Monika’s Pensieve

This is embarrassing - it’s December now and this review is from October *sigh*
{FILM DIARY}
Apartment Zero (UK/Argentina, 1988)
Seen: Saturday, 31st October 2009 (DVD)
Runtime: 124′
Director: Martin Donovan
Cast: Hart Bochner, Colin Firth
Production House: Producers Representative Organization, Summit Company
Plot: Adrian is an English man living in Buenos Aires. His financial situation forces him to rent out a room [...]

I rather liked him in Spread yesterday, so I watched some of his interviews - this is him on Rove and this is part one and part two of an interview he did on Jonathan Ross.

The big news is that his first post-Twilight movie has been announced - it’s not good news for me and Kin as it sounds like he won’t be losing much muscle ;) He’s playing a superhero.
Also, I came across Taylor Lautner’s appearance on the the Conan O’Brien show *grin* There’s also an amusing clip of [...]

{FILM SPOTTING}
(500) Days of Summer (USA, 2009)
Release Date (Poland): 4th December 2009
Release Date (worldwide): 17th January 2009
I originally spotted this in November, but the Polish release date has been moved.
Spread (USA, 2009)
Release Date (Poland): 4th December 2009
Release Date (worldwide): 11th January 2009
Runtime: 97′
Director: David Mackenzie
Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Anne Heche, Margarita Levieva
Production House: Barbarian Films, Katalyst [...]

Another scene from the film has been released and it looks… interesting *grin*
Also, the New York Times did two nice features - one on Colin Firth and one on Tom Ford.

Just passing on a link :) I really liked that blog post. It’s about breaking out of a certain mindset and the eternal “WTF do I want to do with my life?!” question.

I’m holding my breath for an announcement about when A Single Man will be released in Poland. It’s kind of odd - I think it’s the first time I’m this excited for something quite that art house. Usually, it’s only the big publicity machines that generate quite this amount of excitement from me ;)
Anyway, now [...]

{FILM DIARY}
Surrogates (USA, 2009)
Seen: Friday, 30th October 2009 (cinema)
Runtime: 88′
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Cast: Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, James Cromwell
Production House: Touchstone Pictures, Mandeville Films, Lanoue Film Arts, Road Rebel, Top Shelf Productions, Wintergreen Productions
Plot: (from imdb)
Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop (Willis) is [...]

{FILM DIARY}
Galerianki (Poland, 2009)
Seen: Wednesday, 28th October 2009 (cinema)
Runtime: 82′
Director: Katarzyna Roslaniec
Cast: Anna Karczmarczyk, Dagmara Krasowska, Dominika Gwit, Franciszek Przybylski
Production House: Monolith Films
Plot: The story of a couple of teenage girls, who have sex in exchange for money and expensive items.
Trailer

Impressions In Short
Some good performances and unusually developed characters considering this is a Polish film [...]

I should probably stop watching New Moon publicity on youtube :] Anyway, this was just too hilarious… I was sort of aware that there had been some weird gossip that there was going to be a nude scene in New Moon, but I never investigated its source: