Mary’nın (Meg Ryan) en yakın arkadaşı stil uzmanı Sylvie Fowler (Annette Benning), kusursuz şıklığı ve hızlı işleyen zekası ile mutlu bir bekar ve saygıdeğer kadın magazini CACHET’in baş editörü. Mary ve Sylvie’nin bu sıkı dostluklarına, eksantrik bir anne ve buna ek olarak sürekli çocuk sahibi olmak isteyen Edie Cohen (Debra Messing) dahil oluyor. Ve son olarakta gruba, insanlara duymak istedikleri son şeyleri rahatlıkla söyleyebilen, büyüleyici kadın avcısı ve mizah deneme yazarı  Alex Fisher (Jada Pinkett Smith) katılır.

Ama bu uzun süreli dostluk,  çalkantılı bir döneme girer. Her şey Sylvie’nin Saks Fifth Avenue’deki güzellik salonunda  manikürcü Tanya (Debi Mazar) ile konuşmasıyla başlar.  Dedikoducu Tanya, Crystall Allen (Eva Mendes) isimli zengin avcısı, tezgahtar “fıs fıs kız”ın , evli iş adamı Stephen Haines ile birlikte olduğunu söyler.   Sylvie kendini bir çıkmazın içinde bulur: Acaba en yakın arkadaşı Mary’e kocasının onu aldattığını söylemeli mi? Bu arada babasının yanındaki işinden kovulan Mary de  güzellik salonuna manikür yaptırmaya gider. Dedikoducu Tanya’ya…

Tüm dünyası altüst olan Mary bir karar vermek zorunda kalır. Annesi ve kızıyla birlikte tatile çıkar.

Bu esnada Sylvie de bir tercih yapmak zorunda kalır... Uzun uğraşlar sonunda elde ettiği rüya gibi işi tehlikededir. Kariyerini korumak için dedikodu yazarı Bailey Smith’e zengin bir iş adamıyla evli olan ve bir “fıs fıs kıza” tercih edilen yakın arkadaşı Mary’nın özel hayatını anlatır.

Mary, Sylvie’nin bu ihanetini affetmez ve arkadaşlıkları biter.  Mary düşünmek için kadın sağlık kampına gider ve burada Kontes Miller (Bette Midler) ile tanışır ve yeni yaşamının ilk adımlarını atar. Mary Haines artık ne istediğini bilen biridir…

Yapım : 2008, ABD
Tür : Dram / Komedi
Yönetmen : Diane English
Senaryo : Diane English
Oyuncular : Eva Mendes, Jada Pinkett Smith, Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Carrie Fisher, Candice Bergen, Debi Mazar, Lynn Whitfield, Bette Midler, Debra Messing, Joanna Gleason, Ana Gasteyer, India Ennenga, Jana Robbins, Tilly Scott Pedersen, Gloria Crist, Andria Blackman, Cloris Leachman, Keegan Connor Tracy, Nicole Robinson, Natasha Alam
Yapımcı : Bill Johnson, Mick Jagger, Diane English, Victoria Pearman
Görüntü Yönetmeni : Anastas N. Michos
Müzik : Mark Isham
Süre : 1 saat, 54 dk.
Gösterim Tarihi : 12 Eylül 2008

The Women

The Women is 2008 American comedy film written and directed by Diane English. The screenplay is an updated adaptation of the 1939 George Cukor-directed film of the same name, which was based on the 1936 play by Clare Boothe Luce.

In the original film, most of the characters were Manhattan socialites whose primary interest was idle gossip. In the 2008 version, several are working in the fields of fashion design and publishing, and the character of Alex Fisher is openly gay.

Plot synopsis

The central character is clothing designer Mary Haines, who lives in a beautiful country home with her wealthy financier husband and their 11-year-old daughter. Her best friend Sylvia Fowler is the editor of a prominent fashion magazine, a woman who dictates the latest in taste and style for New York City fashionistas. When Mary's husband becomes involved with Crystal Allen, a perfume salesgirl in Saks Fifth Avenue, her friendship with Sylvia is put to the test. Everyone in their close-knit circle of friends, including the ever-pregnant Edie Cohen and author Alex Fisher, begins to question their loyalty to each other and their romantic involvements.

