Screening: The Johnny Depp Series – Week 5

This coming week we are going out to see Public Enemies at Reading Cinema on Courtenay Place –6:15pm Tuesday 4th August.

Check out the trailer:

Screening this week: Johnny Depp Week 4 (30/7)

Yo Ho Ho, week 4, and the penultimate week, of the Johnny Depp series. We jump 9 years on from Ed Wood to the first movie of the Disney franchise Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003). This movie, which is inspired by the Disneyland theme park ride, introduces to the screen Jack Sparrow played by Johnny Depp. Depp is said to have based Jack Sparrow on Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, and his performance in the TCBP earned him an Oscar nomination in 2004. A bit more trivia for you – Michael Keaton, Jim Carrey, and Christopher Walken were all considered for the role of Captain Jack Sparrow before Depp was cast. Though I’m a fan of Walken, I can’t imagine him or Keaton/Carrey having the same impact that Depp was able to achieve with his Jack Sparrow.
Screens this Thursday (30/7) at Palliser. Friends welcome (as always:))

FILMS VITALS IN SHORT:

2003 - Screens 30/7

Director: Gore Verbinski
Cast: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Tagline: Prepare to be blown out of the water
Release: 11 September 2003 (New Zealand)

IMDB Rating: 8/10

RT Rating: 78%

Also, next week we are off to see Michael Mann’s Public Enemies starring Depp and Christian Bale.
Tuesday night (4/8) time TBA.
Let me know if you are keen. Anyone is welcome, just RSVP by Thursday this week with how many tickets you would like.

Screening this week: Johnny Depp Week 3 (23/7)

Three weeks and our new series-based format is proving a winner. This week we move one year on from WEGG to Ed Wood, released  1994. This is probably a lesser seen work of Johnny Depp in which we see him reunite with Tim Burton to create a biopic of “the worst director of all time”, Edward D. Wood, Jr.

The film concentrates on the best-known period of Ed’s life in the 1950s, when he made Glen or Glenda (1953), Bride of the Monster (1955) and Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959), and focusing on both his transvestism and his touching friendship with the once great but now ageing and unemployed horror star Bela Lugosi.

Its probably important to note that is film is a comedy and is a bit strange which in itself reflects Ed’s life.

Screens this Thursday at Palliser 7:30pm.

Ed Wood (1994)

FILMS VITALS IN SHORT:

Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Bill Murray
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Tagline: Movies were his passion. Women were his inspiration. Angora sweaters were his weakness
Runtime: 2hr 7min
Release: 28 September 1994 (USA)

IMDB Rating: 8.1/10

RT Rating: 91%

Screening the week: Johnny Depp Week 2 (16/7)

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

FILMS VITALS IN SHORT:

1993 - Screens 16/7

Director: Lasse Hallström
Cast: Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis,
Genre: Drama, Romance
Tagline: Arnie knows a secret. His big brother Gilbert is the greatest person on the planet.
Runtime: 118 min
Release: 25 December 1993 (USA)

Introducing the Johnny Depp Series – First Screening, Edward Scissorhands (9/7)

While the American Summer blockbuster season continues, we are going to depart from tracking with that for a while and focus on our own film series.

First up we be taking a retrospective look at the best and diverse works of Johnny Depp finishing up with a trip to see Depps soon to be released film Public Enemies. We will work through Depp’s filmography chronologically starting with Edward Scissorhands (9/7) .

Check our Coming Attraction page for the rest of this series’ films. See you Thursday – Palliser 7:30pm.

Edward Scissorhands

FILMS VITALS IN SHORT:

1990 - Screens 9/7

Title: Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
1 Sentence Synopsis: An uncommonly gentle young man, who happens to have scissors for hands, falls in love with a beautiful teenage girl. full summary
Runtime: 105 min
Release: 14 December 1990 (USA)