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Angelina Jolie: Changeling Trailer!
Check out the new trailer for Clint Eastwood’s new film, The Changeling, starring Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich.
Via Wiki: The film is set in 1920s Los Angeles and is based upon the Wineville Chicken Murders, an infamous kidnapping and murder case that occurred from 1928 through 1930 and received nationwide attention in the United States. When the son of Christine Collins (Jolie) is returned to her after being kidnapped, she suspects that the child is not her own. After being vilified as an unfit mother, Christine confronts the city authorities and corruption in the Los Angeles Police Department in order to find out the truth.
The Changeling opens on Friday, October 24. You can watch the HD trailer at Yahoo! Movies.
Angelina Jolie: Changeling Trailer!
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It seems that every year now when Oscar season rolls around, we can rest assured that there’s another Clint Eastwood movie just around the corner too. Indeed, his upcoming movie Changeling was one of the major films notably absent from the Toronto International Film Festival this year, but that hasn’t stopped the Oscar buzz from mounting. At this point, it’s pretty much just a given.
The first trailer for Changeling has now gone online, and although I knew next to nothing about the film prior to watching it, I gotta say I was totally sold. Angelina Jolie plays Christine Collins, a woman whose son disappeared in March 1928. When the LAPD claimed to have found her son and returned him to her, she insisted that it wasn’t him, but no one believed her. Although John Malkovich, Amy Ryan and Jeffrey Donovan co-star, the whole movie essentially rests on Jolie’s shoulders.
She’s already won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1999 for Girl, Interrupted (and should have been nominated for A Mighty Heart, if you ask me), but I have a feeling she’s going to be among the contenders for Best Actress this year. Of course, I say that without having seen the movie, but at this point, it’s pretty much just a given! Check out the trailer below, or watch it in high-def over at Yahoo!. Changeling hits select theatres on October 24th
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I just watched the HD version and cinematically it’s superb, as usual with Clint Eastwood, that and Angelina Jolie looks like she’ll be giving an Oscar worthy performance - remember that checklist I wrote up for The Soloist? Well you could chalk one up for Jolie from just this trailer, difference is her performance looks incredibly powerful from this short trailer.
Who knew that J. Michael Straczynski had such diverse writing talent in him? Well actually considering the relathionship and human element in Babylon 5 we shouldn’t be surprised.
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Hopefully she will get a nod for best actress for this, and brad will get a best actor nod for Benjamin Button. How great if they both won? Then what would they do? Its not like you can get any higher in your career. Maybe they will open up their own studio, or run for public office, or buy half of Africa! I doubt their life could get any better…but im sure they will suprise me, they always do.
is that angelina she is scary is this a scary movie or what? oh well she is always like that ugly old angie
TO AMANDA,
Why is it too artificial? How is she supposed to act it out?
Wow this movie looks very intense, I almost cried. I hope the movie does very well.
Harvey @ 09/11/2008 at 10:36 pm Jennifer Aniston would play this role better
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Yes, I totally agree with you…. That’s why Jennifer got offered the role…. That’s why people like Clint Eastwood and Robert de Niro are knocking down her door begging her to be in their movies…
That’s why Jennifer gets offered serious roles and in different eras….
That’s why Jennifer gets to work with great actors like Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Matt Damon…NOT!!!!!!!!!
I hope angie and clint do the charlie rose show why in the city, plus jon stewart, he loves angie.
Amanda @ 09/12/2008 at 4:55 am i’m sorry but her acting his so forced….When she says I want my soon back, she doesn’t feel it! It’s too artificial. I’m sorry but this is my opinion!
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I never saw that someone is giving a critic on a movie based on watching a trailer? How can you from 2 minutes of the trailer know about her acting in this movie?
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Also, I really like this part when you can she Christine (Angie) in hospital, I think she knows how to play that part very well because she was amazing (and recived an Oscar) in a role of a person who is in mental hospital in Girl Interrupted, so again this time she probably knew how to give the best perfomance!
Also, Angelina is mother so I am 100% sure she act her best perfomance in this movie because she knows how she would feel if her child went missing!
Why copy silly posts.
Anyone know hwen it comes out in the UK.It s must see.
Changeling looks great! I can’t wait for this one. I miss Angie… and the regulars. Been quite busy lately. ***
Jolie is one of the few woman who has the ability of a De Niro’s…she can transcends herself to play different characters and can be credible each time. I think her real dralmatic talent is underrated and her options are quite unchattered and unlimited. Her faces is one of the most expressive i have ever seen. She can conveys so much powerful, different emotions. I think that’s what set apart great actors from the rest of the bunch…she acts with her body movements and facial emotions. The best actors are the ones of the ‘mute’ period, when you have to conveys emotions as words were off…she would have been a star in the 20’s !