Production

In 1994, Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan agreed to co-produce and star in a contemporary version of the classic film written by Diane English and directed by James L. Brooks, with a supporting cast including Blythe Danner, Marisa Tomei, and Candice Bergen. Two years later, the first table reading of the script was held on the Sony Pictures lot. Despite the enthusiasm of everyone involved, the project stalled when Roberts and Ryan decided they wanted to play the same role. English spent the following year revising the screenplay, during which time Brooks dropped out to direct As Good as It Gets. Roberts also lost interest and moved on. English first entertained the idea of directing the film herself in 2001. Over the next few years, Sandra Bullock, Ashley Judd, Uma Thurman, Whitney Houston, and Queen Latifah were among those to express interest, although none were attached officially. After being turned down by every major Hollywood studio, English decided to develop the project as an independent film and approached Victoria Pearman, the president of Mick Jagger's production company, Jagged Films, who agreed to produce the film for Picturehouse. Upon its completion, it was shown to executives at Warner Bros., which had absorbed Picturehouse in the interim. Unimpressed, they put the film on the back burner until the box office success of Sex and the City convinced them there was an audience for an all-female film.

The film was shot on location in New York City and Georgetown, Gloucester, Sudbury, Medfield, and Boston in Massachusetts. In keeping with the all-female theme, all portraits and sculptures of men were replaced with those of women when scenes were shot in the Boston Public Library.

Critical reception

A.O. Scott of the New York Times called the film "a witless, straining mess" and added, "[Y]ou wait in vain for a moment of snappy repartee, of fresh emotion, of grace or charm or pathos ... If The Women had managed to give its various impulses some kind of coherent shape or tone, it might be worth arguing about. As it is, the movie wanders and wallows, stumbling toward screwball before veering in the direction of weepiness and grasping at satirical urbanity along the way ... [R]arely has class struggle, or catfighting, for that matter, been so tediously waged. And rarely have so many fine actresses been enlisted in such a futile cause."

Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times observed, "While the original film ... saw itself as a catty entertainment about New York society women coping with the infidelity of the husband of one of their friends, English has something grander and more complex in mind ... [T]his version sees itself as both a farce and a manifesto, a glorification of female friendship and a celebration of women's need for self-realization ... All that would be a handful to pull off for the most experienced filmmaker, but English has never directed before, and it shows. The visual choices she makes in The Women are invariably static, and except for whatever energy the performers can manage, the storytelling has a dispiriting flatness to it ... [The film] becomes unfocused as it stumbles over all the points it wants to make. Given English's writing skills, the dialogue doesn't help as much as it should, tending too much toward one-liners that aim for raunchy whenever possible. Never particularly believable, the story quickly unravels into schematic contrivance and wish-fulfillment fantasy."

David Wiegand of the San Francisco Chronicle said, "English doesn't make much of it very enjoyable. She's so careful to resist the Neanderthal sensibilities of the original film, she often neglects to make her version of the story, well, fun. Worse, it's only occasionally believable ... Even those who never saw Cukor's movie will feel something is missing in English's version. Yes, some of what's missing is humor and snappy dialogue, but that could be forgiven, if only some of the characters were more believable and the direction not quite as uneven. English knows how to get good performances out of her cast, but her pacing is languid and sloppy, so much so that one is tempted to believe that for all she knows about pacing a 30-minute sitcom, English isn't quite ready to tackle the longer form."

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone rated the film one out of four stars, calling it a "misbegotten redo" and "a major dud." He added, "[E]veryone ... struggles with a script that resists being crowbarred into the 21st century."

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times was one of the few critics who enjoyed the film. He awarded it three out of four stars and commented, "What a pleasure this movie is, showcasing actresses I've admired for a long time, all at the top of their form ... Diane English ... focuses on story and character, and even in a movie that sometimes plays like an infomercial for Saks Fifth Avenue, we find ourselves intrigued by these women ... The Women isn't a great movie, but how could it be? Too many characters and too much melodrama for that, and the comedy has to be somewhat muted to make the characters semi-believable. But as a well-crafted, well-written and well-acted entertainment, it drew me in and got its job done."

Reklâm metni yazarlığı yapan Octave dünyanın en büyük reklâm ajansında çalışmaktadır. İki olay Octave’ın hayatını altüst edecektir: Ajansın en güzel kızı olan Sophie ile yaşadığı aşk ve reklâm filmi satmak için gittiği Madone şirketindeki bir toplantı. Yetenekli Octave, aklını oynatır ve bu büyük reklâm kampanyasını sabote ederek kendisini yaratmış olan sisteme isyan etmeye karar verir.

