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Free Flick of the Day: The Hebrew Hammer
15 December 2009 5:03 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Chanukkah isn't over yet! There's still time to celebrate those eight crazy nights with "the baddest Heeb this side of Tel Aviv" for free on SlashControl. The Hebrew Hammer, starring the only dude who could make modified side curls sexy, Adam Goldberg, is a comedy that takes its cues from '70s movies like Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and Shaft and but has more in common with take-offs on the Blaxploitation genre like Black Dynamite.
Mordechai Jefferson Carver (Goldberg) and his buddy Mohammed Ali Paula Abdul Rahim (Mario Van Peebles*) band together with Hebrew hottie Esther Bloomenbergensteinenthal (the adorable Judy Greer, aka Kitty Sanchez from Arrested Development) to fight Santa's wayward son, played by Andy Dick. Can Morchechai and his buddies save the tribe from a boozy Santa Jr. in an ugly sweater? Will Esther and Mordy make it a double mitzvah on the Sabbath? Maybe! Watch it on SlashControl now. »
- Jenni Miller
Interview: Jonathan Parker (Untitled)
12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
I go to a lot of shows, and art markets and auctions, and it's just interesting noticing the people who are buying art and collecting art, and their mixed motivations. It just seemed like a nice comic setup to have these two brothers, bringing together these two contemporary artists. - Director Jonathan Parker (Bartleby, The Californians) returns with a film focused on the contemporary art and music scenes of New York City, and how artists maintain passion for a creation that may be more miss than hit. Inspired by his own experiences as a musician and art collector, (Untitled) stars Adam Goldberg as frustrated contemporary classical composer Adrian, whose shows are sparsely attended while his artist brother Josh (Eion Bailey) draws rave reviews for his gallery work. The bridge between them is Chelsea art gallerist Madeleine (Marley Shelton), who both supports Josh’s work and begins a love affair »
- Ioncinema.com Staff
Missed My Name Is Earl? Time to atone
4 December 2009 6:44 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
The karma-fuelled comedy My Name Is Earl is getting daily repeats on E4 – and there are plenty of reasons to catch up
My Name Is Earl is back. No, they're not making any new episodes – although one never knows with Us TV – but Earl is getting repeated, daily on E4 from tonight, which is good news for the many fans of the show and even better news for those who somehow eluded its charms over its 96-episode run.
When Earl first hit in 2005, it hit big. Impressive ratings in the States earned it a decent, prominent slot in the schedules here – unlike, say, the massively underrated and still brilliant King Of The Hill. The story of a man with a huge list of misdeeds to atone for, Earl hit its stride almost immediately. The karma-fuelled plotlines twisted and turned while exploring the locale of Camden County and its colourful denizens. »
- Phelim O'Neill
'The Losers' Pics, 30 Seconds Of 'Scott Pilgrim' And Kevin Smith's Blocking Wrath In Today's Twitter-Report
1 December 2009 11:14 AM, PST | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »
Both Andy Diggle and Jock have leaked some behind-the-scenes looks at the "Losers" set over the last 24 hours. The comic's logo appears to have been quite pervasive, showing up on sanitation reminders and stunt team shirts during filming in Puerto Rico.
Elsewhere, though a "Goats" movie has not been announced, creator Jon Rosenberg announced his ideal picks to star if an adaptation ever occurs. His fellow webcomicker R. Stevens, meanwhile, quickly claimed a cameo. Check out those tweets after the jump along with Bryan Lee O'Malley's "Scott Pilgrim" hopes and a surefire way to get Kevin Smith to block you.
I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is the Twitter Report for December 1, 2009.
"The Losers" pt 1: @andydiggle http://twitpic.com/rpqdv - 2nd Unit Director, Stunt Coordinator and all-round badass Garrett Warren. Check out the tee!
-Andy Diggle, Writer ("The Losers," "Hellblazer")
"The Losers" pt 2: @jock4twenty hands please http://tweetphoto. »
- Brian Warmoth
Bloggers' Reviews: 2012
24 November 2009 4:51 AM, PST | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »
Here at Screenrush, we're all about getting voices heard. So, in the first of a series of features, we're giving you the chance to find out what's on the collective minds of the greatest bloggers the information superhighway has to offer.
This week, our friends from Movie Reviews By Captain D, Battle Royale With Cheese and Heyuguys give their verdict on Roland Emmerich's disasterific new flick, 2012...
