Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Spike Lee Has a New Film (Didn't You Know?)

He may not be totally consistent, but when he's at his best, there's no arguing that Spike Lee is one of the greatest filmmakers of our generation. His new film, Miracle at St. Anna, chronicles four African-American soldiers in WWII who were part of the "Buffalo Soldier" division stationed in Tuscany, Italy. Here's a lengthy interview courtesy of Aintitcool.com, and below you'll find the trailer.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

This week in stuff

Finally, a nifty trailer for Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche. Apparently the movie confounded a number of people over the last few months at festivals, but it looks like the studio has a good understanding of how to promote this.

It's nice to see Seth Rogen flexing his chops a little, andhis next project looks like a ton of fun. Hot off completion of Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno comes the announcement that Stephen Chow, actor/director the great Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle, will direct the Rogen/Evan Goldberg-penned Green Hornet.

Charles Burns, author of the amazing Black Hole (a film version of which David Fincher is attached to), took part in this great looking animated horror-omnibus featuring five graphic novel artist/writers.

Heath Ledger's true last movie, Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, is finally getting a little promotion here.

--co

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Stuff!

So indie fave Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, the Fountain) has a new film, The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke. The film just won the Golden Lion at the recent Venice Film Festival (its highest honor), and was picked up by Fox Searchlight pictures at the Toronto Film Festival. The film follows an aging, washed up pro wrestler, Randy "The Ram" Robinson, who is reduced to cheap high school showcases and the such. He also wrestles with his estrangement from his daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) and an attempt to connect with the aging stripper he has long pined after (Marisa Tomei). The film has been garnering some extremely positive buzz, and here are a few clips and interviews with the star and director, in addition to a lengthy interview (part 1, part 2, part 3)with the director, in which he talks about his next project, a semi-remake of the classic Robocop, in addition to his project after that, a telling of the story of Noah's Ark.

George Clooney is starring in a film helmed by his Good Night and Good Luck co-writer, Grant Heslov, about a purported military program aimed training for psychic soldiers. Looks interesting...

Stephen Soderbergh, hot off his recently picked up for distribution Che, starring Benicio del Toro as the revolutionary, has announced that he has a film about Liberace in the works...

Wes Anderson is slated to write and direct a remake of Patrice Lecont's recent My Best Friend, following his snow-motion animation adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Fantastic Mr. Fox...

That's it for now, suckers. Go see Burn After Reading this weekend, the new Coen Brothers film...