Yapım : 2007, Fransa
Tür : Komedi
Yönetmen : Jan Kounen
Senaryo : Jan Kounen, Frederic Beigbeder (Kitap)
Oyuncular : Jocelyn Quivrin, Dan Herzberg, Antoine Basler, Dominique Bettenfeld, Nicolas Marié, Arsène Mosca, Jean Dujardin, Patrick Mille, Vahina Giocante, Elisa Tovati, Fosco Perinti, Cendrine Orcier, Niels Dubost, Aurélie Boquien
Yapımcı : Alain Goldman
Görüntü Yönetmeni : David Ungaro
Müzik : Jean-jacques Hertz, François Roy
Dağıtım : Pinema Film
Süre : 1 saat, 40 dk.
Gösterim Tarihi : 29 Ağustos 2008

99 Francs

99 francs est un film français, écrit par Nicolas & Bruno, réalisé par Jan Kounen, sorti en 2007. Il est inspiré du roman éponyme de Frédéric Beigbeder.

Synopsis

Octave Parango, jeune concepteur-rédacteur dans une agence de pub parisienne, nous montre sa vision délirante de son métier ainsi que de sa vie.

 Bande Originale

"The Fox" - Lalo Schifrin- tirée du film The Fox (1967)
"Yumeji's Theme" - tirée du film In the Mood for Love (2000)
"The Mambo Craze"
"Sure Thing" - Saint Germain
"An der schönen blauen Donau" - Johann Strauss (1867)
"Terrible Angels" - CocoRosie
"Crispy Becon" - Laurent Garnier

Autour du film

On reconnaît François Berléand au détour d'une publicité sur les chaussures Eram, que regarde le personnage d'Octave adolescent.

On peut voir la pub réalisée par Ridley Scott pour le Macintosh réalisé en 1984, tout au long du film on peut voir des Mac.

Le DVD du film est sorti le 26 Mars 2008.

 Citations du film

"Jamais crétin irresponsable n'a été aussi puissant que moi depuis 2000 ans" (Octave Parango)

"Vous croyez que je cherche à embellir le monde ? Perdu ! Je le bousille." (Octave Parango)

"Tout s'achète, l'amour, l'art, la planète Terre, vous, moi.[...]Tout est provisoire, l'amour, l'art, la planète Terre, vous, moi, surtout moi." (Octave Parango)

"Votre désir ne vous appartient plus, je vous impose le mien." (Octave Parango)

"J'ai comme la vague impression d'effectuer un pétage de plomb au niveau de ma personne." (Octave Parango)

 Box-office

Le film 99 francs a réuni 517 322 spectateurs lors de sa première semaine de sortie (26 Septembre au 2 Octobre).

Garfield, çizgi roman dünyasının, en eğlenceli performansının ödüllendirildiği, en uzun soluklu yarışma “Komedi Festivali”nde uzatmalı sevgilisi Arlene ile birlikte bugüne kadar defalarca birincilik ödülünü kazanmıştır.

Ancak bu yıl Garfield tek başına yarışmak zorunda kalır. Çünkü çizgi roman dünyasına yeni adım atan yakışıklı kedi Ramone çok kısa sürede ortalığı kasıp kavurmakla kalmamış, inanılmaz bir hızla çok sayıda hayran edinmiş ve bu arada Garfield’ın uzatmalı sevgilisi Arlene’in de kalbini kazanmıştır. “Yükselen değer” Ramone ile Arlene’in birlikte sergilediği tango dansının izleyicilerin büyük beğenisini ve takdirini kazanması üzerine Garfield ümitsizliğe kapılır ve eski popülerliğini elde edebilmek için çareler aramaya başlar.Bu amaçla da Garfield ile sadık dostu Odie, Garfield’a “Komedi Festivali” Birincilik Ödülü’nü kazandıracağı söylenen efsanevi “komik su”yu bulmak için bir yolculuğa çıkarlar.

Yapım : 2008, ABD / GüneyKore
Tür : Animasyon / Komedi / Macera
Yönetmen : Kyung Ho Lee, Mark A.Z. Dippé
Senaryo : Jim Davis
Seslendirenler : Okan Bayülgen, Devrim Parscan, Serhan Arslan, Ayhan Kahya, Ahmet Erez, Ertugrul Postoğlu
Yapımcı : John Davis, Mark A.Z. Dippé, Daniel Chuba
Müzik : Kenneth Burgomaster
Dağıtım : UIP Filmcilik
Süre : 1 saat, 25 dk.
Gösterim Tarihi : 29 Ağustos 2008

Garfield's Fun Fest

Garfield's Fun Fest is a computer-generated animated movie starring Garfield the Cat, produced by Paws, Inc. in cooperation with Wonderworld Studios and distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. It was written by Garfield's creator Jim Davis, who started working on the script in the fall of 2005. The DVD was released in stores on August, 2008.

