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Hier der Trailer zu „Norman“ von Jonathan Segal. Sieht wie einer der besseren Coming Of Age-Filme aus: „A troubled high-school kid named Norman pretending to have cancer deals with problems involving his new girlfriend and terminally ill father. He must confront a set of conflicting emotions as he struggles to define his relationship with his father, his love for Emily, and ultimately who he will be as a young man.“


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Sehr niedlicher Trailer zur Coming-Of-Age-Dramedy “The Myth of the American Sleepover”, geschrieben und inszeniert von David Robert Mitchell (“Virgin”). Der ist vorgemerkt.

Four young people navigate the suburban wonderland of metro-Detroit looking for love and adventure on the last weekend of summer.


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Spike Jonzes 28minütiger Arcade-Fire-Kurzfilm “Scenes from the Suburbs” wird ab dem 27. Juni auf Mubi kostenlos online zu sehen und außerdem auf der Deluxe Edition vom Arcade-Fire-Album “The Suburbs” enthalten sein.

Ich habe den Film auf der Berlinale gesehen und konnte überhaupt nichts mit ihm anfangen. Ein überlanger, zusammenhangloser, nichtssagender Musikclip. But that’s just me.

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Sehr schöner neuer Trailer mit einigen neuen Bildern aus „The Submarine“, werde ich mir definitiv ansehen.

Fifteen-year-old Oliver Tate has two big ambitions: to save his parents’ marriage via carefully plotted intervention and to lose his virginity before his next birthday. Worried that his mom is having an affair with New Age weirdo Graham, Oliver monitors his parents’ sex life by charting the dimmer switch in their bedroom. He also forges suggestive love letters from his mom to dad. Meanwhile, Oliver attempts to woo his classmate, Jordana, a self-professed pyromaniac who supervises his journal writing – especially the bits about her. When necessary, she orders him to cross things out. Based on Joe Dunthorne’s acclaimed novel, Submarine is a captivating coming-of-age story with an offbeat edge.

Wil Wheaton bloggt über die kürzliche Stand by me-Casting-Reunion und wie sehr River Phoenix in der Runde gefehlt hat. Leider ohne Bild.

There were five chairs set up for us in a semi circle. Our names were on pieces of paper so we knew where to sit. I was between Rob and Corey, and Jerry and Richard sat to Corey’s left. When we all sat down, Rob looked down the row of seats and softly said to me, “it feels like there should be an empty seat here for River.”

People ask me about River all the time. He and I were close during filming, and for about a year or so after filming, but the sad truth is that he got sucked into a lifestyle that I just don’t have room in my life for, and we drifted apart. When he died, I was shocked and horrified, but I wasn’t completely surprised. I didn’t feel a real sense of loss at the time — the River I knew and loved had been gone for a long time at that point — but I felt sad for his family, and angry at the people around him who didn’t do more to help him help himself. Since he died, when I’ve talked about him, I’ve felt like I’m talking about the idea of him, instead of the person I knew, if that makes sense.

But when Rob said that to me, with such sadness in his eyes, it was like I’d been punched in the stomach by eighteen years of suppressed grief. I knew that if I tried to say anything, all I would do was cry, and I didn’t know if I’d be able to stop. I took a deep breath, swallowed hard, and nodded. “Yeah,” I whispered.

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Toller Trailer und sehr, sehr schickes Poster zu „Submarine“, grade auf dem Sundance gefeiert. Der Soundtrack kommt übrigens unter anderem von Arctic Monkeys Frontmann Alex Turner. Hier sowas wie der Plot, ebenfalls sehr sympatisch formuliert:

I have been waiting too long for the film of my life. My name is Oliver Tate. This film will capture my particular idiosyncrasies, for example, the way I seduce my classmate Jordana Bevan using only my mind. Also, since my parents’ marriage is being threatened by a man who runs courses on Mental and Physical Wellbeing, the film will probably feature some elaborate set-pieces of me taking him down. There will be helicopter shots. There will be slow-mo, but also transcendent moments, like when I cure my father’s depression. Knowing me as I do, I will be surprised if this film runs to less than three hours. Note to the press: appropriate adjectives to describe this film include “breath-taking” and “irresistible” as well the phrase: “a monumental achievement”.


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Trailer zum Coming-Of-Age-Drama im 80er-Look mit Ashley Greene, Shiloh Fernandez, A.J. Buckley und Haley Ramm. “Skateland” ist das Regiedebüt von Anthony Burns und lief letztes Jahr beim Sundance Film Festival. In the early 1980s, in small-town Texas, dramatic events force a 19-year-old skating rink manager to look at his life in a very new way. – schreibt die imdb.


