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[DVD Review] Hero
24 September 2009 10:50 AM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Quentin Tarantino gets lots of credit for creating pop-culture purees with each of his films. He takes from countless sources of media old and new and combines them into something interesting. Tarantino has another talent though. He has an eye for knowing which films deserve a chance. Bring Hero into the equation and you realize just how good Tarantino’s eye for aesthetic brilliance really is. The rich vibrant colors, the beautiful choreography and a magnificently told story make Hero one of the most gorgeous and luscious films to ever come across the sea from China.
Before the Great Wall of China could be built, an emperor had to conquer and unite all of the kingdoms in the land. Consequently, it’s a time of great turmoil with towns being burned and many people dying in the process. For all the good such change can bring through unity, the side »
- Lex Walker
Tiff 2009 Day 8: Neil Jordan's Ondine
21 September 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- I can't quite wrap my head around Neil Jordan's latest offering - clearly a fairy tale for adults that could easily play well for children, Ondine sounds good (Sigur Ros) and looks good (Christopher Doyle), but I didn't much care for the end result. Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo did way more for me if we are going the direction. Full review coming soon.... »
Legend Of Drunken Master, Iron Monkey, Hero and Zatoichi Blu-ray Reviews
19 September 2009 5:29 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
For the film fanatic, there was an evolution. In the late 80’s and early 90’s, Hong Kong cinema came to a prominence because of the great works of filmmakers like John Woo and actors like Jackie Chan. This was the second boom of the industry after Bruce Lee invigorated youths in the 70’s, but died all too young. And from that there was also a loyal following for the Shaw Brothers from some, and an interest in Chan - among others - but you had to live near a Chinatown or have a kick ass video store to find this stuff. Not everyone was so lucky. The crossover appeal was there, but mostly for film nerds willing to watch some shitty ass copies of great films. As time progressed Asain cinema of all stripes made a huge dent in nerd culture, with Japan and Korea following, as filmmakers like Takashi Miike, »
- Andre Dellamorte
Toronto 2009: Neil Jordan Dives Into "Ondine"
18 September 2009 12:50 PM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
When Neil Jordan was wondering what to do during the writers' strike last year, all he had to do was look out his window. Although the director of "The Crying Game" and "Breakfast on Pluto" has filmed in his native Ireland before, he had never shot the rolling hills or seascape, which provide the backdrop for his new film, "Ondine." The film tells the lovely tale of a fisherman named Syracuse (Colin Farrell) who discovers in his net a young woman (Alicja Bachleda) that his daughter strongly believes is a selkie. Strange things begin to happen in the presence of the woman they name Ondine -- when she sings, Syracuse catches a bundle of salmon, and both he and his daughter Annie become entranced with their visitor, though she may not be who they think she is.
"Ondine" marks Farrell's second strong performance of the Toronto Film Festival, after "Triage, »
- Stephen Saito
The Blu-Ray Review: Hero
18 September 2009 3:34 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Colin Jacobson reviews Hero.
Hero begins 2000 years ago, with a lone man on his way to visit with the King of China's Qin province during the height of the warring states period. The King has been leading a bloody campaign trying to unite the whole of China and bring peace to the county, and his aggressive tactics aren't exactly a big hit with the entire population.
