Digital Gigolo (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
A defining moment in video game history. Modern Warfare’s unflinching depiction of civilian slaughter, brutal, uncensored and so very real, ranks alongside Stephen Spielberg’s Munich and Gus Van Sant’s Elephant as a stark reminder of the terror and mayhem that a few guns in the wrong hands can wreak. There’s no cartoon violence here to mitigate the horror. Death is violent and...
Progressive Values (Free subscription) | yesterday
As much as I respect Ron Howard as a filmmaker, I'm having a little dispute with his production company, Restless Productions, over some scheduling problems for some filming that is supposed to take place at the classic Clinton Market grocery store I own. It seems like RESTLESS is taking longer to film than expected and is running days behind schedule. Last week, on Thursday, Restless Productions was...
Wizbang Pop! (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Producer Ron Howard and director Gus Van Sant are filming RESTLESS in Portland, Oregon currently. One of the locations they chosen for filming is my own Clinton Market, which is...
Progressive Values (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Producer Ron Howard and director Gus Van Sant are filming RESTLESS in Portland, Oregon currently. One of the locations they chosen for filming is my own Clinton Market, which is nearly 100 years old. Clinton Market will be the location for a key scene involving the first kiss by 20 year old Australian actress Mia Wasikowska. Wasikowska will play a 16 year old girl who has been diagnosed with a terminal...
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Friday afternoon just got a whole lot more interesting online. Comics giant Warren Ellis is giving his fans their yearly chance to send him their self-portraits which he'll post to his website for the next 24 hours. We'll let him why: "I dunno. Kind of a tradition now, since the days of the WEF and Die Puny Humans. I have this idea in my head that the internet, like Soylent Green, is made out...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
According to Variety (and other news outlets afterwards), it looks as ifthings are moving on with Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre : Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender are in talks to play Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester (respectively, of course!). Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender are in negotiations to star in "Sin nombre" helmer Cary Fukunaga's feature adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's classic...
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
RISING young star Mia Wasikowska is in negotiations to replace Ellen Page on a new adaptation of Jane Eyre . The actress would possibly join Hunger’s Michael Fassbender on Cary Fukunaga’s adaptation of the classic novel by Charlotte Bronte, according to Variety. The film would remain true to the period setting but intends to play up the gothic elements of the story. It will focus on Jane...
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Oh, this is some good stuff. I was a little surprised recently when the announcement came down that Cary Fukunaga, who directed the very excellent Sin Nombre, would adapt Charlotte Bronte's classic novel Jane Eyre as his next film. But I liked Sin Nombre so much that I'll watch anything Fukunaga does at this point. Especially now that he's likely to have Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender in the...
Cinebeats (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
“Ours is a culture notoriously uncomfortable with death. We’ve minimized and sterilized our rituals for processing it; we pack it away in Styrofoam and plastic wrap at the grocery store; we worship our children and pour our resources into the fantasy of postponing old age. Yet it courses into our collective consciousness with renewed insistence [...]
Gay News Bits (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
PORTLAND, Ore., (PRNewswire) — Director Gus Van Sant began lensing over the weekend on location in Portland, Oregon on an untitled project starring Mia Wasikowska and Henry Hopper. Director Gus Van Sant (Photo: Mai Le [cc]) The film’s screenplay was written by first-timer Jason Lew, based upon his original stage play “Of Winter and Water Birds.” [...]
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Filming has begun on location in Portland, Oregon on an untitled project from two-time Academy Award®-nominated director Gus Van Sant, starring Mia Wasikowska (upcoming Alice in Wonderland ) and Henry Hopper. The film's screenplay was written by first-timer Jason Lew, based upon his original stage play "Of Winter and Water Birds." The film is produced by Imagine Entertainment's Brian...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
A.O. Scott's piece on a decade's worth of movies is, as usual, worth reading. However, I do think this passage deserves further comment: Perhaps the easiest and most satisfying way to make sense of the unruly cinematic abundance of the past 10 years is to sift through it for masters and masterpieces, kicking the tires to see what has been built to last. Whatever else was going on, a handful of great...
/Film (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Gus Van Sant's next film, which was called Restless until recently, has been sounding very interesting. It already stars Mia Wasikowska in a "complex tale of a teenage boy and girl who share a preoccupation with mortality." The film may not currently have a title (Restless wasn't the best name for this movie, anyway) but it does have a lot of new cast members, a couple of which bear very...
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Casting Tidbits assemble! First up, THR reports that Gus Van Sant's now untitled drama (formerly known as Restless) will be gaining the next generation of young actors as Henry Hopper (son of Dennis Hopper) and Schuyler Fisk (daughter of Sissy Spacek) join actress Mia Wasikowska in this story about a teenage boy (Hopper) and girl (Wasikowska) who share a preoccupation with mortality. Fisk will play...
Frankly My Dear... (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Actually, it's the film formerly known as Restless, and filming begins in Van Sant Country-- aka Portland, Oregon. Van Sant is making a coming-of-age drama about a teen (Henry Hopper, son of Dennis) trying to get over the death of...
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