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Fall culture report: Films

Fate, Facebook and finances: Fall’s heavy-hitting films invade the screen.
{FALL CULTURE REPORT}

While summer is the time for bombastic blockbusters and franchise flicks, fall is traditionally when Hollywood rolls out the more prestigious releases that dominate the season’s many film festivals and collect the hardware at awards time. Unfortunately, the movie business hasn’t been immune to the economic downturn. As a result, audiences may encounter fewer left-field surprises like There Will Be Blood and Slumdog Millionaire, seeing as edgy fare represents a greater financial risk than another outing with Edward and Bella.

That’s why we’ll be looking forward to the more intriguing movie pairings—Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway; Woody Allen and Freida Pinto; even Justin Timberlake and Facebook—coming our way over the next few months.

EARLY AUTUMN

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Starring: Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin, Freida Pinto and Sir Anthony Hopkins.
Woody Allen assembles another impressive cast for his latest film, an ensemble comedy about the twists of fate that complicate the romantic lives of a group of people living in London. Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto is appropriately tempting as the woman who catches the eye of a frustrated writer, played by Josh Brolin.

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (pictured)
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Carey Mulligan and Michael Douglas.
Though postponed from its original release date in April, Oliver Stone’s sequel to his 1987 hit about Manhattan’s sharp-suited scoundrels is still timely given the ongoing questions about the activities of real-life Gordon Gekkos.

Howl
Starring: James Franco and Jon Hamm.
It’s good to see James Franco still gets around to doing the occasional movie when he isn’t studying at NYU and Columbia, making his own short films or dropping in on General Hospital. Maybe it takes a role as complex as that of Allen Ginsberg to tempt him—Franco plays the iconic wordsmith in this unconventional biopic, which centres on Ginsberg as he writes the poem “Howl,” and the obscenity trial that ensues.

Photography by Barry Wetcher 

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First published in FASHION Magazine September 2010

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