George Clooney’s “The Ides of March” is set for a Venice premiere in September. It may or may not make it to Telluride, but in any case, I’ve been hearing lately that Evan Rachel Wood and Philip Seymour Hoffman are killer in the film. (Marisa Tomei, I’m told, doesn’t figure in as much.) Anyway, judging by the new trailer at Yahoo! Movies, it has me at “Hello.” We might be talking about this one throughout the season.
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There’s also a poster that’s been released today. Pretty nifty.
I’ll be seeing that. Wow.
Looks good.
Can Jeffrey Wright please be killer in this and get some love finally?
Any word on how Gosling fares?
Gosling shot for a nom? I think yes.
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Top tier casting here. Even if it only fares decently enough, I could see it getting a SAG ensemble nod based on star power alone.
Nevertheless, it looks pretty solid. Goes to my list of most anticipated films. ☺
Oh great, now there’s another poster with the same name as me.
That was a great trailer, though.
Beware the Ides of March.
Interesting that Wood of all people in the cast gets the “And” billing. If it’s not because it’s the smallest part (and it sure as hell doesn’t look like a female lead), maybe it’s because there is more to the part than we’re supposed to think. Anyway, interesting…
Don’t worry Mitch, my mother named me with a lower case ‘m’
Lots of talent in the cast, but this is a snoozefest of a trailer.
I would love to see Evan Rachel Wood with an Oscar nomination… But anyways, this looks excellent. Perhaps Clooney will score double nominations (leading for The Descendants, supporting for this). Hell, maybe they’ll throw in direcotr and he’ll score triple nominations. Could be an exciting year for Clooney.
Mind the typo – *director
Looks brilliant but it’s gonna be the one that’ll peak too early, I feel.
I’ve been anticipating a raftload of nominations (starting with picture, actor [Gosling], director and screenplay) for this film since its release date was announced…
Wow this looks fucking good.
This looks pretty interesting. Also, isn’t the Ides of March the day that Julius Caesar was killed? I wonder why this movie bears the same name.
On another note, Jerry Maguire reference FTW.
The trailer is good (hooks you). I think it’ll hook a lot of casual movie goers, too (like me dad).
The movie looks good, as well. Can’t tell if it’ll be OMG-good or just really stellar.
I could see possible nominations for :
Pic, Dir (Clooney), Actor (Gosling), S. Actor (PSH), S. Actress (Wood), Writing, Editing.
Potential SAG ensemble nom, etc..
But all that’s if the film is as good as it appears.
Great Dane: I noticed the “And” thing too. Usually that’s where the respected character actor in a supporting role goes – I would have expected Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Paul Giamatti in this cast, not Wood.
Looks awesome. Probably not the “thriller” it’s being marketted as and the topical timley subject may not bring in a big audience, at least not outside of the coasts, but it feels like it could be a fantastic political potboiler.
I actually had no idea the “thriller” side of the picture was in the picture at all. I honestly thought we were getting timely political satire. So I’m pretty excited right now
Also, I’m sure most people have figured this out by now, but:
Clooney = Caesar
Gosling = Brutus
Giamatti = Cassius
Hence “The Ides of March.”
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Much, much more exciting than that horrendous trailer for The Descendants, which I’m feeling increasingly negative about. (We’ll see if Toronto dispels or substantiates those feelings.) This was a nice trailer though–full of mystery.
I could see either Tomei or Wood impressing–love Tomei, and she just keeps getting better. But it’d be nice for Wood to get recognized as well, since she was mostly (not totally) overlooked for Thirteen.
Gosling has three good movies this year it seems, so I hope he scores a nod–after the snubbage of last year, he deserves it!
Hoffman seems great here, but I’m still bugged by him getting two undeserving supporting actor nominations. (Although he was amazing in The Savages in 2007, at least, so it’s semi-comforting.) So part of me is hoping that Giamatti or even Wright turn out to be more worthy. We’ll see.
And I’d rather Clooney get directing/writing noms for this, and The Descendants to go completely overlooked. That’s what it deserves for trying to replicate and fuse Up in the Air and Sideways.