I would love seeing her in one of those movies where she has to change herself completely, gaining many pounds, changing her hair color, her poise, limping…ect.
She is one of those very few actresses who has many more on her sleeves but whose exceptional beauty has kept her from those roles. I think that as she mature, she will goodeeper and deeper in those kind of roles and will be one of the few with a ’second’ career in her 40’s…Only the true versatile ones can go through the big 4 being still successful, embracing more deeper, interesting roles.
(((((WOW)))))) What a clip…when Christine cries for her son…I actually teared up. Very powerful. OMG…that’s that actor from that series, that hella cute one…oh wow — I can’t believe he’s in this!! Is he the guy that was relaying that story about kissin Angelina and getting walloped?? Muahhha, bet Braddy Daddy was all — he-heh, that’s my baby!
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No, that was Jason Butler Garner who plays the serial killer Gordon Northcott, which they didn’t show in the trailer.
OMG, Angie gave me chills, I cant wait to see this movie.
wow Angelina decided to get back to good films… since she stole Pitt from Aninston she’s being doing crap. good for her and for us.
omg…I love her more and more
jeffpet @ 09/12/2008 at 7:27 am wow Angelina decided to get back to good films… since she stole Pitt from Aninston she’s being doing crap. good for her and for us
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CORRECTION,
since the Chin sh*t on her own marriage to lapdance on various loosers’ knees, including a pee-boy, she has been sinking and sinking in the abyss of loosership while her legs keep spreading and spreading for the next boy toy to be trapped…in
No wonder she is called the number one DESPERATE cougar with no movie distributor as her juvenile fans are CONVICTED LOOSERS who have nothing to rejoice about their chinnified pathetic looser of an idol who get dumped and dumped endlessly and publically…the ultimate humiliation.
http://www.nysun.com/arts/nyff-introduces-the-year-of-the-actor/85679/
Changleing Premiering at the New York Film Fest
NYFF Introduces the Year of the Actor
By S. JAMES SNYDER | September 12, 2008
What a difference a year makes. Twelve months ago, when the New York Film Festival raised the curtain on its 2007 edition, audiences were enticed by an accomplished lineup of American projects, helmed by major directors all working at the top of their game. Now, with the 44th edition of the festival preparing to launch in two weeks (tickets officially went on sale this week), audiences are poring over a catalog of almost entirely international titles, including a large selection of works that screened in May at the Cannes Film Festival. So what changed.
Unlike last year, when the festival’s brightest stars were directors such as Wes Anderson and the Coen brothers, 2008 is very much the year of the actor, from Mr. Rourke and Ms. Nieto’s strong turns to Benicio Del Toro in Steven Soderbergh’s “Che” and Angelina Jolie in Clint Eastwood’s “Changeling.” Yet when pressed to divulge which film made the deepest impression on him during the jury process, Mr. Jones did not single out the opening night, closing night, or centerpiece selections. Nor did he mention the work of Messrs. Leigh or Soderbergh. Instead, he pointed to Olivier Assayas’s “Summer Hours” (October 1 and 2).
“Of all the films we’re showing, it’s probably the work that has moved me most,” he said. “It’s a film that looks at what happens when someone dies, at the odd way in which their home becomes just this odd space, where their possessions become mere objects. It’s a very subtle and moving thing.”
Angelina is in such a wonderful place right now, good for her. I plan on seeing Burn After Reading also, it looks so funny, I’m in need of a good laugh.
Angelina is in such a wonderful place right now, good for her. I plan on seeing Burn After Reading also, it looks so funny, I’m in need of a good laugh.
http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/1215659.html
Our picks for 10 films worth catching
I know I have my Top 10 list drawn up. And they are, along with their expected (read: subject to change) release dates:
Changeling
October
Gran Torino
December
Actor-director-unstoppable force Clint Eastwood once again makes two films for the fall season. In “Changeling,” he directs Angelina Jolie as a 1920s woman who believes that her recently kidnapped son is not hers, while “Torino” has Eastwood in front of the camera, as a bigoted Korean War vet. With 78-year-old Eastwood making movies back to back, is it any wonder John McCain, at 72, is running for president?
