Grey's Anatomy News (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Sandra Oh has been a little busier than simply supporting SAG and speaking at theatre festivals, she’s actually been filming during her break from Grey’s Anatomy. Sandra Oh stars in Blindness, the latest film from Academy Award Nominated director, Fernando Meirelles. The film is based on the Nobel Prize winning novel by Jose Saramago, and also [...]
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
The full trailer for the Fernando Meirelles directed drama recently made its way online and it gives us a better idea of the dramatic pull of the film. Based on the award winning José Saramago novel of the same name, the story centers on an epidemic of "white blindness" that hits an entire city and when people are confined to isolated shelters, desperation and frustration lead to they're makeshift...
ChatzWorld - A World of Chat (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
The ComingSoon.net Trailers & Clips section has been updated with links to 13 clips from The Dark Knight , the teaser for the Nicolas Cage...
FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
‘‘Blindness”, adapted from the 1995 novel by Nobel laureate José Saramago, is Fernando Meirelles‘ third film, after his heralded 2002 thriller “City of God” and 2005’s “The Constant Gardener“.”Blindness” movie, an apocalyptic nightmare, urban collapse, opened Cannes Film Festival 2008 and also was in Competition. Although Saramago’s book was published more then 10 years ago, he [...]
Filmstalker (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
There's a new trailer online for Blindness, the film from Fernando Meirelles which is based on the prize winning novel from José Saramago (Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com / Play.com). The film tells the story of an epidemic sweeping the world that makes people blind, the disease is spread by contact and soon blind people are being quarantined and removed from society. One woman pretends to be blind in order...
/Film (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Alliance Films has released the international trailer for Fernando Meirelles’ Cannes hit Blindness. Adapted from Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago’s masterwork, BLINDNESS is a harrowing tale about the fragility of mankind. Directed by the Academy Award® nominated (City Of God) Fernando Meirelles, from a screenplay by the Tony Award® winning (The Drowsy Chaperone) Don McKellar, BLINDNESS [...]
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
A gorgeous new poster for BLINDNESS has hit the web. You can check it out BELOW. If you haven't heard, the film is about what happens when an epidemic of blindness breaks out, messing everyone's shit up. Julianne Moore is for some reason the only person who retains their vision. I don't know what you guys would do in such an event, but let's just say if this movie were documenting my actions amid the...
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
When it comes to posters, I definitely have a different eye than everyone else (no pun intended). My list from last year really shook things up, but I like certain designs and don't like others. Courtesy of our friends at IMPAwards.com, we've got a beautiful Japanese poster for Fernando Meirelles' Blindness. This poster looks much [...]
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
Paul Gross's World War I drama Passchendaele won the coveted opening-night slot at this year's Toronto International Film Festival because it fought its way to glory, fest co-director Cameron Bailey says.
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 27/05/2008
The buyer's market at Cannes this year wasn't as bidder heavy as it may have been in previous years, which has been well noted elsewhere. However, IFC Films and Sony Pictures Classics went home with at least three films each; in fact, they were the only studios to make any purchases by the end of the festival on Sunday. IFC took Steve McQueen's Hunger , Arnaud Desplechin's Un conte de Noël and Na Hong-jin's...
TO411 Daily (Free subscription) | 26/05/2008
Canadian filmmakers Atom Egoyan and Denis Villeneuve have won major prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, in advance of the awarding of the coveted Palme d'Or. Toronto's Egoyan, 47, took the Ecumenical Jury prize for Adoration, his multi-layered meditation on mass communication, terrorism and cultural values surrounding the revealed secrets of a Toronto high school student.
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 24/05/2008
The Cannes Film Festival 2008 is currently underway in France and our friend and contributor Marco Cerritos has been covering the fest and catching screenings since it started on May 14th. Marco is a 28-year-old writer who lives in San Francisco and has been working as a professional film critic for over 10 years. He's [...]
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 23/05/2008
Bárbara Axt [pt] publishes a spot on video showing Jose Saramago's reaction just after watching Blindness, an adaptation of his book by Brazilian Fernando Meirelles which was launched the Cannes film festival on Wednesday. “I am so happy to watch this film… and as happy as I was when I finished writing the book”, said [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 22/05/2008
Arts & entertainment: Latin-American films are this year's success story. Why aren't their makers happy? Xan Brooks reports
France24 (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
The Cannes film festival line-up has a distinctly Latin touch this year, featuring Spanish-language movies and Latin themes. Thursday's addition is Steven Soderbergh's four-hour-plus, two-part epic on Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
