Blades of Glory (2007)

US
Josh Gordon - Director
Will Speck - Director
John Altschuler - Screenwriter
Craig Cox - Screenwriter / Screen Story
Jeff Cox - Screen Story / Screenwriter
Dave Krinsky - Screenwriter
Busy Philipps - Screen Story

Will Ferrell - Chazz Michael Michaels
Jon Heder - Jimmy MacElroy
Amy Poehler - Fairchild Van Waldenberg
Will Arnett - Stranz Van Waldenberg
Craig T. Nelson - Coach

Thank You for Smoking (2005)

US

Jason Reitman - Director / Screenwriter
Christopher Buckley - Book Author

Aaron Eckhart - Nick Naylor
Maria Bello - Polly Bailey
Cameron Bright - Joey Naylor
Adam Brody - Jack
Sam Elliott - Lorne Lutch

Transformers (2007)

US
Michael Bay - Director / Executive Producer

Shia LaBeouf - Sam Witwicky
Megan Fox - Mikaela Banes
Josh Duhamel - Sergeant Lennox
Tyrese Gibson - USAF Tech Sergeant Epps
Rachael Taylor - Maggie Madsen

The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)

US
Paul Greengrass - Director
Paul Attanasio - Screenwriter
Scott Z. Burns - Screenwriter
Tony Gilroy - Screenwriter / Screen Story
Robert Ludlum - Book Author
George Nolfi - Screenwriter
Tom Stoppard - Screenwriter
Oliver Wood - Cinematographer

Matt Damon - Jason Bourne
Julia Stiles - Nicky Parsons
David Strathairn - Noah Vosen
Joan Allen - Pam Landy
Scott Glenn - Ezra Kramer
Paddy Considine - Simon Ross
Albert Finney - Dr. Albert Hirsch

Vitus (2006)

Switzerland

Fredi M. Murer - Director / Producer / Screenwriter
Peter Luisi - Screenwriter
Lukas B. Suter - Screenwriter

Teo Gheorghiu - Vitus von Holzen
Bruno Ganz - Grandfather
Fabrizio Borsani - Vitus, Age 6
Julika Jenkins - Helen von Holzen
Urs Jucker - Leo von Holzen

The Lost World (2001)

US/UK
made for TV

Stuart Orme - Director
Arthur Conan Doyle - Book Author

Bob Hoskins - Prof. George Challenger
Tom Ward - Lord John Phillip Roxton
Matthew Rhys - Edward Malone
Elaine Cassidy - Agnes Mooney
Robert Hardy - Prof. Illingworth

Bridge to Terabithia (2007)

US
Gabor Csupo - Director
David L. Paterson - Producer / Screenwriter
Katherine Paterson - Book Author
Jeff Stockwell - Screenwriter

Josh Hutcherson - Jess Aarons
AnnaSophia Robb - Leslie Burke
Robert Patrick - Jack Aarons
Zooey Deschanel - Ms. Edmonds

[Gig] Formoz 2007

27-29 July 2007
Taipei, Taiwan

27
Dean & Britta
阿飛西雅
甜梅號

28
蘇打綠
asobi seksu
Mercury Rev
Tell Me Do You Miss Me (rockumentary)

29
橙草
8mm Sky
Yndi Halda
Hyakkei
Yo La Tengo

Ratatouille (2007)

US
Brad Bird - Director / Screenwriter / Screen Story
Jan Pinkava - Director / Screen Story
Brad Lewis - Producer
Jim Capobianco - Screen Story

Paris, je t'aime (2006)

Switzerland / Liechtenstein / France

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

Spain / France / Germany

Tom Tykwer - Director / Screenwriter / Composer (Music Score) / Musical Performer / Music Producer
Bernd Eichinger - Producer / Screenwriter
Martin Moszkowicz - Producer / Executive Producer
Andrew Birkin - Screenwriter
Patrick Suskind - Book Author
Caroline Thompson - Screenwriter

