COMING ATTRACTIONS

Winter Trailer Night 2009

Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 7 - 9pm. (tickets on sale at 6:00pm)
at
Landmark's E Street Cinema (E Street between 10th & 11th St, N.W.)

Admission: Cash or check only. $5 for BASIC members and Free for GOLD members. $8 for all others. Tickets sold at the door night of the event. Ticket includes lots of movie promotional items, movie posters and raffles of movie tickets and DVDs!

Hollywood is making its list and checking it twice. George Clooney, Jude Law, Robert Downey Jr., and Jim Carrey star in films this holiday season. You can get a preview of what’s coming your way by making your way to the Washington D.C. Film Society’s “COMING ATTRACTIONS TRAILER NIGHT” for Winter 2009.

Longtime hosts Joe Barber and Bill Henry will return for an entertaining give and take with the audience to analyze just how the studios market these films to get us off the couch and into a theater seat. The audience will also get their say by voting on which trailers make them the most (or least) excited about the films that are on the way.

The list of trailers to be shown will be posted on the website closer to the event date but a few of the many possible films we hope to preview include: James Cameron’s Avatar—the maestro of Titanic goes for an action/adventure and sci-fi thriller rolled into one; Sherlock Holmes for a new generation with Robert Downey Jr. as the master sleuth and Jude Law as Dr. Watson. Other previews might include: a new animated version of the Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, where Jim Carrey (or the voice thereof) plays more than one role; New Moon, the latest in the “Twilight” series; Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) brings us the adaptation of the novel The Lovely Bones and the Disney entry for this season is The Princess and the Frog
Then there’s George Clooney, whose vehicles run the gamut from the “psychic spy thriller” The Men Who Stare At Goats to Up In The Air, the story of a corporate downsizer trying to fly his ten millionth mile, to the voice of a fox in Wes Anderson’s animated The Fantastic Mr. Fox. As the trade paper Variety used to say, Clooney equals “boffo box office.”

In a lower key, there is Precious, a sensation at the Cannes Film Festival, which tells the (fictional) story of a 350-pound, illiterate teenage girl who suffers from unspeakable abuse by her family, and the latest from Spain’s Pedro Almodóvar, Broken Embraces.

List of Trailers (more to be added)
Alvin & the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel
Avatar
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
The Blind Side
The Book of Eli
Broken Embraces
Brothers
Daybreakers
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Edge of Darkness
Everybody’s Fine
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Invictus
Legion
Ninja Assassin
Pirate Radio
Red Cliff
The Road
Serious Moonlight
Sherlock Holmes
A Single Man
The Tooth Fairy
2012
The White Ribbon
The Young Victoria
Youth in Revolt