Cinematical (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Personally speaking, I've been a fan of Jason Schwartzman since he and writer-director Wes Anderson collaborated on Rushmore and created what I still think is a definitive portrait of the beautiful torment of teenage life. While of course Anderson and co-writer Owen Wilson conceived the ideas, Schwartzman fleshed them out both literally and emotionally, offering a character that was weird and idiosyncratic...
mod*mom (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
the fantastic mr.fox movie (book by roald dahl )opens thanksgiving day!!! yay! i get to interview mr.fox's son ash ( jason schwartzman ) tomorrow :) here's what the movie pr person told me to share with mod*mom readers: fantastic mr. fox is visionary director Wes Anderson’s first animated film, utilizing classic handmade stop-motion techniques to tell the story of the best-selling children’s...
Most Beautiful Fraud in the World (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
My second review written specifically for the website Gone Cinema Poaching is for the film 35 Shots of Rum , directed by French provocatress Claire Denis. I caught the film at Film Forum waaaay back in late September (a side trip from the NYFF screenings) and am only now writing the review. Rather late, but hey, here it is now so get over it. Anyway, as I said, this is my second review for GCP and...
Alexandre Testu (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere : Sofia Coppola’s (Lost in Translation) new film Somewhere tells the story of Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), “a bad-boy A-List actor stumbling through a life of excess while living at Hollywood’s legendary Chateau Marmont Hotel. His days are a haze of drinks, girls, fast cars and fawning fans. Cocooned in this celebrity-induced artificial world, Johnny...
Alexandre Testu (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Lick The Star (1998) Sofia Coppola’s first short film. It’s about teenage girls who plan on killing boys with rat poison.
Yeeeah! (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Scarlett Johansson’s acting skills rank just between Sofia Coppola in “Godfather III” and a second grade play about the four food groups. Really, she’s terrible. She sucks. I don’t know how in God’s name she’s lasted in Hollywood this long. Well, I take that back — I do know. It’s [...]
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Ghislaine Thesmar, Isabella Rossellini, Fanny Ardant, Sofia Coppola, Susan Graham, Andrée Putman, Gérard Depardieu, Riccardo Muti, Françoise Sagan, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Giorgio Strehler, Rudolf Nureyev … The career of Jean-Paul Scarpitta – film-maker, opera director, exhibition organiser, portraitist – is a series of famous encounters. Ever the man ...
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Focus Features today announced their 2010 release slate. Highlights include: March 12th 2010: The Squid and the Whale writer/director Noah Baumbach's Greenberg which stars Ben Stiller April 16th 2010: Thomas Balmès' Babies, a documentary film which simultaneously follows four babies around the world - from birth to first steps. Wednesday, September 1st 2010: Anton Corbijn's The American starring...
Pedestrian.tv (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
And the bombs just keep dropping. Is this what War feels like? After telling Pedestrian that a Christian Joy documentary will be released next year , Rhett Wade-Ferrell of Moop Jaw proceeded to tell us that the new Alan Polomo ( Neon Indian ) video for "Deadbeat Summer" will feature some celebrity stalker vibes. The premise is "a sunny day out in New York that is not as good as a day...
Pedestrian.tv (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Moop Jaw is a collective of 4 artists working predominantly in music videos but don't be fooled, they have their sights set on world domination. We spoke to one quarter of the collective, Rhett Wade-Ferrell, about his recent trip to America, stalking Jessica Biel, shooting a Christian Joy documentary and working with Neon Indian and Peaches. Also known as reasons this whole "world domination"...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Tarantino is the latest film star to be showing up on the small screen in Japan. Embarrassing? Or, rather, more embarrassing than Brad Pitt? In the not-too distant past it was quite possible for Hollywood stars to pocket what we can only imagine are swagbags of cash for starring in some pretty goofy Japanese advertisements, safe in the knowledge that no one they knew well would ever get to see them....
That 1 Pop! Gem (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Way back in July (holy goodness, it's been that long...?), I was sent this video for My First Earthquake 's first single of their debut record, Downstairs , called "Cool in the Cool Way." Given that it was released in mid-June, you may or may not have seen already. It's subtitled "Invasion of the Hipster Bodysnatchers," and while I'm not usually keen on the whole "Those damn...
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
A huge batch of new photos from all kinds of different movies arrived on Collider earlier tonight. And just before that, our friends at Fanboyz found the first few photos from Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice. So on top of those, we've got some brand new shots from Anton Corbijn's The American, Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, Kevin Macdonald's The Eagle of the Ninth, and Yuen Woo-ping's True Legend. There...
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Our friends at Collider scored a shitload of early promotional images and posters from the American Film Market. You can head on over to Collider to see all of the images, but I thought I'd profile a few of the projects that I'm more looking forward to. After the jump you will find photos of Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning, Noah Baumbach's Greenberg starring...
Shakespeare's Sister (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Recently, Diane Tucker interviewed me for an article she was writing about the National Film Registry ignoring female filmmakers. The article has been published here (and you can vote to nominate the work of Frances Marion, Mary Ellen Bute, Julia Reichert, Jessie Maple, and Penny Marshall—information on whom Tucker has provided at the link—to the National Film Registry here until November...
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