The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
UK/USA/France/Japan Feature Film Director: Harmony Korine Writers: Avi Korine, Harmony Korine Cinematographer: Marcel Zyskind Cast: Diego Luna, Samantha Morton, Denis Lavant, James Fox, Werner Herzog, Leos Carax, Richard Strange A lonely Michael Jackson impersonator, barely scratching a living in Paris, meets a friendly Marilyn Monroe impersonator, who convinces him to join her at an impersonators...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Celebrating the birthdays of the cinematic peoples daily. If you were born on 11/22 shout it out in the comments. How will you celebrate these fine folks, listed below? Scarlett, Mark and Mads 1920 Anne Crawford Israel born British actress of the 40s. Died when she was only 35. 1923 Arthur Hiller Canadian director. Oscar nominated for mega-hit Love Story (1970). Also known for comedies like The Out-of-Towners,...
SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
A bite-sized morsel from Leos Carax’s episode of TOKYO! — a compendium film that’s better than these things usually are. Denis Lavant on the rampage in the megalopolis, to the tune of the Godzilla theme, makes for arresting entertainment, in a fairly puzzling little film which veers between the hilarious, the sick, and the fairly [...]
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Le voyage du ballon rouge [ Flight of the Red Balloon ] – dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien [Edited together from previous entries] There are so many singular aspects of Flight of the Red Balloon , Hou Hsiao-hsien’s first film made outside of Asia, to marvel at that it's almost stupefying that the film encompasses them with such ease. Firstly, there's Mark Lee Pin Bing's cinematography, with is so ravishing...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
If there is anything the recent history of Korean omnibus films has taught us, it is the notion that making one that works seems like a nearly impossible task. Although the omnibus itself is certainly not a new format, its profile in Chungmuro started gaining momentum right around the same time most of Asian cinema embraced the idea, one of the reasons why many passable examples come from Panasian...
More Than Meets the Mogwai (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (Jack Arnold, 1953) USA TOKYO! (Bong Joon-ho, Leos Carax, Michel Gondry, 2008) FRANCE/JAPAN/GERMANY/SOUTH KOREA PUBLIC ENEMIES (Michael Mann, 2009) USA THE BROTHERS BLOOM (Rian Johnson, 2009) USA MOON (Duncan Jones, 2009) UK LET HIM BE (Peter McNamee, 2009) CANADA BRUNO (Larry Charles, 2009) USA G-FORCE (Hoyt Yeatman, 2009) USA Winnipeg Film Group's Actors Fringe Festival 2009...
The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
By Dan Callahan I first saw Juliette Binoche in Philip Kaufman’s adaptation of Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), surely one of the most erotic mainstream films ever made. She seemed like a furtive-eyed little animal, bold but somehow hidden, even rigid, fiercely holding down Daniel Day-Lewis’ amusing womanizer Tomas until they achieve a brief moment of domestic...
Terry Malick's son (Free subscription) | 05/09/2009
Leos Carax has swiftly entered my list of favourite directors. Last year I purchased a boxset of 3 of the French auteur's films, on a whim. I'd never heard of him before, but the descriptions were intriguing. Godardian, visually striking, poetic- yup, I was sold. Les Amants du Pont-Neuf was the film that the boxset didn't include. The 1991 film could easily be seen as a companion piece to 'Boy meets...
Moon in the Gutter (Free subscription) | 29/08/2009
Recently I had the chance to watch and write on a terrific new modern noir starring Tom Sizemore and Sasha Alexander called The Last Lullaby . This incredibly effective film is the first feature from a very talented young filmmaker named Jeffrey Goodman. Jeffrey has been gracious enough to take part in this Question and Answer session for Moon in the Gutter that I hope everyone will read and enjoy....
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
“Paris can stay in bed.” — last line, The Lovers On The Bridge There was no chance that Leos Carax’s delirious 1991 opus The Lovers On The Bridge was going to be anything but a total fiasco, because it needed to be a fiasco in order to realize its ambitions. In that way, it’s like Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now , another grand, crazy, spectacularly indulgent...
Yuko Michishita (Free subscription) | 26/08/2009
Would I ever stop buying things? .......Maybe not. Maybe never........... * Beneath The Surface Vol4 - A Bella Union Sampler Especially Black Ice by Ohbijou (such a beautiful website!) and Keep you eyes on the road by Paul Marshall are so so beautiful that I find myself listening to them again and again.... "staring at your innocent skin wondering how I fucked this up but I surely did" ....
Film Junk (Free subscription) | 16/08/2009
Tokyo! Directed by: Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, Bong Joon-ho Written by: Gabrielle Bell, Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, Bong Joon-ho Starring: Ayako Fujitani, Ayumi Ito, Ryo Kase, Denis Lavant, Jean-François Balmer, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yû Aoi Historically, short films have never really received much mainstream attention because, let's face it, you can't exactly put them in a movie theatre and...
<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
This is rad [via Harmony-Korine.com] Harmony Korine is one of 42 contributors to the project ONEDREAMRUSH, a creation of the New Zealand vodka company 42Below that invites various individuals to create 42-second videos exploring dreams. Other contributors to ONEDREAMRUSH include Kenneth Anger, David Lynch, Leos Carax, Larry Clark, Jonas Mekas, and Gaspar Noe. In time all [...]
Only The Cinema (Free subscription) | 28/07/2009
Tokyo! is a multi-director anthology in which three directors — Frenchmen Michel Gondry and Leos Carax and Korean Bong Joon-ho — present three individual short films, linked only by their shared setting and their different approaches to odd, surrealistic storytelling. Gondry's film is first, a quietly moving short called Interior Design , based on the great short story "Cecil and Jordan...
FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 22/07/2009
Tokyo! (2009) A Movie Review By Jonathan Moya 2 Out of 5 Stars or C+ The Plot: (from MRQE.com) Triptych feature telling three separate tales set in Tokyo, Japan. "Shaking Tokyo" centers on a man who has lived for 10 years as a hikikomori, (a term used in Japan for people unable to adjust to society and so they never leave their homes) and what happens when he falls in love one day with a...
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