Did the last show you went to have the headliner freak out, slag off the staff and New York and then leave the stage for 20 minutes? If you weren't at Hope Sandoval tonight at Bowery Ballroom, then the answer...
Lost In Translation (2003) Written by Sofia Coppola Directed by Sofia Coppola Produced by American Zoetrope/ Elemental Films Running time: 101 minutes So, What’s This About? In the Park Hyatt Hotel towering over Tokyo, two Americans meet. Bob Harris (Bill Murray) is a movie star drawing a $2 million paycheck to appear in a commercial for Suntory Whiskey. The deal [...]
THX 1138 is a 1971 science fiction film directed by George Lucas, from a screenplay by Lucas and Walter Murch. It depicts a dystopian future in which a high level of control is exerted upon the populace through omnipresent, faceless, android police officers and mandatory, regulated use of special drugs to suppress emotion, including sexual desire. It was the first feature-length film directed by Lucas,...
Great article from examiner.com Ward Porrill So you say you’re a George Lucas fan, eh? Well, young Padawan, you very well might think that owning DVDs of Episodes I - III might give you all the Jedi Council space cred you need, but, as Yoda himself once said, “That is why you fail.” The following is a list of 5 items every Lucas fan should have in his or her Jedi backpack. 1. A copy...
Film Festivals: Ford Coppola attends for 'Tetro' screening -- The Turin Film Festival will be feting helmer Emir Kusturica and Francis Ford Coppola's production company, American Zoetrope, during its upcoming 27th edition.
Inspired by the creation of Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas’ American Zoetrope filmmaking collective back in 1969, some of Atlanta’s most talented, upcoming filmmakers have banded together under the moniker Poet Zero with the express aim of, pushing the limits of no budget filmmaking through the use of the tools of the digital revolution. [...]
The Binary Bonsai has stumbled upon a rare find in whatever subbasement where such things are hidden for close to 40 years. It seems as though shortly after the release of THX-1138 and it's succesive failure at the box-office despite its status as an underrated masterpiece, George Lucas was asked to do a television interview with film critic Gene Youngblood. A few mentions to it had been made in some...
Love him or hate him, at one point many of us thought George Lucas was the best thing in the world. Then came Jar Jar and things would never be the same. Before a galaxy far, far away Lucas was just a young filmmaker making films any way he could. Quiet Earth found this excellent interview that Binary Bonsai dug up. Check out the Binary Bonsai site as they have lots of info on Lucas and the interview,...
Francis Ford Coppola in exile from his true talent. Vincent Gallo in "Tetro" Photo: American Zoetrope Francis Ford Coppola's "Tetro" is such a beautiful movie to look at that you wish it had a less-overwrought story, one that might draw us into it. Photographed in glorious black-and-white (with rich, inky blacks anchoring a carefully modulated grayscale), and punctuated with splashes...
Alden Ehrenreich in Tetro Photo: American Zoetrope Releasing Watching Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro I came away with something of a soothing sensation. Visually, it’s an absolutely beautiful film, shot in widescreen black-and-white with bold splashes of color peppered throughout. The story is a delicately told narrative that draws several similarities from Coppola’s personal life,...
Tetro American Zoetrope Beauty Trailers & Mo | Official Website A ship docks in Buenos Aires and a young man decked out in a crisp white uniform disembarks and walks amongst the dark shadows of the city's streets. He doesn't speak the language. Holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound . Don't call him Al, call him Bennie (fresh, yet classic faced Alden Ehrenreich ...
Photo: American Zoetrope This week Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro hits theaters following its May debut at the Cannes Film Festival. I was among the first to see the film back at the end of April and recently had a chance to speak with the Oscar-winning writer and director over the phone from his office at American [...]
AWFJ highlights films made by and about women: Thursday, June 11 Tetro - American Zoetrope, 127 mins. Friday, June 12 Imagine That - Paramount, 107 mins. Food, Inc. - Magnolia Pictures, 94 mins. Moon - Sony Pictures, 97 mins. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) - Columbia, 121 mins. Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love - Shadow Distribution, [...]
Photo: American Zoetrope Apple has just debuted the first three minutes of Francis Ford Coppola’s upcoming Argentine family drama Tetro after releasing the trailer over the weekend. The film is gaining plenty of attention around the web due to its visual style courtesy of Coppola’s work with cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr. and I can tell you as [...]
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