Archive for November 27th, 2006
Oscar-winning Amadeus director Milos Forman returns to the silver screen for the first time since Man on the Moon in 1999, with a film set during the Spanish Inquisition. In Goya’s Ghosts, the legendary Spanish painter Francisco Goya (Stellan Skarsgård) must seek the help of Brother Lorenzo (Javier Bardem) when his muse Ines (Natalie Portman), the daughter of wealthy tradesman Tomas Bilbatua, is accused of heresy and put on trial by the Holy Office. But Lorenzo eventually finds himself disgraced and banished from the city, and Ines is left to rot in prison until the French, under Napoleon, abolish the Inquisition and free the prisoners some twenty years later.
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Bloodydisgusting have posted two reasonably long video clips from Guillermo del Toro’s critically acclaimed fantasy horror movie, Pan’s Labyrinth.
The first shows Ofelia (Ivana Baquero), descending into the labyrinth for the first time and discovering the banquet table of the terrifying Pale Man, the skeletal monster portrayed by Doug Jones. With fairies to guide her, the young heroine unlocks a secret chamber containing a dagger but defies her instructions not to eat or drink anything in the labyrinth and rouses her terrifying host. The second clip shows Ofelia meeting and taming a Giant Toad who appears to be regurgitating something very unpleasant. Click here to watch the clips.
Pan’s Labyrinth is the story of a young girl that travels with her mother and adoptive father to a rural area up North in Spain, 1944. After Franco´s victory. The girl lives in an imaginary world of her own creation and faces the real world with much chagrin. Post-war Fascist repression is at its height in rural Spain and the girl must come to terms with that through a fable of her own.
Click here to discuss Pan’s Labyrinth in the Realm of Fantasy on the X-Boards.
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The first film still from Michael Bay’s 2007 summer blockbuster Transformers has leaked online at CHUD. While a bit blurry, the still quite recognizable image shows the (computer-generated) Decepticon Skorponok pursuing/attacking a group of soldiers, amongst them actor Tyrese Gibson (who plays Air Force Sergeant Epps).
In the mid-eighties cartoon the film is based on, Skorponok was a huge battlestation that could transform into a scorpion-like robot. The script revealed the movie version to be a lot smaller, but the picture in discussion clearly shows he’s not a pushover. View the image in our gallery and judge for yourself.
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In news sure to lighten the mood of Peter Jackson fans, AICN reports that Saul Zaentz has said that the anticipated movie adpatation of The Hobbit will go ahead with the Lord of the Rings director at the helm.
A German website, Elbenwald.de, has published an interview with Zaentz in which he says “It will definitely be shot by Peter Jackson. … Next year The Hobbit rights will fall back to my company. I suppose that Peter will wait because he knows that he will make the best deal with us. And he is fed up with the studios: to get his profit share on the Rings trilogy he had to sue New Line. With us, in contrast, he knows that he will be paid fairly and artistically supported without reservation.”
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I am a little leary of the situation. The truth will come out when, and if the US economy, and the dollar begins to strengthen. If prices remain high, you’ll know someone is lying. Either OPEC doesn’t have the supply they claim they have, or Analysts are incorrect when they say demand has decreased. Personally, I don’t buy the claim that demand has decreased. Population is ever increasing, so, the the demand should always be increasing. 