Movie Reviews By Captain D
After the silly but fun Independence Day and bloated climate warning epic wannabe The Day After Tomorrow, Robert Emerich is back trying to destroy the planet again. In 2012, he chooses, rather than spaced out aliens or freaky weather conditions, the effect of a gigantic solar flare on the earth's core.
Click here to read on...
Battle Royale With Cheese
The end of the world - It is something that no one wants to come to pass in real »
Review: (Untitled)
8 November 2009 8:30 AM, PST | Slackerwood | See recent Slackerwood news »
"What is art?" is one of those eternal questions that you have to be at a certain kind of party to discuss without feeling totally pretentious. Lots of people use the question to denigrate certain types of art -- the "my kid can paint that" school of snark. (Untitled), which opened Friday at Arbor, asks the question in a playful way, and the ensuing "discussion" of the film is more enjoyable than you might think.
See, now you're all turning away because I've made it sound like this is some upscale-y film that drones on about Art. No. Stay with me, here. (Untitled) is from the same filmmakers who brought us the curious adaptation of Bartleby starring Crispin Glover, back in 2001 -- co-writer/director Jonathan Parker and writer Catherine Dinapoli -- and their latest movie is slightly less strange and has more sly humor.
Adrian Jacobs (Adam Goldberg) is a »
- Jette Kernion
Interview: Adam Goldberg on His New Film (Untitled), Static Art World Culture, and Kicking the Bucket
7 November 2009 11:26 AM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
When it comes to a working actor who humorously perfects the modern guy as a hip scepter for perpetual thought and frazzled irritation, Adam Goldberg holds the key to today's conflicted kingdom. Like his characters dating back to a break out role in Dazed and Confused and on to an ace performance in 2007's 2 Days in Paris (a rare romantic comedy that is meaningful and tolerable), part of Goldberg's charm seems channeled via friendly reluctance. He continues to mine such neurotic territory playing the lead in (Untitled), a surprisingly accessible quasi-satire of the contemporary New York art world. Portraying a struggling artist named Adrian Jacobs who composes abstract atonal music---and weighs suicide at age 30 for the sake of integrity---Goldberg captures, often in silence, the nagging doubts and petty contradictions of a personality burdened by the mythical qualifiers for "real art" and the "true artist." Standing in face of this absorbed »
- Hunter Stephenson
Art World Bares its Soul in Adam Goldberg’s Superlative ‘(Untitled)’
6 November 2009 8:57 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – One of the best and most exciting surprises of the 2009 film year is a smaller, claustrophobic film starring Adam Goldberg and set in the art gallery world of New York City. “(Untitled)” is an honest, uncompromising character study.
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Taking its name from the practice of inscribing artwork with no label at all, (Untitled) involves three people, two who are practicing artists and one who owns a small Soho art gallery. Adrian (Adam Goldberg) is a composer of atonal symphonies – think using buckets and chains for sounds instead of harmonics – and although recognized as a significant craftsman he still needs to supplement his living by providing piano atmosphere in a haughty bistro.
His brother Josh (Eion Bailey) is a “successful” artist, having found a niche market selling his works to decorate hotel lobbies and corporate hallways. He is the biggest income generator for Madeleine (a revelatory Marley Shelton), who »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Interview: Adam Goldberg on the Art of Performance in ‘(Untitled)’
4 November 2009 3:30 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – The Adam Goldberg character is well known to fans of TV’s “Friends” and the movie’s “Saving Private Ryan.” With his heart-on-his-sleeve persona, he takes that character to rarified heights in the new film “(Untitled).”
Set in the galleries and small symphony halls of New York City, (Untitled) is a deeply philosophical look at the nature of art, through three characters who each believe they understand the essence of what art is within themselves.
Adam Goldberg plays Adrian, a composer of atonal symphonies, whose work continues to go unrecognized. His brother Josh (Eion Bailey), is a successful painter of hotel decor-style art, who longs to be recognized for more. Rounding out the triad is Madelaine (Marley Shelton), the arty and pretentious gallery owner who strives for the next atmospheric happening.
Adam Goldberg as Adrian and Marley Shelton as Madeleine in ‘(Untitled)’
Photo credit: Parker Film Company/Samuel Goldwyn »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Adam Goldberg: The Hollywood Interview
2 November 2009 10:22 AM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Adam Goldberg: Shooting To The Music
By
Adam Goldberg first brought his unique brand of manic intensity to Richard Linklater’s ensemble classic Dazed and Confused in 1993 and has since been featured in such varied films as 2 Days in Paris, A Beautiful Mind, Saving Private Ryan, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Hebrew Hammer and I Love Your Work, which he also directed. An actor with a talent for mining the neuroses of his character for both comedic and dramatic effect, Goldberg also played recurring roles in “Friends” and “Entourage.” Goldberg's music CD, "LANDy, Eros And Omissions," hit shelves June 23 of this year from Nine Yards Records.
