Reel Suave (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Austrian director is all set to direct his next movie titled The White Tape. Little is known about the project, other than it is set in 1913 in a German school where the students are subject to ritual punishment and that it reportedly deals with emerging fascism. The rumour on some internet sites is that it is inspired by Robert Musil’s 1906 novel the confusions of Youn Torless. Michael Haneke...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Two lonely souls cross in grim central Europe in a brilliant Austrian film that is at times too monstrous to watch, writes Peter Bradshaw
Screenhead (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Continuing the trend of getting movie industry figures into the development biz, Zack Snyder (Watchmen, 300) has signed a deal with EA to develop three original games for the publisher. He will work with EA’s Los Angeles studio in Playa Vista to produce his games. Though EA will retain the IP rights, Snyder may get [...]
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
DVD Video Review: Anthony Nield reviews Tartan's Region 0 release of Benny's Videom, the middle part of Michael Haneke's early trilogy, but oddly the only one to earn a standalone release.
Lessons of Darkness (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Internet videos and parental neglect spark deadly disassociation in Afterschool, a film whose long takes, languid pacing, and impersonal portrait of adolescence reveal a deep debt to Gus Van Sant’s Elephant. High-schooler Rob (Ezra Miller) likes to watch web clips...
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
You may not have realized it, but Clive Owen hasn't had (and won't have) a film in theaters in 2008. Fans got some good news with the recent announcement of a sequel to his Spike Lee-helmed hit, Inside Man, but that movie won't be released until 2010. If ...
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Michael Haneke's Hollywood remake of his original is an uncomfortable experience at best.
Screenhead (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
Okay, women leave the kids home with dad and go see The Women remake. When I first saw the original The Women(1939) with legendary stars Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, Joan Fontaine and Paulette Goddard directed by George Cukor, I could not fathom a remake. The original movie is perfect. I am sure you are aware of my [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
Other films: An exploitative yet mildly effective thriller
Screenhead (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
In case you didn’t get the full blow-by-blow of the plot Burn After Reading: It’s a comedy thriller from Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men, Fargo, The Big Lebowski), is world-premiering as the opening-night film of the 2008 Venice International Film Festival. At the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency in Arlington, [...]
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
The Strangers fulfils its limited objective of showing nasty things happening to defenceless people. For some audiences that may be enough - but not for me or, I hope, for you.
Absolut Noise (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Quagmire Quagmire live (and a panda) Références musicales : Sonic Youth, At the drive-in, Hell of Wheels Quagmire - We know we don't know (mp3) I could do my Gus Van Sant or my Michael Haneke . Write exactely the same post I wrote on the 20th of June 2006, just like those two directors did with Psycho and Funny Games . I wonder if at least one of you would even notice. This We know we don't know sounds...
Screenhead (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
MGM’s College opens August 29th. The film has an R-rating, which means the audience demographics is limited. To help promote their film and to offer some fun for all the college students of the world, MGM create an official site where you can make your own college Fake ID. It’s simple and easy to do. The Fake [...]
Screenhead (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
It’s great to see Marks k Ruffalo, Adrien Brody and Rachel Weisz in a really good comedy. It might be predictable but it looks like a lot of fun. The Brothers Bloom trailer — enjoy! Related PostsBloom With Disney Again Looks like Orlando Bloom is working with Disney again in it’s big-screen adaptation of the “Prin…Funny Games trailers, [...]
