Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Some Interesting Stuff Coming

I mean movies, of course. We are now in the best time of the year for the top quality movies. Some will tank- both in quality and audience. But there will be the good ones.

What makes me mention this is the set of trailers we saw at the theater on Saturday when we went to see the Coen brothers movie, Burn Before Reading. (More later this week.)

The three that seemed to be of interest whose trailers we saw:

  • Milk, the story of gay SF politician Harvey Milk starring Sean Penn as Milk. Watching the trailer took me back to some of the ways of the 60s and 70s. I think Penn and others, including Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild) and Josh Brolin are all taking some chances on this one. Looks like it has possibilities.

  • Doubt starring Meryl Streep, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams. This is a drama based on a stage play with Streep and Adams being nuns and Hoffman a priest. It deals with possible sex-abuse, of course, but also the struggle between old and new in the church. Looks like a powerful movie. I hope the premise holds out.

  • Nixon/Frost about the interviews that David Frost did with former President Nixon. It was hard to tell from the trailer what the quality will be like, but it has a promise of reminding us how tough it is when a president decides to be the law unto himself. Not that this has any current relevance, of course. (Money quote from the original interview and shown in the trailer:
FROST: So what in a sense, you're saying is that there are certain situations, and the Huston Plan or that part of it was one of them, where the president can decide that it's in the best interests of the nation or something, and do something illegal.

NIXON: Well, when the president does it that means that it is not illegal.

FROST: By definition.

NIXON: Exactly. Exactly.

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