"Some movies just stay on the screen when they are through, but Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist transcends that norm as its radiant truth and naturalistic approach cuts deep through our toughest layer of skin that isn’t penetrated very easily.The outcome hasn’t been demonstrated since Almost Famous captivated our emotions in 2000. Each film has similar main characters. Each boy is normal in his appearance but are thrown into a world where some rock-stars and rich men would kill for. It’s with these characters that each film bases their whole premise around; simple and loveable. You can’t teach that in acting school.
There comes a time when a movie achieves intimacy with its audience, and hence, that is how it acquires greatness. First time director Peter Sollett, adapting from a Cohn and Levithan novel, creates magic. He manages to establish a strong enough bond (strongest since Brokeback Mountain) that allows us to realize what we are watching is not only comedy done to perfection but it can also double as high end drama; almost like a monk who reaches his highest pinnacle during his religious learning’s. When comedy can do this, it is hard to beat.
Blatantly breaking away from the infectious raunchy humor which we came to call ‘comedy’ comes something out of defiance towards that; a movie that was made from the purest of heart with mounting intentions to create peace and harmony amongst every character. Nick and Norah desperately disregards any traits involving vulgar sex, terrible language and did I mention sex? What Sollett forays into is a movie world where sex isn’t on everyone’s mind. The lone thing that is on everyone’s mind is making the other person smile".
"The actors, of course, are all way better-looking than I imagined the characters in the book, but they all suit the roles beautifully in personality and make each character their own. I love that Michael Cera's Nick is a bit darker than earlier characters he's played, and that he's not the lovable dork who doesn't think he can get the girl -- he's a guy that's obsessing over the wrong ex-girlfriend, maybe, but he's already loved and lost the hot girl, and now can move on to trying a more mature relationship with a new girl, Norah. Which brings me to Kat Dennings. If you don't completely fall in love with her as Norah, I kind of want to start a fight with you". Source: blog.myspace.com
"There is, then, something unintentionally ironic about the word “infinite” in the film’s title. That word is supposed to imply, I guess, that that magical moment can go on forever—that the point in time where one is so in love that one just wants to make mix tapes for the other person doesn’t have to fade. There’s another word for being stuck infinitely in the same place. That word is hell. [...] Because despite Norah finally finding a guy that will bring her to orgasm and despite Nick finding a girl who will listen to and appreciate his mix tapes and despite Caroline’s relief that this time when she woke up from passing out the strange guys in the van she found herself in were not trying to rape her and despite the glee of an auditorium full of fans who would give their right pinkie to share a vomit flavored wad of gum with Kat Dennings or Michael Cera there was a sheen of sadness that permeated from the very pores of this film". Source: lookingcloser.wordpress.com
Michael Cera in "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist". ''I don't really think of it as a movie about being a teenager,'' says Cera, whose character, Nick, is a Yugo-driving aspiring rocker recently dumped by his girlfriend (Alexis Dziena). ''It's just about that feeling you get when you meet someone you like one night, and how you run the risk of easily losing touch with them forever.'' Dennings agrees. ''Yeah, there's always that threat in this movie,'' she says. ''They don't know each other's last names, and might not even meet again on Facebook!'' Source: www.ew.com
Kat Dennings with guitar.
"Femme fatale Jenny Lewis has never sounded so passionate and her songs never so hard-hitting and acerbic as on her aptly titled solo disk Acid Tongue. The album follows 2006’s Rabbit Fur Coat (which Spin named among the best albums of that year) and a series of acclaimed albums with indie rock fave Rilo Kiley". Source: indiepassion.blogspot.com Jenny Lewis with Jake.
"In preparation for our upcoming Top 50 Hottest Young Actors list, we have made the rounds of upcoming movie listings and selected the 10 young actors with the most exciting and challenging roles: Jake Gyllenhaal - two upcoming roles: as Tommy Cahill in Brothers and as Prince Dastan in Prince of Persia.
Based on Susan Bier’s film, also entitled Brothers, Jake Gyllenhaal plays Tommy Cahill, the brother of Sam Cahill (played by Tobey Maguire). Tobey’s character is a soldier who goes missing in Afghanistan, and Jake’s character tries to comfort his older brother's wife Grace (played by Natalie Portman) and her children.
The original Bier film is a drama about a UN-soldier who is in a helicopter crash somewhere in Afghanistan and is believed to be dead. His wife and younger brother both deeply mourn him, but eventually finds comfort in each other's company, leading to the two of them falling in love. Months later, the soldier reappears alive but deeply traumatized.
