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New York, I Love You movie trailer introduces a story that is based on the fact the city never sleeps, love is always on the mind.  The movie is a collaboration of storytelling from some of today’s most ingenious filmmakers with an all-star cast such as Bradley Cooper,  Justin Bartha  Andy Garcia,  Hayden Christensen,  Rachel Bilson,  Natalie Portman  and Irrfan Khan. 

If the trailer is anything like the movie, then we’ll see a kaleidoscope of the spontaneous, surprising, and electrifying human connections that thrust the city’s pulsating soul of love from Tribeca to Central Park to Brooklyn.

Anthony Hopkins might take on the role of Ernest in Hemingway & Fuentes, an independent project about the renowned writer, written and directed by Andy Garcia.

Garcia is co-writing the script with Hilary Hemingway, a screenwriter, author and the niece of Ernest Hemingway. The movie will focus on the relationship between Hemingway and his longtime fishing-boat captain Gregorio Fuentes.

Hints are also surfacing that Annette Benning could play the role of Hemingway’s wife and Widow Mary Welsh.

Garcia is not calling the film a biopic, but rather a historical drama, concentrating on the final, complex chapter in Hemingway’s dramatic life.

Hemingway spent a good deal of the last decade of his life in the fishing towns of Cojira, Cuba and Ketchum, Idaho, a time when the author is artistically recognized for penning “The Old Man and the Sea,” the novella about a Cuban fisherman that won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1952.

Garcia told Hollywood Reported that he wants to explore both the psyche of Hemingway, the dynamic with Fuentes and the relationship both had with fishing. “I’m a Hemingway nut and also an avid fisherman, and the reality of the relationship between Hemingway and his captain is compelling to me,” he said. Garcia, who said the project is in its nascent stages, said he aims to star as Fuentes.

You might ask, who is Fuentes?

He is the captain, who died in 2002 at the age of 104 and led a colorful life himself. Born in the Canary Islands, he migrated to Cuba when he was ten-years-old; some say he was the model for “Old Man and the Sea” protagonist Santiago, though others may say otherwise.

City Island, is an independent film starring Alan Arkin, Andy Garcia, Julianna Marguiles and Emily Mortimer, has started filming.

Written and directed by Raymond De Felitta City Island is a comedy that follows a Bronx prison guard (Garcia) who recognizes one of the inmates as his own illegitimate son.

Steven Strait (10,000 BC) plays the inmate son.

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Solid performances come from The Air I Breathe debuting Korean filmmaker, Jieho Lee, American film.  Sarah Michelle Gellar, Forest Whitaker, Kevin Bacon and Emile Hirsch stand out the most for me.

The story follows the four compelling lives that intertwine based on for principles happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love.  

Brendan Fraser’s character and storyline interested me the most.  He plays a clairvoyant gangster who predicts the death or dangers of others.

The movie is not uplifting as it might appear with a butterfly add here and there.  Although Kevin Bacon’s character offers some respite toward the end.

Andy Garcia is mentioned last because I have seen him play characters that are very loving and caring.  In The Air I Breathe he plays a character called “Fingers” –  he cuts off fingers of those who don’t pay off their debts.  To say the least he’s quite convincing.

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