So apparently Alex Cox just finished shooting a Repo Man sequel, Repo Chick, for under $200,000. Repo Man is one of my favorite movies of all time, a punk rock cult-classic that holds up as totally singular in its vision. If you haven't seen Repo Man, you're languishing in Cult Cinema Hell. Plus, Emilio Estevez totally rules in it.
Also, in light of the amazing trailer for Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are, these great skateboard tie-ins have popped up. For those of you who are unaware, Jonze made his start at a skate photographer and then videographer before the music videos and films.
(Check out his most recent skate film, Yeah Right!, here at Citizen!)
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Thank You, Korea
A few years ago, a bevy of great filmmakers made up the Korean New Wave. Among them, and my personal favorite, is Bong Joon-Ho, director of The Host and Memories of Murder. He has two movies due out this year; the first one is a section of the anthology film Tokyo!, with two other sections by Michel Gondry and Leos Carax. Here's a synopsis and trailer below (taken from Collider.com):
"Shaking Tokyo" (Dir. Bong Joon-ho)
Teruyuki Kagawa stars as a Tokyo shut-in, or hikikimori, who has not left his apartment in a decade. His only link to the outside world is through his telephone, which he uses to command every necessity from a series of random and anonymous delivery people, including the pizza that he lives on and the hundreds of discarded pizza cartons he meticulously stacks in and around his cramped apartment. But one day is different - his pizza arrives thanks to a lovely young woman who succeeds in catching the shut-in's eye. Suddenly an earthquake strikes Tokyo, prompting the beautiful young delivery woman to faint in her client's apartment. And then the unthinkable happens - the hikikimori falls hopelessly in love. Time passes and the shut-in discovers through another pizza delivery person that the improbable object of his affections has become a hikikimori in her own right. Taking a bold leap into the unknown, our hero crosses the threshold of his apartment and takes to the streets in search of his mystery girl, at last discovering his kindred spirit at the very moment another earthquake strikes.
Here's a link to full information about the film, and another with an interview with Joon-Ho.
The other film coming out soon is Mother, a small dramatic production that tells "the story of a mother who desperately searches for the killer that framed her son for their horrific murder." Here's a link for info, and the new teaser below.
Also, here's a great NY Times interview from 2006 regarding his river-monster/family drama/dark satire, The Host.
"Shaking Tokyo" (Dir. Bong Joon-ho)
Teruyuki Kagawa stars as a Tokyo shut-in, or hikikimori, who has not left his apartment in a decade. His only link to the outside world is through his telephone, which he uses to command every necessity from a series of random and anonymous delivery people, including the pizza that he lives on and the hundreds of discarded pizza cartons he meticulously stacks in and around his cramped apartment. But one day is different - his pizza arrives thanks to a lovely young woman who succeeds in catching the shut-in's eye. Suddenly an earthquake strikes Tokyo, prompting the beautiful young delivery woman to faint in her client's apartment. And then the unthinkable happens - the hikikimori falls hopelessly in love. Time passes and the shut-in discovers through another pizza delivery person that the improbable object of his affections has become a hikikimori in her own right. Taking a bold leap into the unknown, our hero crosses the threshold of his apartment and takes to the streets in search of his mystery girl, at last discovering his kindred spirit at the very moment another earthquake strikes.
Here's a link to full information about the film, and another with an interview with Joon-Ho.
The other film coming out soon is Mother, a small dramatic production that tells "the story of a mother who desperately searches for the killer that framed her son for their horrific murder." Here's a link for info, and the new teaser below.
Also, here's a great NY Times interview from 2006 regarding his river-monster/family drama/dark satire, The Host.
Thirst-y for new Chan-Wook Park
Here's another trailer for a pretty highly anticipated film, Chan-Wook Park's (Oldboy, Lady Vengeance) Thirst.
Here the Wild Trailer Is
This might be just about my most anticipated movie this year. Spike Jonze's adaptation of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, scripted by Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius). There were a lot of rumored problems with this, but the trailer doesn't exactly give any indication of that...
A Bunch of Stuff
An assortment of news items, etc.....
David O. Russell signs on to adapt The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick.
Richard Linklater sort of follows up Dazed and Confused.
Did you know Ang Lee was making a movie about Woodstock?
The Farrelly Brothers finally make their long-rumored Three Stooges movie with actors who might be too good for it.
Slumdog actress to work with both Woody and Schnabel.
Lars von Trier makes a big-budget horror film.
True Grit for the Coen Brothers.
I'll leave it there for now and post a couple of stand-alones after this...
--co
David O. Russell signs on to adapt The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick.
Richard Linklater sort of follows up Dazed and Confused.
Did you know Ang Lee was making a movie about Woodstock?
The Farrelly Brothers finally make their long-rumored Three Stooges movie with actors who might be too good for it.
Slumdog actress to work with both Woody and Schnabel.
Lars von Trier makes a big-budget horror film.
True Grit for the Coen Brothers.
I'll leave it there for now and post a couple of stand-alones after this...
--co
Scorsese Opens the Shutters
I've been a little worried about 'ole Marty Scorsese for a while now. Gangs of New York was a bit of a mess, and I definitely don't have the love for the Departed that plenty of other folks do. So he's got a new flick coming out soon, Shutter Island, an adaptation of a novel by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone),
"in which Ruffalo will play U.S. Marshal Chuck Aule, who travels with his new partner (DiCaprio) to the eponymous Massachusetts island in 1954. As they investigate the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, they encounter a web of lies, a hurricane and a deadly inmate riot that leaves them trapped on the island."
The film boasts an all-star cast, featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Max von Sydow, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley, and is due out Oct. 2. Here's a nifty teaser image:
Here's a link with some info, and if you're curious, I definitely recommend checking out this diary from the set.
--co
"in which Ruffalo will play U.S. Marshal Chuck Aule, who travels with his new partner (DiCaprio) to the eponymous Massachusetts island in 1954. As they investigate the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, they encounter a web of lies, a hurricane and a deadly inmate riot that leaves them trapped on the island."
The film boasts an all-star cast, featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Max von Sydow, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley, and is due out Oct. 2. Here's a nifty teaser image:
Here's a link with some info, and if you're curious, I definitely recommend checking out this diary from the set.
--co
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