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Stoker, Park Chan-wook's English-language debut, with a script from Wentworth Miller.

At the very least, it should be this year's best Nicole Kidman movie

Next year's. Apple has it listed as coming out in March.

Here's a new promotional video. I have no idea what to make of this movie, but I want to see it right now.

Wildly diverse reactions to this one. Guy Lodge is quite positive in Variety.

Mia Wasikowska's been due a breakout film role that utilizes her talents for a while, sounds like she may have finally found it

Wasikowska is also in Jim Jarmusch's up and coming vampire(?!)film Only lovers left alive.

JPJ wrote:Wasikowska is also in Jim Jarmusch's up and coming vampire(?!)film Only lovers left alive.

Whoa Jarmusch is making a vampire film! Wow, that should be interesting to say the least, at probably the best vampire film since Bigelow's Near Dark; although I haven't seen Park's Thirst yet so maybe that is the best since Near Dark

Thirst is pretty awful so no worries there.

I liked Thirst, had no idea until watching that it's basically Zola's Therese Raquin, which is one of my favourite novels.

Jim seems quite the natural to make a vampire movie.

TheDudeAbides wrote:the best vampire film since Bigelow's Near Dark

I thought that title was held by Let the Right One In (or at the very least by Cronos).

Matt wrote:I thought that title was held by Let the Right One In (or at the very least by Cronos).

Or there's Iwai's still unreleased Vampire, which is, iyam, pretty great.

Or ...

No love for The Addiction?

If I'm going to watch a 1990s black-and-white auteurist micro-indie NYC vampire film, it's probably going to be Nadja, but I did enjoy parts of The Addiction.

some reviews (spoilers present):

3/10 (Russ Fisher, /Film)

D- (Rodrigo Perez, Playlist)

B+ (Eric Kohn, IndieWire)

So this is getting a limited release on March 1st - what the fuck, Fox? This doesn't seem like the type of film that'd benefit from a slow roll-out, though I guess limited could mean 800ish screens? Does anyone have further information on what the release is going to look like?

mfunk9786 wrote:Does anyone have further information on what the release is going to look like?

Like this.

Oof, looks like I have to hike to the city on March 15th - sigh, what are you thinking releasing this in arthouses right on the heels of the Oscars, Fox? Just put it into multiplexes and be done with it.

Saw it today and it's the first disappointment of the 2013 season: it looks very pretty and stylish but it's also really, really boring for the most part. If this was a Hitchcock film (apparently Park left most of the references out, thank Goodness, as the Uncle Charlie nod to Shadow of a Doubt was so obvious to invite a #-o ), which it seems to aspire to, it'd be, alas, more like Topaz than Shadow of a Doubt, let alone Psycho. The casting of Matthew Goode is one of the many things about this film that is just too on the nose, and by the time the twist/reveal/whatever you want to call it unfolded, I was beyond caring. I'm starting to think that Park Chan-Wook doesn't do anything for me, as the only film of his I've genuinely liked remains Lady Vengeance (yup, I don't care for Oldboy).

> the only film of his I've genuinely liked remains Lady Vengeance

The only one I (mostly) like is I'm A Cyborg, But That's Okay. ;-}

You're both doing better than me. I've seen three or four of his films and that's been enough to put him on my permanent 'nothing of interest happening here: avoid' list (along with Kim Ki-Duk).

I wish I had the gumption to do that. O for ten on some people and still stupidly return to them every few months.

knives wrote:I wish I had the gumption to do that. O for ten on some people and still stupidly return to them every few months.

Ok, I'm curious, who are you 0 for 10 with?

I'll often return to a director who doesn't do much for me a bunch of times in the hope of stumbling across an an isolated spark (eg. Contempt with Godard, Balthasar with Bresson), but this definitely has its limits. It's not as tho' I'm hard-pressed for stuff to watch.

Mizoguchi was that for awhile. I don't know if Hanna-Barbera should count, but I've seen enough I don't like their work enough to feel comfortable bringing them up. Richard Thorpe, James White, and Edward Sedgwick I don't actively dislike, but generally don't have a like for. De Sica and Antonioni have their moments, but I don't think I've ever more than admired the whole of one of their films.