Saturday, September 20, 2008

RANDOM THOUGHTS: FIRST THE TRAILER, THEN THE BUZZ

With the upcoming U.S. awards season shaping up as a battle of much anticipated films, big budgeted and high profile casted pictures, and festival favorites, five films whose trailers were recently posted in the web are slowly gaining critical and popular favor:

AUSTRALIA, Baz Luhrmann
TRAILER: Good
BUZZ: Very Good
(esp. for Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman)

FROST/NIXON, Ron Howard
TRAILER: Very Good
BUZZ: Excellent (esp. for co-leads Frank Langella, reprising his Tony Award winning role, and The Queen's Tony Blair Michael Sheen)


CHANGELING, Clint Eastwood
TRAILER: Good
BUZZ: Good (esp. for Angelina Jolie)


REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, Sam Mendes
TRAILER: Very Good
BUZZ: Good
(Kate Winslet's other 2008 film, The Reader, may confuse Oscar voters and thus kill her sixth Best Actress nod chances this year.)

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, Danny Boyle
TRAILER: Good
BUZZ: Excellent
(with Fox Searchlight handling its North American release, the film is shaping up as a Best Picture contender ala Juno, Lost in Translation, and Little Miss Sunshine or "the little films that could")

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