“Hell, maybe they’ll throw in direcotr and he’ll score triple nominations.”
Clooney could actually get as many as five: the three you mention (Director, Actor, Supporting Actor) and Picture and Screenplay, since he’s both producing and co-writing “The Ides of March”.
23-Ah, okay. I’m not exactly a history expert, so thanks for clearing that up!
I actually like the idea of famous historical events being modernized for the purpose of filmmaking. Hopefully we’ll see more of such films.
24-You’ve seen The Descendants?
Gosling needs to get in this year. The preview looks fantastic and it’s surprising how much it focuses on him as opposed to Clooney.
Marisa Tomei is on fire at a stage of her career where most actresses are barely working or have moved to TV (what happened to Mira Sorvino who won around the time she did in the same category also for a comedic performance?), I’d love to see her get back in, but Evan Rachel Wood was brilliant in Mildred Pierce and I wouldn’t be surprised to see her get in for this (hoping she gets that Supporting Actress Emmy which would definitely help her case as an award-worthy actress, she already has that lead actress SAG nod after all).
I’m tired of Philip Seymour Hoffman, he can be great but I also think he can be way too actor-y, that’s how he was in Doubt and to me he looks the same here, like every word that comes out of his character’s mouth is too carefully studied. I’m rooting for Jeffrey Wright on this one. Either way, film looks wonderful.
This looks super boring. In all the right ways.
Wow. Just wow.
Leonardo DiCaprio is an exec producer on this film? Ha random but nice to know that my two favorite actors (Gosling and DiCaprio) are somehow collaborating on the same film together :) Now only if we could get them face-to-face…
Back when it was first being developed into a film in 2007, DiCaprio and Clooney were attached to star and co-produce. Obviously, Gosling stepped in for DiCaprio, while the latter actor retained his producing credit.
Dana: I think Dicaprio was originally suppose to play the Gosling role in this and just stayed on as Producer.
Or face-on-face. ;)
@Raymond: I’m glad you seem to share my sentiments on a lot of aspects here, such as Tomei, but especially PSH. “Too actory” is basically the description that fits. He was great in Capote, The Savages, and Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, but ugh. Charlie Wilson’s War was a horrible movie, and his performance was forgettable and useless. I’m hoping he only got nominated as a cumulative nod to his other, superior 2007 performances.
As for Doubt, I completely agree. Very “I’m shouting so you know how angry I am!!”, ick. Neither he nor Amy Adams (love her in general, and she was underrated here, but still) should’ve received noms, but momentum was behind the full cast recognition. It’s a shame, because Rosemarie DeWitt was wrongfully snubbed (the best supporting actress performance, imo), and some other guy definitely should’ve taken PSH’s place. I’d have loved James Franco, moreso for Pineapple Express (but Milk was more likely). However, Eddie Marsan would’ve been great as well. Or Aaron Eckhart, even. Pity.
@m1: Of course not. Just sharing a gut instinct. I have several every season, and sometimes they pan out, such as Love and Other Drugs last year. *Shrugs* I could see it going either way with TD, but the screenplay just seems SO awful, that I’m hoping people aren’t schmoozed. His older daughter’s lines, in particular, are atrocious. Payne may have chosen some terrible writing partners–which I hate saying, since I love Community.
m1- I think it’s less historical than it is Shakespeare. And I don’t expect that those parallels will play heavily into the film; it just makes a snazzy title with a subtext of betrayal.
Raymond – Isn’t is incredible that people once accused Marisa Tomei of winning her Oscar by accident? My Cousin Vinny is one of my all time favorite movies and glad to see Tomei still proving those naysayers wrong.
James D – Community sucks.
@John G.: Exactly. And a fourth Marisa Tomei nomination would be yet again further substantiation. She deserves being an Oscar-winning actress.
And bitchplease. Community is one of the best comedies on TV, along with Parks and Recreation. The Office sucks now, 30 Rock is losing its mojo, everything on CBS sucks, and if Glee counts as a comedy, it’s the shittiest specimen in existence now that According to Jim was put out to pasture mercifully several years back.
