Trailer of the Week: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

For Presidents’ Day, a love story.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a movie that everyone can enjoy. It uses elements of science fiction, nonlinear narration and neosurrealism. This film shows how you can take all of these elements and blend them together into a profound movie that touches the core of human experience.

Does that go too far?

I don’t think so.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was met with overwhelmingly universal acclaim, and Winslet’s performance was generally praised. Many critics cited the film as the “best movie of the decade”. The film has a 93% certified fresh rating on the Rotten Tomatoes website based on 216 reviews. The consensus is that the film is “a twisty, trippy, yet moving take on love, Kaufman-style.”

Roger Ebert commented, “Despite jumping through the deliberately disorienting hoops of its story, Eternal Sunshine has an emotional center, and that’s what makes it work.” Ebert later included the film in his “Great Movies” series.

That just goes to show you aspiring screenwriters and filmmakers out there that story is king.

The songs are:

Sneakers by James Horner

Mr. Blue Sky, by E.L.O.

A Beautiful Mind by James Horner

David Goyer sells rights to Sci-Fi series

David Goyer, scribe of Batman Begins fame, has sold Warner Bros. the rights to his upcoming literary debut, Heaven’s Shadow, the first in a new sci-fi trilogy.

David S. Goyer wrote the novel with Michael Cassutt and will also write the screenplay adaptation as well. The first book will be published by Ace Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing, and will be released in July 2011. The other titles in the trilogy - Heaven’s War and Heaven’s Fall will hit bookstores in the summer of 2012 and 2013.

The story centers around a large object that looks to be headed towards Earth. The widespread panic leads to governments competing with each other to be the first to intercept the object, believed to be a meteor, before anyone else, which then leads to the discovery of an alien race that puts the human race in jeopardy.