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
Sunday, September 21, 2008
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...
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...
Sunday, August 24, 2008
From the Diary of Woody Allen
In celebration of the release of his new film, Vicky Christina Barcelona, the New York Times posted this nice collection of diary entries Woody Allen did for the film.
Friday, August 15, 2008
Synecdoche
So the beloved Charlie Kaufman, he the writer of collaborations with Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation) and Michel Gondry (Human Nature, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), went off and directed his own movie after Spike Jonze decided to take on an adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are. It played at Cannes and confounded audiences, and it has yet to be picked up for distribution, but three clips from the film just popped up for our enjoyment.
Saturday, August 9, 2008
The Heat is On
Man, it's been two months since the last post. We've all been caught up in the throes of summer, trying to keep up with our lives, and hunting in the wilderness of Africa. One of those things is not true. But enough with that. Let's talk movies.
What did you see the last couple of months? I caught a few things, still have to catch on some others. The Dark Knight was both riveting beyond expectations and also disappointing. Do the American masses need to be pandered to so much? Can you please prove to me that Bruce Wayne is a human being? Pineapple Express was a lot of fun, kind of a strange beast. Still haven't seen Iron Man, Wall-E, missed Baghead last week, dug the Wackness...what else? I'll remember later. There's a also a bunch of news I can share...
Zach Snyder's (Dawn of the Dead, 300) adaptation of Alan Moore's Watchmen, perhaps the great graphic novel of all time, was the big talk of this year's Comic-Con. The trailer definitely looks pretty, but will he pull it off? We'll find out next summer.
Did you know there's a new Terminator coming out? Directed by McG?
Woody Allen's new film comes out next weekend. Everyone was talking about the steamy three-way when it played Cannes a few months ago...
Fernando Meirelles, director of City of God and the Constant Gardener, has an adaptation of Blindless coming out soon.
Brad Anderson's Transsiberian is out soon...
I caught Tropic Thunder a few weeks ago at a screening and thought it was a lot of, and leading up to the film the studio's been releasing scenes from a fake documentary about the making of the movie within Tropic Thunder.
Rian Johnson, director of indie hit Brick, has a new film in the can, The Brothers Bloom. Also just revealed are details of his next month, a dark sci-fi flick...
Quentin Tarantino is officially rolling on his film, Inglorious Basterds, this fall, with some interesting casting taking place.
John Hillcoat, director of Australian western the Proposition, has an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's excellent The Road due in November.
David O'Russell's (Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees) Nailed finally finished shooting.
I'm gonna stop here, this post is long enough, but I'll leave you with this great GI Joe (corrected!) tribute to John Carpenter's The Thing (one of my favorite films).
--co
What did you see the last couple of months? I caught a few things, still have to catch on some others. The Dark Knight was both riveting beyond expectations and also disappointing. Do the American masses need to be pandered to so much? Can you please prove to me that Bruce Wayne is a human being? Pineapple Express was a lot of fun, kind of a strange beast. Still haven't seen Iron Man, Wall-E, missed Baghead last week, dug the Wackness...what else? I'll remember later. There's a also a bunch of news I can share...
Zach Snyder's (Dawn of the Dead, 300) adaptation of Alan Moore's Watchmen, perhaps the great graphic novel of all time, was the big talk of this year's Comic-Con. The trailer definitely looks pretty, but will he pull it off? We'll find out next summer.
Did you know there's a new Terminator coming out? Directed by McG?
Woody Allen's new film comes out next weekend. Everyone was talking about the steamy three-way when it played Cannes a few months ago...
Fernando Meirelles, director of City of God and the Constant Gardener, has an adaptation of Blindless coming out soon.
Brad Anderson's Transsiberian is out soon...
I caught Tropic Thunder a few weeks ago at a screening and thought it was a lot of, and leading up to the film the studio's been releasing scenes from a fake documentary about the making of the movie within Tropic Thunder.
