New Trailer For Nick Love’s Firm Remake

I wouldn’t say that I am the biggest fan of Nick Love’s output so far. I thought The Business was good, Football Factory was ok and Outlaw was initially a great idea, but a weak story and below-par performances made this into a Grade A stinker.

This remake of the late ’80s TV film The Firm attracted me for the same reason as The Business – it looks jam packed with quality trainers and tracksuits. The original was a gritty drama that was mainly carried by the legendary Gary Oldman’s performance, I’m not sure that this one’s going to be able to say the same. If his past films are anything to go by it’s going to be lots of sex,drugs, fighting and cockney wide-boys but very little substance.

I’ll be there in the queue just to get another glimpse of people with wedge haircuts wearing Tacchini tracksuit tops and Diadora Borg Elite trainers, but I suspect the rest of it will be dissappointing.

Oh Dae Suh Is Back (Kind Of)

As you’ve probably realised by now, we are obsessed with all things Oldboy. I found this on my daily work-avoidance web trawl and thought I’d put it up in case we’re being followed by any other hammer-fight obsessed geeks.

Please click on the link HERE , thanks to our friends over at Ain’t It Cool

Enjoy.

61 Days, 14 hours

It’s only 61 days and 14 hours until this year’s Festival Internacional De Cinema Fantastic De Catalunya (that’s the Sitges Film Festival to you and me) and already the excitement is reaching fever pitch – flights have been booked, the accomodation is reserved and the beers are on the bar.

With that in mind, we’re aiming to bring you as much information as early as possible. A few details are already available on the site here and we aim to keep you updated with trailers and information as they arrive.

As the date for entries has now passed, we’re hopeful that more information is going to be available soon, although going on past years, we’ll usually find out more some time around the middle of September.

Today’s trailer is the hotly-anticipated [REC] 2 which we expect will probably open the festival. Tickets will probably be at a premium and if the first installment is anything to go by, we’d better take spare underwear.

The Road To Sitges 2009

hibernate
Verb [ intrans. ]
(of an animal or plant) spend the winter in a dormant state.
• figurative (of a person) remain inactive or indoors for an extended period

I like to think of Team CorridorStyle as a big bear.

While we here at CS could never claim to be the most active of Bloggers, even we experience a state of reduced activity and metabolic depression during the metaphorical winter that closes in between Sitges film festivals. However, as the permafrost acting of Nicolas Cage gives way to the first green-screen shoots of Korean cinema’s latest offerings, strange guttural sounds soon begin to emanate from somewhere deep within the Corridors of Style.

For the last few years Spring has heralded the start of our Festival preparations, and this year has been no different – until now.

Having recently moved to this new home for our cinematic musings we’ve decided now would be a good time to let others in on our pre-festival rummaging and ferreting. Why should we do all the hard work and you reap all the rewards? Because we’re Nice Guy Eddie here at CS – That’s why.

Between now and October 2nd we’ll be sharing our thoughts and findings as we scheme our schemes and hatch our hatches for what’s sure to be another full-on program of Movies and Mahous.

Even if you’re not planning to make it to the festival this year why not live the experience vicariously through us by following our Tweets or by hooking up to our Blog RSS.

Eric Bana – Tell him he’s dreaming

I’m going to be self-indulgent.

On reading this interview with Eric Bana over at The Onion’s A.V Club, I was reminded of my first glimpse of Bana.

On a trip to Oz a few years back a friend in Perth pulled one out of the hat by treating me to a hitherto unknown Bana back-to-back with THE CASTLE and CHOPPER. I was mightily impressed by both and, as is now customary with films I like, particularly comedies I like,  I scooted on over to IMDB and THE CASTLE’s “memorable Quotes” section to remind myself why.

Dale Kerrigan: Dad reckons fishing is 10% brains and 95% muscle, the rest is just good luck.

Eric gets two thumbs up here at CorridorStyle so, if you like his comedic turn in the latest Apatow offering FUNNY PEOPLE, we recommend storming THE CASTLE for more Bana beauties.

CS

Bad Lieutenant DVD rerelease

bad-lieutenant_jpg_150x1000_upscale_q85For those of you who marveled at our 2008 Sitges Film Festival Blog (we know who you are) you will have noticed that we like a bit of Abel Ferrara (see Day 2 entry). We’re not sure which bit specifically but we now know that all of his bits become infinitely more entertaining when they’re loosely held together by liquor.

What unbridled joy we experienced then at the DVD rerelease yesterday of one of Abel’s finest – BAD LIEUTENANT.

For those of you of a similar generation to myself, your strongest (perhaps only) memory of the film released 17 years ago may either be a) an unfortunate incident involving a nun or b), an unfortunate incident involving Harvey letting us see how God intended him to be.

However, 17 years is a long time and I’ll hold my hand up and admit that the film’s major draw for me at the time was it’s taboo status thanks, in no small part (no pun intended Harvey), to the above controversial scenes. So, after our recent Sitges brush with the great man, now would seem like a good time to give the film a view with new eyes. This review over at our friends at The Onion’s A.V club would suggest I need to look beyond the controversy , and search for the film’s true soul.

I feel I should also make reference to the A.V club’s footnote regarding the DVD’s release coinciding with the forthcoming Werner Herzog-Nicolas Cage remake Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans. From earlier comments we’ve made it will be clear that Team CorridorStyle is not Cage’s biggest fan, and we’ve already offered him outside for a fight (still waiting Nic) over his involvement with the sacrilege that would be an OLDBOY remake. Couple that together with Herzog’s involvement here (ok Werner, we quite liked RESCUE DAWN but what the hell was THE WILD BLUE YONDER all about?) and I smell a shit-storm brewing.

CS