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Movies: Bana Disappears, Kutcher Spreads, and Hitchcock Terrorizes

Nathaniel Rogers August 13, 2009

Banadisappears

Guestblogger NATHANIEL ROGERS

Nathaniel Rogers would live inside a movie theater but for the poor internet reception. He blogs daily at the Film Experience.

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There's quite a variety of new product at the multiplexes. Let's start with the romantic drama, THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE in which Eric Bana keeps disappearing and reappearing in Rachel McAdams life. Wait, is he playing Ryan Gosling?!? This vanishing / reappearing act is probably a great metaphor of some sort for romance, though I haven't read the bestseller so I've no idea if the concept is executed well. The faithful are angry that they've changed it to something sunnier. Hollywood is so terrified of sad endings, even in tearjerkers which are supposed to make you cry.

Kutcher_spread Ashton Kutcher's new film SPREAD features Mr. Demi Moore in frequent stages of undress seducing women poolside, including the ever watchable Anne Heche. Who cares if she's crazy when she can act circles around a lot of overemployed actors. But if Ashton's going to be bedding older women onscreen, shouldn't he and Demi be making movies together by now?

The trailer does beg the following question: Does Kutcher's co-star Sebastian Stan (one of the warlocks in that awful supernatural man candy flick The Covenant) have a CGI tongue? 

MORE, AFTER THE JUMP…

Spread_costar

That must be computer generated. He's showing that off in a movie called Spread? The MPAA must have missed that when they gave this an "R". Next up for Sebastian: the Gene Simmons biopic!

District9 Two enticing genre films are also here. Animation master Hayao Miyazaki's latest PONYO has also arrived. If you've ever seen the Oscar winning Spirited Away or the moving Princess Mononoke you'll want a ticket. There's more to animated films than Pixar's boys and Disney's princesses. Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings) produced DISTRICT 9,an alien invasion action movie. It's set in modern day Johannesburg andthough it's a little messy with ideas and stylistic choices (the fauxdocumentary device is overplayed), the central image of an alienspaceship hovering over the post Apartheid city like a darkcloud is marvelously effective. It's very bloody and full of tenseinspired moments and jaw dropping special effects. Action, sci-fi andhorror fans will love it… if they buy a ticket. Without stars or childhood toy tie-ins, who knows how well it will sell.

The Classics

 road It's Alfred Hitchcock's 110th birthday today. He's been in the grave for nearly 30 years but Hitchcock would love to know that he's still terrorizing movie lovers into the 21st century. Terrorizing them in their homes no less. Few auteurs boast a filmography as overflowing with classics. One of my sentimental favorites –though it's hardly sentimental– is the Leopold & Loeb style experiment Rope (1948). Here's an excerpt of something I wrote on it:

"Though this thriller was made in 1948, it could only read gayer if the men were shirtless or wearing leather harnesses. This, for instance, is how the opening post murder scene plays out…

Rope_hitchcockTwo men, having just done the dirty deed, argue. The more aggressive man, Brandon, complains that they couldn't do it with the lights on, in the sunshine. His partner in crime, Phillip, has instant regrets. He could only do it in the dark. A cigarette is lit. More small talk and then they stand uncomfortably close together popping the cork (yes, really) on a bottle of champagne.

Phillip: [guilt-ridden] Brandon, how did you feel?
Brandon: When?

Phillip:
During it.
Brandon: I don't know really… I don't remember feeling much of anything. [suddenly excited] Until his body went limp and I knew it was over!

Phillip:
[trembling] And then…
Brandon: And then I felt…tremendously exhilarated. [Pause]

H-h-how did you feel?

Dirty. Hitchcock, the mainstream's most reliably twisted auteur, clearly intends for this post-murder dialogue to double as post-coitus chatter. [read the rest]"

Hitchcock was pathologizing the homosexual but I'm forgiving because he pathologizedeverything. He was an equal opportunity provocateur. He even curdledJimmy Stewart's everyman milk. How sick is Jimmy in Vertigo (1958) anyway? Major reparative therapy –no, not that kind — is required.

What's your favorite Hitchcock film? If you've seen Rope, 'h-h-how did you feel' about it?

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