Rian Johnson, director of indie hit Brick, has a new film in the can, The Brothers Bloom. Also just revealed are details of his next month, a dark sci-fi flick...
Quentin Tarantino is officially rolling on his film, Inglorious Basterds, this fall, with some interesting casting taking place.
John Hillcoat, director of Australian western the Proposition, has an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's excellent The Road due in November.
David O'Russell's (Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees) Nailed finally finished shooting.
I'm gonna stop here, this post is long enough, but I'll leave you with this great GI Joe (corrected!) tribute to John Carpenter's The Thing (one of my favorite films).
--co
Friday, June 6, 2008
News for the Nerds
So for the last ten or eleven years I've been addicted to reading about upcoming movies. One of the biggest ways that I kill time is logging to a handful of the same sites frequently throughout the day to see if there's any news. Here are some of my favorite sites:
Twitchfilm
CHUD
Ain't It Cool News
Coming Soon
There's a few others, too, but those are the main ones. And because I'm such a nerd, I figured I might as well pass on some of the interesting info that I find and relate it to Citizen Video in the hopes that it might turn some of you viewers on to some stuff you might've never bothered to check out. So here's a few things from this week:
Kim Ji-Woon, one of the best directors out Korea and responsible for the Foul King, A Bittersweet Life, A Tale of Two Sisters (all of which we have in the store, all of which are great), and whose The Quiet Family (which we don't have) was remade by Japan's great Takashi Miike as Happiness of the Katakuris, has a new film that just played at Cannes entitled The Good, the Bad, the Weird. So far Ji-Woon has tackled a different genre with every picture, and it was just announced that he'll be making his English-language debut with a remake of the French Noir from 1971, Max et les Ferrailleurs, with John Woo producing. The original isn't available in the US, but going off of Jean-Pierre Melville's great Le Samourai and Le Cercle Rouge (which Woo has talked about remaking for quite a while), I'm guessing it's great. Here's a dubbed trailer for it.
Brad Anderson, director of Happy Accidents (in store!) among others, has a new thriller out soon. Transsiberian follows an American couple, Woody Harrelson and Emily Mortimer, on a train in Russia who come across a stash of molded heroin and are then suspected of being the dealers. Ben Kingsley stars as the investigator unwilling to let them off.
Darren Aronofsky of Pi, Requiem for a Dream and the Fountain has a new movie,
The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke as an aging wrestler reduced to low-rent, dignity-robbing entertainment work.
Jason Segel, of Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, Knocked Up, and most recently Forgetting Sarah Marshall, is making a new Muppets movie with his co-conspirator Nicholas Stoller.
Did you know that Spike Jonze has been filming an adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are?, scripted by Dave Eggers? Well, apparently the studio isn't too happy with it because, supposedly, it's too dark and Max in the film is too much of a brat, so it looks like they're going to do massive reshoots. I suspect we could have another masterpiece on our hands if they were to just leave it be. Is this going to be Jonze's Brazil? Here's some test footage that leaked a while back.
I'll leave it at that for now, but I'll be sure to post again soon. Enjoy your weekends.
--co
Twitchfilm
CHUD
Ain't It Cool News
Coming Soon
There's a few others, too, but those are the main ones. And because I'm such a nerd, I figured I might as well pass on some of the interesting info that I find and relate it to Citizen Video in the hopes that it might turn some of you viewers on to some stuff you might've never bothered to check out. So here's a few things from this week:
Kim Ji-Woon, one of the best directors out Korea and responsible for the Foul King, A Bittersweet Life, A Tale of Two Sisters (all of which we have in the store, all of which are great), and whose The Quiet Family (which we don't have) was remade by Japan's great Takashi Miike as Happiness of the Katakuris, has a new film that just played at Cannes entitled The Good, the Bad, the Weird. So far Ji-Woon has tackled a different genre with every picture, and it was just announced that he'll be making his English-language debut with a remake of the French Noir from 1971, Max et les Ferrailleurs, with John Woo producing. The original isn't available in the US, but going off of Jean-Pierre Melville's great Le Samourai and Le Cercle Rouge (which Woo has talked about remaking for quite a while), I'm guessing it's great. Here's a dubbed trailer for it.