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Dec. 25
Next to Johnny Depp and Tim Burton, is there a star/director duo that comes up with more surprises than Brad Pitt and David Fincher? Their latest team-up, based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story, has Pitt playing a man born with a condition that makes him age in reverse. It does sound a little “Gump”-ish. But, with those two working together, I’ll keep an open mind.
I’m not sure whats going on but I’m certainly not lurking-the screen name. I’m TERI, why did this pop up as my name just curious?
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992080.html?categoryId=13&cs=1
WANTED still going strong
Universal, which remains the most active studio in the foreign market, expands “Wanted” into Spain and Sweden with overseas box office at $150 million.
http://www.nola.com/living/t-p/index.ssf?/base/living-2/1221051622224660.xml&coll=1
Entire article at link
GREEN LIVING
MAKE IT RIGHT RAIN GARDENS HOLD ON TO WATER
Saturday, September 06, 2008By Molly Reid
Hurricane Gustav produced no more street flooding than one would expect from a heavy summer rainstorm, but the landscaping around the Brad Pitt-sponsored Make It Right homes along Forstall Street would have been ready for the big gulp.
The Lower 9th Ward homes feature environmentally sensitive “rain gardens” designed to retain rainwater instead of letting it pick up extra toxins and chemicals on the pavement during regular runoff and street flooding.
Designed by a team of landscape architects, the rain gardens help meet the development’s goal of a platinum-level certification under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program. But more than that, they’re “the proper thing to do when you’re building new homes,” said John Sader, Make It Right’s director of construction.
For far too long, residential landscaping has been seen as something that is tended, played on and managed, said Dr. Michael Blum, a Tulane School of Architecture professor and a member of Thalweg Studio, one of the firms that designed the rain gardens. The Make It Right rain gardens, Blum said, put the landscape to work.
“When a raindrop hits the rooftop, the question is, where does it end up?” Blum said. “It’s a question of, can we increase the amount of retention on site? It’s about reduction of runoff, acceptance of rainfall.”
The rain gardens are designed to work on three levels: to curb runoff; to encourage water to soak into the soil instead of going right back into the sewerage system, after picking up chemicals on the way; and to encourage a healthy sediment buildup that will, in turn, allow more water to be absorbed by the soil.
‘Burn After Reading’ too convoluted to be fun
Hopped up like a Bugs Bunny cartoon on mescaline and as chatty and uppity as a 5-year-old, “Burn After Reading” could be seen as the Coen brothers’ need to let loose after the tightly wound “No Country for Old Men.”
That movie won the brothers long-deserved Best Picture and Best Director Oscars, yet smart money was on subversive siblings Joel and Ethan going their usual unique route as soon as possible.
Sure enough, if “No Country” was a formally constructed exercise in control, the smart-ass, play-dumb spirit of “Burn” is closer to their earlier larks “Raising Arizona,” “The Ladykillers” and “Intolerable Cruelty.” Trouble is, of those, only “Arizona” was good, and this comedy is not.
The convoluted plot begins with CIA analyst Osborne Cox (John Malkovich) quitting his job after a demotion. His coldly calculating wife, Katie (Tilda Swinton), wants a divorce so she can be with her dopey lover, federal marshal Harry (George Clooney). But Katie’s lawyer loses the CD she’d burned detailing Osborne’s finances, as well as the memoir he’s writing about his years as a government spook.
The CD winds up with two idiot gym employees, Linda (Frances McDormand) and Chad (Brad Pitt), who think extortion is the way to go. Osborne, however, doesn’t play ball, lonely Linda just wants love, Harry has bad luck and Chad is a chowderhead who can’t stop jazzercizing.
There’s a bit of fun in seeing Clooney act goofy - he and the Coens first hit this groove with “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” But “Burn’s” lack of focus undersells the joke of oversexed, paranoid Harry stumbling into the plot. And while Pitt, too, has a good time acting like a fey mouth-breather, a goof on the kind of role he once seemed made for, it’s a relief when Chad exits the picture.
Less lucky are McDormand, whose facial tics don’t help the movie through low points, and Malkovich, who just screams obscenities and looks flustered. Even Swinton doesn’t have enough to do (she and Clooney had such a powerful thrust-and-parry in “Michael Clayton,” it’s a shame they’re on autopilot here), so character actors like J.K. Simmons end up making the biggest impression.
And, much as with the conclusion of “No Country,” the Coens smirk at their big ending happening off-screen, which unfortunately reflects on all of “Burn After Reading.” It has its moments, but is all too easy to erase from your memory.
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