Goldberg’s latest film, (Untitled), is a satirical comedy that has him playing Adrian Jacobs, a brooding avant-garde composer who falls for the gorgeous owner (Marley Shelton) of a trendy New York art gallery. The quirky worlds »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
(Untitled) Movie Review
29 October 2009 9:36 AM, PDT | AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news »
There is a great danger for the film (Untitled), which I will begin by saying is easily one of the best of the year, in that those who do manage to see it are apt to be hoping for a melody. Adrian Jacobs (Adam Goldberg) is a composer, and fancies himself (sort of) as working out of the atonal school. His performances include a couple of his cohorts, and involve banging on piano keys, ripping paper, kicking metal buckets with chains in them, and generally making a racket. As Adrian will tell you, everyone tries to connect their music to life, whereas he's gone the other way. Early on we also meet Adrian's brother Josh (Eion Bailey) and the gallery owner who manages Josh's career, Madeleine (Marley Shelton). Josh is a painter, and his work sells faster than he can finish it... by the truckload... to hotels and hospitals for their lobbies. »
- Marc Eastman
Review: (Untitled)
23 October 2009 12:19 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
(Untitled) is a satire with its finger squarely on the pulse of the 21st century art world. It’s a film for anyone who’s stood in a modern art exhibit, stared at one of its installations and pondered the age old conundrum, the source of many a freshman lit essay: What makes this art? Director Jonathan Parker, who co-wrote the screenplay with Catherine Dinapoli, expands from that fundamental starting point to consider the types of people that might me driven to make such things and whether, in the end, to dismiss them is to be robbed of a defining component of the age. It’s a sharp movie, pitched at a tone located squarely between archness and sincerity. The combination of its twin settings of blindingly white galleries and garishly designed New York apartments, when blended with an all-around cacophonic feel, lends the picture a surrealistic edge. Starring Adam Goldberg and Marley Shelton, two »
- Robert Levin
'(Untitled)': Not A Pretty Picture, By Kurt Loder
23 October 2009 7:45 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
Adam Goldberg and Marley Shelton in a bracing indie art-world satire.
Adam Goldberg and Marley Shelton in "(Untitled)"
Photo: Parker Film Company
Adrian Jacobs (Adam Goldberg) is a prickly composer on the New York experimental-music scene. His compositions, which he performs with a trio in sparsely populated theaters, are a clamor of kicked buckets, crackling bubble wrap and sudden ensemble shrieks. "I just hate all his work," a critic says, behind his back. But Adrian is intransigent. "Harmony," he says, "was a capitalist plot to sell pianos."
Unlike Adrian, who's forced to take demeaning supper-club gigs to pay the rent, his brother Josh (Eion Bailey) is a roaring success — a painter whose canvasses fetch $10,000 each. True, they're insipidly sunny abstracts that are bought by the yard for indifferent display in hospital lobbies and corporate boardrooms. Still, their endless salability has made Josh one happy artist — or has it?
Josh's paintings »
(Untitled) Movie Review (2009)
23 October 2009 6:20 AM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
What is art? Can a thumbtack on an otherwise blank wall be a picture? Can someone kicking a bucket filled with chains be music? Most of us, with good reason, would say no. It takes more inherent talent to make art; more then just sticking a tack up on a wall or just making seemingly random noise. If that’s you, go listen to Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band. Go on, we’ll wait. It was considered the 58th best album in Rolling Stone magazine’s “Top 500 albums of all time.” As you listen to it you may think there’s a lot of improvising going on. On the contrary, these songs were notated and practiced, in order to be played the exact same way every time. Crazy, huh? If that’s not enough, go into any modern art gallery and you will, more often then not, »
- Marco Duran
Film: Review:(Untitled)
22 October 2009 12:06 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
Early in (Untitled), a thoughtful independent comedy about the modern art scene, a sound collagist played by Adam Goldberg, a master of tortured neuroses, arrives in a broken-down New York theater for a performance with his three-piece outfit. To his surprise, a promising scrum of people are gathered out front. Then a bus passes and whisks them all away, as if they were just some cruel mirage. Once he’s inside, a smattering of people—maybe 10, half of them family members—watches Goldberg, a saxophonist, and a percussionist make an unholy racket together, including effects like booting a bucket »
Exclusive Interview: Adam Goldberg is Candid About '(Untitled)' Movie
21 October 2009 9:15 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
Fans of HBO’s Entourage know Adam Goldberg as Nick Rubenstein, the spoiled coke-addicted son of a famous movie producer who agrees to fund Medellin, Vince's ill-fated dream project. To others, he is Julie Delpy’s lover in the romantic drama 2 Days in Paris, or the "stereotypically Jewish" guy in films like Dazed and Confused and The Hebrew Hammer. Over the last decade or so, Goldberg has worked with a slew of top-drawer directors including Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan) Tony Scott (Déjà vu), David Fincher (Zodiac), Richard Linklater (Waking Life) and Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind), predominantly in supporting roles. He is also an accomplished musician and filmmaker.
