Thought I'd goof around with a little b-day series. In case it's yours! Could be shortlived. Or maybe it'll go on forever. You never know. Hal Hartley , Paprika Steen and Charles Bronson Today's Birthdays, November 3rd ...some of them at any rate. For those who are prone to celebrating the lives of the filmic and famous. And if you aren't, you're not having enough fun. 1921 Charles Bronson had a Death...
Here's a batch of casting news to tide you over until the next Page 2. Viola Davis, always a great actress and whose appearance in Doubt nearly owns the entire film, has taken two roles. One is in It's Kind of a Funny Story, where she'll work with...Zach Galifianakis? The film is about a depressed teen who checks himself into an adult psych ward. Davis will be his psychiatrist. If Galifianakis was...
With Halloween just around the corner and Spike Jonze's film of Where the Wild Things Are already scaring up fierce business in the US , steenbeck tracks down the big beasts Is a monster ever just a monster? In literature and film, monsters frequently become vehicles to express some part of ourselves we struggle to keep hidden, the skeletons creeping out of our closet – Scrooge's unresolved...
It's Monday -- the beginning of the work week, the end of fun, the day that elicits groans from coast to coast, country to country, pole to pole. To perk up the monotonous weekday grind, Cinematical is now kicking off a daily pick from AOL's /SlashControl . In other words: Every day we will pick an excellent, notable, time-wasting, or terrible-but-good must-see movie that you should watch today. Why...
Fay Grim – d. Hal Hartley I have such a love/hate relationship with Hal Hartley. The man has made at least one film that’s rocked my world ( Trust ), one that I always think I like even though I’m pretty sure I don’t ( Amateur ), one that I may be the only person who enjoyed ( No Such Thing ) and several that have driven me mad ( Henry Fool , Flirt , The Book of Life ). He has...
The outlaw US directors of the 80s have been absorbed into the mainstream, but a new gang of edgy film-makers has emerged, writes Jason Solomons Two men in a drab motel room take their shirts off and begin a tentative man-hug, all slaps and pats. The natural lighting draws attention to their unbuff pallor, to their unwaxed patches of chest hair. They move uneasily to a full, on-the-mouth kiss and...
Yet again, I apologize for the lag. Hopefully, I can catch up on all the films I need to write about before the end of this month, but I can make no promises. This entry is less about a particular film I have seen and is more of an interlude about a couple [...]
With Lungfish guitarist Asa Osborne’s latest project, Zomes, he continues to explore loops and cycles with endlessly repeating musical phrases, this time played on circuit-bent keyboards. The resulting tracks sound at times like medieval court music at others like the soundtrack to a Hal Hartley movie. SPONSOR
By Zachary Wigon [ Loren Cass is now making it's way around the country. Click here for theater playdates. The film will be released on DVD November 24th, 2009. Click here to pre-order. ] “Glory be,” I thought to myself as I sat in the Cinema Village a few weeks ago. “Finally, a next-to-nothing budget American movie that actually looks like something. And is about something, too!”...
A Scanner Darkly Originally uploaded by Michael_Kelleher Dick, Philip K. A Scanner Darkly Purchased at Talking Leaves...Books. Richard Linklater is a frustrating filmmaker. After debuting with the highly overrated, yet nonetheless entertaining, "Slacker," he followed with one of the great high school coming-of-age comedies of the last two decades, "Dazed & Confused." It's been...
If you wanted to trace the evolution of American independent film from a struggling cottage industry to a high-rent Hollywood annex, you could hardly pick a better figure to follow than James Schamus. As the co-founder (with Ted Hope) of the production company Good Machine, Schamus played a major role in bringing Hal Hartley, Todd Solondz, Tom Kalin and Nicole Holofcener onto the world stage. He also...
In reviews of Hal Hartley's films, which were in general very warmly received, one criticism that did start to crop up was that he was "essentially making the same film over and over again." So, what did he do? He made a feature, Flirt, which was a portmanteau film made up of three shorts of around half an hour each. The films all had different characters, actors and settings - but the dialogue...
By CEO Reid Rosefelt I am happy to announce that we have launched the Beta version of SpeedCine. This is a site that allows you to search for legal films that are available on the web: to watch free, rent, buy, or via Netflix’s “Watch Instantly” feature. You can think of SpeedCine as a Google for [...]
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