Films to watch in 2011, Pt. 1

Just viewed a couple of trailers for 2011, some I'm super excited for and others not too hot about. Here's what I'm looking forward to so far:

Submarine (2010)
Just been purchased by The Weinstein Company for US distribution at Sundance 2011. Made by first time director Richard Ayoade, a music video director for Arctic Monkeys.

The music featured, "Quand On N’A Que L’Amour" by Jacques Brel, is very choice.



Sourced from "Twitchfilm.net"

Ceremony (2011)
Starring Uma Thurman and Michael Angarano. In this is romantic comedy about Sam Davis (Michael Angarano) attempting to get back with his ex, Zoe (Uma Thurman) who is about to get hitched to an absurd documentary filmmaker. The trailer looks promising, has your typical assuredness humor, things go wrong in a important event and wrong directions (from the characters, not the director). Complete with your trendiest bands to provide for the trailer's soundtrack.



It seems that this is the year of the Alien invasion. JJ Abrams' Super 8, Michael Bay's Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Jon Favreau's Cowboys & Aliens. All of which are produced by extraterrestrial advocate Steven Spielberg. The most promising of the three is Super 8, previously released information on plot and story were limited to an effective teaser of a freight train accident and possible monster unleashed.

The super bowl teaser provides a glimpse to a bigger and possibly emotional story behind all the sci-fi action. As with all the other bloggers of the net are claiming, this appears to be JJ Abrams' nod to the Spielberg films of the 80s that shares the awe and wonderment of aliens. I.E. Close Encounters of the Third Kind & E.T.



Beginners (2011)
Directed by Mike Mills, Installation artist/graphic designer/music video director, as his second feature after Thumbsucker. This film appears to be sentimental (but not as sentimental as Ewan McGregor's Big Fish, where Thumbsucker was more extracted in its view on the strangeness of its characters. This film is about a non-traditional father/son relationship, coupled with romance with a young woman and a dog that speaks in subtitles.