodrama (Romas Zabarauskas)
I’ve Kept the Angels a.k.a Un Été brûlant a.k.a A Burning Hot Summer (Philippe Garrel)
Laurence Anyways (Xavier Dolan)

Tree of Life
Shame

thats about it. Still catching up on all the films from the past few years that I’ve missed.

On the road
Midnight in Paris

Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance)
Never Let Me Go (Mark Romanek)
Kaboom (Gregg Araki)
Faust (Aleksandr Sokurov)
Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
Promises Written in Water (Vincent Gallo)
The Agent (Vincent Gallo)
Wisdom Teeth (Don Hertzfeldt)
Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowski)
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
Hunky Blues (Péter Forgács)
Spark of Being (Bill Morrison)
I’m Still Here (Casey Affleck)
Kochegar (Aleksey Balabanov)
Restless (Gus Van Sant)
Aurora (Kristina Buožytė)

Almost in Love (Sam Neave)
First Person Singular (Sam Neave) yet to gain distribution
Another Year (Mike Leigh)
Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
Promises Written in Water (Vincent Gallo)
Field Guide to November Days (Nick Peterson) yet to makes its way to the east coast
A Sort of Homecoming (Mike Akel)
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (Damien Chazelle)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Uncle Kent (Joe Swanberg)

Promises Written in Water (Gallo)
Le Transperceneige (Bong Joon-ho)
Aurora (Cristi Puiu)
Another Year (Mike Leigh)
Film Socialisme (Godard)
Pina (Wenders)

Sucker Punch
Tree of Life

Terrence Mallik’s Tree Of Life

Pretty hard to know what’s worth watching before Sundance and Cannes have announced their films but there’s still couple I’m waiting for already:

“big director” films: Tree of Life, Turin Horse, Meek’s Cutoff, the new Duncan Jones film, new Wong Kar-wai film(?), the new Ghibli film, Hereafter (going to see it this Friday), Biutiful (going to see it in 2 weeks)
and well… new “movie” by David Gordon Green, at least it has Zooey Deschanel so…

last years “leftovers” that weren’t available in Finland or on DVD (mostly Sundance stuff): Cold Weather, Go Get Some Rosemary, The Last Hurrah, The King’s Speech, Made in Dagenham, Welcome to the Rileys (got it on DVD and it seems pretty bad actually), Jack Goes Boating (got it on DVD aswell, going to watch it like… today)

some misc. stuff: Archipelago, At Ellen’s Age, Chongqing Blues

Scream 4 – Wes Craven
The Tree of Life – Terrence Malick
Meek’s Cutoff – Kelly Reichardt
We Bought a Zoo – Cameron Crowe
Hugo Cabaret – Martin Scorsese
Red State – Kevin Smith
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – David Fincher
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 – David Yates
Sucker Punch – Zach Snyder
Uncle Kent – Joe Swanberg

And these are the films that are yet to be out in the UK that I really want to see.

Black Swan – Darren Aronofsky
True Grit – Coens
Blue Valentine – Derek Cianfrance
Never Let Me Go – Mark Romanek
Cold Weather – Aaron Katz
Tiny Furniture – Lena Dunham

The Tree of Life
Source Code
Hanna
Xmen: first class
The gReen Hornet.
sucker punch
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Tinker, tailer, soildier, spy