- Planetarium -: August 2009

Another fanvid I made ~ this time it's about Lost in Austen and in particular about Jane and Charles's relationships <3 because they're just so cute and they're my favourite characters in the book!!!
For further information see the video description <3

Enjoy ~ !

.. and now, a short review about the last film I've seen at the cinema: S. Darko.
Unfortunately it was quite disappointing. Despite all the bad reviews I had heard I went to the cinema trying to have no prejudices about the new film, but I can see why the new project was not blessed by the writer of Donnie Darko, Richard Kelly. Because Donnie Darko didn't need a sequel.
The plot of the new film had way too many things copied from the previous one and often they were not just sentences or similar things that could be useful to excite Donnie Darko's fans, they were entire scenes filmed just in the same way, only with different characters!! Not really original.
What's more, the characters were not very well developed, the conversations not brilliant and they didn't give me any particular issue to wonder about, maybe with the only exception of a phrase said by Jeremy, not too original though.
Unlike the previous film, this did not contain a real critic about society, except for some element against preachers and religion already present in Donnie Darko. Finally, someone can explain to me why, if in the previous film we have been said something about the Philosophy of Time Travels described in the book by Roberta Sparrow, now no one follows any rule to create a time vortex and just have nightmares that lead them in the past??
After seeing the film I was just confused and couldn't figure out was I was missing.. but I'm afraid that this film's plot is just too weak to be a real sequel of Donnie Darko and probably there's not really so much to understand.

Anyway, the next months seem to be full of great events for what concerns cinema and films!!
There are quite a few that I'm not gonna miss!! :D
For what concerns Italy, here in September there's the release of Cheri, with Michelle Pfeiffer and Ruper Friend and the Ice Age 3. The latter should be fun as usual, but I'm really curious about the first one. I've just read Colette's book, Cheri, and I enjoyed it quite a lot. It was poetic, sad and at the same time bright, soft and frivolous. Like the director said, Colette describes things like an impressionist. You see the mouvement of the light and the colours and everything is so sweet, so shallow yet so dramatic. I think that the choice of Michelle in the role of Léa is just perfect and Rupert seems to make a very good Cheri. I'm looking forward to see it ^^

Then, a new film directed by Tim Burton will be released on 09/09/09 but strangely enough no one is talking a about it now.. the title is 9 and it is an animated film, apparently very visionary and with a lot of action. Then in October it's the turn of Parnassus, a new film by Terry Gillian, another film full of visions, imagination, adventures starring the Heath Ledger in his last great performance, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law. The trailer is just amazing, I can't wait to see it!!!

Another film I'm waiting for in October is Dorian Gray, starring Ben Barnes. I'm a huge fan of Oscar Wilde's book and I think that Ben is so handsome he fits Dorian perfectly... even if I'm afraid the director did not respect the book's plot very much. The trailer seems more extreme and what's more they added a character that did not exist: Sir Henry Wottom's daughter. Why is that??

Others films released in November/December are Hachiko, a dog's tale starring Richard Gere (the trailer made me cry already), Avatar directed by James Cameron and... last but not least, coming on 5th March 2010 is Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland!!!
I'm waiting from this film since it was announced and I think it's going to be fantastic!! I really would like to see it in 3d at the IMAX (possibly in London, eheh) and the cast is great *-* Johnny Depp, Helena Boham Carter, Anne Hathaway..
Burton seems to have made a mix between Alice in Wonderland and Through the looking glass (like Disney had already made in his cartoon), all in his unique and particular dark and visionary style.