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King of cool
5 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Jacques Audiard's new prison thriller is the most stylish film to come out of Europe for years, following up on the promise of his previous movies Read My Lips and The Beat that My Heart Skipped and confirming his place among the greats of French cinema. Jason Solomons talks to a director who wants his audience to fly with him
Jacques Audiard wears a hat. It's a trilby that, the 57-year-old director says, keeps him warm in the winter and cool in the summer. He was wearing it in the heat of Cannes last May when I first met him, on a blazing roof terrace; and he's wearing it again today, in London, on an autumnal Monday when I catch him smoking his pipe outside the hotel where we're due to meet.
With horn-rimmed glasses, smart jacket and a cravat, he looks a bit like an English gentleman, a »
- Jason Solomons
Clip joint: the best film clips featuring bridges
3 December 2009 4:31 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
This week, nilpferd wants us all to link up, join together and only connect with the best film clips featuring bridges
Bridges are essential film furniture. And not just because they are large, iconic objects whose construction, capture or destruction can take up whole afternoon matinees. A dauntingly high bridge is the ideal suspense building bottleneck in an action film – and if it happens to be a hanging walkway with rotting boards and fraying twine, so much the worse for vertigo-stricken heroes and the better for us viewers.
Slow the pace down, and the bridge's function as a connector comes into focus – crossing it can bring irreversible changes, but it can also act as a facilitator of exchange and interaction. Yet beyond these functional roles, bridges possess magical qualities which make them ideal for cinema. Neither here nor quite there, they exist somewhere in-between.
Join me in the middle of »
Birthday Suits: Deserve's Got Nothin' To Do With it
22 November 2009 10:47 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Celebrating the birthdays of the cinematic peoples daily. If you were born on 11/22 shout it out in the comments. How will you celebrate these fine folks, listed below?
Scarlett, Mark and Mads
1920 Anne Crawford Israeli born British actress of the 40s. Died when she was only 35.
1923 Arthur Hiller Canadian director. Oscar nominated for mega-hit Love Story (1970). Also known for comedies like The Out-of-Towners, Silver Streak and Outrageous Fortune and some erratically interesting choices like The Americanization of Emily, Man of La Mancha and Hollywood's first mainstream gay film Making Love (1982).
1932 Robert Vaughn The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and one of The Magnificent Seven
1940 Terry Gilliam crazy indispensible auteur. He doesn't deserve all the funding / filmmaking problems he's had of late. But, sadly, I can't really recommend The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus which is messy in dozens of ways
1956 Richard Kind character actor (A Serious Man)
1959 Jamie Lee Curtis actress of the Perfect bod, »
- NATHANIEL R
Now on Netflix: The Asian Movies Arrive
1 October 2009 1:40 AM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Netflix has added an impressive list of new films to their InstantWatch feature again this week. Quite a number of them are great titles from various Asian countries that I'm glad to see made accessible to Us viewers. Some of them are modern classics that need no introduction to cineastes, but others are pleasant surprises.
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
One of my favorite movies of all time, Tetsuo is Japanese cyberpunk at its most definitive. The first feature film by the great Shinya Tsukamoto, Tetsuo is the highly allegorical—and illogical—story of a businessman whose body slowly morphs into machine against his will, after he accidentally runs over a metal fetishist. Perverse, daring and brimming with energy, Tetsuo is one of the coolest things Japanese cult cinema has to offer.
Watch it now
Tokyo!