Brad Anderson, director of Happy Accidents (in store!) among others, has a new thriller out soon. Transsiberian follows an American couple, Woody Harrelson and Emily Mortimer, on a train in Russia who come across a stash of molded heroin and are then suspected of being the dealers. Ben Kingsley stars as the investigator unwilling to let them off.
Darren Aronofsky of Pi, Requiem for a Dream and the Fountain has a new movie,
The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke as an aging wrestler reduced to low-rent, dignity-robbing entertainment work.
Jason Segel, of Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, Knocked Up, and most recently Forgetting Sarah Marshall, is making a new Muppets movie with his co-conspirator Nicholas Stoller.
Did you know that Spike Jonze has been filming an adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are?, scripted by Dave Eggers? Well, apparently the studio isn't too happy with it because, supposedly, it's too dark and Max in the film is too much of a brat, so it looks like they're going to do massive reshoots. I suspect we could have another masterpiece on our hands if they were to just leave it be. Is this going to be Jonze's Brazil? Here's some test footage that leaked a while back.
I'll leave it at that for now, but I'll be sure to post again soon. Enjoy your weekends.
--co
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Summer of Film Love--June
So, for better and for worse, we've seen the first group of summer releases invade our town and take all of our candy. June sees our first full month of bloated Hollywood behemoths overshadowing all the great small stuff we love, so I'll give a run-down of everything that'll be playing over the next month.
June 4th:
Bangkok Dangerous--The Pang Brothers remake their Thai film for an American audience, with Nicolas Cage in the lead as a guy who...I don't know. I'm sure there's a trailer somewhere, but I guarantee your brain and your eyes might be angry at you afterwards.
June 6th
Mother of Tears--Famed Italian horror director Dario Argento concludes the trilogy that started with Suspiria and Inferno. This time his daughter Asia stars as an art student who unleashes the power of an evil witch and must stop it. My prediction is something along the lines of Escape from Witch Mountain but way gorier.
Reprise--The debut film of Norwegian director Joachim Trier follows two friends who both aspire to become cult novelists. When finds success and subsequently falls apart, the other must deal with his wayward life. This one plays Hillcrest, and here's a trailer.
Jellyfish--This one's playing for a week at the Ken, and sometime last year the filmmakers were kind enough to send us a trailer. Possibly one of the only Israeli productions you'll in theaters this year, the film garnered some great praise when it made the festival circuit last year. Have a looksee here.
Kung Fu Panda--Dreamworks newest CG animation with Jack Black as the title character. Will it be as bad as the Shrek movies?
The Promotion--I didn't even know this movie existed until today. It has John C. Reilly and Sean William Scott as two rival supermarket employees. It looks like shit.
You Don't Mess With the Zohan--The new Adam Sandler comedy about a middle eastern special ops guy who comes to the US to become a hairdresser. It could be dumb, but the great ex-SNL writer Robert Smigel wrote the original version of the script, so maybe it'll be funny?
June 13th
One of the first big weekends, with three major releases competing for your dollar.
The Happening--M. Night Shyamalan's newest, with Marky Mark and Zooey Deschanel. I've read some early word and it's supposed to be laughably bad. We'll see.
The Incredible Hulk--The revamping of the character after most people were disappointed with Ang Lee's version a few years ago (which I liked). Stuff will get blowed up real good, at least.
The Dark Knight--One of the summer films I've been most looking forward to, this sequel to Batman Begins (which we have in the store) sees Bruce Wayne taking Heath Ledger's Joker and Aaron Eckhart's Two-Face, plus they kicked out Katie Holmes because she sucked and replaced her with Maggie Gyllenhaal, who does not suck. This one is again directed by Christopher Nolan, of Following/Memento/The Prestige, and written by his brother, who penned Memento and the Prestige. The movie's gonna rule the summer for a while.
