Question:
I've been following the development of these couple of films for a while and glad to see trailers for both are now available, from the same great company, I love Sony, glad they distribute them!
First up is Laurel Canyon, written/directed by Lisa Cholodenko, who did the excellent lesbian drama starring Radha Mitchell.
Even though Canyon features Natscha McElhone and Kate Beckinsale, Frances McDormand outshines them both, she's wicked, sexy, and fun. Didn't think she'd be great for the role back almost a year ago but I'm apologizing now. Check out the trailer:
Laurel Canyon
http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/laurel_canyon.html
Synopsis:
Laurel Canyon is a street that runs through the heart of the Hollywood Hills, joining the middle-class, stolid environs of the San Fernando Valley to the heart of the city of Los Angeles. The canyon is notable for its varied residents through the years and has served, and continues to, as the home to many rock stars, musicians, performers, producers, and the like. Among its current residents are Jane (Frances McDormand), a legendary record producer, currently producing an album for a British band whose lead singer Ian (Allesandro Nivola) is her much younger lover. Jane and the band are creating the album in her Laurel Canyon house where she has a recording studio.
Jane’s son Sam (Christian Bale) and his fiancée Alex (Kate Beckinsale) are both recent graduates of Harvard medical school. Conservative, solid and serious, the couple find it necessary to move to Los Angeles to complete their studies: Sam is completing his Residency at the renowned Hausman Neuropsychiatric Institute, while Alex is intent on completing her dissertation on Drosophilia Genomics. Jane has offered her Laurel Canyon home for them to stay in, promising that it will be vacant. But when Sam and Alex arrive Jane and the Band are still working in Jane’s home recording studio to complete the album. Sam and Alex begrudgingly stay at Jane’s house until they can find an alternative place to live.
Once in the house, however, things begin to slowly unravel. Alex’s attraction to Jane’s and Ian’s freewheeling lifestyle and Sam’s hesitancy about renewing a relationship with his wayward mother as well as his growing attraction to fellow medical resident Sara (Natascha McElhone) slowly fill the house with tension and doubt...
Then there is
Spider
A genius pairing of David Cronenberg and Ralph Fiennes!
Time for a new Cronenberg movie and a juicy part for the recently sold out/mainstreamized Fiennes. Great supporting cast includes Gabriel Byrne...
http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/spider.html
Synopsis:
Spider is set in the East End of London in the 1960s & 80s. A deeply disturbed boy, Spider (Bradley Hall), 'sees' his father brutally murder his mother and replace her with a prostitute, Yvonne (Miranda Richardson). Convinced they plan to murder him next, Spider hatches an insane plan, which he carries through to tragic effect. Years later, Spider (Ralph Fiennes) is released into a halfway house where he receives little care or attention from the landlady, Mrs. Wilkinson (Lynn Redgrave). Unsupervised, Spider stops taking his medication and starts revisiting his childhood haunts. His attempts to sustain his delusional accounts of his past begin to unravel and Spider spirals into fresh madness.
:dork:
... and in half a year everyone will be starting threads and raving about and discussing these 2 flicks, mark my words. :)
First up is Laurel Canyon, written/directed by Lisa Cholodenko, who did the excellent lesbian drama starring Radha Mitchell.
Even though Canyon features Natscha McElhone and Kate Beckinsale, Frances McDormand outshines them both, she's wicked, sexy, and fun. Didn't think she'd be great for the role back almost a year ago but I'm apologizing now. Check out the trailer:
Laurel Canyon
http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/laurel_canyon.html
Synopsis:
Laurel Canyon is a street that runs through the heart of the Hollywood Hills, joining the middle-class, stolid environs of the San Fernando Valley to the heart of the city of Los Angeles. The canyon is notable for its varied residents through the years and has served, and continues to, as the home to many rock stars, musicians, performers, producers, and the like. Among its current residents are Jane (Frances McDormand), a legendary record producer, currently producing an album for a British band whose lead singer Ian (Allesandro Nivola) is her much younger lover. Jane and the band are creating the album in her Laurel Canyon house where she has a recording studio.
Jane’s son Sam (Christian Bale) and his fiancée Alex (Kate Beckinsale) are both recent graduates of Harvard medical school. Conservative, solid and serious, the couple find it necessary to move to Los Angeles to complete their studies: Sam is completing his Residency at the renowned Hausman Neuropsychiatric Institute, while Alex is intent on completing her dissertation on Drosophilia Genomics. Jane has offered her Laurel Canyon home for them to stay in, promising that it will be vacant. But when Sam and Alex arrive Jane and the Band are still working in Jane’s home recording studio to complete the album. Sam and Alex begrudgingly stay at Jane’s house until they can find an alternative place to live.
Once in the house, however, things begin to slowly unravel. Alex’s attraction to Jane’s and Ian’s freewheeling lifestyle and Sam’s hesitancy about renewing a relationship with his wayward mother as well as his growing attraction to fellow medical resident Sara (Natascha McElhone) slowly fill the house with tension and doubt...
Then there is
Spider
A genius pairing of David Cronenberg and Ralph Fiennes!
Time for a new Cronenberg movie and a juicy part for the recently sold out/mainstreamized Fiennes. Great supporting cast includes Gabriel Byrne...
http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/spider.html
Synopsis:
Spider is set in the East End of London in the 1960s & 80s. A deeply disturbed boy, Spider (Bradley Hall), 'sees' his father brutally murder his mother and replace her with a prostitute, Yvonne (Miranda Richardson). Convinced they plan to murder him next, Spider hatches an insane plan, which he carries through to tragic effect. Years later, Spider (Ralph Fiennes) is released into a halfway house where he receives little care or attention from the landlady, Mrs. Wilkinson (Lynn Redgrave). Unsupervised, Spider stops taking his medication and starts revisiting his childhood haunts. His attempts to sustain his delusional accounts of his past begin to unravel and Spider spirals into fresh madness.
:dork:
Answers:
... and in half a year everyone will be starting threads and raving about and discussing these 2 flicks, mark my words. :)
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