Up-n-coming, 9/27.

"An explicit still image is a nude, but an explicit movie is hard-core," notes Jim Lewis as he opens his consideration of Destricted in Slate. Before the disclaimers - he knows just about everyone involved - he argues that "if Destricted proves anything, it's that art is more powerful than porn (and that artists, thankfully, don't take well to assignments), for each of the seven participants simply enlarges his or her own concerns just far enough to include concupiscence." Did you know: there'll be a Destricted 2.

Which leads us to news of the up-n-coming: Grady Hendrix has news of Feng Xiaogang's next film, The Assembly, "a war flick set during the end of China's civil war and the start of the Korean War about a commander who is ordered to fight until he hears the assembly call... but the call never comes."

Screen Daily - I don't have a link because I don't have a subscription - reports that Lars von Trier will be turning from comedy (The Boss of It All) to horror by picking up his Antichrist project again. Shooting starts in the summer of 2007. Christopher Campbell has more at Cinematical.

Screen Daily's also reporting that Jonathan Demme will making a film based on Jimmy Carter's forthcoming Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.

Paul Arendt in the Guardian: "Nick Broomfield is making a film about the alleged massacre of Iraqi civilians and insurgents by US marines in Haditha."

Variety: Gavin Hood will direct Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon in Rendition, a "Middle East political thriller."

Empire reports on Invisibles, a portmanteau film to feature the work of Javier Bardem, Wim Wenders, Fernando León, Isabel Coixet, Mariano Barroso and Javier Corcuera: "Their various entries will tackle the world's overlooked conflicts and the human suffering they cause. The subjects include sleeping sickness in Africa, Uganda's young soldiers, a documentary about displaced Columbians and Wenders' film about violence against women in the Congo."

Posted by dwhudson at September 27, 2006 9:30 AM