Movie Trailer of the Day: “Jason Bourne was the tip of the iceberg.”
The Bourne Legacy introduces us to new hero Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner), a genetically-altered agent whose life-or-death stakes were triggered by the events of the first three films. Tony Gilbert is back as director; Albert Finney, Joan Allen, David Strathairn, and Scott Glenn reprise their original roles; and series newcomers Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Stacy Keach, and Oscar Isaac also star.
Wes Anderson’s much-anticipated new film, Moonrise Kingdom, is a wistful look at the dichotomy between youth’s blind intelligence and adulthood’s cynical detachment told through the eyes of two young outsiders in love. From the master of corduroy twee and emotionally affectless children, the film looks like a catalogue for a Wes Anderson film. Much of that is due to the work of production designer Adam Stockhausen. We asked the young Mr. Stockhausen what goes into making the New England universe in which the two young heroes, Khaki scout Sam and his tween love interest Suzy, inhabit.
Hey, I got an idea, let’s go to the movies. I wanna go to the movies, I want to take you all to the movies. Let’s go and experience the art of the cinema. Let’s begin with the Scream Of Fear, and we are going to haunt us for the rest of our lives. And then let’s go see The Great Escape, and spend our summer jumping our bikes, just like Steve McQueen over barb wire. And then let’s catch The Seven Samurai for some reason on PBS, and we’ll feel like we speak Japanese because we can read the subtitles and hear the language at the same time. And then let’s lose sleep the night before we see 2001: A Space Odyssey because we have this idea that it’s going to change forever the way we look at films. And then let’s go see it four times in one year. And let’s see Woodstock three times in one year and let’s see Taxi Driver twice in one week. And let’s see Close Encounters of the Third Kind just so we can freeze there in mid-popcorn. And when the kids are old enough, let’s sit them together on the sofa and screen City Lights and Stage Coach and The Best Years of Our Lives and On The Waterfront and Midnight Cowboy and Five Easy Pieces and The Last Picture Show and Raging Bull and Schlinder’s List… so that they can understand how the human condition can be captured by this amalgam of light and sound and literature we call the cinema.
- Tom Hanks
This is exactly how I feel about the potential of films.
This just confirms that everything awesome in the television world is somehow connected to Joss Whedon. But we already know that Whedon was awesome, didn’t we?
Appreciations for beauty captured within the world of film. Every shot is articulated with such precision and skill. Here's to those that work to create beauty in such images, words, and actions.
P.S. If you reblog any of the photos that I took, please give me credit. I took the time to look through these movies and create my own movie stills, which can be quite time consuming. So please give credit where needed, also to the directors! Please and thank you! :)
