Fall 08 Movies!

Top 5:

5. Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist - Michael Cera and some chick from The 40 Year Old Virgin run around New York for a night trying to see a band or something. I dunno. It sounded good though.

4. The Soloist - Directed by Joe Wright, the guy who directed Pride and Prejudice and Atonement. Robert Downey Jr., Catherine Keener, and Jamie Foxx. A journalist meets a Julliard-trained homeless guy when trying to write an article and you can probably figure out what happens.

3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Directed by the wonderful, wonderful David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en, Zodiac) and based on a short story by the even more wonderful F. Scott Fitzgerald. It's about a man who ages backward - grows younger, not older. Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, and other big names.

2. Synecdoche, New York - Written/directed by Charlie Kaufman, who wrote Eternal Sunshine (of the Spotless Mind), Adaptation., and Being John Malkovich, among others. Starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener (again!), Michelle Williams, and a bunch of others big names. PSH plays a director who builds a life-size replica of New York City in a warehouse as part of his new play.

1. Revolutionary Road - Sam Mendes, the guy who directed American Beauty. His wife and the youngest woman ever to be nominated for 4 Oscars, Kate Winslet. And her Titanic costar Leonardo DiCaprio. 1950s. They play 2 free spirits who get trapped in mundane lives. It doesn't get any better than this. Absolutely cannot wait.

Also:
~ Frost/Nixon - Ron Howard directs the film version of the play about the talks between Frost and Nixon after Watergate.
~ Australia - Baz Luhrmann's latest. I'm not a huge fan of Nicole Kidman, but Hugh Jackman is immensely talented and always surprises me.
~ Milk - So much buzz about the Sean Penn / Emile Hirsch flick directed by Good Will Hunting's Gus van Sant, I guess I have to add it to the list.
~ Doubt - Meryl Streep and Amy Adams with PSH. A nun suspects and accuses a priest of abusing a young black man in the 1960s. Written and directed by the man who wrote the award-winning play on which it's based, and Adams and PSH were in the original Broadway production. I bet it's awesome.

Plus:
~ Bolt - [Pixar-less?] Disney movie about a dog who thinks he's a hero. Voice talents aside (Miley Cyrus? John Travolta? Ugh.) it looks good.
~ Quantum of Solace - The new James Bond flick. Daniel Craig's back. Looks good.
~ Zack and Miri Make a Porno - Kevin Smith's latest with Seth Rogan and Elizabeth Banks. Probably highly inappropriate but probably also hilarious.
~ The Road - Based on Cormac McCarthy's highly acclaimed book. Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall. The last McCarthy adaptation? No Country for Old Men. Yeah. Just don't expect the feel-good movie of the year.