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Topher Grace aus That 70s Show ist in den 80ern angekommen. Schöner, angenehm unaufgeregter Trailer zu „Take me home tonight“. Ist zwar „nur“ einer weitere 80s-Komödie, sieht aber dennoch nach guter Unterhaltung für einen DVD-Abend aus. Hier der Plot gefolgt vom tollen Poster:

As the summer of 1988 winds down, three friends on the verge of adulthood attend an out-of-control party in celebration of their last night of unbridled youth. Starring Topher Grace, Anna Faris, Dan Fogler and Teresa Palmer, Take Me Home Tonight is a raunchy, romantic and ultimately touching blast from the past set to an awesome soundtrack of timeless rock and hip-hop hits.

Recent MIT grad Matt Franklin (Topher Grace) should be working for a Fortune 500 company and starting his upward climb to full-fledged yuppie-hood. Instead, the directionless 23-year-old confounds family and friends by taking a part-time job behind the counter of a video store at the Sherman Oaks Galleria. But Matt’s silent protest against maturity comes to a screeching halt once his unrequited high school crush, Tori Frederking (Teresa Palmer), walks into the store. When she invites him to an epic, end-of-summer party, Matt thinks he finally might have a chance with the girl of his dreams. With his cynical twin sister Wendy (Anna Faris) and best friend Barry (Dan Fogler), Matt embarks on a once-in-a-lifetime evening.

From stealing a car to a marriage proposal to an indescribable, no-holds-barred dance-off, these friends share experiences that will change the course of their lives on one unforgettable night in the Go-Go ’80s.


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Hier der Trailer zu „Skateland“, wahrscheinlich ein schönes Coming-Of-Age-Drama mit tollem Soundtrack.

Skateland explores the rupture of charismatic Ritchie Wheeler, brother and sister Brent and Michelle Burkham, and wise-cracking lady-killer Kenny Crawford’s seemingly complacent existence as they struggle with the collapse of their tumultuous home lives, the alcohol-induced idling of reckless adolescence, and the wane of their hometown hangout, the local roller rink.

A story syncopated with moments of violent turbulence, of heartbreak and of new beginnings, Skateland immerses the audience in the brutal, but beautiful vastness of East Texas blue skies and the emotional claustrophobia of the bible belt. Enveloped by the brooding melodies and incendiary rock riffs of the early 80′s, Skateland is a place where aging values wrestle with contemporary pop culture to create a paradoxical balance between old and new.

“Jesus Fucking Christ! They play this song like 20 times a day!”

Originaltitel: Adventureland
Herstellungsland: USA 2009
Buch und Regie: Greg Mottola
Darsteller: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, Bill Hader, Martin Starr, Kristen Wiig, Margarita Levieva
★★★★☆

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1987: Eigentlich sah alles wunderbar aus für James (Jesse Eisenberg). Er hatte eine Freundin, ein tolles Studium in Aussicht und einen Europaatrip mit seinem besten Kumpel geplant.
Doch innerhalb weniger Tage zerplatzen alle seine Träume. Seine Freundin macht Schluss und seine Eltern informieren ihn, dass sie sich weder den Europatrip noch die Unigebühren leisten können, weil sein Vater auf eine schlechter bezahlte Stelle versetzt wurde. Alles was ihm bleibt ist sein meschuggener Jugendfreund Frigo (Matt Bush), dessen größter Spaß es ist, James unverhofft ins Gemächt zu boxen.
Die Reise kann er sich stecken und wenn er wenigstens zur Uni will, muß er irgendwie Geld verdienen. Leider sind die Möglichkeiten im kleinen Kaff Oberlin in Ohio, eher begrenzt und so landet er dort wo alle die meisten Jugendlichen jobben: Im Vergnügungspark Adventureland, der vom liebenswert-hippeligen Bobby (Bill Hader) gemanaged wird. Dort darf er Schießbuden betreuen, sich mit unwilligen Kunden herumärgern und dutzendfach am Tag “Rock me Amadeus” hören, das dort im Dauerloop läuft.
Doch es gibt nicht nur Schattenseiten, denn zumindest die Kollegen sind nett: Der von allen bewunderte Draufgänger Mike Connell (Ryan Reynold), von dem behauptet wird er habe mal mit Lou Reed gejammed und die problemgeplagte Em (Kirsten Steward), die sich dem Neuling James annimmt. Was zunächst schwierig beginnt, entwickelt sich zu einem Sommer, den James wohl nie vergessen wird…

Gregg Mottola liefert nach Superbad hier einen weiteren liebenswerten Coming of Age-Streifen ab, der trotz einiger klamaukiger Einfälle und zotiger Running Gags, eine sehr warmherzige und oftmals auch melancholisch-nostalgische Geschichte erzählt, die weniger als Haha-Komödie und eher als Skizze eines Sommers und den ersten großen Schritten zum Erwachsenwerden funktioniert.

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Die heutige Folge von Family Guy nimmt Stephen King-Filme auf die Schippe und ist in drei Mini-Folgen unterteilt. Nach dem Klick die Trailer zu Family Guys „Stand By Me“, „Misery“ und „Shawshank Redemption“.

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