An anthology series, Tokyo! stands out for being directed by three famous directors (Michel Gondry, »
- Arya Ponto
Tokyo! Blu-ray Review
15 August 2009 4:14 PM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Tokyo! Directed by: Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, Bong Joon-ho Written by: Gabrielle Bell, Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, Bong Joon-ho Starring: Ayako Fujitani, Ayumi Ito, Ryo Kase, Denis Lavant, Jean-François Balmer, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yû Aoi Historically, short films have never really received much mainstream attention because, let's face it, you can't exactly put them in a movie theatre and charge full price for admission. They've mostly been relegated to the realm of film festivals and YouTube, but every now and then someone comes up with a clever way to package a collection of short films and sell it to the public. The 2007 film Paris, Je T'aime had a fairly successful (albeit limited) theatrical run collecting 18 shorts from such directors as The Coen Brothers, Tom Tykwer, Gus Van Sant and Wes Craven. It eventually spawned a sequel of sorts called, New York, I Love You. Following in the footsteps of these films comes Tokyo! »
- Sean
Tones of Home
7 July 2009 7:58 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
Despite filmgoers' general lack of ticket-buying interest, the omnibus film -- thematically contiguous shorts or semi-shorts by various filmmakers, packaged together as a feature -- is enjoying an unlikely resurgence akin to its Euro heyday in the '60s. What's rousing about the phenom, then and especially now, is that its thriving fecundity is largely fed by the creative yens of directors and producers, not by the entertainment demands of a mass audience. To a certain degree, you get the sense that no one involved in, say, "Paris, Je T'Aime" (2006) (Van Sant, Assayas, Coen, Cuaron, etc.), or "To Each His Own Cinema" (2007) (Angelopoulos, Kiarostami, Kitano, Egoyan, Campion, Loach, Dardennes, de Oliveira, Wong, Lynch, etc.), or "New York, I Love You" (2009) (Akin, Ratner, Iwai, Nair, etc.), cared much if filmgoers queue up or not, so long as they get a chance to explore the short form and then assemble a larger »
- Michael Atkinson
DVD releases for Tuesday June 30, 2009
30 June 2009 3:14 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
This is the first dvd release post we've done in a while because there's been quite a dry spell over the last month or so. Well not this week! There a few Quiet Earth faves hitting the shops this week so lets go through them.
First up is the short film comp, Tokyo!, (review here) featuring vignettes from Michele Gondry, Bong Joon-ho, and Leos Carax. I've heard mixed things about the film so I'm looking forward to checking it out for myself.
Next up is Fred Durst's The Education of Charlie Banks which comes to us from Anchor Bay. We've been eying this indie throwback for a while now.
Also out this week are three sweet Asian titles, Hideo Nakata's Kaidan , Minoru Kawasaki's Kaiju extravaganza Monster X Strikes Back, and Elliott Hong's 1982 classic They Call me Bruce?.
And how could we forget, The Asylum's Transmorphers: Fall of Man DVD! »
This Week on DVD: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, Eastbound & Down, Tokyo!
30 June 2009 8:57 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
In stores this week, most of the major DVD releases are pretty terrible... but we're here to help you weed through the crap to find a few gems. For the masochists, there's a serious helping of movies that are "so bad they're good" out today, including Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, 12 Rounds, Transmorphers: Fall of Man, and Uwe Boll's Tunnel Rats. Look beyond that though and you've got Fred Durst's critically-acclaimed The Education of Charlie Banks, the Michel Gondry/Joon-ho Bong/Leos Carax triptych Tokyo!, and a new 20th Anniversary Edition of Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing, not to mention Eastbound & Down: The Complete First Season and the long-awaited first season of 1990 comedy Parker Lewis Can't Lose! My life is officially complete. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li [1] (DVD, Blu-ray [2]) 12 Rounds [3] (DVD, Blu-ray [4]) The Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience [5] (DVD, Blu-ray [6]) Two Lovers [7] (DVD, »
- Sean
Weekly Eye Candy: 42 Below One Dream Rush
13 June 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- The pitch is simple. The line-up is impressive. 42 directors explore their dreams in 42 seconds. I'm not sure what relation the 4 minute trailer (see below) has to do with the individual works, but the concept alone merits our Eye Candy mention of the week. Visit the site here. Sponsored by the vodka brand 42 Below, this project includes some bona-fide stars in the auteur cinema field and a good portion of plenty unknowns. Among the names that I consider myself a fan we have the likes of David Lynch and Carlos Reygadas, but we'll be looking out for those in the near future since they have yet to post their contribution, but a small sampling is available on the site. Among those available, we have what I would call more of a day dream from Asia Argento's part "S/He" - her curiosity on transexuals was the basis of her film, »
Trailer For Surreal Multi-Director Project Onedreamrush
1 June 2009 10:18 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Ah, sponsor-supported film making. It’s a form of embedded advertising and if not for the fact that these projects keep coming out so well I think I’d have to hate them on matter of principal. But I just can’t. The trend got kicked off in a big way when BMW commissioned a series of short films a few years back - films from the likes of Wong Kar Wai, Guy Ritchie, Alejandro Innaritu and others - films that proved a huge hit online and, eventually, in DVD sales. The formula has been copied a few times since then with decidedly more mixed results but now here comes Onedreamrush.
