Well, here we are... Another year gone by and a few months without posting! Sorry about that. Time truly does fly when one is having fun.
I thought I would share an update on our web series: THE ESTATE. We're about half-way through filming, and are hopeful we will have an October 2014 debut. Our initial goal was October 2013, but we ran into some trouble with finding a home for the "interior" portions of the shoot.
If you live in the mid-Missouri area (within 30-40 minutes of Columbia) and are interested in sharing your home, drop me an email at: sarahbono@rocketmail.com
Or, if you have a friend who would be interested in offering up their home, please pass along my email to them!
Ideally, we're looking for a two-story home with the stairs leading up to the second floor near the front door. However, we are willing to work with what we can get if it fits the story!
Check out our YouTube channel for our behind-the-scenes vlogs to see where we've been and where we're going. Hopefully you'll see a new vlog in the next month, until then, put the word out about our house hunt and 'Like' us on Facebook:
So now we're getting into the thick of Oscar season. Based on recent rumblings from lucky viewers who got to watch its first screening (The Hollywood Reporter) (Huffington Post), Les Miserables may be the film to beat this year! Harkening back to Oscar winners of past, it has everything from epic sweeping shots, grand musical sequences and transformative roles that could very well guarantee noms for Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman - something that has been lacking in recent years.
While I'm excited to see how the film will make waves this Christmas, another movie is on my mind: Cloud Atlas, based on the book by David Mitchell. You see, I was visiting with my family over the Thanksgiving weekend when this film came up. My relatives were quite taken with the film. I had watched it opening weekend for fear that it wouldn't be in theaters too long (as there were only two showings available), and while it had a lot to offer, at the time I thought it was really good, but not great. However, since watching the film, I have grown to think more and more about it and come to like it more and more. Rarely does a film stick with me that long after watching it in the theater (these days, at least). True, the ambitious film may have not fully hit the mark in some places (the controversial and distracting makeup for habitants of Neo Seoul caused an uproar), but I still liked it a great deal and continue to find it truly thought-provoking. I'm sad that it hasn't been doing so well at the box office and am concerned it may wrongly get passed over when nominees are announced. But if there's one category I hope Cloud Atals gets recognized for, above all others, I hope it's for best score.
A huge character that truly brings the film together is the beautiful music composed by Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil. If you haven't heard any of the music, just look up the soundtrack or this composition in particular: All Boundaries Are Conventions.
I dare you not to emote! The music truly is breathtaking, exciting, and humbling to listen to. Below is a lovely piano cover of music from the trailer that Thilo Voissel posted on YouTube:
I was checking out one of my go-to sources for entertainment information and stumbled upon this delightful trailer for a new film starring Boardwalk Empire breakout Kelly MacDonald, David Tennant and Alice Eve. MacDonald plays a woman hired to be a decoy bride for a Hollywood actress who plans to marry in Scotland. I don't know about you, but I find romantic comedies have seriously been lacking in the past few years (I think I've written this before, but they're my guilty pleasure, and for a time, I found myself buying rom coms at least once or twice a month for a couple of years there). However, there's something about this delightful trailer that has me interested and hopeful. Apparently this film was made in 2011, and is finally going to get a limited release soon (March 9th in the USA). Watch the trailer below... What do you think?
