George Clooney is one of the biggest stars on the planet, but he has a rather spotty track record as a director. Yes, Good Night, and Good Luck received multiple Oscar nominations back in 2005 as Clooney's filmmaking breakout, but he hasn't had a bona fide hit in the decade since. The Ides of March received okay reviews, but Leatherheads and The Monuments Men were both critical punching bags and box office letdowns. The latter was widely viewed as a heavy Oscar favorite going into the 2013 season, but when it was pushed back to February 2014, we all knew that something was up. But Clooney has an opportunity to change his luck this fall with Suburbicon, a Coen Brothers-scripted crime comedy that stars Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, and Oscar Isaac. With distribution from Paramount and a prime October release date, this looks like a true awards contender- and judging by its scheduled appearances at both the Venice Film Festival and TIFF, Clooney and the studio are high on its prospects. Earlier this morning, the first trailer for the film was released- watch it below!
Based on the logline and description for Suburbicon, I really wasn't sure what to expect. Was this going to be some kind of dramatic suburban satire like American Beauty? A deconstruction of 1950s values and small town idealism? I read an interview with Clooney (via Yahoo Movies) yesterday that gave me a slightly better idea, but this trailer sells a film that is more insane and more delightfully wacky than my wildest hopes and dreams. Seriously, this movie looks incredible. It seems to contain some of the elements that I mentioned above, but they appear to be housed within a crime comedy that Clooney described as "angry" in the aforementioned interview. A script by the Coen Brothers without them behind the camera is usually no indication of quality (they wrote Unbroken, after all), but in this brief look, you can really feel their fingerprints all over this project. This thing just looks absolutely bonkers, in a way that I didn't really anticipate. I knew it would be a noir and I knew it would be breaking down American suburbia, but I wasn't prepared for something so subtly hilarious and shockingly violent. The rap track in the second half of the trailer gives the whole thing a jazzy sense of unpredictable energy, and it seems like Damon, Moore, and Isaac all get a chance to shine. This movie looks like a knockout, and if it lives up to the hype, we could be in for one of the year's best.
Suburbicon opens on October 27.
Image: IMDB/Paramount
Based on the logline and description for Suburbicon, I really wasn't sure what to expect. Was this going to be some kind of dramatic suburban satire like American Beauty? A deconstruction of 1950s values and small town idealism? I read an interview with Clooney (via Yahoo Movies) yesterday that gave me a slightly better idea, but this trailer sells a film that is more insane and more delightfully wacky than my wildest hopes and dreams. Seriously, this movie looks incredible. It seems to contain some of the elements that I mentioned above, but they appear to be housed within a crime comedy that Clooney described as "angry" in the aforementioned interview. A script by the Coen Brothers without them behind the camera is usually no indication of quality (they wrote Unbroken, after all), but in this brief look, you can really feel their fingerprints all over this project. This thing just looks absolutely bonkers, in a way that I didn't really anticipate. I knew it would be a noir and I knew it would be breaking down American suburbia, but I wasn't prepared for something so subtly hilarious and shockingly violent. The rap track in the second half of the trailer gives the whole thing a jazzy sense of unpredictable energy, and it seems like Damon, Moore, and Isaac all get a chance to shine. This movie looks like a knockout, and if it lives up to the hype, we could be in for one of the year's best.
Suburbicon opens on October 27.
Image: IMDB/Paramount
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