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Follows a multimillionaire on a 24-hour odyssey across Manhattan.Directed by David Cronenberg
Starring Robbert Pattinson, Samantha Morton, Juliette Binoche, Jay Baruchel, Sarah Gadon, and Paul Giamatti
Release Date - August 17, 2012
IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1480656/)Teaser
Shit, this looks awesome! A bit of a Naked Lunch vibe on (way more) acid. Can't wait.
Looks pretty cool, only have to wait a couple more months too.
I think Pattinson has a lot of potential as an actor, all that twilight shit needs to be pushed aside.
Remember that time when someone tried to troll xixax and said the vampire from Twilight was cast in the new PTA movie and everyone was like, "Really? Neat. I'm cool with that."
VALIDATED.
yeah i'd watch him as Cobain now.
shit, this looks awesomopolis.
French poster
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New Trailer (http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-full-trailer-for-david-cronenbergs-cosmopolis-arrives-20120419?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed#)
Extended Trailer (http://vimeo.com/40648027)
Is it spoilerful?
The teaser was enough to get me excited about this.
Not that anyone replies to anything around here anymore.
I think you're good. For it to spoil anything you'd have to make sense of it first.
In theaters August 17, 2012
Nine clips (http://www.flicksandbits.com/2012/06/13/nine-clips-from-david-cronenbergs-robert-pattinson-starring-cosmopolis/27154/) and
six filmmaking tips (http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/6-filmmaking-tips-from-david-cronenberg-lpalm.php) from David Cronenberg.
I started writing this post twice before, and I couldn't finish it for one reason or another. Let's see if this is it.
Saw this about a month ago and it was the first time a Cronenberg movie disappointed me. I'm a big fan of his and left the theater feeling something was missing in Cosmopolis. Meanwhile, I've been thinking a lot about it, and I may need to re-watch it sometime to see if I get what is missing, or if it is actually the movie itself that doesn't quite succeed. The themes are great, the performances are good, but unlike every Cronenberg movie I've ever seen, it doesn't feel tight. Usually, his films and scenes are very straight to the point, no fat in them. In this, some of the scenes kind of dragged a bit, especially the last one, which is far too long. I have zero problems with slowness in movies, but in this case it comes from some redundancy in the dialog. And I think that it actually feels like Cronenberg lifted directly the dialog from De Lillo's book, which sometimes works in it favor, but sometimes doesn't. The scene with Samantha Morton is amazing, but others just seem to go on forever without any need.
On a technical level, I enjoyed how he worked the sound, with the movie sounding sort of muffled, a consequence of the way Eric Packer sees the world, protected inside his limo, and of course Cronenberg knows exactly how and where to put his camera and get the best out of his actors. But on the downside, and I don't know if this was a problem with the projection (digital), the first couple of scenes looked artificial, like I was watching TV or something. It took a couple of minutes for me to get into the movie because of that.
EDIT: This was it!
David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis: Director Tells Us How He Adapted Don DeLillo's Novel for the Screen
By Simon Abrams
8/9/12
One of the most interesting things about Cosmopolis, writer-director David Cronenberg's extraordinary adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel by the same name, is that it's the first script Cronenberg has both written and shot since 1999's eXistenZ. Additionally, his adaptation of Cosmopolis marks the first time he has adapted a work since his 1996 version of J.G. Ballard's Crash. Then again, most of Cronenberg's films are at least loosely adapted from pre-existing material, even if it's just a short story, as in the case of The Fly, which was based in part on George Langelaan's short story.
"Each adaptation is a completely different project," Cronenberg says during a recent phone interview. "I don't have an approach I try to impose on that process because each book is different, and I'm different, and what I try to achieve with the movie is [different] in each case."
He adds: "There is no exact way to translate something directly to the screen. We're creating a new thing. You have to accept that. You will therefore be making all kinds of changes, consciously or not."
Adapting DeLillo's densely plotted and surreally imagistic novel posed a unique challenge to Cronenberg, who cranked out a screenplay in three days. DeLillo's book follows hypersuccessful stock trader Eric Packer (Twilight's Robert Pattinson) on a daylong, self-destructive trip to get a haircut. Along the way, he meets up with his various financial advisers, each of whom reveals to the reader a little more of the contradictory feelings Packer has toward the idea of killing himself.
Cronenberg only decided to go through with adapting Cosmopolis after whittling it down to just its dialogue and discovering that the book's narrative could in fact be adapted to the screen. Much of the book is composed of Eric's thoughts; by making the film's narrative primarily composed of Eric's dialogue, Cronenberg changed the context of DeLillo's story. "I was not addressing the inner fantasies and the inner workings of Eric's mind in the movie because I feel you can't," Cronenberg says. "One of the things I feel like you can do, even in a really bad novel, is that inner monologue. You can't show that mental state at all in cinema. So we have to do something else."
Cronenberg also did not want to find a way to approximate ideas or sentiments that he felt could only be digested in DeLillo's original prose. For example, when DeLillo asked Cronenberg how he would adapt excerpts from a notebook written by Benno Levin, a mysterious frump who stalks Eric throughout the film (played by Paul Giamatti), Cronenberg's response was characteristically direct: "You handle it by leaving it out."
"There's no way I can make a voiceover of someone reading Benno's journal," Cronenberg says. "It's a complete admission of failure when you have somebody read you the novel like you're a kid at bedtime. That reads as if you've failed to reimagine the work as cinema. But what I do give you is Paul Giamatti's face, and his eyes, and his hair, and his body, and that gives you something you don't get in the novel. That's the trade-off."
Similarly, another key change to the book's narrative came when Cronenberg cast Pattinson to play a young hot shot prematurely contemplating his own obsolescence. Cronenberg says he never really talked to Pattinson about the film's main themes or what Eric symbolized. Instead, he says Pattinson was more concerned with whether Cronenberg thought he was good enough to play Eric.
"We didn't discuss any of these abstract things," Cronenberg recounts. "You can't shoot an abstraction. You cannot photograph an abstraction. And likewise, an actor cannot act an abstraction. You can't say to an actor, 'You will be the embodiment of American capitalism.' "
Ultimately, what most attracted Cronenberg to Cosmopolis was the challenge of turning such a cerebral book into a film. In fact, he was so focused on conceptualizing DeLillo's narrative that he didn't even hear the writer's dialogue spoken aloud until his cast was rehearsing. "You have to work with the reality," he says. "The emotional, physical and psychological reality of a guy in a limo talking to one of his financial advisers, his security guy. And you go with the specifics of the moment, and you evolve from there."
Source (http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2012/08/david_cronenberg_cosmopolis.php)
Blu-ray on January 1, 2013
Just tried to watch this. Turned it off after 15 minutes. That's really all there is to say.