Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For regular updates, sign up for our weekly email newsletter and follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSGuy Maddin’s next film, Rumours, recently wrapped production in Hungary. The ensemble piece is led by Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander, who play world leaders who end up stranded in a forest during the annual G7 summit. Maddin has shared a breathless, spoof press release (below) announcing the film, describing the project as “an elevated dramedy and erotico-political threnody cum sylvan moodbank.”Paul Thomas Anderson is also at work on something new. So far, all we know is that his project is set in the present day and will star Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, and Regina Hall. Production begins in California later this year.Recommended VIEWINGOne of the most exciting rediscoveries of the 2023 Il Cinema Ritrovato festival was the restoration of David Schickele’s Bushman...
- 1/17/2024
- MUBI
The Japanese film-maker, whose unsettling experimental shorts prefigured such horror classics as Ringu and Ju-On, got a rare showing in Birmingham at the weekend
In 1984, a young Takashi Ito travelled to the art school in Wurzburg, Germany, to screen a short film he'd made a few years before. The film, Spacy, was an odd experiment: it was simply 700 photographs of the inside of an empty school gymnasium, shot in various different orders, frame-by-frame. When the screening ended, according to fellow film-maker Nobuhiro Kawanaka, thunderous applause broke out and a faculty member spontaneously passed around a hat that came back filled with a "mountain" of banknotes.
Expecting a nine-minute experimental Japanese short to garner anything like that kind of reaction now would be a bit like waiting patiently for your toaster to pop up a chicken. Then again, Spacy is a little slice of genius. (You can see the first few minutes here.
In 1984, a young Takashi Ito travelled to the art school in Wurzburg, Germany, to screen a short film he'd made a few years before. The film, Spacy, was an odd experiment: it was simply 700 photographs of the inside of an empty school gymnasium, shot in various different orders, frame-by-frame. When the screening ended, according to fellow film-maker Nobuhiro Kawanaka, thunderous applause broke out and a faculty member spontaneously passed around a hat that came back filled with a "mountain" of banknotes.
Expecting a nine-minute experimental Japanese short to garner anything like that kind of reaction now would be a bit like waiting patiently for your toaster to pop up a chicken. Then again, Spacy is a little slice of genius. (You can see the first few minutes here.
- 4/1/2010
- by Chris Michael
- The Guardian - Film News
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