As such, the King has been constantly under threat of assassination, surviving multiple attempts over the last decade. The problem has gotten so bad that no one is allowed within 100 paces of the royal throne, under penalty of immediate execution. The stranger - a man known only as Nameless (Jet Li) - has evidence to present to the king that will prove to him that he has nothing left to fear. He's brought with him the weapons of the three deadliest assassins in all »
- Paul
Tiff Picks 09: Neil Jordon's Ondine
7 September 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- #29. Ondine Director: Neil Jordan Cast: Colin Farrell, Alicja Bachleda, Stephen Rea, Alison BarryDistributor: Paramount Vantage is selling the world rights Buzz: I can't say that I was itching to see this fantasy fish tale, Neil Jordan is a hit and miss director in my books, but then I learned who the cinematographer was. I look forward in seeing how Christopher Doyle and Neil Jordan partnership will work with all things Irish. The Gist: Scripted by Jordan, this tells the story of a fisherman (Farrell) in southwest Ireland who hauls up a live girl (Bachleda) in his nets. Ondine is a mythological sea nymph, and theories about the girl's origins blossom as she transforms the lives of the fisherman and local townsfolk. Tiff Schedule: Click here for screen times ... »
Film-Music Moment of the Day: The Lone Man Ponders Nothingness
13 August 2009 6:10 PM, PDT | Boombox Serenade | See recent Boombox Serenade news »
"Sometimes the reflection is far more present than the thing being reflected," says one of the Lone Man's contacts in Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control, and in fact one of the pleasures of this film is seeing Spain through the eyes of legendary cinematographer Christopher Doyle, who is taken, magpie-like, by every glass wall and glittering window in Madrid. Another is contemplating the inscrutable Lone Man (played by Isaach De Bankolé), whose carefully controlled expression is a study in contrasts: handsome and ugly, modern and ancient, violent and pacific. His face is downright fascinating, in fact, the particular lines... »
- Shannon Coulter
Remains of the Day: Christopher Doyle at Tiff, Ballast on VOD, Barthes on Charlie Rose
12 August 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- Lots of Fall festival news today from New York, Toronto and Spain and I know what my first piece of Tiff coverage will be: Christopher Doyle's "Picture Start" (Doyle (Happy Together) reconsiders how images evolve before the director’s call to “action” and what happens to them after the “cut.” Doyle superimposes directives from traditional film leader on to the processed still film and filmmaking images he has created during his extensive career. Curated by Noah Cowan at the Indexg, 50 Gladstone Avenue in Toronto. Here is a look at eight and 1/2 news items that we didn't have enough time to cover but are worth mentioning here for August 11th... 1. Tell Me Where you are Josh!Blair Witch creators looking to make a sequel. Must be out of money and ideas. (Via Slashfilm.com) 2. Charlie, Sophie and Giamatti Cold Souls director and star on Charlie Rose last night. 3. San »
Isabella Rossellini’s Bug Porn Coming To Toronto!
11 August 2009 12:08 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
What does it say about the internet in general that the number one page load on Twitch is still - by a very healthy margin - the photo gallery we posted at the beginning of 2008 from Isabella Rossellini’s series of bug-sex shorts Green Porno? Or, for that matter, what does it say of people’s interest in Rossellini? Well she’s back, she’s got more bug porn and she’s bringing it to Toronto! The Toronto International Film Festival have just announced their Future Projections lineup of film related art installations - which also features work from Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Christopher Doyle and Don McKellar, among others - and Rossellini is coming with a new incarnation of Green Porno that’ll see her sexy insects stepping somewhat off the screen and into real life. Also announced today was the complete City To City lineup. Check the announcement below the break! »
- Todd Brown
Chinese Art-House Auteur to Do Sci-Fi?
3 August 2009 9:04 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
He’s recognized the world over for art house dramas and romances starring the brightest stars of Hong Kong. But for his next project, director Stanley Kwan is trying his hand at science fiction.
The Canadian Press reports Kwan’s new film, which is currently shooting in Shanghai, will revolve around a troupe of acrobats from 1930’s China who travel to the present day, where they befriend a group of modern youths. It will be his first movie in four years, after the 2005 romance Everlasting Regret made a splash on the festival circuit.
Kwan described the new film, which has the Chinese title Dancing with Your Heart, as "The Matrix meets song and dance." It will show off the talents of acting and music students Kwan met while developing a Chinese musical.
