As a compendium of viewpoints and observations post-RNC, this documentary is pretty hard to beat. Individuals raise questions that need addressing in virtually every interview. Please watch it.
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October 11, 2009
RESIST! An RNC Aftermath Documentary
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July 30, 2009
P.S. If you’re not familiar with “The Royal Tenenbaums,” and maybe even if you are, this absolutely devastating use of an absolutely devastating Elliott Smith song is worth your time, providing you feel like being absolutely devastated at present.
P.P.S. If there is a more effective cinematic use of the one-word question, “Who?,” I’d like to know what it is.
July 23, 2009
Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland teaser trailer. Likely to be taken down soon, so check it out!
A Scorsese horror-ish sort of thing, based on a Dennis Lehane novel:
July 19, 2009
Hollywood plans in the works to adapt the eco-classic The Monkey Wrench Gang, starring Matthew McConaughey and directed by the person who helmed “Twilight?”
Ugh. I’m with Will Potter:
Monkeywrenching can be sexy and fun when it’s “just a story” produced by Hollywood. When the same narratives are connected to political struggles, it’s “terrorism.”
July 18, 2009
Directing a stop-motion adaptation of Roald Dahl.
Holy shit. (via kottke)
July 17, 2009
I just got back and haven’t really had time to process the latest Sacha Baron Cohen intervention (for lack of a better word). It was … really something.
In the mean time, though, here are some bits I found interesting:
- Anthony Lane in the New Yorker;
- A fascinating post on the controversy in general, stuffed to the brim with pro/con quotes;
- A surprisingly apolitical response from a self-described “gay German;”
- A HuffPo writer reacts, and readers react to their reaction, and others react to the readers’ reactions to the writer’s reaction, because it’s HuffPo.
Anyone else checked this out yet?
Edit: I meant to include Roger Ebert’s review and to mention the fact that the film has apparently been banned in the Ukraine. Kthx.
July 7, 2009
I’m a sucker for lists of this sort, and I’m also a sucker for trailers in general, so I thought this IFC collection was particularly fun:
There are many ways to measure a trailer’s quality, from the persuasiveness of its salesmanship to the cleverness of its copywriting. Ultimately, we decided that the best trailers are those that most effectively combine art and commerce, and that sell and entertain with equal skill. Some of the previews on our list are for classic films, but many are for mediocrities. Some are for absolutely bombs. That speaks to the magic of the trailers. You could argue that these clips play to our basest instincts in order to convince us to see movies that aren’t always good. But considered from another perspective, trailers provide a version of cinema that’s essentially utopian, in which every film is perfect, if only for two and a half minutes.
It’s hard to argue with putting Alien up top, but Kubrick’s trailer for The Shining is also a masterpiece:
[via kottke]
July 3, 2009
Schultz speaks the truth.
May 26, 2009
In his film “Epidemic,” Lars von Trier himself said, “A film should be like a pebble in your shoe.” And his new film “Antichrist” — which debuted earlier this month at Cannes — sounds pretty fucking pebble-like:
Danish director Lars von Trier elicited derisive laughter, gasps of disbelief, a smattering of applause and loud boos on Sunday as the credits rolled on his drama “Antichrist” at the Cannes film festival.The film, starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a couple seeking to overcome the grief of losing their only child, has quickly become the most talked-about at this year’s festival, which ends on May 24.
Cannes’ notoriously picky critics and press often react audibly to films during screenings, but Sunday evening’s viewing was unusually demonstrative.
Jeers and laughter broke out during scenes ranging from a talking fox to graphically-portrayed sexual mutilation.
According to Reuters, “One U.S. critic said he and others found the film ‘offensive,’ and questioned why it was included in the main competition of 20 films in Cannes.”
It seems to me that any film a “U.S. critic” finds offensive is worth a viewing. Talking foxes just seal the deal. [thx, pat]
May 3, 2009
A favorite scene. Wes Anderson makes The Who sound more awesome than they actually are. This is my favorite version:
