Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
Kino is releasing a fancy 2 disc set of Buster Keaton's The General with a new, cleaned-up transfer on 11 November. IFC will have Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely on 18 November. The Weinstein Company is releasing River Queen with Samantha Morton and Kiefer Sutherland on 11 November. Sony has Errol Morris' Standard Operating Procedure set for 14 October. And, finally, The Weinstein Company is releasing...
badgerblog (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Tuesday night went to the Colony to see Mister Lonely . Summary: a Michael Jackson impersonator in Paris meets a Marilyn Monroe impersonator who takes him to a commune in rural France where everyone is an impersonator of some kind. They stage a group show for the village. Before, during, and after, hilarity and quirkiness ensues. Low budget, lots of handheld camera work, vaguely reminiscent of Hal...
Pitchfork (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Harmony Korine's movie about the friendship between a Michael Jackson and a Marilyn Monroe impersonator is given a subdued soundtrack from Spiritualized's J. Spaceman and the Sun City Girls. read more
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
You could call Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely a comeback, but that would imply the return was anticipated, or that it heralds a return to form. I'm not sure either description applies. Mister Lonely is just as unconventional, by Hollywood standards, as his earlier films, if markedly less pugnacious.
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
(B-) You could call Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely a comeback, but that would imply the return was anticipated, or that it heralds a return to form. I'm not sure either description applies. Mister Lonely is just as unconventional, by Hollywood standards, as his earlier films, if markedly less pugnacious.
MovingPictureBlog (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
There are moments in Mister Lonely that will convince you filmmaker Harmony Korine is some sort of whimsical visionary, highly amused yet deeply sympathetic as he celebrates the eccentric and marvels at the magical. There are other moments, however, when you can't help but suspect Korine really is a snarky con artist, a condescending ringmaster who's inviting us to giggle at tarnished stars in a campy...
Big Screen Little Screen (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
I’ve learned my lesson about getting too excited by films after watching Mister Lonely in Cannes last year. My high hopes had never been dashed so severely. However, I’m finding it hard not to be excited about a script I’ve just read entitled Stretch. It is to be directed by Charles de Meaux who has [...]
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
A pack of flying nuns, a group of celebrity impersonators and a flock of diseased sheep walk into a movie scene. Where the film goes from there is anyone's guess.
ScrippsNews (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
It sounds like a modern-day paradise: "A place where everyone's famous and no one ages. ... There's gonna be nowhere else like it on Earth." read more
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
You could call Harmony Korine's "Mister Lonely" a comeback, but that would imply the return was anticipated, or that it heralds a return to form. I'm not sure either description applies. "Mister Lonely" is just as unconventional, by Hollywood standards, as his earlier films, if markedly less pugnacious.
ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
It's an incontrovertible truth that Samantha Morton is among the best actresses in the world, a fact somehow aided and not obscured by her insistence on playing, from Sweet and Lowdown to Mister Lonely, the same character: the innocent,...
Movies (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
by Leo Goldsmith (June 19, 2008) [An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot .] It's an incontrovertible truth that Samantha Morton is among the best actresses in the world, a fact somehow aided and not obscured by her insistence on playing, from " Sweet and Lowdown " to " Mister Lonely ," the same character: the innocent, all-forgiving punching bag of a self-obsessed, self-hating asshole. And in Cecilia...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
This seems to be the season, in the art house circuit, for ex-girlfriends of the Rolling Stones. A few weeks ago it was Anita Pallenberg impersonating the Queen in Mister Lonely . Now it's Marianne Faithfull starring in Irina Palm , a pleasingly sentimental British domestic drama.
Quarterlifeparty (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Ive been really getting this new Spiritualized album Songs in A & E as well as J Spaceman's ambient soundtrack for the Harmony Korinne movie Mister Lonely (it's good background music and I imagine the movie is very strange). Here is the video for the latest single from Songs in A&E "Soul on Fire" Also, here is a little behind the scenes clip of the making of the video
Big Screen Little Screen (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
I had Expired circled last year as a must-see on my guide for the local film festival. The packaging of the indie appeared to suggest an offbeat romantic comedy where Samantha Morton (who as of late has turned in admirable performances in both Mister Lonely and Control) and Jason Patric would conquer urban dissociation [...]
