I forgot about the new Miyazaki! Off of the top of my head, I’m looking forward to new films by Johnnie To, Claire Denis, Philippe Garrel, Guy Maddin, Hong Sang-soo, Wong Kar-wai, Arnaud Desplechin, and Olivier Assayas.
Bigga Than Ben
Puffball
Shifty
Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Fincher, anyone?) Dark Knight of course, Funny Games, In Bruges, and Wall-E top my list of 08.
Truth be told, the American remakes of foreign masterpieces have lacked the creativity of the originals. So they can keep their lackluster effort for the ‘A Tale of Two Sisters’ remake to themselves.
I’m looking forward to seeing…
-The Dark Knight
-The new Johnnie To film with Chow Yun-Fat
-The Good, The Bad and The Weird (Korean Western by ‘A Tale of Two Sisters’ director Kim Jee Woon)
-The Forbidden Kingdom (Jackie Chan and Jet Li… BEEN WAITING FOR YEARS TO SEE THIS HAPPEN)
-Red Cliff (John Woo’s triumphant return to Hong Kong cinema.. the trailer looks amazing)
I wish I could get my spirits up for The Forbidden Kingdom, but it is directed by Rob “Who?” Minkoff.
I just want it to be 2009 so I can see WATCHMEN, I am so excited for it but it still has another year!
Fernando Meirelles’ Blindness Starring Julian Moore and Mark Ruffalo
Rob Minkoff is best known as the director of The Lion King, which I’d still consider to be the greatest animated film ever. That said, in spite of the billing of Jackie Chan and Jet Li, this looks like another American rip on someone else’s culture, in this case the Chinese Monkey King legend in which they throw in a typical teen kid as the protagonist in order for audiences to ‘relate’ to the new world. Apparently, the Monkey King’s not even a major character in the story, which seems to completely deflate the point of things. I’d rather not hold my breath for it. Red Cliff might be better.
But The Dark Knight stays on the top of my most anticipated film for the year – in fact, anticipation is building so much I’m almost scared it won’t meet my expectations. But then with such a great summer line-up compared to all the dross last year, it may be ok. The trailer for Iron Man’s actually starting to really grow on me
the remake of funny games by Haneke the new film by Gordy and Akin
The new Coen brothers film, I forget the name of it but it’s got to do with the CIA and what not. Looks like it has potential but so does every Coen brothers film.
I’m dying to see Mister Lonely. If that’s the only new movie I see all year, I’d be okay.
Yeah, it looks so fantastic, when was the North American release date again?
The Dust of Time (Angelopoulos)
Salome (Tsai)
Utopia (Weerasethakul) (?)
Frontière de l’aube (Garrel)
Age of Tattoo (Jia)
Herbes folles (Resnais)
That’s all I can seem to remember right now.
Hong Sang-Soo’s Night and Day
Nanouk Leopold’s Wolfsbergen
Harmony Korine’s Mister Lonely
Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Voyage of the Red Balloon
Yoji Yamada’s Kaabee
Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control
Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park and to a lesser extent, Milk
Jun Ichikawa’s How To Become Myself
Koji Wakamatsu’s Red Army
Naomi Kawase’s If Only the Whole World Loved Me
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata
Johan Renck’s Downloading Nancy
Ulrich Seidl’s Import/Export
Olivier Assayas’ Boarding Gate
I’ve actually already seen two of these, but whatever.
I Come With the Rain (Anh Hung Tran) – I do not believe this will be anything less than stunning.
La Frontiere de l’aube (Philippe Garrel)
Salome (Tsai Ming-Liang)
The Age of the Tattoo (Zhang Ke Jia)
Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green)
35 rhums (Claire Denis)
Red Cliff (John Woo)
The Happening (M. Night Shyamalan)
And of course many of the late 2007 holdover’s I’m eagerly salivating to see: Mister Lonely, Red Balloon, Paranoid Park, 4 Months, etc.
The Dark Knight (Can’t wait…)
The imaginarium of doctor Parnassius (next Terry Gilliam’s with Heath Ledger and Johnny Depp…. can’t hardly wait, dreamin’ of it…)
I think “The Road” by the Director of the Proposition based on Cormac Mcarthy’s book will be strong stuff. And am excited to see a new work from Leos Carax with his part of the Japanese triptych “Tokyo!” his first film since Pola X almost 10 years ago! And am curious about Peter Jacksons adaptation of “The lovely bones” in that to me his best work is Heavenly Creatures and this could be a return to “real” film-making but if it goes south he may just be an effects wizard (alas) .
The Dark Knight (getting really impatient now!)
The Lovely Bones (it will be interesting to see PJ’s take)
White Night Wedding (B. Kormakur)
The Good Heart (D. Kari)
London To Brighton (will be moving to Brighton in the new year!)
and if the Bell Jar ever comes out, I’ll probably go see that (but I shouldn’t hold my breath).
The Lovely Bones is actually 2009.
I’m looking forward to Boarding Gate, The Road, and Blindness among other things.
I want to see
Blindness by Meirelles and
Synecdote NY by Charlie Kaufmann
I know. There’s even a second Transformers movie: Revenge of the Fallen. The trailer looks great!
Halim Cillov
With all these amazing films coming out at the end of the year, it is safe to say 2007 really ended up with a Band!! Though, it looks like the best is yet to come…I was wondering what are some films that people are looking forward to…
Here is what I am dying to see:
- The new Miyazaki Film : Pongo On the Cliff
- The Dark Knight
- London to Brighton( Probably the most controversial movie of the British History)
- Pixar’s new wonder ‘Wall-E’
and the remake of the Korean Masterpiece ’ A Tale of Two Sisters’