Monika’s Pensieve

The teaser poster of Thirst, Park Chan-Wook’s latest film, features a priest in “sexual context” and has therefore been banned in Korea. You can see it here. I think it’s quite beautiful and only a little bit sexual, but whatever :]

I’m not sure what I think of this, but it’s interesting…

As of the 4th of April no new films are going to be shown in Indian multiplexes. Film producers say they cannot afford the deals multiplexes force upon them and that’s why they’ve had to take such drastic action.

I’ve had some people tell me they won’t watch Slumdog Millionaire because the kids in the film were exploited - they’re still living in the slums, were paid below minimum wage etc. The story that’s coming through most loudly is hardly the only one though, so I thought I’d try and gather all the different [...]

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Doubt (USA, 2008)
Seen: Monday, 16th March 2009 (cinema)
Runtime: 104′
Director: John Patrick Shanley
Cast: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis
Production House: Goodspeed Productions, Scott Rudin Productions
Plot: It’s set in the 1960s in a Catholic school. A nun confronts a priest after suspecting him of abusing a black student.
Scene From The Film
The trailer is [...]

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Watchmen (USA, 2009)
Seen: Sunday, 15th March 2009 (cinema)
Runtime: 162′
Director: Zack Snyder
Cast: Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino
Production House: Warner Bros. Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Legendary Pictures, Lawrence Gordon Productions, DC Comics
Plot: While the cold war threatens everybody with nuclear extinction, a couple of ageing, isolated [...]

You may remember I posted that Joaquin Phoenix retired from acting to pursue a career in music. Since then there’s been a lot of gossip about whether he’s lost his marbles or whether he’s just having us all on.
I didn’t bother posting any of this gossip since I was totally prepared to believe he just [...]

This interview totally cracked me up. It’s even weirder than his usual I think. I totally died when he started talking about his Dali film:
?In a lot of ways,? Pattinson says, ?I was kind of crossing lines of what I thought I was comfortable doing. I had to do all this naked stuff.?
See, Little Ashes [...]

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is not even released yet, but we’ve already got the first photos from the set of Deathly Hallows :] They look kind of cool :) People are guessing it’s the silver doe scene, but it could be any of the camping scenes actually.
There’s some Harry Potter and the Half-Blood [...]

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Most of the kids they cast for the first Potter movie had none or little film experience. Tom Felton was AFAIK pretty much the only kid they cast, who had done any Hollywood movies beforehand, so I figured that with my current Tom Felton phase, this would be a good time to delve into [...]