The Ides of March, George Clooney’s fourth time out directing, has great predictions about going to the Oscars early next year. We’ve been seeing some really nice images from the film, a terrific UK quad poster, and a brilliant first trailer for the film at the end of last month.
Now, IMP Awards have got another fantastic poster for the film, and Yahoo have put up an excellent first clip to show us more beyond the trailer.
The film has an absolutely stellar cast led by Clooney and Ryan Gosling, and also includes Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giomatti, Marisa Tomei, Jeffrey Wright, and Evan Rachel Wood.
“Plot: George Clooney is back in the director’s chair for this edgy political drama set in the days leading up to a fictional presidential primary. Clooney also stars as a Democratic candidate who schools his idealistic campaign press secretary (Ryan Gosling) in the dubious machinations of modern politics.”
Clooney is no stranger to the Academy Awards, haven won Best Supporting Actor for Syriana back in 2006, as well as getting nominations for Michael Clayton in 2008 and Up in the Air last year. Not only that, but he was nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for his 2005 film, Good Night, and Good Luck. Though I’m of course still yet to see The Ides of March, what we’ve seen of it so far shows so much promise, and I sincerely hope that the predictions for at least getting Oscar nominations will be proven right.
This new clip shows Gosling in a moment of embarrassment, trying and failing to remember exactly who Evan Rachel Wood’s character is, with no help whatsoever from her. It’s a great little clip that shows the kind of moment we’ve all had at one point or another, and it’s amusing to watch Wood make Gosling squirm a little.
The new poster for the film is also fantastic. Taking a different tack from the posters we’ve seen so far, it goes for a darker approach, and instead of seeing half of Gosling and Clooney’s faces combined into one, we see half of each of their faces lit up, and the other in darkness. I personally really like posters like this, that sell the film straight; when you’ve got a good product, it’s not difficult to sell, and this film certainly hasn’t looked like a hard sell so far. It will be released in UK cinemas on 28th October, so be sure to make a mental note to go and see it, because this is a film that is bound to get people talking.
Without further ado, here are the new clip and poster. As usual with the latter, click to enlarge.
