trailer<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nWhew, that’s a lot of stuff coming out. If I really were a professional movie critic, I’d be busy, wouldn’t I?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Okay, now, both sources I’m using for movie release information (IMDb and FirstShowing.net) say that David Cronenberg‘s Eastern Promises is opening in wide release this week. I don’t know how wide “wide” is, though, since it isn’t playing in Austin or St. Louis, and is only in one theatre in Dallas. Still. The other openings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[487,488],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":266,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/trailer-watch-highly-anticipated-by-me-as-of-32307\/","url_meta":{"origin":650,"position":0},"title":"Trailer Watch – Highly Anticipated by Me (as of 3\/20\/07)","author":"Jandy","date":"March 20, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are some of the films I'm looking forward to in the next...year. 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Okay, now, both sources I’m using for movie release information (IMDb<\/a> and FirstShowing.net<\/a>) say that David Cronenberg<\/a>‘s Eastern Promises<\/a><\/i> is opening in wide release this week. I don’t know how wide “wide” is, though, since it isn’t playing in Austin or St. Louis, and is only in one theatre in Dallas. Still. The other openings this week don’t appeal to me, so I’m going to highlight it anyway. Eastern Promises<\/i><\/b> concerns a midwife (Naomi Watts<\/a>), who is drawn into the underbelly of the Russian mafia when she tries to discover the background of a teenage mother who died in labor. It’s also got Viggo Mortensen<\/a> as one of the Russians she encounters. The last Cronenberg-Mortensen outing was A History of Violence<\/a><\/i>, which I didn’t really understand when I watched it because I kept being distracted, but is pretty close to the top of my rewatch list. Based on the buzz I’ve read out of the Toronto Film Festival, Eastern Promises<\/i> more than delivers. Speaking of TIFF, is now a good time to point out how much I want to be a professional film critic and hang out at film festivals? I thought it was. I’ve been salivating over the TIFF dispatches. Anyway, here’s the trailer for Eastern Promises<\/i>, for whenever it ends up coming out near you. (And here’s a good review from the New York Times<\/a>–I’m so glad A.O. Scott is back; I missed him when he was on vacation a month or so ago).<\/p>\n