In Prince of Persia, based on the 2003 video game of the same name, Jake plays the title role. The film is directed by Mike Newell and also stars Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley and Alfred Molina. Filming is taking place in the United Kingdom and Morocco. As Prince Dastan, Gyllenhaal is a 6th century prince of Persia who teams up with Princess Tamina (Gemma Arterton) to rescue the Sands of Time, a gift from the gods that controls time, from the hands of the villainous nobleman, Nizam (Ben Kingsley)". Joseph Gordon-Levitt - He has about seven upcoming projects, all of them very exciting and diverse, so we choose three that really excite us. Joe Levitt is always an indie player, and we based our choices on that premise…
In The Frog King, Joe plays a struggling writer toiling away at his publishing house job who tries to keep the one good thing in his life -- his relationship with his girlfriend -- from going wrong. The film is based on Adam Davies’ book The Frog King. 500 Days of Summer tells the story of the relationship between Summer (played by Zooey Deschanel), who doesn't believe in true love and Tom (Gordon-Levitt), described as a hopeless romantic, who falls in love with her. Over a span of 500 days, it is told from the perspective of Tom, who is influenced by pop music and who breaks out into song throughout the movie.
He’s also slated to play Cobra Commander in GI Joe and one supporting role in Killshot (with Mikey Rourke, among others), but I would think his role (rumored) in Akira would be just as exciting, if not one of the three most exciting. It would be the first time that Joe gets to work with Leonardo DiCaprio.
Paul Dano - After Little Miss Sunshine and There Will Be Blood, you wouldn’t expect Paul Dano to go anywhere but up! With six new films coming his way, we took an immediate liking to two of them:
In Gigantic, he plays Brian, a depressed mattress salesman whose quest to adopt a Chinese baby is sidetracked when he falls for Happy (played by Zooey Deschanel). What makes this role so cool is that Dano will act alongside John Goodman, Ed Asner and Jane Alexander. Ed Asner will play Dano's pot-smoking, gangsta rap-loving father, and Jane Alexander is to be his long-suffering mother. John Goodman will play Zooey's brilliant, domineering dad.In another cool new project for Dano, he’ll be reunited with his L.I.E. co-star Brian Cox, only this time it’s not a serious drama but a comedy for the duo called The Good Heart.
Shia LaBeouf - The Big Studios’ favorite young actor LaBeouf stars in the $100 million DreamWorks production of the thriller called Eagle Eye.
Shia plays one of the two strangers (the other is played by Michelle Monaghan) who become the pawns of a mysterious woman they have never met, but who seems to know their every move. Realizing they are being used to further her plot for a political assassination, they must work together to outwit the woman before she has them killed.The movie is the follow-up to the big box office winner Disturbia, directed by D.J. Caruso.Universal, on the other hand, cast Shia in the upcoming Neil Burger thriller called Dark Fields. Based on the novel by Alan Glynn, Dark Fields tells the story of:
… an intellectual slacker and former cocaine addict now is eking out a living as a copywriter for a small publishing house. Through a bizarre series of coincidences, Eddie finds himself in possession of MTD-48, a drug that has some curious effects. On his first trip, Eddie discovers that the drug boosts the intellect, making him far smarter - but also faster, more intuitive, and more charismatic. [...] However, like all drugs, MDT-48 has its downside, including lethal withdrawal symptoms and terrifying side-effects that can render a user homicidal. If this were not enough, the drug itself is both created and distributed by a shadowy corporation worthy of Pynchonian paranoia, and it isn't too long before Eddie begins to suspect that he didn't just "find" MDT-48 after all".
Kat Dennings and Michael Cera at the premiere of "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist" at TIFF. Rafi Gavron, writer Rachel Cohn, Michael Cera and director Peter Sollett. "Nick & Norah' Infinite Playlist" screenwriter Lorene Scafaria, Rachel Cohn and Kat Dennings.Jay Baruchel and Kat Dennings. Ari Graynor, Caroline in "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist". Michael Cera smirks. Rian Johnson, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz and Adrian Brody,"The Brothers Bloom" TIFF Premiere. Mark Ruffalo and Rachel Weisz. Rian Johnson dancing with Rachel Weisz.
"Some movies just stay on the screen when they are through, but Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist transcends that norm as its radiant truth and naturalistic approach cuts deep through our toughest layer of skin that isn’t penetrated very easily.
The outcome hasn’t been demonstrated since Almost Famous captivated our emotions in 2000. Each film has similar main characters. Each boy is normal in his appearance but are thrown into a world where some rock-stars and rich men would kill for. It’s with these characters that each film bases their whole premise around; simple and loveable. You can’t teach that in acting school.
He manages to establish a strong enough bond (strongest since Brokeback Mountain) that allows us to realize what we are watching is not only comedy done to perfection but it can also double as high end drama; almost like a monk who reaches his highest pinnacle during his religious learning’s. When comedy can do this, it is hard to beat.
The lone thing that is on everyone’s mind is making the other person smile".
