Monika’s Pensieve

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July is clearly Hollywood blockbuster month for me *grin* (I’ll have the ENH festival at the end of the month to recuperate by watching loads of art house movies ;-P)
Brüno (USA, 2009)
Release Date (worldwide): 8th July 2009
Release Date (Poland): 10th July 2009
I originally “spotted” this here.
Public Enemies (USA, 2009)
Release Date (worldwide): 1st July 2009
Release [...]

I’ll start off with the one piece of publicity that isn’t Tom Felton related and that’s the Steve Kloves interview, which I think is a very good read :)
This is an interview with Tom Felton, Bonnie Wright and the Phelps twins. I think I’m mainly linking to it because I loved the bit about the [...]

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46-okunen no koi (Japan, 2006)
Seen: Saturday, 6th June 2009 (DVD, repeat viewing)
Runtime: 85′
Director: Takashi Miike
Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda, Masanobu Ando
Production House: Eisei Gekijo, Excellent Film, Maki Production, Shochiku Company, Shochiku Kinema Kenkyû-jo
Plot: (from imdb)
An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style [...]

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Záhrada (Slovakia/France, 1995)
Seen: Saturday, 6th June 2009 (DVD, repeat viewing)
Runtime: 99′
Director: Martin Sulík
Cast: Marián Labuda, Roman Luknár, Zuzana Sulajová, Jana Svandová
Production House: Artcam International, Charlie's Bratislava, STV, Slovenská filmová tvorba Koliba (SFT)
Plot: (from imdb)
Jakub’s life arrived at a dead-end. He leaves his job, and gets into conflict with his father. The trouble just grows [...]

The Borat publicity was crazy, but the Brüno publicity is shaping up to be some of the most tasteless, crass and vulgar publicity that Hollywood has seen - check out Brüno’s spread in Marie Clair - Brüno’s A-Z is quite something ;)
I guess there’ll be a lot more articles and interviews like that to report [...]

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Brüno (USA, 2009)
Polish Distributor: Monolith (10th July 2009)
Release Date (worldwide): 8th July 2009
Director: Larry Charles
Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen
Production House: Everyman Pictures, Four by Two, Media Rights Capital
Plot: (from imdb)
Flamboyant Austrian fashionista Brüno takes his show to America.
Trailer

The sceptical part of me thinks that…
It could get a bit too vulgar even for my taste ;)
The [...]

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June is relatively unexciting to me cinema-wise, which is a good thing as it’s exam month…
Zack and Miri Make a Porno (USA, 2008)
Polish Distributor: Kino Świat (26th June 2009)
Release Date (worldwide): 7th September 2008
Director: Kevin Smith
Cast: Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Jason Mewes, Jeff Anderson
Production House: Blue Askew, View Askew Productions, Weinstein Company, The
Plot: (from [...]

The Harry Potter clip they showed at the MTV Awards was crap (if you’ve been watching the trailers then you’ve basically already seen it - it’s the Voldemort as a little boy one), but they also showed the first New Moon trailer (which is also crap ;) ).
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon (USA, 2009)
Polish [...]

I’d intended to write about this ages ago, but somehow didn’t *sigh* Anyway, Indian elections came and went and the Congress party won once again with even more votes than last time (that means the government is socialist yet again).
A lot of interesting news reports came up during this time. On the one hand, there [...]

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Becoming Jane (UK, 2007)
Seen: Saturday, 23rd May 2009 (DVD)
Runtime: 120′
Director: Julian Jarrold
Cast: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith
Production House: 2 Entertain, BBC Films, Blueprint Pictures, Bórd Scannán na hÉireann, Ecosse Films, HanWay Films, Octagon Films, Scion Films, UK Film Council
Plot: (from imdb)
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and [...]