Ben Whishaw - Jean-Baptiste Grenouille
Alan Rickman - Antoine Richis
Rachel Hurd-Wood - Laura
Dustin Hoffman - Baldini, Giuseppe

Disturbia (2007)

US
D.J. Caruso - Director
Jackie Marcus - Producer
Joe Medjuck - Producer
E. Bennett Walsh - Producer
Carl Ellsworth - Screenwriter
Christopher Landon - Screenwriter / Screen Story

Shia LaBeouf - Kale
David Morse - Mr. Turner
Sarah Roemer - Ashley
Carrie-Anne Moss - Julie
Aaron Yoo - Ronnie

La Vie en Rose (2007)

France / UK / Czech Republic

Olivier Dahan - Director / Screenwriter
Isabelle Sobelman - Screenwriter

[Broadway] 110 in the Shade

29 June 2007
Studio 54

Book by N. Richard Nash
Music by Harvey Schmidt
Lyrics by Tom Jones
Directed by Lonny Price

Audra McDonald
John Cullum
Will Swenson
Christopher Innvar
Bobby Steggert

1408 (2007)

US

Mikael Håfström - Director
Scott Alexander - Screenwriter
Matt Greenberg - Screenwriter
Larry Karaszewski - Screenwriter
Stephen King - Short Story Author

John Cusack - Mike Enslin
Samuel L. Jackson

It is really difficult to discuss a film's plot with a big name original book author, or maybe this question can extend to every adaptation. Who should I attribute, refer to, especially most of the time I've never seen the book? So maybe the wise thing to do is put this issue aside, just concentrate on the film.

Although the plot is short lasting, the tension building between Jackson and Cusack is awesome. This kind of claustrophobic, supernatural, blurring reality and dream thriller doesn't have much surprise, basically all you have to do is to plan the seeds of terror in the first part of the film and wait for the right moment to make them bloom. But this doesn't mean it can't invoke the involuntary screams. Basically 1408 is Cusack's one man show, and he did a great job.

The ending seems to me bear less significant, nothing can really surprise audience these days, and nothing can conclude and rationalize the whole story easily. The best ending is already become cliche, and to avoid that, it means to loose the best choice.

This is Håfström's second Hollywood film, he directed the Danmark film Evil.

Under the Sand (2000)

Sous Le Sable
France

François Ozon - Director / Screenwriter
Marina de Van - Screenwriter

Charlotte Rampling - Marie Drillon
Bruno Cremer - Jean Drillon
Jacques Nolot - Vincent
Alexandra Stewart - Amanda
Pierre Vernier - Gerard

[Broadway] The Public Theater - Romeo and Juliet

22 June 2007
Delacorte Theatre

Directed by Michael Greif

Cast
Escalus - Timothy D. Stickney
Mercution - Christopher Evan Welch
Paris - Dan Colman
Romeo - Oscar Isaac
Capulet - Michael Cristofer
Juliet - Lauren Ambrose
Tybalt - Brian Tyree Henry
Nurse - Camryn Manheim

[Misc] ABT - Romeo and Juliet

21 June 2007
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center

Choreopraphy by Kenneth MacMillan
Music by Sergei Prokofiev

Romeo - David Hallberg
Juliet - Gillian Murphy

History Boys (2006)

US/UK
Nicholas Hytner - Director / Producer
Alan Bennett - Play Author / Screenwriter

Richard Griffiths - Hector
Frances de la Tour - Dorothy Lintott
Stephen Campbell Moore - Irwin
Samuel Barnett - Posner
Dominic Cooper - Dakin
James Corden - Timms
Clive Merrison - Headmaster
Jamie Parker - Scripps
Russell Tovey - Rudge
Samuel Anderson - Crowther
Sacha Dhawan - Akthar
Andrew Knott - Lockwood

[Broadway] Frost/Nixon

20 June 2007
Bernard B. Jocobs Theatre

Directed by Michael Grandage
Play by Peter Morgan

Cast
Frank Langella
Michael Sheen