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NINE Review

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: December 24th, 2009 at 7:18 pm

Maybe I’m just old-fashioned but I believe that a musical needs, above all else, good music.  Direction, performances, production design, and choreography (if applicable) are all important, but a musical lives and dies with its songs.  Nine dies and it’s a long, excruciating death as we follow mopish director Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) suffering from writer’s block and depending on all the women in his life while providing nothing in return.  Eventually, “Nine” no longer represents Frederico Fellini’s “8 ½ plus music”, but a countdown to how many forgettable numbers you’ll have to endure before the movie ends.

3rd Trailer for NINE Attempts to Explain the Plot and Characters

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: November 30th, 2009 at 4:16 pm

With only 19 days left until it hits theaters, Nine has a new trailer which finally goes beyond sex, cinematography, and accolades (which won me over), and attempts to present as many characters as possible as well as the conflicts of the main character, Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis).  It gets to just about everyone in the cast except Fergie and Sophia Loren, so let me help out with that right now: Loren plays Guido’s mother and Fergie plays the whore from his youth.  I’m not sure why they didn’t try to explain those roles, but it does accomplish a lot within the span of two and a half minutes so head over to Apple and check it out.

Nine hits theaters on December 18^th.  Hit the jump for a brief synopsis.

NINE Trailer

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: May 14th, 2009 at 6:39 pm

While I think Rob Marshall’s “Chicago” is a criminally over-hated film (I genuinely like it and have no problem with it being 2002′s Best Picture winner), it’s a ridiculously easy film to sell compared to what The Weinstein Company has to pull off with the adaptation of “Nine” which in turn is based of Frederico Fellini’s “8 1/2″ which is an autobiographical tale of a film director struggling with his new project and looking back on his life through the lens of the women who have impacted his story.  Also, please do not confuse this film with “District 9″ which is about aliens imprisoned in South Africa or “9″ which is about a group of rag dolls adventuring through a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

The trailer looks good and the Weinstein’s are definitely priming it for some Oscar contention but they will definitely have a fight on their hands because even if turns out as critically acclaimed, you still have to get audiences to turn out for it.  I wonder if a cast comprised of Daniel Day Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Sophia Loren, Judi Dench, Kate Hudson, Stacy “Fergie” Ferguson, and Martina Stella is enough.

Check out the trailer after the jump.  “Nine” hits theatres on November 25th.

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