Coming Soon But Not Soon Enough#2 Marie-Antoinette (Sony / Columbia. Arriving in October.)
If you haven't seen the jaw-droppingly brilliant teaser trailer, drop everything and watch it now. It cleverly mashes 80s new wave with 18th century eye-candy (hey, they're both retro) for the tale of this frivolous teen-age queen. It's a bold move --not everyone gets how brilliant age appropriate the teaser is. But it shows again that Sofia is for real.
Could Coppola actually be three for three? The Virgin Suicides showed great promise for the famous offspring of Francis Ford and it also delivered a major performance from Kirsten Dunst. We all know what happened with her follow-up Lost in Translation. For her third trick, Sofia returns with her original star, "Kiki", in tow. This recipe looks risky but let us eat cake!
The Film Experience ♥ Kiki
A collection of previous Dunst-related posts
tags: Kirsten Dunst, Sofia Coppola, Marie-Antoinette, movies, Scarlet Johansson, entertainment
previous "coming soons"
#3 The Prestige, #4 A Prairie Home Companion, #5 Dreamgirls, #6 The Fountain, #7 Running With Scissors, #8 Volver, #9 Inland Empire, #10 Little Children, #11 Margaret, and #12 Bug
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I agree that the trailer is absolutely brilliant -- but I have a strange suspicion that this will be a complete catastrophe.
Nonetheless, I'm seeing it opening weekend.
My big worry is about Dunst, she has underwhelmed me in everything I've seen her in since The Virgin Suicides, so maybe getting back with Sofia Coppola can be a good thing.
Chofer have you read Antonia Fraser's biography its also an excellent account of M-A's life.
I smell huge catastrophe coming every which way from this one.
It gives me a Vanity Fair, Memoirs of a Geisha vibe- big, fancy, period production, high profile cast/director, and some questionable casting choices. I'm no fan of Kiki's, and I don't think she's right for this role at all, just like Reese in Vanity Fair.
I'm 99% sure I know what #1 is...guess we'll all find out pretty soon!
I'm expecting this film to be as misguided as Marie Antoinette's famous statement, truth be told.
ah but even if its a disaster it will be a fascinating disaster. which is why i absolutely cannot wait.
i love a point of view.
I want to see a list of most anticipated performances Nat!
P.S: If you make one, I better see Winslet and Kidman on there LOL.
There are two that seem such obvious choices for number one, and yet neither have shown up on the list, I cannot decide which one it will be?!? Oh, the waiting...
The new PTA movie with Daniel Day-Lewis. I'll put a make-believe fiver on it.
Marie-Antionette was myy #2 as well (Inland Empire was #1)! Cannot wait for this. I like to see the trailer as an obvious riff on Marie-Antionette's pointed greed and the '80s obsession with "greed is good" ya know. It makes perfect sense. And the fact that she uses New Order's (aka, one of THE greatest bands ever - still around, too!) "Age of Consent" is just brilliant. Sofia is great.
And yes, even if it is a disaster (which it has the possibility of, but i so hope it isn't) then at least it'll be pretty, which I didn't even think Memoirs of a Geisha was all that much of.
I love that she has such a bonkers cast. Kirsten, Jason Schwartzmann, Judy Davis (who needs to be in more movies plz), etc...
About the chart, clearly Mission Impossible 3 with the unholy mix of Tom and Phillip Seymour, is gonna be #1, right?!
But seriously, could #1 be Alfonoso Cuaron's The Children of Men with, amongst others, Julianne Moore? Or Todd Haynes' Bob Dylan (sort of) biopic with, amongst others, Julianne Moore. Or the return of La Pfeiffer? Or perhaps the Gondry and Bernal team up of The Science of Sleep? Is Nat a Milos Foreman fan? He has Goya's Ghosts this year. Or, yes, the previously mentioned Paul Thomas movie...? Hmmm....
you're all so wrong. mwaaaa ha ha ha ha
come on people...isn't it obvious what number 1 will be...what is Nathaniel completly obsessed with above all else? What movie is coming out this year that just happens to be about this very subject?
Whatever...maybe I'm completly wrong.
Ohmytrill, I am with you. It's totally obvious what #1 will be. Think, people, think.
Though I do wonder why the Bob Dylan movie was nowhere to be seen on the list.
#1 - jennifer, catherine, christopher, eugene, parker. surely...?
OMG, of course! lol, and that was in my top 5 anticipated titles as well!
Chofer, Spiderman 3 will be a 2007 release.
Chofer, the description of Louis is the one that I remember the most from the book, I read a long while back I think I might crack it open again over the weekend!
it is confirmed that marie-antoinette is nominated at cannes this year.
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