Sponsored by vodka company 42 Below - though their products don’t appear in any of the shorts I have seen so far - Onedreamrush is a series of short films from forty two directors, each of them forty two »
- Todd Brown
Over The Top Fest: Review of Tokyo!
22 May 2009 4:18 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
Year: 2008
Directors: Bong Joon-ho & Leos Carax & Michel Gondry
Writers: Bong Joon-ho & Leos Carax & Michel Gondry
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Dr. Nathan
Rating: 7 out of 10
A Triptych of Types In Tokyo
Introducing a woman who feels useless, a court jester who lives in sewers, and a man who hasn’t left his house for 10 years. Welcome to Tokyo!
Normally I’m not a big fan of shorts stitched together to form a film of usual length, but in this case the three films, by three directors (none of whom are Japanese), offer up a somewhat coherent trio of tales of various outsiders and their psychological relationship to Tokyo city.
Tokyo! begins with Interior Design, a short written by Gabrielle Roy and Director Michel Gondry about a young woman who undergoes an astounding and literal transformation. Cleverly developed at almost a snail’s pace, the film takes a good hard »
Tokyo! (review)
12 May 2009 12:47 PM, PDT | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
This triptypch of short flicks about the Japanese capital by non-Japanese filmmakers is wildly intriguing to me, as someone who has never been there but would like to visit -- I wonder, though, how natives or familiar foreigners would parse the peculiarities of these disturbing urban fairy tales. French filmmaker Michel Gondry’s (The Science of Sleep) opening installment, “Interior Design,” is perhaps the most universal (and is, in fact, based on a graphic novel called “Cecil and Jordan in New York”): in it, a young woman (Ayako Fujitani) finds a way to cope with her sense that she is invisible and unnecessary not just to her filmmaker boyfriend (Ryo Kase) but to the world at large when they move to the titular city, which is huge and dehumanizing, as Gondry depicts it, to a gal not so confident in her own self. It’s a startling story that »
- MaryAnn Johanson
Toronto's Over The Top film fest is back headlining White Lightnin'
29 April 2009 4:26 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
Man, where I live (near Denver, Colorado) we really don't have much in the way of fests except for the Denver Film Festival and the one in Boulder which both heavily favor high-brow fest circuit stuff which really isn't interesting to us around here which is why I'm jealous of our own Dr. Nathan who will get to see the opening night film White Lightnin' (stills here), the story of the dancing outlaw Jesco White. Also playing will be Tokyo!, Qe favorite Visioneers (review), and the indy Norse discovery of America flick (which Magnolia picked up and I have a screener of, woop!) Severed Ways.
But Ott not only does film, they do music to.. so check it all out at the website below.
Fest website with tickets and more
Feature film descriptions and short film list after the break.
Opening Film
White Lightnin' (UK) - Canadian Premiere
7:00 @ The »
Review: Tokyo!
21 March 2009 3:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
When twenty directors come together to celebrate a city on film, like in Paris je T'aime, it is easy to gain a palpable sense of the place, as if each scene is a brief peek into Parisian life. Best of all -- good or bad, another scene is only moments away; there are a myriad of scenes, styles, and experiences. With three, however, the stakes are raised. Each piece is important and cannot fade into a sea of many.
Tokyo! is a triptych that merges the visions of three creative filmmakers - Michel Gondry, who was responsible for the desperate, mind-wiping romance of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Leos Carax, who created the tempestuous Pola X; and Bong Joon-ho, the man who brought us the wickedly fun horror film, The Host. True to their art, each offers fresh and unique creations that twist recognizable themes, but they are not »
- Monika Bartyzel
Bong Joon-ho Exclusive Interview – Tokyo! -- The director of The Host talks about making his new film Tokyo! and says he will be making a sci-fi film called Transperceneige!
18 March 2009 | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Just like everyone that saw it, I’m a huge fan of director Bong Joon-ho’s “The Host”. If you still haven’t seen this fantastic Korean monster movie, seriously, go buy a copy. It’s a brilliant movie and one that’s, of course, being remade here in America. While I could go on and on about “The Host”, that’s not why we’re all here.Opening this Friday, in limited release, is the movie “Tokyo!”. It’s a collaboration between three great directors - Michel Gondry, Bong Joon-ho and Leos Carax – where they each made a short film that takes place in the city of Tokyo. Of course each part has a unique style and definitely worth your time to see. Anyway, to help promote the film, I recently did an email interview with director Bong Joon-ho. We covered all the usual things like how he got involved in the project, »
Leos Carax And Michel Gondry, Tokyo!