June 20th
Two big comedies duke it out this weekend.
Get Smart--The modern take on the show stars the great Steve Carrell and Anne Hathaway. I've actually read a few things that said it's pretty good.
The Love Guru--Will Mike Myers quit making bad comedies? Answer: no.
June 27th
Wanted--Russian director Timur Bekmambetov makes his first English-language film after the sucess of Night Watch and Day Watch. The American trailers for the James McAvoy/Angelina Jolie comic adaptation sell the movie short; check out this Russian version for a better idea of the dumb fun that might be had with this thing.
So that's June. I'm probably gonna see the Dark Knight three times because I'm a total nerd.
--co
June 4th:
Bangkok Dangerous--The Pang Brothers remake their Thai film for an American audience, with Nicolas Cage in the lead as a guy who...I don't know. I'm sure there's a trailer somewhere, but I guarantee your brain and your eyes might be angry at you afterwards.
June 6th
Mother of Tears--Famed Italian horror director Dario Argento concludes the trilogy that started with Suspiria and Inferno. This time his daughter Asia stars as an art student who unleashes the power of an evil witch and must stop it. My prediction is something along the lines of Escape from Witch Mountain but way gorier.
Reprise--The debut film of Norwegian director Joachim Trier follows two friends who both aspire to become cult novelists. When finds success and subsequently falls apart, the other must deal with his wayward life. This one plays Hillcrest, and here's a trailer.
Jellyfish--This one's playing for a week at the Ken, and sometime last year the filmmakers were kind enough to send us a trailer. Possibly one of the only Israeli productions you'll in theaters this year, the film garnered some great praise when it made the festival circuit last year. Have a looksee here.
Kung Fu Panda--Dreamworks newest CG animation with Jack Black as the title character. Will it be as bad as the Shrek movies?
The Promotion--I didn't even know this movie existed until today. It has John C. Reilly and Sean William Scott as two rival supermarket employees. It looks like shit.
You Don't Mess With the Zohan--The new Adam Sandler comedy about a middle eastern special ops guy who comes to the US to become a hairdresser. It could be dumb, but the great ex-SNL writer Robert Smigel wrote the original version of the script, so maybe it'll be funny?
June 13th
One of the first big weekends, with three major releases competing for your dollar.
The Happening--M. Night Shyamalan's newest, with Marky Mark and Zooey Deschanel. I've read some early word and it's supposed to be laughably bad. We'll see.
The Incredible Hulk--The revamping of the character after most people were disappointed with Ang Lee's version a few years ago (which I liked). Stuff will get blowed up real good, at least.
The Dark Knight--One of the summer films I've been most looking forward to, this sequel to Batman Begins (which we have in the store) sees Bruce Wayne taking Heath Ledger's Joker and Aaron Eckhart's Two-Face, plus they kicked out Katie Holmes because she sucked and replaced her with Maggie Gyllenhaal, who does not suck. This one is again directed by Christopher Nolan, of Following/Memento/The Prestige, and written by his brother, who penned Memento and the Prestige. The movie's gonna rule the summer for a while.
June 20th
Two big comedies duke it out this weekend.
Get Smart--The modern take on the show stars the great Steve Carrell and Anne Hathaway. I've actually read a few things that said it's pretty good.
The Love Guru--Will Mike Myers quit making bad comedies? Answer: no.
June 27th
Wanted--Russian director Timur Bekmambetov makes his first English-language film after the sucess of Night Watch and Day Watch. The American trailers for the James McAvoy/Angelina Jolie comic adaptation sell the movie short; check out this Russian version for a better idea of the dumb fun that might be had with this thing.
So that's June. I'm probably gonna see the Dark Knight three times because I'm a total nerd.
--co
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