"Very few of the graduates of Chinese performing arts schools have the chance to start a career in performing arts, »
What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #2
2 August 2009 4:26 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Back again with another installment of "What I Watched, What You Watched," and due to my time in San Diego covering Comic Con and the fact one of the selections included this time around is the complete season from a television show this installment doesn't have as many titles, but the second page has a little extra something I hope you'll be interested in checking out. As a reminder to those that either didn't read the first installment (read it here) in this new feature series or forgot, "What I Watched, What You Watched" is a chance for me to share with you the movies (and sometimes television shows) I have been watching that don't necessarily make it into the headlines every week. My goal is to do this on a weekly basis unless things get in the way (such as this time around). I hope this will spark conversation »
- Brad Brevet
[Movie Review] Downloading Nancy
3 July 2009 4:59 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Downloading Nancy is not, just so you know, a movie about the Internet. The online world itself plays little part in the story, save for it being the tool that connects Nancy (Maria Bello) to an intimate stranger named Louis (Jason Patrick), behind the back of her distanced husband Albert (Rufus Sewell). If anything, writers Lee Ross and Pamela Cuming, as well as director Johan Renck—all first-timers—use the term more for its allegorical quality. Nancy's marriage is so devoid of happiness that she's gotten used to cutting, masturbating and chatting online to find moments of short bliss. From that last one she meets Louis, a man she asks to kill her.
It's not as depressing as it sounds, but it is discomforting. Maybe more to some than others, which limits its audience (and apparently the critical appreciation too, as some reviews coming out of its Sundance premiere earlier »
- Arya Ponto
Downloading Nancy - Movie Review
7 June 2009 9:02 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
A film that may be too heavy for its own good. Christopher Doyle fans will love it while tolerating the harshness of the story Enter the creepy and impersonal world of the Internet, where spirits leap out of screens and enter into the souls of the emotionally unprotected. Nancy (Maria Bello--.The Cooler,. .A History of Violence.) is like that. She is missing something in the self-image department. In fact, she is missing the entire self-image department. Her best image is that of her profile on the emotional wasteland of the web. Her male counterpart is Louis (Jason Patric..The Lost Boys.) a man who is both rescuing white knight and psychopathic killer. His lack of moral anchor or social resolution »
- Ron Wilkinson
'Downloading Nancy': Please Kill Me, By Kurt Loder
5 June 2009 3:51 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
Maria Bello and Jason Patric in a world of pain.
Maria Bello in "Downloading Nancy"
Photo: Strand Releasing
Nancy (Maria Bello) wants to die. Louis (Jason Patric), an S&M creep she met on the Internet, wants to be of service. Albert (Rufus Sewell), Nancy's worm husband, can't figure out what to make of this movie. No, wait — that's us.
"Downloading Nancy," a film about self-mutilation, sexual sadism and dismal fluorescent lighting, features a world-class performance by Bello and an intriguingly spare one by Patric. But the story is so irritatingly jumbled that even the squalid enticements of voyeurism — the wretched Bdsm games involving mousetraps, cigarette burns and jagged glass — are insufficient compensation for the movie's narrative confusion.
Nancy has been married to Albert, a heavily-repressed neat freak, for 15 years, and she's miserable. Because of the violent sexual abuse she suffered as a child, the closest she can come to »
Promotional stills for Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Kuuki Ningyou” (Air Doll).
12 May 2009 5:07 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
The other week Jason Gray hinted at having a batch of stills from the upcoming film Kuuki Ningyou that he couldn’t post until time drew closer to Cannes. Well, it starts tomorrow so there is no better time than today to release those stills upon the public and I can say they were well worth the wait. Wow! The images alone are stunning to look at. How can the film possibly measure up. Mr. Magee over at JFilm, the clever fellow that he is, also noted, “One of the umpteenth reasons why was that it was being shot by cinematographer Lee Ping Bing, who shot Wong Kar Wai’s “In the Mood for Love” along with Christopher Doyle as well as a number of films by Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien. He’s got a wonderful eye and delivers some breathtakingly rich and luminous imagery and it doesn’t »
- Mack
[Movie Review] The Limits of Control
8 May 2009 9:13 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
When we first meet The Limits of Control’s mysterious protagonist, played with cool mystique by Jim Jarmusch regular Isaach De Bankolé, he is in a bathroom stall practicing tai chi. Slipping into his sharp monochrome suit, he meets two equally mysterious men at an airport who give him cryptic messages.
