Gil Mansergh’s Cinema Toast

For the week of 4/04/08

Tautou is “Priceless,” Clooney gets stuck in the mud.

HEADS UP!
Gil will be sitting on a critics panel with Kirk Honeycutt (from the
Hollywood Reporter), and Chris Gore (from Film Threat) at 12:00 Sunday
April 13th at the Sonoma Film Festival in Sonoma. Come by and say “Hello.”

Nim’s Island (PG)
Starring: Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler
Directed by: Jennifer Flacket, Mark Levin
If you are getting tired of movie after movie about ” a magical place ruled by a young girl’s imagination,” then this female empowerment film probably isn’t for you. But don’t ask me for advice, they won’t show it to us critics, and it’s not a good sign when two directors are listed for a movie.
Unavailable for preview

Leatherheads (PG-13)
Starring: George Clooney, Renee Zellweger, John Krasinski, Jonathan Pryce
Director: George Clooney
This attempt to combine a 1940-style screwball comedy with a football story just doesn’t climb above the pratfalls in the mud long enough for us to care about the characters or the predictible plot. Clooney veers far from the goal line with this one.
2 pieces of “say ouch” toast

Priceless (PG-13)
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh
Director: Pierre Salvadori
Made in 2006, this is the first movie since “Amelie” to give Tataou a leading role and she sinks her teeth into playing a gold digger very willling to trade sexual favors for he Holly Golightly lifestyle on France’s Cote d’Azure. Trouble is, she has mistaken a penniless bellboy for a zillionaire but expect the unexpected for when she discovers the truth, he decides that two can play at her game.
3 pieces of decidedly French toast

New On Video/DVD

You’ll have to wait for next week for Daniel Day Lewis in “There will Be Blood” and John C. Reilley in “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.” Until then, if you like blood and singing, check out a murderous Johnny Depp in “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” or if you like singing without too much blood, there’s Amy Adams as a Disney fairy princess in “Enchanted.” Don’t like musicals? then there’s the pair of misunderstood lovers Keira Knightly and James McAvoy in “Atonement,” and Will Smith as the last man on Earth in “I am Legend.” (Who says my toasts aren’t eclectic)?