Plot

The Big Talent Show is coming up and Garfield has to get ready, even though he wins EVERY year. Why should this year be different? There's a new Mexican cat in town, called Ramone, and Arlene has fallen in love with him. After he loses his humor, Garfield, along with Odie, must journey to a frog who knows all about funny, compete against Ramone, and win Arlene's heart back in this amazing, all new adventure.

Information

Color- Metrocolor
Audio- English Only (USA and UK only)
Subtitled- English (Single Layer: 3 dots on question mark, 3 dots on extermation point and 3 dots)

Video game

A video game, Garfield's Fun Fest, based on the film was released in July 2008. It was developed by Black Lantern Studios and published by DSI Games in North America and Zoo Digital Publishing in Europe.

Major Characters

Garfield (the main protagonist), an orange lazy cat who escapes the Cartoon World. Soon, he realizes this will only make chaos.
Odie (main protagonist) a yellow happy dog, who accidentally gets into the Real World. He enjoys having a bone in his mouth.
Jon Arbuckle is the owner of Garfield and Odie. He goes on a rescue mission at the mighty Fire-Hotel Scene in the movie.
Nermal, a gray cat who makes fun of Garfield.
Arlene, a pink cat who loves Garfield. She is sometimes angry at things like when Sheila took Garfield.

Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) KAOS adıyla bilinen suç örgütünün dünyayı ele geçirme planlarını çökertmekle görevlidir. ABD casus teşkilatı Control’un kumanda merkezi saldırıya uğrayıp, ajanların kimlikleri ifşa olunca, Teşkilat Amiri’nin (Alan Arkin) her daim istekli analizcisi Maxwell Smart’ı terfi ettirmekten başka şansı kalmaz. Her zaman sahada ajanların süperstarı, korkusuz Ajan 23’le (Dwayne “Rock” Johnson) çalışmanın hayallerini kuran Smart, ne yazık ki kimliği ifşa olmayan tek ajanla, deneyimli, sevimli ama bir o kadar da öldürücü Ajan 99’la (Anne Hathaway) çalışmak durumundadır.

Yapım : 2008, ABD
Tür : Aksiyon / Komedi / Suç
Yönetmen : Peter Segal
Senaryo : Tom J. Astle, Matt Ember
Oyuncular : Bill Murray, Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Ken Davitian, Alan Arkin, Terry Crews, Terence Stamp, David Koechner, Masi Oka, Dwayne Johnson, Matt Gallini, David Aranovich
Yapımcı : Michael Ewing
Görüntü Yönetmeni : Dean Semler
Müzik : Trevor Rabin
Süre : 1 saat, 50 dk.
Gösterim Tarihi : 29 Ağustos 2008

Get Smart

Get Smart is a 2008 film adaptation of Mel Brooks and Buck Henry's 1960s spy parody television series, Get Smart. The film stars Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart and Anne Hathaway as Agent 99. Alan Arkin plays the Chief. Dwayne Johnson, Terence Stamp, Terry Crews, David Koechner, Masi Oka, Ken Davitian, Larry Miller, Patrick Warburton and Dalip "The Great Khali" Singh also star. Bernie Kopell, who played Siegfried in the original series, makes a cameo appearance. Bill Murray also appears as Agent 13 hidden in an empty tree trunk.

300.000’e yakın Amerikalının öldüğü ya da Kuzey İrlanda’ya yerleştiği 2. Dünya Savaşı sırasında, 1 Haziran 1944’te 10 genç askerin içinde bulunduğu B-17 uçağı yoğun bir sis içerisinde kalır ve Belfast Cave Tepesi’ne çarpar. Kaza gerçekleşmeden önce bir asker nişan yüzüğünü uzaklardaki sevgilisine ulaştırması için köylülerden birine emanet etmiştir. Yüzüğün yıllar sonra ortaya çıkmasıyla, geçmişten kalan bazı sırlar da gün yüzüne çıkacaktır.

Yapım : 2007, ABD / İngiltere / Kanada
Tür : Dram / Romantik
Yönetmen : Richard Attenborough
Senaryo : Peter Woodward
Oyuncular : Pete Postlethewaite, Christopher Plummer, Shirley MacLaine, Brenda Fricker, Gregory Smith, Mischa Barton, David Alpay, Stephen Amell, John Travers, Martin Mccann
Yapımcı : Richard Attenborough, Jo Gilbert
Görüntü Yönetmeni : Roger Pratt
Müzik : Jeff Danna
Süre : 1 saat, 59 dk.
Gösterim Tarihi : 29 Ağustos 2008

Closing The Ring

Closing the Ring is a film directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton, Stephen Amell, Neve Campbell, Pete Postlethwaite, and Brenda Fricker.