Named only in the credits as “Lone Man,” he travels from place to place, waits in hotel rooms, orders two espressos he insists on being served in two separate cups, and exchange pertinent matchboxes with various secret contacts, each of them offering more cryptic conversations. The way Jarmusch acquaints us with the Lone Man is deceptively clever. He doesn’t bother with introduction or information, only behavior. It’s the most effective way of describing a character. When Lone Man orders the same drink each time, we know he is particular. When he carefully folds his suit in his hotel rooms, »
- Arya Ponto
Summer Movie Preview
6 May 2009 4:12 PM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
We're all for getting out in the summertime, but there might not be anything more refreshing than cooling off in a movie theater... or seeing a movie in the comfort of your air-conditioned home on demand, on DVD, or online... or better yet catching a classic on the big screen at a nearby repertory theater. With literally hundreds of films to choose from this summer, we humbly present this guide to the season's most exciting offerings.
May 1
"Eldorado"
The Cast: Bouli Lanners, Fabrice Adde, Philippe Nahon, Didier Toupy, Franise Chichy
Director: Bouli Lanners
Fest Cred: Cannes, Warsaw, Glasgow, Palm Springs,
The Gist: When Elie (Adde), a hapless young thief attempts to rob Yvan (Lanners), a 40-year-old car dealer, the two form a unlikely friendship that leads to a road trip across Belgium in this slight comedy that won the Best European Film at the Director's Fortnight at Cannes last year. »
- Stephen Saito
Review of Jim Jarmusch's The Limits Of Control
1 May 2009 9:42 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
Year: 2009
Directors: Jim Jarmusch
Writers: Jim Jarmusch
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: cyberhal
Rating: 7.8 out of 10
[Editor's note: This is one of the funniest reviews I have ever read, so enjoy! Nice job Hal]
The Limits Of Control is beautifully shot, easy and impossible to understand, and you will either love it or hate it. In other words, it’s a hard core art house movie. I started off fascinated, then I got bored, and then I fell in love. I’ve seen it compared to the Lee Marvin classic crime flick Point Blank (1967), but it’s far closer to the more philosophical/poetic Kieslowski. This is a crime film with no real crime, an action movie with almost no action. Inspired by a short essay by the crazy dangerous genius William Borroughs, to me this movie was all about the extent to which we control our lives and reality by meaning we ascribe to our perceptions of reality. We the audience give the story meaning. Sorry chaps, »
The Limits of Control
1 May 2009 5:00 AM, PDT | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »
Release Date: May 1 (limited)
Writer/Director: Jim Jarmusch
Cinematographer: Christopher Doyle
Starring: Isaach De Bankolé, Tilda Swinton, Gael García Bernal, Bill Murray
Studio/Run Time: Focus Features, 82 mins.
The film plays like a marbling of Ghost Dog, arguably his best
Silently pondering of art, the universe, violence, coffee
The central character in Jim Jarmusch's latest is technically called Lone Man, but his name might as well be Mysterious Badass. Like Forest Whittaker in Ghost Dog, the Lone Man is a disciplined outsider, practicing tai chi and refusing sex. "The universe has no center and no edges," an equally anonymous bossman named French tells him in French (the Creole translator named Creole comically refusing to translate), sending De Bankolé careening across Spain on an unspecified mission. »
Lone Rangers
30 April 2009 4:53 PM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
Back in the early '60s, when Sonny Liston ruled boxing and hard bop could still be found on the corner jukebox, just wearing a sharkskin suit could be construed as an act of aggression, passive or otherwise. Sharkskin is the uniform of choice worn by the protagonist of Jim Jarmusch's alluring, enigmatic "The Limits of Control." Isaach De Bankolé's Lone Man (for that's how he is ID'd in the program notes, if not the movie itself) is like Jarmusch's Ghost Dog, taciturn and resolute, if also exposed to more sunlight. Lone Man's granite-slab impassiveness is buttressed by the sharkskin's implicit provocation. Yet, as with his suits, De Bankolé maintains his character's angular, creased surfaces throughout the movie. Only when the routine is ruffled does his composure show nicks -- as when a café waiter brings him a double espresso in one cup instead of two espressos in separate cups, »
- Gene Seymour
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