The Entertainment Weekly Fall Movie Preview issue is my favorite of the entire year. I read it from cover to cover the day it arrives, categorize all the flicks into three lists, and refer back to the issue over the next four months. Most of this year's selections are "maybes;" very few have me ready to head to a theater on the first day. But after making my list, and checking it twice, here's what I have at least mild curiosity about.
1) Burn After Reading (Sept. 12, the Coen brothers' follow-up to No Country for Old Men. However, Variety hated it, and that makes me leery.)
2) The Women (Sept. 12, and Mom and I have a mother/daughter date the next day. We haven't had one of those in a long time.)
3) The Duchess (Sept. 19. Keira Knighley, costumes, and "based on a book." I am so there.)
4) Blindness (Sept. 26. The good news: the casting of Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo. The bad news: bad buzz at Cannes. I'm nervous.)
5) Rachel Getting Married (Oct. 3, with Anne Hathaway already receiving critical praise. But is it too much in the "dirty up a pretty girl for an Oscar" vein?)
6) Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (Oct. 3, featuring the adorable Michael Cera and the equally charming Kat Dennings. Better-than-average teen fare?)
7) Religulous (Oct. 3, the Bill Maher religion documentary. Considering HIS views, this ought to be a hoot, and hopefully intelligent.)
8) Body of Lies (Oct. 10, reuniting Leo and the writer of The Departed, but adding Russell Crowe and HIS buddy Ridley Scott)
9) The Secret Lies of Bees (Oct. 17, as long as it isn't like Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Maybe I should read the book first?)
10) Changeling (Oct. 24. Let the "Angie for Oscar" hype begin. I think she was robbed for A Mighty Heart, so campaigning is A-OK with me.)
11) The Soloist (Nov. 21. Please don't be sappy. Let the Robert Downey Jr. Is Awesome streak win out.)
12) Australia (Nov. 26. I hate everything Baz Luhrmann does, so I ought to avoid this. And yet, it has Hugh Jackman as a romantic lead, and I swoon.)
13) Frost/Nixon (Dec. 5, my No. 1 movie choice of the fall season. I saw the play, I think Michael Sheen is highly underrated, my classmate Patricia and I talk about it every time we see each other.)
14) Doubt (Dec. 12, which is No. 2 on my overall list because I never saw the play.)
15) Reservation Road (Dec. 26, a Leo/Kate reunion that I hope will not be as nausea-inducing as That Freaking Boat Movie.)
All right - your turn. What do you want to see?
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Man, I remember hitting the mall with you in college and seeing two-three movies in a row. I married a man who could care less about movies, and now I have a baby, so it's an effort to even see Tropic Thunder (still haven't gotten to that one). Great list.
James Bond/Daniel Craig!
"The Road": Screw Oprah, my relatives, and the part-time co-worker who "got" the book oh-so-much-better than I ever could (yeah...right). Let's see if the film captures McCarthy as well as "No Country for Old Men" did.
"RockNRolla": Gerard Butler and Jeremy Piven!
Transporter 3!
Christine - you married a man who doesn't care about movies??? Ack! The baby is a good excuse to not be in a theater, but M? Hmmph!
Patricia - I don't get the Bond allure. What am I missing? I'm not yet sure about "The Road" (though I loved "No Country for Old Men") or "RockNRolla," as I am not a Guy Ritchie fan.
And isn't it a year or so early to be thinking of "Transporter 3?" :)
I've said it before, and I'll say it again...James Bond = Sean Connery. (No, I'm not a James Bond fan, but I have seen enough of the varying performances - including Daniel Craig - to know that Sean Connery is the one. There can be no other.)
I would like to see "The Duchess" and perhaps "Frost/Nixon."
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