Now, in the satirical spoof on New York’s Chelsea art scene (Untitled), Goldberg steps into the lead role as Adrian Jacobs, a brooding and sullen composer of esoteric discordant musical works that feature — among other sounds produced by ready-made everyday »
Adam Goldberg: 'I Generally Just Feel Like I'm Posing as an Actor'
20 October 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
Adam Goldberg is often cast in roles that play on his own neurotic character, and in Jonathan Parker's sharp art world satire (Untitled), he initially appears to have a part that's made for him. His character Adrian is a musician (in real life, Goldberg has recorded two albums with his band LANDy) who's caught between two worlds: the mainstream, which has rewarded his painter brother (Eion Bailey) with irritating success, and the independent art scene, as represented by a self-consciously stylish gallery owner played by Marley Shelton.
Goldberg has a resume that plays like a manifestation of that artistic push-pull: independent films (two of which he's directed) jostle for space with big Hollywood productions and TV shows. Still, as he told Movieline, he's not quite as tortured about it as you might think. »
Adam Goldberg Tackles the Art World in (Untitled)
20 October 2009 3:00 AM, PDT | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »
'I had some Excedrin, which has got a lot of caffeine in it, so I was jumpstarted prior to the interview,' Adam Goldberg tells me well into our interview. His credits are impressive and far-reaching; he's as well known for roles in Saving Private Ryan and A Beautiful Mind as he is for Dazed and Confused, The Salton Sea, The Hebrew Hammer, and Tribeca screener 2 Days in Paris. He's also done a fair share of TV, from his short stint on Friends as Chandler's creepy roommate to the all-too-brief 2009 season of The Unusuals on ABC. In his latest movie, (Untitled), fraternal jealousy, pretentious art, and love collide in a comedy that takes place in New York's art scene. Goldberg's Adrian, a scowling, self-absorbed composer whose chain-rattling music plays to near-empty rooms, catches gallery owner Madeleine Gray's (Marley Shelton) icy blonde attention both artistically and romantically as she leads »
HuffPost Review: (Untitled) Is Artfully Funny
19 October 2009 12:48 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
"Is art the thing itself? Or is it the idea of the thing?" That question, voiced by one of the characters, would seem to be the heart and soul of Jonathan Parker's (Untitled), which opens in limited release Friday (10.23.09). A laugh-out-loud satire with a dry-martini wit, (Untitled) manages the neat trick of poking wicked fun at the worlds of experimental music and art -- from all angles -- even as it gives a humorously sympathetic look at the plight of the serious artist working far outside the commercial mainstream. His name is Adrian Jacobs (Adam Goldberg) and he's an experimental composer in New York, whose brother, Josh (Eion Bailey) is a successful painter. But both men have artistic frustrations. Adrian works in the realm of atonal music, using sounds like shrieks, squeaks, tearing paper and a chain being dropped into a metal »
- Marshall Fine
'Saw VI' And 'Cirque Du Freak' Call For An Early Halloween In This Week's Box Office Poll
19 October 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
It's a strange week for new releases, primarily because the latest, sixth entry in the "Saw" franchise is hitting theaters a full week before Halloween. Traditionally, each new "Saw" hits on the Friday before the year's trick or treaters emerge. Following a trend set with last year's "Saw V," the new entry will have a week to breathe before the Halloween festivities begin. Expect lots more Jigsaw puzzling and gore-nography in "Saw VI," which joins newcomer director Kevin Greutert with writers Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, who penned "Saw IV" onwards.
Also somewhat in the horror vein -- though more in the "hey, vampires are popular vein" -- this week is "Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant," which I caught a few weeks ago and am sort of regarding as a male-oriented attempt to latch onto the "Twilight" phenomenon. I wasn't a huge fan of the movie, but it is »
- Adam Rosenberg
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