COMING ATTRACTIONS Trailer Night: Winter 2008
by Bill Henry on Nov.11, 2008, under Appearances
Cool Temperatures, Hot Films Sizzle on Screen
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 7:00pm. (tickets on sale at 6:00pm)
at Landmark’s E Street Cinema (E Street between 10th & 11th St, N.W.)
It’s time for the final parade of Oscar contenders, plus a spectrum of action, comedy, drama, romance, and comic/superhero films. Come in from the cold, grab that significant other, get cozy, and check out what’s going to heat up the screen. Be among the first to view the season’s hottest trailers with fellow film fans at 7 p.m., Wednesday, November 12, at Landmark’s E Street Cinema (E Street between 10th & 11th St., N.W.).
You’ll get to be the judge of the film studios’ marketing skills by joining local film critics, Joe Barber and Bill Henry, as they dissect each trailer in a no-holds-barred give and take. PLUS, attendees get to vote on the films they’re most looking forward to (or not) and we pass this information on to the studios. Summertime box office lived up to the hype. What’s on the A-list for this season? You decide if the buzz is believable as you choose your favorites.
Here’s what you might see: Daniel Craig as Bond is back for revenge, and badder than ever in Quantum of Solace. Romantic comedy Four Christmases pairs Reese Witherspoon with Vince Vaughn. Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson star in the screen adaptation of Twilight. Baz Luhrmann’s sweeping epic, Australia, unites Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman in the Outback while Revolutionary Road reunites Titanic’s Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. Not to be confused with The Road, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, with Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee in a father and son, post-apocalypse survival story. Other adaptations include Broadway’s Doubt, based on the Pulitzer-prize winning play, with Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams, Frost/Nixon about the David Frost TV interviews with Richard Nixon, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton, and Cate Blanchett, and Frank Miller’s The Spirit featuring Gabriel Macht as a dead policeman returning to fight evil. We also might feature The Soloist with Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey, Jr., Milk with Sean Penn as San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, Keanu Reeves in a remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Jim Carrey in Yes Man, Crossing Over with Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, and Sean Penn, Bolt, about a dog that thinks he has superpowers, animated sequel Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, and the hardest working man in show business, Samuel L. Jackson, joins the late Bernie Mac and the late Isaac Hayes in Soul Men.
The evening is $5 for DC Film Society members, free to Gold members and $8 for nonmembers. It includes lots of movie promotional items, movie posters, and raffles of movie tickets and DVDs. For more information on this unique event and an update on trailers to be shown at “COMING ATTRACTIONS TRAILER NIGHT” visit the website.
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