15 March 2009 6:57 PM, PDT | Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews | See recent Filmmaker Magazine_Director Interviews news »
Denis Lavant In "Merde,"Director Leos Carax'Segment Of Tokyo!. Courtesy Liberation Entertainment. French directors Leos Carax and Michel Gondry – both born in the early 1960s, during the first blush of the Nouvelle Vague – so far have had markedly different career paths. Carax, a boy from the Parisian suburbs, became a film critic and short film director before announcing himself as a major talent with his first two features, Boy Meets Girl (1984) and Bad Blood (1986). Carax's distinctive visual style, outsider sensibility and preoccupation with modern romance was also on show in his third film, Lovers on the Bridge (1991), however the film took three years to shoot and was an infamous financial disaster. The failure of his eventual »
- Nick Dawson
Tokyo!/Tokyo Sonata
13 March 2009 1:26 PM, PDT | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »
Tokyo! - 80
Tokyo Sonata - 85
Tokyo!
Release Date: March 6
Directors/Writers: Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, Bong Joon-Ho
Cinematographers: Masami Inomoto, Caroline Champetier, Jun Fukomoto
Starring: Ayako Fujitani, Ryo Kase, Denis Lavant, Teruyuki Kagawa
Studio/Run Time: Liberation Entertainment, 112 mins.
Release Date: March 13
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Writers: Max Mannix, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Sachiko Tanaka
Cinematographer: Akiko Ashiza
Starring: Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyoko Koizumi, Yu Koyanagi
Studio/Run Time: Regent Releasing, 119 mins.
Tokyo! and Tokyo Sonata, two films by four directors containing six narratives, propose the Japanese megalopolis as a site for major weirdness. A girl turns into a chair. A man drives a car from the beach into the ocean. A zombie in a green suit climbs from the sewers and wreaks havoc. »
Movie Review: Tokyo!
13 March 2009 7:21 AM, PDT | MovieRetriever | See recent MovieRetriever news »
Mar 13, 2009 Anthology movies are always hit-and-miss. If you're lucky, a majority of the short trees that make up the movie forest are worth your time and you walk away satisfied. Such is the case with the intriguing Tokyo!, a trifecta of short films loosely about the Japanese metropolis directed by three people who are not from there – Frenchmen Michel Gondry and Leos Carax and South Korean Bong Joon-Ho. Two-and-a-half out of three isn't bad for a movie like this one. Yes, it could have been a more cohesive vision – each film only very ...Read more at MovieRetriever.com »
Indie Roundup: 'Burma VJ' Pickup and Trailer, Sundance Speculations
12 March 2009 6:45 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Deals. As Eugene Novikov informed us, hard-hitting dolphin doc The Cove was picked up by Roadside Attractions. Via our friends at indieWIRE, we also learned:
"Don't run! If we must die, we will die." Street protest doc Burma VJ will be released by Oscilloscope in theaters this spring. If you don't think a monk with a megaphone can make for riveting footage, watch the trailer, embedded below. Biopic Pedro (about the late gay activist who memorably appeared on MTV's The Real World) will skip a theatrical release and instead debut on MTV before hitting DVD. First Run Features acquired Andrew Jacob's Holocaust survivor doc Four Seasons Lodge for theatrical release. Lucrecia Martel's critically-acclaimed thriller Headless Woman will hit theaters in August through Strand Releasing. Heavy metal doc Anvil! The True Story of Metal, will get a very decent-sized release next month by VH1, of all companies, opening in at »
- Peter Martin
Interview - Michel Gondry & Leos Carax - Tokyo!
6 March 2009 2:33 PM, PST | Spout.com | See recent Spout news »
Oh, the ever tricky omnibus film. As Lauren detailed in her review of Tokyo!, three very different auteurs were ushered off to the Japanese capital to offer their takes on the city which bursts from the seams with post fire-bomb post-modernity. I had the chance this week to catch up with two of the three, the long dormant Leo Carax and the irrepressible Michel Gondry, to talk about the inspiration for their shorts, the specific difficulties of translations and what really motivated Michel to tackle Gabrielle Bell’s Cecil and Jordan in New York.
Spout: What were some of the challenges of adapting a piece of literature for the first time?
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- Brandon Harris
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