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500 Days of Summer
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Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love. Girl Doesn’t. When Tom, a hapless greeting card copywriter and hopeless romantic, is blindsided after his girlfriend Summer dumps him, he shifts back and forth through various periods of their 500 days together to try to figure out where things went wrong. Starring Joseph Gordon Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, 500 Days of Summer (which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival) is a postmodern love story – well technically the film warns that it is not a love story at all. With a kicking soundtrack that includes classic modern rock music from stalwarts like The Smiths to new bands (including Atlanta’s own Black Lips – see them in We Fun as well, also playing at the festival), Fox Searchlight (the studio that brought you Slumdog Millionaire and Little Miss Sunshine) serve up another sure to be crowd-pleasing indie hit.
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Deadland
American Showcase/Georgia Films
World War III's nuclear strikes on the U.S. have set the nation back 200 years. Money holds no worth, food is impossible to find, and hope is all but lost when every survivor of the war is infected by a fatal nuclear plague. Deadland is a post-apocalyptic tale of an ordinary man, Sean Kalos, driven on only one purpose: to find his missing wife in the new United Provinces. What was designed to be the new rebirth has become martial-law, and the Officers of the Province wield their power with cruelty. When Sean crosses them, he finds himself in the middle of a personal war, and his search for his wife dominoes into what could be the revolution the survivors have been waiting for. Filmed almost entirely in Georgia, the film's scope belie the independent film budget showing that you don't need Hollywood budgets to make gripping sci-fi action entertainment.
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NEW MOON Review

NEW MOON. Fangless.

Although sequels sometimes have a hard time living up to their predecessor's fame(or infamy), NEW MOON eclipsed TWILIGHT in the CGI department, in length, and in presentation.

Starring Robert Pattinson (Edward), his overly-styled coiffeur, Kristen Stewart (Bella) and Taylor Lautner (Jacob), NEW MOON is supposedly a faithful movie-adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's second novel o [...]

Posted: Nov. 19, 2009 at 3:00PM by charles@atlantafilmfestival.com
What the Success of New Moon and The Blind Side Can Do For Women

Can the combination of New Moon and The Blind Side reorient Hollywood’s thinking about women and their entertainment buying power?

Anecdotally and reflected in the success of films like Mamma Mia and Sex and the City, women are much more likely to go to the movies in large groups as they grow older than men. It’s a component of Tyler Perry’s success that African American women in their 20s are just as likely as African A [...]

Posted: Nov. 19, 2009 at 3:00PM by charles.judson@gmail.com
PLANET 51 Review

PLANET 51. ROCKS!!!

Madrid-based Ilion Animation Studios's first effort, Planet 51 was originally titled Planet 1 but was changed - as a nod to Nevada's Area 51.

 

Scripted by Joe Stillman, and directed by a trio - Jorge Blanco, Javier Adad, and Marcos Martinez, Planet 51 featured the voice talents of Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Seann William Scott, Gary Oldman, and John Cleese.

This 1.5hr entertaining animated movie's action/ [...]

Posted: Nov. 16, 2009 at 3:00PM by charles@atlantafilmfestival.com
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