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New Downloads Added
We added many many videos to our DOWNLOAD SECTION – from the opening of Tim Burton’s Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York to the Bahamas Film Festival to the premiere of Public Enemies in Japan to the most recent Kuestendorf Film and Music Festival in Serbia.
Kuestendorf Press Conference
The first video from the press conference: LINK
And here’s a video from the website of the festival: LINK
The Rum Diary
Year: 2011
Directed by: Bruce Robinson
Written by: Bruce Robinson (screenplay), Hunter S. Thompson (novel)
Music by: Christopher Young
Johnny Depp playing: Paul Kemp
Runtime: 120 min.
Release Date: October 28th, 2011
DVD release Date: February 14th, 2012
Plot Summary
Based on the novel by Hunter S. Thompson, “The Rum Diary” follows itinerant journalist Paul Kemp on an alcohol-fueled journey across the pristine island of Puerto Rico. Adopting the rum-soaked life of the island, Paul soon becomes obsessed with Chenault, the wildly attractive fiancée of Sanderson, an American businessman involved in shady development deals. When Kemp is recruited by Sanderson to write favourably about his latest usavoury scheme, the journalist is presented with a choice: to use his words for the corrupt businessman’s financial benefit or use them to take him down.
Rango
Year: 2011
Directed by: Gore Verbinski
Written by: John Logan (screenplay), John Logan (story)
Music by: Hans Zimmer
Johnny Depp playing: Rango/Lars (Voice)
Runtime: 107 min.
Release Date: March 4th, 2011
Plot Summary
Rango is a chameleon who lives in a terrarium and constantly seeks to fit in with his surroundings. He finds himself removed from his contemporary American southwest surroundings and ends up in an Old West town in the middle of the Mojave Desert called Dirt, which is populated by various desert critters garbed like characters out of Western fiction. Thinking himself a hero, Rango establishes himself as the town’s sheriff, not knowing that people who have held that title do not fare very well in Dirt. In “an existential crisis”, Rango comes to question everything about himself.
by Wikipedia
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Year: 2009
Directed by: Terry Gilliam
Written by: Terry Gilliam, Chales McKeown
Music by: Mychael Danna & Jeff Danna
Johnny Depp playing: Tony
Runtime: 122 min.
Release Date: May 22th, 2009
Plot Summary
A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is a fantastical morality tale, set in the present day. It tells the story of Dr Parnassus and his extraordinary ‘Imaginarium’, a travelling show where members of the audience get an irresistible opportunity to choose between light and joy or darkness and gloom. Blessed with the extraordinary gift of guiding the imaginations of others, Dr Parnassus is cursed with a dark secret. Long ago he made a bet with the devil, Mr Nick, in which he won immortality. Many centuries later, on meeting his one true love, Dr Parnassus made another deal with the devil, trading his immortality for youth, on condition that when his first-born reached its 16th birthday he or she would become the property of Mr Nick. Valentina is now rapidly approaching this ‘coming of age’ milestone and Dr Parnassus is desperate to protect her from her impending fate. Mr Nick arrives to collect but, always keen to make a bet, renegotiates the wager. Now the winner of Valentina will be determined by whoever seduces the first five souls.
Alice in Wonderland
Year: 2010
Directed by:Tim Burton
Written by: Lewis Carroll (novel), Linda Woolverton (screenplay)
Music by: Danny Elfman
Johnny Depp playing: The Mad Hatter
Runtime: 108 min.
Release Date: March 3rd, 2010
IMDB – official site
Plot Summary
The Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) has taken over Underland (as its called) ensalving everyone to her control. The White Queen (Anne Hathaway) has to find a champion to defeat her sister by slaying the Jobberwocky on Frabjious Day to free Underland. Alice who by everyones expections is going to her engagement party where is to marry Hamish,falls down the rabbit hold again, finds herself in what she thinks is the reacurring childhood dream.. soon realises its real. With Tarrant-Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) the only one in Underland who believes in Alice (Mia Wasikowska) helps her find the muchness (courage and confidence) slay the Jobberwocky and to be her own person in life.
by Ginny Osborne