New York, I love you

New York, I love you is a new film that is being released in the United Kingdom on the 8th of october 2010. The film is directed by nine different directors, two of them are Fatih Akin and Yvan Attal, the same directors of the film: Paris, je t'aime. Both of these films tell the lovestory of different kinds of people in the same city. In these sort of films you have got different stories with different people, but mainly they are all about one thing: love.
This is called multi-strand. Multi-strand means that several characters form the focus of the narrative. This is particularly apparent in soap operas, but as you can see it also appears in films. Other multi-strand films are for example: crash, valentine's day or love actually. These films are very popular and mostly made in the US and belong to one of the productions of Hollywood. Because these films are commercial there is always at least one Hollywood star in there. For example in New York, I love you Bradley Cooper, Christina Ricci, Orlando Bloom and Natalie Portman are playing one of the roles. I normally do like these kind of films, but I am still convinced that you can't make a better multi-strand romance film than Love actually. Valentine's day tried, but has in my eyes failed. Maybe New York, I love you will be better...

trailer New York, I love you:
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1159856665/

Ultimate film list: genre

Romance

• Aanrijding in moscou. Christophe Van Rompaey. Belgium. 2008. Comedy, drama, romance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPyI9QUJU40

• Atonement. Joe Wright. UK, France. 2007. Drama, mystery, romance, war.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkVQwwPrr4c

• Becoming Jane. Julian Jarrold. UK. 2007. Biography, drama, romance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYViBfUvSOA

• Chocolat. Lasse Hallström. UK, USA. 2000. Drama, mystery, romance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEzzbBc7Tw4

• Moulin Rouge. Baz Luhrmann. USA, Australia. 2001. Drama, musical, romance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDw1_yV6ufM

• Penelope. Mark Palansky. UK, USA. 2006. Comedy, fantasy, romance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9ZkU6fQURM

• Romeo + Juliet. Baz Luhrmann. USA. 1996. Crime, drama, romance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S6IJWilpx4

• Shakespeare in Love. John Madden. USA, UK. 1998. Comedy, drama, romance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW_XNXe2n6s

• The notebook. Nick Cassavetes. USA. 2004. Drama, romance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2EWdAaVx1k

• Stardust. Matthew Vaughn. UK, USA. 2007. Adventure, family, fantasy, romance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOyMbaSIzc

Drama

• Catch me if you can. Steven Spielberg. USA. 2002. Biography, crime, drama.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFj3OXVL_wQ

• Chicago. Rob Marshall. USA, Germany. 2002. Comedy, crime, drama, musical.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6vTRLxU9gk

• Citizen Kane. Orson Welles. USA. 1941. Drama, mystery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyv19bg0scg

• Forrest Gump. Robert Zemeckis. USA. 1994. Drama, romance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdsMqRaz2WY

• Juno. Jason Reitman. USA, Canada. 2007. Comedy, drama.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0SKf0K3bxg

• Perfume: the story of a murderer. Tom Tykwer. Germany, France, Spain, USA. 2006. Drama, thriller

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES_rfgjeTuE

• Shutter island. Martin Scorsese. USA. 2010. Drama, mystery, thriller.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYVrHkYoY80

• Slumdog millionaire. Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan. UK. 2008. Drama, romance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIzbwV7on6Q

• The sixth sense. M. Night Shyamalan. USA. 1999. Drama, mystery, thriller.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3_javlXgDg

• The terminal. Steven Spielberg. USA. 2004. Comedy, drama, romance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm1xrJD5aW8

• Twin sisters. Ben Sombogaart. Netherlands, Luxembourg. 2002. Drama, romance, war.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0tcbV_ZJtI

• What’s eating Gilbert Grape. Lasse Hallström. USA. 1993. Drama, romance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6sLIP3908w

Animation

• Corpse bride. Tim Burton, Mike Johnson. UK, USA. 2005. Animation, fantasy, music, romance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-akimwGclk

• Spirited Away. Hayao Miyazaki. Japan. 2001. Animation, adventure, family, fantasy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6az9wGfeSgM

Fantasy

• Big Fish. Tim Burton. USA. 2003. Adventure, drama, fantasy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d-kjzBmz6I

Action and Thriller

• Gangs of new York. Martin Scorsese. USA, Italy. 2002. Crime, drama, history.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcty-Vw77R8

• Inception. Christopher Nolan. USA, UK. 2010. Action, mystery, sci-fi, thriller.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66TuSJo4dZM

• Inglourious Basterds. Quentin Tarantino. USA, Germany. 2009. Drama, thriller, war.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sQhTVz5IjQ

• Sweeney Todd. Tim Burton. USA, UK. 2007. Drama, musical, horror, thriller.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_hgrfZVlJA

• V for Vendetta. James Mc Teigue. USA, UK, Germany. 2006. Action, sci-fi, thriller.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rRn8kM4-ds

lesson 2

Today we have learned a little bit more about film genres. We talked about who liked wich films and about howcome some people like a one genre more then an other. There is a lot more to tell about genres than I thought before. I never knew we had something like a cross-over genre wich is a genre that can appear in different forms of media, or something like a sub-genre, ionography, a subvert...
The word 'genre' comes from the French language wich means 'type'. So the genre of the film explains what sort of type the film is and if it's romantic, scary, adventurous...

We watched the trailers of three completly different films so we could compare and discuss about what genre these films could have.
This was one of them 'the social network' :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB95KLmpLR4

According to our class the genre of this film is probably drama. although we were quite sure about the genre of this film, we just could not agree on which age group would be best for this film. Some said that the film was made for everyone no matter how old you are, where you live and no matter what sex you are. Others said that the film was only made for younger people because it is about facebook and other social networks on the internet. We had to finish our lesson with this discussion topic because we just could not agree for which age this film was made.
This discussion also thaught us that some films heve a completely different genre to some than to others. Film sometimes depends on the opinion of the person you are talking to. You never know who is right.