The film was released in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland on December 28, 2007.

Main cast

Shirley MacLaine - Ethel Ann
Christopher Plummer - Jack
Mischa Barton - Young Ethel Ann
Gregory Smith - Young Jack
Stephen Amell - Teddy Gordon
Neve Campbell - Marie
Brenda Fricker - Grandma Reilly
Martin McCann - Jimmy Reilly
Pete Postlethwaite - Michael Quinlan
John Travers - Young Michel Quinlan
David Alpay - Chuck
Layke Anderson - Army Corporal

Story

The film opens in 1991, with the funeral of a former World War II veteran. The man's daughter Marie (Neve Campbell) delivers the eulogy to a church full of veterans who knew and loved her father, while her mother Ethel Ann (Shirley MacLaine) is sitting out on the church porch, smoking and nursing a hangover. When Ethel Ann begins acting strangely, only her friend Jack (Christopher Plummer) seems to understand why. It quickly emerges that there is a lot Marie does not know about her mother's past and the true story of her love life.

The movie flips to a time when this mother was young, lively, and optimistic (young Ethel Ann played by Mischa Barton). She is in love with a young farmer, Teddy Gordon (played by Canadian new comer Stephen Amell), who goes off to war with his best friends Jack (Gregory Smith) and Chuck (David Alpay), but not all of them make it back alive. The plot lines intertwine with the story of a young Ulsterman in Belfast who finds a ring in the wreckage of a crashed B-17 and is determined to return it to the woman who once owned it.

Production

Closing the Ring was filmed in Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

The B-17 used in this movie was the Yankee Lady from the Yankee Air Museum, wich was also used in the movie Tora! Tora! Tora!.

Festival appearances

The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 14, 2007. The film received its UK premiere at the London Film Festival on October 21, 2007.

Reception

Variety called the film "decades-skipping schmaltz" and an "aggressively bittersweet yet oddly uninvolving drama."

Philip French of The Observer wrote "Woodward's script is more than a little contrived as well as over-emphatic. But Attenborough has infused it with warmth and mature insight, and older members of the audience are likely to find it extremely moving."

Laura Bushell of BBCi Films called the film a "looping tale of love and loss in WWII which is so old fashioned in its aspirations, it's hard to see why new audiences would flock to see it."

Futbolla adeta özdeşleşmiş Trabzon’da birçok efsane futbolcunun doğmasına neden olan mahalle maçlarının anlatıldığı “5’te haftayım 10’da biter” adlı bir belgesel Mahalle Maçı. Trabzonspor’un üst üste şampiyonluklar kazandığı ve en büyük unvanını kazandığı yıllarda takımda yer alan futbolcuların büyük bir bölümü sokaklardan çıkma... Trabzonspor’da efsane olan isimler bu belgeselde konuşuyor.

Trabzon’da mahalle maçlarının yeri bir başka. Bundan 41 yıl önce kurulan ve altı kez şampiyon olan Trabzonspor’u bu başarılara taşıyan efsanevi kadro bu mahalle maçlarında yetişmişti. Trabzonspor için ayrı bir yere sahip olan mahalle maçlarının önemini anlatan bir belgesel çekildi. Varol Uzlu’nun yönetmenliğini yaptığı 5’te Haftayım, 10’da Biter adlı belgesel Trabzon’daki mahalle maçlarını anlatıyor.

Trabzonlu Varol Uzlu, pek çok televizyon kanalında çalışan, fotoğraf sergileri açan son iki yılda bu belgesel üzerinde çalışan bir isim. Uzlu, belgeselinde Anadolu’da futbol denilince akla gelen ilk isim olan Trabzon’un sokak futbolu kültürünü anlattığını belirterek, bunun nedenini şöyle açıklıyor: ‘Bu mahalle maçlarıyla Trabzonspor’un temeli atılmıştı. Trabzonspor’u efsane yapan futbolcular mahalle maçlarında kendilerini geliştirip isim yaptılar. Bu duyguları yeniden yaşamak ve yaşatmak için şimdiki gençliğe bir mesaj vermek ve geçmişte bu mahalle maçlarıyla büyüyen o insanlara tekrar o zamanları hatırlatmak için bu filmi çektik.’

Yapım : 2008, Türkiye
Tür : Belgesel / Spor
Yönetmen : Varol Uzlu
Müzik : Volkan Konak
Gösterim Tarihi : 22 Ağustos 2008