I haven’t heard of this movie before. It’s based on the character created by Robert E. Howard (creator of Conan the Barbarian), Captain Solomon Kane is a brutally efficient 16th Century killing machine. Armed with his signature pistols, cutlass and rapier, he and his men unleash their bloodlust as they fight for England in war after war on all continents.
Starring British actor James Purefoy (The Philanthropist, Rome, Vanity Fair) and directed and written by Michael J. Bassett, the film will be screened as part of the Toronto International Film Festivals Midnight Madness line-up on Wednesday, September 16.
With Solomon Kane,Conan and his other heroes, iconic American writer Robert E. Howard created the genre now known as “SWORD & SORCERY,” in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Winner of the 2008 Toronto Film Festival People’s Choice Award, Slumdog Millionaire is the story of Jamal Malik (Patel), an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life.
With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India¹s “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?”
But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika (Pinto), the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show’s questions.
Intrigued by Jamal’s story, the jaded Police Inspector begins to wonder what a young man with no apparent desire for riches is really doing on this game show. The new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out.
Slumdog Millionaire will now open Wednesday, November 12th — a week earlier than originally planned.
The Blindness new trailer tells you more about the story. I am captivated and want to see the movie. Here are a few review quotes that have recently been published: “Julianne Moore is brilliant in the lead role, a smart woman who figures out quickly that her secret is a commodity, but something she can use for a greater good.” — Incontention.com “The film received a fairly prolonged standing ovation at last night’s screening,…” — Cinematical
“The Canadians played a part of such distinction that thenceforward they were marked out as storm troops; for the remainder of the war they were brought along to head the assault in one great battle after another. Whenever the Germans found the Canadian Corps coming into the line they prepared for the worst.”
~British Prime Minister Lloyd George 1916-1922, After the Battle of the Somme.
Slumdog Millionaire is the story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India’s “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?”
But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show’s questions.
Intrigued by Jamal’s story, the jaded Police Inspector begins to wonder what a young man with no apparent desire for riches is really doing on this game show?
When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out…
To find out the answer to the final question, be in the theaters when Slumdog Millionaire opens on November 28, 2008 or attend the world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The film is based on the bestselling novel Q&A by Vikas Swarup
The Toronto Film Festival, September 4 – 13, looks to be full of glitz and celebrities with George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Rachel McAdams amid the show biz folks who plan to walk the Gala red carpet.
The festival announced a 500-plus guest list, films which include 11 Gala movies and special events Tuesday.
Seven world premiere includes director Gavin O’Connor’s long anticipated NYC cop family saga Pride and Glory, starring Norton and Colin Farrell; Toa Fraser’s period movie Dean Spanley, starring Peter O’Toole, Jodie Markell’s The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, from a rediscovered Tennessee Williams screenplay, Neil Burger’s The Lucky Ones, with McAdams, Tim Robbins and Michael Pena as U.S. soldiers on an unplanned road trip, Rod Lurie’s government scandal flick Nothing But the Truth, starring Kate Beckingsale and Matt Dillon, foreign Oscar-winner Caroline Link’s family secret story A Year Ago in Winter and Jerry Zaks’ Leonard Chess bio-movie Who Do You Love, starring Alessandro Nivola.
The Coen’s Burn After Reading, starring Clooney, Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt, gets its North American premiere as a Gala, as does Anne Fontaine’s La Fille de Monaco.
This is just a taste of what is featured at the Toronto Film Festival 2008. For a complete look at this spectacle visit Toronto Film Festival