@Other James D.-Showy as it maybe to you, that was a very tricky performance for any actor to give when considering the characters position and deciding what his involvement actually was to the incident at hand. No matter what his involvement was, it takes a careful and nuanced amount of work to never indicate that involvement one way or the other. As for the “actory” stuff, his character is a pastor delivering sermons during a pivitol point in American history. I think a little charisma and theatricality are prequsites for that position and circumstance. I’ll take a performance of passion and intensity over someone so subdued to the point of mumbling lines.
I’m not a fan of mumbling either, as you say, haha. I have disdain for either extreme. I think the best performance often are found somewhere in between the two. Yes, passion and intensity is great. I love many an explosive performance that shakes us to the core, and gives us chills (which did not happen here). But there’s a difference between a nuanced performance that builds up to that climactic moment and something that just begins at the maximum decibel and attempts to break the sound barrier unnecessarily.
While that character was tricky, it was still a poorly conceived portrayal, imo. I think it required more vulnerability in spots. (I’m not even suggesting it was a bad performance, just overdone and not Oscar-worthy.) And his character wasn’t a traveling evangelist/faux-healer. He was a priest in a parochial school. So he wasn’t asked to do his best Elmer Gantry.
Well, we must have seen a different movie, or maybe a different performance, but from the second he calmly asks the audience to ponder the films thesis, I was hooked and did my ear drum was still intact. And when he later defined gossip in a fantastic monolouge I certainly got chills as it added to the cahracter strength and perseverance against a system that feared change. Just because he wasn’t Eli Sunday didn’t mean that he needed go to extremes, especially while going toe to toe with Streep. I think more vulnerability would’ve onyl indicated his level of action or non-action in an unseen event.
35-Cougar Town is a really good show as well.
Tomei really is one of the best working actresses today. She was incredible in ‘Cyrus’… it’s a real shame the film was completely overlooked during awards season. But I did think she pretty bland and/or underused in ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’. In any case, this doesn’t look to be a film that showcases her talent. It looks more like a Gosling/Clooney/PSH show and I’m perfectly okay with that.
Wow. Looks damn good. Hard to tell this from a trailer, but the writing and directing both look promising. The acting almost goes without saying. Can’t wait. Pulling for Ryan to get a nod. Long odds, but hoping he can do it.
***Community is one of the best comedies on TV, along with Parks and Recreation. The Office sucks now, 30 Rock is losing its mojo, everything on CBS sucks, and if Glee counts as a comedy, it’s the shittiest specimen in existence now that According to Jim was put out to pasture mercifully several years back.***
Er… “Modern Family” anyone?
And I mean that as an example of a good comedy on television now. Good is really an understatement though. It’s fantastic.
I love how they managed to make Marisa Tomei look so plain. Can’t wait to see this.
And the cast seems so perfect for the various roles.
Pretty good trailer. PSH looks like he had given that performance before though.
@Maxim, couldn’t agree more with you re Philip Seymour Hoffman’s performance. That’s pretty much how I felt watching this preview. I also feel he pronounces every word as if he is giving the most important speech ever written, to me it just feels like Philip Seymour Hoffman playing a character.
@The Other James D, I definitely agree that Hoffman was brilliant in those performances, he was thrilling to watch in The Savages (opposite the equally marvelous but insanely underrated Laura Linney…even though she got the nomination so I shouldn’t complain), and in Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (curiously enough opposite Marisa Tomei who looks like she’s 100% committed to the role judging from the preview). But being someone who’s really familiar with Doubt as a stage version, I felt Hoffman was not only terribly miscast but his performance was so put on I could just not buy it.
@John G, I can’t believe anyone ever doubted Tomei’s Oscar, I think it’s as worthy an Oscar performance as the best of them. Just because it’s a comedy it doesn’t mean she didn’t nail the part, perhaps the part wasn’t Oscar-worthy in itself but she elevated the material. That’s the kind of actress she is and it’s great that she is being recognized for it at this point in her career, I feel that for the longest time she was in fact being punished for having won an Oscar for My Cousin Vinny!
Looks good- reminds me of a novel I just recently read about politics and journalism, The Nostalgist.