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New Sunshine clips + Sunshine and stars at the L.A. Film Festival + Mirka23's Cillian encounter

02 July 2007 at 11:53 PM | by Lilith and Melty_Girl

Six Sunshine-y clips on IESB.net

ETA: IESB.net has six clips from Sunshine, and five are new (the third clip is the one from MTV that we mentioned last week). Once again, be warned: these are spoilery. But there's a little more Capa this time.

Sunshine premiere at LAFF
Danny Boyle, Troy Garity,
and Chris Evans in L.A.

A night of Sunshine and stars in L.A.

With last night's premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival, it feels like the countdown to Sunshine in North America has finally begun. Director Danny Boyle and actors Troy Garity and Chris Evans were in attendance at the Wadsworth Theater, where the film's U.S. debut was part of the festival award presentation. Luke Y. Thompson was there, and he shares a bit of Boyle's pre-show chat at his blog:

Prior to the screening of his latest movie Sunshine, Boyle told of stories he'd read about L.A. When he was younger, notably one about a brand new movie called Alien that was so scary, ambulances had to be parked outside one of the Hollywood theaters to revive people who were fainting from fear. Many years later, he was told it was probably a publicity stunt, which he found very disappointing. But acknowledging that Sunshine has a fair bit in common with Alien, he added that "there may or may not be ambulances waiting outside."

Thompson adds that Boyle stayed at the after-party until the bitter end, schmoozing with guests and enjoying peach cobbler.

The Sunshine director was also interviewed by MoviesOnline, where he talks about the ideals of science and the indefatigable nature of human beings.

If something happens to it [the sun], we’ll solve it. I think that’s what makes us what we are really more than anything and I love that about us. So when Cillian reaches up at the end, he’s sort of reaching up on behalf of us all, but he’s also seeing something that’s way bigger than we can ever imagine, but he’s looking to try and find it so that makes it optimistic for me. That’s sort of what I get from the film. It offers hope. It’s a very exhilarating, spectacular, terrifying ride through space really on the gut level.

Mirka23's Cillian Encounter

Mirka23 spied Cillian just before Breakfast on Pluto screened at the New York Film Festival in 2005. She's shared her photograph and story with us—read about the madness in our Cillian Encounters section. Afterwards, head over to her blog for an enthusiastic review of Watching the Detectives. (Are the rest of you getting as impatient as we are for a Detectives release date?)

Thanks, Mirka23, for sharing your encounter!

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QuietOne
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"...ambulances waiting outside."
Reply #1 on : Wed July 04, 2007, 19:16:19
I think there should be ambulances waiting outside theatres on July 20th when "Sunshine" finally comes out(FINALLY). Audiences will be fainting from pure excitement when seeing Cillian's face, larger than life, on the movie screen.