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April 30, 2006

And while speaking of Nick Cave and westerns...

Some trailers that have caught my attention lately:

• Curtis called me the other day to tell me about the new Leonard Cohen documentary, I'm Your Man. It was on my radar, but what I wasn't aware of was that, in addition to Cohen himself, the film features performances by three of my favorite singer/songwriters: Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright and Antony (of the Johnsons). I'm assuming from the footage in the trailer that they didn't all play together at one event - or rather, I'm choosing to believe they didn't, because I don't know if I could live with having missed that.
• I never saw Chopper, so I'm not sure if a new film from director Andrew Dominik is something I should be looking forward to; but I do know that The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford is the best self sustaining title for a film since A History Of Violence, and that's enough to sell me.
• Scott Macaulay and Manohla Dargis have both offered glowing endorsements of Robinson Devor's Police Beat, which is playing for a week at the Anthology Film Archives. It sounds like a wonderful film, and there's an extended trailer available at its website; unfortunately, the super35mm photograph is compressed into a Quicktime window that's almost too small to see. Still, this is another addition to the list of undistributed films I need to track down and see.

• I loved the Wes Anderson AmEx commercial as much as I hated the M. Night Shyamalan, but, as a handful of fellow bloggers have already pointed out, this spot is the only one that's worthy of honest endorsement (that new G5 iMac you mentioned in the comments here a few posts down ain't gonna help that debt, Jamie - but don't worry, we all understand).

Posted by David Lowery at April 30, 2006 02:13 AM

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Posted by: mutinyco at April 30, 2006 11:32 AM