Well, go figure. While there still doesn't appear to be an official American website for upcoming anthology film New York, I Love You - the follow up to Paris Je T'Aime featuring segments directed by Shunji Iwai, Fatih Akin, Brett Ratner, Natalie Portman, Shekhar Kapur, Mira Nair and more, more, more - but while the Americans are being slow off the mark the Japanese are all over this one, probably because of the presence of Iwai. They've launched a Japanese site for the film and have cut a brand new teaser for the picture. The video quality isn't the best but you can find it - along with the previously released trailer - in the Twitch Player below the break.
I'm getting so tired of these "love letter to a city" movies.
Wow ... it only took two to inspire burnout?
I think the idea of anthology films centered around specific locations is interesting. I haven't seen Tokyo yet, but from what I gathered, it's only three stories, and none of them really showcase the city and life as a whole. But it still sounds really intriguing. Paris was hit or miss as expected, a little too cute for my taste. This is fake art house/festival lite cinema manufactured for middle-aged houswives. It's all so cute and sweet I threw up in my mouth a little.
The trailer for this New York really embodies everything that I HATE about New York. I fucking hate, hate, hate the trailer for I Love New York. All I see is a bunch of rich, beautiful, previliaged hipsters on whinsical, existential journeys in a grand metropolis.
Yeah, that's not the New York I lived in. This isn't the New York that I had a love/hate relationship with. This is hipsterfied Williamsburg filtered by way the of trendy East Village, and then dulled down even further to appeal to mid-west yuppies. Barf!
Where's the unattractive, poor, struggling characters? Where's the authentic immigrant taxi drivers? The aspiring artist living with 8 room mates in Bedstuy, working 2 jobs to make the rent in one of the worst ghettos of Brooklyn.
Where's the squatters who moved to New York to chase and failed?
Where's the people who actually resemble human beings and with real conflicts? This looks worst that that Nick and whatever's infinite mix tape piece of shit.
Where's the gentrification that has pushed all of the "real" New Yorkers out from the island, out of Brooklyn, and into the Bronx and Jersey?
The trailer for this film makes me want to fucking vomit. Anb on a pesonal note, I absolutely can not stand Natalie Portman. (Leon excluded of course) Although, one good note, Shu Qi is still really hot. Jesus, she's really hot, and so is Maggie Qu. "Was her english always that good?"
Again, fuck this movie. That is all.